GuyrightSi! COFi-RIGKT DEPOSCR JEHOVAH'S FINISHED WORK "Declaring the End from the Beginning ; and from Ancient Times the Things that are not yet done." — Isaiah 46:10. "Known unto Jehovah are all His Works from the Beginning of the World." —Acts 15:18. Marvelous Things Which Have Been Kept Secret from the Foundation of the World "Into which things Angels earnestly desire to look." — 1 Peter 1:12. '*%'%%< PUBLISHED BY J. A. OPPY, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. 0<* JEHOVAH'S FINISHED WORK. WRITE FOR IT NOW! HELP TO "LIFT UP THIS STAND- ARD AMONG THE PEOPLE " PRICE, POSTPAID TO ANY ADDRESS IN THE UNITED STATES, $1.50 AGENTS WANTED FOR EVERY STATE IN THE UNION. WRITE FOR TERMS. ADDRESS AW« ORDERS TO J. A. OPPY, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. COPYRIGHTED, 1918, BY J. A. OPPY, SH,OAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS MAR 21 1919 ©CU512728 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 3 DIAGRAM OF JEHOVAH'S PLAN OF THE AGEvS, ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIP- TURES, FOR THE CREATION OF 1,000 GEN- ERATIONS OF GODS, "MAN, MALE AND FE- MALE," AND "ALL THE HOSTS OF THEM"; "LIKE UNTO GOD — EVEN GOD." (Text m margin, Rom. 4:17.) Ps. 105:8; Rom. 8:20-21 ; Rev. 21:5; Gen. 2:1. Through Christ and the glorified Church, the spiritual seed of Abraham. "Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, ac- cording to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fulness of times ["The Ages to come" of Christ's Reign] He might gather together in one [universal family] all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are in earth, even in Him." (Ephes. 1 :9~io and 2:7.) Adam to Flood. 1,656 years. Adam to call of Abraham. Time in doubt. Adam to exodus of Israel. Time in doubt. Adam to 70 years' captivity of Israel. Time in doubt. Adam to birth of Christ. Time in doubt. Adam to end of Gospel Age, 1945. 6,000 years. 4 Jehovah's Finished Work. Adam to end of Millennial Age. 7,000 years. Adam to end of "Jehovah's Finished Work/' of 1,000 generations of gods, "like unto God — even God." Unknown. Adam to beginning of "Age without end." Un- known. "To Him [Jehovah] be the Glory in the Church] and in Jesus Christ, to all the generations [1,000 of the Age of the Ages. Amen." — Ephes. 3:21, Dia " glot. "Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end." — Isa. 45:17. "He hath remem- bered His covenant forever, the word which He com- manded to a thousand generations. The covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac; and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an evei lasting covenant." — Ps. 105:8-10. Jehovah's Finished Work. APPEAR OF THE AUTHORS. "Hear, for I [we] will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things; for my mouth shall utter truth." (Prov. 8:6-7.) God's Word is truth. "These things belong to the wise." (Prov. 24:23.) "Wise" virgins, and them only. (Matt. 25.2.) "O taste and see that the Lord is good." (Ps. 34:8.) "I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." (Matt. 13:35.) "Hear my words, ye wise men, and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge; for the ear tasteth words, as the palate tasteth food. Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves that which is good." (Job 34:2-4.) "Many shall purify them- selves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10.) "He who testifieth these things saith, Yea, I come quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus." (Rev. 22:20.) Jehovah's Finished Work. "But I would have you know that the head op every man (on the God plane] is Christ." — I Cor ii j. (Rom. 4:17 and 8:21.) N8 A. THE God Plane A the Church, > the Bride, the^ 144, 000, the Lamb's wipe," "the pirst fruits unto god and the Lamb," are the 1 first to be exalted to the 1 God plane, before the re-^ mainder op humanity (Rev. 14:1-4, 1 John 3:2; 2 Peter 1-4;' Phil 3:21; Heb.7.16.) r Adam is the head of every man on the^ r NATURAL PLANE. " HOWBElT, THAT IS NOT\ r first which is spiritual, but that which is\ 'natural, then that which is spiritual." (iN cor. 15:46.) all the groaning creation wiij,\ finally be lifted up to the god plane. (rom.> 4:17, 8:21, Rev 21*5, 1 Tim. 2.3-4.) Then Jeho-^ VAH'S WORK WILL BE FINISHED AS DECLARED FROM THE> BEGINNING (Isa 46.IO.) Jehovah's Finished Work. THE aREAT IMAGE . The Great Metallic Image o* Daniei, Two. 8 Jehovah's Finished Work. ThE GREAT METALLIC IMAGE OF DANIEL 2:31 to 46 symbolizes four world-wide Empires : Bab- ylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome. Beginning 606 B. C, and spanning a cycle of 2,520 years, ending in 1914, in a world-wide war. According to the Word of God, Babylon, the fourth universal monarchy, was to be divided into ten kingdoms, symbolized by the ten toes on the great metallic image. These ten kingdoms are all lo- cated in the Eastern Hemislphere, in Roman ter- ritory. "In the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people. But it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever . ' ' — Daniel 2 144 . The time allotted for this kingdom of "the God of Heaven' ' to be "set up" is between 1914 A. D. and 1945 A. D., September 20th. At this latter date Christ and the glorified saints, the Bride of Christ, the 144,000, "the Lamb's wife," will take the kingdom and become its rulers. MAN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. When man was first created, he was not created in the express image of God, but was created natural. But by re-generation through Jesus Christ, the second Adam, man is to be changed from the nat- ural to the spiritual, or created in the image and likeness of God. When Jesus Christ, the second Adam, was created, he was created natural, and remained so for thirty-three and one-half years; then at His resurrection He was changed to man in the image and likeness of God, the brightness of His Father's glory, the express image of His substance. Jesus Christ is the first and only man as yet created immortal in the image and likeness of God. Jesus Christ had two begettals and two births. His first begettal was by the Spirit of God in the womb of His mother, Mary, the vir- gin. His first birth was when He was born of the Virgin Mary, in Bethlehem of Judea. His sec- ond begettal or anointing was when He was bap- tized with the Holy Spirit, at Jordan, being about thirty years old. His second birth occurred at His resurrection, when He was born out of the death state or condition, with the power of an endless life, being then born of God, born ffrom above, as stated in John 3:3. He could then come and go as the wind, unperceived by hu- man eyes, unless He chose to reveal Himself, as in the case of His meeting with His disciples on the way to Emmaus. His Bride, the 144,000, the io Jehovah's Finished Work. wife of the Lamb, will have two begettals and two births also, will be changed and made immortal in the first or chief resurrection. By the power of God vested in Christ, the sfecond Adam, and the glorified Church, the second Eve, the whole race of mankind will finally be re-generated, created anew, made immortal, become gods, like unto God, as prophetically foretold in Genesis 1:31 and 2:4. The Divine plan and purpose of Jehovah, as relates to the whole race of mankind, is embraced in the above propositions, to be carried out through Christ and the glorified Church. It is the "mystery of Godliness"— God-likeness, which has been kept secret from the ages, but now revealed to us through the Scriptures of truth, given us by the holy prophets and apostles, who have preached these "glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people" both the living