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    The Watchtower—1946

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    N. H. Knobb, President W. E. Van Ambubgh, Secretary

    “And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.” - Isaiah 54:13.

    THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES

    THAT JEHOVAH is the only true God, from everlasting to everlasting, and is the Maker of heaven and earth and Giver of life to his creatures; that the Word or Logos was the beginning of his creation and his active agent in creating all other things; and that the creature Lucifer rebelled against Jehovah and raised the issue of His universal sovereignty;

    THAT GOD created the earth for man, made perfect man for the earth and placed him upon It; that man yielded to unfaithful Lucifer, or Satan, and willfully disobeyed God’s law and was sentenced to death; that by reason of Adam’s wrong act all men are born sinners and without the right to life;

    THAT THE LOGOS was made human as the man Jesus and suffered death in order to produce the ransom or redemptive price for obedient men; that God raised up Christ Jesus divine and exalted him to heaven above every other creature and clothed him with all power and authority as head of God’s new capital organization;

    THAT GOD’S CAPITAL ORGANIZATION is a Theocracy called Zion, and that Christ Jesus is the Chief Officer thereof and is the rightful King of the new world; that the faithful anointed followers of Christ Jesus are Zion’s children, members of Jehovah’s organization, and are His witnesses whose duty and privilege it is to testify to Jehovah’s supremacy and declare his purposes toward mankind as expressed In the Bible;

    THAT THE OLD WORLD, or Satan’s uninterrupted rule, ended A.D. 1914, and Christ Jesus has been placed by Jehovah upon the throne, has ousted Satan from heaven, and now proceeds to vindicate His name and establish the “new earth”;

    THAT THE RELIEF and blessings of the peoples can come only by Jehovah’s kingdom under Christ, which has begun; that His next great act is to destroy Satan's organization and establish righteousness completely In the earth ; and that under the Kingdom the people of good-will surviving Armageddon will carry out the divine mandate to “fill the earth” with righteous offspring, and that the human dead In the graves will be raised to opportunities of life on earth.

    ITS MISSION

    THIS journal is published for the purpose of enabling the people to know Jehovah God and his purposes as expressed in the Bible. It publishes Bible Instruction specifically designed to aid Jehovah's witnesses and all people of good-will It arranges systematic Bible study for its readers and the Society supplies other literature to aid in such studies. It publishes suitable material for radio broadcasting and for other means of public instruction in the Scriptures.

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    “REASONABLE SERVICE” TESTIMONY PERIOD

    The final month of the current Watchtower campaign, April, is listed on the year’s service calendar as “Reasonable Service” Testimony Period. This means reasonable service to God, and the Watchtower magazine is devoted to God and the interests of His kingdom and hence the putting of this magazine in the hands of the people is a part of His “reasonable service”. The offer for this final month will have a new feature added, namely, the new 64-page, colored-cover booklet "Be Glad, Ye Nations”. This will be offered, together with the regular bound book, as a premium with each new year’s subscription for The Watchtower at the regular rate of $1. Doubtless many more readers of this magazine will want to get in on the closing month of this special activity; and we invite all such interested ones to write us, if necessary, in order to be teamed up with others in this “reasonable service”. The Society expects a report to be made in the accustomed way by each one out in the field service during this Testimony Period.

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    “BE GLAD, YE NATIONS”

    The above title designates the new 64-page booklet published by the Watch Tower Society. The two treatises therein contained are closely related and complementary to each other, the first one being on the subject “Be Glad, Ye Nations”, and the second being on the people with whom to be glad, namely, “Jehovah’s witnesses in the Crucible.” Both these presentations, delivered by the Society’s president to great public audiences, have made profound impressions. Reading this booklet will leave you glad, we are certain. "Be Glad, Ye Nations” is published in a special cover of artistic beauty, and is now available at 5c a copy, mailed postpaid. Release of this booklet for campaign distribution is announced elsewhere.

    MEMORIAL CELEBRATION

    This year the time for celebrating the Memorial will be after sundown or after 6 p.m., Standard Time, of Tuesday, April 16. At an announced hour, each company should assemble on that night, and the anointed ones of them partake of the Memorial emblems, their companions the “other sheep” being present as witnesses. Before the emblems are partaken of, let some competent brother offer a brief speech extemporaneously or else read paragraphs selected from recent Watchtower articles on the Memorial to those met together. Since the breaking of the bread and drinking of the wine both symbolize the death in which the members of Christ’s body share, the bread and wine should both be served together at partaking. Unleavened bread and red wine should be served, to harmonize with the course of Jesus and his apostles. We expect all companies to notify us concerning their celebration, reporting both the number attending and the number of partakers.

    ANNOUNCING JEHOVAH’S KINGDOM

    Vol. LXVII March 15, 1946 No. 6

    SANCTIFICATION

    "And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.”—John 17:19.

