Subtle Error "present view" Introduced - Part One

The current Executive Trustee’s “present view” of the dates for the existence of the Youthful Worthies is what caused the split in America. This was first expressed in print with his modification of the first paragraph of Bro. Jolly’s 1978 PT Quasi-Elect article in his 2004 version (both shown above).

Two years later, on p.18 of PT. 2006, he attempts to take the attention off of himself and place it on a Pilgrim and an Auxiliary Pilgrim in the US.

The Auxiliary Pilgrim seeded questions at a convention to create the controversy knowing the Pilgrim would defend the Truth. The Pilgrim, who did defend the Truth date as always known (1881) was later dismissed. "We have been going through a short period where some brothers at various conventions, in discourses, or while leading question meetings, have expressed the answer to these questions differently; one brother has said 1878 while another 1881..."

The "short period" was from June 2004-2006. Up to 2004, this thought of 1878 as the beginning of the Youthful Worthies was never taught from the platform or by the Spirit Begotten leaders. Epiphany Bible Students in America began to ask questions at conventions about the changes in the 2004 version of Bro. Jolly's 1978 PT Quasi-Elect article. The changes may have been introduced in order to pave the way for the "present view" error brought out in 2006. During this time many Pilgrims, Evangelists and local classes were suspended, ignored, or set aside.

Comparing the 1978 article to the 2004 article.

In the first sentence, he replaces “additional light” with “considerable light” and thereby loses the meaning of adding to or building upon existing truth. This subtle alteration of meaning is confirmed with the replacement of “with a number of important additions” to “with few changes to reflect our present view” at the end of the sentence. In the 1978 article, the rest of the first paragraph is a single sentence listing a sequence of events (A, B, C). The 2004 article keeps items A and B, but completely replaces Bro. Jolly’s item C with something new.

• 1978—“(c) the last two classes of the elect—the Great Company (Rev. 7: 14) and the Youthful Worthies, who constitute the antitypical Court of the Epiphany Tabernacle or Temple in the finished picture—have as classes been in the process of development (see E 4, The Epiphany's Elect; PT No. 519).”
• 2004—“(c) the antitypical Court of the Epiphany Tabernacle and Temple has been occupied by the Great Company and Youthful Worthies while in the flesh and is now inhabited solely by the Youthful Worthies.”

The 1978 version shows BOTH the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies developing AS CLASSES (not individuals) in the Epiphany. The 2004 version loses this parallel meaning completely. Even if one of the two classes is no longer in the flesh today, the 1978 item C is still grammatically accurate. Why the change? Notice how the development of the Youthful Worthies has been disassociated with the Great Company in item C and given its own focus in the second sentence. The parallel has been removed, the E 4 reference modified, and a date not previously used is brought into play. The 2004 version does, in fact, change the truth instead of adding to it.

True information about the split not given to brethren in foreign countries!

Brethren in foreign countries have been mislead especially by a certain Auxiliary Pilgrim Brother from New Jersey as to what really caused the split in America. Perhaps the Executive Trustee doesn't want the foreign brethren to know that his error and attitude, along with clerical acts by some of his relatives and partisan supporters in local classes, have split the movement down the middle and includes brethren from classes in California, the Midwest, Canada, and Northeastern and Southeastern states.

Part two to appear on Sunday. See also Changes vs. Additions to Truth posted on 11/29/08

New Consecrators No Longer Called for High Calling Purposes after 1914

PT. 1959 Pg. 59: We called special attention to Bro. Johnson's explanation in E Vol. 11, p. 472, where he shows that the work of Jesus as God's Executive in inviting new consecrators for High Calling purposes ceased by Oct. 1914, but that thereafter "With a changed purpose [emphasis ours] He [Jesus] still invites the justified to consecrate as Youthful Worthies."

Exactly 40 years later...

Another grace parallel occurs between the closing of the door of entrance into the High Calling on Sept. 16, 1914 (E 3, p. 401; E 4, p. 464; for 80 proofs that it closed, see P.T. No. 515), and the closing of the door of entrance into the Youthful Worthy calling, exactly 40 years later, on Sept. 16, 1954 (E 10, p. 114; E 11, p. 473; P '54, pp. 41, 57).

P2 Page. 212-213: "This call, which must end when enough invited from which to complete the favored Little Flock, the body of Christ, is far from being the limit of God's love and favor and calling. Its end will close the heavenly or high calling. For where this call ends, where this door of opportunity and favor closes, another door begins to swing open..."

Common sense and previously held truths must be ignored in order to make the current Executive Trustee's "present view" seem plausible.

