They Are Slowly Going Into Darkness As they Depart Further From The Truth

...And up to the time the general call to the High Calling ceased in 1881, all who responded by consecration were begotten of the Spirit and then were pictured as in the Holy. But because of the close of the general call to the High Calling in 1881 and of the door of entrance into the High Calling in 1914, some of the 1881-1914 consecrators and all post- 1914 consecrators from among the tentatively justified in the Court had no crowns available to them. Accordingly, their entrance into the consecrated condition could not be pictured by entrance into the Holy, for they were not Spirit begotten; instead, they as non-Spirit-begotten consecrated ones, prospective Youthful Worthies, remained in the Court...

Note: You may have heard some with false authority state the Youthful Worthies call began in 1878 as individuals, and a class in 1881. That thought is error. It contradicts the Truth that has already been written by the Spirit Begotten as stated above.

For Those Brethren Who Have Been Misled at The Recent Ohio Convention

What five things, especially, constituted a call to the Youthful Worthies:

How did antitypical Gideon call them? We answer: (1) by continuing the invitation to consecrate after the Fall of 1914; (2) by emphasizing after the Fall of 1914, e.g., in Z '15,269, pars. 6, 7, the fact that there would be a class who, called too late for the High Calling, would be privileged to share in reward and honor with the Ancient Worthies, i.e., that there would be a Youthful Worthies class; (3) by arousing them to battle against error; (4) by the teaching during 1916 that the Lord's people would smite Jordan twice; and (5) by encouraging repeatedly during 1916 the Lord's people along the lines of the privilege of smiting Jordan. These five things as well as others were a call to the Youthful Worthies to take part in the warfare against antitypical Midian, to take the waters of antitypical Jordan...

Had the Youthful Worthies been a separate and distinct class in 1881, the above type and antitype would not work or make sense.

Originally posted 9/02/08

Epiphany - Court And Camp

Question (1963)—After 1914, did not the truth on the Epiphany Court unfold beyond Bro. Russell’s expectations? And is there not a similarity since 1954, in regard to the truth on the Epiphany Camp?

Lord made clear (through Bro. Johnson) that there was not only one class—the Great Company - but three classes in the post-1914 Court, during the Epiphany in its narrow, 40-year sense, as follows: (1) the unconsecrated tentatively justified (including many of them who came in from 1914 onward), who would not be remanded from the Court until 1954 (instead of 1914, as Bro. Russell had expected), (2) the Great Company, remanded from the Holy, and (3) the non-Spirit-begotten consecrated—the Youthful Worthies—who never had been in the Holy. Thus after 1914 the truth on the Epiphany Court did unfold beyond Bro. Russell’s expectations (Prov. 4: 18; A 20-28; E. 6, pp. 31-43).

E Vol. 3 Pages 51, 52

...Elijah's sitting on its top types the fact that at that time, from early Fall of 1914 onward, the entire eventual Elijah class was in the embryo Kingdom, i.e., the last one of those who would prove faithful had been begotten of the Spirit, and henceforth no one else would be invited to the high calling; for all embryo new creatures who will overcome are by us to be regarded as already in the highest or heavenly phase of the Kingdom—sitting on the top of a mountain (Rev. 14: 1); and certainly by October, 1914, almost all of us understood that the last one of the Faithful had been begotten of the Spirit, and a little later came to see that the harvesting that yet remained was of a gleaning character. Moreover, the fact that Elijah was then on the mountain's top, implies that he had previously reached and ascended the mountain. His reaching the mountain also types the fact that the Church somewhat before early Fall, 1914, reached the time when the Kingdom beyond the vail would be working to overthrow Satan's Empire, which working began September 21, 1914, after the outbreak of the World War. This is in harmony with our Pastor's secondary thought on the antitype of Elijah's coming at the end of the 40 days—1914—to Horeb, the Mount of God (1 Kings 19: 8)...