The present-day visible rulers of this world are
woefully deceived. They think they have the right to
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rule the people. They possess no such right. God,
whose name alone is JEHOVAH, is the King of
eternity. (Ps. 83 : 18; Jer. 10:. 10, margin) All just
power and authority reside in him. The time is at
hand when all must know that Jehovah is God, and
that to the intent that the living may know that the
Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth
it to whomsoever he will. (Dan. 4: 17) When God
took away from the nation of Israel all authority to
rule, which he did in the year 606 B.C., he said: It
shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and
I will give it him. (Ezck. 21: 27) He whose right
it is has come. The great question now before living
creatures is, Who is supreme1 and who shall rule or
control the world? The proper consideration of this
question involves the name and the covenants of Jehovah,
to the intent that men of intelligence may
choose whom they will serve.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Chief Executive
Officer of Jehovah, the Redeemer of man, and the
worlds rightful Ruler. Satan the Devil is the wicked
one, the opposer of God, and mans greatest enemy.
For centuries Satan has been the invisible overlord or
controller of the world. There must be a change from
Satan's rule to that by Jesus Christ. That change is
impending and will take place within this generation.
WORLD
There is first here given the Scriptural definition of
world, and then the proof that Satan controls the
world, and why a change of world control must shortly
come to pass. World means the peopIes of earth
organized into forms of government, under the supervision
of an invisible power or overlord. In the Bible
the word heaven is used to represent the invisible
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part of that rule, while earth, as there used, means
the visible power that rules, and it is heaven and
earth together which constitute the world. The
people of good will herein mentioned are those who
have an honest and sincere desire to see justice and
righteousness prevail, and hence they desire that the
will of God may be done on earth as well as in heaven.
Jehovah God created the earth and put perfect man
upon it, and made the spirit creature Lucifer the invisible
overlord of the earth. Associated with Lucifer
were many spirit creatures or angels forming a part
of his immediate organization. Lucifer rebelled against
Jehovah God, in which rebellion his host of angels
joined, and man was led into lawlessness and sentenced
to death. Since the entire human race sprang from
that one man after he had sinned and was sentenced
to death, all mankind have been born imperfect. (Ram
5: 12) God changed the name of Lucifer to that of
Devil, Satan, Serpent, and Dragon, and since then
Satan and his host of wicked angels have controlled
the world.
Satan defied Jehovah God to put on earth men that
would be faithful and true to God. That challenge
God accepted. (Job 1: 8-12; 2: 1-6) Although sentenced
to death, Satan and his wicked angels have been
permitted to continue for a definite period of time unhindered
in the prosecution of their wicked work, God
abiding his own due time to take action against them.
As the human race increased on the earth, other angels
which had been wholly devoted to God materialized
in human form and were induced by Satan and his
wicked angels to mingle with humankind and marry
the daughters of men, and from that union there came
forth an unusual offspring. There followed a period
of great wickedness in the earth, and God announced
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his purpose to destroy the world that then was by
a flood. That time in the Scriptures is called Noah's
day, because Noah was a righteous man and remained
true to God.-Gen. 6 : 1-8; 1 Bet. 3 : 19, 20.