    JEHOVAH is the Almighty God of the new world of righteousness. His opposer and false accuser is Satan the Devil, “the god of this world.” Jehovah is the God of holiness, which means that he is the One who in himself completely sums up and expresses all that is right, good and true. Satan the Devil is the god of this present worldliness, which means that he is the mighty invisible one who is back of this world and its corruptness.

    s Jehovah God is not responsible for this world and its wickedness and oppressions. Being holy, he is absolutely detached from this world. After having permitted the Devil to operate this world only long enough to bring the great issue to a head concerning who shall dominate the universe, Almighty God will demonstrate his holiness by utterly destroying this world and setting up the everlasting new world of truth and righteousness. By thus doing, says He, “I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.” (Ezek. 38:23, Am. Stan. Ver.) Then all lovers of righteousness who survive on earth will appreciate the theme of the seraphim, who said: “Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.” (Isa. 6: 3, A.S.V.; Rev. 4: 8) At his resounding victory over the forces of this wicked world they themselves will sing: “Who is like unto thee, 0 Jehovah, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” “Great and marvellous are thy works, 0 Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages. Who shall not fear, 0 Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.”—Ex. 15:11; Rev. 15: 3, 4; Am. Stan.Ver.

    ’ Religious men on earth have presumed to take to themselves the titles “His Holiness” and “The Holy Father”, and they demand that religious worshipers

    1. How does Jehovah as the God ot holiness stand in contrast with Satan the Devil?

    2. (a) How will Jehovah finally demonstrate his holiness? (b) What will lovers of righteousness then fully appreciate and what will they say?

    3. How do religious leaders falsely presume to be holy? address them as “Your Holiness”. But never do the Holy Scriptures of truth use such titles regarding Jehovah God. The religious heads who flatter themselves with such awe-inspiring titles give no proof of any real possession of holiness. By word and act they show they are a part of this world and are sympathetic with its politics, commerce and religion and are inseparably mixed up with it. They are no more holy than this old world, and they are no real influence toward true holiness nor guides to it.

    ‘ The way to sanctification for life in the new world of righteousness does not lie through the clergy of “Christendom” and their hundreds of varieties of religious systems. They have failed in their undertaking to Christianize the world, and their claim to have a commission from heaven to do this is proved false. The dread of the atomic bomb will never stampede all mankind into a mass conversion to their religious organization. Their close connections ■with the world authority that holds the control of such A bomb will never favorably impress all men and make them see any advantage in repenting and getting “more religion”. It may shock the religious sensibilities of the persecutors of Jehovah's witnesses, but the Holy Scriptures {American Standard Version) tells us plainly who is the power for sanctification, in these words: “I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.” (Lev. 20:8; also Ex. 31:13) “I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy.” (Lev. 21:8) And that there must be a positive step taken by those seeking sanctification, it is further commanded: “Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God. And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them.”—Lev. 20: 7, 8.

    8 How, then, does this mutual work of sanctification operate and proceed? and to what end does it lead? In a previous issue of The Watchtower an examination was made of the subject of “Consecration”. Now, because sanctification follows consecration to God, and because of the importance of the matter to lovers of righteousness and of life, we here devote ourselves to a scrutiny of “sanctification”.

    4. (a) Why is the way to sanctification for life not through "Christendom”? (b) Who la the power for sanctification? and wbat step mast be taken toward him?

    6. Why do we here take up in these columns a study of sanctification?

    ’Expressed in modern English, what does this term mean! It is not enough to say it means the act or work of sanctifying or the state of being sanctified. What does it mean to sanctify? So now just a few sentences about word meanings and derivations. Not in a religious sense, but in the Bible sense, sanctify means make holy. It is from the word found in the Latin Vulgate Bible, namely, sanctificdre. This verb, according to its two Latin roots, means “to make holy or sacred”. Sanctificatio is the Latin noun meaning “sanctification”. However, in the part of the Bible called “The Old Testament” the Latin words and the English words are translated from various forms of the Hebrew verb qahdash. In the part of the Bible called “The New Testament” the words are translated from the Greek verb hagiadzein and the Greek noun hagiasmos. In the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures hagiadzein and hagiasmos correspond to those various forms of the Hebrew word qahdash. According to its connections, qahdash has the root meaning of “to be bright, new, clean”, and also “to separate, to divide off, to cut away?. The corresponding Greek word hagiadzein has as its root the adjective hdgios meaning “holy”, and made up of two smaller words meaning “not of the earth”; that is, not of this unclean, earthly organization, and hence “dedicated to God above”.

    7 In simplest terms, then, “to sanctify” means “to separate or set apart”, that is, for the service or use of Jehovah God. Moreover, since Satan the Devil is “the prince of this world”, the setting apart means separating from this present wicked world, in order to be clean and acceptable to Jehovah God. But here, at the very start, let us clearly understand that separateness from this world does not by any means signify being shut up and isolated in any religious monastery or convent; for those very religious institutions are not of God, but are a part of this world. Those who hole themselves up in monasteries and nunneries are not following the holy example and instructions of Jesus, who mingled most freely with the people. Monks and nuns lead very self-centered, selfish lives, despite their appearance of self-sacrifice. They are consecrated to a religious system or mode of life, but not consecrated to Jehovah God. The lives they lead are not holy according to the Bible meaning, and their course of life does not sanctify them to Jehovah God, but devotes them to the “god of this world”.—2 Cor. 4: 3, 4.