The Gospel Age Harvest

PT. 1975 Pg. 2, 3: But the reaping (and gleaning) of the Little Flock did not end the Gospel-Age Harvest in its wider sense, for after it was completed there was still much Harvest work to be done toward the "wheat" class, the Little Flock, in its sheaving, drying, threshing, winnowing, sifting and garnering, which did not end until in Oct. 1950. Also, the work of the "barley" harvest, the gathering and final development and preparation of the Great Company, the first class of the Epiphany's elect, for their place in the Kingdom, is not yet completed in its seven features. Furthermore, the Youthful Worthies have been active in the Harvest work of the Gospel Age ever since 1881, and are still active in it (Ruth 1-4; see E 4, pp. 369-397); and as a class they are being gathered, developed and prepared for their place in the Kingdom as the second of the two classes of the Epiphany's elect.

Letters of General Interest, PT. 1970 Pg. 80

Dear Brother Jolly: Thank you for your timely letter. I have never received a letter that did me more good. I can see the Lord's leading through different steps until I found you and received that priceless book, "The Epiphany's Elect."... I have now read several Epiphany books and have enjoyed them very much. I believe that Bro. Johnson was indeed the Epiphany Messenger and that "his works do follow him" through your movement. I receive your magazine regularly. Your lucid explanations regarding the Youthful Worthies seem crystal clear to me, and now at last I can see they have been growing side by side with the Spirit-begotten ones for quite some time...

This letter is complimentary to Bro. Johnson and Bro. Jolly. He believed Bro. Johnson was the Epiphany Messenger and that "his works do follow him" through "your" (Bro. Jolly's Executive Trusteeship) movement. It meant that Bro. Jolly supported and defended Bro. Johnson's lucid and crystal clear explanation of the Youthful Worthies. Shouldn't we?

E4. Pg. 358 - Question

E4 Pg. 358 (2): Since what date have the Youthful Worthies been developing?

E4 Pg. 318 (2): Before the General Call to the Divine Nature and joint-heirship with Christ ceased in 1881, the persons we call "Youthful Worthies" did not exist as individuals of a class; but since that time they have been, and now are coming as such into existence, and we are showing existence as such. Yea, we would not be surprised , if they become shortly very marked as a class, separate and distinct from the Little Flock and the Great Company.

This comment was put in print in 1938.

What are we not to understand?

PT. 1979 Pg. 50:

...we are not to understand that during the Gospel Age, or Church Age, God called two classes to salvation; for the Scripture states, "Ye are called in one hope of your calling" (Eph. 4: 4); that is, we are not to understand that God offered two sets of people two different salvations during the Gospel Age, as inducements for them to love and serve Him; for such a thing is nowhere taught in the Bible. Rather, there has been only one salvation offered to those who during the Gospel Age would turn from sin to righteousness, from Satan to God and Christ. To all of these God offered as the prize (Phil. 3: 14) the Divine nature (2 Pet. 1: 4) and eternal life in joint-heirship with Christ as His Bride, His Body members (Rom. 8: 17; 12: 4, 5; 1 Cor. 12: 12-27; 2 Cor. 11: 2, 3; Eph. 4: 4-14; 5: 22-33; Rev. 21: 9, 10), on condition of faithfulness unto death in following Christ (Rev. 2: 10).

As Respects the Youthful Worthies

PT. 1972, Pg. 79, Questions (52): As respects the Youthful Worthies, what came forth from the Scriptures from time to time after the fall or 1914?

Par. 52, Pg. 76, Col. 2: "As time went on after the fall of 1914, more and more evidences from the Scriptures were brought forth to prove that there was a class, viz., the Youthful Worthies, consecrating after the High Calling closed, that did not have their consecration pictured at the First Veil, nor their standing as fully consecrated believers pictured in the Holy (where all fully consecrated believers who were under the High Calling had their standing pictured), but rather in the Court."

Bro. Johnson reaffirmed and defended this teaching...

YOUTHFUL WORTHIES ALSO HAVE PRECEDENCE - PT 1973 Pg. 26

"(5) Bro. Russell further showed that from 1881 onward there were consecrated ones for whom no crowns were available, who would be counted in with the Ancient Worthies in nature and reward (F 156, 157; Z 4836, pars. 3-6, 10, 11; 5761, col. 2, pars. 1, 2; Question Book, pp. 151, 152, 154, 156-158). Bro. Johnson reaffirmed and defended this teaching also, and gave many Scriptures to prove it. He referred to this Spirit-enlightened but not Spirit-begotten class as the Youthful Worthies"

Each Class to Keep within the Bounds Set for It

PT July-August 1966, p. 54:
"Bro. Johnson expounds in E 11, p. 336, stating in part that Jesus 'severed the classes from one another by peculiar teachings, activities, gatherings and siftings, belonging to each one: the Little Flock distinct from the Great Company, the Great Company from the Youthful Worthies [italics ours], the Youthful Worthies from the justified, the justified from the Campers, and the Campers from those beyond the Camp (set bounds unto the people, v. 12). The charge was to each class to keep within the bounds set for it (take heed to yourselves), and thus not grasp for powers as to the Kingdom not belonging to it (go not up into the mount), nor contaminate anything pertaining to the Kingdom either by false doctrine or wrong practice (touch the border of it)..."

