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The following we add as a supplement to this study as it coincides with our study here. It was taken from our study on Matthew Chapter 24, “Our Lord’s Great Prophecy” We would like here to present a bit more insight in regards to the “watches” mentioned in Luke 12:38, which we hope might aid...

"THEY WITHOUT US SHALL NOT BE MADE PERFECT." – Heb 11:40. – We remark, incidentally, that following the gathering of the Church to glory, as peviously outlined, will come the resurrection of the holy ones of the past, – "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all the holy prophets," whose resurrection...

"BLESSED THE DEAD WHO DIE." Furthermore, we note a beautiful analogy here; for, thus considered, our Lord's resurrection a few days after his taking of office as King in typical Israel, corresponds to, or parallels the resurrection of the Church, "the body of Christ" a few days after his taking...

THEY KNEW NOT THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION. – LUKE 19:44. – Our Lord reproved the teachers of Israel because they did not discern the signs of the times; because they "knew not the TIME of their visitation." His words imply that their ignorance was a mark of carelessness and unworthiness, and...

In our previous post, Part 12 we noted: "In reading the narrative of our Lord's appearance to his disciples after his resurrection, the fact seems generally to be overlooked that he appeared only a few times, in all, and that these visits were always brief, and that between these visits, after...

THE LORD’S WORK FORESHOWN IN HIS PARABLES. (We have reposted this blog post, because it was inadvertently deleted, sorry for the inconvenience to those follwing this study.) His work is clearly outlined in various of his parables, which were given that the Watchers might know – might not be in...

"THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT." We call to mind also our Lord's explanation of spiritual things to Nicodemus, in which he declared plainly that only those who are born again can either enter into, or SEE the Kingdom of God (because as we had previously seen this is a spiritual...

PRESENCE GRADUALLY REVEALED. In our previous post we drew the line of distinction between the parousia and the epiphania or apokalupsis of our Lord, quite sharply, to assist the reader in noting their difference of signification. As a matter of fact, however, the bright shining of the present...

PAROUSIA IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. The word parousia occurs in the following texts of the New Testament in each of which it should be properly translated "presence:" – "What shall be the sign of thy presence?" – Matt 24:3 "So shall also the presence of the Son of Man be." – Matt 24:27,37,39...

THE DAYS OF WAITING ARE FULFILLED. (4) Take another line of prophecy: we find that the 1260 days, and the 1290 days, and the 1335 days, so particularly set forth in Daniel's prophecy, and corroborated in Revelation, have had fulfilments; – The *1260 days ending in A.D. 1799. The *1290 days...

THE JUBILEE PROPHECY. (3) Note another prophecy, similarly hidden in type in the Mosaic law, – Israel's Jubilee Year. No one is prepared to understand this line of prophecy who has not first learned that the second coming of our Lord is not for the purpose of destroying the world, but for the...

TYPICAL ISRAEL'S EXPERIENCES WERE PROPHETIC. (2) Take another line of prophecy, concealed, and yet very simple and easy of appreciation when once the mind grasps it. The Scriptures show us that the fleshly house of Israel and all of its institutions and affairs were typical fore-shadowing’s of...

"IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS." (1) We have a number of general prophecies, indicating that we are living in the time of the Master's second presence. We have already referred to Daniel's testimony respecting "the time of the end," in which many will run to and fro, and knowledge will be...

THE TIME OF THE PAROUSIA (PRESENCE). It will doubtless surprise many (especially those in the nominal or professing church, many of whom are the Lord’s true children, consecrated, howbeit merely “babes in Christ” lacking any true development in the knowledge and graces of our Lord due to a lack...

PAROUSIA VS. EPIPHANIA, APOKALUPSIS. Because not heedless, careless, indifferent servants of the King, but faithful and earnest ones, the Watchers have scrutinized every little particular which fell from the lips of him who spoke as never man spoke; and all the messages which he has sent them...

HOW ARE WE TO WATCH? Our watching consists not in looking up into the sky, – “stargazing;” for those who study the Lord’s Word to any purpose soon learn that “the day of the Lord so cometh as [like] a thief in the night,” and that its dawning cannot be discerned with the natural eye. If the...

THE PAROUSIA OF OUR LORD JESUS AND HIS SUBSEQUENT APOKALUPSIS AND EPIPHANIA– AT HIS SECOND ADVENT. – We live at a time when many in the profess church say that the Lord’s second advent is near even at the door, and who claim to be awake and watching, but alas how few of these are truly awake...

If the real object of our Lord’s return could be clearly understood by all of his true people, unquestionably every sincere Christian would be longing and waiting for that event, as the glorious realization of their best hopes and desires, the one without which all others would be valueless...

THE SUPPOSITION THAT HARVEST ENDED IN 1914 A MISTAKE The Pastor next proceeds to show another mistake, that he desired to correct, and it will be seen that if his conclusions are correct, and had been heeded, very much of the confusion and erroneous teaching that has existed since in the Church...

“As for the Harvest being a period of 40 years or if not, how long it might be, this is a matter entirely proper for us to investigate and to discuss. The question is, Is there anything in the Bible that will enable us to determine exactly how long this work of harvesting at the end of the...