Thy Word Is Truth

“Thy Word is Truth”
A POCKET REFERENCE AND NOTE BOOK

FOR BIBLE AND DAWN STUDENTS
AND TEACHERS
BEING
A Classified Collection of Scriptures Upon

Various Subjects, Arranged for
Handy Reference
TO WHICH ARE ADDED
Some Scriptures bearing upon Bible “Times

and Seasons” together with several
charts illustrating the same
Also a table of Types and Symbols
COPYRIGHT 1905
BY
THE COMPILER
Publisher’s Foreword
This little book is really a reprinting of three booklets.
The first two were first printed in the year 1905, the third
in 1908. These were used as handy references for
colporteurs and Bible Students. Each of these booklets
reprinted here have their own table of contents and retain
the original style and page numbers.
The first, THY WORD IS TRUTH, carried no name of the
compiler. However, the second page carried this note:
“For Sale by M. R. Bond, Abington, Mass.” This may
have been the compiler or another Bible Student associated
with the work.
The second booklet, FEATURES OF THE PLAN OF GOD,
was compiled by Brother Kirkland of Allegheny, Pa.
Brother J. A. Bohnet appears to be the publisher and other
contributors are listed. Brother Bohnet was a Pilgrim
servant in the later years of Pastor Russell’s ministry.
Some of his discourses appear in Convention Reports from
1906 onward.
The third booklet, QUESTIONS ANSWERING QUESTIONS,
was compiled by A. B. Dabney of Lynchburg, Va. Letters
from Brother Dabney to Brother Russell occur on Reprint
pages 4798 and 5937.
This edition quotes scriptures according to the KJV.
Tower references are annotated with Reprint pages. Studies
in the Scriptures are cited with current page numbers.
We take pleasure in reprinting these early harvest
work handbooks for Christians living in these latter days.
For any references to the date 1914, we refer the reader
to the Foreword to Volume 2 of Studies in the Scriptures.
For all those who love the harmony and beauty of the holy
Word, we commend this work with the admonition of
1 Thessalonians 5:21, to “prove all things; hold fast that
which is good.”
2013
Portland Area Bible Students
PO Box 74
Fairview, Oregon 97024-0074
INSCRIPTION.
To our beloved brother Russell, whom the

Lord has used to dispense the “Meat in due
Season” to the “Household of Faith,” this
collection of crumbs, gathered from the feast
he has prepared, is gratefully inscribed,
with the hope that it has been so arranged
as to be of service in enabling even the
youngest of the household to “Be ready
always to give an answer” when questioned
concerning the things we believe.
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PREFACE.
GREETING: BELOVED IN THE LORD.
Those of you who already know and love the Dawn
series and the Watch Tower will find in this little booklet
nothing new; nothing which you will not at once
recognize as gleanings from either Dawn or Tower.
While any who have not already studied the Bible with
those helps will find all gleanings from them so backed
and fortified by Bible verses, that they can but recognize
the fact that we stand upon the “Firm Foundation” laid
for our faith in “His Excellent Word.”
In the arrangement of these subjects and quotations I
have had in view two ends. First, to bring together,
within a compass small enough to carry always with us,
the strongest Scriptures upon such points as we are most
likely to be questioned about. So that even those of us
who lack time or ability to fix so much in our minds for
ready repetition, may be able to answer convincingly, and
to clinch our answer with a “Thus saith the Lord,”
whenever and wherever we may be questioned.
Second, I have aimed to arrange the Scriptures used so
as to bring out certain truths strongly, hoping that some
might thereby be led to enquire more earnestly “Whether
these things be so.”
Each subject is followed by a note stating in just what
volume of Dawn or number of Tower, and at what pages,
a full exposition of the subject may be found.
Blank pages are also provided, so that each may make
such additions as they desire. And if the little book, as I
send it out, shall be helpful to even a few of the Lord’s
people, I shall feel that the time spent in compilation has
been well spent.
Your servant in Christ,
THE COMPILER.
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KEY TO REFERENCES.
After each subject, and in two of the
indexes, will be found references to A, E, Z,
etc.
These letters are used to denote various of
the publications of the Watch Tower Bible
and Tract Society, as follows: A, B, C, D, E
and F, denote in their order the six volumes
of the Dawn series, S the tract on Spiritism,
T the pamphlet “Tabernacle Shadows,” and
Z Zion’s Watch Tower, the figures denoting
years and pages, as follows: A, 263, would
mean page 263 of Volume I of Dawn. E,
73, would mean page 73 of Volume V of
Dawn, etc., while Z,’00S91, would be page
91 of Zion’s Watch Tower of 1900, and
Z,’95S15, would be page 15 of Zion’s Watch
Tower for 1895.*
* In this edition the reprint page occurs in brackets following

the original Tower year and page number. The « mark indicates
the noted page was reprinted from an earlier article. The » mark
indicates the page was reprinted from a later article.
The references to Tract numbers are for issues of the Old
Theology Quarterly. Many of these have been reprinted in Harvest
Gleanings volume 1 and are noted in brackets with the page as in
[HG289].
Italics in quoted Scripture are retained to indicate supplied
words in the translated text. Bold is used for the compiler’s
emphasis.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART I.
BIBLE READINGS.
SUBJECT. PAGE.
Baptism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Earthly Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Earthly Prospects of the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Eternal Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Heavenly Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
High Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Hope of the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Hope of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Importance of Sound Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9
Intermediate State of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Is Man Mortal or Immortal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Salvation, What? For Whom? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Second Coming of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sins Covered or Blotted Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The Earth Established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Ransom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Restitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Man Christ Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The Judgment Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Trinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Things Important to Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8
What Then About Hell? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
PART II.
BIBLE “TIMES AND SEASONS.”
Antichrist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chart of the Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chronology of the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Cleansing of the Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUBJECT. PAGE.
Diagrams Corroborating Dates Shown . . . . . . . . . . 100

Israel’s Double and its Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Times of the Gentiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
The Time of the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chronological Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
PART III.
TYPES, SYMBOLS, PARABLES, ETC.
Bible Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Our Lord’s Parables, Explained Where? . . . . . . . . 111
Practical Applications of the Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Tabernacle Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Other Types of the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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THINGS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER AS
WE STUDY THE BIBLE.
1. Not only every class study, but also every time of
private home study, should be prefaced by following the
instructions found in
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all
men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
(James 1:5.)
2. Having asked wisdom and understanding of God,
we must study His Word with a mind willing to receive
and believe whatever we find there, even though we find
some things we have not believed before, and fail to find
some which we have all our lives supposed were true.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isa. 8:20.)
3. We know that God’s Word cannot contradict itself.
When, therefore, in our study we come upon seeming
contradictions, we must search carefully for the clew that
will harmonize the apparently contradictory passages.
This we may always find if we follow the Scriptural
injunction found in
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: (Isa. 1:18.)
Comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1 Cor. 2:13.)
Rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Tim. 2:15.)
4. We must note with special care to whom or of
whom different passages are written; also to what
period of time they refer. Much of the confusion of
belief among God’s true children arises because of a
failure to notice these distinctions.
5. We must carefully distinguish between plain
statements and figurative sayings, parables, types and
symbols.
6. When we want proof we must compare Scripture
with Scripture, instead of comparing Scripture with the
traditions of men, expecting to find proof there.
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IMPORTANCE OF SOUND DOCTRINE.
We often hear really good people, those who are

church members and to some extent love the Lord, say:
“Well, it does not make any difference what you
believe, if you are only honest and do the best you
know how.” But a careful study of the following
Scriptures will convince anyone that Our Lord and the
Apostles thought differently:
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: (Isa. 1:18.)
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isa. 8:20.)
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but
his that sent me.
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. (John 7:16,17.)
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. (Matt. 15:9.)
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, even Christ: (Eph. 4:11-15.)
Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils; (1 Tim 4:1.)
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have
wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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10 THY WORD IS TRUTH.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he
hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive
him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
(2 John 7-11.)
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and
avoid them. (Rom.16:17.)
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
(Titus 2:1.)
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he
may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers. (Titus 1:9.)
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in
doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, (Titus 2:7.)
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine. (1 Tim. 4:13.)
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
(2 Tim. 2:15.)
If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou
shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words
of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
(1 Tim. 4:6.)
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it
is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with
meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied
therein. (Heb. 13:9.)
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear: (1 Pet. 3:15.)
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many
witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able
to teach others also. (2 Tim. 2:2.)
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that
thy profiting may appear to all.
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in
them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that
hear thee. (1 Tim 4:15,16.)
IMPORTANCE OF SOUND DOCTRINE. 11
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,

rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2.)
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of
me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the
Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. (2 Tim. 1:13,14.)
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished
unto all good works. (2 Tim. 3:16,17.)
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
(John 8:32.)
The truth must be sound doctrine, and if we are to
be made free only when we know the truth, then surely
it is of vast importance that we know the truth.
A,163; E,167; Z,’95S263 [R1892]; Z,’01S25.* [R2597«]
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*See key to references, which follows preface.
THE RANSOM.
In arranging the texts on this subject only a few of

the many contained in the Bible have been used. The
object has been to use the strongest texts bringing out
clearly three thoughts: 1. That man is ransomed from
death. 2. That man is ransomed by the blood of Christ.
3. That the ransom extends to all men.
And we close with the Scripture statement that
False teachers will deny that man is bought with the
blood of Christ.
In studying this subject, or explaining it, “it is well
to give emphasis to the meaning of the Greek words
translated Ransom.” There are two words, Anti and
Lutron, and they signify a corresponding price.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and
redeemed his people, (Luke 1:68.)
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee
with lovingkindness and tender mercies; (Ps. 103:4.)
For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from
the hand of him that was stronger than he. (Jer. 31:11.)
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will
redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. (Jer. 15:21.)
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be
thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hos.
13:14.)
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on
a tree: (Gal. 3:13.)
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but
to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Mark 10:45.)
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THE RANSOM. 13
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. (Heb. 9:12.)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
(1 Tim. 2:5,6.)
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins: (Col. 1:14.)
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2.)
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we
trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of
those that believe. (1 Tim. 4:10.)
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Cor. 6:20.)
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation
received by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot: (1 Pet. 1:18,19.)
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over
the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the
church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts
20:28.)
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, and nation; (Rev. 5:9.)
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2 Pet. 2:1.)
This subject is fully treated in A,149-172; E,421-

486; Z,’96S248 [R2052]; Z,’97S31 [R2097]; Z,’98S373
[R2408]; Z,’01S180 [R2822].
RESTITUTION.
PROMISED.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be

blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord;
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you:
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of
all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets since the world began. (Acts 3:19-21.)
COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM. BOTH HEAVENLY AND

EARTHLY SEED DENOTED.
And the Angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven
the second time,
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because
thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine
only son:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which
is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his
enemies;
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Gen. 22:15-18.)
COVENANT RENEWED TO ISAAC. HEAVENLY SEED

ONLY DENOTED.
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king
of the Philistines unto Gerar.
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless
thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham
thy father;
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and
will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all
the nations of the earth be blessed; (Gen. 26:1-4.)
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RESTITUTION. 15
COVENANT RENEWED TO JACOB. ONLY EARTHLY

SEED DENOTED.
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and
put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it.
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon
thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to
the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed. (Gen. 28:10-14.)
PROMISED TO ISRAEL.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto
a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
(Gen. 12:1-3.)
And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing
which I do;
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
(Gen. 18:17,18.)
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without
end.
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself
that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he
created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD;
and there is none else. (Isa. 45:17,18.)
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their
head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning
shall flee away. (Isa. 51:11.)
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD
for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. (Isa.
55:12,13.)
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your
name remain.
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship
before me, saith the LORD. (Isa. 66:22,23.)
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the
LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the
imagination of their evil heart.
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to
the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
(Jer. 3:17,18.)
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they
shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the
seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their
own land. (Jer. 23:7,8.)
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring
them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them
down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto me with their whole heart. (Jer. 24:6,7.)
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king,
and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an
image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the
LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and
his goodness in the latter days. (Hos. 3:4,5.)
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow
with wine and oil.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,
the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my
great army which I sent among you.
RESTITUTION. 17
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the

name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you:
and my people shall never be ashamed. (Joel 2:24-26.)
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope
is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you
to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have
spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. (Ezek. 37:11-14.)
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and
observe my statutes, and do them.
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob
my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell
therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children
for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. (Ezek.
37:24,25.)
PROMISED TO OTHER NATIONS.
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days,
saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. (Jer. 48:47.)
But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring
again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD. (Jer. 49:39.)
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom
and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of
them:
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort
unto them.
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to
their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to
your former estate. (Ezek. 16:53-55.)
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation,
and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of
Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. (Matt. 12:41.)
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and
Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be
brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been
done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained
until this day.
But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. (Matt. 11:21-24.)
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that
I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations,
that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine
indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be
devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they
may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one
consent. (Zeph. 3:8,9.)
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of
the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Hab. 2:14.)
And the LORD shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one. (Zech. 14:9.)
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. …
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people
Israel. (Luke 2:10,32.)
In the foregoing texts we have found restitution
promised, to the Israelites, Moabites, Elamites, Sodomites
and Samaritans. To the people of Tyre, Sidon and
Nineveh. To the “Kingdoms,” to “All Nations,” to “All
the Earth.” To the “Ends of the Earth.” But lest this
be not enough to convince us we have
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the
Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of
David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins
thereof, and I will set it up:
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That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth
all these things. (Acts 15:14-17.)
which takes in all by any possibility left out before.
“The residue” of men.
SEE ALSO
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was
lost. (Luke 19:10.)
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall
be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the
rough ways shall be made smooth;
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. (Luke 3:5,6.)
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. …
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!
(John 1:9,29.)
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the
will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all
which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it
up again at the last day. (John 6:38,39.)
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
(1 Cor. 15:21,22.)
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (Gal. 3:8.)
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according
to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might
gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in
heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: (Eph. 1:9,10.)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth.
(1 Tim. 2:3-6.)
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Pet 3:13.)
We have given here a large number of texts showing
clearly that Restitution is promised, but have used only
about one-tenth of such texts, which are to be found in
the Bible.
See C,256; A,149-172; E,139,140; Z,’97S229,

¶s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [R2195-6].
IS MAN MORTAL OR IMMORTAL?
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. (Gen. 2:7.)
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely
die. (Gen. 2:16,17.)
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
(Gen. 3:4.)
God said “ye shall surely die.” Satan said “ye shall
not surely die.” This is the first lie, and the one that is
responsible for nearly all the false doctrines to-day.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:19.)
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(Rom. 5:12.)
of the dead.
(1 Cor. 15:21,22.)
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 6:23.)
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1 Cor. 15:45.)
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
beasts that perish. (Ps. 49:12.)
The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
will he destroy. (Ps. 145:20.)
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou
shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. (Ps. 37:10.)
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For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him
shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. (Acts
3:22,23.)
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even
one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea,
they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above
a beast: for all is vanity.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust
again. (Eccle. 3:19,20.)
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezek.
18:4.)
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and
of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth, and every man:
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the
dry land, died. (Gen. 7:21,22.)
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out
his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors;
and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors. (Isa. 53:12.)
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus
Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel: (2 Tim. 1:10.)
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man
can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom
be honour and power everlasting. Amen. (1 Tim. 6:16.)
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Rom. 2:6,7.)
See A,184-187; E,383-404; Tract 38 [HG321],

Z,’95S237 [R1877].
INTERMEDIATE STATE OF THE DEAD.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers; … (Deut. 31:16.)
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the
ghost, and where is he?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and
drieth up:
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more,
they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. (Job
14:10-12.)
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed
time will I wait, till my change come. (Job 14:14.)
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness. (Job 17:13.)
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who
shall give thee thanks? (Ps. 6:5.)
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
silence. (Ps. 115:17.)
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
day his thoughts perish. (Ps. 146:4.)
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not
any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of
them is forgotten. (Eccle. 9:5.)
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for
there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the
*
grave, whither thou goest. (Eccle. 9:10.)
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting
contempt. (Dan.12:2.)
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not
this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
(Acts 7:60.)
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which
have no hope.
* See also Ps. 88:10-12; Isa. 38:18; Ps. 30:9; cf., Ps. 28:1; Job 14:21.
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:13-17.)
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation. (2 Pet. 3:4.)
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once;
of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are
fallen asleep. (1 Cor. 15:6.)
For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your
sins.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
(1 Cor. 15:16-18.)
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch
David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with
us unto this day. …
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith
himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (Acts 2:29,34,35.)
We have here the positive assertion of Peter, that,
though David had been dead and buried for centuries,
he had not gone to Heaven. Verily our Father leaves no
reason for doubt on the part of those who search the
scriptures to know the truth.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-
fruits of them that slept. (1 Cor. 15:20.)
See E,353-381; S,19,20 [R2172]; Z,’95S237 [R1877];

Z,’97S231 [R2197]; Z,’01S29, 122 [R2599«, 2794].
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. WHAT IS IT?
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die. (Gen. 2:17.)
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17-19.)
For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they
that be cursed of him shall be cut off. …
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they
are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. …
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the
wicked shall be cut off. (Ps. 37:22,28,38.)
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezek.
18:4.)
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go
in thereat: (Matt. 7:13.)
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the
righteous into life eternal. (Matt. 25:46.)
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. (Acts
3:23.)
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit
such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them. (Rom. 1:32.)
by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(Rom. 5:12.)
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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 6:23.)
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace. (Rom. 8:6.)
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: (2 Cor.
1:9.)
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; (2 Thess.
1:9.)
Compare the Apostle’s statement above, with
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from
thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in
hell, behold, thou art there. (Ps. 139:7,8.)
See E,21, 193, 327-333, 387-388; Z,’00S101-109

[R2606-2612].
WHAT THEN ABOUT HELL?
In the Old Testament the only word translated by

the English word “Hell” is “Sheol.” This word “Sheol”
is used in the Old Testament 65 times. In 34 places it
is translated “Grave” and “Pit,” in 31 places it is
translated “Hell,” and in 3 of the 31 places, Ps. 55:15,
Ps. 86:13, and Isa. 14:9, the margin explains that
“Grave” is meant.
While in the other 29 the words “Grave” or “Pit”
would make better sense than the word “Hell” with its
generally understood meaning.
SOME TEXTS WHERE SHEOL IS TRANSLATED HELL.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set
on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Deut. 32:22.)
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that
forget God. (Ps. 9:17.)
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. (Ps. 116:3.)
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in
hell, behold, thou art there. (Ps. 139:8.)
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. (Prov. 5:5.)
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of
death. (Prov. 7:27.)
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then
the hearts of the children of men? (Prov. 15:11.)
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
from hell. (Prov. 23:14.)
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and
with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the
plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding place.
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isa. 28:15-18.)
“In the New Testament, the Greek word hades
corresponds exactly to the Hebrew word sheol. As
proof see the quotations of the Apostles from the Old
Testament, in which they render it hades. For
instance, Acts 2:27, ‘Thou wilt not leave my soul in
hades,’ is a quotation from Psa. 16:10, ‘Thou wilt not
leave my soul in sheol.’”—Hell Tract, p.19 [R2600].
SOME TEXTS WHERE HADES IS TRANSLATED HELL.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this
rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. (Matt. 16:18.)
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be
brought down to hell: … (Matt. 11:23.)
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth
Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:23.)
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Acts 2:27.)
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. (Rev. 1:18.)
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on
him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and
with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
(Rev. 6:8.)
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the
second death. (Rev. 20:13,14.)
WHAT THEN ABOUT HELL? 29
“The Greek word tartaroo occurs but once in the New

Testament, and is translated hell. It is found in”
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved unto judgment; (2 Pet. 2:4.) — Hell Tract, p. 35 [R2603].
“The word tartaroo, used by Peter, very closely
resembles tartarus, a word used in Grecian mythology as
the name for a dark abyss or prison. But the word
tartaroo seems to refer more to an act than to a place.
The fall of the angels who sinned was from honor and
dignity, into dishonor and condemnation, and the
thought seems to be — ‘God spared not the angels who
sinned, but degraded them, and delivered them into
chains of darkness.’”— Hell Tract, p. 36 [R2603].
“There is one more Greek word used in the New
Testament which is translated by our English word
‘Hell,’ the word ‘Gehenna.’ It is the Grecian mode of
spelling the Hebrew words which are translated ‘the
Valley of Hinnom.’ This valley lay just outside the
city of Jerusalem, and served the purpose of sewer and
garbage burner to that city. The offal, garbage, etc.,
were emptied there, and fires were kept continually
burning to consume utterly all things deposited therein,
brimstone being added to assist combustion and insure
complete destruction. But a living thing was never
cast into gehenna. The Jews were not permitted to
torture any creature.”— Hell Tract, p. 23 [R2601].
So, then, gehenna was a type or illustration of the second death
— final and complete destruction, from which there can be no
recovery; for after that, “there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins,” but only “fiery indignation, which shall devour the
adversaries.” (Heb. 10:26,27.) — Hell Tract, p.24 [R2601].
TEXTS WHERE GEHENNA IS TRANSLATED HELL.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill
the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and
body in hell. (Matt. 10:28.)
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which
after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto
you, Fear him. (Luke 12:5.)
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever
shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but
whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
(Matt. 5:22.)
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from
thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should
perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. (Matt.
5:30.)
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee:
it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than
having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. (Matt. 18:9.)
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to
enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into
the fire that never shall be quenched:
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to
enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into
the fire that never shall be quenched:
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee
to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two
eyes to be cast into hell fire:
(Mark 9:43-48.)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass
sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make
him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. (Matt. 23:15.)
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell? (Matt. 23:33.)
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on
fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. (James 3:6.)
Perhaps no other scriptures are so frequently quoted

in support of the doctrine of a Hell of eternal suffering
as Luke 16:19-31.
THE PARABLE OF DIVES AND LAZARUS.
(Luke 16:19.)
“While this is admitted to be a parable, it is

generally treated as if it were a literal statement. To
regard it as a literal statement involves several
absurdities; for instance, that the rich man went to
hades because he had enjoyed many earthly blessings
and gave nothing but crumbs to Lazarus. Not a word is
said about his wickedness. Again, Lazarus is blessed,
not because he was good, or full of faith in God, but
simply because he was poor and sick.”
“If this be interpreted literally, the only lesson to be
logically drawn from it is that unless we are poor
beggars full of sores, we will never enter into future
bliss; and that if now we wear any fine linen and purple,
and have plenty to eat every day, we are sure of future
torment.”
“Again, the coveted place of favor is Abraham’s
bosom; and if the whole statement is literal, the bosom
must be literal, and surely would not hold very many of
earth’s millions of sick and poor.”
“But why consider absurdities? As a parable, it is
easy of interpretation. In a parable, the thing said is
never the thing meant; as, for instance, in the parable
of the wheat and tares, the Lord explained that wheat
meant children of the kingdom, and tares the children
of the devil; and similar classes in another parable were
represented by sheep and goats. So in this parable, the
rich man must represent a class, and Lazarus another
class; and the parable as a lesson applies to these classes.”
“The Rich Man (Dives) represented the Jewish

people, which up to, and at the time of the parable
‘fared sumptuously,’ as the special recipients of God’s
favors and promises. As Paul said, the Jews had ‘much
advantage every way, chiefly, because to them were
committed the oracles of God’ (the Law and the
Prophets). The promises to Abraham and David
invested that people with royalty, as represented by the
rich man’s ‘purple.’ The typical sacrifices of the law
constituted them, in a typical sense, a ‘holy nation,’
represented by the rich man’s ‘fine linen’ —symbolic of
righteousness.” (Rev. 19:8.)
“The Poor Man (Lazarus) represented the God-
fearing people of other nations, debarred, until the close
of the Jewish Age, from those blessings conferred upon
Israel specially. As the linen represented Israel’s
justification, so the sores represented moral defilement
in this class, for whose justification no sin offering had
at that time been made. They were not even typically
cleansed, and had as yet no share in the rich promises
of the kingdom, the ‘purple.’ They were, on the
contrary, outcasts, strangers from Israel’s favors. (Eph.
2:11-13.) As to how these ate of the ‘crumbs’ of divine
favor which fell from Israel’s table of bounties, and how
they accounted themselves as companions of ‘dogs,’ the
Lord’s conversation with the Syro-Phoenician woman,
who was one of this class, explains.” (See Matt. 15:27.)
“But there came a change to both of these classes.
The ‘rich man’ (the Jewish nation) died, ceased to exist
as a nation, and as the national representatives of God’s
favors, when those favors were taken from them (Matt.
21:43) and given to some, formerly outcasts.”
“The ‘rich man’ class was cast out of favor, into
trouble. And from then till now, the Jews as a people
have been in torment; yet are hindered by their law
prejudices (as a great gulf) from accepting of Christ.
The ‘Lazarus’ class also died, or ceased from their

former condition, and were received into the favor of
God.” (Acts 10:28-35.) Accepting Christ, these
thenceforth were received to Abraham’s bosom—that is,
they were accepted as the true children of believing
Abraham, and the true heirs of the promise made to
him.” (See Gal. 3:16,29; Rom. 11:7-9,12-25.) Tract
53, “The Wages of Sin is Death” [R1087]. For detailed
exposition of this subject see Pamphlet “What Say the
Scriptures About Hell?”
THE TRINITY.
VERSES WHICH AT FIRST GLANCE SEEM TO TEACH

THE DOCTRINE.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any
thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3.)
LITERAL TRANSLATION OF GREEK OF VERSES 1 AND 2.

“In a beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with The God, and a god was the Word. The same was
in a beginning with The God.”
I and my Father are one. (John 10:30.)
Compare above, to see how they are one, with
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word;
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in
thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me. (John 17:20,21.)
Compare
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and
yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath
seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
(John 14:9.)
with
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; (Gen. 1:27.)
Compare
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with
the glory which I had with thee before the world was. (John 17:5.)
with
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that
they may be one, even as we are one: (John 17:22.)
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THE TRINITY. 35
Literal translation of
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
(Col. 2:9.)
is “Because in him dwells all the fulness of the Deity
bodily.” For full explanation see E,71.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three
that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one. (1 John 5:7,8.)
The italicized words in these verses are admitted by
all students to be spurious and are not to be found in
the revised version.* Having examined the scriptures
usually relied upon to prove the doctrine of the
Trinity, let us now look at those against the doctrine.
VERSES SHOWING THE SUPERIORITY OF THE FATHER.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. (Mark
13:32.)
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise. (John 5:19.).
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again
unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto
the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (John 14:28.)
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all
things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which
did put all things under him.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the
Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him,
that God may be all in all. (1 Cor. 15:27,28.)
* With the spurious words removed, it will be seen that the genuine
inspired language of 1 John 5:7,8 corroborates that oneness we see in
John 10:30 with John 17:20-22.
VERSES, THE LITERAL TRANSLATION OF WHICH
SHOW THAT JESUS MADE NO CLAIM OF
EQUALITY WITH GOD.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Phil.
2:5-8.)
The literal translation of the Greek is as follows:
“Let this disposition be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus,
Who, though being in God’s form, yet did not
meditate a usurpation to be like God,
But divested himself, taking a bondsman’s form,
having been made in the likeness of men;
And being in condition as a man, he humbled
himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death
of the cross.”
See Diaglott, and E,79-82, and Z,’97S296 [R2228].
VERSES SHOWING THAT LIFE AND POWER WERE

NOT HIS TILL GIVEN BY THE FATHER.
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the

Son to have life in himself; (John 5:26.)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is
given unto me in heaven and in earth. (Matt. 28:18.)
VERSES SHOWING THAT JESUS WAS CREATED.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every

creature: (Col. 1:15.)
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God; (Rev. 3:14.)
THE TRINITY. 37
VERSES WHICH FLATLY CONTRADICT THE DOCTRINE.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,
and in you all. (Eph. 4:4-6.)
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3.)
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. (Gal.
3:20.)
(1 Tim. 2:5,6.)
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are
offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in
the world, and that there is none other God but one.
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or
in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all
things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we by him. (1 Cor. 8:4-6.)
See full explanation of this subject in E,54-82.

THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
In all our study of God’s Word we shall find no

subject which can be of greater interest to the Church,
nor one of which it is more important that our
understanding be correct, than the subject of Our
Lord’s Return, the “Second Coming,” of which He
assured His disciples in
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
(John 14:3.)
Which promise was repeated by the Angels.
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
(Acts 1:11.)
Three Greek words are used in reference to our
Lord’s return:
1. Parousia, which signifies presence.
2. Epiphania, which signifies bright shining or
manifestation.
3. Apokalupsis, which signifies revealment, uncovering,
unveiling (as of a thing previously present, but hidden).
If we keep in mind the different shades of meaning
these words express, and give to each its proper
significance in the texts where it is used, we shall get a
much clearer view of the entire subject.
With this thought we give the following groups of
texts.
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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 39
In each of the following texts, the word “coming” is

translated from the Greek “Parousia.”
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came
unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?
and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the
world? (Matt. 24:3.)
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even
unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
(Matt. 24:27.)
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be. (Matt. 24:37.)
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matt. 24:39.)
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. (1 Cor. 15:23.)
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even
ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? (1 Thess.
2:19.)
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
with all his saints. (1 Thess. 3:13.)
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:23.)
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (2 Thess. 2:1.)
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. …
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the
Lord draweth nigh. (James 5:7,8.)
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep. (1 Thess. 4:15.)
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
beginning of the creation. (2 Pet. 3:3,4.)
In the two following texts the word “Parousia” is
translated “presence,” which is its correct rendering,
and should have been used in all the preceding texts.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his
bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. (2 Cor.
10:10.)
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling. (Phil. 2:12.)
The following texts have the word “appearing” used
in reference to our Lord’s return, and translated from
the Greek “Epiphania.”
That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable,
until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: (1 Tim. 6:14.)
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his
kingdom; (2 Tim. 4:1.)
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and
not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
(2 Tim. 4:8.)
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:13.)
In this text we have both words, “Parousia,” translated
“coming,” and “Epiphania,” translated “brightness.”
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming: (2 Thess. 2:8.)
If “Parousia” were given its correct rendering
(presence) the text would read, “shall destroy by the
brightness of his presence.”
Apokalupsis is rendered revealed, revelation, appearing,
coming and manifestation, in the following texts which
relate to the Lord’s second presence and power and glory,
as these shall be made known, — uncovered or revealed
to the world. Many of these texts also show that when
he shall thus be revealed, his Church will be with the
Lord and be revealed or manifested at the same time
and in the same manner.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
(Rom. 8:18.)
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings;
that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy. (1 Pet. 4:13.)
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Pet. 1:5.)
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder,
and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the
glory that shall be revealed: (1 Pet. 5:1.)
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; … (1 Cor. 3:13.)
Here the reference evidently is to the testings of the
Lord’s people during the period of his presence in the
end of the age. The Apostle’s words thus agree with our
Lord’s prophecy of the same testings, saying that
“…there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed”
— uncovered. (Matt. 10:26.)
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither
hid, that shall not be known. (Luke 12:2.)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to
the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ; (1 Pet. 1:13.)
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (2 Thess. 1:7.)
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ: (1 Cor. 1:7.)
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found
unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
(1 Pet. 1:7.)
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God. (Rom. 8:19.)
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
revealed. (Luke 17:29,30.)
Our Lord’s words in Matt. 24:36-39,

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels
of heaven, but my Father only.
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
and Paul’s words in 1 Thess. 5:1-3,
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need
that I write unto you.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with
child; and they shall not escape.
show that the world will not be expecting His coming,
and that when it has already taken place they will not
know of it. While 1 Thess. 5:4,5
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
are not of the night, nor of darkness.
declares that it shall not overtake the Church as a thief,
and Dan. 12:8-10
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord,
what shall be the end of these things?
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up
and sealed till the time of the end.
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand;
but the wise shall understand.
promises that when the time of the end comes the wise
shall understand.
In Matt. 24:3
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came
unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?
and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
the disciples ask, “What shall be the sign of thy
‘Parousia’?” (presence) And in Matt. 24:4-14
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no
man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and
shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be
not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not
yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earth-
quakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill
you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
and Luke 21:25,26,29-32
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in
the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
the sea and the waves roaring;
Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken. …
And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees;
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves
that summer is now nigh at hand.
So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye
that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till
all be fulfilled.
Jesus answers the question, telling by what signs the

Church may know that the day and hour have come and
He is present.
In 2 Pet. 3:3,4,
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
beginning of the creation.
2 Tim. 3:1-5
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away.
and Mark 13:19,20
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the
beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither
shall be.
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh
should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he
hath shortened the days.
we have a description of the condition in which the
World and the Nominal Church will be at the time of
his presence (parousia).
Our Lord, in Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to
stand before the Son of man.
and Matt. 24:42,
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Paul, in 1 Thess. 5:6,
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
sober.
and Peter, in 1 Pet. 4:7,

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and
watch unto prayer.
all tell us that the attitude of the Church should be
always an attitude of watching for his coming, and of
prayer that he find us watching. While in Rev. 16:15
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
John declares that a blessing awaits those who heed the
injunction to “watch.”
And it is those who watch and who therefore see the
signs fulfilled and the conditions prevailing as foretold,
and by that know of his presence (parousia), of whom
Daniel spoke when he said, “The wise shall
understand.” (Dan. 12:10.)
As we study this subject, or try to explain it to
others, we must not omit the texts upon which those
who look for the visible coming of our Lord chiefly rely,
viz:
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
(Acts 1:11.)
which they take to mean “Shall so come in like form as
ye have seen him go.” Whereas the manner of his going
was quietly, unnoticed and unknown, except by a few of
his disciples.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thess. 4:16.)
Nearly all will admit that the “Trump of God” here
spoken of is the same as the seventh trumpet of
And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in
heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever
and ever. (Rev. 11:15.)
It is said of all the angels to whom the seven

trumpets of Revelation were given, “The first, the
second, etc., angel sounded.” Now, since neither the
first, second, third, fourth, fifth nor sixth trumpets
have been a literal trumpet and heard by the natural
ear, why do they expect the seventh will be?
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:17.)
This verse can be readily understood if compared with
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: …
(1 Cor. 15:51,52.)
Which shows that after the Lord’s parousia
(presence) the saints shall no longer fall asleep as
during the age, but be instantly changed, at their death,
to spirit beings and caught up to meet the Lord.
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds
with great power and glory. (Mark 13:26.)
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall
wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Rev. 1:7.)
Probably in our small space no further comment will
be needed on the two verses above, than to say that in
both the word see is used in the sense of perceive.
See detailed treatment of this entire subject,

Z,’98S259 [R2972»]; B,103-172, and Tract 52 [HG341],
and Z,’02S51-56 [R2953-2957]; Z,’02S83-96 [R2971-2983].
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of
the seed of David according to the flesh;
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the
Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: (Rom. 1:3,4.)
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (Gal. 4:4.)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth. (John 1:14.)
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through
death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is,
the devil;
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took
on him the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto
his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest
in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of
the people.
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able
to succour them that are tempted. (Heb. 2:14-18.)
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is
preferred before me: for he was before me. (John 1:30.)
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Phil.
2:6-8.)
by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: …
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through
the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and
the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many. (Rom. 5:12,15.)
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For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all
of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
(Heb. 2:11.)
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (Rom. 8:3.)
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of
man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: (Ps. 8:4-6.)
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he
by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Heb. 2:9.)
of the dead. (1 Cor. 15:21.)
the man Christ Jesus; (1 Tim. 2:5.)
See A,178-180; B,132-133; E,97-106, 285;

Z,’96S120 [R1984].
SALVATION, WHAT? FOR WHOM?
HOW MANY WAYS TO BE SAVED?
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders,

which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other
name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
(Acts 4:11,12.)
Only one way, faith in Christ.
HOW MANY KINDS OF SALVATION?

Salvation for all, special salvation for believers.
THE CHURCH’S SALVATION.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we
stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (Rom. 5:1,2.)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God. …
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together. (Rom. 8:14,17.)
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling. (Phil.2:12.)
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen
you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of
the truth:
Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 2:13,14.)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth
not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Pet. 1:3-5.)
THE WORLD’S SALVATION.
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through
the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and
the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many
offences unto justification.
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men
to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift
came upon all men unto justification of life. (Rom. 5:15-18.)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin
unto salvation. (Heb. 9:28.)
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. (Luke 3:6.)
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to
all men, (Titus 2:11.)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth. (1 Tim. 2:3,4.)
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the
power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,
which accused them before our God day and night. (Rev. 12:10.)
See A,106,107; E,466-470; Z,’96S246 [R2051].

RESURRECTION.
A RESURRECTION PROMISED.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew
of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isa. 26:19.)
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be
thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hosea
13:14.)
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
(Ezek. 37:12,13.)
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the
resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (John
11:24,25.)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that
are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29.)
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush,
when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live
unto him. (Luke 20:37,38.)
SHOWING THAT SOME WILL RISE WITH SPIRITUAL

BODIES AND SOME WITH EARTHLY BODIES.
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with
what body do they come?
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall
be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every
seed his own body.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of
men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
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There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the
glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another
star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is raised in incorruption:
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power:
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is
a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the
Lord from heaven.
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly. (1 Cor. 15:35-49.)
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that

his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
(Acts 2:31.)
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that
should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people,
and to the Gentiles. (Acts 26:23.)
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the Scriptures: (1 Cor. 15:3,4.)
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept. (1 Cor. 15:20.)
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the
Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: (Rom. 1:4.)
And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. (Acts 4:33.)
Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that
he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with
us of his resurrection. (Acts 1:22.)
RESURRECTION. 53
RESURRECTION OF THE CHURCH.
And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for
thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. (Luke
14:14.)
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
dead. (Phil. 3:10,11.)
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thess. 4:16.)
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. (1 Cor. 15:23.)
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
(Rev. 20:6.)
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: (Rom. 6:5.)
THE GENERAL RESURRECTION.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call
heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things
which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and
unjust. (Acts 24:14,15.)
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book
of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were
written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works. (Rev. 20:12,13.)
See Z,’95S188 [R1852]; Z,’01S121 [R2794]; F,693-729.

BAPTISM.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, (Eph. 4:5.)
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins. (Mark 1:4.)
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be
baptized of him.
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of
thee, and comest thou to me?
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for
thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered
him. (Matt. 3:13-15.)
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a
good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
(1 Pet. 3:21.)
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of
the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw
the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased. (Matt. 3:16,17.)
But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye
drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism
that I am baptized with?
And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye
shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism
that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: (Mark 10:38,39.)
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. (Acts 1:5.)
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus
Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that
like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: (Rom. 6:3-5.)
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him
from the dead. (Col. 2:12.)
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put
on Christ. (Gal. 3:27.)
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BAPTISM. 55
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an

eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of
the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when
Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and
expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren
wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was
come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing
by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. (Acts 18:24-28.)
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul
having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and
finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye
believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard
whether there be any Holy Ghost.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And
they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him
which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the
Lord Jesus. (Acts 19:1-5.)
But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning
the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were
baptized, both men and women.
Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized,
he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles
and signs which were done. (Acts 8:12,13.)
Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized,
which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the
Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. (Acts 10: 47,48.)
See Z,’96S125,126 [R1986-1987]; Z,’97S171 [R2166];

Z,’98S72, column 2 [R2273]; Z,’98S122, question 3 and
answer [R2293-4]; Z,’99S13 [R2417]; E,209-216;
F,421S456.
TWO HOPES CONTRASTED.
CENTRAL THOUGHT FOR BOTH.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear: (1 Pet. 3:15.)
THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for
a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if
we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto
the end. (Heb. 3:5,6.)
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein
we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (Rom. 5:1,2.)
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God
our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; (1 Tim.
1:1.)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(1 Pet. 1:3.)
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to
the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ; (1 Pet. 1:13.)
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye
heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; (Col. 1:5.)
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may
know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Eph. 1:18.)
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TWO HOPES CONTRASTED. 57
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory: (Col. 1:26,27.)
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God:
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also
live with him:
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he
also will deny us: (2 Tim. 2:11,12.)
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father
in his throne. (Rev. 3:21.)
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and
with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s
name written in their foreheads. …
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he
goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb. (Rev. 14:1,4.)
C,202, 206; Z,’95S237 [R1877].
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD.
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD,
who appeared unto him. (Gen. 12:7.)
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy
children shall come again to their own border. (Jer. 31:17.)
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isa. 26:19.)
all these things. (Acts 15:15-17.)
of the dead.
(1 Cor. 15:21,22.)
(Ezek. 37:12.)
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
(Gen. 12:2,3.)
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,
and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people,
and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. (Isa.
65:21,22.)
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and
they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make
gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more
be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the
LORD thy God. (Amos 9:14,15.)
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD
of hosts hath spoken it. (Micah 4:4.)
D,629; E,22, 373; Z,’95S207 [R4071» ]; Z,’97S80-84

[R2120-2122].
THE HIGH CALLING.
WHAT IT IS.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13,14.)
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ
Jesus; (Heb. 3:1.)
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(2 Tim. 1:9.)
We pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy
of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and
the work of faith with power: (2 Thess. 1:11.)
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling; (Eph. 4:4.)
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may
know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Eph. 1:18.)
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness. (1 Thess. 4:7.)
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never
fall: (2 Pet. 1:10.)
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (Rom.
11:29.)
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath
he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Num. 23:19.)
WHO ARE CALLED?
Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

(John 7:48.)
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. (Matt. 11:25.)
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For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men
after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty; (1 Cor. 1:26,27.)
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor
of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath
promised to them that love him? (James 2:5.)
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. (1 Cor. 3:19.)
CALLED TO WHAT.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be

conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. (Rom. 8:29.)
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even
as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Cor. 3:18.)
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things
that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him
that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
(2 Pet. 1:3,4.)
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able
even to subdue all things unto himself. (Phil. 3:20,21.)
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall
be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2.)
the image of the heavenly.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed, (1 Cor. 15:49-51.)
THE HIGH CALLING. 61
CALLED FOR WHAT.
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the
world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things
that pertain to this life? (1 Cor. 6:2,3.)
also will deny us: (2 Tim. 2:12.)
But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and
possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. (Dan. 7:18.)
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end,
to him will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a
potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my
Father. (Rev. 2:26,27.)
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
reign on the earth. (Rev. 5:9,10.)
And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven
the second time,
And said, …
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Gen. 22:15-16,18.)
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs
according to the promise. (Gal. 3:29.)
A,203, 222; C,205, 210; E,395; Z,’95S249 [R1884];

Z,’96S68 [R3951»]; Z,’99S10,11 [R2415,2416]; Z,’00S53,
188,189 [R2578, 2651,2652]; Z,’01S6-10 [R2753-2755];
E,175.
HEAVENLY PROMISES.
Notice that these are made only to the Church.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise:
God having provided some better thing for us, that they
without us should not be made perfect. (Heb. 11:39,40.)
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal
life. (I John 2:25.)
the image of the heavenly. (1 Cor. 15:49.)
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God:
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32.)
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also
in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
(John 14:1-3.)
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with
me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast
given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
(John 17:24.)
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things
that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him
that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Pet. 1:3,4.)
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HEAVENLY PROMISES. 63
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also

live with him:
also will deny us: (2 Tim. 2:11,12.)
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall
be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure. (1 John 3:2,3.)
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never
fall:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
(2 Pet. 1:10,11.)
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever
and ever. Amen. (2 Tim. 4:18.)
See B,207; C,220; E,25, 26, 145, 257; E,388,

410-411, 455-466; Z,’97S229 [R2196].
EARTHLY PROMISES.
Note that none of these are made to the Church.

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to
thy seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a
man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
numbered.
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the
breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. (Gen. 13:14-17.)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed
you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the
cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in
the sight of all that passed by.
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities
are become fenced, and are inhabited. (Ezek. 36:33-35.)
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again
the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I
will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers,
and they shall possess it. (Jer. 30:3.)
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and
they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make
gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more
be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the
LORD thy God. (Amos 9:14,15.)
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call
for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the
heathen. (Ezek. 36:28-30.)
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EARTHLY PROMISES. 65
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of
the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry
land springs of water.
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and
the pine, and the box tree together:
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy
One of Israel hath created it. (Isa. 41:18-20.)
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,
and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people,
and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for
they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring
with them.
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the
LORD. (Isa. 65:21-25.)
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and
seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the
places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities
of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities
of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the
LORD. (Jer. 32:43,44.)
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
observe my statutes, and do them.
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob
my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell
therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children
for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. (Ezek.
37:24,25.)
See A,228; Z,’95S206 [R4071» ].

EARTHLY PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH.
WHAT SHE MUST ENDURE.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (1 John 3:13.)

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen
thee in the furnace of affliction. (Isa. 48:10.)
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus
Christ. (2 Tim. 2:3.)
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his
lord.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the
servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house
Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
(Matt. 10:24,25.)
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated
you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also
persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours
also. (John 15:18-20.)
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in
heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
(Matt. 5:11,12.)
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and
kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to
death.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. (Luke
21:16,17.)
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which
is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings;
that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy. (1 Pet. 4:12,13.)
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EARTHLY PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH. 67
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that
was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. (Gal. 4:29.)
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. (2 Tim. 3:12.)
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:2-4.)
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
(1 Pet. 2:21.)
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: … be thou
faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Rev.
2:10.)
E,191, 235, 490; Z,’99-10 [R2415]; Z,’01S85-88

[R2776-2778].
WHAT SHE MAY ENJOY.
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my
help.
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
(Ps. 121:1,2.)
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
bless his people with peace. (Ps. 29:11.)
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
sorrow with it. (Prov. 10:22.)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matt. 11:28-30.)
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor
among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 29:19.)
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see
him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of
glory: (1 Pet. 1:8.)
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27.)
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. (Isa. 26:3.)
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no
man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses,
and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands,
with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. (Mark
10:29,30.)
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall
keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4:7.)
See Z,’95S153 [R1832]; Z,’01S24, 52 [2596« , 2760].
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SINS: BLOTTED OUT? OR COVERED?
COVERED.
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no guile. (Ps. 32:1,2.)
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast
covered all their sin. Selah. (Ps. 85:2.)
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and
whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
(Rom. 4:7,8.)
BLOTTED OUT.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be

blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord;
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you: (Acts 3:19,20.)
See Z,’97S226 [R2194].

THE JUDGMENT DAY.
“The term judgment signifies more than simply the

rendering of a verdict. It includes the idea of a trial, as
well as a decision based upon that trial. And this is
true not only of the English word judgment, but also of
the Greek word which it translates.
The term day, both in the Scriptures and in common
usage, though most frequently used to represent a
period of twelve or twenty-four hours, really signifies
any definite or special period of time. Thus, for
instance, we speak of Luther’s Day, Washington’s Day,
and in Scripture read of the ‘day of salvation,’ the ‘day
of trouble,’ etc.
While the Scriptures speak of a great judgment or
trial day yet future, and show that the masses of
mankind are to have their complete trial and final
sentence in that day, they also teach that there have
been other judgment days, during which certain elect
classes have been on trial.
The first great judgment [trial and sentence] was at
the beginning, in Eden, when the whole human race, as
represented in its head, Adam, stood on trial before
God. The result of that trial was the verdict — Guilty,
disobedient, unworthy of life; and the penalty inflicted
was death.
The Jewish Age was another Judgment Day, in
which a class, spoken of in the Bible as the ‘House of
Servants,’ was tried and judged.”
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“The Gospel Age again is a Judgment Day, and in it

the Church is being tried and its members one by one
judged and sentenced as either worthy or unworthy of
being joint heirs with Christ.”
After the resurrection, the whole race of mankind
will be again tried. Not collectively in Adam this time,
but each one individually, and each will be judged either
worthy or unworthy of life, but it will be life as human
beings, life upon the earth. To those judged worthy the
sentence will be,
“Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world:” (Matt. 25:34.)
To those judged unworthy it will be, “Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting [destruction]” (Matt.
25:41; cf., Acts 3:23; Rev. 20:14, the second death.
SCRIPTURES SHOWING THAT THE COMING

JUDGMENT DAY IS A DAY OF BLESSING
RATHER THAN OF TERROR.
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of

Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round
about.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down;
for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of
the LORD is near in the valley of decision. (Joel 3:12-14.)
But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his
throne for judgment.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister
judgment to the people in uprightness.
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in
times of trouble. (Ps. 9:7-9.)
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
roar, and the fulness thereof.
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the
trees of the wood rejoice.
THE JUDGMENT DAY. 71
Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the

earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people
with his truth. (Ps. 96:11-13.)
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
(Ps. 98:7-9.)
SCRIPTURES SHOWING THAT THE CHURCH IS

BEING JUDGED NOW.
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that
they which see not might see; and that they which see might be
made blind. (John 9:39.)
Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to
judgment; and some men they follow after. (1 Tim. 5:24.)
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that
obey not the gospel of God? (1 Pet. 4:17.)
SHOWING THAT THE CHURCH, WITH CHRIST,

IS TO JUDGE THE WORLD.
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the

world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him
from the dead. (Acts 17:31.)
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the
world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things
that pertain to this life? (1 Cor. 6:2,3.)
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 14,15.)
OTHER SCRIPTURES, SHOWING HOW MINUTE THE
WORK OF THE JUDGMENT DAY WILL BE.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that
he hath done, whether it be good or bad. (2 Cor. 5:10.)
But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at
nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat
of Christ. (Rom. 14:10.)
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ according to my gospel. (Rom. 2:16.)
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Eccle. 12:14.)
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all
judgment unto the Son: (John 5:22.)
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for
the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Rev.
14:7.)
See Z,’99S38, 41 [R2430, 2431]; Z,’01S37-46 [R2606-

2612« ]; A,137-147; F,395-419.
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THE EARTH ABIDETH.
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established
the earth, and it abideth. (Ps. 119:89,90.)
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth
hath he given to the children of men. (Ps. 115:16.)
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself
that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he
created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD;
and there is none else. (Isa. 45:18.)
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be
removed for ever. (Ps. 104:5.)
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh:
but the earth abideth for ever. (Eccle. 1:4.)
See Z,’02S83 [R2971].

PART II.
BIBLE “TIMES AND SEASONS.”
THE CHART OF THE AGES.
In order to rightly understand the Bible it is

necessary to have some knowledge of the subject of this
chapter, to which end we give the chart on the following
page, which is intended to illustrate how the Bible
divides time. First, into “worlds,” as shown by
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished: (2 Pet. 3:6.)
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from
this present evil world, according to the will of God and our
Father: (Gal. 1:4.)
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to
come, whereof we speak. (Heb. 2:5.)
where it speaks of the world that was, the present world
and the world to come. These worlds are again divided
into Ages. The “Patriarchal Age,” the time when God
dealt only with individuals, shown by
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD,
who appeared unto him. (Gen. 12:7.)
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley
of Gerar, and dwelt there. …
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I
am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and
will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s
sake. (Gen. 26:17,23,24.)
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padanaram, and blessed him.
And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not
be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he
called his name Israel. (Gen. 35:9,10.)
and other texts.
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BIBLE “TIMES AND SEASONS.” 75
The Jewish Age, the time when God dealt with the
Jewish people, and with them only, shown by
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a
God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which
bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. (Ex.
6:7.)
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore
I will punish you for all your iniquities. (Amos 3:2.)
and other Scriptures.
The Gospel Age, the time in which we live, shown by
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner
of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. (Matt.
4:23.)
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the
gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:15.)
(Matt. 24:14.)
and other texts.
The Millennial Age, shown by
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of
the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set
a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till
the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be
loosed a little season.
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had
not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Rev. 20:1-4.)
and many other texts.
The “ages to come,” after the Millennial, shown by

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of
his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Eph.
2:7.)
Time is again divided by two Harvest periods, one
closing the Jewish Age and opening the Gospel Age, and
shown by
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is
plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
forth labourers into his harvest. (Matt. 9:37,38.)
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh
harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the
fields; for they are white already to harvest. (John 4:35.)
and other texts.
The other closing the Gospel Age and opening the
Millennial Age, and shown by
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares,
and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into
my barn. …
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; and the reapers are the angels. (Matt. 13:30,39.)
and other texts.
The varied work of these several divisions is also
clearly marked in the Scriptures.
The selecting, in the Patriarchal Age, of one man
(Abraham), through whom to bless all the nations of the
earth, is shown by
And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing
which I do;
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
(Gen. 18:17,18.)
and other Scriptures.
BIBLE “TIMES AND SEASONS.” 77
The twofold work of the Jewish Age, first the

picturing in types and symbols, for our instruction, the
entire plan of salvation, is shown by
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and
they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
world are come. (1 Cor. 10:11.)
and second, the trial and development of a “House of
Servants,” shown by
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for
a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; (Heb.
3:5.)
and by the entire eleventh chapter of Hebrews.
The work of the Gospel Age, namely, the
development of a House of Sons, the taking out a people
for His name, the perfecting of the saints, the body of
Christ, and the preaching of the Gospel for a witness, is
shown by
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if
we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto
the end. (Heb. 3:6.)
Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. (Acts 15:14.)
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ: (Eph. 4:11,12.)
(Matt. 24:14.)
and other texts.
The work of the Jewish Harvest, gathering the
true-hearted Israelites into the Garner of the Gospel
Church, and burning the chaff of merely nominal Israel
in the fire of affliction, is shown by
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his
floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he
will burn with fire unquenchable. (Luke 3:17.)
and other texts.

