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66 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
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But long before, in the Mosaic Law covenant,
Jehovah had warned the Israelites : "And if notwithstanding
this ye will not hearken unto me,
but walk contrary unto me : then will I also walk
contrary unto you in fury ; and I, even I, will
chastise you, sevenfold for your sins. And I will
surely make desolate the land : and your enemies
who dwell therein shall be astonished at it . And
you will I scatter among the nations, and I will
draw out after you the sword ; and your land shall
be a desolate wild, and your cities shall be a waste .
Then shall the land satisfy its sabbaths, all the
days of its desolation, when ye are in the land of
your enemies : then shall the land rest, and satisfy
its sabbaths ." Leviticus 26 :27,28,32-34, Lees . ;
Dar. "Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king
whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that
neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
stone ." Deuteronomy 28 :36, Dar . Such a national
disaster occurred after the kingdom of the
line of David, with capital at Jerusalem, had stood
for about five hundred years. The last and twentyfirst
king from David to sit on the Theocratic
throne at Jerusalem was King edekiah .
11 Shortly before edekiah was dethroned and
carried captive to Babylon he was given this message
: "And thou, 0 deadly wounded wicked one,
the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the
10. How had God warned he would punish the kingdom
for repeated disobedience? When did this national disaster
occur?
11 . What showed God did not then renounce his Davidic
covenant?