Jesus severed the Little Flock from the Great Company, the Great Company from the Youthful Worthies, etc., showing the proper order of the development of each class. See also PT August 1942, p. 120; E11, Chapter 5; PT July-August 1960, p.58; PT March-April 1976, p. 30.

When did the Youthful Worthies start to mingle with the Little Flock or with the Great Company?

E15, p.652 (see also PT 1944, p.174 and PT 1949, p.121): "A word on the Youthful Worthies as to the witness of the Spirit. Not being sons of God yet, they, of course, are not by the witness of the Spirit, the Truth, given proof that their standing is one of sons, new creatures. Hence they do not now get, by the witness of the Spirit, the same as the Little Flock and the Great Company get. They get the same witness of the Spirit as the Ancient Worthies got, i.e., that they are friends and servants and prospective sons of God. Hence, whatever in the seven witnesses of the Spirit given sons is applicable to friends and servants and prospective sons of God, is given to them. Hence as the Ancient Worthies got all of the Truth due in their days, so the Youthful Worthies get all the Truth due in our day. Hence it is their privilege as they are loyal to get all the Truth that is due the Little Flock and Great Company, dependent on whether they mingle with the Little Flock or with the Great Company. The facts of experience show this to be true. Some object that not being Spirit-begotten, they cannot see the deep things. To this we answer, the Scriptures teach for all times that the due Truth is for all the consecrated. Hence, in the Old Testament times the Ancient Worthies got all of the Truth due in their times. In the next Age, without Spirit-begettal, the Ancient and Youthful Worthies and the restitution class will come to understand everything in the Bible (Is. 11: 9; 29: 18, 24; 35: 5; 40: 5; Jer. 31: 34). Why? Because it is always the privilege of the consecrated to see the Truth due in their times. St. Paul's words in 1 Cor. 2: 5-16 denying that the unbegotten of the Spirit are able to understand the deep things are limited to the time of the general call, during which to be Spirit-begotten and to be consecrated meant the same thing, hence all the consecrated were then Spirit-begotten, which was not the case before the call to the high calling opened. Hence, after the general call ceased St. Paul's pertinent words do not apply universally. But the rule that applies always is that only the consecrated can see the due Truth. Therefore, the Youthful Worthies do have as a witness of their being friends and servants and prospective sons of God, the due Truth on the deep things."

According to these references, there were no Youthful Worthies from 1878 to 1881 since all of the consecrated were Spirit-begotten up until the general call ceased.

J.K. Seeks To Unfix Fixed Individuals

PT. 1956 Pg. 75 Col. 2

In trying to establish a premise upon which to build his desired superstructure, J.K. cites E Vol. 8, pp. 48, 49 (please study this carefully), in which Bro. Johnson shows that in the unfinished picture of the Gospel Age, when there was no Great Company class or Youthful Worthy class as such, the Levites in their divisions, as distinct from the priests, typed the tentatively justified, who were classified, not as fixed individuals, but as "classes of workers according to the character of their work," with some individuals laboring awhile in one division, and then later possibly in another, or possibly in several at the same time; next he states, "It remains to be seen whether the Transitional Levites the Epiphany Levites—will in the finished picture have the peculiarity that we have just noted in the Gospel Age Levites. . . .

We must remember that there are three time sets of antitypical Levites

Answer to a question in PT September, 1943 (see page 143):

"(1) the Gospel Age Levites, i.e., the tentatively justified Levites: (2) The Epiphany Levites, i.e., the vitalizedly justified Levites, i.e., the Great Company and the tentatively justified Levites, i.e., the Youthful Worthies; and (3) the Millennial and post-Millennial Age Levites, i.e., the Ancient Worthies, the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies."

"While some Scriptures applicable to the Gospel Age refer to the Great Company as Levites, this is done from the anticipatory standpoint of the finished picture of the extreme end of the Age, the Epiphany. It would be a mistake to call the Great Company the exclusive Gospel-Age Levites; yea, it would even be a mistake to call them the only Levites of the Epiphany, since Youthful Worthies are also such Levites, though tentatively justified merely."

Bro. Johnson lists the Youthful Worthies as being Epiphany Levites. Notice what he says about the anticipatory standpoint of the Great Company.