and the dead — with the Holy Spirit sent down from Heaven. The whole plan and purpose of Jehovah, as re- lates to man in the " image and likeness " of God, is given us in the first chapter of Genesis and ending with the sixth verse of the second chapter, which should never have been cut off from the first chapter. Jehovah's Finished Work. 1 1 NATURAL OR MORTAL MAN CONTRASTED WITH SPIRITUAL OR IMMORTAL MAN. The First Adam. The first Adam is sown a natural body, mortal, (i Cor. 15:45.) The first Adam was made of the dust of the ground, a natural or mor- tal man. (Gen. 2 vj ; Job 4-I7-) The first Adam was a figure of Him that was to come. (Rom. 5:14.) The first Adam was a son of God, but not a begotten son. (Luke 3:38.) The first man Adam was a creature made sub- ject to vanity, liable to temptation . (Gen .3:6; Rom. 8:20.) The Second Adam. It is raised a spiritual body, raised immortal. (1 Cor. 15:45.) The second Adam was made of the "seed" of the woman (Gen. 3:15), the "seed" of Abraham, the "seed" of David, the "seed" of the Virgin Mary. Jesus, the second Ad- am, was the One to come ; hence could not be older than His mother — was no angel. Jesus, the second Ad- am, was the only begot- ten Son of God (John 1:14; Luke 1:35), made of a woman, made under the law (Gal. 4:4). The second Adam was a creature also, and made subject to vanity, tempt- ed in all points like as we are, suffered and died as we do. (Heb. 2:14-17- 18.) "Besides, He (God) 12 Jehovah's Finished Work. The first Adam was made natural or mortal, tested and failed, blam- ing his failure to God, because of the woman God gave him. Adam hid his sin in his bosom. (Job. 31:38.) The first man Adam was made mortal, but not complete without his wife Eve, for the genera- tion of the race of man- kind. (Gen. 2:18.) The first Adam re- ceived his bride Eve, made of a rib, taken from his side. (Gen. 2:22.) The first Adam was the head of the first wo- does not in any way take hold of angels, but He takes hold of the seed of Abraham." (Heb. 2:16.) Jesus, the second Ad- am, was made natural or mortal, tested and over- came, because He loved righteousness and hated iniquity. (John 16 133 ; Heb. 1:9.) The second man was made immortal at His resurrection, but will not be complete without the 144,000, His Bride, the second Eve, the Lamb's wife, for the regenera- tion of the whole race. (Matt. 18 : 28; Rev. 21 :22.) Jesus, the second Ad- am, is to receive His Bride, the glorified Church, by virtue of blood that flowed from His wounded side. ( 1 John 5:6.) The second Adam, Jesus, is the head of the Jehovah's Finished Work. 13 man, Eve, and also of every man. ( 1 Cor. 11:3.) The first Adam and Eve became one, and their name one, which was Adam and Eve — God. (Gen. 2:5.) The first Adam and Eve are the joint head of the whole human fam- ily, on the natural plane. "Yet to us there is but one God, the Father [the Creator], of Whom are all things [on the nat- ural or mortal plane], and we by Him. " (iCor.8:6.) woman, Eve, the Church when glorified. (Coloss. 1:18.) Of man also. Jesus, the second Ad- am, and the Church are to become one, and their name one (God), who will then become the "Christ," God's anoint- ed. (Ephes. 5:29; Heb. 2:11; Acts 15:14.) The second Adam and the glorified Church are to become the head of the whole human race on the celestial or immortal plane. (Rom. 8:21.) "And one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things (on the spiritual or immortal plane), and we through Him. Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge/' (1 Cor. 8:6-7.) God's order in the creation of man is: first, to create the natural man mortal; and second, to create the natural man spiritual or immortal through the Divine power vested in Christ and the glorified Church. Paul, in speaking of the two Adams, says: 14 Jehovah's Finished Work. "That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spir- itual." So we find that the first Adam was not spiritual. Proof of this is: "As in Adam all die [a natural death], even so in Christ shall all be made alive/ ' made new creatures in Christ, a new creation. "And He that sitteth on the Throne [Christ, Jehovah] said: Behold, I make all things new. ' ' (Rev. 21:5; Matt. 25 :3 1 .) There is nothing left out, nothing lost — not even Judas Iscariot, for he only lost his bishopric. All are drawn to Christ, and reconciled to His Father, that God may be "all in all." We find this thought of the natural and the spiritual man pervading the whole Bible. Paul says: "Now the unspiritual man [or carnal man] receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned/ ' (1 Cor. 2:14.) The primary purpose of God in giving to mankind the Bible is not to teach him the science of as- tronomy, zoology, geology, or any of the sciences in particular. The most wonderful truths of the Bible are buried deeply beneath types, symbols, sllegories, metaphors, parables, and "dark saying/ ' The carnal-minded man sees only the letter of the Word, but the man who has the spirit or mind of Christ searches for the deep-hidden treasures of God. "For the Spirit of God searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." (1 Cor. 2 :io.) Jehovah's ideal of man is to have man bear the Divine image Jehovah's Finished Work. 15 and likeness of his Maker. Jesus Christ on the immortal or God plane is Jehovah's ideal man. Jesus Christ is the first one of all the race to bear the Divine image and likeness of His Maker, but He is not the last. Paul declares: "But we all beholding the glory of the Lord, in a face unveiled [we can see to the end of God's finished work, but with the great multitude the veil of ignorance is still on their faces, minds, and hearts], are trans- formed into the same likeness from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (1 Cor. 3:18.) Knowing that it is generally conceded that the vast majority of mankind are candidates for eternal woe, misery, torture, and torment, or annihilation it is right that we stop and ask whether these things are so or not. The question is, Will only a few be saved and the many be lost eternally, or will all be finally saved and none lost eternally. The Word of God must decide the controversy. "As Thou [Jehovah] didst give Him [Christ] au- thority over all flesh [the whole rac e of mankind], so that every thing which Thou hast given to Htm He may give to them — even aionian life" [endless life]. (John 17:2.) What does Christ do with all flesh which Jehovah gave to him? Glorious is the prospect! Eternal joy and gladness fill the heart of all who are privileged to look to the end of God's finished work. " Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able to subject all things unto Him- self r (Phil. 3:21.) 16 Jehovah's Finished Work. Cau,s Things Not in Being as Though Existing, " A i/f hough the Works Were Finished (in the Purpose of God] from the Founda- tion of THE World/ ' (Rom. 4:17; Heb. 2:3; Ephes. 