    7,000-YEAR-DAY SANCTIFIED

    8 As concerns mankind, the first thing sanctified was the day on which our Creator ceased from his

    6. (a) According to its Latin roots, what does the word “sanctify” mean? (b) What are the meanings of the Hebrew and Greek words which are translated “sanctify’”’

    7. What, then, does sanctification mean? and are those isolated in monasteries and convents sanctified?

    8. As concerns mankind, what was the first thing sanctified? creative works toward this earth. He ceased after he created perfect man and woman, whom He made on the sixth day of creation. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host. On the seventh day God brought his work to an end on which he had been engaged, desisting on the seventh day from all his work in which he had been engaged. So God blessed the seventh day, and consecrated [qahdash; sanctified] it, because on it he had desisted from all his work, in doing which God had brought about creation.” (Gen. 2:1-3, An Amer. Trans.) This does not refer to a 24-hour day, because neither the sixth day on which mankind and the many land animals were made nor any preceding day of creation was 24 hours long, but was a long period or epoch of time, seven thousand years long, according to Bible measurements.

    ’ God saw everything that he had made was very good; and so he blessed this seventh day. He did so in that he purposed that it should be a good day and should bring blessing to His holy name. His very desisting from further work respecting the earth marked the seventh day as different; but he consecrated it or sanctified it in that he set it apart for the vindication of his name and a vindication of his universal sovereignty and supremacy.

    10 Lucifer, the invisible “anointed cherub” whom God placed over mankind, was expected to observe this sabbath day by obediently and faithfully doing the work God assigned to him regarding the earth. Man and woman were also expected to hold the day sacred by carrying out God’s will toward them as expressed in His divine mandate to fill earth with their perfect offspring and subdue the earth and have dominion over its living creatures. But Lucifer became a sabbath-breaker by not resting in the work of God and finding peace in doing it, but starting his own works by rebelling against God and becoming His opposer and slanderer, or Satan the Devil. By means of lies and temptation he caused Adam and Eve to likewise become sabbath-breakers by no longer enjoying God’s rest from His own works but starting off working according to their own desires and wills.

    11 God did not destroy the sabbath-breaking Adam and Eve for their sin of rebellion and then create a new man and woman. To make a perfect new man and woman would mean resuming his creative work respecting this earth, whereas God’s rest-day had just begun and was to continue yet for thousands of years. So God let the sinful man and woman live, but gave the promise that on this His rest-day he would bring a holy Seed forth from his heavenly

    9 In what way did Jehovah sanctify the seventh day?

    10. How were Lucifer and Adam and Eve expected to observe the day, but bow did they observe it?

    11. In view of the day, why did God not destroy the pair of sinners, but give a promise?

    “woman”, his heavenly organization, who would vindicate the name and sovereignty of his Father Jehovah against that old Serpent, Satan.—Gen. 3:15.

    1JWe are very near the time of that vindication. In this atomic age all the nations, under demonic guidance, are pushing ahead to the great battlefield of Armageddon, where Jehovah God will sanctify himself upon them by destroying all who reproach his name and oppose his kingdom. That victory will sanctify or set him apart as holy and as Supreme Sovereign over all the universe. That, together with the thousand-year kingdom of his Son which follows it, will fulfill the prayer Jesus taught us: “Our Father in heaven, may Thy name be kept holy [or, sanctified]; let Thy Kingdom come; let Thy will be done, as in heaven so on earth.” (Matt. 6:9,10, T7ey-mouth) Jehovah’s purpose in sanctifying his 7,000-year rest-day, which ends with the millennial reign of his Son, will therefore not fail. The weekly sabbath which He commanded the Jews to hallow or keep holy pointed forward to that grand accomplishment in vindication of Him.

    TYPICAL SANCTIFICATIONS

    13 Jehovah spared the Jewish firstborn offspring from slaughter with the Egyptians’ firstborn on their first passover-feast night. For such deliverance the Lord God commanded the following acknowledgment from the Jews: “Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of "man and of beast: it is mine.” (Ex. 13:2) Thereby Jehovah set apart for himself the firstborn of the Israelites, and it was required of them to redeem their firstborn children, just as was done in the case of the child Jesus, Mary’s firstborn.—Luke 2: 21-24.

    14 Later, in exchange for all the firstborn that were actually spared in Egypt, Jehovah selected out the entire tribe of Levi as his particular possession from among the twelve tribes of Israel. In that wray he sanctified the Levites or separated them out to his special uses and services: “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed [sanctified] unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am’the Lord.”—Num. 3:12,13.

    15 By his deliverance of the entire nation of Israel from Egypt the Lord God redeemed them and set them apart for his own holy purposes. Therefore he 12. Why, therefore, will Jehovah’s purpose in sanctifying this seventh day not fail?

    13 Why and how did Jehovah sanctify the firstborn of the Israelites? 14. By what exchange did Jehovah sanctify the tribe of Levi?

    15. How did Jehovah sanctify the entire nation of Israel, and what sign thereof did he give them? gave them a distinctive sign to indicate that they were his special possession, saying: “Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.” (Ex. 31:13) Thus they were severed off from all other nations of the earth and were to be considered as no part of this world which lies under Satan its prince.—1 John 5:19.