The work of the Gospel Harvest, the separation of
God’s true Church from merely nominal Christians, is
shown by
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares,
and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into
my barn. (Matt. 13:30.)
and other texts.
While the work of the Millennial Age is shown by
all these things. (Acts 15:16,17.)
For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow
to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. (Rom. 14:11.)
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of
the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Hab. 2:14.)
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me,
from the least to the greatest. (Heb. 8:11; see also, Jer. 31:33,34.)
For full and detailed explanation of the work of the

different periods see A, B and C.*
* These features of the chart, together with its remaining features,

the several horizontal lines, the perfect and imperfect large and small
pyramids, and the outline of the tabernacle, will be found fully
explained in A, pp. 219-244.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE.
SHOWING WHERE 6000 YEARS FROM CREATION ENDS.
FROM CREATION TO FLOOD.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and

begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and
called his name Seth: (Gen. 5:3.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 years.
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and
begat Enos: (Gen. 5:6.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 “
And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
(Gen. 5:9.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 “
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Ma-
halaleel: (Gen. 5:12.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 “
And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and
begat Jared: (Gen. 5:15.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 “
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years,
and he begat Enoch: (Gen. 5:18.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 “
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah: (Gen. 5:21.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 “
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven
years, and begat Lamech: (Gen. 5:25.) . . . . . . . . . . . 187 “
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two
years, and begat a son:
And he called his name Noah, (Gen. 5:28,29.) 182 “
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood
of waters was upon the earth. (Gen. 7:6.) . . . . . . . . . 600 “
))))
Total . . . . . . . . .1656 “
FROM THE CREATION TO THE DAY THE FLOOD

WAS DRIED UP.
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the
first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up
from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and
looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. (Gen. 8:13.)
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FROM THE FLOOD TO THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM,
AT THE DEATH OF TERAH.
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an

hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after
the flood: (Gen. 11:10.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 years.
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Salah: (Gen. 11:12.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 “
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
(Gen. 11:14.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg: (Gen. 11:16.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 “
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: (Gen.
11:18.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat
Serug: (Gen. 11:20.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 “
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
(Gen. 11:22.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah: (Gen. 11:24.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 “
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran. (Gen. 11:32) . . . . . 205 “
)))
Total . . . . . . . . . 427 “
FROM COVENANT TO GIVING OF THE LAW.
And this I say, that the covenant, that was

confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was
four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul,
that it should make the promise of none effect. (Gal.
3:17.)
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who
dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred
and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land
of Egypt.
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that
night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of
Israel in their generations. (Ex. 12:40-42.) . . . . . . . . 430 years.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE. 81
FROM EXODUS TO DIVISION OF THE LAND.
And they departed from Rameses in the first

month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the
morrow after the passover the children of Israel went
out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
(Num. 33:3.)
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the
second month, in the second year, that the cloud was
taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of
the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the yr. m. d.
wilderness of Paran. (Num. 10:11,12.) . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 5
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent
them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were
heads of the children of Israel. (Num. 13:3.)
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the
LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land;
and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me
made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly
followed the LORD my God.
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the
land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine
inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou
hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as
he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD
spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel
wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day
fourscore and five years old. (Joshua 14:7-10.) . . . . 45 years.
)))
Total . . . . . . . . . 46 “
THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES.
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land

of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
And after that he gave unto them judges about the
space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the
prophet. (Acts 13:19,20.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 years.
THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS.
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave

unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of
Benjamin, by the space of forty years. (Acts 13:21.) 40 years.
Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty
years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and
three years reigned he in Jerusalem. (1 Chron.
29:26,27.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 “
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
forty years. (2 Chron. 9:30.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 “
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jeru-
salem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD
had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his
name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an
Ammonitess. (2 Chron. 12:13.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 “
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began
Abijah to reign over Judah.
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s
name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of
Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and
Jeroboam. (2 Chron. 13:1,2.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 “
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one
and fortieth year of his reign. (2 Chron. 16:13.) . . . 41 “
And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty
and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
(2 Chron. 20:31.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 “
Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David. And
Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. …
Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
(2 Chron. 21:1,5.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 “
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his
youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men
that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all
the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah reigned.
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he

began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of
Omri, (2 Chron. 22:1,2.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 years.
But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that
her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed
royal of the house of Judah.
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took
Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the
king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse
in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of
king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she
was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so
that she slew him not.
And he was with them hid in the house of God six
years: and Athaliah reigned over the land. (2 Chron.
22:10-12.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 “
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s
name also was Zibiah of Beersheba. (2 Chron. 24:1.) 40 “
Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of
Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 25:1.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 “
Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to
reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
(2 Chron. 26:3.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 “
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the
daughter of Zadok. (2 Chron. 27:1.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 “
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did
not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like
David his father: (2 Chron. 28:1.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 “
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty
years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the
daughter of Zechariah. (2 Chron. 29:1.) . . . . . . . . . . 29 “
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
(2 Chron. 33:1.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 “
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem. (2
Chron. 33:21.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 “
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
(2 Chron. 34:1.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 “
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD his God. (2 Chron. 36:5.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 “
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
(2 Chron. 36:11.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 “
)))
Total . . . . . . . . . 513 “
The reign of this last king was followed by the 70

years’ desolation of the land, as prophesied by
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
(Jer. 25:11.)
A return to their own land was promised at the end
of the 70 years.
For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. (Jer.
29:10.)
And that the 70 years ended in the first year of Cyrus,
is shown by
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of
the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he
made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in
writing, saying,
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to
build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there
among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and
let him go up. (2 Chron. 36:22,23.)
while it is well established by secular history that the

first year of Cyrus was 536 years before the date known
as A.D. 1.
We have then clearly and plainly stated the following
figures:
FROM THE CREATION OF ADAM.
To the end of the flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1656 years.

. .
Thence to the covenant with Abraham . . . . . . . .. 427 “
. .
Thence to the Exodus and the giving of the Law .. 430 “
. .
Thence to the division of Canaan . . . . . . . . . . . .. 46 “
. .
The period of the Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 450 “
. .
The period of the Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 513 “
. .
Period of the desolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 70 “
. .
Thence to A.D. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 536 “
. .
))))
Total . . . . . . . . .4128 “
To determine how long after A.D. 1 the 6000 years

ends we have only to take 4128 from 6000, which
leaves us 1872, so that we can see readily that the 6000
years would close with the opening of 1873.
For full Bible Chronology see B,33-72.

“THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES.”
When the disciples questioned the Lord concerning

when His kingdom should be established, He told them
of a number of things that must come before that time.
One of these, which we are about to examine, is found
in
…for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon
this people.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke
21:23,24.)
“Our Lord’s words, ‘until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled,’ imply that the times of the Gentiles must have
a definitely appointed limit; because an unlimited,
indefinite period could not be said to be fulfilled. So,
then, Gentile rule had a beginning, will last for a fixed
time, and shall end at the time appointed.” — [Dawn,
vol. 2, p. 78.]
And our object in this chapter is to show how clearly
and simply both the beginning and the ending of this
fixed time is shown by the Scriptures.
Zedekiah was the last Jewish king, and to him came
the words of the prophet,
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come,
when iniquity shall have an end,
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Remove the diadem, and take off the
crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase
him that is high.
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more,
until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. (Ezek.
21:25-27.)
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“THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES.” 87
This prophecy was fulfilled at the beginning of the

70 years’ captivity.
When Jerusalem was laid in ruins by Nebu-
chadnezzar’s army, and though rebuilt in the first year
of Cyrus,
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to
build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there
among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and
let him go up. (2 Chron. 36:23.)
remained, as it has ever since, under Gentile rule.
Jerusalem then began to be “Trodden under foot of
the Gentiles” 70 years before the first year of Cyrus. We
know that the first year of Cyrus was 536 B.C., and if
Gentile rule, or “Gentile Times,” began 70 years
earlier, we have 606 B.C. as the beginning of the Gentile
Times, which must be fulfilled before our Lord’s
kingdom is established upon earth.
To find the duration of these “Times” we turn to
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before
your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall
flee when none pursueth you.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
punish you seven times more for your sins. (Lev. 26:17,18.)
and
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I,
will chastise you seven times for your sins. (Lev. 26:28.)
So we find that there are to be seven times during
which “They that hate you (Gentiles) shall reign over
you.”
This brings us to the question, How long a period is
meant by the words “a time”? and here, too, we shall
find that Scripture interprets itself. We turn first to
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the
most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as
oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven
times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth
in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. …
All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. …
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine
eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and
I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that
liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his
kingdom is from generation to generation: (Dan. 4:24,25,28,34.)
The madness of Nebuchadnezzar, which in his
dream was foretold to endure for “seven times,” really
lasted seven years, so that Scripture itself interprets the
phrase “seven times” to mean seven years.
But since, in the case of Israel’s seven times of
punishment under Gentile rule, we know that it did not
end in seven years, we must conclude that the time in
that prophecy was symbolic time, namely, a year for a
day. By this method we should see that Israel’s seven
times were seven symbolic years, each composed of 360
year days, so that seven times would be 7 X 360 years,
or a period of 2520 years.
But we must not count time a year for a day unless
we have Scriptural authority for doing so, and again we
turn to
Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the
house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according
to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt
thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty
days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. (Ezek. 4:4-6.)
“THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES.” 89
and
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the
wilderness.
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. (Num.
14:33,34.)
Here we have our authority for counting a year for a
day, but we will go still further, and find Scriptural
authority for interpreting the expression “Time,” or
“Times,” as a period of 360 year days.
We turn to
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall
arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse
from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times
and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and
times and the dividing of time.
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. (Dan.
7:24-26.)
and
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left
hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it
shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have
accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these
things shall be finished. (Dan. 12:7.)
These prophecies are well known to refer to the dark
ages preceding the reformation, and were a period of
1260 years of literal time, or three and a half symbolic
time. “A time, times, and a half,” Dan. 12:7. Let us
also see
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that
she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is
nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of
the serpent. (Rev. 12:14.)
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things
and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty
and two months. (Rev. 13:5.)
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
hundred and threescore days. (Rev. 12:6.)
Here we find the same thing, the supremacy of the
Romish Church, referred to in three different places,
and the time of its power differently expressed in each.
In one, as a time, times, and half a time; in the next, as
forty and two months; and again, as 1260 days, which
we know is just a day for a year of its actual duration.
It seems plain then that we are right in stating that the
Gentile Times are a period of 2520 years, and since it
is evident that they began in 606 B.C., it seems equally
evident that the year in which they close will be A.D.
2520 less 606, or A.D. 1914. See B,73-102.
ISRAEL’S DOUBLE
AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE.
In our study of the Chart we saw that the Mil-

lennial, or Kingdom Age, would begin at the close of the
Gospel Age. We also found that the Gospel Age began
with the closing of the Jewish Age. In this chapter we
will examine certain Scriptures that clearly indicate the
length of the Gospel Age. First, we turn to
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had
driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave
unto their fathers. …
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine
inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable
things. (Jer. 16:14,15,18.)
“‘And first [before the favor will come] I will
recompense their iniquity and their sin double.’ The
Hebrew word here rendered ‘double’ is mishneh, and
signifies a second portion, a repetition.” B, 218.
We know that from the death of Jacob the children
of Israel were God’s chosen and favored people, but he
declares in the verses just quoted that a time will come
when his favor will cease and for an equal time they will
have no favor with God. If, then, we can find just when
their time of favor ceased, and just how long it was, we
shall be able to find not only where the double will
begin, but also where it will end. If, then, we turn to
two scriptures found in
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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and
having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the
foal of an ass. …
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will render double unto thee; (Zech. 9:9,12.)
and
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall
say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. (Matt.
23:37-39.)
we find that these two passages taken together indicate
the time when God’s favor ceased. Our Lord’s words,
“Behold, your house is left unto you desolate,” show the
casting off, and the prophet, referring to this very
occurrence, says, “to-day I declare I will render you
double,” showing that here the double is to begin.
Our next step is to learn if the Scripture clearly
shows the exact length of Jewish favor.
We find from
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. (Ex. 12:40,41.)
that from the giving of the covenant to the exodus from
Egypt was 430 years.
From
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran. (Gen. 12:3,4.)
ISRAEL’S DOUBLE. 93
we learn that Abraham at the giving of the covenant was

75 years old.
From then to Isaac’s birth
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his
son Isaac was born unto him. (Gen 21:5.) . . . . . . . . 25 years.
Then to Jacob’s birth
And after that came his brother out, and his hand
took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called
Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare
them. (Gen. 25:26.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 “
Thence to Jacob’s death
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty
and seven years. (Gen. 47:28.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 “
)))
Total from covenant to Jacob’s death, 232 “
From Jacob’s death to the Exodus then would be the
difference between 430 and 232, which is 198.
Period from Jacob’s death to the Exodus. . . . . . . . . . 198 years.
Israel in the wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 “
To the division of Canaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 “
Period of the Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 “
Period of the Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 “
Period of the Desolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 “
From the first year of Cyrus to A.D. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 536 “
)))
Total from Jacob’s death to A.D. 1. 1813 “
From A.D. 1 to the crucifixion at the Passover in the
Spring of A.D. 33 — full years, Jewish Ecclesiastical
time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 “
Total period of Israel’s waiting for the kingdom, )))
under divine favor and recognition, 1845 “
If, then, Israel had enjoyed 1845 years of favor up to
A.D. 33, and if there began the disfavor to last another
1845 years, it is clear that the double must have ended
in 1878. And one proof of the correctness of these
figures is the fact that in 1878 the “Berlin Congress of
Nations” was held, in which Lord Beaconsfield (a Jew)
was the central figure and took the leading part, and by
the amendment of Turkish laws the condition of the
Jews residing in Palestine was greatly bettered, as well
as the privilege extended to others to locate there and
hold real estate.
But we must remember that the year 1878 was but
the turning point of returning favor to Fleshly Israel.
We have already learned from our study of “The Times
of the Gentiles,” that Jerusalem and its people will
continue to be trodden down — controlled and oppressed
by the Gentiles, until the “Times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled,” and hence, though favor was due and began in
1878, the Jew will not be received back into full favor
until A.D. 1914, a period of 37 years, corresponding
exactly to the time of their fall, which, though begun in
A.D. 33, was not complete until the fall of Jerusalem in
A.D. 70.
Having found Scriptural evidence of the beginning
and close of Israel’s Double, let us turn to some texts
that will show that the Gospel Age will close at the same
time and the Millennial Age begin.
That the work of the Gospel Age is going on during
the time of Israel’s disfavor we know, but still let us
read
And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying,
Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
thereof, and I will set it up: (Acts 15:13-16.)
and
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness
in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be
come in.
ISRAEL’S DOUBLE. 95
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall

come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away
their sins. (Rom. 11:25-27.)
These both declare that the work of the Gospel Age,
the taking of a people from among the Gentiles, is to be
done during the time of Israel’s disfavor or blindness,
but that when that is accomplished, blindness will
depart from Israel, favor be returned to them, and “all
Israel be saved.”
Now, one more prophecy concerning the double,
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath
received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our
God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall
be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain:
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (Isa.
40:1-5.)
Could anything more clearly show that with the end
of Israel’s double Millennial work will begin.
See B,201-245.
“THE TIME OF THE END.”
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and

to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end:
because it is yet for a time appointed. (Dan. 11:35.)
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even
to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge
shall be increased. (Dan. 12:4.)
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are
in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of
his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one
against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches,
they shall run like the lightnings. (Nahum 2:3,4.)
Daniel’s “Time of the End,” and Nahum’s “day of
His preparation,” refer to the same thing, a period of
115 years, during which “many shall run to and fro,
and knowledge shall be (rapidly) increased.” Here, also,
both history and prophecy convince the careful student
that this period began in 1799 and will close in 1914.
For full and detailed explanation of these prophecies,
with historical references, see Dawn, vol. 3, p. 23.
Another prophecy stating fixed lengths of time is
found in
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left
hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it
shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have
accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these
things shall be finished. (Dan. 12:7).
Ended in 1799 with the fall of the Papal Hierarchy.
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord,
what shall be the end of these things?
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up
and sealed till the time of the end.
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“THE TIME OF THE END.” 97
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand;
but the wise shall understand.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a
thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:8-11.)
Ended in 1829, where the Miller Movement began.
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
hundred and five and thirty days. (Dan.12:12.)
Ended in 1874. See C,23-94.
))))))))))
THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY.
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto
that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision
concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to
give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. (Dan. 8:13,14.)
These 2300 days (or years) began 454 B.C., and
ended 1846 A.D. For work of Cleansing see C,95-120.
ANTICHRIST, THE MAN OF SIN, ETC.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of
God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:3,4.)
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders. (2 Thess. 2:8,9.)
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them
another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns
plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the
eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. …
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the
horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body
destroyed, and given to the burning flame. …
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
prevailed against them; (Dan. 7:8,11,21.)
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and
they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. (Dan.
11:31.)
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso
readeth, let him understand:) (Matt. 24:15.)
And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt
himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till
the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall
be done.
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
(Dan. 11:36,37.)
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ANTICHRIST, THE MAN OF SIN, ETC. 99
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that

antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby
we know that it is the last time. (1 John 2:18.)
The name Antichrist has a twofold significance; the
first is against (i.e., in opposition to) Christ; the second
significance is instead (i.e., a counterfeit) of Christ.
As The Christ consists of the true Lord and the true
church, so Antichrist (the counterfeit) consists of a false
Lord and an apostate church. A close study of both
prophecy and history gives convincing evidence that
everything mentioned in the above texts by the
prophets, the apostles and our Lord himself, was
fulfilled in the Papal Hierarchy even to the time of its
power.
For full and detailed explanation see B, pp.267-361.
DIAGRAMS.
The following diagrams,

copied by permission, from
Z.W.T., Nov. 15, 1904
[R3459], will be both inter-
esting and helpful in
gaining a clear understand-
ing of how carefully certain
times and certain events
have been marked so that
the careful student of the
inspired Word might be
able to understand as
promised in Dan. 12:10.
“The lesson of the
accompanying diagrams is
that no such parallels would
be possible were a single
one of our prominent dates
altered.”
DIAGRAM NO 1. shows
that the period from the
time of the Fall to A.D. 36,
4162 years, was marked
exactly at its center by the
Oathbound Covenant made
to Abraham, “In thee and
in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be
blessed.”
MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION
OF DIAGRAM 2.
(See Dawn, vol. II, pp. 42-54.)
Creation to the Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1656 years.

Patriarchal Age (i.e., Flood to Death of Jacob) 427 “
A 232 “
Jewish Age to End of Favor, A.D. 36 . . . . . . . . . . . .1849 “
))))
4164 “
Less “Innocent Years” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 “
))))
4162 “
))))
The middle of the period, viz., one-half . . . . . . . . . .2081 “
I. PERIOD.
Creation to the Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1656 “

Flood to Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 “
))))
Creation to Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2083 “
Less years of innocence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 “
))))
2081 “
II. PERIOD.
From Abraham to the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .430 “

Israel in the Wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 “
To the division of Canaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 “
Period of the Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .450 “
Period of the Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513 “
Period of the Desolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 “
Period thence to A.D. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .536 “
Period thence to A.D. 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 “
))))
2081 “
102
“D IAGRAM N O . 3. This diagram pre- end of ‘Gentile Times,’ October, 1914,
supposes that in the divine plan the day and shows that the intervening space,
of Adam (Gen. 2:17) and the ‘day of 5040 years, is exactly twice ‘seven times’;
Christ’ were each one thousand years and more than this, it marks the turning
long: as the Apostle declares, ‘a day with point as B.C. 606, as well as the ending
the Lord is a thousand years,’ and views point A.D. 1914.”
the Millennium as beginning with the
“D IAGRAM N O . 4 in some particulars for the date of the Millennium, as shown
resembles No. 3, yet it is quite different by the Jubilee cycles and various other
as a whole. It views matters from another prophecies.” See Dawn, vol. II, chap. 6,
Scriptural standpoint, taking A.D. 1874 and vol. III, chap. 5.
PART III.
TYPES, SYMBOLS, PARABLES, ETC.
TABERNACLE TYPES.
Since this subject is so exhaustively treated in the

pamphlet “Tabernacle Shadows,” we only purpose here
to state with the greatest possible brevity the principal
types, that they may be always with us for ready
reference:
The Camp of Israel was a type of the world in sin.
The Court, type of the condition of justification.
The Holy Place, type of the condition of consecra-
tion.
The Most Holy, type of heavenly conditions.
The Tribe of Levi, type of justified believers.
The Priesthood, type of consecrated believers.
High Priest, type of Christ.
The White Linen, type of the righteousness of Christ.
Scarlet Embroidery, type of the blood of sacrifice.
Blue Embroidery, type of faithfulness.
Purple Embroidery, type of royalty.
Gold, type of the divine nature.
Silver, type of the truth.
Copper (or brass), type of perfect human nature.
Wood, type of fallen human nature.
Gate to the Court, type of Christ, the only way by
which to obtain justification.
105
Door of Holy Place, type of death of human will.

Vail of Holy of Holies, type of actual death of human
nature.
Wooden Posts in Copper Sockets, type of imperfect
human beings with a standing of justification.
Linen Curtain held by Silver Hooks to Posts, type of
the fact that only by the aid of the truth the
righteousness of Christ may be held on to by
imperfect human beings.
Door Posts covered with Gold, but set in Copper
Sockets, type of consecrated believers, who, though
begotten to the Divine Nature, still hold this
treasure in earthen vessels.
Posts at the Vail covered with Gold and set in Silver
Sockets, type of the fact that those who enter
through the vail have become in very truth
partakers of the Divine nature.
Oil, type of the Holy Spirit.
Table of Shew-bread, type of the Church holding forth
the Word of Life.
Candlestick, type of the Church as the light of the
world.
The Golden Altar, type of the Church in her present
sacrificing condition.
The Ark, type of the Christ head and body.
Shekinah, type of Jehovah as the light of the universe.
Mercy Seat, type of God’s justice.
Cherubim, type of Jehovah’s love and power.
Aaron’s Rod, type of the elect character of the Church
as members of the royal priesthood.
TYPES, SYMBOLS, PARABLES, ETC. 107
Golden Pot of Manna, type of immortality of the

Church.
Day of Atonement, type of Gospel Age.
Bullock, type of the Man Christ Jesus.
Lord’s Goat, type of the little flock.
Scape Goat, type of the great company.
These are only a part of the beautiful types and
shadows of the Tabernacle and its services. A full
explanation of all its types and its teachings will be
found in “Tabernacle Shadows.”
OTHER TYPES OF THE BIBLE .
Aaron is a type of the Christ in the flesh head and body.

Aaron’s Sons, types of under priests.
Abel, type of the wheat class.
Abraham, type of Jehovah.
Adam, type of Christ.
Altar (brazen), type of Christ — earthly rights and
requirements.
Altar (golden), type of spiritual rights and promises.
Ark of Covenant, type of the Christ, the embodiment of
the plan of God.
Ark (Noah’s), type of Christ.
Bullock, type of perfect sacrifice.
Cain, type of rejected sacrificers.
Canaan, type of heavenly rest.
Candlestick, type of God’s church.
Cities of Refuge, type of Christ.
David, beloved, type of God’s people.
Day of Atonement, type of Gospel Age.
Days of Noah, type of Harvest of Gospel Age.

Egypt, type of the world.
Egyptian Plagues, type of the time of trouble.
Elijah, type of the Church.
Esau, type of Fleshly Israel.
Isaac, type of the Christ.
Jerusalem, type of the heavenly city.
John Baptist, type of the Church, especially in Harvest
of Gospel Age.
Jubilee, type of the restitution.
Levites, type of the justified believers.
Lord’s Goat, type of the little flock.
Manna, type of Christ and His truth.
Hidden Manna, type of immortality.
Rebecca, type of the Church.
Sarah, type of Abrahamic covenant.
Scape Goat, type of the great company.
Tabernacle of the Wilderness, type of the Church in the
flesh.
Temple, type of the Church in glory.
Tablets of Stone, type of the two covenants.
Vails of Tabernacle:
First Vail, type of death of human will.
Second Vail, type of death of human body.
Zion, type of spiritual Israel.
BIBLE SYMBOLS .
Babylon, symbol of confusion.

Baptism, symbol of burial into Christ.
Beast, symbol of papacy.
City, symbol of religious government.
TYPES, SYMBOLS, PARABLES, ETC. 109
Copper, symbol of human nature.

Crown, symbol of power to rule.
Day, symbolic time for a year.
Earth, symbol of society.
Egypt, symbol of the world.
False Prophet, symbol of systems of error during
Gospel Age.
Fig Tree, symbol of Jewish nation.
Fire, symbol of trouble, trials, destruction.
Field, symbol of the world.
Flood, symbol of deluge of truth.
Gold, symbol of divine nature.
Hail, symbol of hard, distressing truth.
Heavens, symbol of ruling or spiritual powers.
Hills, symbol of less powerful states than are
represented by mountains.
Image, symbol of united Protestantism.
Lake of Fire, symbol of second death.
Leaven, symbol of sin.
Leprosy, symbol of sin.
Light, symbol of truth.
Linen, symbol of righteousness.
Meat in due Season, symbol of dispensational truth.
Mountains, symbol of kingdoms.
Moon, symbol of light of Mosaic law.
Oil, symbol of the spirit of truth.
Sceptre, symbol of the right to rule.
Sea, symbol of the restless masses of society.
Seven, symbol of perfection, completeness.
Sun, symbol of light of the gospel.
Sword, symbol of Truth, the Word of God.
Throne, symbol of honor, glory, power.

Water, symbol of truth.
Winds, symbol of wars.
The Four Winds, symbol of all parts of the nominal
Church.
Wine, symbol of doctrine and spirit, true or false.
Wood, Hay, Stubble, symbol of traditions of men, and
corresponding unstable characters.
OUR LORD’S PARABLES, EXPLAINED
WHERE?
“Barren Fig Tree,” Luke 13:6-9; Z,’00S25 [R2564].