Lapsing of the Tentative Justification of the Unconsecrated Tentatively Justified

PT March 1955, p. 29 (also in Question Book):
"Let us notice also E. Vol. 4, p. 322 in this connection: 'During the Transitional [Epiphany] Period those Levites, the tentatively justified, who will not consecrate lose their tentative justification, i.e., cease to be tentative Levites and are put out of the Court [italics ours; note carefully the implications of this definition of losing one’s tentative justification: it does not mean that such a tentatively-justified one necessarily loses faith in Christ as his Savior, but that because he does not consecrate during the 40-year Transitional (Epiphany) Period, when the call to Youthful Worthiship, the last call for Gospel-Age elective purposes, is open, he loses his standing in the Court as a tentative Levite and drops back into the Camp; thus, as far as Gospel-Age elective purposes are concerned, he receives the grace of God in vain (2 Cor. 6: 1, 2)]; while those who do consecrate, the Youthful Worthies, retain their tentative justification and remain in the Court as Gospel-Age Levites.' Hence we understand, in harmony with E. Vol. 11, p. 473, that the tentative justification of all the unconsecrated faith justified lapsed by Oct. 1954, but only in so far as Gospel-Age elective purposes are concerned. ’55-29"

Those who do consecrate when the call to Youthful Worthiship is open retain their tentitive justification and remain in the Court as Gospel-Age Levites. Notice the 40-year length of time for their call.

E5 Author's Foreword, written in 1938

"...so during the Parousia, specifically Epiphany truths could not be seen. Thus when the Parousia ended, 1914, all error was removed from the Parousia truths, i.e., the truths needed for the development of the Little Flock. But by the same token not all error was by 1914 removed from matters pertinent, to the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies. This will have taken place by 1954, each of these things being set forth respectively by the purification of the mother of a son in forty, and that of a mother of a daughter in eighty days (Lev. 12). Hence as the Epiphany advances the immaturities on the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies of the Parousia and of the past Epiphany times give way to clearer light, even as this same principle operated during the Parousia as to its immaturities. Thus 'the path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect [full] day' (Prov. 4: 18).

Accordingly, no new Truth for the development of the Little Flock for the Kingdom has come since the Parousia's end; all of it that has since come is for the development of the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies..."

Since 1954, the Lord has been building the Epiphany Camp. This work will continue until the times of Restitution. The servants gave us the truth concerning the Youthful Worthies. Instead of trying to rewrite history, the correct course to take is to support their "Truth as Due" of building the Epiphany Camp!

Didn't Bro. Russell have charge of the Storehouse?

P.T. 1992 Page. 68 Col. 1, on the Youthful Worthies:
"(4) He forecast the non-Spirit-begotten but Spirit-enlightened class that we call Youthful Worthies. He told of them first as individuals from 1881 onward for whom no crowns were available, and forecast that later, i.e., in the Epiphany, they would come forth as a class, when all consecrations would be without subsequent Spirit-begettal (see, e.g., F 156, 157; Z 4836, 5761; Question Book, pp. 151, 152, 154, 156-158). He did not use the term Youthful Worthies in describing this class, but spoke of them as consecrating between the Ages, as a class not begotten of the Spirit, who would be given a nature and reward with the Ancient Worthies. Some Spirit-begotten and non-Spirit-begotten ones among Truth people, either through ignorance or self-will, insist that they are of the Little Flock. If they do this in ignorance, they should seek to learn the Truth more thoroughly; if they do it in self-will, they should seek more carefully to do God's will, or they may lose out entirely."

According to the current Executive Trustee of the Bible Standard Ministries and his "present view", we've been living in error since Bro. Russell's time. Along with those living NOW who support that Servant's view, would that make Bro. Russell, Bro. Johnson and Bro. Jolly sifters too?

Our Forty-Sixth Annual Report

PT Jan-Feb, 1965: "The articles in the P.T. give abundant evidence that the Truth continues to advance, and that the Lord, our loving and faithful Shepherd, continues abundantly to feed His sheep. We may well rejoice in this advance of the Truth; it is not digression of error, which in certain quarters is claimed to be advancing Truth. The advancing Truth has these characteristics--it holds to the past light and projects it into details not formerly seen, but harmonious with what was formerly seen. This is manifest in further unfoldings of Truth on the Epiphany Court and Camp conditions..."

The "present view" on the Youthful Worthies does not have these characteristics.

Giving and Spreading The Seasonal Truth

PT 1974 Page. 75 Col. 2:

"The 1874-1974 century has witnessed marvelous things in the giving of and circulation of the promised seasonal Truth, the meat in due season (Prov. 4: 18; Matt. 24: 45-47; Luke 12: 37; 2 Pet. 1: 12; Rev. 3: 20). This included the truth on various features of the doctrines of the Ransom and Restitution..."

