“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees (Doctors of the Law then, now days referred to as Doctors of Divinity), you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven (the spiritual or heavenly phase of the kingdom) in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.” Matt 23:13 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge (the truth on the way entry into the heavenly…
NEITHER PRIESTS NOR LEVITES HAD INHERITANCE IN THE LAND “In the type of the Priesthood, and the Levites, Aaron and his sons constituted the Priesthood, and only these had to do with the offering on the Day of Atonement, and only these had special rights and privileges. Neither Priests nor Levites, however, had any inheritance in the land with the others. (Num. 18:20; Deut. 18:1, 2). Thus, again was shown the fact that this Great Company, represented by the Levites,…
THOSE WHO WILL HAVE THEIR PORTION WITH THE HYPOCRITES “The Foolish Virgins, as the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins shows us, will finally learn the way. They will get the oil and will trim their lamps. In other words, they will receive a larger measure of the holy Spirit (that which they previously lacked), represented by the oil, and will have clearer enlightenment from the Word of God, represented by the lamp. They will trim their lamps (search…
“Aside from the special class of over-comers, the “more than conquerors,” as the Apostle calls them, those who voluntarily and willingly lay down their lives, presenting their bodies living sacrifices, and carrying out that consecration to sacrifice–aside from these, there is a large number of consecrated people of God. We do not know their number, which has not been predestinated, as is shown in Revelation–“After these things…” (that is after John’s having seen the predestinated number of 144,000 who would…
In our previous post we mentioned that once the Church has been taken from the earth the Great Company class, that is those so enlightened, those in possession of a “double portion” of Elijah’s spirit (2 Kings 2:9, 10) will give a final testimony before they too (along with all the rest of their company who are freed from Babylon) are taken from the earth. What is there testimony? “Fear God, and give him glory; for the HOUR of his…
In this study we mentioned three particular groups comprised of both good and bad individuals who would enter the great tribulation period: 1) The Great Company 2) The nation of Israel 3) The world of mankind In regards to the first group, the Great Company class (a spirit begotten class, who felled to make their calling and election sure, who felled to fulfill their sacrifice) we found that the Lord would cause them to enter the great time of trouble…
JESUS ALONE THE RANSOMER It would not be correct to say that the scapegoat class atones for sin and thus make it possible for a certain part of humanity to be brought forth from the tomb. The tomb represents the penalty upon Adam for his transgression, and this penalty has been inherited by all of Adam’s children. The Apostle says that “by one man sin [disobedience] entered into the world, and death by [as the result of] sin; and so…
Account Paid in Full In our previous post we alluded to the fact that the Great Company will play a pivotal role in God’s plan, that it is his purpose to use them to compensate for the willful sins of humanity, sins committed against evident light. “Divine Justice must be fully satisfied before the New Covenant can be inaugurated, it includes not only a satisfaction for Adamic sin, but it embraces also stripes for partially willful sins, and satisfaction for…
Now we understand that some may have difficulty in accepting the fact that the Great Company is a heavenly class (especially among our JW friends), it appears some do not fully comprehend the significance of the surrender of one’s restituional life rights. We believe the answer lies in a proper comprehension of the “one baptism” in which all the fully consecrated participate. What baptism is this? “Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ…
The Great Company, continued In the tabernacle picture, “the scapegoat was charged with the iniquities of the children of Israel, but was not put to death, and the blood was not taken into the Most Holy. This shows that the scapegoat was not a sacrifice for sins. Instead, the scapegoat was taken into the wilderness, and left there. The members of the Great Company have no part in the sin offering. Instead they are delivered over to Satan for the…