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Page 225 of 3162 Thessalonians 60:3
@@@^The evil of allowing the devil freely to sow the tares among the wheat, has existed in the Christian church since the passing of the apostles, with the result that whenever the Lord has sent a message to His people, the tares amongst them have straightway (at the instructions of the leaders) raised their hands and voted out whoever would listen to the messenger and obey the message. Thus time and again selling their birthright for less than a mess of pottage, the professed people of God have lost out, and still the church has never learned the tragic lesson!@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 62:3
@@@^When the proclamation of the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14 sounded to the churches Prior to 1844, they arbitrarily denied their members the right of religious freedom, by forbidding them even to attend Miller’s preaching, and by casting out those who accepted the message. Then after 1844 these same religious bodies opposed the preaching of the Three Angels’ Messages (Rev. 14:6-11), again taking the same tyrannical actions against their free—minded brethren. The Millerite church by its actions in contrast to theirs, said, “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind’ (Rom. 14:5), and let us not interpose between God and His people by mak- ing religious laws or by prohibiting the free exercise of any man’s conscience.”@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 68:1
@@@^This parable also shows the separation of the wicked from among God’s people in the church (“the net”), this being the first section of the work of separation, the beginning of the harvest. The subsequent section follows in the world, as the earth is lightened with the glory of the “Loud Cry” angel, and as “another voice from heaven,” says: “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 69:2
@@@^That it was not among the Gentiles, who knew not of the truth of God and of His great power is clearly shown by the Lord’s words: “I will send those @9that escape of them@7 unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan [the Gentile nations today as called by their ancient names], to the isles afar off, that have not heard My fame, @9neither have seen My glory@7; and @9they shall @7declare My glory among the Gentiles.” Isa. 66:19.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 70:1
@@@^Since these escaped ones (the first fruits, the 144,000 servants of God — Rev. 7:3) “shall bring @9all@7 your brethren” (the second fruits the great multitude — Rev. 7:9) “for an offering . . . @9out of all nations@7” (Isa. 66:20, first part), this great ingathering necessarily therefore, is the closing work of the gospel — the second section of the harvest.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 70:2
@@@^And since, furthermore, these escaped ones are to bring all their brethren “to My holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord,” “in a @9clean vessel @7into the house of the Lord” (Isa. 66:20, last part), the fact is fully evident that the destruction of the wicked results in the purification of the church. The “clean vessel” is therefore the purified church, composed of the escaped ones the first fruits, the 144,000 — who, free from the wicked (the tares) shall then, as “the servants of our God,” bring in the second fruits, the great multitude which no man can number, out of all nations.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 71:3
@@@^Thus in the first section of the harvest, the separation in the church, the wicked are destroyed by @9six men @7with slaughter weapons, @9before@7 the good are @9taken @7out; and in the second section, the separation among the churches in Babylon, the wicked are destroyed by @9seven@7 angels with the seven last plagues, @9after @7the good are taken out. There are therefore two separations and two fruits: the former gives the first fruits, the 144 000, who are not defiled with women (Rev. 14:4). That is, they are those whom the sealing message finds in the church of God, not in the heathen churches. And the second gives the second fruits, the great multitude from all nations, some of whom also may be undefiled with women — heathen churches.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 72:2
@@@^Just as the Spirit of Prophecy declares that “the whole system of types and symbols was a compacted prophecy of the gospel, a presentation in which were bound up the promises of redemption” (@9The Acts of the Apostles,@7 p. 14), just so the plan of salvation is unfolded not only in the testimonies of the prophets and in the parables of Christ but also in the types and symbols of the earthly sanctuary. In addition to this, the experiences of the people in the typical period “happened unto them,” we are told, “for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 1 Cor. 10:11. So we are logically bound at the very outset to attend to God’s instruction to Moses:@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 72:3
@@@^“On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: . . . make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among His people.” “Make an atonement for the children of Israel . . . once a year.” Lev. 23:27-29; 16:34.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 74:2
@@@^Envisioning the same scene, the prophet Isaiah declares: “And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and @9all kings@7 thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a @9new name@7, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; . . . thou shalt be called Hephzibah . . . @9The holy people@7.” Isa. 62:2-4, 12.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 75:3
@@@^“Ye shall bring a @9sheaf of the firstfruits@7 of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it . . . And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: . . . and ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. Ye shall bring out of your habitations @9two wave loaves@7 of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the first fruits unto the Lord . . . Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have @9gathered in the fruit of the land@7, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord @9seven days@7 on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.” Lev. 23:10,11, 14-17, 39.@9 @7
2 Thessalonians 80:2
@@@^From these facts it can more clearly be seen that those whom Christ took with Him were the living wave-sheaf and the only one that has been offered in the heavenly sanctuary; and that as ones raised from the dead, they are the first fruits of the dead, whereas as ones everliving before the Father, they are the living wave-sheaf of the first fruits of the living, the 144,000 servants of God, who sequentially precede
2 Thessalonians 81:1
@@@^“Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month,” continues the Levitical record of the Lord’s commands concerning the harvest rites, “when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: . . . and ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days . . . Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths.” Lev. 23:39, 40, 42.