"Among other truths that the Lord gave through Bro. Russell and that were spread widely, were those on the Thousand-year Reign of Christ and the binding of Satan beginning in 1874, on the Epiphany as a period beginning in 1914, on the non-Spirit-begotten consecrated (the Youthful Worthies), on the last related acts of Elijah and Elisha in type and antitype, on the separation of the Little Flock and the Great Company, etc. After his death the truth on these subjects expanded and clarified, and was set forth by Bro. Johnson, along with many other expositions, reaffirmations and defenses of the Parousia Truth. These are presented mainly in the PT and in the Epiphany Volumes, and concern especially the two Epiphany elect classes—the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies."

Bro. Johnson was congruent with and supported Bro. Russell's view. It's the reason why he titled E4 "The Epiphany's Elect." Since 2004, the "present view" contradicts the correct view of the Spirit Begotten.

Main Object of our Lord's Return - Part 2

E Vol. 17 Page 16: "so the Youthful Worthies come into activity on the stage of God's plan after the opportunity to enter the High Calling for the Divine nature and joint-heirship with Christ is closed. According to the Bible, the opportunity of entering the High Calling was to be closed after "the fulness of the Gentiles" [the full number of the Elect from among the Gentiles] should come in (Rom. 11: 25). This synchronizes with the end of the reaping of the present Harvest."

PT 1971 Page. 69: Par.(22) The manifestation of the Youthful Worthies as a separate and distinct class as early as 1917 (the antitypical men of Ephraim; Judges 7: 24—8: 3; E 5, pp. 224-235), proves that prior to that time the reaping and gleaning of the Little Flock had ended; for the Youthful Worthies could not be known as a separate and distinct class while the Little Flock were still being reaped. See PT 1971 Pages 69 - 75

The reaping went from 1874 to 1914. The "present view" gave up two truths that the Bible and facts teach are truths: (1) that the Harvest (Reaping) would be 40 years long and, (2) When was the end of the Harvest? The following question and answer give us that answer.

Little Flock—Harmonize That All Has Been Won With Rom. 11: 25.
Question (1921)—Please harmonize your teaching that all of the remaining members of the Little Flock have been won with Rom. 11: 25?

Answer.—By “the fulness of the Gentiles” we understand the full number of the Elect gathered out from among the Gentiles to be meant. Israel failing to furnish the full 144,000 of the Elect, God visited the Gentiles to complete from among them the predestined number. (John 1: 11-13; Acts 15: 14; Rom. 11: 5, 7, 11-15, 17-24.) Until the balance of the Elect—those not won from Israel, but from the Gentiles—would be found, Israel was to remain in blindness according to Rom. 11: 25...

The first of these stages covered the period from the spring of 1878 to the fall of 1881, during which the last ones of the Elect necessary to bring up the number on this and on the other side of the veil of the full 144,000 tentatively came in...

But the fulness of the Gentiles coming in from 1878 to 1881 did not in all its individuals remain in. Some fell out, and in 1881 it was necessary to call certain ones in to fill the lapsed places among the tentative Elect this side the veil. During the period from 1881 to 1914 there set in another stage for the fulness of the Gentiles to come in; and by the fall of 1914 this stage ended with the last one of the tentative Elect being won. Consequently from that time on none of the tentative Elect would lose their crowns; but they would remain the tentative Elect until they would pass beyond the veil. During the same period (1881-1914) Israel’s blindness was rapidly giving way...

EVol. 16 Pages 126-127
The ninth purpose of the Gospel Age is the selection of a consecrated class for Youthful Worthiship...

We have shown elsewhere that the Jewish and the Gospel Ages with their harvests, as parallel dispensations, are of equal length and of similar events. Thus the time from the death of Jacob to the death of Jesus, the respective heads of fleshly and of spiritual Israel, was 1845 years, and the time from the call of the Gentiles (Cornelius, etc.), Oct. 36, to Oct. 1881 was also 1845 years. The call of Cornelius ended the exclusive favor to natural Israel; and the call that went out in Oct. 1881 ended the exclusive favor to spiritual Israel, which was brought about by the call of people outside of the churches as well as in the churches. Let no one, from this statement, understand us to mean that nobody was any longer called to Bride-ship with Christ after 1881; for such a special call was extended to individuals in and out of the churches until the full number of the Elect in Sept. 1914 was fixedly complete,...

Br. Johnson brings clarity to The Epiphany for the development of the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies as classes. In view of the Servant's writings, the current Executive Trustee's view sinks on its lack of proof. See: E.17 Pages 17, 39. E.16 Page 127. E.11 Page 95. QB. Pages 82, 377. E.13 Pages 682, 688, etc.

