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  • “I Will Raise Up One Shepherd”
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!
    • 5. What is the gist of the riddle?

      5 Read Ezekiel 17:3-10. Here is the gist of the riddle: A “great eagle” plucks off the topmost shoot of a cedar tree and sets it down “in a city of traders.”

  • “I Will Raise Up One Shepherd”
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!
    • An eagle carrying a shoot of a cedar tree.

      The first great eagle represented King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (See paragraph 6)

      6. Explain the meaning of the riddle.

      6 What did the riddle mean? (Read Ezekiel 17:11-15.) In 617 B.C.E., King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (the first “great eagle”) besieged Jerusalem. He plucked Judean King Jehoiachin (the “topmost shoot”) from his throne and brought him to Babylon (“a city of traders”).

  • Messianic Prophecy—The Majestic Cedar Tree
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!
      • An eagle carrying to Babylon a shoot of a cedar tree in its talons.

        1. Nebuchadnezzar takes Jehoiachin to Babylon

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