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We're only one page beyond the Executive Trustee's misread references and we've got three problems. First, his new consecrators between 1878-81 have no opportunities to serve in the Harvest until the gleaning in 1881 and it should be indicated. Second, more were consecrating than could have crowns since 1878, not 1881. Third, we have to exchange the indefinite condition for the definite--the clear understanding that Brother Johnson gave on the difference between the unbegotten consecrated and the Youthful Worthies as he later details in PT April 1947, pages 52-53:

“It is true that our Pastor called the class that we call Youthful Worthies, not Youthful Worthies, but the Unbegotten Consecrated, by which expression he meant exactly what we mean by that of the Youthful Worthies. We may be sure that in denying the existence of a class that our Pastor repeatedly affirmed exists, this Brother is a revolutionist…”

“…thus the Brother's assumption of restitution following immediately after God's last visit to Gentiles for Little Flock members falls to the ground. The Youthful Worthies as individuals have been developing since in 1881 the general call ceased, and as a class since the last Little Flock member was won in 1914.”

Unauthorized Electioneering?

"The brethren at large remember clearly how you electioneered to get Bro. Ralph elected..." is an accusation that has been spread around by a few brethren as an attempt to discredit Pilgrim Bro. Richard Blaine. They are misinformed. We thank Bro. Blaine for providing us copy of the e-mail the then temporary Executive Trustee sent to him on February 27, 2004 in order to share it with you on the blog.

The e-mail clearly shows that the temporary Executive Trustee, Bro. Ralph Herzig, gave the approval for Pilgrim Bro. Richard Blaine to reach out and contact the brethren by e-mail. Follow up phone calls were then made to individuals to get a person count for that upcoming convention in Florida 2004 as well as to make sure the references Bro. Ralph wanted distributed were received and understood.

Unauthorized Electioneering? We think not...

Who are the Sifters?

The above PT article on the Quasi-Elect was published by Bro. Jolly in 1978. As reference to sifters, note the following excerpt which is in the header of this blog, found in E10, page 115:

"...The Assyrian here, as in Micah 5: 5, 6, represents 'those who make spoil of God’s people by devastating the Truth and its Spirit'..."

"... The Lord’s true sheep will heed only the voice of the Good Shepherd; they will study to show themselves approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim. 2: 15). They will keep themselves in the love of God and in the most holy faith. The Truth and its Spirit will be the touchstones that will determine for them which is true and which is false..."

The question has been asked "Who are the Sifters?" We understand it to be those who have devastated the Truth...like in the example above. Satan never addresses the Truth. Instead, he diverts attention from it and attacks one's character.

The Executive Trustee still has not addressed why he changed the work of the Spirit Begotten. His 2004 modified PT article on the Quasi-Elect has the "our present view" idea which states that the inception of the Youthful Worthies is in 1878. THIS CHANGE IS A SEVERE VIOLATION OF THE ARRANGEMENTS. Since then, he has attacked the characters of individuals and local Epiphany classes for their inquires into this radical change of the Epiphany Truth. Oddly, he accuses them of going against the arrangements. What should we call his handywork of changing existing Truth in the above Quasi-Elect article? Advancing Truth?

Permanent Marker Series: E4, Page 376

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We're on the second page of references where the Executive Trustee developed his error on the Youthful Worthies. The first misread sentence here, like the one on the previous page, also has the Naomi class as the subject. Bro. Johnson gives us the entire 3 ½ year journey for the Naomi and Ruth classes. To make this one work for the ET, we need to get rid of the 3 ½ year process completely. Unfortunately, this changes the journey by forcing the difficult obstacles to full consecration to be overcome quickly and immediately.

The second sentence is from the Ruth class point of view, showing their 3 ½ year journey from tentative justification toward full consecration. To make this work for the ET, we are yet again forced to make it an instantaneous event in 1878. The time in between their starting location in Moab and their ending location in Judah must be removed.

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We are at the first of two pages that are the foundation for the Executive Trustee's error on the Youthful Worthies. He thinks a sentence on this page reads that they exist in 1878. But he is not reading it correctly, especially in light of all of the pages we've had to modify. We've detailed this sentence before, but we'll do it again since we're on the page.

Here, Bro. Johnson describes the Naomi class journey (they are the subject) viewed from their destination (“came back”) and says that they arrived with (“brought back with them”) the Ruth class in her completed condition at the end of the journey (fully consecrated after overcoming difficult obstacles) and mentions when they began the journey (“from 1878 on”) as a tentatively justified class.

In order for this sentence to work for the Executive Trustee, we need to change the journey to a completed action in 1878. The Naomi and Ruth classes must arrive in 1878. That, of course, eliminates the journey, the difficult obstacles and provides no window of time for the other tentatively justified class, the Orpah class, to attempt to fully consecrate and come into the Truth.

Truth Reavealed in Due Times II

PT. 1977 Pg. 90

...(g) There are also many other truths that are not yet due to be understood, for "the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day" (Prov. 4: 18; A 20-28). In due time another book will be opened, which is the book of life, with further enlightenment on New Covenant revelations not yet due to be understood and expounded (Rev. 20: 12).

