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Revelation Chapter 1
VERSE 14 “His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire.”
HIS HEAD AND HAIR WERE WHITE LIKE WOOL, AS WHITE AS SNOW:
“The Master’s hair is compared to wool to signify his wisdom and likeness unto the “Ancient of days”; he is...
Revelation Chapter 1
VERSE 13 “and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.”
AND IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN LAMPSTANDS:
Thus overseeing them all (Compare Matt 18:20.) The following...
Revelation Chapter 1
VERSE 12 “Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lamp-stands.”
“The message that was to be sent was not limited to the seven literal churches named, but symbolically represented the entire church or Gospel age. In a...
Revelation Chapter 1
VERSE 11 “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
“The words “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and”, are not found in the...
Revelation Chapter 1
VERSE 10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet…”
I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD’S DAY:
John’s perspective for the entire book of Revelation is that of standing in OUR DAY —the “Day of the Lord” which both Peter and...
Revelation Chapter 1
VERSE 9 continued (As taken from the “Keys of Revelation”)
“No doubt John only partially understood the meaning of the many and varied apocalyptic visions he witnessed. However, it was manifestly clear to him that the symbolism's did portend surprising developments...
“The Churches, Seals, and Trumpets all have introductory passages. The Seals have two complete chapters (4 & 5). The Trumpets have only five verses (8:2-6). The Churches have as their introduction one half of Revelation’s opening chapter in which Jesus presents himself with all of those...
The Introductions to the Seven Churches, Seals, and Trumpets
Part 1 of Revelation (1:9 - 14:5) consists of the chapters dealing with the five views of the Gospel Age including its Harvest.
We usually call the first three views “The Seven Churches,” “The Seven Seals,” and “The Seven Trumpets.”...
DIVINE METHOD OF DEALING WITH THE CHURCH
Now, my dear brethren, we have before our minds the Ransom, the necessity for it, the time when the Sacrifice for sin was made, and the time when the merit of that sacrifice is to be applied for the world of mankind.
But, meantime, the Church receives...
WHY THE DELAY OF OVER NINETEEN CENTURIES
Just here someone may ask, "Why is it that our Lord did not make application of the merit of His sacrifice at Pentecost? Why this long delay of nineteen hundred and more years before He begins this work of blessing the world?"
We reply, if it had not...
HOW THIS ECONOMY OPERATES
This economical feature of the Divine Plan is a most wonderful thought. By one man's disobedience God permitted the results of that transgression to affect all of Adam’s children. All mankind were involved under the original sin of the one man.
"Wherefore as by one...
THE ECONOMY OF THE DIVINE PLAN
Often when a child I wondered why God did not give all mankind the same opportunity that He gave Adam, why all were not permitted to come into Eden and have a fair chance as Adam had. But in later years when I came to see the beauty of the doctrine of the Ransom...
THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION UN-SCRIPTURAL
But we had greatly been troubled about the subject of incarnation, as even some of the Truth people seem to be; for they still misuse this word. There is nothing in the Bible on this subject, and there is no truth in this doctrine.
*Incarnation means...
ECONOMY SHOWN IN RESPECT TO REDEMPTION
This Divine quality of economy is manifested even in the great Plan for human salvation. When first my mind grasped this thought, I exclaimed, "Wonderful! Nobody but our Heavenly Father Himself would have thought about this principle!" Having been reared...
If you learn any of the first principle doctrines see to it that you learn this one, it is of the UPMOST IMPORTANCE and with a proper understanding will spare you from becoming entangled in most of the predominant errors, “foul spirits” (impure principles and doctrines) dwelling within the...
God's Service is Its Own Reward
Is not the service of God its own reward that we should be unduly concerned about how we are to be paid for it? or that we should spend any time comparing our wage with our brother's, or grudge that he should have as much as or more than we?
If we recall the...
The Last-called Gentiles became First
Compare with the Jews the case of the Gentiles. They were not even permitted to enter into the vineyard until the seventy weeks of special covenant favor which God had made with the Jews had expired. They stood idle in the market-place. If any should ask...
“Out of many possible applications which the parable may have there are three which especially appeal to us as having merit. In the first place, there is one possible, and even likely, application of this warning and parable which cannot fail to be very welcome to us all. We are thinking now of...
"We have left all, and followed Thee;" cried Peter, "what, then, shall we have."
And no words could have more conclusively shown Peter’s lack of sympathy with his Master. It is easy to conceive how this boast and question must have jarred on the heart of Christ. He was full of pity for the...
The Rich Young Man Whom Jesus Loved
“To properly understand the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard it must be studied, like all Scripture, with reference to its context. And to do this in the present instance it is necessary to go back to the previous chapter. (The division is at an...