“Bread of Life,” John 6:22-58; Z,’95S10 [R1755];
Z,’00S186 [R2651].
“Bridegroom,” Mark 2:19,20; Z,’00S79 [R2592].
“Drag Net,” Matt. 13:47-50; C,214.
“Eleventh Hour,” Matt. 20:1-16; C,223; Z,’00S237
[R2676] .
“Good Samaritan,” Luke 10:25-37; Z,’00S252 [R2684].
“Good Shepherd,” John 10:1-16; Z,’99S63 [R2441].
Z,’00S229 [R2672].
“Great Supper,” Luke 14:15-24; Z,’98S136 [R2300].
“Householder Returning from Wedding,” Luke
12:35-40; Z,’00S268 [R2692].
“Leaven,” Matt. 13:33; Z,’00S154 [R2635].
“Lost Coin,” Luke 15:8-10; Z,’00S299 [R2707].
“Lost Sheep,” Luke 15:1-7; Z,’00S298 [R2706].
“Meat in Due Season,” Matt. 24:45-51; D,613.
“Members of Body Cut Off,” Matt. 18:8,9; Z,’00S97
[R2602] .
“Mustard Seed,” Matt. 13:31,32; Z,’00S153 [R2634].
“New Wine,” old Bottles, Matt. 9:17; Z,’98S45 [R2260].
“New Cloth,” old Garment, Matt. 9:16; Z,’98S45 [R2260].
“Pounds,” Luke 19:11-27; Z,’96S98 [R1972]; Z,’98S263
[R2975] ; Z,’00S361 [R2735] .
“Prodigal Son,” Luke 15:11-32; Z,’96S71 [R1958];
Z,’00S300 [R2707]; Z,’01S14 [R2755].
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“Rich Man and Lazarus,” Luke 16:19-31; E,376;

Z,’96S85 [R1965]; Z,’00S99 [R2603].
“Sheep and Goats,” Matt. 25:31-46; Z,’98S141
[R2303] ; Z,’00S101 [R2606] ; Z,’01S201 [R2833] .
“Sower and Seed,” Matt. 13:1-8, 18-33; Z,’00S140
[R2627] .
“Talents,” Matt. 25:14-30; Z,’01S58 [R2764].
“Ten Virgins,” Matt. 25:1-13; C,91; Z,’98S265 [R2976»];
Z,’01S57 [R2763].
“Two Creditors,” Luke 7:41-43; Z, ’97S240 [R2200];
Z,’00S138 [R2625].
“Two Debtors,” Matt. 18:23-35; Z,’98S125 [R2295];
Z,’00S216 [R2666].
“Unjust Steward,” Luke 16:1-13; Z,’00S315 [R2715].
“Vine,” John 15:1-11; Z,’99S108 [R2464]; Z,’98S308
[R2373] .
“Vineyard,” Luke 20:9-19; Z,’96S115 [R1982]; Z,’01S14
[R2756] .
“Wedding Garment,” Matt. 22:1-14; C,197; Z,’98S136
[R2300] .
“Wheat and Tares,” Matt. 13:24-30,36-43; C,135;
Z,’98S77 [R2276]; Z,’00S152 [R2633].
“Wicked Husbandman,” Matt. 21:33-46; Mark
12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19; Z,’95S86 [R1795]; Z,’96S47
[R1946] ; Z,’01S14 [R2756] .
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF
THE TRUTH.
“Pressing Toward the Mark,” Z,’95S249 [R1884];

Z,’01S6 [R2753].
“Sobriety, Vigilance, Steadfastness,” Z,’95S200 [R1859].
“The One Thing Desirable,” Z,’96S8 [R1914].
“Gold Tried in the Fire,” Z,’96S43 [R1943].
“Trials of Faith, Why Permitted?” Z,’96S54 [R1949].
“Tests and Privileges of Discipleship,” Z,’96S287
[ R2071].
“Raiment White and Clean,” Z,’97S159 [R2159].
“If Ye do These Things,” Z,’97S145 [R2154].
“The Sum of all Graces is Love,” Z,’97S244 [R2202].
“Living the New Life,” Z,’97S263 [R2212].
“Secret Faults and Presumptuous Sins,” Z,’98S22
[R2248] .
“Strong Delusion,” Z,’98S74 [R2274].
“Rules for Daily Living,” Z,’98S83 [R3593» ] .
“Let Him that Thinketh He Standeth Take Heed,”
Z,’98S133 [R2299].
“Be Content with Such Things as Ye Have.” Z,’98S243
[R2351] .
“Unto the Pure all Things are Pure,” Z,’99S214 [R2516].
“Self-denial and Cross-bearing,” Z,’00S116 [R2615].
“Christian’s Course Delineated,” Z,’00S280 [R2697].
“Proper Christian Daily Living,” Z,’00S332 [R2723].
“Patience as an Element of Character,” Z,’01S115
[ R2790].
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“Finishing Touches of Christian Character,” Z,’01S323

[R2890] .
“Decision in Character Building,” Z,’02S41 [R2950].
“Love — Making a Difference,” Z,’02S197 [R3033].
“Who is He that Condemneth?” Z,’02S230 [R3050].
“The Memorial Supper,” Z,’03S118 [R3179].
“Grow in Grace,” Z,’03S199 [R3215].
“Christ in You the Hope of Glory,” Z,’03S374 [R3250].
“Ye Know Your Calling, Brethren,” Z,’03S405 [R3265].
FEATURES
of the
PLAN OF GOD
Set forth in
Exclusively Scripture
Compilation
C O N T E N T S.
A HARMONIZED ARRANGEMENT OF SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY

CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.
“THE TIMES OF RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS SPOKEN.”
The Dispensation of the “Fulness of Times,” When God Will

Gather in One All Things in Christ His King.
(1) His Pre-human Existence.

(2) His Humiliation and Suffering.
(3) His Exaltation to the Divine Nature.
(4) His Unity and Co-operation with Jehovah.
(5) His Relationship to the Church.
(6) His Priesthood.
The Day of His Preparation in the Overthrow of Present Forms

of Government and Society in a “Time of Trouble
Such as Never Was Since There
Was a Nation.”
(1) The Testimony of its Coming.

(2) Signs of its Near Approach.
(3) Its Severity.
(4) The Forces Used.
(5) Its Effect on Mankind.
His Kingdom and Reign on Earth in Wisdom, Justice, Love

and Power.
Blessings to Mankind in General Through Christ’s Kingdom

and Reign.
Zion’s Exaltation in the Kingdom.
Some of the Blessings, Stated in Brief, Which Will Come to

Mankind in the Kingdom.
CONTRIBUTORS
J. T. D. Pyles
A. N. Pierson
W. R. Mitchell
G. G. Bolton
E. W. Williams
A. G. Wilbor
W. M. Wright
J. H. Giesey
E. H. Thomson
J. G. Kuehn
J. T. Johnson
M. W. Thompson
C. H. Anderson
NOTICE
THIS VOLUME COMES IN TWO STYLES
POCKET EDITION FOR MEN
SPECIAL EDITION FOR WOMEN
FOREWORD
To our dear aged Brother Kirkland of Allegheny,
Pa., belongs the credit of arranging this wonderful
compilation of Scripture texts, as a result of many
years devoted to Bible study in order to portray in
exclusively Scripture language from God’s Word the
scope of Christ’s redemptive work in God’s Plan of
the Ages.
In setting forth these Features of the Heavenly

Father’s Plan in this little volume, be it noted that
nothing but Scripture texts are used. These the
compiler consecutively connects—and without
using any words of his own—so as to tell the
“wonderful story” intelligently and forcefully from
first to last, and withal in a most interesting and
convincing manner, and in a way that no one shall
dare dispute the fact that “God is his own interpreter,
and He hath made it plain.”
J. A. BOHNET,
ALLEGHENY, PA.
1905
HIS PRE-HUMAN EXISTENCE.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was [a] God. The same was in the beginning with God.
—John 1:1,2 [See E86, 87, Emphatic Diaglott]
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing
made that was made.—John 1:3
By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for
him:—Col. 1:16
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.—Col.

1:17
… The faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of

God.—Rev. 3:14
No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from

heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.—John 3:13
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
before?—John 6:62
I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of
him that sent me.—John 6:38
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the Book it is written of

me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
heart.—Psa. 40:7,8
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again,
I leave the world, and go to the Father.—John 16:28
He that cometh from above is above all: …—John 3:31
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the
world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?—John
10:36
He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for
I do always those things that please him.—John 8:29
5
I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.—John 7:29
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.—John 1:18
His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore,

even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.—John 12:50
He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth
not the Spirit by measure unto him.—John 3:34
I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave
me a commandment, what I should say, …—John 12:49
I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me
beareth witness of me.—John 8:18
The Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me.
—John 5:37
I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. … The

works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that
I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.—John 5:32,36
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord
from heaven.—1 Cor. 15:47
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is
my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.—John 6:51
… My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the
bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life
unto the world.—John 6:32,33
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he
that eateth me, even he shall live by me.—John 6:57
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that

seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him.—John 7:18
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved.—John 3:17
6
… I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I
am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.—John 8:15,16
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God,
he hath seen the Father.—John 6:46
Jesus said unto them [the Jews], If God were your Father, ye would
love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of
myself, but he sent me.—John 8:42
Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am

not of this world.—John 8:23
Verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.—John 8:58
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his

works of old.—Prov. 8:22
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth
was.—Prov. 8:23
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass

upon the face of the depth.—Prov. 8:27
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no
fountains abounding with water.—Prov. 8:24
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass
his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the
earth:—Prov. 8:29
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his
delight, rejoicing always before him.—Prov. 8:30
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were

with the sons of men.—Prov. 8:31
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have
known thee, and these [my disciples] have known that thou hast sent
me.—John 17:25
I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they
have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee,
and they have believed that thou didst send me.—John 17:8
7
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them
into the world.—John 17:18
The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have
believed that I came out from God.—John 16:27
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was.—John 17:5
HIS HUMILIATION AND SUFFERING,

AND PURPOSE OF HIS FIRST PRESENCE.
THE ANGEL MESSAGE.
Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord. …Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying in a manger.—Luke 2:11,12
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him
not.—John 1:10,11
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer
to be granted unto you.—Acts 3:14
The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it

not.—John 1:5
… Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye
through his poverty might be rich.—2 Cor. 8:9
… Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of
man hath not where to lay his head.—Luke 9:58
He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed
of Abraham. For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written,
The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.—Heb. 2:16;
Rom. 15:3
[He] made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form
of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in
fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross.—Phil. 2:7,8
8
… Jesus Christ, and him crucified. … Unto the Jews a stumbling-
block, and unto the Greeks foolishness.—1 Cor. 2:2; 1:23.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and

acquainted with grief: … he was despised, and we esteemed him
not.—Isa. 53:3
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his
own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.—Isa.
53:6
He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.—Isa. 53:4
He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our

iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.—Isa. 53:5
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his

mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before
her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.—Isa. 53:7
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand.—Isa. 53:10
He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of

a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see
him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.—Isa. 53:2
… The prophets have enquired and searched diligently … [to see]

what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them
did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and
the glory that should follow.—1 Pet. 1:10-11
Those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his
prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.—Acts 3:18
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these
things, and to enter into his glory?—Luke 24:25,26
9
… Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to
rise from the dead the third day.—Luke 24:46
It became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.—Heb. 2:10
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things

which he suffered.—Heb. 5:8
The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the
elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain.—Luke 9:22
Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against

himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.—Heb. 12:3
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm

yourselves likewise with the same mind: …—1 Pet. 4:1
When he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he

threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth
righteously.—1 Pet. 2:23
There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in
due time.—1 Tim. 2:5,6
The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,

and to give his life a ransom for many.—Matt. 20:28
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for
the ungodly.—Rom. 5:6
We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace
of God should taste death for every man.—Heb. 2:9
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.—Rom. 5:8
Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself
for us an offering and a sacrifice …—Eph. 5:2
He was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.—

1 John 3:5
10
[We] were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
… But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb … without spot:
… foreordained before the foundation of the world, …—1 Pet. 1:18-20
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
own blood, [he] suffered without the gate.—Heb. 13:12
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, …
— 1 Pet. 2:24
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree.—Gal. 3:13
In that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he

liveth unto God.—Rom. 6:10
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
justification.—Rom. 4:25
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit.— 1 Pet. 3:18
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his

blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God.—Rom. 3:25
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by

the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.—Rom. 5:19
As by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to

condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life.—Rom. 5:18
Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in

Christ Jesus.—Rom. 3:24
To this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might
be Lord both of the dead and living.—Rom. 14:9
Having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to

reconcile all things unto himself; … And you, that were sometime
alienated are enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he
reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, …—Col. 1:20-22
11
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of
them openly, triumphing over them in it.—Col. 2:15
Gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.—Titus
2:14
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,

which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his
cross.—Col. 2:14
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,

he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage.—Heb. 2:14,15
… The prophets and Moses did say … That Christ should suffer,
and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and
should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.—Acts 26:22,23
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no
more dominion over him.—Rom. 6:9
The Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save
them.—Luke 9:56
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be
the Saviour of the world.—1 John 4:14
HIS EXALTATION TO THE DIVINE NATURE.
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow …
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.—Phil. 2:9-11
… His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty

God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.—Isa. 9:6
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: …

—Luke 1:32
12
He [God] raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right
hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and
might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under
his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which
is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.—Eph. 1:20-23
Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.—Acts
5:31
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had
by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high.—Heb. 1:3
Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made
that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.—Acts
2:36
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels
and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.—1 Pet. 3:22
When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave

gifts unto men.—Eph. 4:8
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all
heavens, that he might fill all things.—Eph. 4:10
Being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the
Father the promise of the Holy [Spirit], he hath shed forth this, which
ye now see and hear.—Acts 2:33
He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness
dwell.—Col. 1:18,19
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.—Col.

2:9
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every

creature.—Col. 1:15
13
… The power of God, and the wisdom of God.—1 Cor. 1:24
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.—

Col. 2:3
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by

inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which
of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to
me a Son?—Heb. 1:4-5
To which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand,

until I make thine enemies thy footstool?—Heb. 1:13
And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world,

he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.—Heb. 1:6
Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a
sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.—Heb. 1:8
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God,

thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.—Psa. 45:7
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy
lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.—Psa. 45:2
… The chiefest among ten thousand. His mouth is most sweet:

yea, he is altogether lovely.—Song 5:10,16
In thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness

and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible
things.—Psa. 45:4
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the
kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down
before him: all nations shall serve him.—Psa. 72:10,11
… He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.—Isa. 52:13
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the
days of heaven.—Psa. 89:29
I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:

therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.—Psa. 45:17
14
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long
as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him
blessed.—Psa. 72:17
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people
that shall be born, that he hath done this.—Psa. 22:31
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
throughout all generations.—Psa. 72:5
… To him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be

made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.—Psa. 72:15
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
enemies shall lick the dust.—Psa. 72:9
… All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: … It
shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.—Psa. 22:29,30
I [John] saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that
sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
doth judge and make war.—Rev. 19:11
Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite
the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.—Rev. 19:15
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he
himself.—Rev. 19:12
On his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS,

AND LORD OF LORDS.—Rev. 19:16
Clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The
Word of God.—Rev. 19:13
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for

evermore, … and have the keys of hell and of death.—Rev. 1:18
… I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his

throne.—Rev. 3:21
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the last.—Rev. 22:13
15
… The root and the offspring of David, and the bright and
morning star.—Rev. 22:16
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, … —
Rev. 1:7
I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice

of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,
Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and
rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come,
and his wife hath made herself ready.—Rev. 19:6,7
And I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and
the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand
times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud
voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.—Rev.
5:11,12
[God] hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds.—Heb. 1:2
HIS UNITY AND CO-OPERATION WITH

JEHOVAH THE FATHER.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the Book it is written of

me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
heart.—Psa. 40:7,8
I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of
him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, …
that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have
everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.—John 6:38-40
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.—John 14:6
… Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the
Father, cometh unto me.—John 6:45
16
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man
knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.—Matt.
11:27
Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.—John 17:2
… Thine they were, and thou gavest them me; ….—John 17:6
As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to

have life in himself.—John 5:26
As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so

the Son quickeneth whom he will.—John 5:21
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he
that eateth me, even he shall live by me.—John 6:57
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay
down my life for the sheep.—John 10:15
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have

authority to lay it down, and I have power [authority] to take it again.
This commandment have I received of my Father.—John 10:18
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that
I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of
myself. …—John 10:17,18
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
hand.—John 3:35
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he
shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.—John 16:15
… The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the

Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things
that himself doeth. …—John 5:19-20
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my

judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.—John 5:30
… My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.—John 7:16
17
He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth
not the Spirit by measure unto him.—John 3:34
If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that

honoureth me; … I know him, and keep his saying.—John 8:54,55
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that

seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him.—John 7:18
I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me
beareth witness of me.—John 8:18
He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for
I do always those things that please him.—John 8:29
… When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that
I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught
me, I speak these things.—John 8:28
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do,

though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and
believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.—John 10:37,38
I and my Father are one.—John 10:30
Men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He
that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent
him.—John 5:23
… If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will

love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with
him.—John 14:23
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. …Ye are the
branches.—John 15:1,5
[Father] I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou
gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me;
and they have kept thy word.—John 17:6
They have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are
of thee.—John 17:7
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do.—John 17:4
18
WITNESS OF MEN.
He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there
came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from
heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.—2 Pet.
1:17,18
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man

approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which
God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him,
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,
ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom
God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not
possible that he should be holden of it.—Acts 2:22-24
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,

but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe
in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory.—
1 Pet. 1:20-21
We have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the
Saviour of the world.—1 John 4:14
THE WITNESS OF GOD.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for

this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that
believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that
believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath
given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the
Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.—
1 John 5:9-12
… Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose
name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he
shall build the temple of the LORD.—Zech. 6:12
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul

delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles.—Isa. 42:1
19
… He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne;
and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall
be between them both.—Zech. 6:13
Having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to

reconcile all things unto himself; … whether they be things in earth, or
things in heaven.—Col. 1:20
And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he

is the Son of man.—John 5:27
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment
unto the Son.—John 5:22
HIS UNITY, RELATIONSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP

WITH THE CHURCH, HIS BODY.
… Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he
might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot,
or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.—Eph. 5:25-27
[Christ] gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good
works.—Titus 2:14
… Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and

sanctification, and redemption.—1 Cor. 1:30
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him.—2 Cor. 5:21
Complete in him, which is the head of all principality and

power.—Col. 2:10
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in
love.—Eph. 1:3,4
… Called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but

according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began.—2 Tim. 1:9
20
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his
Son.—1 Cor. 1:9
Thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers

of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear
Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins.—Col. 1:12-14
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed

away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who
hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, …—2 Cor. 5:17,18
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus.—Gal. 3:28
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the

death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life.—Rom. 5:10

evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the
saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of
Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature
of the fulness of Christ: … no more children, … But speaking the truth
in love, grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even
Christ.—Eph. 4:11-15
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an

holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.—Eph. 2:21,22
The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which
every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure
of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in
love.—Eph. 4:16
By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, …—1 Cor. 12:13
As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members
of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
—1 Cor. 12:12
21
Ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.—1 Cor.
12:27
Many members, yet but one body.—1 Cor. 12:20.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us: …—Gal. 3:13
All that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could
not be justified by the law of Moses.—Acts 13:39
Ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye
should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God.—Rom. 7:4
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through

our Lord Jesus Christ.—Rom. 5:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in

Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the
law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law
of sin and death.—Rom. 8:1,2
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock,

and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. —
1 Cor. 1:23,24
It is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner

stone, elect, precious.—1 Pet. 2:6
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men,

but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up
a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up sacrifices, acceptable
to God by Jesus Christ.—1 Pet. 2:4,5. [spiritual before sacrifices omitted
in the Sinaitic mss. See B207, 208 footnote]
No more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the

saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner
stone.—Eph. 2:19,20
Raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places

in Christ Jesus.—Eph. 2:6
22
… If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for
ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.—1 John 2:1,2
Delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
justification.—Rom. 4:25
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.—Rom. 5:8
… Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin
hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.—Rom.
5:20,21
… Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.

How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye
not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.—Rom. 6:1-4
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on
Christ.—Gal. 3:27
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
sin.—Rom. 6:6

we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.—Rom. 6:5
If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with

him.—Rom. 6:8
Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law
was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.—John
1:16,17
[Jesus said] Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I
am.—John 13:13
… I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my
Father I have made known unto you.—John 15:15
23
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
should not abide in darkness.—John 12:46
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the
sheep. … I … know my sheep, and am known of mine.—John 10:11,14
… I am come that they might have life, and that they might have
it more abundantly.—John 10:10
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and

shall go in and out, and find pasture.—John 10:9
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand.—John 10:27,28
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or

distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Rom.
8:35,38,39
Who shall change our vile [humble] body, that it may be fashioned
like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able
even to subdue all things unto himself.—Phil. 3:21
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.—
1 Pet. 1:8,9
… Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own
blood.—Rev. 1:5
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is
Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of
Christ is God.— 1 Cor. 11:3
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HIS PRIESTHOOD.
Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that

said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.—
Heb. 5:5
The law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the
word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is
consecrated for evermore.—Heb. 7:28
Not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were
made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto
him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec.)—Heb. 7:20,21
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was
faithful.—Heb. 3:2
For this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by

means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the first testament, they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance.—Heb. 9:15
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, … what

further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of
Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?—Heb. 7:11
Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled,

separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.—Heb. 7:26
Not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without
sin.—Heb. 4:15
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice,

first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once,
when he offered up himself.—Heb. 7:27
Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which
are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us.—Heb. 9:24
… The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest,
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a figure for
the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices,
…— Heb. 9:8,9
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Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to
say, not of this building.—Heb. 9:11
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the

Lord pitched, and not man.—Heb. 8:2
They truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to
continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood.—Heb. 7:23,24
… There are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve
unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, …—Heb. 8:4,5
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.—
Heb. 9:10
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much

also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon
better promises.—Heb. 8:6
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens

should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these.—Heb. 9:23
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us.—Heb. 9:12
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation

unto all them that obey him.—Heb. 5:9
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
own blood, suffered without the gate.—Heb. 13:12
When he said, Sacrifice and offering… for sin thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said
he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he
may establish the second.—Heb. 10:8,9
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all.—Heb. 10:10
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If the blood of bulls and goats… sanctifieth to the purifying of the
flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?—Heb. 9:13,14
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, … For then must he
often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in
the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and
unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without
sin unto salvation.—Heb. 9:25,26,28
This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
down on the right hand of God; For by one offering he hath perfected
for ever them that are sanctified.—Heb. 10:12,14
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of
one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, …
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his
brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest… to make
reconciliation for the sins of the people.—Heb. 2:11,17
… To save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,

seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.—Heb. 7:25
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,

consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ
Jesus.—Heb. 3:1
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.—Heb.
4:14
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by

the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high
priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart …
—Heb. 10:19-22
Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have
such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens.—Heb. 8:1
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THE DAY OF HIS PREPARATION
FOR THE KINGDOM.
IN THE OVERTHROW OF ALL THE PRESENT FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
AND SOCIETY. THE CERTAINTY OF ITS COMING.
… There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there

was a nation.—Dan. 12:1
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.—Matt. 24:21
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy

mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the
LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of
gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning
spread upon the mountains.—Joel 2:1,2
… The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when
they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon
them, … and they shall not escape.—1 Thes. 5:2,3
For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are
written may be fulfilled.—Luke 21:22
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I
will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
And I will shake all nations, …—Hag. 2:6,7
… My determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble

the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce
anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my
jealousy.—Zeph. 3:8
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the

earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come
forth of it. For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his
fury upon all their armies:… he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
—Isa. 34:1,2
… The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his
holy habitation;… he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.—Jer. 25:30
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
LORD hath spoken this word.—Isa. 24:3
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This shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black:
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent,
neither will I turn back from it.—Jer. 4:28
… The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.—2 Thes. 1:7,8
THE SIGNS OF ITS NEAR APPROACH.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without
natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers
of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof:… Ever learning, and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth.—2 Tim. 3:1-5,7
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables.— 2 Tim. 4:3,4
Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.—Matt.

24:11
… There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall

bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
them.— 2 Pet. 2:1
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a

hot iron.—1 Tim. 4:2
The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.—1 Tim. 4:1
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and
being deceived.—2 Tim. 3:13
There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew
great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect.—Matt. 24:24
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Many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.—2 Pet. 2:2
… Scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the
promise [evidence] of his coming [presence]? for since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation.—2 Pet. 3:3,4
Iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.—Matt.

24:12
… That day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.—2 Thes. 2:3
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.—Matt.
24:14
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.—Joel 2:31
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be

darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.—Matt.
24:29
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood,
and fire, and pillars of smoke.—Joel 2:30
There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the
waves roaring.—Luke 21:25
Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then
shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of
man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven
to the other.—Matt. 24:30,31
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not
troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.—Matt. 24:6-8
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As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them
all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.—Matt.
24:37-39
Learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.—Matt. 24:32
So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that
the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.—Luke 21:31
This generation [that sees this] shall not pass, till all these things
be fulfilled. … Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord
doth come.—Matt. 24:34,42
THE PURPOSE OF THE DAY OF TROUBLE
The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall
burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither
root nor branch.—Mal. 4:1
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose
her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.—Isa. 26:21
In that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones…
and the kings of the earth upon the earth.—Isa. 24:21
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.—Isa. 23:9
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath
a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give
them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.—Jer. 25:31
… There shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people.—Isa. 30:28
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The day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof
out of it.—Isa. 13:9
The day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for
the controversy of Zion.—Isa. 34:8
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be
removed like a cottage; And the transgression thereof shall be heavy
upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.—Isa. 24:20
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall
it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend,
and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.—Matt. 13:40-42
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest
I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my
barn.—Matt. 13:30
ITS SEVERITY.
The name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger,
and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:… The LORD shall cause his glorious voice
to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.—Isa. 30:27,30
… At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not
be able to abide his indignation.—Jer. 10:10
I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her
place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger.—Isa. 13:13
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the
earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.—
Jer. 25:33
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Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:
the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour
them.—Psa. 21:9
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a
destruction from the Almighty.—Isa. 13:6
A day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness

and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and
thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced
cities, and against the high towers.—Zeph. 1:15-16
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the
east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall
not find it.—Amos 8:13,12
I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men,
because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be
poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.—Zeph. 1:17
… Evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind

shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.—Jer. 25:32
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and
the slain of the LORD shall be many.—Isa. 66:16
My sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down…

upon the people of my curse, to judgment. Their slain also shall be cast
out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the
mountains shall be melted with their blood.—Isa. 34:5,3
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots
like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with
flames of fire.—Isa. 66:15
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall
find out those that hate thee.—Psa. 21:8
… Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness.—Isa. 34:7
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that
is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be
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dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and
their wives ravished.—Isa. 13:15,16
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
LORD hath spoken this word.—Isa. 24:3
The LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
… The curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few
men left. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.—Isa. 24:1,6,19
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the
heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they
trembled, and all the hills moved… The fruitful place was a wilderness,
and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD,
and by his fierce anger. … The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I
not make a full end.—Jer. 4:23,24,26,27
The stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
shall not cause her light to shine.—Isa. 13:10
All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf
falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.—Isa.
34:4
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in
the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by
the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all
them that dwell in the land.—Zeph. 1:18
THE FORCES USED.
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest
of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
shall cast down to the earth with the hand.—Isa. 28:2
… A great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many
generations.—Joel 2:2
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They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land.—Isa. 13:5
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall
gather blackness. And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army:
for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for
the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide
it?—Joel 2:6,11
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great

people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.—Isa. 13:4
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the
sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining: The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of
mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that
devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. They shall
run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and
they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their
ranks: A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth:
the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a
desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.—Joel
2:10,4,5,7,3
THE EFFECT UPON MANKIND.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation be overpast.—Isa. 26:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of
gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and
to the bats; To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.—Isa. 2:20,21
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of
the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst
of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are
open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. And they shall be
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gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut
up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. In the city
is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. There is a
crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land
is gone.—Isa. 24:17,18,22,12,11
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every
city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.—Jer. 4:29
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.—Isa. 24:4
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God
shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before
the whirlwind.—Isa. 17:13
They shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.—Isa. 8:22
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall
melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be
amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.—Isa. 13:7,8
They shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword
that I will send among them.—Jer. 25:16
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the
borrower; …—Isa. 24:2
And they shall pass… that when they shall be hungry, they shall
fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, …—Isa. 8:21
The flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not
strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: Neither
shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall
not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver
himself. And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
naked in that day, saith the LORD.—Amos 2:14-16
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… I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.—Amos 8:11
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall
come upon you. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped
down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the
cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of
sabaoth. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days.—James 5:1,4,2,3
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in
the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls,
neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their
iniquity.—Ezek. 7:19
The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the
face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to
stand?—Rev. 6:15-17
HIS KINGDOM AND REIGN ON EARTH IN JUSTICE,