(25) "The mystery, which was kept secret since the world began," finally became "meat in due season" and was "made manifest to the saints" in the beginning of the Gospel Age, when they needed this information (Luke 16: 16; Rom. 16: 25, 26; Col. 1: 26). Similarly, truths and Scriptures pertaining to the Youthful Worthies were unfolded when needed, especially after 1916, for their encouragement and development as a class...

Truths Revealed in Due Times

(24) God "hath in due times manifested his word" (Titus 1: 3), prior to which times it was impossible to unlock its secrets. For examples:...

...(e) During the 40-year Parousia, the time of the Little Flock's reaping, Bro. Russell thought that the Time of Trouble would end shortly after 1914; and it is not yet due for us to know exactly when it will end. Also, in F 128, 129, Bro. Russell gave an immature thought when he wrote that Gershon types "the saved world of mankind" (see F, Appendix, Note 1, for further light on this as it became due). Bro. Russell brought forth light on the non-Spirit-begotten consecrated—the Youthful Worthies—as it became due to be given in the Parousia period after the general call to the High Calling ended in 1881; but many Scriptures regarding the Youthful Worthies were not opened up through God's special servants for them until they came forth as a separate class in the Epiphany, with special need for this Truth as due.
PT. 1977 Pg. 89, 90

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Page 356 has to be changed too in order to fit the current view. The Youthful Worthy class is no longer being developed "now" in the Epiphany, but should be moved back to 1881. What error the Executive Trustee has introduced.

The Lopsided Presentation of Truth

PT 1966 Pg. 45-47

Question (1966)—What is meant by “a lopsided presentation of Truth”?

Answer.—It is a presentation of Truth that is not

well balanced; it leans more to one side than to the

other, often emphasizing one side of the truth on a

subject, even to the exclusion of, the ignoring of, or

the denial of any other side of the same truth, thus

giving an unbalanced, biased viewpoint, which usually

leads into serious error. It is another very subtle way

in which Satan works to deceive the Lord’s people.

To illustrate: Bro. Johnson (as set forth in the

answer to the previous question) showed clearly that

the Epiphany, or Apocalypse, period is (1) in its

narrow, or restricted, sense the period from 1914 to

1954...

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Page 353 falls into the same category as the previously edited pages, but with one additional issue. By modifying Bro. Johnson's comments to Pastor Russell's text, it no longer makes much sense and it almost forces us to edit his work as well. By now, you can see how much this "present view" idea changes the Truth.

Some Pyramid Corroborations of Epiphany Dates

PT 1947, pages 7-14:

...and to the High Calling, with its end at the time of the last Spirit-begettal, Sept. 16, 1914, when the final "living stone" was set in the Body, to be built up to Jesus as the heavenly Head-stone...

...May not these 7 overlapings of 3 inches each suggest that all of those who walk in the High Calling as candidates for the Divine nature will eventually be in one of three classes: the Second Death, The Great Company or the Little Flock?

...[We think Bro. Jolly's application worthy of careful thought. And let us praise our God for His marvels!—The Editor.]...

Bro. Johnson appreciated the detailed letter Bro. Jolly sent to him pertaining to the Great Pyramid. You will notice the High Calling activity took place up to 1914. Candidates who were running for the "One Hope" of Eph. 4: 4 eventually will be in one of three classes. You will also notice the Youthful Worthies aren't mentioned.

Permanent Marker Series: E4, Page 342

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Page 342 is just like page 339. All those faithful consecrators in the Executive Trustee's new timeline must be included here. Otherwise, they are associated with no one.

Letter of General Interest

PT July 1935, page 118: "I also found a brother who used every argument he could concoct to resist the thought that we are in the Epiphany. He could not see a number of points I presented. Naturally I looked for the cause of his blindness on many simple truths that brethren not so gifted mentally as he is could easily see. So I asked him if he believed that the Harvest reaping had ended, that the High Calling had closed and that the Youthful Worthies are now being selected. He replied, No, to each question. Then I asked him when he consecrated, and he replied, in 1924. I urged him to guard his heart with all diligence and to avoid self-will, accepting the Lord's will instead, and resting in it. I fear that many candidates for Youthful Worthiship will lose out by resisting the Lord and His Truth and by insisting in self-will on marrying the Lord without His proposing to them." --Bro. R. G. Jolly

Permanent Marker Series: E4, Page 339

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Page 339 is a lot like page 337. We have an obvious reference showing when unbegotten consecrators began to exist. The date is not 1878 as the Executive Trustee suggests, nor is there mention of a Youthful Worthy call as he shows in his "custom" Chart of the Ages that was introduced at the Ohio convention in 2009. How is it possible that a non Spirit-begotten individual can create a chart that has never existed before or modify the work of Bro. Russell?

Does History Repeat Itself?

Question (1972)—Is it proper to pray for those Epiphany-enlightened Truth brethren who have brought forth serious error and who have been spreading it more or less widely among the Lord’s people, thus doing a sifting work?

