The Bible foretold that Jesus would not “reprove simply according to the thing heard by his ears” —or as the Contemporary English Version renders it, he “won’t . . . listen to rumors.”
According to a report of the United Nations secretary-general, these programs teach “populations at risk . . . how to minimize their chances of becoming victims while living and working in mined areas.”
Recently, in the jungles of Cambodia, according to officials quoted in the newspaper The Australian, the Khmer Rouge have deliberately slaughtered many rare animals.
According to the newspaper The Star of Johannesburg, 600,000 people worldwide —or 15 percent of all of those infected— have been infected with the AIDS virus from blood or blood products since AIDS was identified.
Likewise, as our heavenly High Priest, Jesus ‘sympathizes with our weaknesses,’ or according to Rotherham’s version, he has “fellow-feeling with our weaknesses.” —Hebrews 4:15.
By reason of his Creatorship, Jehovah is the Sovereign Ruler of the universe and exercises his divine will in heaven and on earth according to his own purposes.