2 Thessalonians 88:3
@@@^Though the wicked are swept along by a current from which they can no more escape than they can stem or resist, yet they can neither see it nor understand it, for the Word @9alone@7 thus enlightens and empowers the soul. Blessed indeed is the man who makes It a lamp to his feet, and a light to his path (Ps. 119:105). Brother, Sister, is It in dark parables to you? Your answer will tell you whether you are of those who walk in the light or of those who stumble in the darkness, and only a right relation to God can secure you to the one class and keep you out of the other.
2 Thessalonians 89:4
@@@^Doubtless to some, these numerical equations will seem strange—as strange as the thought of the earth’s revolving on its axis was to the world of the Dark Ages! It is the incredibilities of today, however, that are the taken-for-granted realities of tomorrow. So, though at present time little do we know of the many Bible numerics and their veiled code of truth, not so is it always to be, for God has placed them along the Bible’s highways and byways of Truth, as signposts calculated to point and to illuminate the Royal Road to the Kingdom. So may every traveler there on rejoice in deep gratitude for every ray of truth lighting his way. May the Lord forbid that any take the least chance in the darkness. And may each from unfeigning lips cry unto heaven: “O send out Thy light and Thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto Thy Holy hill, and to Thy tabernacles” (Ps. 43:3), that I may “be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord” (Hab. 2:14), yea even to the knowledge of
2 Thessalonians 91:3
@@@^Thus being as they were the product of the omnipotent power of the three persons of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) at work for 40 days through the personal ministry of their triune representative. Christ, this preternatural little group consequently preserved and continued the line of the church.
2 Thessalonians 96:3
@@@^Since the church on earth has had three dispensations, the Noatic, the Abrahamic, and the Christian, and since both the Abrahamic and the Christian dispensations closed with a Pentecost, as previously mentioned, necessarily, then, so likewise must have closed the Noatic dispensation. Otherwise, Noah’s message would have lacked power and light to show the Way of Life to that “evil and adulterous generation,” and as a consequence God could not justly have destroyed them by the flood.
2 Thessalonians 96:4
@@@^Peter himself understood that there was an antediluvian Pentecost. This he very definitely testifies in the statement: “For Christ . . . being put to death in the flesh, but @9quickened by the spirit: by which also He went@7 and @9preached@7 unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, @9when@7 once the longsuffering of God waited @9in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing@7.” 1 Pet. 3:18-20.
2 Thessalonians 98:4
@@@^Thus struck in the rock of truth forever is the number of the recipients of the great Pentecost just ahead of us, the number of the first fruits of those who are to be translated, 144,000 guileless (Rev. 14:5), “servants of our God.” Rev. 7:3. In the pure and full power of the Spirit, proclaiming the pure and full gospel unto all nations, they “go forth conquering and to conquer” (@9Prophets and Kings@7, p. 725), and “bring all [their] brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to My holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering @9in a clean vessel into house of the Lord@7.” Isa. 66:20. “And then shall the end come.” Matt. 24:14.
2 Thessalonians 99:2
@@@^So by testimony of prophets, by parable, by ceremonial type, and by number, God has wrought the towering structure of fact that (1) the judgment is the harvest,—the@9 @7separation of the tares from the wheat-the end of the world; that (2) the judgment, the harvest, embraces two phases, two periods; the former for the dead, the latter for the living that (3) the one takes place according to the records in the books in the heavenly sanctuary, whereas the other takes place simultaneously in the church on earth and in the books in heaven; and that (4) the very fact that the subject is now being revealed in its fullness testifies that we are just on the verge of passing out of the former and into the latter phase and period, and that we are therefore living in the last days of earth’s history.@9 @7