RIGHTEOUSNESS AND POWER.
I [Daniel] beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient
of days did sit, … I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the
Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient
of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given
him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and
languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.—Dan. 7:9,13,14
Thou [Nebuchadnezzar] sawest till that a stone was cut out

without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron
and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the
brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became
like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them
away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the
image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Forasmuch
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as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without
hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the
silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what
shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the
interpretation thereof sure. And in the days of these kings shall the
God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and
the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms, and IT shall stand for ever.—Dan.
2:34,35,45,44
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one.—Zech. 14:9
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.—Psa. 72:8
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in
heaven.—Psa. 89:36,37
He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom
there shall be no end.—Luke 1:33
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my
Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the
heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession.—Psa. 2:7,8
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul

delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles. I the LORD have called thee in
righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give
thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.—Isa.
42:1,6
At that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up

unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the
land.—Jer. 33:15
A king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in

judgment.—Isa. 32:1
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For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the
nations.—Psa. 22:28
He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.—1 Cor.
15:25
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
enemies shall lick the dust.—Psa. 72:9
All nations… shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and
shall glorify thy name.—Psa. 86:9
All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they
shall sing to thy name.—Psa. 66:4
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
throughout all generations.—Psa. 72:5
The heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of
the earth thy glory.—Psa. 102:15
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall
be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people
righteously.—Psa. 96:10
He shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty
of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he
be great unto the ends of the earth.—Micah 5:4
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs
with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, …—Isa. 40:11
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he
not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.—Isa. 42:2,3
His anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.—Psa. 30:5
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so

long as the moon endureth.—Psa. 72:7
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to
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bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to
give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; …—Isa. 61:1-3
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.—Isa. 42:7
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people.—Isa. 55:4
Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the

girdle of his reins.—Isa. 11:5
The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the LORD: And shall make him of quick
understanding in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge after the
sight of his eyes, neither remove after the hearing of his ears.—Isa.
11:2,3
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in

the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.—Isa. 42:4
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar,
and the fulness thereof.—Psa. 96:11
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.—
Psa. 98:8
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the
trees of the wood rejoice.—Psa. 96:12
… For he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he

judge the world, and the people with equity.—Psa. 98:9
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the
people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.—Psa. 67:4
Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will
bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest
the counsels of the hearts: …—1 Cor. 4:5
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He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath
given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the
dead.—Acts 17:31
The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment

unto the Son.—John 5:22
He commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it

is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
—Acts 10:42
… At his appearing and his kingdom.—2 Tim. 4:1
He shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister

judgment to the people in uprightness.—Psa. 9:8
With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of
his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the
wicked.—Isa. 11:4
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the

plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding place.—Isa. 28:17
… There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid,

that shall not be known.—Matt. 10:26
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ.—Rom. 2:16
… A swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,

and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling
in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD …—Mal. 3:5
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of
the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.—Psa. 72:4
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
oppressed.—Psa. 103:6
… I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and

righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight.—Jer. 9:24
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Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest
for a light of the people.—Isa. 51:4
The LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is

holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.—Isa. 5:16
I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see
my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them.—Ezek. 39:21
The LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for
judgment.—Psa. 9:7
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and
truth shall go before thy face.—Psa. 89:14
… The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.—

Psa. 19:9
The LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our
king; he will save us.—Isa. 33:22
He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no

mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.—James 2:13
… When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the

world will learn righteousness.—Isa. 26:9
… The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,

even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he
shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his
coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a
refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them
as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in
righteousness.—Mal. 3:1-3
Then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all
call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.—
Zeph. 3:9
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end:

affliction shall not rise up the second time.—Nahum 1:9
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…Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your
graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, …—Ezek. 37:12
… All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come
forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they
that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. (See
NASV)—John 5:28,29
They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and

the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the
angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the
resurrection.—Luke 20:35,36
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man

that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years
old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.—Isa.
65:20
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour
grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die
for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge.—Jer. 31:29,30
… The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall
the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be
upon him. … The soul that sinneth, it shall die.—Ezek. 18:20,4
That servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself,
neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But
he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be
beaten with few stripes. …—Luke 12:47-48
The day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud
and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought
low: The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of
men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
day.—Isa. 2:12,11
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The mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall
be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.—Isa. 5:15
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said
to be bountiful.—Isa. 32:5
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their

mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they consider.—Isa. 52:15
… A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he
shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which
will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Whom the heaven must receive [retain] until the times of restitution of
all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began.—Acts 3:22,23,21
… When the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, …
—Matt. 19:28
Before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate

them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world: Then shall he say also unto them on the left
hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the
devil and his angels: And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.—Matt. 25:32-34,
41,46
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all
authority and power. And when all things shall be subdued unto him,
then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things
under him, that God may be all in all. For he hath put all things under
his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest
that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.—1 Cor.
15:24,28,27
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BLESSINGS TO MANKIND IN GENERAL THROUGH
HIS KINGDOM REIGN.
GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM, IN THEE AND IN THY SEED SHALL

ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED.
THE MESSAGE OF THE ANGEL: Behold, I bring you good tidings

of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.—Luke 2:10,11
He shall judge among many people… and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation
shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.—Micah 4:3
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his
neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.—Zech. 3:10
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and
none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath
spoken it.—Micah 4:4
Judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain

in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and
the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my
people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and
in quiet resting places.—Isa. 32:16-18
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look
down from heaven.—Psa. 85:11
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills,
by righteousness.—Psa. 72:3
As the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the
things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause
righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.—Isa.
61:11
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:
and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.—Psa.
22:27
Many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of
hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.—Zech. 8:22
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O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.—Psa.
65:2
The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.—Isa. 40:5
… There shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go
speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts.—
Zech. 8:20,21
Many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall
go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.—Isa. 2:3
They shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the
north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of
God.—Luke 13:29
He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God
of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are
hid from mine eyes.—Isa. 65:16
… The mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in

the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and
people shall flow unto it.—Micah 4:1
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people
a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of
marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.—Isa. 25:6
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the
mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the
city shall flourish like grass of the earth.—Psa. 72:16
He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over
all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. And it shall be
said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he
will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad
and rejoice in his salvation.—Isa. 25:7,9
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Therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you…
that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment:
blessed are all they that wait for him.—Isa. 30:18
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that
water the earth.—Psa. 72:6
The LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her
increase. … And God, even our own God, shall bless us.—Psa. 85:12;
67:6
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and
the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall
see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.—Isa. 35:1,2
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the
pine, and the box tree together.—Isa. 41:19
Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn
shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the
myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting
sign that shall not be cut off.—Isa. 55:12,13
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely …—Isa. 4:2
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called

The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be
for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No
lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall
not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the
ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.—Isa. 35:8-10
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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them. And the sucking child shall
play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on
the cockatrice’ den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as
the waters cover the sea.—Isa. 11:6,8,9
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going

forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain,
as the latter and former rain unto the earth.—Hosea 6:3
The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped.—Isa. 35:5
The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
that hear shall hearken.—Isa. 32:3
In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes
of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.—Isa. 29:18
I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them
in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before
them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them,
and not forsake them.—Isa. 42:16
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor
among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.—Isa. 29:19
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that
seek him: your heart shall live for ever.—Psa. 22:26
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the
tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.—Isa. 32:4
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and

they that murmured shall learn doctrine.—Isa. 29:24
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and

strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.—Isa. 33:6
The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell
therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.—Isa. 33:24
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He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.—Isa. 25:8
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel
will not forsake them.—Isa. 41:17
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in
the desert.—Isa. 35:6
There the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and
streams; …—Isa. 33:21
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of

old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye
not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert. The beast of the field shall honour me… because I give waters
in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people,
my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth
my praise.—Isa. 43:18-21
The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water: …—Isa 35:7
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
plain.—Isa. 40:4
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land
springs of water.—Isa. 41:18
They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: … They shall not labour
in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed
of the LORD, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass,
that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I
will hear.—Isa. 65:21-24
For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we
will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.—Micah
4:5
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The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light
of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that
the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke
of their wound.—Isa. 30:26
… The plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of

grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine,
and all the hills shall melt.—Amos 9:13
Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind.—Isa. 65:17
We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.—2 Pet. 3:13
I [John] saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And he
that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he
said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And I John
saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice
out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are
passed away.—Rev. 21:1,5,2-4
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine
in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof. And the nations … shall walk in the light of it: and the kings
of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And there shall in
no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s
book of life. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there
shall be no night there.—Rev. 21:23,24,27,25
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,

proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of
the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month:
and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. I Jesus
have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
… The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him
take the water of life freely.—Rev. 22:1,2,16,17
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For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall
remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name
remain.—Isa. 66:22
ZION’S EXALTATION IN THE KINGDOM.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth!—Isa. 52:7
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of
Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom
shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.—Micah 4:8
The saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess
the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. And the kingdom and
dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,
shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and
obey him.—Dan. 7:18,27
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy
One of Israel in the midst of thee.—Isa. 12:6
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will
dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.—Zech. 2:10
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over
thee with singing.—Zeph. 3:17
Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in
the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth;
and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.—Zech. 8:3
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For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake
I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,
and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.—Isa. 62:1
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion,

my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
strangers pass through her any more.—Joel 3:17
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion

with judgment and righteousness.—Isa. 33:5
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with

righteousness.—Isa. 1:27
… I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many

generations. The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come
bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves
down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the
LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.—Isa. 60:15,14
Of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and
the highest himself shall establish her. The LORD shall count, when he
writeth up the people, that this man was born there.—Psa. 87:5,6
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall
they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again
Zion.—Isa. 52:8
There shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim
shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our
God.—Jer. 31:6
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying,
Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant
that shall not be forgotten.—Jer. 50:5
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.—Isa. 59:20
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people;

cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard
for the people. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all
kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
mouth of the LORD shall name.—Isa. 62:10,2
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… The LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen
upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising. … The abundance of the sea shall be converted
unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. Surely the
isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons
from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the
LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee.—Isa. 60:2,3,5,9
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my
glory.—Isa. 46:12,13
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall
be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the
LORD shall call.—Joel 2:32
Thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor
night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that
their kings may be brought. Thy people also shall be all righteous: they
shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of
my hands, that I may be glorified.—Isa. 60:11,21
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your

God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will
cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter
rain in the first month.—Joel 2:23
Thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto
all generations. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the
time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.—Psa. 102:12,13
The moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before
his ancients gloriously.—Isa. 24:23
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down;
not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of
the cords thereof be broken.—Isa. 33:20
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Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and
a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. For as a young man marrieth
a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth
over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. Thou shalt no more
be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed
Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for
the LORD delighteth in thee, …—Isa. 62:3,5,4
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,… to beautify the place
of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction
within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy
gates Praise. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the
days of thy mourning shall be ended. Arise, shine; for thy light is
come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.—Isa.
60:13,18,20,1
THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL IN THE KINGDOM.
THE WORLD OF MANKIND TO SHARE IN ALL

THEIR PROMISES OF BLESSING.
It shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord… shall set up an
ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth.—Isa 11:11,12
I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them
again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and
I will plant them, and not pluck them up.—Jer. 24:6
It shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon
him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of
Israel, in truth.—Isa. 10:20
The heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the
LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the
LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. And I will sanctify my great
name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned
in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD,
saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their
eyes.—Ezek. 36:36,23
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[I] shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken
it, and performed it… Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place
them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of
them for evermore.—Ezek. 37:14,26
I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return
unto me with their whole heart.—Jer. 24:7
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall
flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and
for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul
shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at
all.—Jer. 31:12
… It shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the

children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, that
brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from
all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again
into their land that I gave unto their fathers.—Jer. 16:14,15
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries

whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds;
and they shall be fruitful and increase.—Jer. 23:3
Ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the
land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to
give it to your fathers. I will accept you with your sweet savour, when
I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries
wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before
the heathen.—Ezek. 20:42,41
They shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein,
even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever:
…—Ezek. 37:25
I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they

shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens,
and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and
they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given
them, saith the LORD thy God.—Amos 9:14,15
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At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather
you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the
earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
… I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and
I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put
to shame.—Zeph. 3:20,19
Fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel:

for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of
their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and
none shall make him afraid.—Jer. 46:27
I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all
countries, and will bring you into your own land.—Ezek. 36:24
I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of
Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more
two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more
at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions:
but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have
sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be
their God. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
observe my statutes, and do them.—Ezek. 37:22-24
I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for
ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them.—Jer. 32:39
I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil
beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods. And I will make them and the
places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to
come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.—Ezek.
34:25,26
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And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to
pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and
to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the
LORD. … I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with
the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out
of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an
husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their
hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they
shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.—Jer.
31:28,31-34
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn
away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them
to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my
whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus saith the LORD; Like as
I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon
them all the good that I have promised them.—Jer. 32:40-42
I will bring it health and cure… and will reveal unto them the
abundance of peace and truth. And I will cleanse them from all their
iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all
their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and… transgressed against
me.—Jer. 33:6,8
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that
were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your
iniquities and for your abominations.—Ezek. 36:31
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein
thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the
midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be
haughty because of my holy mountain.—Zeph. 3:11
I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that
I am the LORD: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and
never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am
pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, …—Ezek. 16:62,63
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There shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein
ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for
all your evils that ye have committed. And ye shall know that I am the
LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according
to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house
of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.—Ezek. 20:43,44
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she
nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Neither
hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied
thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all
thine abominations which thou hast done. When I shall bring again
their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the
captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the
captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: When thy sisters, Sodom
and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and
her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy
daughters shall return to your former estate. Then thou shalt
remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy
sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for
daughters, but not by thy covenant.—Ezek. 16:48,51,53,55,61
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. And
I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.—Ezek. 36:25,27
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither
shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and
lie down, and none shall make them afraid.—Zeph. 3:13
Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to

generation.—Joel 3:20
… God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a
people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it
is written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle
of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof,
and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord,
and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord,
who doeth all these things.—Acts 15:14-17
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Upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness;
and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And saviours
shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the
kingdom shall be the LORD’S.—Obad. 1:17,21
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast
forth his roots as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall
return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent
thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.—Hosea 14:5,7
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the
house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a
flock. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call
for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I
will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye
shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.—Ezek.
36:37,29,30
Ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the
LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people
shall never be ashamed.—Joel 2:26
… The hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall
flow with waters, …—Joel 3:18
… They shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities
thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee,
O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.—Jer. 31:23
I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army
which I sent among you.—Joel 2:25
The desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the

sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was
desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate
and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.—Ezek. 36:34,35
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The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and
without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and
without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children
of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king;
and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.—Hosea
3:4,5
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant… for I am with thee; for I will
make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will
not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not
leave thee wholly unpunished.—Jer. 46:28
I will betroth thee unto me for ever… in righteousness, and in

judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth
thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. … I will
have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say,
Thou art my God.—Hosea 2:19,20,23
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David

and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.—
Zech. 13:1
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look
upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one
that is in bitterness for his firstborn.—Zech. 12:10
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth
by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his
anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.—Micah 7:18
… I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be

built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth
upon Jerusalem.—Zech. 1:16
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will

subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths
of the sea.—Micah 7:19
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water
of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a
word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn
to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.—Isa. 30:20,21
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In mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in
the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require
your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy
things.—Ezek. 20:40
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for
a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, And for a spirit of
judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, …—Isa. 28:5,6
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham,
which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.—Micah
7:20
I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days,
saith the LORD of hosts. For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall
give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens
shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to
possess all these things.—Zech. 8:11,12
I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry
ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon
thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows
by the water courses. One shall say, I am the LORD’S; and another shall
call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his
hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.—Isa.
44:3-5
… I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the
house of Israel and to the house of Judah.—Jer. 33:14
This is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. …
Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in. And they also, if they abide not still in
unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out
of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob.—Rom. 11:27,28,25,23,26
I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross,
and take away all thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first,
and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called,
The city of righteousness, the faithful city.—Isa. 1:25,26
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When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters
of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.—Isa.
4:4
They shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD:
and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.—Isa. 62:12
… As ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and

house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: …—Zech.
8:13
And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the
LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto
you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of
the LORD your God.—Zech. 6:15
Many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of
hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.—Zech. 8:22
They shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD
out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon
mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the
LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into
the house of the LORD.—Isa. 66:20
The heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when
my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.—Ezek. 37:28
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have
a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth
may enter in. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD
JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.—Isa. 26:1,2,4
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is
exalted.—Isa. 12:4
His anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.—Psa. 30:5
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall

yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall
yet choose Jerusalem.—Zech. 1:17
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For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for
wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and
thine exactors righteousness.—Isa. 60:17
The LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and
shall choose Jerusalem again.—Zech. 2:12
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell

safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.—Jer. 33:16
… I will save my people from the east country, and from the west
country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in
truth and in righteousness.—Zech. 8:7,8
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
glory.—Isa. 45:25
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of

salvation.—Isa. 12:3
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall
remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name
remain.—Isa. 66:22
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RESUME .
SOME OF THE BLESSINGS STATED IN BRIEF WHICH

WILL COME TO MANKIND IN THE KINGDOM.
All wars shall cease.

Truth shall triumph in the earth.
God will pour out his spirit upon all flesh.
The earth shall yield her increase.
The desert shall bud and blossom as the rose.
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
There shall be nothing to hurt nor destroy in all God’s kingdom.
The earth shall be filled with a knowledge of the Lord.
The eyes of the blind shall be opened.
The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Death shall be swallowed up in victory.
God will wipe away all tears.
Streams of water shall flow in the deserts.
Every valley shall be exalted.
Every hill shall be made low.
The crooked places shall be made straight.
The rough places, plain.
One shall not build and another inhabit.
One shall not plant and another eat.
None shall labor in vain.
There shall be no more sorrow.
There shall be no more pain.
All evil shall be suppressed.
All unrighteousness shall cease.
There shall be showers of blessing.
God will write his law in the hearts of men.
All shall know him from the least to the greatest.
All iniquity shall be pardoned.
Sins remembered no more.
God will multiply the fruitage of the earth.
The whole earth shall become like the garden of Eden.
God will execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
Judgment will be laid to the line and Righteousness to the plummet.
Every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree.
The lame man shall leap as an hart.
There shall be no more sickness.
The tongue of the dumb shall sing.
The desire of all nations shall come.
And all the world be blessed.
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PONDER WELL AND KEEP FOR REFERENCE.
T HE writer asks no one

to take his word for the
interrogatively implied views
presented herein, but does
request a careful and prayer-
ful CONSIDERATION
of the many references and
quotations from the Word of
God.
“Come, now, and let us REASON

together, saith the L ORD .”
Isa 1:18
QUESTION INDEX
PAGE
IMMORTALITY . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ETERNAL TORMENT . . . . . . . . 10
EVOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . 15
PREDESTINATION . . . . . . . . . 19
CONDEMNATION . . . . . . . . . 22
SALVATION . . . . . . . . . . 24
ELECTION AND FREE GRACE . . . . . . 27
RESURRECTION . . . . . . . . . 32
THE JUDGMENT . . . . . . . . . 40
THE LAST ENEMY . . . . . . . . . 47
FUTURE PROBATION . . . . . . . . 50
BELIEVEST THOU? . . . . . . . . . 54
FINALE . . . . . . . . . . . 58
“Believest Thou the Prophets?”
Acts 26:27.
IMMORTALITY.
If man is immortal, why did the apostle TEACH that
God “ONLY HATH immortality”? I Tim. 6:16.
What reasons have we for believing that our souls are
immortal, when the apostle emphatically states that God,
ONLY, possesses this degree of life — that it inheres in
HIM ALONE?
If we already possess immortality, why should the

apostle exhort us to “SEEK immortality”? Rom. 2:7.
Would it not be misleading for the apostle to exhort
us to SEEK for something we already possess?
If we are by nature immortal, why should the apostle
exhort us to “PUT ON immortality”? I Cor. 15:53.
Would it be possible for us to put on that which we
already have on by nature?
Are not these proof-texts sufficient evidence to
convince any reasonable-minded Christian that
immortality is CONDITIONAL — that it is something to be
GAINED?
If the soul is immortal and cannot die, why did the

prophet Ezekiel state that “the SOUL that sinneth it
SHALL DIE”? Eze. 18:4, 20.
If souls are immortal and cannot die, why did the

apostle ask the question, “How are THE DEAD [souls]
raised up? and with WHAT BODY do they [dead souls]
come”? I Cor. 15:35.
4 QUESTIONS ANSWERING QUESTIONS
If the soul is immortal and cannot die, and THIS

BODY which we sow is NOT that body that shall be raised
again, what is it that dies that will be raised again?
I Cor. 15:36, 37, 38.
If our souls are immortal and cannot die, and OUR
BODIES ARE NOT RAISED AGAIN, how could there be any
raising of the dead? I Cor. 15:36, 38.
If our souls are immortal and do not die, would they
not EVOLVE from the human to spirit conditions at the
laying aside of the body? — and is not this the doctrine
of EVOLUTION?
If our souls are immortal, and the saved evolve into
heavenly bliss immediately on leaving the body, why did
our Lord say, “Thou shalt be recompensed at the
resurrection of the just”? Luke 14:14.
If our souls are immortal, and the lost souls evolve
into the spirit nature, to be tormented, immediately on
leaving the body, why did our Lord say that he knew how
to “reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment TO BE
punished”? II Peter 2:9.
What was the HOPE of the prophets and apostles?
Was their hope of a future life centered in the
IMMORTALITY of the soul — evolving from human to spirit
nature? — or was their hope of a future life centered in
the MORTALITY of the soul, its death, its redemption, and
its “resurrection FROM the dead”? Eze. 18:4, 20; Psa.
33:19; 34:22; 49:8, 15; 78:50; Acts 23:6; 24:15; Rom.
1:4; I Cor. 15:12, 13.
If our Lord’s soul did not die, why did the prophet
Isaiah say that HE “POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH,”
and that HE MADE “HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN”?
Isa. 53:12, 10.
If death of the soul means moral death — death in sin
and eternal separation from God, as claimed by sectarian
teachers — how could our Lord’s soul have died? How
could he have “poured out his soul unto [literally into]
IMMORTALITY 5
death”? How could he have made “his SOUL an offering

for [or on account of] sin”? What Christian would dare
make the charge that our Lord’s soul suffered moral
death; that his soul died in sin; that he poured out his
soul unto sin, and that he is eternally separated from
God? Isa. 53:12, 10.
How can death of the soul be moral death, when

moral death and sin are one and the same? Is it possible
that a thing can be its own penalty?
If our Lord’s soul (literally his being, his poured-out

life) was not put into and environed by hell (sheol, the
dark place; hades, the grave) which, without intervention,
would have held him, why did the apostle Peter and the
prophet David say that “his SOUL was not left in hell”?
Acts 2:27, 31; Psa. 16:10.
If angels, or spirit beings, are immortal, how is our

Lord going to DESTROY the devil? Heb. 2:14.
If the destruction of the soul is destruction in sin, as

claimed by sectarian teachers, how could THE DEVIL be
destroyed? How can he be destroyed in that which he is
already in, and the father of? I John 3:8; John 8:44.
If death of the soul means death in sin, how are we,

who are by nature the children of the devil, children of
wrath — born in sin and iniquity — going to die in that
in which we are born — already in by nature? Job 14:4;
Psa. 51:5, 58:3; Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3; John 8:44.
Are not all people “the dead” who are burying “the
dead,” except the little flock who seek and find
immortality by being begotten and BORN AGAIN of the
Holy Spirit? How, then, can the dead die spiritually
when they ARE BORN spiritually dead? Matt. 8:22.
If the death of unjust souls means death in sin, would

not the resurrection of the unjust mean resurrection out
of sin? And would not the resurrection of the unjust out

of sin necessitate future probation? Acts 24:15.
If hell is an eternal abiding place for the wicked, who

will have charge of them after the DEVIL IS DESTROYED?
Heb. 2:14.
If our Lord came “that he might DESTROY the works

of the devil,” how will there be any sin, or sinners, or hell
left? I John 3:8.
Why is it that the wise and prudent never quote scrip-

ture to prove their doctrine of immortality, but invariably
depend upon heathen philosophy and “science, falsely so
called”? Matt. 11:25; I Tim. 6:20; II Tim. 3:1-8.
Isn’t it strange that the whole world, both heathendom

and Christendom, have believed Satan’s first lie: “Ye
[immortal soul] shall not surely die,” and have
disbelieved God: “Thou [mortal soul] SHALT surely die”?
Gen. 3:4; 2:16, 17.
Did not the Lord God form man’s body of “the dust
of the ground” and “breathed into his nostrils the breath
[spirit] of life,” and did he not become a “LIVING SOUL”?
Gen.2:7.
Did not the man become a DYING SOUL when he

disobeyed? And when his breath (spirit) left his body
and went back to God who gave it, did not his dying soul
finish in DEATH?—did not his body go back to dust? —
and isn’t man, in the words of the prophets and apostles,
completely “destroyed”? — and has he not “perished”?
Gen. 2:7,17; 3:19; Rom. 6:23; II Thess. 1:9; Phil. 3:19;
I John 2:17; 3:8, 14, 15; 5:12; Acts 3:23; II Peter 2:1;
3:9; James 1:15; 4:12.
Would not man (a dying soul) have been eternally

destroyed — annihilated — if our blessed Lord had not
“redeemed” him by having “poured out his soul [life]
unto death”? Isa. 53:10, 12; Psa. 49:8-15.
IMMORTALITY 7
Doesn’t the Lord counsel us to “fear not them which

kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather
fear him which is able to DESTROY both soul and body in
hell” (gehenna, or second death!) And will he not do so
(i.e., DESTROY the soul) if we do not heed the voice of the
great Prophet, Priest and King? Matt. 10:28; Acts 3:23.
Don’t you know that while man can kill the body,
man cannot destroy the soul because of the redemption of
all (souls) from the first (Adamic) death? (Psa. 49:15;
71:23; 103:4; Isa. 35:10) — and that all souls are asleep
(in an unconscious state) awaiting the resurrection
morn? (Psa. 34:22; 49:14) — and that ALL shall then
hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth from the
grave to live forever if they are obedient to the great
Prophet, Priest and King? (John 5:25, 28, 29). But if
they will not hear (heed) that Prophet, will he not
DESTROY their souls in gehenna-fire (second death)? —
and is not this their annihilation, because Christ dieth no
more to redeem the dead? Acts 3:23; Luke 12:5; Rom.
6:9; Rev. 20:14; 21:8.
Do you know that eternal life and IMMORTALITY are
different, and that our Lord not only brought life to light
but that he also brought immortality to light? Did he
not bring two facts to light—both life and IMMORTALITY?
II Tim. 1:10.
Do you know that while immortal beings possess
eternal life, a being with eternal life does not necessarily
possess immortality?
Do you know that eternal-life-creatures are dependent
upon God for their life, and are in a destructible
condition, whereas immortal creatures are independent,
and, like unto the great Jehovah, possess inherent life
and are in an indestructible condition? John 5:26
Do you know that all of God’s creatures are mortal,
and that “he only hath immortality, dwelling in the light
which no man can approach unto”? — and that this
express image of himself, this life in self, this immortal

and divine nature, is THE PRIZE of the HIGH CALLING
which is offered as a reward to the faithful followers of
our Lord and Saviour? — and that the promise to the
balance of mankind is RESTITUTION of perfect human
nature in Paradise restored, and eternal life to whosoever
will? I Tim. 6:16; Heb. 1:3; John 5:26; Phil. 3:14;
Rom. 2:7; Acts 3:21; Rom. 11:25-30.
Do you know that the Bible teaches the mortality,
destruction, redemption and resurrection of the soul and
not the body, from lid to lid? Eze. 18:4; Lev. 23:30;
Jos. 11:11; Job 33:22, 28, 30; Psa. 16:10; 22:29;
33:19; 34:22; 35:17; 40:14; 49:15; 56:13; 63:9;
78:50; Isa. 53:12. (Proof quotations of the soul’s
mortality are too numerous to mention. Take your
concordance and look up immortality and soul if you
wish a surprise.)
Do you know that when the apostle Paul speaks of the
“redemption of our body,” that he has reference to the
BODY OF CHRIST, of which all the saints are members?
Does he not use the words “our” (plural) and “body,”
(singular)? Rom. 8:23; 12:4, 5; I Cor. 12:12-27.
Do you know that when the apostle Paul speaks of our
mortal bodies being quickened, he means that when our
old carnal minds (self-will) have been displaced by the new
mind (will of God), that the old body, which had been
dead to all but self, would be quickened into serving the
new mind, the controlling thought of all such being, “not
my will, but thine, be done”? Rom. 8:11; Luke 22:42.
Do you know that immortality of the human soul
necessitates an eternal abiding place for the wicked, and
that the advocates of this false theory have established in
the minds of the people a belief in the blasphemous
doctrine of an eternal, living, conscious condition in a
habitable place called hell, where immortal, wicked souls
are tormented day and night forever and forever?
IMMORTALITY 9
Do you know that the bright shining (epiphania) of the

second presence (parazoa, mistranslated “coming”) of our
Lord will soon shine upon this erroneous doctrine of
immortality with such brilliancy that it will compel Satan
to use other methods to deceive? (II Thess. 2:1-11) —
and that one of his other methods will be the materializa-
tion of fallen angels, who are now having their chains
(restrained privileges) removed prior to the judgment?
(Gen. 6:2, 4; Jude 6) — and that these evil spirits, or
angels (messengers) of Satan, will reaffirm the human
immortality theory by materializing and personating the
dead, claiming that there are no dead, and that what we
call death is nothing more than the natural law of evolu-
tion, changing immortal creatures from human to
spiritual? I Tim. 4:1; Rev. 13:13, 14; Deut. 18:9-12;
I Cor. 6:2, 3.
“When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that
hath familiar spirits and unto wizards, that chirp [not
peep] and that mutter: should not a people SEEK UNTO
THEIR GOD? On behalf of the LIVING should they seek
unto the DEAD?” Isa. 8:19 R.V.).
Isn’t this enough scriptural evidence to convince any
believer of the Word of God that the doctrine of
immortality promulgated by both Christendom and
heathendom is false?
Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve,

