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Truth September-October 1972
Present Truth No. 5 Whole Number
(1) EVER since the Truth on the Tabernacle was given to Bro. Russell in 1879 (see, e.g., E Vol. 5, pp. 116, 117) and was set forth before God's people by him, particularly in Tabernacle Shadows, it has been a special source of blessing to many, in helping them through the Tabernacle types and antitypes to understand better many features of God's great plan of salvation for the Church and for the world. As shown in Tabernacle Shadows, the typical setting of the Tabernacle and the Camp in the wilderness very fitly represents matters pertaining to God's Gospel-Age people. But that is not all! What some Bible Students have failed to recognize is that, as Bro. Russell showed, the typical setting of the Tabernacle and the Camp is progressive (Prov. 4: 18). In addition to the Gospel-Age setting, there is a transitional, or Epiphany, setting, a Millennial setting and a post-Millennial setting. As Bro. Russell showed, in the closing of the Gospel Age there is an adjustment of matters pertaining to the antitypical Holy, Court and Camp; and at that time the Gospel-Age setting merges into the Epiphany setting. Likewise, the Epiphany setting merges into the Millennial setting, and in due time the Millennial setting will merge into the post-Millennial setting. . .
POST-1914 CONSECRATORS NOT IN THE HOLY
(10) Additionally, the steps in the course from sin to their places in the Kingdom taken by the Youthful Worthies and by many Gospel-Age unconsecrated tentatively justified ones are typed, up to and including step (d), in the same way as the Little Flock's journey was typed, as we have already noted in par. (6). These tentatively justified ones progress no further, whereas the Youthful Worthies do go on to consecration; but for them there is quite a change as respects step (e). Although they have in consecration given up their own wills unto death and have accepted God's will as their own, just as all the prospective Little Flock members throughout the Age did when they came to step (e), the Youthful Worthies' consecration could not be pictured at the First Veil, the Door of entrance into the Holy, as was the consecration of all prospective Little Flock members. This Veil did not picture the death of the Youthful Worthies' human wills, for they cannot be prospective Priests, though their consecration unto death is genuine, like that of those who were called to be of the Priesthood (Heb. 5: 4). As already mentioned, Bro. Johnson proved clearly from the Scriptures that the door of entrance into the High Calling, into the antitypical Holy, closed finally and forever in the Fall of 1914, so that no more could be admitted (comp. Ezek. 44: 1, 2; E Vol. 5, p. 160). Though throughout the Gospel Age, under the High Calling, ALL consecrations unto death had been typed at the First Veil, in the Fall of 1914 a decided change set in, as the Tabernacle picture progressed to the building of the Epiphany Court as distinct from the Holy; and we must recognize this change if we would walk in the advancing light. NEVER AGAIN after the Fall of 1914 would a consecration be pictured at the First Veil! Nevertheless, consecrations would continue to be made, both in the remaining part of the Gospel Age and also in the Millennial Age (F 156; T 94; Z 5965, top), for "consecration is always in order" (Z 1113, par. 6; 5134, pars. 4, 5; E Vol. 4, p. 420, par. 2)
(11) A decided change came about in other respects also. After the adjustment of matters in the Holy set in, in the Fall of 1914, no one could consecrate and have his standing as a fully consecrated believer pictured in the Holy, even though throughout the Gospel Age, until the High Calling's general call ceased in 1881, that was the place where every one of the fully consecrated believers had his standing pictured (T 22, par. 3). Thus something new began to exist which had not existed before the Fall of 1914 while the door of entrance into the High Calling was open, viz., a situation in which ALL who became fully consecrated believers had their standing pictured IN THE COURT, and not IN THE HOLY. Furthermore, in the Epiphany setting the Great Company's and the prospective Youthful Worthies' enlightenment by the Truth is not shown by seeing the light of the Golden Candlestick (E Vol. 4, pp. 128-130); nor is their strengthening in every good word and work shown in feeding at the antitypical Table of Shewbread (E Vol. 4, pp. 467-469); nor is their ministerial service pictured by sacrificing at the antitypical Golden Altar (P '52, pp. 44, 45). The furniture of the Holy was not brought out into the Court for the benefit of the Levites in the type, nor is it in the antitype! The Youthful Worthies' privileges in the above three respects are not typed in connection with the furniture of the Holy, as were those of the Priesthood, nor are the Great Company's pertinent privileges typed in that way any longer, for these
(25) Thus (a) all who consecrated during the time that the High Calling was open, prior to the Fall of 1914, and had crowns assigned to them, had their standing as fully consecrated believers pictured in the Holy; (b) those who consecrated from 1881 to 1914 for whom no crowns were available, and all who consecrated from the Fall of 1914 to the Fall of 1954, together with the Great Company members who from about 1917 onward were put out of the Holy, have their standing as fully consecrated believers pictured in the Court; and (c) those consecrating since the time of adjustment of matters in the Court in the Fall of 1954 have their standing as fully consecrated believers pictured in the Camp (as will all the restitution class after the Highway of Holiness is opened up). Accordingly, we see that in different periods of time, fully consecrated believers have their standing pictured in three different ways—(a) in the Holy, (b) in the Court and (c) in the Camp, depending on dispensational changes. Likewise, those who before the Fall of 1954, the first lapping beginning of the Basileia period, became truly repentant and believing, accepting Jesus as their Savior, had their tentatively justified standing pictured in the Court, the place for the Levites; since 1954, however, and the adjustment of matters in the Court, truly repentant and believing ones who were such before the Fall of 1954 but did not consecrate before that adjustment occurred, have their tentatively justified standing pictured in the Camp; in the place for the Israelites. Hence as in different periods of time, fully consecrated believers have their standing pictured in more than one way, depending on dispensational changes, so it is also with these tentatively justified ones—they have their standing pictured in more than one way: (a1) prior to the Fall of 1954 they have their standing pictured in the Court, whereas (b1) thereafter they have their standing pictured in the Camp. Thus whether or not one is (1) tentatively justified sympathetic association in this service is that of the Epiphany-enlightened antitypical Levites and Consecrated Epiphany Campers.