Our Fifty-Eigth Annual Report (PT Jan-Feb 1977)

"...the leaders in these groups are still insisting that all the consecrated, including new consecrators, should claim that they are in the High Calling. But an increasing number of the brethren in these groups, having in mind that the general call to the High Calling closed in 1881 (almost 100 years ago!), as Bro. Russell taught, recognize that at this late date it is no longer in order for them to consider themselves in the High Calling, and especially not to encourage new consecrators to do so, but rather to consider themselves and/or new consecrators as being Spirit-enlightened but non-Spirit-begotten ones, of the general class Bro. Russell called 'Those Consecrating Between the Ages' (Z 5761, col. 2)."

In discussing the conditions among Truth people, Bro. Jolly gives 1881 (not 1878) as the initial year someone could consecrate and not receive Spirit-begettal.

Main Object of our Lord's Return - Part 1

1. To Deliver the Little Flock
2. To Deliver the Great Company
3. To Deliver TCBTAs
4. To Overthrow Satan’s Empire
5. To Establish God’s Kingdom
6. To Bring Restitution
7. To Test the Human Family

1. To Deliver the Little Flock
This work took place during the Parousia period of our Lord’s second advent. The Church is gathered through and to the Truth. As a part of Christ 2nd Advent work, He comes to deliver her in the first Resurrection.

2. To Deliver the Great Company
A second purpose of our Lord’s return is to cleanse and deliver the Great Company. This takes place during the Epiphany Period* of his second advent.

*What year did the Epiphany begin?
Mal. 3: 2, 3: "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."

Verse 2 show two time periods: the Parousia and the second half, the Epiphany. This class (the Great Company) would have to come up out of great tribulation.

3. To Deliver TCBTAs, Reprint: Z5761
We understand one class consecrating between the ages is the Youthful Worthies. They are considered an elect class.

Joel 2: 28, 29: "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."

a. Servants: Little Flock
b. Hand Maids: Great Company
c. Old Men Ancient Worthies
d. Young Men Youthful Worthies

E Vol. 17 Page 17: “so the Youthful Worthies come into activity on the stage of God's plan after the opportunity to enter the High Calling for the Divine nature and joint-heirship with Christ is closed. According to the Bible, the opportunity of entering the High Calling was to be closed after "the fulness of the Gentiles" [the full number of the Elect from among the Gentiles] should come in (Rom. 11: 25). This synchronizes with the end of the reaping of the present Harvest.”

To get the complete understanding, see "The Fulness of the Gentiles" that clarifies Br. Johnson's teaching about the Youthful Worthies as individuals from 1881 and a separate and distinct Class in 1914. His teachings dispel the current ET's confusion on the matter. Look for part two coming shortly.

SAMUEL—TYPE AND ANTITYPE

The following three references appear in the article on Samuel in PT April, 1938 (same year E4 was published) and E13, Chapter 1. Our blog comments are in blue, and brackets within quoted references.

“Thus we see that while Rachel types the spiritual elective truths and the servants that apply them to the two spiritual elect classes in the end of the Age, Hannah additionally types the earthly elective truths and the servants that apply them to the earthly elect class, the Youthful Worthies developed in the end of the Age, i.e., from 1881 onward.” Does Bro. Johnson mean individual or class in 1881? We must continue in the article to get that clarification.

“In time of producing their children, antitypical Sarah was active from Jordan until the Church leaves the world; antitypical Rachel, the same period for The Christ, and for the Great Company as individuals, from shortly after Pentecost onward, and as a class, from Nov. 25, 1916—Jan. 19 [listed as Jan. 14 in E13], 1917 onward until the Great Company leaves the world; antitypical Hannah, the same periods for The Christ and the Great Company respectively and for the Youthful Worthies as individuals, from Oct., 1881, onward to Sept. 16, 1914, and as a class from Sept. 16, 1914, onward until they leave the world finally.” This reference clarifies the first reference from the article (above). It shows the development of individuals and classes for both the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies (no individuals from 1878-81 are mentioned).

“We say this because the said seed given Elkanah by Hannah types the Great Company in its three main divisions and the Youthful Worthies in their two main divisions (v. 21). This blessing was partly by antitypical Eli brought into being as symbolic begettals, in part during the Parousia, but the births take place during the Epiphany, not during the Parousia, so far as these two as classes are concerned, though there were individual crown-losers and Youthful Worthies during the Parousia.” As we see, both the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies are Epiphany classes, yet there were individuals in the Parousia. Again, the article was published in 1938, the same year E4, The Epiphany's Elect was published. We have total clarity on the subject.

