Main Object of our Lord's Return - Part 2

E Vol. 17 Page 16: "so the Youthful Worthies come into activity on the stage of God's plan after the opportunity to enter the High Calling for the Divine nature and joint-heirship with Christ is closed. According to the Bible, the opportunity of entering the High Calling was to be closed after "the fulness of the Gentiles" [the full number of the Elect from among the Gentiles] should come in (Rom. 11: 25). This synchronizes with the end of the reaping of the present Harvest."

PT 1971 Page. 69: Par.(22) The manifestation of the Youthful Worthies as a separate and distinct class as early as 1917 (the antitypical men of Ephraim; Judges 7: 24—8: 3; E 5, pp. 224-235), proves that prior to that time the reaping and gleaning of the Little Flock had ended; for the Youthful Worthies could not be known as a separate and distinct class while the Little Flock were still being reaped. See PT 1971 Pages 69 - 75

The reaping went from 1874 to 1914. The "present view" gave up two truths that the Bible and facts teach are truths: (1) that the Harvest (Reaping) would be 40 years long and, (2) When was the end of the Harvest? The following question and answer give us that answer.

Little Flock—Harmonize That All Has Been Won With Rom. 11: 25.
Question (1921)—Please harmonize your teaching that all of the remaining members of the Little Flock have been won with Rom. 11: 25?

Answer.—By “the fulness of the Gentiles” we understand the full number of the Elect gathered out from among the Gentiles to be meant. Israel failing to furnish the full 144,000 of the Elect, God visited the Gentiles to complete from among them the predestined number. (John 1: 11-13; Acts 15: 14; Rom. 11: 5, 7, 11-15, 17-24.) Until the balance of the Elect—those not won from Israel, but from the Gentiles—would be found, Israel was to remain in blindness according to Rom. 11: 25...

The first of these stages covered the period from the spring of 1878 to the fall of 1881, during which the last ones of the Elect necessary to bring up the number on this and on the other side of the veil of the full 144,000 tentatively came in...

But the fulness of the Gentiles coming in from 1878 to 1881 did not in all its individuals remain in. Some fell out, and in 1881 it was necessary to call certain ones in to fill the lapsed places among the tentative Elect this side the veil. During the period from 1881 to 1914 there set in another stage for the fulness of the Gentiles to come in; and by the fall of 1914 this stage ended with the last one of the tentative Elect being won. Consequently from that time on none of the tentative Elect would lose their crowns; but they would remain the tentative Elect until they would pass beyond the veil. During the same period (1881-1914) Israel’s blindness was rapidly giving way...

EVol. 16 Pages 126-127
The ninth purpose of the Gospel Age is the selection of a consecrated class for Youthful Worthiship...

We have shown elsewhere that the Jewish and the Gospel Ages with their harvests, as parallel dispensations, are of equal length and of similar events. Thus the time from the death of Jacob to the death of Jesus, the respective heads of fleshly and of spiritual Israel, was 1845 years, and the time from the call of the Gentiles (Cornelius, etc.), Oct. 36, to Oct. 1881 was also 1845 years. The call of Cornelius ended the exclusive favor to natural Israel; and the call that went out in Oct. 1881 ended the exclusive favor to spiritual Israel, which was brought about by the call of people outside of the churches as well as in the churches. Let no one, from this statement, understand us to mean that nobody was any longer called to Bride-ship with Christ after 1881; for such a special call was extended to individuals in and out of the churches until the full number of the Elect in Sept. 1914 was fixedly complete,...

Br. Johnson brings clarity to The Epiphany for the development of the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies as classes. In view of the Servant's writings, the current Executive Trustee's view sinks on its lack of proof. See: E.17 Pages 17, 39. E.16 Page 127. E.11 Page 95. QB. Pages 82, 377. E.13 Pages 682, 688, etc.

Our Fifty-Eigth Annual Report (PT Jan-Feb 1977)

"...the leaders in these groups are still insisting that all the consecrated, including new consecrators, should claim that they are in the High Calling. But an increasing number of the brethren in these groups, having in mind that the general call to the High Calling closed in 1881 (almost 100 years ago!), as Bro. Russell taught, recognize that at this late date it is no longer in order for them to consider themselves in the High Calling, and especially not to encourage new consecrators to do so, but rather to consider themselves and/or new consecrators as being Spirit-enlightened but non-Spirit-begotten ones, of the general class Bro. Russell called 'Those Consecrating Between the Ages' (Z 5761, col. 2)."