And press with vigor on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.
ETERNAL TORMENT.
Do you know that the Bible teaches that “the wages of

sin is DEATH” and not ETERNAL TORMENT? Rom. 6:23.
Do you know that it teaches the death of the soul, and
that it was for that reason that our Lord, in paying the
ransom [corresponding price], “poured out his soul unto
death,” and “made his soul an offering” for our sinful,
dying and dead souls? Isa. 53:12, 10; 49th Psa.; Eze.
18:4, 20.
Don’t you know that the eternal torment doctrine was
forged by the immortal-soul-theorists, as they were
compelled to have a habitable place for the never-dying
wicked? Does not the Lord say that the “wise and
prudent” would make a “covenant with death and an
agreement with hell”? — and have they not “made a
covenant with death” by agreeing that death is not death,
and that when we appear to die, we are really more alive
than ever? — and have they not “made an agreement
with hell” by claiming it to be a habitable place of
torment for the wicked dead, who are not dead? Isa.
28:14-18; 29:13-15; Mark 7:7; Titus 1:14.
Does not God tell us that these false doctrines of men
shall be destroyed? — does he not say that he will sweep
away their refuge of lies, and their covenant with death
shall be disannulled, and their agreement with hell shall
not stand? Matt. 15:9; Col. 2:22, 23; Isa. 28:14-18;
29:13-15.
Do you know that the English word hell is the same
as the Hebrew word sheol and Greek words hades and
gehenna? — and that they all mean to conceal, to hide, to
cover in oblivion, to destroy? — and that sheol is
translated thirty-one (31) times grave, three (3) times
pit, and thirty-one (31) times hell? See margin. Psa.
49:15; 55:15; 86:13; Isa. 14:9; Jonah 2:2.
ETERNAL TORMENT 11
Do you know that the Bible description of hell is

entirely different from what is commonly taught? — and
that instead of its being a conscious, life condition in
fiery torment, it is an unconscious, death condition?
If hell is a place illuminated with flaming fire, why
did the prophet Job describe it as a place of darkness?
Job 10:21.
If hell is a place of pain, suffering and remorse, why
did the prophet David speak of it as a place or condition
of forgetfulness? Psa. 88:11, 12.
If hell is a place of pain, suffering and remorse, why
did Solomon in all his wisdom say that “the living know
that they shall die: but THE DEAD know not anything”?
Eccls. 9:5.
If hell is a place where the shrieks and groans of the
damned are heard, why did the prophet David describe it
as a place of silence? Psa. 115:17.
If hell is a place of life in any sense, why did the
prophet David say that when a man’s “breath goeth
forth, he returneth to HIS earth: in that VERY DAY his
thoughts PERISH”? Psa. 146:4.
How could any being be tormented in hell, when
“there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, … in the
grave [sheol or hell] whither thou goest”? Eccls. 9:10.
Do you know “the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou
shalt sleep with thy fathers”? Is there any consciousness
in sleep? Deut. 31:16.
Do you know that David is NOT ascended into the
heavens, but that he “slept with his fathers,” and that
“he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us
unto this day”? I Kings 2:10; Acts 2:29.
Do you know that the only seeming support given the
eternal torment theory, in scripture, is in the symbolic
language of Revelation and the parabolic language of our

Lord, and that our Lord spake ONLY in parables, and that
in a parable the thing said is never the thing meant?
Matt. 13:34; Mark 4:34.
Do you know when our Lord spake the parable of the
wheat being gathered into his barn and the tares into
bundles to be burned with fire, that the wheat meant the
Lord’s people, the barn meant a place of preservation,
tares meant the enemies of the Lord and fire meant
destruction? Matt. 13:24, 30, 36-43; Phil. 3:19; Acts
3:23; II Pet. 2:1; 3:9.
Do you know that when our Lord spake the parable of
the sheep on his right hand entering the kingdom, and
the goats on his left hand departing into everlasting fire
prepared for the devil and his angels, that sheep meant
good, obedient people; the kingdom meant everlasting life
in Paradise restored; goats meant willful, wayward,
wicked people, and everlasting fire meant everlasting
destruction prepared for the devil and his angels? Matt.
25:41, 46; Heb. 2:14.
Do you know that you would have to go to a
theological seminary for several years to learn from the
word-twisting theologians how to make destruction mean
preservation and perish mean to preserve?
Do you know that the word punishment in the 46th
verse of the 25th chapter of Matthew is translated from
the Greek word kolasin, which means to prune, to
restrain, by cutting off from life? — whereas if torment
were meant, the Greek word basinos would have been
used?
Do you know that the everlasting fire and destruction
spoken of in our Lord’s parables, and the destruction and
perishing spoken of by the apostles, are the same as the
eternal fires of Revelation?
Do you know that fire is symbolic of destruction,
because fire never preserves life, but always destroys?
ETERNAL TORMENT 13
Do you know that the word torment is NEVER

mentioned in the Old Testament, and only a few times
in the New Testament does it seemingly support the
eternal torment theory? — and that these few times are
written in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, which as a
parable, carries a meaning larger than literal persons;
and in the symbolic language of Revelation, where it
speaks of the eternal torment of the city of Babylon in
chapter eighteen and of the beast and false prophet in
chapter twenty, rather than the torment of individuals?
Do you know who the beast and false prophet are?
Won’t you have to know who they are before you can
understand how they are to be tormented? — and had we
not better keep our eyes open lest we be among those who
worship the beast or his image? Rev. 14:9.
Do you know that “God is love,” that he is all-
powerful, that “his mercy endureth for ever,” and that
you cannot harmonize these qualities with the eternal
tormenting of his creatures? I John 4:8; Matt. 28:18;
Psa., 136th chapter.
Do you know that “perfect love casteth out [ALL] fear”
of eternal torment, etc., and produces the reverential fear
of displeasing our heavenly Father? I John 4:18.
Do you know that these false, evil doctrines are
doctrines of men, handed down to us from the dark ages,
when they thought they were doing both God and man a
service by burning each other and gouging out each
other’s eyes; saying it is better to give them a little
torment now, to save them from falling into God’s hands
after awhile, and having them endure an endless torture
of a far worse kind?
Isn’t this enough scriptural proof that the eternal
torment doctrine promulgated by Christendom is FALSE?
—and do you know that the parables and dark sayings of
our Lord, and the symbolic language of Revelation is
harmoniously explained in the pamphlet on “What Saith
the Scriptures About Hell”?
THE DARK CLOUD AND ITS SILVER LINING.

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER
In the minister’s morning sermon, he told of the primal fall,
And how, henceforth, the wrath of God rested on each and all;
And how, of His will and pleasure, all souls, save a chosen few,
Were doomed to eternal torture, and held in the way thereto.
Yet never, by Faith’s unreason, a saintlier soul was tried,
And never the harsh old lesson a tenderer heart belied.
And after the painful service, on that pleasant, bright first day,
He walked with his little daughter thro’ the apple bloom of May.
Sweet in the fresh green meadow sparrow and blackbird sung;
Above him its tinted petals the blossoming orchard hung.
Around on the wonderful glory, the minister looked and smiled:
“How good is the Lord, who gives us these gifts from his hand,
my child.”
“Behold in the bloom of apples, and the violets in the sward,
A hint of the old lost beauty of the garden of the Lord.”
Then upspake the little maiden, treading on snow and pink,
“O father! these pretty blossoms are very wicked, I think;
Had there been no Garden of Eden, there never had been a fall,
And if never a tree had blossomed, God would have loved us all.”
“Hush, child,” the father answered, “by His decree man fell;
His ways are in clouds and darkness, but He doeth all things well,
And whether by his ordaining to us cometh good or ill,
Joy or pain, or light or shadow, we must fear and love Him still.”
“Oh, I fear Him!” said the daughter, “and I try to love Him, too,
But I wish he were kind and gentle—kind and loving as you.”
The minister groaned in spirit, as the tremulous lips of pain,
And wide, wet eyes, uplifted, questioned his own in vain.
Bowing his head, he pondered the words of his little one.
Had he erred in his life-long teachings and wrong to his Master done
To what grim and dreadful idol had he lent the holiest name?
Did his own heart, loving and human, the God of his worship shame?
And lo! from the bloom and greenness, from the tender skies above,
And the face of his little daughter, he read a lesson of love.
No more as the cloudy terror of Sinai’s mount of law,
But as Christ in the Syrian lilies the vision of God he saw.
And as when, in the clefts of Horeb of old, was his presence known,
The dread, ineffable glory was infinite goodness alone.
Thereafter his hearers noted in his prayers a tenderer strain,
And never the message of hatred burned on his lips again.
And the scoffing tongue was prayerful, and the blinded eyes
found sight,
And hearts, as flint aforetime, grew soft in his warmth and light.
EVOLUTION.
Do you know that the prevailing ideas of today on

evolution are in direct opposition to the Word of God,
and “that if evolutionary theories are true, the Bible
doctrines are false, and that if the Bible is of God, …
evolutionary theories are absolutely false, … which gives
the LIE to the words of our Lord and of his apostles and
all the holy prophets”? [R:2392:3]
Does not the Bible tell us that man was a direct
creation, that he was formed by the Almighty, and that
he was made perfect and upright, the mental and moral
image and likeness in the flesh of his creator, the
Almighty Spirit?—and must we not reject this
statement, if we accept the evolution theory? Gen. 1:27,
31; Deut. 32:4, 5; Eccl. 7:29; I Cor. 15:22, 45, 47;
Rom. 5:12.
Do you know that the Bible speaks with one
harmonious voice respecting a FALL from divine favor
and, likewise, into sin and death conditions, and that sin
and death began to reign in Adam’s day? Would we not
have to reject this scriptural teaching if we accepted
evolutionary theories? Rom. 5:12-21.
Does not the apostle Paul state that by one man’s
disobedience sin entered into the world and death as the
result of sin, and thus death passed upon all men,
because all have sinned? Does not this contradict the
evolutionary process of development from protoplasm to
monkeys, from monkeys to men, and eventually from
men unto gods? Rom. 5:12.
Does not Solomon, the wise, deny the evolution
theory of creation when he states that “God hath made
man upright; but they have sought out many inventions”
and defiled themselves? Eccl. 7:29. And does not the
apostle Paul state that God gave them over unto evil pas-
sions? — and as they did not care to retain God in their

hearts, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which are not fit, “because that when they
knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish hearts were darkened”? Rom. 1:21-31.
According to evolutionary theories that man evolved
from a monkey, would the first man, who would have
been very little better than a monkey, have been in a
condition, mentally or physically or morally, to be put on
trial for eternal life or eternal death? And again: “If the
race has been gradually rising during the past six
thousand years — has been losing its monkey weaknesses
and failings and attaining, more and more, to manhood,
where would be the original sin?” [R:3921:6] Rom. 5:12.
Do you know that the
IMMORTALITY DOCTRINE IS A
DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION and NOT a scriptural doctrine?
Does it not deny death and a resurrection of the dead,
and teach in its stead the evolution of the immortal soul
from the lower human nature to the higher spiritual
nature? I Tim. 6:16.
Does not our Lord Jesus contradict the evolution theory
most emphatically in his statement, “The Son of man is
come to seek and to save that which was lost”? Luke
19:10.
Do not these evolutionary theories of man, of progress-
ing from nothing to something, repudiate the Bible
doctrine of a fall, of a loss, and of a redeemer and saviour
from this fallen and lost condition? Luke 19:10.
If, as the evolutionist tells us, man is falling up-ward,
wherein was the justice of the divine sentence against
him? Gen. 2:17; 3:8-19; Rom. 6:23. Why should
God speak of him as a sinner, a transgressor? Romans
5:12-21. Is it sinful to evolute upwards? Why should
man be spoken of as under the curse or penalty for sin,
since self-development is not sin? Heb. 9:27; Gal. 3:13
Why should it be written that Justice demands a ransom
EVOLUTION 17
price before Adam and his race could be released from the
death sentence and be granted an opportunity for eternal
life? Psa. 49:15; Hos. 13:14; Gal. 3:13; II Cor. 5:14,
15. Why did the law given through Moses point to sin-
offerings and propitiation through “day of atonement”
sacrifices, etc., along with the High Priest services, if
there was no fall, no sin and no need of a redemption and
sin-offering and a reconciliation to God? Exod., 25th to
the 41st chapter; Lev. 8:14-33; 16:3-33; Heb. 8:5; 9:13;
10:1-12; Col. 2:17. Why should the New Testament
continue the same story of the necessity for the death of
Jesus as the redemption price, that by his death the
world might be granted a resurrection to life in due time?
Heb. 9th chap. Why is the doctrine of the second
coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead put so
prominently before us in the Bible if there were no fall
into sin and death, no need of a redemption and no need
that at his second coming the sins of the world should be
blotted out and the world of mankind uplifted out of
sin-and-death conditions, back to full perfection of
human nature and all that was lost in Adam? Acts 3:21;
I Cor. 15:21.
Do you know that the scriptures promise ONLY to
“the elect church” a change of nature from human and
earthly to spiritual and heavenly conditions, and that
this change comes not through evolution, but by a NEW
CREATION? — and that the blessing promised to the
world is not a change of nature, but a restitution of the
present human nature to the original perfection LOST in
Adam, and to its future home, or Paradise? Matt. 7:14;
II Pet. 1:4; II Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15; Acts 3:21;
15:13-17.
Does not restitution signify restoring or putting back to
a previous condition? And if man’s previous condition
was the monkey state, would not restitution be a curse
instead of a blessing? Acts 3:21.
If, according to evolutionary theories, we have devel-
oped from monkeys, and according to scriptural doctrine
we are to be restored (Acts 3:21; 15:13-17), would it not

be bad tidings of great misery instead of “good tidings of
GREAT JOY”? Luke 2:10. And would it not be a message
of damnation instead of a gospel of salvation? I Tim.
4:10; I John 2:2.
Does not the evolution theory contradict the Word of
God, and isn’t it one among the many “science falsely so
called”? I Tim. 6:20.
Don’t you think, from the above quotations, that we
must either reject the Bible doctrine of man’s creation in
perfection, his fall into sin and its penalty, death, his
REDEMPTION by the precious blood of Jesus and his
recovery, by and by, from sin and death, and consequent
restoration to perfection during the Millennial age at the
hands of the great Redeemer, or, on the contrary, we
must repudiate, in toto, all the theories of human
evolution as being absolutely, unqualifiedly untrue? —
and had we not better “let God be true [though it prove]
every man a liar”? Rom. 3:4. S EE THE E MPHATIC D IAGLOTT .
Long in bondage we have waited

For the dawning of the light;
Error’s chains we’ve felt and hated
Through the long and weary night.
Now the blessed light appearing
Fills our hearts with joy and peace,
Doubt and fear for aye dispelling:
O! what rest in this release!
PREDESTINATION.
Do you know that “Known unto God are all his works
from the beginning of the world”? Acts 15:18.
Is not this a positive statement that God foreknew the
fall of Adam into sin and death, the inheritance of sin
and death by all his posterity, and the redemption of all
from this condition by our Lord?
Do you know that wisdom, justice, love, mercy and
power are the five attuning elements of God’s character?
— and that wisdom with its foreknowledge would not
have permitted power to be exercised at the expense of
even one creature being eternally tormented? — and that
justice, love and mercy, in unison with wisdom, would
have risen in opposition to the creation of living souls if
it were to result in the eternal tormenting of even one?
Do you know that the very idea of God’s foreknowing,
or predestinating, one single soul to eternal torment, is
a species of blasphemy that is most repulsive to all honest
hearts with thinking heads, and that such a doctrine is
not even hinted at in scripture?
Is it not “appointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment” by that “righteous judge” whom God
ordained from before the foundation of the world, to
redeem and save all from this condemnation (death)?
Heb. 9:27; II Tim. 4:8.
Is it not written that our blessed Lord, being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,
was taken by wicked hands and crucified? Acts 2:23.
Do you know that it was NECESSARY for a PERFECT
man to DIE in order to redeem the DEAD, and that Jesus
“for the joy [prize] that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame”? Heb. 12:2.
Do you know that God “foreordained from before the

foundation of the world” that the blood of Christ should
TAKE AWAY, not only the sins of the church, “but, also,
the SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD”? I Pet. 1:19, 20;
I John 2:2.
Did not God foreknow, and also predestinate, that the
“little flock,” the church, the promised seed of Abraham,
should be “conformed to the image [changed to spirit
beings] of his dear son”? Rom. 8:29.
If we be Christ’s, are we not Abraham’s seed and heirs
according to the promise, and as “we [the church] have
borne the image of the earthy,” will we not “also bear the
image of the heavenly”? Gal. 3:29; I Cor. 15:49.
Do you know that God predestinated an election of
sons, and that the promised “seed” of Abraham, the
“little flock,” the church, are elected “according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification
of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood
of Jesus Christ”? I Pet. 1:2.
Did not God also foreknow and foretell of an age of
FREE GRACE, when the predestinated and previously-
selected bride (the church after “her” selection and
marriage to the Lord) should say “Come”? While in this
time, or age of election, NO MAN cometh unto the Lord
EXCEPT the Father draw him, will not, in that time of
free grace, the invitation be extended to ALL people?
“Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
John 6:44; 12:32; Rev. 22:17.
Do you know that God, “having made known unto us
[the church, the little flock, the promised seed, the
espoused] the mystery of his will, according to his good
pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the
dispensation of the fulness of times, he [will] gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in
heaven and which are on earth; even in him, In whom
also we have obtained inheritance, being predestinated
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according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things

after the counsel of his own will?” Eph. 1:5, 9,10,11.
Do not these question-quotations prove that God fore-
knew the present groaning condition of creation? — and
that he not only foreknew, but that he did also
predestinate a great Saviour to redeem all from this fallen,
sinful condition, by dying in their stead (I Pet. 1:2); —
and did he not also predestinate that a “little flock”
should follow in his footsteps, and “be conformed to the
image of his Son” (Rom. 8:29), and that they in turn
should bless the residue of men with restitution? Acts
15:16-17; 3:21.
If all these foreknown and predetermined plans of
God be true, will not Christ, THE HEAD, and the church,
his body, bring to pass the grand and glorious “restitution
of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all
his holy prophets since the world began”? Acts 3:21.
Can you not see that God has predestinated the
CHURCH to be of the SPIRIT nature, in a heavenly home,
and that the world of mankind (or, mankind of the world)
is promised a restitution TO perfect human nature, in a
(paradise restored) earthly home? Heb. 3:1; I Cor.
15:49; II Pet. 1:3, 4; Gen. 13:14-17; Eze. 36:33-35;
Amos 9:14,15; Isa. 65:21-25; Eze. 37:24, 25.
Did not God foreknow the fall and condemnation of
all the world into sin and death? Did he not also fore-
know and predestinate the SALVATION OF ALL from this
condemnation? — and do not the glorious foreknown and
predetermined purposes of God, as revealed by the
promises of his word, guarantee a future probation to all
the world? Rom. 5:16, 18; 8:29; I Pet. 1:20; Luke 3:6;
I Tim. 2:3-4; 4:10.
Is not THIS beautiful scriptural doctrine of predestina-
tion entirely different from the hideous predestination
theories of Christendom?
CONDEMNATION
Have we not seen that God foreknew the fall of Adam

and the condemnation of all in Adam? — for did not “by
the offence of one [Adam] judgment came upon ALL MEN
to condemnation”? Rom. 5:18.
Have we not seen that man was condemned to DEATH
and not to eternal torment? Rom. 6:23.
If the condemnation upon man is eternal life in
torment, would it not be a gift of God? For, is not “the
gift of God eternal life” in any condition? Rom. 6:23.
If the condemnation upon man were eternal torment,
would not our Lord have been subject to eternal torment
in order to take our place — to pay the penalty that was
put upon us? Rom. 5:6, 8; I Cor. 15:3; II Cor. 5:14.
Did the apostle Paul say that the wages of sin is
eternal life in torment, or did he say that the wages of sin
is DEATH? Rom. 6:23.
Does not the apostle Paul say that “by one man’s
[Adam’s] offence death reigned”? Rom. 5:17.
Do the scriptures teach that sin hath reigned unto
eternal torment or unto death? Rom. 5:21; 6:23.
Did God say to Adam that “in the day [one day is,
with the Lord, as a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day — Psa. 90:4; II Pet. 3:8] that thou eatest
thereof, thou shalt surely” be eternally tormented, or that
“thou shalt surely die”? Gen. 2:17.
Are not many made sinners by one man’s (Adam’s)
disobedience? — and are not many dead through or by
the offence of one (Adam)? Rom. 5:15-19; I Cor 15:21,
22.
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Did not, by one man [Adam], sin enter into the

world, and death [not eternal torment] by sin; and so
death [not eternal torment] passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned? Rom. 5:12.
Are we not brought into this world in sin and death,
without our consent? And will not the world be awakened
out of death (sleep) without asking their consent, for, as
we all die in Adam, will we not also in like manner be
made alive in (by) Christ? I Cor. 15:22.
While the scriptures clearly teach the condemnation
of all before birth, do they not teach equally as clearly the
salvation of all from this Adamic condemnation? (Luke
19:10; I Tim. 4:10; I John 2:2). And does not this
grand salvation from the Adamic or first death, which is
promised by our Lord, necessitate all being ransomed
from the grave? (I Tim. 2:6; Hos. 13:14; John 5:25-28).
Does it not necessitate a redemption from death? (I Pet.
1:18,19; I Cor. 7:23; Hos. 13:14; Psa. 49:8, 15; 103:4;
106:10). Does it not necessitate an awakening (egeiro) of
the dead, both the just and the unjust? (Acts 24:15;
I Cor. 15:21, 22). Does it not make certain the “restitu-
tion of all things”? (Acts 3:21; 15:13-18; Rev. 21:1-5).
Do not the scriptures promise all this and would not the
fulfillment of all these promises NECESSITATE future
probation?
Out of the weary shades of night,

Out of darkness cometh light;
In fearful doubt of midnight storm,
Courage and hope of faith are born.
From mountain height the tempest flings

Earth’s hope beneath death’s mighty wings;
But lo! there shines the “morning star,”
Gleaming in glory from afar.
SALVATION.
Have we not found that every man was condemned to

death before he was born, and that all the world lies
guilty before God? Rom. 3:19; 9:11, 12.
Does not this condemnation assure us that a saviour,
and a mighty saviour, is essential? For who can redeem
his brother, or give to God a ransom? Psa. 49:7.
Did not God foreknow the condemnation of all before
the world was? — and was not Christ our Lord
foreordained from before the foundation of the world to
be our redeemer? Acts 15:18; I Pet. 1:19, 20.
Did not our Lord give up the glory he had with the
Father before the world was, and permit himself to be
made flesh and blood (man), that he, by the grace of God,
might taste [not eternal torment, but] death for every
man? John 17:5; Heb. 2:9-17.
Did not our Lord become the Saviour of the whole
world by tasting death for EVERY man? — and will not
every man receive a benefit therefrom? I John 2:2.
Did not our Lord give “himself a ransom for ALL, to
be testified in DUE TIME”? I Tim. 2:6.
Did not our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, come to
do the will of the Father? (Heb. 10:7, 9), and is it not the
Father’s will that all men should be saved and come to a
knowledge of the truth”? I Tim. 2:4.
If this is the Father’s will, and the Son came to do the
Father’s will, what can hinder? Isa. 55:10, 11; John 1:1.
After the will of God has been done, after all have
been saved from the Adamic or first death, brought to a
full knowledge of the truth and blessed with a just and
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equitable OPPORTUNITY for eternal salvation, if they sin

again, shall they inherit eternal life? Do not the scrip-
tures teach that they shall die again—die the second death,
from which there is no redemption? Rev. 20:6, 14.
Did not our Lord come “to save men’ s lives and not to
destroy them”? And will he not save them? Luke 9:56;
Rom. 11:26; I Tim. 4:10.
Did not our Lord come to “seek and to save THAT
which was lost”? And will he not do so? Luke 19:10;
Matt. 18:11; Isa. 55:10, 11.
Was it not LIFE, and a paradise, that was lost? Gen.
2:7, 17.
Did not our Lord come to save ALL men, and especially
those [the church] that believe”? I Tim. 4:10.
Is not our Lord “the propitiation [satisfaction] for our
[the church’s] sin: and not for ours [the church] only, but
ALSO FOR the sins of the WHOLE WORLD”? I John 2:2.
Did not God make a promise to Abraham, and

confirm it by an oath to Isaac and to Jacob, that through
his seed ALL families of the EARTH should be blessed?
Gen. 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; Deut. 29:12, 13; Heb. 11:17,
18; Acts 3:25; 13:23; Gal. 3:8.
Does not the apostle SAY that “if ye be Christ’s, then
are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the
promise”? Gal. 3:29.
Does this not teach that our Lord is the Saviour of the
WORLD (from the Adamic death) as well as the church?
(I John 2:2). And does it not teach a SPECIAL SALVA-
TION for the church, the predestinated little flock, which
is the promised seed of Abraham? (I Tim. 4:10; Luke
12:32). Is not this a special salvation from all future
judgment as well as the Adamic death? (Rev. 20:6).
And does it not teach the saving of all the (world) families
of the earth from the Adamic death, to be blessed by
the promised Seed (those who gain the special salvation,

the church) with eternal salvation, if they will, according
to the oath-bound promise of God? Gen. 22:17; Acts
3:25; Rom. 4:13; 9:7, 8; Gal. 3:16, 19, 29; Heb. 2:16.
Did not our Lord come to destroy DEATH and he who
hath the power of death, that is, the Devil? Heb. 2:14.
Did not our Lord come to destroy sin and death, which
are the works of the devil? I John 3:8.
Do not the scriptures declare that DEATH will be the
last enemy that will be destroyed by the Lord? I Cor. 15:26.
Do you know that this death the Lord is going to
destroy is the ENEMY death (becoming such by redemp-
tion), and not the second (servant) death?
Can death be destroyed and all men be saved any
other way but by the putting in of life? And would this
not necessitate all the dead, both the just and the unjust,
being made alive (egeiro)? And will not every man be
made alive in his own order: “Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming”? [during
his presence]. I Cor. 15:22, 23.
Does this not prove that our Lord is the Saviour of ALL
people from the death penalty which God imposed upon
them; and will he not do God’s will by saving all and
bringing all to a full “knowledge of the truth”? (I Tim.
2:4) And would not this necessitate a future probation?
After saving all from the Adamic, or first death, and
bringing them to a full “knowledge OF the truth,” will it
not then be that who-so-ever will may drink of the water
and eat of the Tree of Life freely and live forever? (Rev.
2:7; 22:2, 14) And who-so-ever will not avail themselves
of this blessed privilege, shall they not die again, and
would not this be the second death? Acts 3:19-25.
Do not these scriptural quotations and references
teach a universal salvation from the first, or Adamic,
death, and a universal OPPORTUNITY for salvation from
the second, or eternal, death (annihilation)?
ELECTION AND FREE GRACE.
Who can dispute the fact that the Bible clearly teaches
both the doctrine of Election and Free Grace, over which
Arminian and Calvinist, not being able to agree, have
quarreled for centuries? Rom. 9:11; 11:5, 7, 28; I
Thess. 1:4; II Pet. 1:10; John 6:44; Rev. 22:17.
Did not our Lord say that our Heavenly Father would
“send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and
they would gather together his elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven [religious element] to the other”?
Matt. 24:31.
Do you know that the elect were predestinated
“according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ”? I Pet. 1:2.
Do you know that these elect ones will be the little
flock which God “foreknew” and “also did predestinate to
be conformed to the image of his [dear] Son”? Luke
12:32; Rom. 8:29.
Do you know that in this time of election, no man can
come unto the Lord “except the Father … draw [call]
him”? — but, when the free-grace time arrives,
who-so-ever will may come? John 6:44; Rev. 22:17.
Do you know that not all, but many, are now called,
and only a FEW of the many called are chosen? Matt.
20:16; 22:14.
Do you know that the few CHOSEN (those who
willingly conform to God’s requirements) are the elect ones
whom God has “called according to his purpose”? — and
that it is his purpose to bless all and eternally torment
none? Rom. 8:28; Eph. 1:5; Gal. 3:8.
Isn’t it very necessary that we, who have been called,

give diligence to make our calling and [subsequent]
ELECTION sure? II Pet. 1:10.
“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect”?

