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It is not a punishment to get into the Great Company class. The Great Company will be a very blessed class. They will not be seated in the Throne, but will serve before the Throne; neither will they obtain the Divine nature (Immortality). The Little Flock class will get the great prize of being associated with the Master, joint-heirs with Him in the Kingdom. The other class will get a reward on a lower spiritual plane--a spiritual plane, because they also were begotten of the Holy Spirit, (adopted into the spiritual family of God, having through sanctification forfeited their earthly life rights) So far as the Great Company is concerned, God's permitting them to share in the trouble at the end of this Age will be for their own development.
Their Covenant was unto death; and unless they lose their lives in obedience to the Lord, unless they prove faithful unto death, they will not be worthy of any position of life on any plane. Hence it will be to their own personal advantage that they suffer in that time. They are said to suffer for the iniquities, the sins and transgressions of the people of the world (typified by the “children of Israel”) as the antitypical scapegoat. (Lev 16:21, 22 T 68-72) Instead of allowing that merit of the Great Company to go for nothing, the Lord makes a credit of it, as it were, to balance the world's account for willful sins. (R 5464)
“The time of trouble will be especially against the hypocrites (nominal professors), but the great company class will have their portion with the hypocrites and be bearers of a share of punishment due the world.
“That we may clearly note the character of sins for which the world is held responsible, let us recall the statement of Rev 6:9–11, `I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony which they held; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, `How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Then white robes were given unto them’; and they were told that they should wait `a little season,’ until both the number of their fellow servants (the last of the “little flock”) AND their brethren (the Great Company class), who also were to be killed, should have the persecutions accomplished in them.”
Thus the same idea respecting the divine requirements in the end of the Gospel age is given to us that Jesus specified in regard to the Jews in the end of their age.” (R 5874:2, 3)
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It is not a punishment to get into the Great Company class. The Great Company will be a very blessed class. They will not be seated in the Throne, but will serve before the Throne; neither will they obtain the Divine nature (Immortality). The Little Flock class will get the great prize of being associated with the Master, joint-heirs with Him in the Kingdom. The other class will get a reward on a lower spiritual plane--a spiritual plane, because they also were begotten of the Holy Spirit, (adopted into the spiritual family of God, having through sanctification forfeited their earthly life rights) So far as the Great Company is concerned, God's permitting them to share in the trouble at the end of this Age will be for their own development.
Their Covenant was unto death; and unless they lose their lives in obedience to the Lord, unless they prove faithful unto death, they will not be worthy of any position of life on any plane. Hence it will be to their own personal advantage that they suffer in that time. They are said to suffer for the iniquities, the sins and transgressions of the people of the world (typified by the “children of Israel”) as the antitypical scapegoat. (Lev 16:21, 22 T 68-72) Instead of allowing that merit of the Great Company to go for nothing, the Lord makes a credit of it, as it were, to balance the world's account for willful sins. (R 5464)
“The time of trouble will be especially against the hypocrites (nominal professors), but the great company class will have their portion with the hypocrites and be bearers of a share of punishment due the world.
“That we may clearly note the character of sins for which the world is held responsible, let us recall the statement of Rev 6:9–11, `I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony which they held; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, `How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Then white robes were given unto them’; and they were told that they should wait `a little season,’ until both the number of their fellow servants (the last of the “little flock”) AND their brethren (the Great Company class), who also were to be killed, should have the persecutions accomplished in them.”
Thus the same idea respecting the divine requirements in the end of the Gospel age is given to us that Jesus specified in regard to the Jews in the end of their age.” (R 5874:2, 3)
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