Preserving Parousia and Epiphany Truth: Welcome to the Business Office

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Welcome to the Business Office

Instead of giving us the Youthful Worthy debacle, Revolutionism through date changes, and acts of Clericalism and Sectarianism toward local classes, the brethren would like the current Executive Trustee to do what we voted him to do...uphold and preserve the Truth given by God's servants.

Please see PT Question Book Pages 314 - 322. The position of Executive Trustee is purely a business office only.

Did Brother Jolly's election as Executive Trustee of the LHMM confer on him any powers aside from those of a business office - such as pastor, teacher, interpreter, pilgrim, etc.? Answer: No

Are there any Scriptural indications that the leader of the good Levites is likewise the leader of the Great Company as a whole? Answer: Yes, There are several...

Is the Executive Trustee of the LHMM as such authorized to bring forth advancing Truth? Answer: NO

Bro. Jolly, Is there any difference between your offices as the Lord's executive and as Executive Trustee of the LHMM.? Answer: Yes. ...As seen above, the office of the Executive Trustee of the LHMM is a much lower office, being merely a business office, to which we were elected by the brethren.

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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