Using a Type to Teach a Doctrine?

Using the book of Ruth (a type) as the main supporting proof for the current Executive Trustee’s “Present View” is out of harmony with what our servants taught.

Br. Russell: You cannot use a type to prove a doctrine. BEREAN BIBLE TEACHERS MANUAL “Berean Topical Index” page 25 reads: “types and figures (see “SYMBOLS”) a type must not be used to teach a doctrine, but to merely to illustrate one that is already taught in plain terms.” Also see ZWT 1892 (R1386)

Youthful Worthies as Individuals in 1881 and a separate and distinct Class in 1914 was already taught in plain terms prior to 2004.

Br. Johnson: E. Vol. 10 xxvi “And again we raise our voice as a pertinent mouthpiece of the Lord thereon, exhorting the brethren everywhere, as imperiling their class standing before the Lord, to refrain from speculating, especially in its worst present form-typing”.

Should the current (ET) be changing the writings of the Spirit Begotten servants?

Br. Jolly: PT 1951 Page. 108 Par. 2 “You refer to the statement in E Vol. 10, page xxviii, "no doctrine of the plan should be based solely on a type" and a similar statement in the Berean Bible comments (Berean topical index, p. 25) on Types, "A type must not be used to teach a doctrine, but merely to illustrate one that is already taught in plain terms."

All THREE Spirit Begotten servants agreed with each other. Why does the current (ET- Ralph Herzig) feel he needs to change their writings to prop up his "Present View"?

The Digressive Tabernacle?

E Vol 6. Page. 189 

"Truth is Progressive; Error is Digressive"

PT 1972 Sept - Oct.

(38) They (Ancient Worthies) came upon the scene before that Door was opened; hence their consecration could not be pictured at that Door, nor could their standing as fully consecrated ones be typed in the Holy, as was the case with all consecrated believers under the High Calling. Instead, the Ancient Worthies' standing was pictured by Levites (T 27).

(39) It is similar in the case of the Youthful Worthies, who as a class came upon the scene after the strait gate, the Door of entrance into the Holy, had closed forever, in the Fall of 1914. As shown in pars. (10) and (11).

Par. (10)

As already mentioned, Bro. Johnson proved clearly from the Scriptures that the door of entrance into the High Calling, into the antitypical Holy, closed finally and forever in the Fall of 1914, so that no more could be admitted (comp. Ezek. 44: 1, 2; E Vol. 5, p. 160). Though throughout the Gospel Age, under the High Calling, ALL consecrations unto death had been typed at the First Veil, in the Fall of 1914 a decided change set in, as the Tabernacle picture progressed to the building of the Epiphany Court as distinct from the Holy; and we must recognize this change if we would walk in the advancing light. NEVER AGAIN after the Fall of 1914 would a consecration be pictured at the First Veil!

Par. (11)

A decided change came about in other respects also. After the adjustment of matters in the Holy set in, in the Fall of 1914, no one could consecrate and have his standing as a fully consecrated believer pictured in the Holy, even though throughout the Gospel Age, until the High Calling's general call ceased in 1881, that was the place where every one of the fully consecrated believers had his standing pictured (T 22, par. 3). Thus something new began to exist which had not existed before the Fall of 1914 while the door of entrance into the High Calling was open, viz., a situation in which ALL who became fully consecrated believers had their standing pictured IN THE COURT, and not IN THE HOLY.

(39) continued:

their consecration also was not pictured at that Door, nor is their standing as fully consecrated believers pictured in the Holy; it likewise is pictured in the Court. They cannot enter the strait gate, nor walk the Narrow Way, which leads to (immortal) life, for it is closed; the Narrow Way and its entrance is not found in the Court and its entrance. Nor can the Youthful Worthies be on the Highway of Holiness (Isa. 35: 8), though they will be on it after it is opened up, following the application of the Ransom merit on behalf of the world. However, because they consecrated unto death while sin is still in the ascendancy, they may be said to have entered a strait gate when they consecrated, and to be on a narrow way thereafter as they faithfully remain dead to self and the world and alive to God amid many besetments and much opposition (P '55, pp. 57, 58), though actually, because they do not have the Adamic sentence removed from them as yet and have not been placed on trial for life, they are still on the Broad Way. But while dying the Adamic death they are, nevertheless, also, from another standpoint, dying a ministerial death in God's service (P '52, pp. 45, 46). But their strait gate into the difficult way of consecration is not pictured at the First Veil, the Door to the Holy, nor in the Gate of the Court, for that pictures their gateway into the tentatively justified condition. It is a serious error to teach that consecration is pictured at the Gate of the Court, as J.F. Rutherford taught (E Vol. 6, pp. 190, 373).  

