This means that relief is near and that the wicked world system is soon to be replaced by the rule of the perfect Kingdom of God, for which Jesus taught his followers to pray.
“The god of this system of things,” doubtless being behind these heinous crimes, has thus created what some call a sect scare, and he is using this against Jehovah’s people.
Yes, for Jesus himself called the Devil “the ruler of the world,” and the apostle Paul described him as “the god of this system of things.” —John 14:30; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 6:12.
We must already have figured such challenges into the cost of being a disciple of Christ, knowing that the reward —salvation from sin and death— is worth far more than anything that the present system can offer us.
Trying to be independent from him, people would devise social, economic, political, and religious systems that would conflict with one another, and ‘man would dominate man to his injury.’ —Ecclesiastes 8:9.
34 Jesus said to them: “The children of this system of things* marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Edict after edict was issued by the prefects, who honestly endeavoured to stop the arbitrariness and the oppression inherent in the system . . .
खण्डको वर्णन: यो खण्डको सूचनात्मक वर्णन मात्र हो, धेरै मिल्ने विषयवस्तु पुरा सन्देशका लागि हो; धेरै मेल अभिकर्ताले सङ्लग्नताको प्रतिमा साथै तिनका सन्देश पूर्वावलोकनमा यो सूचना देखाउनेछन् ।jw2019 jw2019