We present the following subject due to the fact that there are still many who are confused over the issue of the Great Company, who they are and what should be their ultimate fate. Much of this confusion is centered over one particular statement found in Revelation Chapter 7 Verse 9 which states,
“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.”
The question being whether their “standing” before the throne is a symbolic or a literal statement, if it be literal then this implies, they have been raised spirit beings and have received a heavenly inheritance, for as it is written, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God” (that is the spiritual phase of the Kingdom) 1 Cor 15:50.
In the attempt to promote their own agenda (an “earthly calling” or hope), but in truth “another gospel” the Jehovah’s Witnesses, that is the organization or governing body itself has felled as faithful ministers of the Word of God (not unlike the rest of orthodoxy) to provide their followers with “the whole counsel of the Word of God” on this issue, much of which is covered in The Tabernacle and the Leviticus Types.
Over time the study of the Tabernacle has fallen out of favor as the majority now deem it simply past attempts of the Jewish nation to try to redeem themselves through the bloody sacrifices of bulls and goats. Now although it is true that the blood of bulls and goats could in no way ever bring true redemption it must be understood that these typical sacrifices and services were merely set forth as examples, types of the “better sacrifices” and of the true and actual redemption to come.
In this respects we consider the Tabernacle and the Leviticus types as key issues to understanding certain specific truths hidden from the rest of the professing church. Among these are to be found the difference between “faith justification and actual justification”, the difference between the “high priest and under-priests” the “Lords goat” (the “little flock”), and the “scapegoat” (the “great company”), as well as the truth concerning the “anointing”, and the “high calling”, but alas they (the “blind guides” of Christendom) “have taken away this “KEY OF KNOWLEDGE” (the truth on these issues as well as on that of many other important issues concerning the faith, substituting instead their own teachings and beliefs, and thus not only depriving themselves, but also those who trusted in them as the Lord’s representatives to show them the way) they themselves are not entering in (into the heavenly phase of the kingdom), and those who were entering in (that is those who were approaching the entrance to the heavenly kingdom, attempting to enter in), they have hindered (mislead through false and misleading teachings, deceiving them into thinking they have already done everything necessary to secure themselves a heavenly inheritance). Luke 11:52
With the following article written by Brother W. J. Siekman we hope to shed some of that missing light which has been hidden from them thus far.
"The company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled." - Heb 12:23, Young's Literal Translation.
Regardless of our preference in favor of any interpretation, one objective and one alone must guide us as we reconsider this perennially interesting subject. And that is, to ascertain in humble and teachable spirit, what saith the Lord? With this, the proper attitude of mind, let us consider anew the Scriptural facts relative to the tribe of Levi with full assurance of God's blessing as we endeavor to learn,
1) Who the Levites were
2) Whom they typify; and,
3) The ultimate destiny of this antitypical class.
Continued with next post
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“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.”
The question being whether their “standing” before the throne is a symbolic or a literal statement, if it be literal then this implies, they have been raised spirit beings and have received a heavenly inheritance, for as it is written, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God” (that is the spiritual phase of the Kingdom) 1 Cor 15:50.
In the attempt to promote their own agenda (an “earthly calling” or hope), but in truth “another gospel” the Jehovah’s Witnesses, that is the organization or governing body itself has felled as faithful ministers of the Word of God (not unlike the rest of orthodoxy) to provide their followers with “the whole counsel of the Word of God” on this issue, much of which is covered in The Tabernacle and the Leviticus Types.
Over time the study of the Tabernacle has fallen out of favor as the majority now deem it simply past attempts of the Jewish nation to try to redeem themselves through the bloody sacrifices of bulls and goats. Now although it is true that the blood of bulls and goats could in no way ever bring true redemption it must be understood that these typical sacrifices and services were merely set forth as examples, types of the “better sacrifices” and of the true and actual redemption to come.
In this respects we consider the Tabernacle and the Leviticus types as key issues to understanding certain specific truths hidden from the rest of the professing church. Among these are to be found the difference between “faith justification and actual justification”, the difference between the “high priest and under-priests” the “Lords goat” (the “little flock”), and the “scapegoat” (the “great company”), as well as the truth concerning the “anointing”, and the “high calling”, but alas they (the “blind guides” of Christendom) “have taken away this “KEY OF KNOWLEDGE” (the truth on these issues as well as on that of many other important issues concerning the faith, substituting instead their own teachings and beliefs, and thus not only depriving themselves, but also those who trusted in them as the Lord’s representatives to show them the way) they themselves are not entering in (into the heavenly phase of the kingdom), and those who were entering in (that is those who were approaching the entrance to the heavenly kingdom, attempting to enter in), they have hindered (mislead through false and misleading teachings, deceiving them into thinking they have already done everything necessary to secure themselves a heavenly inheritance). Luke 11:52
With the following article written by Brother W. J. Siekman we hope to shed some of that missing light which has been hidden from them thus far.
"The company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled." - Heb 12:23, Young's Literal Translation.
Regardless of our preference in favor of any interpretation, one objective and one alone must guide us as we reconsider this perennially interesting subject. And that is, to ascertain in humble and teachable spirit, what saith the Lord? With this, the proper attitude of mind, let us consider anew the Scriptural facts relative to the tribe of Levi with full assurance of God's blessing as we endeavor to learn,
1) Who the Levites were
2) Whom they typify; and,
3) The ultimate destiny of this antitypical class.
Continued with next post
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