    ** Now it was one thing for Jehovah God to take this separative action toward the Israelites; it was another thing for them to conduct themselves in harmony with the divine will and action. Hence we find repeated notices to the typical Israelites to do so, in the texts we now consider. At Mount Sinai, three days before giving them the Law of the Ten Commandments, “the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, and be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. . . . And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.” (Ex. 19:10-15) Thus the people’s sanctifying of themselves consisted of cleansing themselves, that they might have clean consciences and their minds might be off all the fleshly appetites as they saw God manifest himself on the third day.

    1T Such sanctification was a purification from what displeased the eyes of the Lord. For this reason the Hebrew word qdhdash is sometimes used simply to mean purifying or cleansing; as at 2 Samuel 11: 4, which reads: “She was purified from her uncleanness.” In view of what was coming according to the advance notice given to the Israelites, the sanctification was also a preparation for the glorious event. Hence, too, the Hebrew word is sometimes used to mean simply to prepare. For example, when the Israelites complained of having no flesh to eat in the wilderness, God commanded Moses to say to the complainers: “Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh.” (Num. 11:18) Also the day before the Israelites were to cross the Jordan river by the miracle of Jehovah, Joshua as their new visible commander said to all the people: “Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” (Josh. 3:5) The same command was given to them after their disaster before the city of Ai because of the accursed act of selfish Achan: “Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of 16. Because of God’s sanctifying of them, what action must the Israel* Ites take, and how did they do so after arriving at Sinai?

    17, 18. Besides "sanctify”, what two other meanings did the Hebrew word qahdfah take on? thee, 0 Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing.” —Josh. 7:13.

    18 At Joel 3:9,10, the worldly nations are challenged and invited to start what they might call a “holy war” against God’s witnesses in these words: “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war [marginal reading: Sanctify war], wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears [in preparation].” Jeremiah 6:4 and 51:27,28 also command: “Prepare ye war against her.” “Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her,... Prepare against her the nations with the kings.” (Also Micah 3:5) From such uses of the word it is clear that sanctify in a holy sense means also to set and equip oneself to do the work that God’s will assigns to us.

    *’ That the Israelites’ sanctifying themselves meant being separate from the world and clean from its practices is shown at Leviticus, chapter eleven. There, after forbidding them a long list of things unclean to eat, Jehovah explained the reason, saying : “For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” (Lev. 11: 44, 45) Also, after warning them against the idolatry and spiritism and religion of the worldly nations, Jehovah added: “Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.” (Lev. 20: 7) Such personal cleansing work was the way for them to co-operate with God in his sanctification of them as his people.

    20 One more typical illustration of the use of the word showing the mutual action between God and his obedient servants. This is in connection with the specially chosen priests of Israel. Prior to God’s inaugurating of the Mosaic law covenant at Mount Sinai, there were men who were appointed to do the work as sacrificing priests among the Israelites. Whoever these were, whether the fathers of each family household or not, remains unrevealed; but their contact with heathenish Egypt not quite three months previous had no doubt put them in an unclean position before the Lord God. So he said to Moses: “Let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them." “And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, 19. How was the meaning of sanctification Indicated to them in respect to foods and the religious practices of the nations?

    20. At Sinai, how was the mutual action between God and his servants shown with regard to the original priests of the Israelites? and sanctify it.” (Ex. 19:22, 23) The heathen would call such a mountain taboo! But to Jehovah God it was set apart on that occasion as holy, not to be touched or set foot upon by those whom God did not authorize. The place near this same mountain where Jehovah’s angel once appeared in the burning bush was declared holy, so that Moses was commanded to take his shoes off. Now the entire mountain was marked off as holy on this occasion, when God’s manifestation came down upon its top to give the divine law to Moses and to inaugurate His law covenant with the Israelites.—Ex. 3:5; Acts 7: 33.

    21 Now by this law of his covenant Jehovah God specially named who should be his accepted priests henceforth among the Israelites. In considering this, keep in mind that God had already sanctified the entire nation to him by delivering them from Egypt; also that the whole nation was consecrated to him by their express agreement, to observe his law and keep his covenant; also that the firstborn of Israel were also especially sanctified to him. But now, under the law covenant, Jehovah purposed to set aside an exclusive family of Israel to serve as his priests of sacrifice, namely, Aaron and his sons and their male descendants. Hence Jehovah spoke of it as sanctifying them: “Take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron ... to consecrate [gaTidds/i] him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office. And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats,... And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate [mahleh] them, and sanctify [qahddsb'} them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.”—Ex. 28:1-3, 40, 41.

    22 They were then hallowed or sanctified with fitting sacrifices in a symbolic series of acts: “And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow [qahdash] them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, and unleavened bread,... to consecrate and to sanctify [qahdash] them: but a stranger [one not a Levite] shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.” (Ex. 29:1,2,33) This typical procedure pictured or foreshadowed the true sanctification of Jehovah’s everlasting High Priest, Christ Jesus, and also his fellow priests or underpriests, namely, those who follow Christ’s footsteps and whom God anoints to be members of Christ’s body. To these Christians it is written: “Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle

    21. (a) As regards Israel, whom have we already noted as being sanctified? (b) How, then, did God specially sanctify the males of Aaron's family? 22. By what procedure were they then sanctified? and what did this typify?

    and high priest of our confession;... Christ is faithful as a Son over God’s house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only hold on, confident and proud of our hope.”—Heb. 3:1, 6, Moffatt.

