The purpose of this blog is to draw us closer as Bible students and to encourage us to carefully examine what is said in word and print. Do the things we speak and write with regards to the truth harmonize with His Holy word?--"The Truth never fears cross examination."
Monday, June 22, 2009
What are we not to understand?
Sunday, June 14, 2009
As Respects the Youthful Worthies
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Bro. Johnson reaffirmed and defended this teaching...
YOUTHFUL WORTHIES ALSO HAVE PRECEDENCE - PT 1973 Pg. 26
"(5) Bro. Russell further showed that from 1881 onward there were consecrated ones for whom no crowns were available, who would be counted in with the Ancient Worthies in nature and reward (F 156, 157; Z 4836, pars. 3-6, 10, 11; 5761, col. 2, pars. 1, 2; Question Book, pp. 151, 152, 154, 156-158). Bro. Johnson reaffirmed and defended this teaching also, and gave many Scriptures to prove it. He referred to this Spirit-enlightened but not Spirit-begotten class as the Youthful Worthies"
Monday, June 1, 2009
Each Class to Keep within the Bounds Set for It
"Bro. Johnson expounds in E 11, p. 336, stating in part that Jesus 'severed the classes from one another by peculiar teachings, activities, gatherings and siftings, belonging to each one: the Little Flock distinct from the Great Company, the Great Company from the Youthful Worthies [italics ours], the Youthful Worthies from the justified, the justified from the Campers, and the Campers from those beyond the Camp (set bounds unto the people, v. 12). The charge was to each class to keep within the bounds set for it (take heed to yourselves), and thus not grasp for powers as to the Kingdom not belonging to it (go not up into the mount), nor contaminate anything pertaining to the Kingdom either by false doctrine or wrong practice (touch the border of it)..."
Jesus severed the Little Flock from the Great Company, the Great Company from the Youthful Worthies, etc., showing the proper order of the development of each class. See also PT August 1942, p. 120; E11, Chapter 5; PT July-August 1960, p.58; PT March-April 1976, p. 30.