Answer.—It depends on whether or not the individuals are new creatures. In E. 4, p. 122, Bro. Johnson says: “All new-creaturely sifters defile God’s Temple... But how about those who consecrated here in the end of the Age, but for whom no crowns were available, the Spirit-enlightened but not Spirit begotten ones, including all consecrators since the Fall of 1914, when the door of entrance into the High Calling closed (see PT No. 515)? Shortly before his death the Epiphany Messenger is said to have remarked that after his death the Youthful Worthies would be tested along the same lines that the new creatures had been tested during the Epiphany, and that he looked for many of them to fall in similar ways (see P. ’55, p. 66, par. 4). This prediction has certainly come true. And the principle given in Prov. 16: 18 (“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall”) has been manifested to a large extent by sifting errorists who have arisen from among the Youthful Worthies and have persisted despite expostulations from the Scriptures...

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Page 337 is also a dilemma for the Executive Trustee. All those who were consecrating and proving faithful, and finding no crowns available for themselves, must now have that possibility starting in 1878. It is amazing that the "present view" idea that came from E4, pages 375 and 376 contradicts so many references in the same book. Does the Executive Trustee actually believe that Bro. Johnson changed his mind between 337 and 375? Why don't the brethren defend Bro. Johnson instead of supporting a man, a movement and such error?

The Epiphany Antitype-Immature Application

(28) Bro. Russell is not to be faulted for his immature application (in F 129) of the Gershonite Levites antitypically to "the saved world of mankind," because it was made before the fuller Truth on these Levites correctly applying antitypically to the Youthful Worthies was due to be understood (see E 4, p. 323). Likewise, Bro. Johnson is not to be faulted for making an immature application in E 11, p. 715, of "the five daughters of Zelophehad-(Num. 27: 1-11)" to the Youthful Worthies, because it was made before the fuller truth on them was due to be understood. He did not identify five groups of the Youthful Worthies as being typed by them. But his applying these daughters as typing the Youthful Worthies—Spirit-enlightened, non-Spirit-begotten fully consecrated ones—helps us to understand that these daughters do type associated tentatively justified brethren who in the post-Sept. 16, 1954 Epiphany period become Spirit-enlightened, non-Spirit-begotten fully consecrated ones—i.e., Consecrated Epiphany Campers. As we shall see from what follows, the Scriptures, reason and facts show that these daughters could not type Youthful Worthies; rather, in this setting they type Consecrated Epiphany Campers.

PT. 1977 Pg. 90

Crowns - How Lord Chooses Replacements Since 1881.

Questions (1921)—Would not the Lord since 1881 invariably choose for vacant crowns those consecrators who were in the Truth?

Answer.—The Scriptures and facts given under the preceding question prove that such was not His course. He doubtless decided rather from the standpoint of the availability of the candidates for the particular vacant crown. This principle would cause Him sometimes to choose from those consecrators who were in the Truth, and sometimes from those not in the Truth, the latter furnishing the majority of those who were favored with the spirit begettal during the Harvest. Hence it is to be concluded that not the amount of Truth possessed, but the quality of the heart’s attitude toward the Truth possessed would be the largest factor in determining the Lord’s choice for a special crown. He coupled, of course, with this the person’s talents and providential situation as helping to make him available for that particular crown. ’21-30

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Page 327 offers the Executive Trustee a problem. Bro. Johnson tells us plainly that it is from 1881, not 1878, when there are brethren who are not Spirit begotten. That has to be moved back to meet the "present view" idea. We also have to move their development to the Harvest.

Bro. Jolly explains this in PT May-June, 1963, p. 43:
"Somewhat similarly, the Youthful Worthies, though developed as a class in the Epiphany, will nevertheless have their eventual inheritance as Millennial and post-Millennial Levites (E 4, p. 323; P '40, pp. 13, 14); they are not really Epiphany Levites, for the Great Company in its three groups—Kohathites, Merarites and Gershonites—are the Epiphany Levites. But their being Millennial Levites does not mean that the Millennial-Age Tabernacle must be in operation in the time in which they are developed in this life.

From the standpoint of their development, the Youthful Worthies are persisting Gospel-Age Levites. Note, e.g., Bro. Johnson's statements in E 4, p. 322: 'Remember of the Gospel-Age Levites that they lap over the Harvest Period, because of the lapping of the two Ages. . . . During the Transitional 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; while those who do consecrate, the Youthful Worthies, retain their tentative justification and remain in the Court as Gospel-Age Levites [italics ours] of three groups, Kohathites, Merarites and Gershonites, throughout the Transitional Period.'

Thus the Youthful Worthies are 'persisting Gospel Age Levites in the transition time'—in the Epiphany Tabernacle—though they have their eventual inheritance as Millennial Levites. But this does not mean that the Gospel-Age and the Millennial-Age Tabernacles are "working" now. Only the Epiphany Tabernacle is 'working' now."

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Now to page 323. If the Truth on the Youthful Worthies was not due before the Epiphany, then the Executive Trustee's separate and distinct class existing since 1881 was hidden for some unknown reason. The best we can do with this page is to point out this oddity.