In discussing the conditions among Truth people, Bro. Jolly gives 1881 (not 1878) as the initial year someone could consecrate and not receive Spirit-begettal.

Main Object of our Lord's Return - Part 1

1. To Deliver the Little Flock
2. To Deliver the Great Company
3. To Deliver TCBTAs
4. To Overthrow Satan’s Empire
5. To Establish God’s Kingdom
6. To Bring Restitution
7. To Test the Human Family

1. To Deliver the Little Flock
This work took place during the Parousia period of our Lord’s second advent. The Church is gathered through and to the Truth. As a part of Christ 2nd Advent work, He comes to deliver her in the first Resurrection.

2. To Deliver the Great Company
A second purpose of our Lord’s return is to cleanse and deliver the Great Company. This takes place during the Epiphany Period* of his second advent.

*What year did the Epiphany begin?
Mal. 3: 2, 3: "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."

Verse 2 show two time periods: the Parousia and the second half, the Epiphany. This class (the Great Company) would have to come up out of great tribulation.

3. To Deliver TCBTAs, Reprint: Z5761
We understand one class consecrating between the ages is the Youthful Worthies. They are considered an elect class.

Joel 2: 28, 29: "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."

a. Servants: Little Flock
b. Hand Maids: Great Company
c. Old Men Ancient Worthies
d. Young Men Youthful Worthies

E Vol. 17 Page 17: “so the Youthful Worthies come into activity on the stage of God's plan after the opportunity to enter the High Calling for the Divine nature and joint-heirship with Christ is closed. According to the Bible, the opportunity of entering the High Calling was to be closed after "the fulness of the Gentiles" [the full number of the Elect from among the Gentiles] should come in (Rom. 11: 25). This synchronizes with the end of the reaping of the present Harvest.”

To get the complete understanding, see "The Fulness of the Gentiles" that clarifies Br. Johnson's teaching about the Youthful Worthies as individuals from 1881 and a separate and distinct Class in 1914. His teachings dispel the current ET's confusion on the matter. Look for part two coming shortly.

SAMUEL—TYPE AND ANTITYPE

The following three references appear in the article on Samuel in PT April, 1938 (same year E4 was published) and E13, Chapter 1. Our blog comments are in blue, and brackets within quoted references.

“Thus we see that while Rachel types the spiritual elective truths and the servants that apply them to the two spiritual elect classes in the end of the Age, Hannah additionally types the earthly elective truths and the servants that apply them to the earthly elect class, the Youthful Worthies developed in the end of the Age, i.e., from 1881 onward.” Does Bro. Johnson mean individual or class in 1881? We must continue in the article to get that clarification.

“In time of producing their children, antitypical Sarah was active from Jordan until the Church leaves the world; antitypical Rachel, the same period for The Christ, and for the Great Company as individuals, from shortly after Pentecost onward, and as a class, from Nov. 25, 1916—Jan. 19 [listed as Jan. 14 in E13], 1917 onward until the Great Company leaves the world; antitypical Hannah, the same periods for The Christ and the Great Company respectively and for the Youthful Worthies as individuals, from Oct., 1881, onward to Sept. 16, 1914, and as a class from Sept. 16, 1914, onward until they leave the world finally.” This reference clarifies the first reference from the article (above). It shows the development of individuals and classes for both the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies (no individuals from 1878-81 are mentioned).

“We say this because the said seed given Elkanah by Hannah types the Great Company in its three main divisions and the Youthful Worthies in their two main divisions (v. 21). This blessing was partly by antitypical Eli brought into being as symbolic begettals, in part during the Parousia, but the births take place during the Epiphany, not during the Parousia, so far as these two as classes are concerned, though there were individual crown-losers and Youthful Worthies during the Parousia.” As we see, both the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies are Epiphany classes, yet there were individuals in the Parousia. Again, the article was published in 1938, the same year E4, The Epiphany's Elect was published. We have total clarity on the subject.