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“Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” (Matt 13:33) PROFESSING CHURCH ASSUMES BABYLONISH CHARACTER (Excerpt taken from The Herald of Christ's Kingdom, October 1921) “Into these...

THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN HIDDEN IN THE MEAL “Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” (Matt 13:33) The fourth parable, that of a woman who hid leaven in three measures of meal...

THE PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED “Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the...

"He spoke many things unto them in parables." - Matt 13:3. The following lesson comes from an article from The Herald of Christ’s Kingdom dated February, 1956 and compliments our study on Mystic Babylon its rise and fall as well as providing some needful insight into several of our Lord’s...

The Harlot’s Name! “The Revelation of our Lord to the Apostle John is a book of signs, in which the things stated symbolize the things meant. To illustrate: In this book a woman is used to represent a church—a pure woman, a pure church—a false woman, an apostate church. In Rev 17:1-6 a picture...

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me (the John class, representing the Lord’s people still in the flesh here at the end of the gospel age, i.e., during its Harvest), saying unto me, ‘Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great...

THE VOICE OF PRESENT TRUTH It becomes an important question then: Have ALL God’s people heard this Voice? We answer that we do not think all have yet heard; hence there must be many true Christians still in Babylon, partakers of her sins, but confused because of ignorance, because of lack of...

“…He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” (John 10:3-5) “Come out of...

Babylon's Doom continued We continue with what the prophet Isaiah had to say in respects to the daughter of Babylon in Isa 47: "Therefore, hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures; that dwells carelessly; that says in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a...

Babylon's Doom continued “The horrible decrees of Papacy--the reproach and reward of which Protestantism also is incurring by her present compromising association with her--for the burning, butchering, banishing, imprisoning and torturing of the saints in every conceivable way, executed with...

Babylon's Doom “Upon the prophetic page we may clearly read the doom of Babylon, Christendom; and it is none the less clearly expressed in the signs of the times. That her destruction will be sudden, violent and complete is thus forcibly stated: "And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great...

What is evil? We believe anything which directly or remotely tends to cause unhappiness or suffering of any kind is evil. On the forum under the thread entitled, “How does God Create Evil” our friend Robert Derrick quoting from Isaiah 45:7(KJV) “I form the light, and create darkness: I make...

Babylon--Mother and Daughters “The claims of apostolic succession and clerical authority are almost as presumptuously set forth by some of the Protestant clergy as by the Papal priesthood. And the right of individual private judgment--the very fundamental principle of the protest against...

Babylon--Mother and Daughters “Let it not be forgotten that while the various reformation movements did valuable work in the "cleansing of the sanctuary," yet only the temple class, the sanctuary class, has ever been the true Church, in God's reckoning. The great human systems called churches...

Babylon--Mother and Daughters “Now some sincere Christians, not yet awake to the decline of Protestantism, and who do not realize the relationship of the various sects to Papacy, but who perceive the unrest and the doctrinal upheavals in all the religious systems, may still be anxiously...

"THE DOOM OF BABYLON"--"CHRISTENDOM" continued “In symbolic prophecy a "city" signifies a religious government backed by power and influence. Thus, for instance, the "holy city, the new Jerusalem," is the symbol used to represent the established Kingdom of God, the over-comers of the Gospel...

"THE DOOM OF BABYLON"--"CHRISTENDOM" “The doom of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.” (Isa 13:1) “The various prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel and Revelation concerning Babylon are all in full accord, and manifestly refer to the same great city. And since these prophecies had but...

“For whom ("A Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation") He foreknew (In the Abrahamic Covenant, the seed of Abraham, foreknown from before the foundation of the world), He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Rom 8:29) “Two...

HOW WE (THE CHURCH) ARE JOINED TO THE TESTATOR The very first difficulty encountered is that we, unlike him, have not perfect bodies that we could give as perfect sacrifices; hence God's arrangement for those who have this sacrificing attitude of mind is that they may be dealt with by the Lord...