1:10.) When Abraham was 100 years old and his wife 90, and they had no child, nor prospect of one, God said to Abraham: "A father of many nations I have constituted thee, like unto God, e\en God ["like unto Him, " marg.] who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were." (Rom. 4:17.) This most marvelous prophecy of the New Creation was confirmed by the unconditional oath-clad promise of God to Abraham. Paul, in referring to this oath (in Heb. 6:17), declares that God made a promise and sware to it, and that it was impossible for God to tell a lie and swear to it. This iron-clad oath includes "all the families of the earth' ' (Gen. 12:3), even to a thousand generations (Ps. 105:8), man, male and female (Gen. 1 127), and all the hosts of them (Gen. 2:1). Paul, the chief of sinners, could not make God break His oath. This oath-bound promise has sole reference to the New Creation on the God plane, like unto God, even God. Charles Taze Russell limits this promise of God unto Abraham and his seed to the Church, the 144,000, and leaves all the remainder of man- kind on the natural plane, with only the blessing of restitution; whereas it is through Christ and the glorified Church that all the families of the Jehovah's Finished Work. 17 earth are to be highly exalted to the God plane and become gods like unto God, "even God'' God summed up the whole matter to the prophet Isaiah as follows, saying: "I am God, and there is none like Me; declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure." (Isa. 46:10.) The things spoken of in Genesis 1 to Genesis 2:17, as existing near 6,000 years ago, are some of the ancient things not yet done, nor will they be done for unnumbered ages yet to come. In the first chapter of Genesis we have the spiritual or immortal image account of man given us first, and do not reach the natural or mortal creation of man until we come to the sev- enth verse of the second chapter. Take your Bible and look this up. In the first chapter God's fin- ished work is given us, and God pronounced it "very good." In the second chapter God's un- finished work is given us, and from a human stand- point of view we pronounce it very bad. Thus does God call things not in being or existence as though they were already in being or existence. Holding the above facts firmly in mind, we have the K^ys to the Divine Mysteries, and are prepared to suggest a few thoughts on Genesis 1 to Genesis 2:17, for the enlightening of the gentle reader who is tiled of man-made creeds and is hungry for the deep truths of God, which revfcal unto us how all the race of mankind will 1 8 Jehovah's Finished Work. eventually in "due time" be exalted to the God plane of immortality and endless life. Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens [spiritual or immortal people, future from the time spoken] and the earth' ' [natural or mortal people, past from the time spoken]. Verse 2 : "And the earth [the mortal or natural man] was without form and void [without a knowl- edge of the Divine Purpose and Plan], and dark- ness was upon the face of the deep [all flesh]. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the wa- ters" [peoples]. The Revelator comments on "wa- ters" as follows: "The waters which thou sawelst, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and nations, and multitudes, and tongues." (Rev. 17:50.) Verse 3: "And God said, Let there be light" [an accurate knowledge of Jehovah, His Divine Plan and Purpose, as relates to the whole race of mankind]. Jesus Christ was that light, prophet- ically spoken of 4,004 years before He was born. The apostle John comments on that light as follows : " In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." (John 1 14.) He was spoken of in Genesis 1 as "light," but only so in the Divine Purpose and Plan, the Divine Mind. This is self-evident, for He could neither have life nor be the light of men before He was born. Jehovah spoke of Jesus as having being or existence 4,004 years before He was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary or born in Bethlehem and cradled in a manger. It is more reasonable, logical, scriptural, and easy to believe the simple plain account of the origin Jehovah's Finished Work, 19 of Jesus Christ than the "cunningly devised fables" of so-called " orthodoxy' ' about His pre-human ex- istence. To affirm that He pre-existed is tanta- mount to saying that He existed before He existed. This is heterodox, a wild delusion born in the brain of theologians. Verse 4: "And God saw the light, that it was good." Even Jesus was not "good," or perfect, on the natural plane. Hear the words of Jesus on this point: "Why dost thou call me good? God alone is good," or perfect. (Matt. 19:17.) He was perfect as a natural man on the human plane, but to this He had no reference when He said, "God alone is good." He was not perfected till the third day. Listen: "And He said unto them, Go and say to that fox [Herod], Behold, I cast out demons and do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." The third day here re- ferred to was His resurrection from the dead, clothed with immortality and the power of an endless life; a God, like unto His Father. He then became Jehovah's ideal man, being in the image and likeness of Jehovah, perfected. Verse 5: "And God called the light Day" [spiritual-minded people]. Paul says: "For ye are all sons of light and of the day, and not darkness." (1 Thess. 5 15 .) "And the darkness He called Night" [carnally-minded people]. "But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." (1 Thess. 5:4.) "And the evening [the mortal or natural] and the morning [the spir- 20 Jehovah's Finished Work. itual] were the first day" [the spiritual man]. The Christ Head ajad body — His Bride, the two consti- tuting the "one new man" (Ephes. 2:15). "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." Verse 6: "And God said, Let there be a firma- ment [expanse, space, or division] in the midst of the waters [peoples], and let it divide the waters" [those without the true knowledge of God from those who have such knowledge]. It is the Bible truth that makes the expanse or division among the waters — the people. Verse 7: "And God made the firmament [the expanse or division] and divided the waters [peo- ples] which were under the firmament [in a carnal state of mind] from the waters [peoples] which were above the firmament" [in the spiritual state of mind]. Verse 8: "And God called the firmament heaven [a state of spiritual life, joy and peace]. And the evening and the morning were the secqnd day." "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you." (John 14-27.) Verse 9: "And God said, Let the waters under the heavens [the whole world living in gross darkness] be gathered together into one place [or condition of ignorance], and let the dry land appear" [natural condition]. "Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame." (Jude 1:13.) Verse 10: "And God called the dry land earth [man's natural condition], and the gathering to- gether of waters [peoples] called He seas" [the Jehovah's Finished Work. 2 I great world of mankind without a knowledge of God]. "F.ti[r seeing that in the wisdom of God the world in its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. " (i Cor. 1:21.) Verse 11: "And God said, Let the earth [the natural man] bring forth grass," etc. Paul com- ments on it as "woofel, hay, stubbfe." (1 Cor. 3:12.) Verse 21: "And God created great sea mon- sters" [syndicates, monopolies, mergers, trusts, com- bines, shaving machines, grafting machines, stock brokers, Wall Street gamblers, "bulls and bears," "corners on the market," and what not]. Let the gentj^ reader take the keys and go on with the exegesis of the whole chapter. Verse 26: "And God said, Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion ." Bear in mind, once and forever, that the above proposition to make man in the image and likeness of God, and crown them with dominion, is to be carried out after the natural man has been created, by taking him from the natural or mortal plane and exalting them (the whole race of mankind) to the spiritual, immortal, or God plane. Now comes the question, Who are the " Us " in God's proposition to make man in His image and likeness, and also to have dominion? The teaching of the rank and file of modern Bible expositors is, that God was talking to His Son Jesus Christ, of Whom it