"Now You Are God's People" - REBIRTH OF GOD'S PEOPLE

In is parable of the wheat and the weeds, Jesus foretold the spiritual nighttime that would result from the apostasy.  He said that "while men were sleeping," the Devil would over-sow with weeds the field where the Son of man had sown wheat seeds.  Both would grow together until "the conclusion of the system of things."  Jesus explained that "the fine seed" represents "the sons of the Kingdom" and that "the weeds" are "the sons of the wicked one."  During the time of the end, the Son of man would send forth his "reapers," the angels, to separate the symbolic wheat from the weeds.   The sons of the Kingdom would be gathered.  (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43) How did this come about, and what bearing does it have on Jehovah's people on earth?

"The conclusion of the system of things" began in 1914. During the war that broke out that year, the few thousand anointed Christians, "the sons of the Kingdom," were in spiritual captivity to Babylon the Great.  In  1919, Jehovah delivered them, making a clear distinction between them and "the weeds," or imitation Christians.  He gathered "the sons of the Kingdom" into an organized people, in fulfillment  of Isaiah's prophecy.  "Will a land be brought to birth in one day? Or will a nation be born all at once? Yet, as soon as Zion  went into labor, she gave birth to her sons." (Isaiah 66:8) Zion, Jehovah's organization of spirit beings, brought forth her spirit anointed sons and organized them into a nation.

Just like the early Christians, the anointed "sons of the Kingdom" were to be witnesses of Jehovah.  (Read Isaiah 43:1, 10, 11.) As such, they would stand out as different by their Christian conduct and by their preaching "this good news of the Kingdom . . . for a witness to all the nations." (Matthew 24:14; Philippians 2:15) In this way, they have brought many, in fact millions, into a righteous standing before Jehovah. - Read DANIEL 12:3.

Next time:"Now You Are God's People" - "WE WANT TO GO WITH YOU" 

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