    SACRED REALITIES

    “ All the foregoing things in connection with the Mosaic law Were types and shadows of coining realities of a higher kind. Such law, with its typical priesthood of imperfect men and its subhuman sacrifices, could not bring in perfect conditions and real freedom from sin. Hence the apostle Paul wrote: “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle [even heaven itself], not made with [human] hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”

    24 Then, using the word sanctify in the sense of purify or cleanse from sin in God’s sight, the apostle continues: “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanc'tifieth [in a picture way] to the purifying of the flesh [of the Israelites]: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb. 10:1, 2; 9:11-14) The blood of those ancient animal sacrifices could not sanctify in reality, because they could not actually wash away mankind’s sin against God. But God ordered such calves, bulls and goats to be offered according to the Mosaic law because they were a type or picture prophetic of Christ Jesus, who offered the value of a perfect human sacrifice in heaven itself to Jehovah God.

    25 The “blood of Christ” signifies the value of his perfect human life; and it is this that washes away the guilt of sin of the person believing in him. Hence it really sanctifies to the purifying of the believer’s flesh. Hence, too, God justifies such believer from his sins and gives him a clean standing in the flesh. God thereby makes him suitable to be sacrificed with Christ Jesus as one of His underpriests. As it is written to such ones: “Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”

    23. What, then, were the things of the Mosaic law? and what proves that they were nothing more than that?

    24. In what wav did those sacrifices of the Mosaic law sanctify? and why, then, did God order them to be sacrificed?

    25. How Is it that Christ's blood sanctifies?

    (Rom. 5:9) Before this they had a conscience or consciousness of committing “dead works” or the works of those condemned to death. But now, through Christ’s blood, they were justified from sin and were sanctified or set apart for the service of the living God.

    26 It is now the privilege of such justified ones to serve as underpriests under Christ Jesus the Chief Priest and to offer up sacrifices of praise to God by acting as His witnesses and publishers of his kingdom. They must follow in his steps and suffer the reproaches of this world and endure them as Christ did. Concerning these privileges which the sanctifying blood of Christ opened up for them it is written: “For [under the Mosaic law] the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come [the heavenly Jerusalem]. By him therefore let us.offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”—Heb. 13:11-15.

    27 Christ’s sanctifying blood is therefore something continually to be appreciated as most precious and uncommon, especially because by it the believer may come regularly to God and confess his sins and be washed clean and be forgiven. “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7) If any such believer should lose faith and reject this Son of God and deny the sanctifying power of his blood, then such unfaithful one has no sacrifice left for the canceling of his sins. Nothing but destruction, the punishment of ■willful rebels against God, awaits him. “He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant [Christ’s blood which validates God’s new covenant], wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ?” The grace and mercy of the great Spirit Jehovah cease toward such willful sinner, and the divine vengeance which is against all those who turn to the Devil -will punish him with everlasting destruction.—Heb. 10:26-30.

    REAL SAINTS

    28 All the faithful ones who are sanctified by the “blood of the covenant” are the “saints” of God, for 26. How are the onea now sanctified privileged to serve, and enduring what?

    27. Why Is that sanctifying blood to be appreciated as most uncommonly precious? and what happens to one losing appreciation of it?

    28. Who are the real saints? and how did the apostle Paul address those at Corinth? the term saint means sanctified one. Only God can make saints, because he sanctifies and he does so by or in Christ Jesus. That means that only God can cleanse a creature from sin and separate him from the world and set him to doing the righteous works of the kingdom of God. It is a blasphemous and presumptuous fraud for any religious head to pretend to beatify and canonize dead religious persons and appoint such to be worshiped and prayed to. The religionists who give such dead religious “saints” any kind of worship and pray to them for intercession with Christ are grossly deceived and gain nothing but disapproval by Jehovah God and his Christ. The true saints or sanctified ones make up the “church of God”, of which church Christ Jesus is Head; and the apostle Paul was not canonising any saints when he wrote to his living Christian brethren in Greece and said: “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.” —1 Cor. 1: 2, 3.

    29 Concerning the part that Jesus Christ plays in the sanctification of those “called to be saints”, we read, at Hebrews 10: 5-14: “Wherefore when [Jesus] cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou ivouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure." Why not! Because those animal sacrifices offered under the law of Moses had not enough value and power to take away human sins and cleanse sinners. What did Jesus then say to God? “Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, 0 God.” Now notice the apostle Paul’s comment regarding Jesus’ words and action, namely: “Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, 0 God. He taketh away the first [the former things of the law covenant], that he may establish the second [the perfect things of the new covenant]. By the which will [of God as done by Christ Jesus] we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Christ’s human sacrifice being a perfect ransom and accomplishing perfect results, it did not need to be offered more than once.