is affirmed that He had an existence far back in the annals of eternity, co-existent with Jehovah, God, 22 Jehovah's Finished Work. His Father, before the creation of the angels, or Jehovah laid the foundations of the earth; before there was a universe of diamond jets of light, which shout around their midnight thrones. From this view we kindly dissent and most solemnly protest, as being an egregious blunder — a great "heresy" and without any Bible proof whatever. We trust by the grace of God, as we proceed with the exam- ination of this subject, that the gentle reader will let reason, common sense, and Bible truth sit firmly on the throne of his mind, and decide accordingly. We shall now take up what is considered the strongest text in the Bible that the supporters of this great " heresy" bring forth to bolster up their false theory, for that is all it is in fact. We find it in John 17:5: "And now, O Father, glorify Thou me with Thyself with the glory which I had with Thee before the world to be." (Diaglot.) No Greek scholar would hazard his reputation by af- firming that this is not a correct rendering of the Greek in this text. This text does not even hint that Christ had an existence with Jehovah before the present evil world was, but that it was the glory which will be given to Christ in the "world to come" (Heb. 1:5), "the world to be," beginning with the Messianic Reign, in 1945. That glory was vested in Jehovah from the beginning, and spoken of in Genesis 1 126 and referred to in Isaiah 48:11. Christ said to His disciples, but a prayer to His Father, "And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given unto them, that they may Jehovah's Finished Work. 23 be one, even as We are one." (John 17:22.) Did Christ mean to say that He had given to His dis- ciples His pre-existence ? Did He give them that which our opponents affirm He (Christ) is said to have had before the foundation of the world — a pre-existent life? Our opponents have no argu- ment at all, but simply "beg the question" to bolster up their ''heresy." It is the glory of the "world to be 17 that Christ promised to His disciples, if they would suffer with Him and be faithful even unto death. In the Divine picture which Je- hovah has given us of His Son, He stands out before us as the Lamb of God slain from before the founda- tion of the world; yet He was not slain till about 4,034 years after the foundation of the world. How could He be slain before He became a Lamb, born in Bethlehem? Having fully established the fact all through this humble little volume, that Jesus Christ had no existence till He was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary and born of her at Bethlehem of Judea, and that He was not Christ till He was anointed at Jordan, we rest the matter here, and affirm that Christ, the Immortal One on the God plane, is the head one of the "Us" Class, who is to have dominion over all the earth during the Messianic Reign, and onward till all rule, authority, and power is put down and God is all in all. But He is to have associated with Him 144,000 "joint heirs," " sanctified brethren," who are to share with Him the glory of the Kingdom Reign. Neither Christ nor the Church have yet entered 24 Jehovah's Finished Work. into that glory the Father promised Him, and He (Christ) promised the Church — the glory of "the world to be," nor can they do so till the kingdom is "set up," established, in 1945. It is yet only prospective. Is He to be a king? So are they. Is He to be a judge? So are they. Is he to be a king-priest? So are they. Is He to be a mediator? So are they. Is He to have a throne? So are they. Has He the power of life and death? So will they have. Is He to have dominion from sea to sea, and from the rivers to the end of the earth? So are they. Is He to have authority to break the na- tions with a rod of iron? So are they. Is He not to be the Father of the race of all mankind when it is regenerated? Are not the 144,000, the Bride, the Lamb's wife, to assist Him in the regeneration of the race and thus become the mother of all man- kind? Is not all this and much more the glory which God promised to Christ, and He has prom- ised to the Church when exalted to the God plane? Are not these things the things the angels desired to look into and all about the time or manner of time when they should be accomplished ? The Earth to Be Replenished by This Mys- terious "Us" Class, the Christ Head and Body. "Replenish: To recover former fulness." — Web- ster. The word in Latin is from re, meaning ' ' again' ' and plenus, meaning "full." So we find that the earth is to be made full again. It will have been made full of mortal Adamic stock at the end of a Jehovah* s Finished Work. 25 thousand generations. Further, at the end of that period it is to be made full of regenerated stock on the immortal or God plane. We may illustrate it by a mammoth cistern partly filled with water, with an inflow pipe and an outflow pipe. While the natural, mortal Adamic stock is filling up the world with inhabitants through the inflow pipe, so to speak, Christ and the glorified Church on the immortal or God plane are to be emptying the earth of its natural mortal inhabitants by means of the outflow pipe, so to speak ; and thus it is to be refilled with the New Creation at the end of a thousand generations (Ps. 105:8). " Behold, I [Christ] make all things new" This work of filling and refilling will most likely be accomplished at the end of 49,000 years. But before the earth can be replenished or filled full again, it must be emptied. "Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down [it is down side up now], and scattereth abroad the in- habitants thereof." (Isa. 24:1.) It is not made empty at once, nor is it filled at once. The empty- ing began with Jesus Christ, Who was of Adamic stock, "the offspring of David," the "seed" of the ''woman" — the Virgin Mary. If there was a Christ who existed far back in the annals of eternity, before Jesus became the Christ at His anointing at Jordan, then we have two Christs! And as a result the Church has two heads on one body, which is a frightful "mongrel." It is the "seed of he woman" that is to bruise the serpent's head, 26 Jehovah's Finished Work. and not some imaginary theological "myth" that existed untold millions of years before even the woman was born of whom the Saviour was to be born. Marvelous indeed that men calling them- selves the "embassadors for God" should have the boldness and blindness to take that first dim but Divine promise of a Saviour to come, given in Genesis 3:15, and hide it away in a dark cave, or lay it up on the shelf of oblivion, and then offer to the world a myth, or a "cunningly devised fable," for a Saviour. It cannot be that the writers of this little volume live in a "glass house," there- fore they are not afraid to throw these stones of truth at the enemies of truth. When Jesus Christ was taken from the natural or mortal plane, and highly exalted to the immortal or God plane, the work of replenishing the earth began. But the emptying or refilling of the earth has gone no farther as yet, save to take out a "people for His name" from among the Gentiles. This work of taking out the people for His name will end at the first resurrection in 1945. What is the name? The name is God. Christ got His name by "in- heritance" (Hebrews 1:4). We, the "little flock" (Luke 12:32), the Church to be glorified, obtain our new name by being adopted into the family of God. The Church are now "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ," prospectively so by faith, but actually so by being born out of the death condition at the first