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.

Questions for the ET

Dear Bro. R.M. Herzig, Executive Trustee, L.H.M.M:

Why do you continue to emphasize that the arrangements have been violated? Why do you fail to answer any questions when truth references are presented to you that deny your contention that the Youthful Worthies began as individuals in 1878 and began as a class in 1881?

You have to admit that there were no issues prior to 2004. In fact, issues started when you took the Executive Trustee (ET) position in 2004. There is nothing wrong with using truth writings to present the truth. But, when you begin altering the truth writings deliberately to change the intent, by inserting 1878 for example, and adding and expressing ones own unfounded thoughts is wrong!

General questions to blog readers:

Why did the current ET, who is a non-spirit begotten consecrated individual, change the intent of an article entitled “Quasi Elect” PT 1978, p. 50 as written by our beloved Bro. Jolly, a spirit begotten individual and spiritual leader.

• He deletes the following statements in bold: we take pleasure in republishing it here with "a number of important additions.” and here adds in italics: “few changes to reflect our present view.” Were the former servants wrong? Why the change? Was the former view wrong?

• Why do you suppose that he (ET) deleted this statement in bold? “ ( c ) the antitypical Court of the Epiphany Tabernacle and Temple "in the finished picture--- have as a class been in the process of development (see E-4, The Epiphany's Elect;”)
• He follows this by adding in italics: “The Great Company has finished its course and has now received the spirit nature (Rev. 7: 1-14). The Youthful Worthies, as the last elect class, has been in the process of development since their inception in 1878 (see E 4, The Epiphany's Elect, pp. 372-376; PT No. 519).”  

THIS WASN'T BRO. JOLLY'S THOUGHT CONCERNING THE YOUTHFUL WORTHIES! HE NEVER IN ANY OF HIS WRITINGS CLAIMED 1878 AS THE INCEPTION DATE FOR THE YOUTHFUL WORTHIES. HE CONSISTENTLY WROTE AND SPOKE 1881 AS INDIVIDUALS AND 1914 AS A CLASS.

 

AS A SPIRIT BEGOTTEN GREAT COMPANY MEMBER, WOULDN'T YOU THINK HE WOULD KNOW THE CORRECT DATES?  OR, ACCORDING TO THE CURRENT (ET'S) DEFINITION, WAS HE A SIFTER TOO?

Prior to 2004, our former servants placed their thoughts in italics and in brackets when making changes. This is something that the current ET has not done.

In addition to making changes to the Quasi Elect article, their have been other PT articles that he has changed, including Bro. Johnson's 1913 discourse. Does he feel that this is what Bro. Johnson should have said? When does a lower class have the right to change the intent of the writings of a higher class? Bro. Jolly always taught relating to the YWs the dates of 1881 as the beginning and 1914 as becoming a class. He also taught that the YWs could not be a known as a separate and distinct class while the Little Flock were still being reaped.

Are we going to ignore this? How do we harmonize this?

Summer 2006 PT:

The Article is Deceptive: What is the correct date for the beginning of the Youthful Worthy call? Why are there differing views on it? 1878 or 1881? The Youthful Worthy call was a forty year period ending on September 16th, 1954. The writer later in the article takes the attention away from his original premise, the word "Call" and modifies the word "Class". This tactic throws the reader off from the root meaning of the question. What is the correct date for the Youthful Worthy Call?

If you are an Epiphany Bible Student, ask yourself this question: How long was the Youthful Worthy Call? If the Youthful Worthy call began in 1881 as the current ET wishes us to believe, then we have to rewrite the Epiphany Truth and add 33 years to the 40 year call to make this error work.

Example: Notice below the subtle topic change from "Call" to "Class" by the current ET. Notice the change of thought moving this Epiphany (1914) Class to the Parousia (1881).

Summer 2006 PT on page 21-C2 the article so states “Please note, that this above insert is describing classes, not individuals, who are separate from group affiliation, and it emphasizes the fact that the Youthful Worthies are developed as a class from 1881 onward, which supports our contention that they were first recognized as coming into existence as individuals from 1878 and later as a class in 1881, not in 1914.”

Additional thoughts addressing the word "Class"

The example above does not harmonize with other truth references, such as Bro. Jolly's discourse at the 1970 Chicago Convention entitled “Jehovah The Keeper of Israel”. “The Youthful Worthies were developing as a class, a distinct class, that consecrated after spirit begettal ended in 1914 and from 1914 for the next forty years until 1954. Here we have the Great Company developing as a class and the Youthful Worthies developing as a separate class also.” Sr. Carla Olson has the tape.

Concerned Epiphany Bible Student  

Continued - See comments for additional information.

New Class in God's Plan Developing

PT February 1919, Page 34--"Before the General Call to the Divine nature and joint-heirship with Christ ceased in 1881, the persons that we call the "Youthful Worthies" did not exist as individuals of a class; but since that time [the date given, 1881] they [plural, these persons or individuals] have been [in existence] and now [when written, in the Epiphany] are coming as such [a class] into existence, and are showing some evidence of existence as such [a class]. Yea, we expect them to become shortly very marked as a class, separate and distinct from the Little Flock and the Great Company. The reason for their coming into existence as a class, though undiscerned hitherto as such, is that, since the General Call ceased, more people have consecrated to the Lord than can be provided with crowns from among those that wait as aspirants; and therefore the surplus consecrators were not begotten of the Spirit."

The title of this blog entry is the subtitle for the above text in the original PT reference. It indicates a NEW class (not an old one) in development during the Epiphany. Also, covered in a previous blog entry, please note the proper meaning of “individuals of a class” in the dependent clause (in blue, within brackets). “As such” is not a substitute for “therefore.” Rather, “such” must refer to an antecedent noun or noun phrase in order for “as such” to make grammatical sense. As a test, ask yourself “as what?”