    30 Next, showing the difference between Israel’s high priest with his repeated sacrifices and the true High Priest, “the man Christ Jesus,” with his one sacrifice, the apostle then says: “And every [Jew-

    29. At Hebrews 10: 5-10. how does Paul show the part that Jesus performs in the sanctifying of those “called to be saints”?

    30. How did Jesus differ from the Jewish high priest? and why could he therefore leave earth and ascend to heaven? ish] priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man [Christ Jesus], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” Hence, having accomplished a sanctification from sins for the believers which lasts for good, Christ Jesus did not need to stay down here on earth in the flesh in order to repeat his sacrifice, but he could ascend up to heaven and present the value of his human sacrifice up there.

    31 Furthermore, since his sacrificing once brings about perfect justification from sin to believers who consecrate to God, it was not necessary for Jesus during all the past nineteen centuries to come down repeatedly from heaven in order to offer himself in sacrifice again and again, as is claimed in the Roman Catholic “sacrifice of the mass”, so called. Jesus could stay seated up in heaven at his Father’s right hand and wait till his Father’s due time to put Christ's enemies under his royal footstool. That due time arrived A.D. 1914, when the “times of the Gentiles” ended. Then Jehovah put his Royal Priest upon the throne with its footstool and authorized him to fight the “war in heaven” and throw Satan and his demons out of heaven and down to this earth. Jehovah says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.” (Isa. 66:1) And since Christ Jesus sits on the throne at Jehovah’s right hand, then the earth becomes Christ’s footstool also, and that is where all his enemies now are, awaiting destruction at Armageddon.—See Psalm 110:1-6.

    THE PART PERFORMED BY THE TRUTH

    32 Nineteen centuries previous to this Jesus came down from heaven to earth and became man in order to bear witness to the truth about Jehovah and his kingdom. Jesus was God’s Agent or Servant to make known God’s grace or favor to humankind. “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17) Out of all the myriads of holy creatures in Jehovah’s heavenly universal organization he selected and set aside his only begotten Son to be sent down to this earth to live and die for the truth in vindication of his Father’s name. Hence it is rightly said that Jehovah sanctified his Son for this holy service. Christ Jesus was at one or in unity with his Father in this service, and he never broke off such union with him by any rebelliousness even under persecution, reproach and dying on the tree. The religious Jews wanted to stone

    31. Why could Christ Jesus as High Priest stay seated at God’s right hand waiting for his enemies to be put down? and when did this latter event take place?

    32. How had Jehovah God sanctified Christ Jesus? and why was it not blasphemous for Jesus to speak of himself as the Son of God? Jesus for saying, “I and my Father are one.” Jesus referred them to the Word of God in Psalm 82, which word was directed against the mighty men of power who showed they were not sanctified, for they misused their power and influence. “Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law [at Psalm 82], I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemes!; because I said, I am the Son of God?”—John 10:30-36.

    ” Jesus thus showed that sanctification begins with Jehovah God the Father, who set his only begotten Son apart for the special mission to this earth and who therefore equipped his Son with the word of truth to impart it to mankind.

    34 There can be no sanctification of human creatures without the truth, and the truth with such power is in the written Word of God. In Jesus’ day the Holy Scriptures included only the books of the Bible from Genesis to Malachi, written mostly in Hebrew and a small part in Chaldee or Syriac. The truth which Christ Jesus taught was later committed to writing, mainly in Greek, in the new Scriptures from Matthew to Revelation (Apocalypse), and written by his apostles and their companions. In his last prayer together with his apostles Jesus said to God: “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil [one]. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” —John 17:15-19.

    ” Jesus prayed God to do the sanctifying by means of the power of His truth. That means that God would purify their minds and lives from religious errors and practices. He would separate them from the world and would prepare and equip them more and more for his service. All this God would do by the truth. The truth exposes the lies and errors of this world and its religion, and exposes the world as being the Devil’s organization from which we must keep ourselves unspotted if we would worship and serve the true God.

    36 In order that those apostles and all his footstep followers might be thus sanctified by the truth, Jesus said, he sanctified himself. This was Jesus’ personal part in the matter in co-operation with God his Father. Jesus thus sanctified himself by answering

    3. With whom did Jesus thus show that sanctification begins?

    4. According to Jesus' prayer at John 17, without what factor can io sanctification take place9 and where is this factor to be found9 5 How does God sanctify by the truth of his Word9

    .6. How did Jesus sanctify himself for their sakes? and what is he herefore made unto them by God?

    God’s invitation and keeping undefiled from this world and separate from any part with sinners. He thus set himself apart to be a clean channel or messenger by which God might send the needed truth to his disciples. He studied, prayed, prepared and set himself to preach the truth and nothing but the whole truth concerning Jehovah God and His kingdom. Jesus also furnished them a faithful example of what it means to be sanctified to God, and thus his example as well as his word helped in that direction. Because of this important and indispensable part which Christ Jesus performs in the work for us, and because it is of God that all this comes, the sanctified Christians read, at 1 Corinthians 1: 30, 31: “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”

    37 By virtue of this co-operative part which God the Father has turned over to his Son, Christ Jesus is a sanctifier under God. Those whom Jesus sanctifies by his blood of his sacrifice and by his preaching of the truth to them God adopts as his sons. In such manner they become brothers of God’s Chief Son, Christ Jesus. In proof that these are all sons of God called to heavenly glory in God’s kingdom, the apostle says of Jesus, the Captain of our salvation: “For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one [God the Father]: for which cause he [Jesus] is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name [Jehovah] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.” (Heb. 2:11,12) And, because the gracious Word of God is necessary to upbuild them and keep them clean from the world and in line for the Kingdom inheritance, the apostle said in farewell to Christ’s brothers: “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which [word] is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” —Acts 20: 32.

