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Daily Text
All that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number. -Num. 1: 3, 49, AS.
The consecrated priests and Levites were exempted from conscription for military service in Israel. Since Jehovah's witnesses are consecrated by God as followers of Christ, they should likewise be exempted from military duties with carnal weapons. God now exempts them, not requiring them to fight as did Joshua, Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, Barak and David of ancient times. God has made these Christian witnesses his ministers of the Kingdom gospel. Each one of Jehovah's witnesses has as his vocation the ministry and is a minister of the gospel, whether able to render full time or only part time. Not merely the full-time servants among them, but each one of Jehovah's witnesses is under a vow of dedication, which involves 'duties superior to those arising from any human relation'. God's Word therefore appoints each of them a minister of God and preacher of the gospel. W 2/1
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WHAT DO YOU SAY RESPECTING THE MESSIAH ?
The name Jesus or Jeshua is the shortened form of the Hebrew name Jehoshua, meaning Jehovah is the Savior. That a Jew bearing that name and title walked and taught in Palestine in the first half of the first century is so fully established by history that it needs no further proof here. This Jew's ...