resurrection. So the "new name" given to the Church "on a white stone," Jehovah's Finished Work. 27 which no man knoweth it but he that receiveth it (Rev. 2:17), is God (Rev. 3:12). We, the Church, have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father. " Only those who understand this can intelligently say, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name." Only those who now bear that new name will be glorified in the first or chief resurrection in 1945, when Jesus comes to be glorified in His saints. Not till then will the harvest, or any portion of it, take place. "Behold, a secret I disclose to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump [not one will be changed a moment before]; for it will sound, and the dead w411 be raised incorruptible, and we [the living saints] shall be changed. " (1 Cor. 15:51-52.) Both the living and the dead in Christ, bearing His name, will all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Now, dear people of God, what have you to say about the resurrection having taken place in 1878, according to the dates of that well-meaning man, C. T. Russell? What have I to do with separating the wheat from the tares? Jesus said to let the wheat and the tares grow together till the harvest, and that the harvest is the end of the age. It is high time that the wheat and tares among Bible Students quit trying to toot each other up, but let all grow till the harvest — the end of the Gospel Age. What a miserable wrangle and jangle International Bible Students are now pass- 28 Jehovah's Finished Work. ing through because they have not understood these things and rightly divided the words of truth. This quick and sudden change of the whole Church was typed by Elijah. He was taken from Blisha in a moment, as it were, by a whirlwind into Heaven. "And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof !" Elijah was the one man symbolizing the one body of Christ, the 144,000, the one Bride, all to be changed at the last trump, the Resurrec- tion Day, 1945, 10 a. m., the twentieth day of Sep- tember. Then the earth will be emptied of so many of its inhabitants, and at the same time re- plenished with the same number. The harvest work, separating the wheat from the tares, precedes the resurrection. I have heard my Father calling For a people for Christ's Bride. On my ears 'tis sweetly falling; There's no voice so sweet beside. Christ and the Church, 144,400 and one, com- pose the family of God, Jehovah, on the God plane. The remainder of the human family, when exalted to the God plane by Christ and the Church, com- pose the family of Christ and the Church. Bear in mind that Christ and the Church are to be the regenerators on the heavenly plane. "When we see Him, we shall be like Him [Christ]; for we shall see Him as He is" [not as He was]. When 144,000 gods begin the work of the regeneration of the race, the work will progress very rapidly. Hal- Jehovah's Finished Work. 29 lelujah, what a Saviour! Jesus spoke these great truths about men on the mortal plane becoming gods to the Jews, but they said to Him: "For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and that because thou, being a man, makest thy- self God." Jesus answered them : "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If He [Jehovah] called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), say ye of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?" (John 10:33-36.) That the reader may know that Jesus did not mis- represent His Father in saying that the Jews (and all mankind, for that matter) were gods (in the plan and purpose of Jehovah), I quote what Jesus said was written in their law: "I said, Ye are gods; and all of you sons of the Most High. Nev- ertheless ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.' ' (Ps. 82:6-7.) Surely the Jews were not gods when they were thirsting for His blood. Jesus told them that they were of their fath- er the Devil, and the works of their father they would do. This statement of the Master was prophetic and pointed forward to Jehovah's finished work in the Ages to come. As said before, all humanity will be taken from the natural or mortal state or condition and translated to the immortal state or condition, in God's "due time," according to Ro- mans 8:21, which reads as follows: "That the 30 Jehovah's Finished Work. creation itself [the whole race of mankind] shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the liberty of the children of God." Thus we find that the whole earth is to be replenished, re- filled, filled again, according to fhe prophetic state- ment of Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have do- minion" by this mysterious "Us" Class, "the Christ," Head and body. In this first chapter of Genesis we have a comprehensive view of a thousand generations of natural or mortal men, by the first Adam and Eve, and also the regenera- tion of these thousand generations, exalting them to the immortal or God plane, through Christ and the glorified Church. Strange indeed that so many would-be Bible Students should take all the proph- ecies which point forward to Christ and the glorified Church, and turn them around, and make them point backward to an imaginary Christ — a ' ' myth ' ' ! Still stranger yet that men of brains can be made to believe and preach that Jesus Christ is older than the Holy Spirit that begat Him in the womb of the Virgin Mary ! Thus we find by every count and score, all through the Bible, that Jesus Christ had no existence before He was begotten of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and was born of her in Bethlehem, and that through Christ and the glorified Church "the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them" (Gen. 2:1). "I am God, and there is none like Me [not even Christ when this was spoken, or written], Jehovah's Finished Work. 3 1 declaring the end from the beginning [so declared in Genesis 1 126], and from ancient times the things that are not yet done." "And we bring you good tidings [though some will regard it as rank " here- sy' '] of the promise made unto the fathers, that God hath fulfilled the same unto our children, in that He raised up Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm: Thou art My Son; this day [day of His resurrection] have I begotten Thee. And as concerning that He raised Him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, He hath spoken on this wise: I will give you the sure mercies of David" "Because He saith also in another psalm: Thou wilt not give Thine Holy One to see corruption/' The conclusion is inev- itable, and unalterably and eternally fixed by the unimpeachable word of Jehovah, that God has but one "only begotten" Son, and that this Son was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified on a Roman cross, died and was buried, and the third day burst the barriers of the tomb, chaining death, hell, and the grave to His chariot wheels, and forty days after ascended to Hi$ Father on high, and will there remain till the end of the Gospel Age in 1945, and then, and not till then, He will return again to meet His Bride in the "air" and take her into the everlasting kingdom, which Jehovah will have fully estab- lished by that date. Any other view than this makes it necessary for God to have two "only be- gotten" Sons. 32 Jehovah's Finished Work. "Be not afraid [of these glad tidings]; for, be- hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, Who is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:10.) As for me, I will shout with the "multitude di the heavenly host/' praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest! dn earth peace and