The Transitional Period

Some read the following reference (reprinted in many PTs, such as 1920, 1924, 1927, etc.) and are confused as to the definition of the Transitional Period and those as persisting Gospel Age Levites. They simply need to compare this reference to other references, such as the ones shown below, in order to get clarification. "During the Transitional Period those Levites who will not consecrate lose their tentative justification—i.e., cease to be tentative Levites and are put out of the Court; while those who do consecrate, the Youthful Worthies, retain their tentative justification and remain in the Court as Gospel Age Levites of three groups, Kohathites, Merarites and Gershonites, throughout the Transitional Period. Additionally the Great Company becomes during this Transitional Period Levites of three groups, Kohathites, Merarites and Gershonites. But it must be kept in mind that the Great Company Transitional Levites are different from the Youthful Worthies as persisting Gospel Age Levites in the transition time."

Question Book, Page 500 (1943): "First of all, we must remember that there are three time sets of antitypical Levites: (1) the Gospel Age Levites, i.e., the tentatively justified Levites: (2) The Epiphany Levites, i.e., the vitalizedly justified Levites, i.e., the Great Company and the tentatively justified Levites, i.e., the Youthful Worthies; and (3) the Millennial and post-Millennial Age Levites, i.e., the Ancient Worthies, the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies."

In E. Vol. 4, p. 322 Bro. Johnson states that “During the Transitional Period [the Epiphany] those Levites, the tentatively justified, who will not consecrate lose their tentative justification, i.e., cease to be tentative Levites and are put out of the Court.”