Rom. 8:33.
Do you know that Paul was a “servant of God and an
apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith [plan] of
God’s elect”? (or, according to this plan of God’s of
electing or selecting these sons through faith)? Titus 1:1.
Did not Paul say that he pressed toward the mark for
THE prize of the HIGH CALLING of God in Christ Jesus,
and that he had “fought a good fight” and “finished my
course” and “kept the faith,” and that thenceforth there
was laid up for him a crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, would give him at that
[judgment or restitution] day: and not to him only, but
unto all them also that LOVE his appearing? Phil. 3:14;
I Cor. 9:24; II Tim. 4:7, 8.
Do you know that unto God’s elect is given exceeding
great and precious promises? — and that THE promise is
the prize of the HIGH calling? — and that the PRIZE of
the high calling is the divine, immortal NATURE? II Pet.
1:4; Phil. 3:14.
Do you know that God’s elect are the promised SEED
of Abraham? — and that they are the little flock who will
have walked the narrow way unto life? — and that they
are the body of Christ, the wise virgins, which become the
[figurative] bride of Christ — the bride of the Lamb, the
sons of God, the LIVING stones, the LIVING temple, and the
living CHURCH of God? Gal. 3:14-29; Luke 12:32; Matt.
7:14; I Cor. 12:27; Matt. 25:1, 2; Rev. 21:9; Rom.
8:14-17; I Pet. 2:5; I Cor. 3:16; Col. 1:18-24.
Did not Paul say: “Therefore I endure all things for
the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation
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which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory”? II Tim.

2:10.
Hasn’t the Lord two folds of sheep? (John 10:16).
Isn’t the first fold the “ELECT” “LITTLE FLOCK” (Luke
12:32) who hear and heed the voice of the Master,
walking in the narrow way to life? (Matt. 7:14). And are
not the “other sheep… not of this fold” (John 10:16), the
large NON-ELECT flock who do not recognize the voice of
the Master and blindly walk the broad road to
destruction? (Matt. 7:13). But does not the Lord say
that these also he will bring from destruction, and that
they, too, shall hear his voice? John 10:16.
Do you know that God will permit in these last days
(of this age) STRONG delusions that will DECEIVE the
whole world, and, even, the very elect, IF it were possible?
II Thess. 2:11; Matt. 24:24.
Isn’t the foregoing scriptural evidence enough to
convince any Christian that God is electing or selecting a
“little flock” from amongst mankind, to be joint-heirs
with our Lord and Saviour? — and can it be questioned
that all the remainder of mankind are NON-ELECT to THAT
peculiar honor? Matt. 7:14; Luke 12:32.
The question now arises, what provision has the great
Creator made FOR this large class of NON-ELECT which
have gone the broad road to [temporary] destruction?
Matt. 7:13.
Do you know that according to (so called) “orthodoxy”
this large non-elect class were either predestinated or,
from inability to prevent, will be permitted to become
sufferers of eternal torment?
Do you know “that to suppose that God foreordained
the non-elect class to suffer eternal torment, would be to
suppose God a monster [be it with reverence said], devoid
of every sentiment of justice and love”? [R:2732:1]
Do you know that God’s purpose, foreknown unto

himself from before the foundation of the world, is the
blessing of the many non-elect families of the earth by the
promised elect SEED of Abraham? Gen. 28:14; Acts
3:25; Rom. 8:29; Gal. 3:29; Eph. 1:5.
Has not God promised that the non-elect families of
the earth should be blessed and not cursed? And isn’t this
blessing to be done by the promised elect “seed” of
Abraham? Gal. 3:16-29.
Has the election of God’s “house of sons” ended? —
or have all families of the earth been blessed with the
“more abundant” life according to the promise? Who
would dare say yea! Doesn’t every death assure us that
the curse still rests upon us? Rom. 6:23.
If the “election” of God’s SONS is still going on, and
all families of the earth have not yet been blessed
according to the promise, and he who made the promise
cannot lie, isn’t that a positive assurance that it is yet
future and will SURELY come to pass in his own DUE
TIME? Heb. 6:17-18; I Tim. 2:6.
Isn’t this future time spoken of the time of free grace?

When the “election” is over and the elect has made
“herself” (feminine only in a figurative sense) ready, will
not the Lord return for his “espoused” and “marry”
(unite) “her” unto himself, “she” thus becoming his
“bride” and “wife”? And will not the spirit and the bride
say come, and may not who-so-ever will, come and take
of the water of life freely? John 3:29; Rev. 19:7, 9;
21:9; 22:17.
Will not this invitation of the Spirit and Bride be free
to who-so-ever will? — whereas now, no one can come
unto the Lord except the Father draw him? Rev. 22:17;
John 6:44.
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Doesn’t the apostle call the free grace times “the times
of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began”?
Acts 3:21.
Doesn’t the above scripture teach that it is the church
which is “called and elected” to become SPIRIT BEINGS,
“partakers of the divine [immortal] nature” like the Lord?
And doesn’t it teach that all the balance (residue) of
people, the non-elect, are to be blessed BY the elect church?
And does it not teach that the blessing is to be restitu-
tion? And does not restitution mean to restore, to put or
give back what was lost or taken away? And did not
father Adam by disobedience lose his standing, home
and life? Did not all his children share with him in
the loss of all these things? II Pet. 1:4; Acts 3:21, 25;
Gal. 3:16-29.
Did father Adam lose a spirit nature and a heavenly
home, or did he lose perfect human nature and an earthly
home?
If the world-beings who lost life, home and God’s
fatherhood in Adam, are to have these “things” restored
to them, which will they gain, the spiritual and heavenly,
or the human and earthly?
Does not restitution necessitate REANIMATION, future
probation and resurrection? And does not scripture promise
all these things, too, to the unjust, non-elect world? Acts
3:21; 24:15; John 5:25-28.
Do you know that by looking up the 16th chapter of
Ezekiel, you can read what God has to say regarding the
restitution of Sodom to her former estate?
RESURRECTION.
Do you know that Christ our head was “the first

begotten of the dead”? That he was “the first that
should rise from the dead”? And that he is “the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have
the preeminence”? Rev. 1:5; Acts 26:23; Col. 1:18.
If he was the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things HE might have the preeminence, why should any
give to Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter, the widow’s son or any
other, this eminence, by claiming that they preceded him?
John 11:43, 44; 12:1-9; Matt. 9:25; I Kings 17:17-24.
Is not this sufficient evidence to convince any
truth-loving Christian that, in the cases of Lazarus,
Jairus’ daughter, and others, there was no resurrection,
but merely reanimation? Isa. 8:20.
Do you know that the word raised is translated from
the Greek word egeiro, which means to awake, to rouse
up, and the word resurrection is translated from the
Greek word anastasis, which means rising or bringing up?
—YOUNG’S ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE.
Do you know that the raising up of Lazarus, Jairus’

daughter and others was nothing more than reanimation,
i.e., made alive in the body? — and that they were
nothing more than the reanimated dead? — that they still
remained the dead who were burying their dead? — and
that they went into their graves again, to there remain
until the resurrection day? And don’t you know that if
they heard (obeyed) the voice of the “Son of Man” and
were made alive in Christ through faith before they went
into the grave the second time, that they will be
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resurrected immortal spirit beings, “partakers of the

divine nature”? — but if they did not hear (obey) that
voice, and were not made alive in Christ before they went
into the grave the second time, that they will be
reanimated (egeiro) in the body, mortal human beings,
just as they were before? — and that they will be raised
the second time not to die again, but to be made alive
(resurrected) in Christ, and inherit eternal life, if they
will? John 5:25-30; Acts 24:15; I Cor. 15:22.
Do you know that this is NOT teaching a second
chance? — and that this little booklet does NOT teach a
second chance, but that it does teach ONE JUST AND
EQUITABLE CHANCE (judgment-trial) for each and every
individual? — and that SAID CHANCE IS FOR LIFE? Do
you know that the chance is open now only to those who
enter the race “for the prize of the HIGH CALLING of God
in Christ Jesus” through faith? (Phil. 3:14; I Cor. 1:26;
II Tim. 1:9; Heb. 3:1; II Pet. 1:10) — and that not all
who enter the race will win the prize, but only a “LITTLE
FLOCK” of “ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND”
will so run as to obtain? (Matt. 22:14; I Cor. 9:24; Heb.
12:1; Rev. 14:1-5) — and that those who fail to so run
as to obtain, shall either lose life in the “SECOND DEATH”
or be of the “GREAT MULTITUDE” who “shall be saved so
as by fire”? (Rev. 20:14; 7:9-17; I Cor. 3:15), and that
the residue of men — those who do NOT enter the race
for the prize — the unjust class, the non-elect world —
who were condemned in Adam and who will have died for
their fathers’ sin, shall hear the voice of the Son of Man
and come forth (egeiro) from the grave hereafter, in order
that they may be given a chance? Is it not appointed unto
men once to die? (Heb. 9:27) — and would not this be
their FIRST AND ONLY INDIVIDUAL CHANCE TO ESCAPE
DEATH and LIVE FOREVER? Would not this be ONE
CHANCE FOR ALL? Is not this a chance for the
race-runners now, and a chance for the residue (balance)
of men hereafter? John 5:25; Eze. 18:20; Acts 3:23;
Heb. 9:27.
Do you know that the word damnation in the 29th

verse of the 5th chapter of John is a miserable mistake
made by the translators, and that it should be judgment?
Does not the revised version read: “And they that have
done ill [evil], unto resurrection of judgment”? As
judgment includes a trial, isn’t it therefore a resurrection
by trial? John 5:29 (R.V.).
Do you know that the word damnation in King James’
version, and the word judgment in the Revised Version
(John 5:29), are translated from the Greek word krisis?
— and that it is the same as the English word crisis,
which means a deciding or turning point? Do we not
speak of the fever patient as having reached the crisis,
the turning point for better or worse? Therefore, should
it not read, “They that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the
resurrection of a crisis,” for better or worse — to be
obedient and live for-ever, or to be disobedient and die
the eternal or second death? Rom. 6:23.
Was there not a harvest period at the end of the
Jewish Age, and did not our Lord with his disciples
separate the wheat from the chaff? (Luke 3:17). Did he
not baptize the wheat class with THE Holy Spirit, and the
chaff class with fiery destruction? (Luke 3:16, 17). Did
not there begin another sowing at that time by our Lord?
(Matt. 13:37). Did he not sow the good, wheat seed, and
an enemy sow tares? (Matt. 13:24-30; 36-44). Did not
our Lord, on account of their likeness in outward appear-
ance, instruct his disciples not to attempt to separate
them, but to let them grow together until the harvest?
(Matt. 13:30). Have they not grown together, side by
side, in all of the different sects unto the present time?
Did not our Lord say that there would be a separating
time, or harvest period, in the end of this Gospel age,
and that he would send forth the sword of truth by his
messengers and separate the TRUTH LOVERS, the wheat,
from those WHO LOVE NOT THE TRUTH, the tares?
(II Thes. 2:10,11; Matt. 13:39-41; Eph. 6:17; Rev. 1:16)
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— and that the wheat were to be gathered into his barn

(condition of security), and the tares were to be bound
into bundles (as sects) to be burned, destroyed? (Matt.
13:40-42). But don’t you know that all of the chaff and
tares, as well as the world at large who will have been
destroyed by the first, or Adamic death, which is called
the enemy, have been redeemed by our Lord from this
destroyed (death) condition, and that all will eventually
hear his voice and come forth from this condition? (Heb.
2:9; John 5:28). Will there not be a resurrection of the
unjust by judgment — a crisis? (John 5:29, R.V.). Shall
they not come forth in the next age (the Millennial) and
have a just, equitable and individual chance for life — to
be tried for eternal life or death? And at the end of that
age, will there not be another and final separating time?
Will he not separate the sheep from the goats? (Matt.
25:32). Will not the sheep gain eternal life and the goats
be eternally destroyed, which will be the second death?
Rev. 20:14.
Will not the second death be the same as the first,
except that the first is to be destroyed by our Lord by
making all (the obedient) alive; whereas the second will
be without end, because Christ will die no more to redeem
the dead? Should these not, “as natural brute beasts, …
perish”? (II Pet. 2:12). Is this anything more or less
than annihilation? Rom. 6:9, 10; Rev. 20:14-15.
While the obedient, reanimated dead (sheep) shall
have the first, Adamic or the enemy death destroyed in
them by receiving eternal life, will not the disobedient of
the reanimated dead (goats) who will not have the enemy,
death, destroyed in them by receiving eternal life, be cast
into the second death, destruction, annihilation? Would
not this be the destruction of the first, the Adamic, or the
enemy, death, either by giving eternal life or the inflic-
tion of its antithesis, eternal death? Rev. 20:14.
Do you know that being made alive in Christ and resur-
rection completed are the same, and that there will be a
resurrection of both the just and the unjust? and that the
ELECT CHURCH are the just, the “firstfruits,” who are
made alive in Christ now, during this the first resur-
rection? — and that those who have not been made alive
in Christ during the first resurrection are the non-elect,
the unjust, the “after fruits,” who must be reanimated
(egeiro) in the body hereafter, in order that they
(whosoever will) may be made alive in Christ during the
second resurrection? I Cor. 15:22; Acts 24:15; Rev.
14:4; 20:5, 6; 22:17.
Do you know that the firstfruits, the little flock,
the just, the church, is a predestinated number of a
“HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND”? (Rev. 14:1-5)
— and that these are now being resurrected, or made alive
in Christ, in the first resurrection, by walking the narrow
way of justification and sanctification through faith? —
and that these are God’s elect, “whom he did foreknow,”
and “also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his Son”? Rom. 8:29.
Do you know that the “hundred and forty-four
thousand,” “the church,” the “firstfruits,” are now being
made alive in Christ, by being resurrected out from
among the animated dead, and that this is the first
resurrection? (Rom. 8:23; Jas. 1:18; Rev. 14:4). Do you
know that they with the Lord shall rule and reign over
“the rest of the dead” for a thousand years? (Rev. 20:4, 5)
— and that “the rest of the dead,” both animate and
inanimate, are the after fruits? — and that the inanimated
dead shall hear the voice of the “Son of Man” and come
forth (be reanimated) from the grave, in order that they
(with the animated) might be blessed by the “hundred
and forty-four thousand,” “the church,” the “first-fruits,”
the promised “seed of Abraham”? (John 5:25-28; Acts
24:15; Gen. 22:17, 18; Gal. 3:16, 27, 29; Rev. 14:1-5)
— and that they will be blessed with a “resurrection of
[by] judgment”? John 5:29 (R.V.).
RESURRECTION 37
Do you know that the resurrection of the “rest of the

dead” is the second resurrection, and is of a thousand
years duration? — and that “the rest of the dead”
(animated dead) will not live again in its full, complete
sense, until the thousand years are finished; and that
Satan will be loosed for a little season to endeavor to
deceive? (Rev. 20th chapter) — and that the goat class
who are deceived shall be cast into the lake of fire, which
is the “second death”? (Matt. 25:32, 33, 46; Rev.
20:12-15) — and that the sheep class shall enter into the
kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the
world? (Matt. 25:32, 33, 34).
Do you know that while the 5th verse of the 20th
chapter of Revelation harmonizes with the balance of
scripture, it is spurious, and is not found in the oldest
manuscripts?
Does not this teach that the after-fruits are the un-
justified, unforgiven and non-elect world, whose minds
are blinded by the god of this world into going the broad
road to destruction? — and that the elect church will
reanimate (egeiro) all of them, and resurrect (anastasis) or
make alive whosoever will in Christ in the second
resurrection? (II Cor. 4:3, 4) — and whosoever will not,
shall they not enter into eternal (the second) death? Acts
3:23.
What Christian can dispute the fact that God is now
electing a people for his name? (I Pet. 1-2; II Pet. 1:10;
Rom. 8:33; Matt. 24:31; Acts 15:14), and that this
people are the promised seed of Abraham? (Rom. 4:13, 16;
9:7; Gal. 3:16-29; Heb. 11:18) — and that this
promised seed of Abraham are the sons and heirs of God
and joint-heirs with Christ? (Rom. 8:14, 17; Gal. 3:29;
4:6, 7; Titus 3:7; Heb. 6:12-20; Jas. 2:5) — and that
these heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ are to rule
and reign with Christ a thousand years (Rev. 20:4) and
bless all families of the earth? (Gen. 12:3; 28:14; Acts
3:25).
The question now arises, who will be the subjects that

Christ and his church will rule and reign over for a
thousand years, if not the non-elect, unjust ones who will
have gone the broad road to destruction? (Matt. 7:13).
How could those who will have gone the broad road to
destruction be blessed until they are first reanimated
(egeiro) from destruction? Did not our Lord die for all?
(Heb. 2:9). Has he not redeemed all? — and shall not all
live again? Will not all in the graves, both the just and
the unjust, hear the voice of the Son of Man and come
forth? (Acts 24:15; John 5:25-30, R.V.). And after they
shall come forth in the body (reanimated), will they not
be blessed by being made fully alive in Christ, if they
will? (Matt. 25:34). Is not the coming forth out of the
grave, reanimation of the body (egeiro)? — and being made
fully alive in Christ, is that not resurrection? Will not
the church, the 144,000 of Rev. 14:1-5, be resurrected
by her Lord? and is not this the first resurrection, both in
degree and time? (Rev. 14:1-5; 20:5). Will not the
church (144,000 of Rev. 14:1-5) — share with her Lord
in his glorious work of blessing all the balance of
mankind by resurrection? And is not this the second
resurrection? (Rev. 20:4).
Do you know that after the night (6,000 years) of sin,
sickness and death, the morning of the great Sabbath
(the seventh day of a thousand years) cometh? — and that
the Son of Righteousness shall rise with healing in his
beams? (Jas 5:4; Mal. 4:2) — and that when this great
physician shall appear, his church (the promised seed of
Abraham, of the first resurrection) shall also appear with
him? (Col.3:4) — and that they shall have dominion over
all people in the morning? (Psa. 30:5; 49:14) — and that
he shall speak the word “egeiro” — awake, rouse up —
and all in their graves shall in their order hear the voice
of the (great physician) “Son of Man” and come forth
from their beds of clay? (John 5:25, 28, 29) and that
they will come forth from “destruction” in a sin-sick
condition just as they went down? (Ecclesiastes 11:3)
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— and that after they are reanimated (egeiro), after they

are brought out of the grave, will not whosoever will then
be made alive in Christ by a resurrection (anastasis) out of
sin, sickness and death? (Psa. 86:13). Will not all (his
sheep) who hear (obey) the great physician by taking the
balm of Gilead, be healed, and inherit ETERNAL LIFE in
the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of
the world? (Matt. 25:34) — and will not the incorrigibly
wicked (goats), who will not hear (obey) “that prophet,”
be cut off from life by dying the second death? Is not this
eternal destruction (annihilation), because Christ dieth no
more to redeem the dead? Rev. 20:14; Acts 3:23; Rom.
6:9.
Is not this great Sabbath or resurrection day of the
world, the Lord’s Day? — and is it not also called the
judgment day, in which he will judge the world in
righteousness? Psa. 118:24; 96:13.
“O death, where is thy sting,” after all the dead are
made fully alive? “O grave, where is thy victory,” after
all in the graves shall have heard the voice of the Son of
Man and shall have come forth? Is not “the sting of
death” sin, which the Lord will destroy? — and is not the
strength of sin the law, which the Lord frees us from now
and will make possible for the world to perform in this
future resurrection and restitution time? I Cor. 15:55,
56; John 5:25, 28, 29.
Sing with all the sons of glory,

Sing the resurrection song!
Death and sorrow, earth’s dark story,
To the former days belong.
All around the clouds are breaking,
Soon the storms of earth shall cease,
In God’s likeness man, awaking,
Comes to everlasting peace.
THE JUDGMENT.
Do you know that “the term judgment signifies more

than simply the rendering of a verdict, and that it includes
the idea of a trial as well as a decision based on that
trial”? and that “this is true not only of the English word
judgment, but also of the Greek word which it translates”?
Do you know that the term day, both in Scripture and
in common usage, though most frequently used to
represent a period of twelve or twenty-four hours, really
signifies any definite or special period of time? Do we
not speak of Luther’s day, and Washington’s day, and do
we not read in Scripture of the Day of Jubilee, the Day of
Salvation and the Day of the Lord, when “he shall judge
the world in righteousness”? Psa. 9:8; 119:7; Isa. 2:11,
12 [A:138-139].
Do you know that “the first great judgment [trial and
sentence] was at the beginning in Eden, when the whole
human race, as represented in its head, Adam, stood on
trial before God”? and that “the result of that trial was
the verdict — guilty, disobedient, unworthy of life; and
the penalty inflicted was death”? Gen. 3:3; Rom. 5:18;
6:23 [A:140].
Do you know that the Jewish age was another
judgment day, in which a class, spoken of in the Bible as
the house of servants, was tried and judged? Heb. 3:5.
Do you know that the Gospel age, in which we live, is
also a judgment day? — and in it another class, which is
spoken of in scripture as the house of sons, (the church)
are being tried, and its members, one by one, judged and
sentenced as either worthy or unworthy of being
joint-heirs with Christ? John 9:39; I Tim. 5:24; I Pet.
4:17; Heb. 3:6.
Do you know that God “hath appointed a day, in the
which he will judge the world in righteousness by that
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man whom he hath ordained” (Acts 17:31), and that this

judgment day is the great Sabbath (rest) of a thousand
years duration which is yet to come, and is also the
resurrection day? (Acts 17:31; Jas. 5:4; Rom. 9:29; II
Pet. 3:7 8) — and that it is during this resurrection day
(Acts 24:15) that all the non-elect world who will have
gone the broad road to destruction (Matt. 7:13-14), shall
hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth, be
re-animated? (John 5:25-28) — and that they shall come
forth (be reanimated) not simply for the pronouncement
of a verdict, but to be judged and resurrected (if they
will), by that righteous judge, and be blessed with fullness
of life in Christ, by the promised elect (church, the Christ)
seed of Abraham? Jude 14, 15; Rev. 20:4-6; I Cor.
15:21, 22, 23; Gen. 22:18; 26:4; Gal. 3:29.
Does this not prove that the world’s “resurrection day”
and the world’s “judgment day” are one and the same? —
and is it not also called the “Lord’s day”? And while all
are being brought back from the prison house of death in
the body and then resurrected in character, etc. — or
made “alive” in Christ — will they not also be judged
(tried) as to whether or not they are worthy of life
eternal? Psa. 118:24.
Will not the earth abide (remain) forever? (Eccl. 1:4;
Psa. 104:5; Isa. 45:18). Is not time divided into three
worlds: the world and heavens that were destroyed by
water, the “present evil world,” of which Satan is the
prince, and the world which is to come, in which our Lord
will be the righteous Judge and King? II Pet. 3rd chapter;
Gal. 1:4; Heb. 2:5; 6:5.
Will not the fire of God’s jealousy destroy the present
evil world? (Zeph. 1:18; 3:8). Will not our Lord destroy
sin and its results, sickness and death? (Heb. 2:14;
I John 3:8). Has he not also promised to raise upon the
ruins thereof a world without end? (II Pet. 3:13; Rev.
21:1-6) — and to restore all things? (Act, 3:21; 15:13-17;
Isa. 11th chapter; 35th chapter; 65:17-25; 66:22, 23)
and make all (his sheep) alive, both in body (Acts 24:15;
I Cor. 15:38), and in Christ? (I Cor. 15:21-27).
Do you know that Biblical chronology coincides with
many symbolic and parabolic prophecies of scripture,
that the end of this present evil world will be in the year
1915? — and that it will come about by the dissolving or
melting of the present elements (or order of things), viz.,
the present social, political and ecclesiastical “world,”
through universal war and revolution, with a reign of
lawlessness in its wake? *
Do you know that during this time of trouble, there
will be tribulation such as was not since the beginning of
the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be? And except
those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened?
Matt. 24:21, 22; Dan. 12:1-4; Rev. chapters 9 and 18.
Do not all people, both good and bad, living and dead,
belong to the Lord, who bought them? Has he not
redeemed all from death with his own precious life? (I
Tim. 2:6) and is he not “Lord of both the dead and
living”? (Rom. 14:9). After the destruction of Satan’s
kingdom and the establishment of our Lord’s upon the
ruins thereof, will not all the unjust hear the voice of the
King and come out of the graves and dwell in the earthly
kingdom of the Lord and be blessed with a righteous
judgment? I Cor. 6:20; Heb. 8:12; I Pet. 1:18, 19;
Hos. 13:14; Psa. 98; Rev. 21:1-6.
Will not our blessed Lord with his church be the
Priest, Prophet and King of this world without end?
(Heb. 6:20; 7:1-4). Will not his kingdom grow and fill
the whole earth? (Dan. 2:31-45) — and is not this the
kingdom he taught us to pray for, saying, “Thy kingdom
come, thy will be done [not alone in heaven] in earth as
it is in heaven”? Matt. 6:10; Dan. 7:27; II Pet. 1:11;
Rev. 21:1-5.
* See the 1916 Foreword to volume II, “Studies in the Scriptures”