good will to men." Dear reader, I have no objection to you shouting with the theo- logians if you prefer to do so, after having care- fully and prayerfully studied these things from a Bible standpoint. "Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things. Remember Jesus Christ ripen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel." (2 Tim. 2 7.) "Behold, the days come [future], saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch. 79 (Jer. 23:5.) "Behold the man whose name is The Branch." (Zech. 6:12.) On the natural or mortal plane, David was the "root" and Jesus was the "Branch"; on the immortal or God plane, Christ is to be the "Root" and David is to be the "branch." This "Branch of David," this "off- spring of David," is set at naught of our modern Temple tinkerers. On this immortal or God plane, Christ is not only the "Root" of David, but He is the "Root" of the whole human family. The "Root" will bear branches of its own kind. As the "Root" is a God like unto Jehovah, so the branches [the whole human race] will be gods like unto Jehovah. Jehovah's Finished Work. 33 " And in none other is there salvation; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, whereby we must be saved.' " (Acts 4:12.) This is your only hope of salvation. "Worthy is the Lamb." Mary had a little Lamb, With morals white as snow. In Bethlehem the Lamb was born, Two thousand years ago. In Him alone we must be saved; We know there is none other. He holds the keys of death and hell; He is our Elder Brother. Jehovah looked down over the cycling "Ages of the Ages' ' and saw His finished work "done" through Christ and the glorified Church. "And God saw every thing that He had made, and, be- hold, it was very good." (Gen. 1:31.) "And there shall be no more any thing accursed; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein, and His servants shall serve Him. " (Rev. 22:3.) Glory to the Great I Am! And worthy, worthy is the Lamb. Restitution First, Re-Creation Second. When Jehovah placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, on trial, He gave him a perfect organism, and the power of choice, and endowed him with the mental ability to choose good and to resist evil — free to obey God and live, or disobey God and die. This one law of life and death pervades the whole Bible, but nowhere sets up the claim 34 Jehovah* s Finished Work. that death is eternal non-existence, either in this age or in the Ages to come. The whole race of man* kind had its first trial in Adam, and failed. We may say that if Jehovah had created in the begin- ning a thousand generations of people like Adam's posterity will be and has been, natural men, mortal, subject to vanity, and placed them on trial as Adam was placed, the result would be the same, only with this difference or distinction: If each one of the thousand generations failed as Adam did, it would require as many Saviours to redeem the race as there would be individuals composing the generations. So we must console ourselves that the plan of Jehovah, in dealing with His creatures as He has done and is still doing, is the very best that His Divine Wisdom could devise. The Di- vine Plan must of necessity be absolutely perfect, and could not be improved upon even by Himself; for He can make no mistakes or be disappointed by any contingency in whatever course His creatures might pursue. If death were an eternal sleep, and Jehovah could go down into death to pay the pen- alty for sin, He never could come out of death any more, and hence could not redeem the race. The same reasoning holds true if eternal torment is true. The same logic holds good if annihilation is true or valid. Anyone going down into death as a substitute for any of the above penalties could not be the Saviour of the race. Such a penalty holds both the substitute and the race of mankind, and never could be paid. The record does not say Jehovah's Finished Work. 35 how long Adam was to remain dead. But let us suppose that the penalty for Adam's sin was death for "three days and three nights," and someone takes it upon himself to pay the penalty, and goes down into death, as Christ did, and remains dead for that length of time, and then comes forth a victor out of death ; that fact shows that the pen- alty is fully paid. Suppose, again, that the one who assumes the obligation of paying the penalty should fail to come back into life in the specified time; this would be conclusive evidence that the penalty was not paid. Jehovah might have said to Adam, "If you eat of that tree which I told you not to eat of or touch, I will shut you up in a dark cave for a certain length of time to punish you for your disobedience, and then I will let you out again, and if you will not be obedient, I will shut you up again," etc. ; but He did not do that. The first thing before the world goes on trial is to perfect their mental organism. A just God cannot require of anyone more than his ability to perform. It would be folly to think of placing lunatics, fools, idiots, and babies on trial for life eternal. Jehovah did not do this in the case of Adam in Eden. The whole race was reckoned perfect in Adam, in its mentality and organism on the natural plane. The whole race was condemned in Adam as the representative man or head of the race. So all die in Adam. Jesus, the second Adam on the natural plane, canceled the sin of the first Adam on the natural plane, and the whole 36 Jehovah's Finished Work. race who sinned in him; "He gave Himself a ransom for all." He bore the sin of the whole world in His body on the tree. The Adamic debt having been canceled, this clears the way for an individual trial through Christ for the whole race. This trial will be a judgment unto victory. "O grave, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?" Death will be swallowed up in victory. Christ's victory over death is not complete as long as any one of Adam's race remains in death. "God hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world [not the Church] in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead." (Acts 17-31.) Christ could have no right to judge the whole world if He had not bought the whole world. So it is written of Him: "And thou shalt call His name Jesus; for it is He that shall save His people from their sins." (Matt. 1 :2i.) They were not His people before He bought them with His own precious blood on Calvary's cross. There and then He bought the whole race of mankind. So the invincible logic of it all is, that He will save from sin all He bought. When all His people are saved from sin and death, there will be nothing left in sin for death to reign over ; so death will be annihilated, destroyed. In this great Judg- ment Day of the anointed Christ, Head and body, at least one hundred years (Isa. 65:20) will be given to each individual for trial and restitution, under the reign of the Anointed, which is not due Jehovah's Finished Work. 37 to begin till 1945. "0 r know ye not that the saints shall judge the world" (1 Cor. 6:2) during its trial days, the Ages to come (Ephes. 