Permanent Marker Series: E5, pp. 39-40, para. 37

"(37) The brethren who err on the meaning and implications of our Pastor's having charge of the storehouse do not understand the functions of his office. He was the Parousia messenger, appointed by the Lord over the storehouse and the household for Parousia purposes—giving the Parousia Truth and superintending the Parousia work and gathering the Youthful Worthies as a class. Thus he gave the Church the full Parousia Truth, and superintended the full gathering of the Church (hence he can have no successor), and thereby gave the foundation of the Epiphany Truth and work; for the Parousia Truth and work are the foundation of the Epiphany Truth and work. But, as oOur Pastor's work was not that of gathering the Great Company as such, but gathering and the Youthful Worthies as such, the truths that he gave on these subjects were not full enough for the work of gathering both of these as such. Their gathering as such of one of them, the Great Company, is an Epiphany work, for which special Epiphany truths also, not due to be seen in his day, are needed. Therefore "things new and old" are needed for the Epiphany work. The facts of the case prove that our Pastor did not understand these new Epiphany things, e.g., the time of the deliverance of the Church, the length of the Time of Trouble, the time of Israel's deliverance, the duration of the dealing with the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies, the time relation between the sprinkling of the Goat's blood and the dealing with the Great Company, etc., all of which and other things too are Epiphany matters. Hence he made mistakes on these subjects. This we say without the slightest disparagement of him; for though used more markedly than any other servant of God, except our Lord (for of these, except our Lord Himself, he is undoubtedly the greatest), he could not see things before due. Hence, whenever he attempted to explain things not yet due, he made mistakes on them, as the above-enumerated things, as well as other things, prove, e.g., his premature explanation of the meaning of the pounds, of the parable of the penny, of the honor given to all saints, etc."

These pages are tough to change to help the Executive Trustee. The Great Company and Youthful Worthies are shown in parallel as being developed as classes in the Epiphany using "as such" to show that condition. To remove one from that structure is hard to do. It is even harder to make the Youthful Worthies development "as such" a Parousia activity under the Parousia messenger.

Permanent Marker Series: E5, Author's Foreword, p. iii.

"Since in the Parousia it was due to complete the development of the Little Flock and start the Youthful Worthies, as the special Parousia work, naturally the Truth teachings of that time centered in Christ and the Church with a few things on the Youthful Worthies. And since in the Epiphany it is due to develop the Great Company and continue the development of the Youthful Worthies, naturally the Truth teachings of this time center in these two classes."

We start a new Permanent Marker series, moving on to E5, A MISCELLANY. This book, like E4 before it, needs a lot of repair to make it work with the Executive Trustee's idea of having a Youthful Worthy call and class in the Parousia. Frankly, every publication needs repair to make his idea work. He's already taken care of The Chart of the Ages, so we've chosen E5. The comments in red are our suggested additions or changes to Bro. Johnson's writings. Certainly, there are other and better options. But these will do.