    38 It is necessary not only to believe on this Word in order to keep our hope bright but also to preach and declare that Word to others and make known to them the only hope for life and salvation. If we are to do so, we dare not yield to any terror from men who threaten us with sufferings, but our hearts must love God and his Christ and must fear these only. In our hearts we must set apart and regard as holy Jehovah God and Christ Jesus and then obey them and show forth their praises, regardless of the sufferings that this course brings. To quote the apostle Peter: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to

    37 . (a) How is Jesus a sanctifier, and to whom? (b) To what are these sanctified ones commended for upbuilding?

    38 As a guard against any terror, whom must we sanctify in our hearts? and bow?

    every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear [of God].” Or, according to the modern Bible versions: “But sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you . . . ”—1 Pet. 3:15; Am. Stan. Ver.

    FAITH AND SPIRIT

    ” One factor that must operate and that must be supplied by the one who would be holy to God is faith. The basis of faith is, of course, knowledge; and the knowledge must be that of the Word of God. As it is written: “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Rom. 10:17) Not enough Jews to make up the Kingdom class listened to and believed in the word of God as reported and preached by Jesus, and hence only a remnant of natural Jews became sanctified. In order, then, for any of the nonJews or Gentiles to become members of the “holy nation” of God, it was necessary for them to have a report made to them about God’s kingdom and of the opportunity to enter that kingdom, and then they must put forth faith in God’s Word thus reported to them. Only in this way could they even begin to be set apart for the Kingdom and its service.

    40 Among those sent to let the Gentiles hear and exercise faith was the apostle Paul. Emphasizing how important it is to enlighten the Gentiles by God’s Word in order for them to manifest faith and to consecrate themselves to God, Christ Jesus said to Paul as a minister of the gospel: “The Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:17,18) The effect of the light shining from God’s Word was to divide off the believing Gentiles from the darksome organization controlled by Satan, and to draw them to Jehovah God. Next, to render them acceptable to Him, their faith in the blood of Christ resulted in their being purified and cleansed from sins by God’s forgiveness of them. They became part of the church which is “sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all”. That the sanctifying process may continue they must keep on exercising faith in God and Christ and the divine Word.

    41 Another factor in the process, but one which the Christian can not supply, is the spirit, that is to say, the active force of God which he bestows by Jesus Christ. Because it comes from God, and because it 39. What factor must be supplied by one who wants to be sanctified? and upon what must this factor be based?

    40. (a) How did Jesus emphasize this matter to Paul? (b) In what way is the believer sanctified by faith in Jesus Christ?

    41. What other factor, not supplied by Christians, is needed for sanctification? and how was Jesus declared to be the Son of God according to this factor? works for righteousness, purity and cleanness, it is called the “spirit of holiness”. That spirit or active force for holiness was poured out upon Jesus after his baptism in the Jordan river. That spirit was also the active force that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead. Thus he was determined or declared to be the approved and anointed Son of God: “And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.” (Rom. 1:4) Jesus’ power as the Son of God was because of the spirit with which he was anointed. (Acts 10:38) It moved him in God’s service down till his sacrificial death and then on the third day it miraculously revived him from the dead to life immortal and incorruptible. That spirit set him apart for God’s kingdom and for the redemptive work as Jehovah’s High Priest.

    “ During the days of Christ’s twelve apostles the various miraculous gifts of the holy spirit were bestowed only in the presence of these apostles or by their laying their hands upon the heads of the baptized believers. This holy spirit, with its gifts of various kinds, acted as a force in the believers’ lives and also counteracted the spirit of this world. Referring to the sanctifying power of this holy spirit which is from God and by Christ, the apostle Paul said concerning his work among the Gentiles: “That I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up [or, sacrifice] of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the holy spirit.” (Rom. 15:16, Am. Stan. Ver.) Unless they received this spirit and were begotten by it to a heavenly hope as God’s spiritual children, and unless it worked in their lives in opposition to the power of this world, their sanctification to God and his kingdom could not go on with success. The spirit must distinguish them as holy unto God.

    43 By pouring out the spirit upon those whom he accepts and calls to the heavenly kingdom God shows that he has chosen them and set them aside as his Kingdom heirs with Christ Jesus. Such destiny had its beginning in their believing of the truth. Those who do not believe the truth are condemned, and therefore God permits a great delusion to overtake them in this day. Because of the difference between the destiny of these and the destiny of the believers now sanctified by God’s spirit, the apostle says: “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth: where-unto he called you by our gospel [preaching], to the

    42. (a) In apostolic days how were the gifts of the spirit bestowed? (b) How were the believers sanctified by this spirit?

