How Jehovah Helps Us to Endure With Joy - JEHOVAH BLESSES US

 Read Isaiah 30:23-26. How was this prophecy fulfilled for the Jews who returned to the land of Israel after the Babylonian captivity?  They received abundant blessings-both physical and spiritual.  Jehovah blessed his  people with an amply supply of physical food. More important, though, he favored them with an abundance of spiritual food as pure worship was gradually restored.  The spiritual blessings that God's people enjoyed at that time vastly exceeded anything they experienced before.  As indicated in verse 26, Jehovah greatly increased the spiritual light.  (Isaiah 60:2) Jehovah's blessings helped his servants to keep serving him with joy and inner strength "because of the condition of the heart." - ISAIAH 65:14. 

Does the prophecy about the restoration of pure worship apply to us today? Absolutely!  In what way?  Since 1919 C.E., millions of people have broken free from captivity to Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion.  They have been directed to a much better place than Israel's Promised Land.  They have been led to a spiritual paradise.  (Isaiah 51:3; 66:8)  What is that spiritual paradise? 

Since 1919 C.E., the anointed have enjoyed living in a spiritual paradise.  As time has progressed, those with an earthly hope, the "other sheep," have also settled in this spiritual land and have enjoyed Jehovah's abundant blessings. - JOHN 10:16; ISAIAH 25:6; 65:13. 

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