And How Shall We Ourselves Escape? Watchtower illustration After foretelling the subjugation of Egypt and Ethiopia the brief 20th chapter of Isaiah relates an event that occurred during Isaiah’s ministry – the Assyrian military juggernaut swept down and conquered the strategically important Phoenician city of Ashdod. That conquest was a harbinger of things to come for Egypt. It was on that occasion that Jehovah issued a warning to his people that their looked-for hope and helper, Egypt, was doomed and they were left to ponder the unsettling question: “And how shall we ourselves escape?” In previous articles of this Isaiah series, as well as other writings appearing on e-watchman, the case has been made that America is the Greater Egypt, as well as the king of the south during the time of the end. And both the Assyrian and Babylonian empires of antiquity foreshadow the world conquering eighth king of Revelation and the king fierce countenance, as well as the king of the north during the time of the end. Although Jehovah’s Witnesses do not vote or take part in the political system, nor do Jehovah’s Witnesses enroll in the military, that does not necessarily mean that the leadership of the Watchtower Society does not look to the powerful institutions of the world for assistance. For example, for ten years the Watchtower was officially involved in a political partnership with the United Nations. In return for their propagandizing in behalf of the UN, the UN assisted the Watchtower Society in humanitarian relief efforts in Africa – the details of which are presented in the article, Strange Bedfellows. Even after the Watchtower dissolved its NGO relationship with the UN in the decade since then it has created a half dozen European NGO organizations that are deeply involved with the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). Here is what the Watchtower wrote in the commentary on this section of Isaiah: “Some might be impressed by today’s financial wizards, politicians, and scientists, who talk of solving man’s problems using man’s ingenuity and technology.” Apparently some of the leading men of the Watchtower Society are “impressed by today’s financial wizards” – evidenced by their sending representatives to attend hedge fund conferences the past two years hosted by the wizards of the City of London. (Watchtower Society Hedge Fund) Jehovah is certain to give attention to the organization’s brazen hypocrisy in the near future, which is largely what the prophecy of Isaiah is all about.
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