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Is not the “Judgment Day” of the world the grand and

glorious day of the Lord? (Psa. 118:24), and did not the
prophet David say, “Let the heavens rejoice, and let the
earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall
all the trees of the wood rejoice before the LORD: for he
cometh, for he cometh, to judge the earth: he shall judge
the world with righteousness, and the people with his
truth”? Psa. 96:11-13.
Does not St. John the divine speak of those days as
the time when “God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the
former things are passed away”? Rev. 21:4.
Do you know that the apostle says that God winked
at the times of ignorance, but now commandeth all men
everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day in
which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man
whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assu-
rance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the
dead? Acts 17:30, 31.
Shall not the elect church (144,000 of Rev. 14:1-5)
rule and reign with her Lord a thousand years? (Rev.
20:4-6). Will they not with him judge the world during
this thousand-year judgment day which God has
appointed? (I Cor. 6:2) Know ye not that they shall also
judge angels? I Cor. 6:3.
When our Lord with his church takes unto himself his
great power and reigns over his kingdom with righteous
judgment, will not the wilderness and the solitary places
be glad, and the deserts rejoice and blossom as the rose?
Will he not create new heavens [ecclesiastical elements]
and a new earth? [society]. Isa 65:17; Rev. 21:1-6. Will
not there be an highway there, where wayfaring men,
though fools, need not err therein? and will not the
ransomed (all people) of the Lord return, and come to
Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads? —
and shall they not obtain joy and gladness, and will not
sorrow and sighing flee away? Isa., 35th chap.
Is not this the third way taught in Scripture? (Isa.
35:8). Does not the elect church, the promised seed of
Abraham, walk the narrow way to LIFE, and the non-elect
world walk the broad way to DESTRUCTION during this
present evil world? (Matt. 7:13, 14). Will not our Lord
destroy the present evil “world” (not the globe) and
establish on the ruins thereof the “world” to come,
without end? (II Pet. 3:5, 12). Will not the elect church
(144,000) which faithfully walked the narrow way to life
during this present evil “world” rule and reign with
“her” Lord in his glorious, world-wide kingdom to come?
(Rom. 8:16, 17; II Tim. 2:11, 12). Will not all the
non-elect who have gone the broad way TO destruction,
hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth? (John
5:25-28). Are they not a part of the ransomed of the
Lord? (Isa. 35:10; Hos. 13:14). Is it not He that
“turnest man to destruction and sayest, Return, ye
children of men”? (Psa. 90:3). Will they not then be
returned (called back) from destruction and entered upon
the highway of HOLINESS, to be blessed with righteous
judgment, gradual resurrection, and, if they will, with
eternal life? (Isa., chap. 11). Will not this be the
fulfillment of the glorious promises of God, that the seed
of Abraham (the church, head and body) should bless all
the families of the earth? Gen. 12:1-3; Heb. 6:12-20;
Rev. 21:1-5.
Does not our Lord imply that he has, or will have,
more than one fold of sheep, when he says, “Other sheep
I have which are not of this [elect] fold: them also must
I bring”? (John 10:16). Don’t you know that this is just
another way of informing us of an elect fold (the
church, those of the first, or chief, resurrection) and a
non-elect fold (to be brought later from among the residue
of the people) in the second resurrection [time]? (Acts
15:17) — and that the non-elect fold, after they shall
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have heard his voice and come forth from destruction

(the grave) in the second resurrection, are to be blessed
by the elect fold of the first resurrection, who at that time
will be ruling and reigning with the Lord? Rev. 5:10.
Was not that “world” and heavens destroyed by water
in Noah’s day, the first world and heavens? Is not the
present evil world and heaven, which is to be destroyed
by the fire of God’s jealousy, the second “world” and
heavens? — and is not that world without end, which is
to be established by our Lord, the third world and
heavens? II Pet. 3:5, 6, 7, 13.
While Satan and his evil angels are in the second
heaven, invisibly ruling over the second, or present evil
world, will not Christ and his church be in the third
heaven, invisibly ruling and reigning over the third world,
which is yet to come? Luke 17:20; Jno. 14:30; Eph.
2:2; Rev. 11:15; 20:6.
While Satan’s kingdom is a dead and dying one, and
all are on the broad road to destruction, will not the
kingdom of Christ be a living one, with all the redeemed
returning from the destruction into which they had gone
and enter upon the “highway of holiness”? Matt. 7:13,
14; Isa. 35:8.
Will not all in the graves hear a voice out of the third
heaven, and come forth into the third world, to walk upon
the highway and have the privilege of being made ALIVE
in Christ? Acts 24:15; Isa. 35:8; I Cor. 15:21, 22.
Is not this the third heaven to which Paul (as one born
out of due time) was taken? — and whether in the body
or out of the body, he knew not, was he not permitted to
look into the future and behold the glorious kingdom of
the Lord — the third world as a restored paradise? (Rev.
21:1-5; II Cor. 12:1-5). Can we not imagine what a
grand sight his eyes beheld when he looked upon the
restored earth with its millions of reunited families praising
God for such a great salvation? Can we not imagine the

glorious results which will follow when the devil is bound
that he may deceive the nations no more, and his works
— sin, sickness and death, also the grave, and everything
that hurts in all God's holy kingdom—shall be destroyed?
Rev. 20:2; 21:1-5; Isa. 2:4; 11:9; 35:9; I Jno. 3:8.
Will not the fulfillment of this grand and glorious
judgment of our redeemer and saviour necessitate, first,
the destruction of the present (evil world) order of things,
the social, ecclesiastical and political, and the establishment
of new and infinitely better conditions on the ruins thereof,
that the redeemed (all people) of the Lord may walk in
the highway that will then be for those? And will not
this necessitate the restoration from death of all the
redeemed and the resurrection of all the obedient from
among those thus restored? And would this not
necessitate future probation? Rev., 20th and 21st
chapters.
Hail to the Lord’s anointed,

Jehovah’s blessed Son!
Hail, in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression,
To set the captives free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.
THE LAST ENEMY.
Is not DEATH the last enemy that shall be destroyed?

(I Cor. 15:26). Does not this imply that there are other
enemies to be destroyed before death? (I Cor. 15:25).
Are there not many enemies now to the spirit-begotten
creatures in Christ? And is not one of the worst enemies
of these embryotic new creatures, who follow Christ, the
false, deceptive, deluding religious doctrines of Christendom
here within exposed, which deceive the whole world, and
even the very elect of the Lord, if it were possible? Must
not these ecclesiastical enemies be destroyed before death?
(II Thes. 2:11; I Tim. 4:1-4; II Tim. 3:1-9; II Cor. 4:4;
Matt. 15:14; 24:24; Rev. 3:14-20, and chapters 13, 17,
18). Are not the unjust and selfish principles that control
all governments, enemies to humanity? and must not
this political enemy be destroyed before death? (Dan., 2nd
chapter). Are not the great selfish corporations and
trusts enemies of humanity, that will be destroyed before
death? (James 5:1-5; Rev. 18:9-24). Are not intoxicat-
ing, alcoholic drinks, adulterated foods and useless
poisons of all kinds, enemies of humanity that will be
destroyed before death? Are not thorns and thistles, and
all offensive, troublesome and unprofitable weeds, enemies
of humanity that will be destroyed before death? Are not
death-dealing germs and microbes of every description,
both vegetable and animal, enemies of humanity that shall
be destroyed before death? Are not the selfish lusts and evil
passions of humanity, enemies that shall be destroyed
before death? Would not the destruction of all these, and
other enemies of the human race, be the destruction of the
effects of Satan’s rule?— and would not the absence of these
evils result in a healthy, living condition among humanity,
both mentally and physically?— and if they will, would it
not also produce a healthy condition morally? Rev. 21:1-5.
If the destruction of all other enemies brings about a
healthy, living condition, would not this in itself destroy
the LAST ENEMY, death? And after all enemies have been
destroyed, will we not have a restored human race with
eternal life, in an Eden prepared from the foundation
of the world? I Cor. 15:26; Matt. 6:10; 25:34; Rev.
21:1-5.
Would not the destruction of ALL enemies of mankind
mean the destruction of the devil and all his works? (Heb.
2:14; I John 3:8). Does not the destruction of all
enemies and the saving of THAT which was lost, imply
the restitution of all things? (Luke 19:10; Acts 3:21). Is
not the restitution of all things the fulfillment of God’s
oath-bound promise to Abraham, that in his seed all
families of the earth should be blessed? (Acts 3:25; Rom.
9:7; Gal., 3rd chapter). If we be Christ’s, are WE not the
seed of Abraham, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ, according to the promise? (Gal. 3:29). Will not
the church share with the Lord this glorious work? Rev.
20:4, 6.
Would not the destruction of the enemy, grave, necessi-
tate all in the graves coming forth, i.e., reanimated?
[NOTE: While the word reanimation as used here and in
other places does not exactly express the thought desired
to be conveyed, yet it comes nearer than any other
English word, save the word re-creation; but as the word
re-creation expresses the completed work, beginning with
the “reanimation” of the dead, by the (anastasis) resur-
rection process, the word reanimation is used, and is used
altogether in an accommodated sense. In Lazarus’ case,
the word reanimation properly describes what took place,
as he had not yet returned to dust; but in the case of
millions of others, it is evident that there will be some-
thing more necessary than mere reanimation]. Would not
the destruction of the enemy, death, in the reanimated
dead, necessitate the destruction of sin and evil in them
(if they will)? — and would this not be the resurrection of
the unjust? And if they will not, shall they not have the
first or enemy death destroyed in them by being cast
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into the second or eternal death? (Rev. 20:14). Would

not the full resurrection of the unjust be equivalent to
their being made “alive” in Christ? Would not the
making alive in Christ of all the willing of the re-
animated unjust necessitate the destruction of the sin
and evil in them, and would not this necessitate future
probation?
Wipe now your tears, ye saints, and tell

How high your great Deliverer reigns;
Sing, he accomplished all things well,
And led the monster, Death, in chains.
O! live forever, wondrous King!

Born to redeem, and strong to save;
O Death, thou Monster, where’s thy sting?
And where’s thy victory, boasting Grave?
FUTURE PROBATION.
If all the unjust are to be awakened and the power of

death, over such of them as are willing, is to be destroyed
by the just (Christ, the head, and the church, his body),
will it not necessitate a future probation? I Cor. 15:26;
Acts 24:15.
Would not the “restitution of all things, which God
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since
the world began,” necessitate future probation? Acts 3:21.
Have the unjust dead yet been made alive in Christ?
Does not the Lord promise through the Apostle that all
the obedient shall be made alive in Christ? (I Cor. 15:21,
22). Would not the resurrection of the unjust, or their
being made fully alive in Christ, necessitate both
reanimation and future probation?
If the unjust are to have no future probation and
there is to be no restitution, what need would there be for
a raising (egeiro) up of the unjust? — and how could there
be any further resurrection (anastasis) of any of the
unjust? — or how could any be made alive in Christ?
John 5:25-28; Acts 24:15.
If there is to be no future probation, how is God going
to fulfill his promise of earthly blessings to Abraham
(Gen. 13:14-18), which Stephen said had not been fulfilled
in his day? Acts 7:3, 4, 5.
If there is to be no future probation, what becomes of
the heathen, the babes, and the insane, who have not heard
of the only name given under heaven whereby men can be
saved (Acts 4:12), and who cannot be saved under the
law? For how can they, when “by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight”? (Rom.
3:20). Is not the only way through grace by faith in
Christ Jesus? (Eph. 2:8), and does not the Lord say he
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that climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and

a robber? John 10:1.
If there is to be no future probation, how is God

going to fulfill his oath-bound promise, that the seed of
Abraham (which is Christ, the head, and the church, his
body), should bless all families of the earth? Gen. 12:3;
Gal. 3:16-29.
Do not the heathen, the idiotic, and the babes compose

the great majority of all the families of the earth? — and
has not God promised such of them as shall prove to be
obedient, the blessings of restitution? Could this be
possible without future probation? Acts 3:21; I Cor.
15:21-23; Acts 15:13-17.
If there is to be no future probation, how is every man

to come to the full knowledge of the truth? I Tim. 2:4;
Isa. 11:8, 9.
If there is to be no future probation, how are God’s

formerly chosen people, the Jews, going to be grafted in
again and be saved? Rom., 11th chap.
If there is to be no future probation, why did Simeon

declare that after God had taken out from among the
Gentiles a people [his church] for his name, he would
build again the tabernacle of David, that the residue of
men MIGHT SEEK after the Lord? Acts 15:13-18.
Who are the residue of men the apostle is here

speaking of, if they are not the large, non-elect class which
will have gone the broad road to destruction? And how are
they to seek after the Lord without future probation?
Matt. 7:13, 14.
If there is to be no future probation, why should the

apostle say that all the holy prophets taught a restitution
of all things after the return of our Lord? Acts 3:20, 21.
If there is to be no future probation, why should it be

necessary for God to “turn to the people a pure language,
that they may call upon the name of the LORD, to serve
him with one consent,” after all the earth (present
conditions of this present evil world) have been devoured
with fire? (fire of God’s jealousy). Zeph. 3:8, 9.
If there is to be no future probation, why would God
promise through the prophet Isaiah, That as the rain
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,
and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so
shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it? Isn’t a future probation necessary in order that
God’s glorious, predestined plans and purposes may
prosper and accomplish his good pleasure? Isa. 55:10, 11.
If there is to be no future probation, will not God’s
purpose prove to be either a failure or a strange one, and
will not Satan be the victor? Did not Satan get all except
eight souls in the destruction wrought by the flood, and
has he not since then gotten all in the broad way to
destruction, except the little flock, the few that have walked
the narrow way by faith? Gen., 8th and 9th chapters;
Matt. 7:13, 14; Luke 12:32; I Pet. 3:20.
Isn’t it necessary for God to undo all of the destruction
wrought by Satan (by God’s non-conniving permission,
or otherwise it could not have been) in order that he may
accomplish his good pleasure and not have his word return
unto him void? (Isa. 55:10, 11). Isn’t it necessary to
destroy both the devil and his works? Isn’t sin and its
results — death and the grave — the works of the devil?
Does not God promise that all these shall be destroyed?
(Heb. 2:14; I John 3:8). Can the grave be destroyed
in any other way than by depriving it of its occupant?
Isn’t death the antithesis of life, and can it be destroyed
in any other way except by giving life? Is real life any-
FUTURE PROBATION 53
thing short of being made fully alive in Christ? Has not

the Lord promised all of these to the unjust dead who
will be obedient to this great prophet, priest and king?
(John 5:25, 28; Acts 24:15; Hos. 13:14; I Cor. 15:22).
Could these things be done without a future probation?
Why should there be any “earnest expectation of the
creature” or any waiting “for the manifestation of the
sons [church] of God” if there is to be no future
probation? Rom. 8:19.
Does not God say, “My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts”? Does this not mean that God’s thoughts of
and ways in exercising his power, love, mercy and justice
are much higher than man’s? Isa. 55:8, 9.
If the foregoing truths quoted from God’s holy Word
do not suit us, is it not time that we were praying the
Lord of the harvest to ripen our desires, our ways and
our wills, into preferring his grand and glorious ways
and will in preference to our own? Rom., 9th chapter;
Heb. 10:7.
God has promised a glorious day,

And by faith we now see it draw near;
Our Redeemer has opened the way,
And soon will its glory appear.
God’s hand shall all tears wipe away;

He’ll the joys of his favor restore,
And the light of that glorious day
Will bring life, joy and peace evermore.
BELIEVEST THOU?
BELIEVEST THOU God’s promises? Gen. 13:14-17;

Psa. 45:16; Acts 3:19-26; 15:13-18; Rom. 4:13-20;
9:4-9; 11:25, 26; II Pet. 3:9; Gal., 3rd and 4th
chapters; Eph. 1:13; 3:6.
BELIEVEST THOU that God will keep his promises?
Rom. 4:21; Titus 1:2.
IMMORTALITY.
BELIEVEST THOU God, when he tells us through his
prophets that our souls are mortal, and that “the soul that
sinneth, it SHALL die”? (Eze. 18:4) — and believest thou
God when he tells us through his apostle that he “ONLY
HATH IMMORTALITY”? (I Tim. 6:16) — and that immor-
tality is something to be gained by seeking for and
putting on? Rom. 2:7; I Cor. 15:53.
ETERNAL TORMENT.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord, the prophets and apostles,
when they tell us that the wages of sin is DEATH,
destruction — death of THE SOUL — and not eternal life,
in torment, nor eternal life in any condition; but that
eternal life is the GIFT of God? Rom. 6:23; II Pet. 2:1;
3:9; Psa., 37th chapter.
EVOLUTION.
BELIEVEST THOU that God created man upright?
(Eccl. 7:29) — that in the moral “image of God created
he him”? (Gen. 1:27), that through disobedience sin
entered “and death by sin”? (Rom. 5:12) — and that
God sent his only-begotten son to SAVE that (life and
Paradise) which was LOST? (Matt. 18:11; Luke
19:10), and to RESTORE ALL THINGS? (Acts 3:21) —
or believest thou that man has evolved from the monkey,
BELIEVEST THOU? 55
lost nothing and consequently there is nothing to be

saved or restored, and has no need of a saviour or
redeemer?
PREDESTINATION.
BELIEVEST THOU the apostles when they tell us that
God FOREKNEW and PRE-ARRANGED his plan of salvation
before the foundation of the world? — and that the ELECT,
the CHURCH, would be conformed to the image of his Son? —
and be PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE? — while the
obedient of the RESIDUE of men should be blessed with
RESTITUTION TO PERFECT HUMAN NATURE? Rom. 8:29;
Acts 2:21; 3:21; 15:13-18.
CONDEMNATION.
BELIEVEST THOU the apostle when he tells us that we
were all judged and CONDEMNED, before we were born, in
the one man, Adam? — and therefore, by the offence of
one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so
by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men
unto justification of life? Rom. 5:12-21.
SALVATION.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord and the apostles when
they tell us that he came not to destroy men’s lives, but to
save them? (Luke 9:56) — and that ALL Israel shall be
saved? (Rom. 11:26) — and that he tasted death for
EVERY MAN? (Heb. 2:9) — and that “he is the propitiation
[satisfaction] for our [the church’s] sins: and not for ours
[the church’s] only, but also for the sins of THE WHOLE
WORLD”? (I John 2:2) — and that he is the SAVIOUR OF
ALL MEN, and ESPECIALLY of those that believe? (I Tim.
4:10) — and that ALL the dead will be (egeiro) aroused in
Christ just as ALL have been condemned to death and
died in Adam? I Cor. 15:21, 22.
ELECTION AND FREE GRACE.

BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through his
apostles that he is now, during this gospel age, ELECTING
or selecting from among the Gentiles a people for his
name? (Acts 15:14) and that during this time no man
cometh unto him except the Father draw [call] him?
(John 6:44), and that many [not all] are called, but FEW
are chosen? (Matt. 20:16; 22:14), and that the few
chosen or ELECTED ones are chosen to be made SPIRIT
BEINGS like our Lord — to be partakers of the DIVINE
NATURE? (II Pet. 1:4), and that after this — after the
completion of the church — he will return and rebuild
the tabernacle of David, that the residue of men [the
non- elect world] might hear the voice of the Son of God
and come forth from the graves and seek after the Lord?
(Acts 15:13-19), and that it will then be the FREE GRACE
AGE, when the Spirit and the Bride, (the church) of the
Lamb, will send forth the invitation to who-so-ever will, let
him come and take the water of life freely? Rev. 22:17.
RESURRECTION.
BELIEVEST THOU the Lord and the apostles when they
tell us that “ALL in the graves shall hear the voice of the
Son of God and come forth”? (John 5:28, 29) — and that
“there shall be a RESURRECTION of the dead, both of the
JUST and UNJUST”? (Acts 24:15) — and that all the
unjust dead shall come forth from the graves, and if then
OBEDIENT will be made ALIVE, not only in body but also
in Christ? I Cor. 15:22.
THE JUDGMENT DAY.

BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through the
apostles and prophets, that the followers of Christ are
NOW BEING JUDGED as to whether or not they be worthy
of becoming joint-heirs with our Lord? (I Pet. 4:17;
Rom. 8:17) — and that God hath APPOINTED A DAY in
BELIEVEST THOU? 57
the which he will judge THE WORLD in righteousness by

that man whom he hath ordained? (Acts 17:31) — and
that those who prove faithful under the present judgment
will rule and reign with him over the world in that day
which God hath appointed, and judge the WORLD in
righteousness and the people with equity? — and that
those of the world who will obey that prophet (Christ,
the head, and the church, his body) shall live forever, but
those who will not obey that prophet, shall be cut off
from among the people in the second death, destruction?
Acts 3:19-24; I Cor. 6:2; Psa. 96:11, 12,13; 96:7-9.
THE LAST ENEMY.

BELIEVEST THOU the Lord and the apostles when
they tell us that ALL ENEMIES shall be destroyed, and
that the last enemy that shall be destroyed is DEATH?
I John 3:8; I Cor. 15:25, 26.
FUTURE PROBATION.
BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through his
apostles that after taking out a people for his name, that
our Lord would return and bless the RESIDUE of men
with a righteous judgment and with restitution? and that
ALL families of the earth shall be blessed according to the
oath-bound promise of God? — and would not the fulfill-
ment of these promises necessitate future probation?
Acts 3:21; 15:13-18; Gal. 3:8.
BELIEVEST THOU ?
BELIEVEST THOU God when he tells us through the
apostles that the god of this world hath blinded the minds
of them which believe not (II Cor. 4:4), because they
receive not the love of the truth? — and believest thou that
for this reason God shall send them [permit] STRONG
DELUSIONS, that they should BELIEVE A LIE? II Thess.
2:10, 11, 12.
FINALE.
Do you know that the views herein set forth are
evidenced by nearly a thousand scripture citations? —
and should we NOT give a “thus saith the Lord” for all we
believe and teach?
Are you aware that he or she who denies or denounces
the sayings of this little booklet is not denouncing the
compiler, but the word of God? — for is not every line
substantiated by scriptural quotations and references?
Do you wish to be able to “rightly divide the word of
truth” and to “give a reason for the hope that is in you”?
If so, read the “MILLENNIAL DAWN” series, of six
volumes.
Do you know that free reading matter on any or all of
the subjects herewithin discussed, will be sent upon
request by the compiler of this booklet,
A. B. DABNEY,
LYNCHBURG, VA.,
U.S.A.
NOTE. — Owing to an unexpected demand for this

booklet, and limited means of the compiler, he will be
compelled to charge cost for them in large quantities,
which is $1.00 per hundred plus transportation, or
$10.00 per thousand, delivered. By the volunteer
assistance of Brother E. L. Lee, of Stoney Creek, Va.,
they will continue to be given gratis in small lots, and
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return postage, etc. Nice, neat, CLOTH binding,
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$1.00 per dozen. Orders will be filled either by Brother
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EXPLANATION OF CHRONOLOGICAL CHART.
A Chronological Chart of the Bible, based on Usher’s
Chronology, as found in the margins of S. S. Teachers’
Bibles, Special Edition of A.D., 1902.
The arranging of the Books in their Chronological
Order differs from the order found in the “Authorized
Version,” as will be noticed at a glance. The arrangement
on the Chart has reference to the beginning dates of the
Books, except in First and Second Chronicles (or the
“Omitted Things”) which are so placed as to supplement
all the Books written prior to the closing dates of
Chronicles.
The perpendicular lines in the body of the Chart,
when taken in conjunction with the figures at the top
and bottom, represent so many Centuries, B.C., A.D.,
and A.M.
The figures on the left of the Chart indicate the
opening dates of the Books, those on the right the closing
dates, while those to the right of, and adjacent to, the
Diagramatic feature of the Chart, suggest the years
intervening.
The Diagram in the body of the Chart, when taken in
connection with the figures at the top and bottom,
suggests to the eye, at once, the relative length, as well
as, the particular part of the “Stream of time” occupied
by the various books, also indicating that parts of many
of the Books were contemporaneous.
Observe that the writings of the Old Testament came
to us during Thirty Seven or more Centuries while the
New Testament was given us in One Century.
Observe from the Diagram and figures adjacent
thereto the shortness of the time occupied by some of the
prophets, also the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy;
nearly all of the Book of Exodus from the beginning of
the third chapter on, as well as, the Book of Ruth, from
the 6th verse of first chapter on, occurred within one year.
Bible Students conversant with Studies in the
Scriptures, Volume 2, Chapter 2, will understand the
necessity of adding 124 years to the Genesis and First
Chronicle accounts, as well as to all the A.M. Century
dates of the Chart, in order to have them conform to the
TEXT of the Bible.
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“Thy Word is Truth”

A POCKET REFERENCE AND NOTE BOOK

A Classified Collection of Scriptures Upon

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

Some Scriptures bearing upon Bible “Times

Also a table of Types and Symbols

To our beloved brother Russell, whom the

* In this edition the reprint page occurs in brackets following

Diagrams Corroborating Dates Shown . . . . . . . . . . 100

We often hear really good people, those who are

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,

In arranging the texts on this subject only a few of

This subject is fully treated in A,149-172; E,421-

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be

COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM. BOTH HEAVENLY AND

COVENANT RENEWED TO ISAAC. HEAVENLY SEED

COVENANT RENEWED TO JACOB. ONLY EARTHLY

And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the

PROMISED TO OTHER NATIONS.

See C,256; A,149-172; E,139,140; Z,’97S229,

See A,184-187; E,383-404; Tract 38 [HG321],

See E,353-381; S,19,20 [R2172]; Z,’95S237 [R1877];

See E,21, 193, 327-333, 387-388; Z,’00S101-109

In the Old Testament the only word translated by

SOME TEXTS WHERE SHEOL IS TRANSLATED HELL.

SOME TEXTS WHERE HADES IS TRANSLATED HELL.

“The Greek word tartaroo occurs but once in the New

TEXTS WHERE GEHENNA IS TRANSLATED HELL.

Perhaps no other scriptures are so frequently quoted

THE PARABLE OF DIVES AND LAZARUS.

“While this is admitted to be a parable, it is

“The Rich Man (Dives) represented the Jewish

The ‘Lazarus’ class also died, or ceased from their

VERSES WHICH AT FIRST GLANCE SEEM TO TEACH

LITERAL TRANSLATION OF GREEK OF VERSES 1 AND 2.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

VERSES SHOWING THAT LIFE AND POWER WERE

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the

VERSES SHOWING THAT JESUS WAS CREATED.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every

VERSES WHICH FLATLY CONTRADICT THE DOCTRINE.

See full explanation of this subject in E,54-82.

In all our study of God’s Word we shall find no

In each of the following texts, the word “coming” is

Our Lord’s words in Matt. 24:36-39,

Jesus answers the question, telling by what signs the

and Peter, in 1 Pet. 4:7,

It is said of all the angels to whom the seven

See detailed treatment of this entire subject,

See A,178-180; B,132-133; E,97-106, 285;

HOW MANY WAYS TO BE SAVED?

This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders,

HOW MANY KINDS OF SALVATION?

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we

THE CHURCH’S SALVATION.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God

THE WORLD’S SALVATION.

See A,106,107; E,466-470; Z,’96S246 [R2051].

SHOWING THAT SOME WILL RISE WITH SPIRITUAL