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Revelation Chapter 18 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF BABYLON (Rev 18:1-24) Introduction to This Chapter, continued Verse 20: A statement about how the saints rejoice because they know the good that is to follow. Chapter 13 in Volume Four covers this. Only here does the order of Volume Four differ...

Revelation Chapter 18 Since it’s been sometime since we last continued with our study on Revelation, some may want to do a review of Chapter 17. It can be seen here. All the prior chapters can likewise be seen here, under Prophecy. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF BABYLON (Rev 18:1-24) Introduction to...

We continue with the common hindrances which prevent some of the Lord’s professed followers from obtaining a full assurance of faith. (2) Even amongst those who are REAL Christians (true Disciples of Christ), and WHO HAVE MADE A FULL COVENANT OF SACRIFICE unto the Lord, we find many who say...

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psa 23:6 The apostle Paul speaks of the full assurance of hope and of full assurance of faith, as being the proper conditions for the Lord’s people. (Heb 6:11; 10:22) And...

DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT SALVATIONS Here note the difference between the blessing God designed for the elect church He is selecting during this gospel age and the one he purposes for the world of mankind. The church’s blessing is NOT “restitution,” and in harmony with this we can see no evidence of...

FEW HAVE NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE The means for the blessing we see provided in Christ and His bride, the elect church of the Gospel age, but the guarantee of the whole is fixed beyond peradventure in the fact that “Jesus Christ by the grace of God tasted death FOR EVERY MAN,” or, as our text...

A COMMON ERROR CORRECTED At this point many good people laboring under a degree of blindness, the “smoke of the dark ages,” feel disposed to object and to insist that there can be no future probation. Ask them why, their reply is that, the entire Scriptural teaching contradicts the thought of...

The following topic, “Ransom Implies Restitution” was the title of an address given by Pastor Russel. The Apostle Paul’s words are my text: “There is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” (1 Tim...

BABYLON, THE GREAT CITY It is not to be expected that either the Mother or the daughters, who are now claiming to reign with Christ, who are now claiming that His Kingdom is already set up (that Christ’s kingdom is represented in them), who are now claiming that their union with the kingdoms of...

“Declare you among the nations, and publish; set up a standard; say, Babylon is taken.”—Jer. 50:2. While our message for today is “meat in due season” to the Household of Faith, and in every way important to be understood, it is, nevertheless, a subject difficult to treat without giving...

CONSECRATION MUST BE TO GOD ONLY This same figure of baptism in water is for you and me, and it becomes an outward confession that whatever is written in the Book concerning us we will be glad to do. We rejoice to do the will of God, and desire that His will may be done in us, even as it was...

BUT FEW FIND THE NARROW WAY God did not choose angels for this wonderful High Calling; but all who have received this Call and the begetting of the Spirit, that they may become joint-heirs with Christ, must every one receive chastening, disciplining, testing, because of the great and honorable...

The following discourse was given by the Pastor, from the text, “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps!” (1 Pet. 2:21.) “The Call of the present Gospel Age has been unique. In this Age there is a different kind of justification from that which the...

NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP. Continuing his argument, that Nicodemus must receive by faith whatever he would know about heavenly things and that he would be entirely dependent upon Jesus’ word, our Lord remarked that no man ever ascended up to heaven, and that himself, the Son of man, who alone had...

AN ILLUSTRATION OF A SPIRIT-BORN BEING. Our Lord admonishes Nicodemus that he must not be too much surprised at the great mistake he and others had made in regard to the terms and conditions which would qualify them for a place in the Kingdom; they should marvel not, but realize the necessity...

John 3:1-16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The visit of Nicodemus, a Jewish ruler, to our Lord was evidently early in our Lord’s ministry. We know little of the man, except that on...

“WHY BAPTIZEST THOU, THEN?” It is the worldly idea and the nominal Church idea that all associated with religious teaching should make some great boast or claim respecting themselves – that they are wonderful prophets, or reverend, or doctors of divinity, or something else above the ordinary...

John 1:18-34 Golden Text: – “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John The Baptist had the great honor and distinction of being the first of God’s witnesses amongst men respecting God’s only begotten Son. John was a grand character, from whatever standpoint we view...

THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS While the special hope of the Gospel age is so surpassingly glorious, and the way to it, is correspondingly difficult --narrow, hedged in by hardships and dangers at every step--so that few find it, and even fewer still run so as to obtain the great prize at its end, the...

"THE NARROW WAY TO LIFE" continued In the beginning of the Millennial age, those who now walk the narrow way will have gained the great prize for which they ran, immortality; and being thus clothed with the divine nature and power, they will be prepared for the great work of restoring and...