Cornelius

Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee

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, even as the call of Cornelius and other Gentiles in Oct. 36 did not exclude individual Jews from the call thereafter, though it ended Israel's exclusive favor. But we do mean that as the fulness of the Gentiles probationarily came in by the Spring of 1878 (Rom. 11: 25), and as some of them fell away from their steadfastness by Oct. 1881, only such a number of subsequent respondents to the invitation to consecrate could be Spirit-begotten as were needed to take the crowns lost by those who fell away from their steadfastness. But hundreds of thousands consecrated, while only a few thousand crowns were available, and thus there were more consecrators than available crowns. For the surplus consecrators the Lord has provided Youthful Worthiship. Therefore ever since 1881 those surplus consecrators have been forming a new class in God's Plan. And as since just after mid-September 1914 the fulness of Gentiles fixedly came in, i.e., since the full number of those who would prove faithful came in by that time, it follows that all consecrators since that time are probationarily Youthful Worthies. For a few years yet this class will be forming and developing. E16, p. 127

Some Comments on Ruth

From PT August, 1940, Page 121. Blog comments are posted in blue, within brackets.

Ruth 1: PT '33 p. 82
1 There was a famine—Scarcity of new Truth from 1844 to 1874.
A certain man—Crown-lost leaders.
Bethlehem—Sphere of Bible Truth as due.
Country of Moab—Nominal church.
His wife—Crown-lost ledlings.
Two sons—The more and the less faithful justified leaders.
2 Elimelech—(Powerful king) Crown-lost leaders who partook in the Miller movement, and who went back to the nominal church.
Naomi—(Pleasantness) Crown-lost ledlings.
Mahlon—(Sickly) The more faithful tentatively–justified leaders.
Chilion—(Pining) The less faithful tentatively-justified leaders.
3 Elimelech died—Swallowed up in worldly conditions, their New Creatures died.
4 Two sons took wives . . . of Moab—The justified leaders gathered leadable justified ones to themselves in the nominal church.
Orpah—(Stubborn) Less faithful justified ledlings.
Ruth—(Friendship) More faithful justified ledlings.
Abode ten years—Fullness of time to remain in the nominal church.
5 Mahlon and Chilion died—Swallowed up in worldly conditions, their justification lapsed.
6 The Lord had visited His people—God had renewed His favor.
Giving them bread—Giving the Parousia Truth.
7 She went forth . . . daughters-in-law—Became interested in the Truth then due, which separated their hearts and minds from the nominal church.
Return unto . . . Judah—Away from the nominal church and into the Truth movement again.
8 Return each to her mother's house—Crown-lost new creatures' acts gave these the thought that they should leave them and settle down to a comfortable life in the nominal church.
9 They . . . wept—Sorrow at prospect of parting.
10 We will return with thee—The two justified classes determined to advance toward the Truth. [Both Ruth and Orpah are referred to as classes. See also E4, page 371]
11 Why will ye go with me?—Antitypical Naomi's course raised in the minds of antitypical Orpah and Ruth the question, Why should we cease to work for, and to attend nominal-church meetings and do the opposite?
13 The hand of the Lord is gone out against me—This thought was in the antitype concluded from the crown-lost ledlings' unfruitful efforts with nominal-church people.
14 Orpah kissed her—Failure to meet the test and to advance indicated their desire to leave them. [Orpah advanced only so far on the journey, then returned.]
Ruth clave unto her—Overcame in the test and remained with the consecrated. [Ruth remained with the consecrated. She was not yet consecrated, since the comment makes a distinction between Ruth and Naomi.]
16 Whither thou goest, I will go—Types consecration of the faithful justified class following the crown-lost new creatures and leaving the nominal church. Youthful Worthies are not Spirit-begotten. [Ruth class is now consecrated. She could not have been before verse 16, as we would then have to conclude Orpah class was also consecrated during the earlier part of the journey.]
19 They two . . . came to Bethlehem—Persevered, advancing in the Truth and its Spirit. City was moved—The left-overs of the cleansed sanctuary class, as well as the Parousia class rejoiced.
Is this Naomi?—A class that went out and returned. [Naomi also noted as a class.]
20 Call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me—Convinced the Lord had striped them for leaving God's cleansed people to return to Babylon.
21 I went out full . . . home again empty—Recognized loss of spirituality and spiritual privileges and associates.
22 Beginning of barley harvest—From 1878 to 1881.

Ruth 2:
1 Boaz—Our Lord.
3 Gleaned in the field . . . belonging unto Boaz—Zealous Youthful Worthies, not Spirit-begotten, from 1881 onward were given opportunities to serve in the Harvest under the Chief Reaper. [Since Youthful Worthies did not exist from 1878-81, logically none were available to be given opportunities to serve in the Harvest prior to 1881.]
4 Boaz came from Bethlehem—Our Lord coming from His activities of dispensing the Truth to the Church.
The Lord be with you—Blessed the reapers in their service of others.
5 Whose damsel is this?—Our Lord raised in Bro. Russell's mind the question as to who the unbegotten consecrators were; for the consecrated were more numerous than the available crowns. [Crowns were only available after the General Call ceased, from 1881 onward.]
6 Came back with Naomi out of . . . Moab—That Servant in Towers from 1881 onward pointed out an unbegotten class among the returning crown-lost new creatures. [Youthful Worthies existed from 1881 onward. If the word "class" is your tripping point, please be aware of its use above for Naomi, Ruth and Orpah. As structured here, the original comments beautifully show the correct view.]