You ... joyfully took the plundering of your belongings, knowing you yourselves have a better and an abiding possession. -Heb. 10: 34, NW.

Like the priests and Levites of Israel who were specially dedicated to Jehovah's service at his temple, they have no inheritance in this world. So, they do not fight for territories; and if they suffer loss of property through persecutions by their home government or through invasion of the land by armed aggression, they trust in God to provide them with life's necessities. Rather than be killed in a violent endeavor to protect material properties of this world, they prefer to live in a despoiled condition that they might keep on witnessing for God's kingdom and țpreach the wordț and țbe at it urgently in favorable season, in troublesome seasonț. No matter what political or governmental changes may take place over their heads, they in their neutral position are obliged to submit to them and to carry on with God's work the best they can under the altered conditions. W 2/1