2 7) ? The Holy Spirit will be poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28) as fast as all flesh is restituted, brought back to Adamic mental and physical perfection, or manhood. The Holy Spirit was not poured out on Jesus, the natural Adam, till He had reached manhood, about thirty years of age (Luke 3:23), and then His trial for immortality and eternal life began. His trial resulted in victory, and Jehovah highly exalted Him to the God plane. With the Church which is now on trial for immortality and eternal life it is quite different. On account of not having Adamic perfection, its deficiency is made up by the imputed merit of Jesus Christ. "My little children, these things I write unto you, that ye may not sin. And if any man [adopted by faith into the family of God] sin, we have an advocate with the Father [Christ is not advocate for the world now], Jesus Christ, the righteous. And He is a propitiation on account of our sins; and not on account of ours only, but also on ac- count of the whole world." (1 John 2:1-2.) Christ Jesus, the righteous One, will not become the ad- vocate for the world till its trial for judgment Day begins in 1945. But before a fair, full, and impartial trial for eternal life can be had, restitution must be ac- complished. One of the Saviour's parables makes this truth plain. The seed of the "sower" who 38 Jehovah's Finished Work. went forth to sow fell upon four different kinds of ground: the hard-trodden "wayside," " among thorns," on "stony ground," and "in good soil." Only that seed which fell in good ground brought forth fruit to perfection. It is mental and phys- ical restitution that prepares the great stony-hearted world to receive the seeds of truth in the Messianic Reign. "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, healing all manner of dis- eases and all manner of sickness." (Matt. 9:35.) This is a type of what must be done when Christ begins His kingdom reign. "And they come to Jesus, and behold him that was possessed of de- mons, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him that had the legion." (Mark 5:15.) This is another of the many types pointing forward to the coming Kingdom Ages, and what must be done for the people before they can enter upon a fair and impartial trial for eternal life. "Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come with venge- ance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you." (Isa. 35:4.) This is when Christ comes into His kingdom, 1945. "Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." If you want to know more about this subject, get your Bible and read the whole of the chapter. Jehovah's Finished Work. 39 "And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind ?" From time immemorial, men have been wont to associate phyical calamities, financial losses, and crosses with some great sin the person has committed; but this is not always true by any means. "Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." (John 9:2-3.) There are millions of people who have been born blind naturally, and died blind, who were in no sense to blame for their misfortune. Still others have become blind since being born through no fault of theirs. Natural blindness is typal of another kind of blindness more disastrous than physical blindness. The whole world is spiritually blind — born so. "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; in sin did my mother conceive me." "And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing; in whom the god of this age hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them. " (2 Cor. 4:3.) In Isaiah 61 :i-6 and onward we learn that Christ was anointed with the Holy Spirit for the very purpose of opening "the prison to them that are bound" and proclaiming the day of Jehovah's favor to all that mourn. What He did while here in the flesh is but a faint type of what He will do in the coming kingdom. The prophet of God calls special attention to this future 40 Jehovah's Finished Work. work of the anointed Christ Head and body when He comes into His kingdom. He refers to the kingdom under the figure or symbol of a " moun- tain, " as follows: "And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts [a thousand generations of peo- ples] make unto all peoples a feast of fat things [hitherto we have had it that the feast of fat things was only for a few of this present Gospel Age, and the remainder were to be eternally damned], a feast of wines on the lees [wines of the kingdom], of fat thijngs full of marrow [theologians who have been preaching eternal " torment' ' together with their flocks have become very "lean" and need some spiritual fat or oil or they may dry up and blow away], of wines on the lees well refined. And He will destroy ["swallow up/ ' marg.] in this mountain [Kingdom of Christ] the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. [When the "covering" is de- stroyed and the "veil" is removed, world-wide wars will cease.] He hath swallowed up death forever [when this is done, no one will remain dead], and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of His people will He take away from off all the earth ["Praise ye the Lord!"]; for Jehovah hath spoken it [if you deny it, you are an infidel]. And it shall be said in that day [that kingdom day, not this gospel day or age, in which the Bride is being selected], "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will- save us; this is Jehovah; .... we will rejoice in Jehovah's Finished Work. 41 His salvation. For in this mountain [Kingdom of Christ] will the hand of Jehovah rest. ' ' (Isa. 25 :6-io.) Jesus, the anointed Son of God, the " faithful and true witness," in whom was no guile, confirmed this statement of Jehovah when He said, "I will draw all men unto Me." Jesus Christ said: "It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God." This leaves no one in ignorance of God. "And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah. " (Isa. 54:13.) "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. " (Rev. 21:5.) They are all first taught of God, and afterward made new. "And He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more.'" (Rev. ai 14.) "All the ends of the earth shall remember 2nd turn unto Jehovah. And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee." (Ps. 22:27.) But again. We have been told that restitution ends with the Millennial Reign, and then from that time forward everlasting life only is offered, con- ditioned on continued obedience to Divine law. Right there our Restitution Age people drop the whole matter, and fail to see that restitution is only a preliminary necessity, and must be accom- plished before anyone can have a fair and impartial trial for immortality and eternal life. What use could lunatics, fools, idiots, and babies make of the Holy Spirit? Jehovah's ideal of the New Creation of the race is Jesus Christ on the God plane, almighty, ever-living, immortal, able to 42 Jehovah's Finished Work. work all things after the counsel of their own wills So we find that Jesus Christ is Jehovah's ideal of man in the image and likeness of God. Because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily (Col. 2:9). "In which is stored all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. " (Col. 2:3.) When Jesus was on the natural or mortal plane, He said: " My Father is greater than I. " (John 14:28.) For He was then bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, made like unto His brethren, for the suffering of death. Paul speaks of Him on the natural plane as follows: "Who, though being in God's form, yet did not meditate a usuipation to be like God, but divested Himself, and took a bondman's form, having [first] been made in the likeness of men." (Phil. 2:6-7.) A mortal man, but second on the God plane, perfected in His organism, an immortal being, in which now dwells all the full- ness of the Deity, with ail His attributes. It did not rob God of any of His attributes or glory for Christ to be highly exalted to the God plane and Divine nature, and become equal with God. On the contrary, it glorified God. God has given to the Church (first, before the world) the right or privilege of becoming sons of God on the God plane, "joint heirs" with Christ, "partakers