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Daily Text
Are you able to . . . be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized? -Mark 10: 38, NW.
Jehovah God is the great Baptizer or Baptist. The baptisms which he performs are either to life or to death, to salvation or to destruction. That water baptism was a right symbol for Jesus to undergo Jehovah God showed, for then he baptized Jesus with his holy spirit. In this way he acted as the great Baptizer and did that which led finally to Jesus' salvation to immortal life in heaven at God's right hand. There Jesus began a baptism into death as a man, a human creature. Three years later he indicated this to his disciples with the above-quoted words. His baptism into death was finished with his death on the torture stake at Calvary, outside Jerusalem. Then God completed the great act by saving his obedient Son out of death, resurrecting him to immortal life as an invisible spirit in heaven. John the Baptist could never perform such an immersion. Only Almighty God could do so. W 11/15
Monthly Theme
TRANSMITTING THE TRUE RECORD
JEHOVAH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book." That was in 1513 B .C. It is the first divine command to write, and it indicates Jehovah's purpose to have important matters recorded. Memorial of them was not to be entrusted to oral transmission subject to corruption by fallible human memory. The ...
