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."
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
This Thought Published At Least Seven Times
Especially for the benefit of new readers, we will repeat here one of the clear, at least seven-times-published enumerations of the classes in the Epiphany Camp in its present, unfinished state: "As in the unfinished Epiphany Court, as it existed from 1914 to 1954, there were three classes—(1) the Great Company, a Spirit-begotten class, (2) the Youthful Worthies, a consecrated and Spirit-enlightened but not Spirit-begotten class, and (3) the unconsecrated tentatively justified—so in the unfinished Epiphany Camp, as it exists from [Oct.] 1954 onward, there are three classes—(1) the Consecrated Epiphany Campers, a consecrated and Spirit-enlightened but not Spirit-begotten class, a non-Levite class [but typed by the Nethinim, who were the appointed assistants to the Levites—Ezra 8: 17, 20; 2; 7: 7, 24; Neh. 3: 26, 31; 7; 10: 28; 11: 3, 21; P '71, pp. 37-42; '72, pp. 12-15, 75; '73, pp. 29, 30; '78, p. 55], (2) the unconsecrated tentatively justified and (3) the unjustified, nominal people of God" (P '75, p. 13; comp. P '63, pp. 77, 78).