The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

+; mysterybeen stignlatised and misrepresented in all the heatllsnreligions of the World ; while the idolatrous Nimrodwho led men away from the true God, and who wasjustly condemned to death because of his evil deeds,has been exalted to the status of a god himself. Thisturning of things upside-down, however shall notstand, for Jehovah shall now soon vindi6ate himselfon behalf of his righteous servants.We are reminded here of what the Egyptian historianhfanetho wrote regarding the builders of theGreat Pyramid : "There came up from the East, in astrange manner, men of an ignoble race, who had theconfidence to invade our country, and easily subduedit by their power without a battle. All this invadingnation was styled Hyksos-that is, Shepherd Kings."He adds that this people afterwards departed for Judeaand built there a city named Jerusalem. The head ofthese Shepherd Kings has been recognised as thepatriarch Shem, and Shem as Melchizedec, king ofSalem (Heb. 7 : 1, 2). It is certainly quite in keepingwith the exalted methods of this " king of peace " thalhe subdued the Egyptians without a battle, persuadingthem only by the spirit or power of God to closetheir idolatrous temples and do his bidding (see GreatPyramid Passages, Vol. i, pars. 4-6). It shows howwonderful was the godly influence whichjhia venerable .king arid "priest of the most high God exercised irlthe early stages of the "present evil world." He wasindeed a fit type of Christ in the Millennia1 Age,, whoraGod sware would be a "Priest forever after the orderof Melchizedec" (Psa. 110 : 4). In face of such greatpower for righteousness, one can see how the iniquityinstigated by Satan, the " god Of this world," wouldrequire to,pe very warily conducted. Hmce the t?rmor secret," of inquity.