    43. How are such ones 'chosen to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth’? obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” —2 Thess. 2:13,14.

    WHAT THE DIVINE WILL NOW IS

    ** For Christians in this day when “the kingdom of God is at the doors” and when the end of this world faces the nations that are assembling for destruction at Armageddon, the will of God concerning them should be quite plain. Organized religion, by her friendly relations and union with this world, is committing spiritual adultery or fornication. She is unclean, impure and unholy in God’s sight. We, who are separated from the world, cannot imitate religion and commit any kind of uncleanness either outside or among ourselves. At 1 Thessalonians 4: 3-8 we read: “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. Therefore he that rejecteth [this advice], rejecteth not man [Paul], but God, who giveth his holy spirit unto you.” (Am. Stan. Ver.) That spirit is a force for cleanness.

    45 If we do not hold off from what is unclean, false and evil, the sanctifying power of God by his Word and spirit will not continue in our lives and we shall come short of complete sanctification to the successful conclusion. Let us, then, take to heart the apostle’s positive advice: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly [completely]; and may your spirit and soul and body [as a church] be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it [that is, do what I have prayed to God for you].”—1 Thess. 5: 21-24, Am. Stan. Ver.

    46 Hence there is a responsibility resting upon us if we want to have God’s sanctification completed in us and to be continually vessels useful in his service and set apart for his honorable work in his house or organization. In this final age of the world, the atomic age, when the mass of humanity is defiling itself with all the worldly schemes for salvation, peace and prosperity without God’s kingdom, we must keep clean from its religion, its propaganda, its political crookedness, its commercial worship of Mammon or worldly goods, and its defiance of Jehovah and his universal sovereignty. “If a man there-44. Why cannot Christians imitate organized religion in its relations with this world?

    45. If such Christians do not hold off from what is evil, what will not be completed in them9

    46. As what can such Christians be used by keeping purged and clean? fore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” (2 Tim. 2:21,22) The joyful outcome will be eternal life in the new world of righteousness.

    47 What advantage, then, is there in delivering our members over to the service of this perishing world? None whatsoever; but only death with it. “Even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life. For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Rom. 6:19, 22, 23, Am. Stan. Ver.

    48 This troubled world is not at peace with God, but is at deadly enmity with him and is preparing for the showdown fight against him at Armageddon. To make our peace with it would mean becoming the enemy of Jehovah God and his King Christ Jesus. On the other hand, if we would see God’s everlasting glory in the new world without end, we must seek and keep our peace with him by setting ourselves apart from this world and being completely for Jehovah’s universal sovereignty by his kingdom. We must suffer the persecution from the world, which he permits to come upon us as chastenings to separate us from this world unto true holiness. We must seek peace with those devoted to him and with all “men of good will”. Hence the admonition is given us from his Word: “Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord.” (Heb. 12:14, Am. Stan.Ver.) Therefore let the work of sanctification go on among his consecrated people, with pure hearts, free from every root of bitterness.

    49 Men of good-will today, who hope for life eternal on earth, are not of the sanctified ones or “saints”, who are set apart for the kingdom of heaven. However, to show good-will to God and to have His goodwill to them, they must set themselves apart to God through their King Christ Jesus. They must separate themselves from this world and give themselves in allegiance to God’s kingdom by Christ Jesus. To do so, they need to study God’s sanctifying Word of truth, have faith in it, live it, and proclaim it to others. Besides God’s cleansing Word, they should ask Him for his spirit to fill them. This will keep them from this world and prepare them for everlasting life in the New World.

    47. By serving so as to have sanctification the outcome, what is the reward to such Christians ?

    48. (a) With whom must we seek peace? (b) Why must sanctification continue with Christ's body members, accompanied by sufferings?

    49. What, then, must men of good-will today do?

    A DECEMBER VISIT TO SCANDINAVIA

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden, lie a few miles from each other across The Sound. December 12, 1945, found the Watch Tower Society’s president, N. H. Knorr, and his secretary, M. G. Henschel, and a Northern European representative, William Dey, at Copenhagen ready for the crossing of The Sound. The trip is to be made on a modern ferry boat that is beautifully decorated inside with inlaid woodwork. At 9 p.m. the boat leaves. The crossing is made in about an hour and a half, but the time spent by our travelers in looking through the boat and admiring its interior makes the journey seem shorter.

    Arrived at Malmo, they undergo the regular customs inspection and fill out the forms for the Passport Control officers and the monetary inspectors. A small train beside the custom house- usually takes the ferry passengers to Malmo’s Central Railroad Station, where they can board various waiting trains for various points in Sweden. Due to the fact that so many people are traveling at the time, our three brethren traveling on Theocratic business were unable to pass through the various offices quickly enough to catch the connecting train. For a moment they stood on the empty platform and wondered how they would catch their night train for Stockholm. Then came the cheering news that a bus was near by and those few remaining passengers would be transported to the Station quickly therein. So it was not long before the three were safely aboard the Stockholm night train and preparing to enjoy a very comfortable night of rest while rolling along to the Swedish capital city.

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