The Worthies are like bookends. Notice how one group existed before the door to the High Calling opened and the other group (CLASS) comes into existence after the High Calling closed in 1914.

Seven Years of Favor, Followed by Thirty-three years of Falling and Destruction...

Watchtower (R 224)

*see Vol. 3 Studies in the Scriptures.

The harvest of the Jewish house was of two parts, viz: Seven years of favor to the church, and thirty-three years of wrath and trouble upon the then rejected and desolate one, from which the wheat was gathered.

These parallels being prophetic and in harmony with the prophecies already fulfilled, give reason for believing that the harvest to this age which began in 1874, will be like the shadow, viz: Seven years of favor to the church, to be followed by thirtythree years of falling and destruction upon the "Babylon" company which will completely separate all grains of wheat from tares.  (Col. 1 Par. 3) The seven years of favor to the church, commencing with 1874, will end in 1881--about the 2nd of October…

(Col. 2 Par. 1) Since 1878 (and never before that) we have felt at liberty to call God's children out of the nominal churches to a position of freedom and liberty, where they would be free to serve Him fully, as well as to study his word and be taught of Him: saying, "Babylon... is fallen and become the habitation of devils and a hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." (This falling of the nominal church and receiving into her bosom the corruptions of earth has been in process for some time). Now comes the message: "And I heard another voice saying, Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and receive not of her plagues." (Rev. 18:2-4). The favor of the present (and which we believe will end in October, 1881) is not to the nominal church but to individuals in her, that they may come out and receive the present Lord. He says: "If any man (not church) hear my voice, and open the door I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me." (Rev.3:20).

Notice how Pastor Russell stressed 7 years of favor to the CHURCH, 1874 - 1881. Notice there is no mention of the Youthful Worthies; because they didn't exist.

  

Youthful Worthies didn't have their inception in 1878 as individuals as the current (ET) would want us to believe. The INDIVIDUALS being called up to 1881 were Spirit Begotten as Pastor Russell taught.

* This is a perfect example of Br. Russell's early thought which progressed further as more truth on the subject became due (Proverbs 4: 18).  The foreward in E 5 informs us that Parousia teachings like these by 1914 progressed and became pure - purified for Little Flock purposes as Br. Johnson expounded. 

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" 1 Cor. 15: 22

Rom. 5: 12 Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed on all men, for that all have sinned:

The L.H.M.M. tract says: "That man was created perfect, . . . and that through sin he fell"

The new B.S.M. tract says: "That the human race was created perfect . . . and that through sin they fell"

Question – Which statement is correct? Why the change?

Answer­ - The whole plan of redemption revealed in the Bible is pivoted upon two things: man's condemnation to the curse in Adam by Divine justice for Adam's sin, and man's ransom from that curse-condemnation by Christ through His righteousness unto death as Adam's and our ransom in Adam. There is nothing in the facts of the curse but is in harmony with the thought that the curse came upon all through one common ancestor; for it is evident that the curse is by heredity transmitted from generation to generation, and hence must have come from the first generation of mankind as its guilty recipient; otherwise some of the race, the descendants of non-sinning ancestors, would have escaped it. Whether one will dispute this or not, it is evidently the Biblical teaching (Rom. 5: 12-19; 1 Cor. 15: 21, 22), and certainly is in harmony with the fact that the curse is hereditary, which all observation and experience certainly prove to be a fact. The Bible proposition is that Adam for indulgence in sin had to pay its price, enslavement unto death under the curse, exacted by God, the Creditor, who required the debtor to pay the price for his sin-indulgence, for the reason that the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6: 23). E12, 232-233

Consecration as Related to Present-Day Conditions

From WT, March 1914, (R5410): AS TO THOSE CONSECRATING SINCE EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE

"Some have been concerned as to what evidence, if any, a person consecrating himself since 1881 would have that his consecration had been accepted of God. We would say regarding that that something would depend on how recently the person had made the consecration. If very recently, he would have no sure means of determining. If a year or two had passed, and he hat not in the meantime received any evidences of the holy Spirit's begetting--if he had not received increased ability to understand and appreciate the truth; if he had not experienced a love for the truth and a desire to serve it; if he had not found some opportunity for serving the truth, and some experiences of trial--in such case he would have reason to doubt the divine acceptance of his consecration..."

"The evidences seem to be that there are still quite a number of vacancies in the elect number, because there are people coming into present truth and consecrating who have come directly from the world. This would seem to indicate that there are not at present a sufficient number fully consecrated to complete the 144,000. If there were, these would be given the preference over those not consecrated."

This reference from Bro. Russell considers those individuals consecrating since 1881, not 1878.