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WATCHTOWER.
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provision to bring forth Samson to smite the enemy
and to begin the deliverance of Israel. Manoah’s
woman is not named, but she is called the “wife” of
Manoah, and it is stated that she was barren. Thus
she corresponds with the description of God’s woman,
that is, his organization described by Isaiah, and who
in due time becomes the mother of all of God’s chil¬
dren. (Isa. 54:1-13) As Jehovah had a fixed time to
bring forth the child Samson, who was to begin the
deliverance of his people, likewise he had a fixed time
for his message to go forth beginning to prepare the
way before him in order that he might come to his
temple and then deliver his people. (Mai. 3:1-3) God’s
woman or organization could not bring forth until
Jehovah’s due time. From and after Pentecost the
true followers of Christ Jesus looked for his coming
again, and that was the great thing that attracted
their attention. It was about 1874 that the true fol¬
lowers of Christ Jesus began to have their attention
fixed upon the second coming of Christ Jesus, and
thereafter much was published concerning the same.
(See The Watchtower, February 1881, pages 3, 4.)
24 Jehovah sent his angel to inform those of his or¬
ganization of the coming Deliverer: “And the angel
of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto
her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not:
but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.” (Judg. 13:3)
The appearance of the angel to the woman was ap¬
parently about nine months before the birth of Sam¬
son, during which period the woman must observe and
obey the commandments given to her, to wit: “Now
therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor
strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: for, lo,
thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall
come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite
unto God from the womb; and he shall begin to de¬
liver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”—
Judg. 13:4,5.
25 From the time of her conception until the birth
of the child the woman must strictly observe the com¬
mandments then given to her, that she might bring
forth an offspring suited to Jehovah’s purpose. The
child must be a Nazarite unto God from the womb.
God’s law concerning a Nazarite is: “Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When either
man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow
of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink,
and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of
strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of
grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All the days
of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of
the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. All
the days of the vow of his separation there shall no
razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled,
in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he
shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of
his head grow. All the days that he separateth him¬
self unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body. He
shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for
his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they
die; because the consecration of his God is upon his
head. All the days of his separation he is holy unto
the Lord. ’ ’—Num. 6: 2-8.
36 It has been generally stated by Biblical commen¬
tators that Samson took the Nazarite vow, but there is
no evidence to support that conclusion. It was the
woman, his mother, who was commanded to observe all
the requirements of the law concerning a Nazarite:
‘ ‘ For the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the
womb,” which showed that the child had nothing to
do with the matter. The woman must obey the com¬
mandment or obligation laid upon her; and this proves
that nothing is pleasing to God save that which is
wholly and completely devoted to him. Furthermore
it proves that the woman must give birth to a child
which is wholly separated to and devoted to God, from
the time of birth onward. Before its birth it would be
impossible for the child to devote itself to God and to
take a vow, but the mother had devoted the child to
the Lord. This proves that God’s woman, that is, his
organization, gives birth only to those who are com¬
pletely separated from the world and devoted to Je¬
hovah. They have no alternative. Their devotion to
God must be complete and an absolute and complete
separation from the world to God, and this must be
accomplished before they are brought forth as the
sons of God. “And all thy children shall be taught
of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy chil¬
dren.” (Isa. 54:13) All who are taught of God must
be wholly separated to him; otherwise they would not
be taught of the Lord. The fact that Samson could not
have his hair cut without losing the favor of Jehovah
shows that the children of God’s woman cannot par¬
tially devote themselves to Jehovah but must be en¬
tirely and wholly devoted to him. As Samson played
an important part in the prophetic drama, so the im¬
portance of his long hair is emphasized, and therefore
it must follow that his long hair pictured something
particularly appropriate to the true followers of Christ
Jesus who should be on the earth at the end of the
world.
2T God’s commandment to the woman was, “The
child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb ’ ’;
meaning that he must be one separate, consecrated
and devoted unto God from the time of his birth
thenceforth, and therefore Jehovah said: “And he
shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.” At this point in the drama Samson ap¬
pears to picture those who began to deliver the people
of God from the antitypical Philistines and who did
so by faithfully declaring the Word of God and mak¬
ing known God’s power and great name. The work of
complete deliverance of Israel from the Philistines was
performed by David particularly in the two great
battles, one at Mount Perazim and the other at Gibeon,
to which Jehovah by his prophet refers, and which<noinclude><references/></noinclude>