The following quotes come from Bro. Jolly’s answer to a question in 1963 about the unfolding of the Epiphany Court after 1914 and the Camp after 1954 beyond the expectations of Bro. Russell and Bro. Johnson. If you believe the “present view” of the Youthful Worthies as a separate and distinct class in 1881, then not only do these parallel statements not work, but it also means that none of these spirit-Begotten brethren had any idea that this class existed in the Court during the Parousia. In effect, the "present view" alters cleansed Parousia and Epiphany Truth.
“After 1914 arrived, and later the due time came, the Lord made clear (through Bro. Johnson) that there was not only one class—the Great Company—but three classes in the post-1914 Court, during the Epiphany in its narrow, 40-year sense, as follows: (1) the unconsecrated tentatively justified (including many of them who came in from 1914 onward), who would not be remanded from the Court until 1954 (instead of 1914, as Bro. Russell had expected), (2) the Great Company, remanded from the Holy, and (3) the non-Spirit-begotten consecrated—the Youthful Worthies—who never had been in the Holy.”
“As Bro. Russell allowed for only one class—the Great Company—in the Court after 1914, and that one a class remanded from the Holy to the Court, so Bro. Johnson similarly allowed for only one class—the quasi-elect—in the Epiphany Camp after 1954, and that a class consisting largely of those remanded from the Court to the Camp.”
“After 1954 arrived and the due time had come, the Lord made clear that there was not only one class—the loyal, unconsecrated quasi-elect—but three classes in the post-1954 Epiphany Camp, as follows: (1) the Gospel-Age nominal people of God; (2) the loyal unconsecrated quasi-elect, including the tentatively justified who were remanded from the Court, and also other tentatively justified as the Covenant-believing Jews who have come into the Epiphany Camp since then, and additionally including those among the tentatively justified who have become (3) the consecrated Epiphany Campers.”
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bbs.
This is a good blog posting.
And the next par.of the article shows that after 1954 when the adjusted of matters takes place in the Epiphany camp only tentatively faith justified are in the Epiphany camp.
When we come to the time of readjustment at the end of the Epiphany in a wider sense, all of class (1) will be remanded from the Camp into the condition represented by outside the Camp, which in the Gospel- Age setting represented the condition of those who were not even nominal people of God. This will leave only believers in Christ as Savior and
King in the Epiphany Camp in the finished picture, including post-1954 consecrators among them—Consecrated Epiphany Campers. When the Highway of Holiness opens up, the Epiphany Camp will merge into the Millennial Camp, “the condition of the world undergoing restitution” (P. ’40, p.
14; comp. ’55, p. 13, col. 2). P.T. ’63-30
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