Preserving Parousia and Epiphany Truth: Who does the Youth on the Rock Represent?

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Who does the Youth on the Rock Represent?

See 1952 Bible Standard Whole # 190 Page 2

The Symbology Of Our Cover Design

...In the distance is seen the rising of the Sun of righteousness with healing in his wings (Mal. 4: 1, 2), with the river of water of life flowing down the valley to bring healing to the nations (Rev. 22: 1-3). The Kingdom's two phases are pictured by the two mountains (Zech. 14: 4-9; Pa. 72: 3): the loftier one in the background symbolizing the spiritual, invisible Christ, Head and Body, Zion (Rev. 14: 1; Is. 2: 2-4); and the lesser one in the foreground, the earthly, visible phase of the Kingdom, the Ancient Worthies (Luke 13: 28; Heb. 11: 38-40), the highest among whom, being earthly, are less than the least in God's invisible, spiritual Kingdom (Luke 7: 28)

The Soldier of the Cross standing on the only sure foundation, clothed in the whole armor of God (Eph. 6: 13-17), holds up the Bible standard and heralds the message of Christ's Kingdom. He is a youth, fitly symbolizing God's Epiphany elect, not the Ancient Worthies, nor the Christ in Glory (pictured in the two mountains), but those who are developed as such at the end of the Age during the Time of Trouble.

The Time of Trouble didn't begin in 1878... The youth is a part of the "Epiphany's Elect" (E4). They were elected (exclusive to a group - picked out) in the Epiphany, from 1914 onward.

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Sifters—Who Are The Sifters

Question (1968)—Bro. Russell called Messrs. Barbour, Paton, Williamson, Henninges, McPhail and other similar disseminators of error sifters, and they in turn called him a sifter; Bro. Johnson called J.F.R. and others like him sifters, and they in turn called him the same; and now you speak of certain ones as sifters and they accuse you of being like J.F.R., who “accused Bro. Johnson of being a sifter.” It is rather confusing. Who are the sifters anyway?

Answer.—It should not be confusing if we hold carefully to the Truth as unfolded for us from the Word of God and look for His holy Spirit. In all cases Satan is really the sifter—the one who originates, initiates and carries on persistently a sifting (Luke 22: 31; 1 Pet. 5: 8). Through pride, ostentation, self-exaltation, envy, jealousy, deceit, misrepresentations, falsehoods, slander, favoritism, unfaithfulness to the Truth, malice and other works of the flesh he appeals to God’s people and uses those who respond to Him as his agents to oppose the Truth and to spread error, which of course sifts out the unfaithful ones. We are not to forget that God’s approval or disapproval is manifested through testings and siftings (1 Cor. 11: 18, 19; see also P. ’53, pp. 50, 51). Nations are sifted “with the sieve of vanity,” but “through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down” (Isa. 30: 28-31). The Assyrian here, as in Micah 5: 5, 6, represents “those who make spoil of God’s people by devastating the Truth and its Spirit” (E. 10, p. 115).

Satan’s emissaries “call evil good, and good evil” and “put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isa. 5: 20). Many leaders who once had the truth, given by the Lord through Bro. Russell, on Jesus’ Second Advent, His invisible presence, the Bible chronology and the forty years’ Harvest reaping, now claim . . . that the Bible chronology as given by Bro. Russell is wrong,. . . The Lord’s true sheep will heed only the voice of the Good Shepherd; they will study to show themselves approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim. 2: 15). They will keep themselves in the love of God and in the most holy faith. The Truth and its Spirit will be the touchstones that will determine for them which is true and which is false. Teachings that do not agree with (1) themselves (2) all other Scriptures, (3) all other Scripture doctrines, (4) with the Ransom, (5) with reason, (6) with facts, and (7) with the purposes of Godliness, should be rejected as erroneous. ’68-46