of the Divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4). "Have this mind in you, which also was in Christ Jesus." (PhiL 2:5.) For it is the shining light that shineth more and more on the upward pathway to the throne of the Sternal. Such a mind will not rob God of any of Jehovah's Finished Work. 43 His glory. What was the mind that was in Christ Jesus? It was this: It would not rob God for Christ to aspire to be equal with God. Neither will it rob God for me or anyone to aspire to be equal with God. As Christ is God's ideal man, and as Christ is the head of every man, it logically follows that every man should aspire to be a god ''like unto God — even God." To attain to such a state or condition would not rob God. If I were "alto- gether lovely/' it would not rob me of any of my loveliness for all my sons and daughters to be like me. Exceeding great and precious promises are given to us all, that by these we all might be- come "partakers of the Divine nature" (2 Peter 1 4). This is the mind that was in Christ Jesus. The Glad Tidings ov Great Joy Which Shall Be to All People; The Gospel of God in Type and Antitype. Abraham in his old age begat a son, Isaac (Gen. 21:7); Jehovah in His old age begat a Son, Jesus (Luke 1:35). Abraham offered his son in sacrifice (Gen. 22:3-10), and received him in a figure from the dead (Heb. 11:19); God offered His Son in sacrifice (1 Cor. 15:3-4). Abraham took Isaac to his own home, after he in figure received him as from the dead; God took Jesus to His (Jehovah's) home after He raised Him from the dead (Heb. 8:1). Isaac afterwards got married, but he did not select his own wife, but Abraham sent Eleazar, his eldest servant, that ruled over all that Abraham had, to select a wife for Isaac (Gen. 24:4), and he met a 44 Jehovah* s Finished Work. virgin maid, Rebecca by name, at the well where she came to draw natural water; so God sent his oldest servant, the Holy Spirit, to select a "chaste virgin," the Church, to be the Bride of Jesus (2 Cor. 11:2), and the Holy Spirit met the chaste virgin on the day of Pentecost, when she came to draw the spii/itual water from the great well of salvation (Acts 2:1-4), which would be in them a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). Isaac and Rebecca meet in the open plain and greet each other (Gen. 24:64), and after this meeting on the open plain, Isaac took his bride into his mother's tent; Christ and the Church, the bride, the Lamb's wife, meet in the open plain in the "air" (1 Thess. 4:17) and greet each other, and Christ then takes His Bride to His mother Mary's tent, the earth, a dwelling-place at Jerusalem, where the throne of Christ and the Bride is to be established, according to the Scriptures, as the "tabernacle" of God with men (Rev. 21:3). Isaac loved Rebecca; Christ loved the Church. List the carol of the bridegroom: "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are as doves' behind thy veil." (Song of Sol. 4:1.) List the carol of the Bride: "My Beloved is white and ruddy, the chief est among ten thousand; His head is as the most fine gold ; H/ijs locks are bushy and black as a raven; His eyes are as doves' eyes, beside the water brooks; His mouth is most sweet; yea, He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend." (Song of Sol. Jehovah's Finished Work. 45 5:10-11, 16.) Isaac is comforted after the death of his mother; Christ is comforted after the death of Hi's mother. Isaac and Rebecca were to become the father and mother of thousands of millions on the natural plane (Gen. 24:60) ; Christ and the glori- fied Church are to become the father and mother of thousands of millions on the spiritual or God plane (Isa. 9:6; Rom. 4:17 and 8:21). Joseph on the Natural or Mortal Plane Types Jesus on Both the Natural or Mortal Plane and on the Spiritual, Im- mortal, or God Plane. "It is sown an animal body; it is raised a spir- itual body. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body The spiritual, however, was not the first, but the natural, afterward the spiritual." (1 Cor. 15 44-46.) When Jacob was old, he begat a son, Joseph; when Jehovah was old, He begat a Son, Jesus. Joseph, Jacob's son, was born of a woman; Jesus, Jehovah's "only begotten Son," was born of a woman, Mary by name. Joseph could not be older than his mother; Jesus could not be older than His mother. Joseph was hated by his brethren without a cause (Gen. 37:4); Jesus was hated without a cause (Ps. 35:19; Luke 23:40; John 15:25). Joseph was a revealer of secrets, visions and dreams (Gen. 41 .-5 36); Jesus a revealer of secrets, visions, dreams, symbols, and parables (Matt. 13:40; Luke 24:27). Joseph worked in the harvest-field with his brethren before he went into a far country, Egypt (Gen. 37 7-8) ; Jesus worked in 46 Jehovah's Finished Work. the Jewish harvest with His brethren, the disciples, a short time before He went into a far country, Heav- en (John 5:17). Joseph's garments were stained with blood at the hands of his brethren (Gen. 37:31); Jesus' garments were stained with blood (John 19 134) . Joseph was put into a dry pit (Gen. 37 128) ; Jesus was put into a dry pit, cut out of stone (Matt. 37 : 59)- Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver (Gen. 37:28); Jesus was sold for thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and Jewish people (Matt. 26:14-15). Joseph was taken out of the pit alive, and his natural life pro- longed (Gen. 37:28); Jesus was taken out of the pit alive, with the power of an endless life (Rev. 1:18). Joseph's enemies sought to kill him, but God provided for him a way of escape by send- ing him to Egypt (Gen. 45 15) ; Jesus' enemy, Herod, sought to kill Him, but God sent Him down into Egypt to preserve His life, till Herod and all that sought His life were dead (Matt. 2:13). Joseph was put into prison in Egypt because he would not surrender his virtue to a vile woman, a hypocrite, Potiphar's wife (Gen. 39 120) ; Jesus was put into pris- no because He would not surrender His virtue, or morals, and join in sectarian worship, and play the hypocrite as did the scribes and Pharisees (Isa. 53:81). Jehovah was with Joseph (Gen. 39:21); Jehovah was with Jesus in Egypt (Matt. 2:19-20). Joseph's feet were hurt with fetters of iron down in Egypt (Ps. 105:18); Jesus' feet were hurt with iron nails when He was nailed to the cross (Ps. 22:16). Jehovah's Finished Work. 47 Joseph left his garments in the hands of that vile woman who persecuted him because he would not surrender his virtue (Gen. 39:12) ; Jesus left His gar- ments in the hands of His persecutors (Ps. 22:18; Matt. 27:35). Joseph showed the chief butler that within three days he would be taken from prison and exalted to become Pharaoh's natural cup- bearer, a very great honor (Gen. (40:13); Jesus was taken from prison, the tomb, after three days, and exalted to the God plane, next to Jehovah, to bear the "cup of blessing" to His brethren, and next to all the world (Matt. 26 126) . Through Joseph an abundance of natural food was stored away for the Egyptians in time of famine (Gen. 41:36); through Jesus an abundance of spiritual food was stored away, first for His brethren, and next for all Egypt (the whole world) (John 21:15-18 and John 6:51). To Joseph the command was given, "Bow the knee," and all Egypt obeyed (Gen. 41 143) ; to Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:10). Joseph was exalted to be the ruler of all Egypt, only Pharaoh on the throne was higher (Gen. 41:40); Jesus has been "highly exalted " to be the ruler of all Egypt (the world in the coming Ages of the Ages) , Jehovah only being higher on the throne (1 Cor. 15:27-28). Joseph was king-priest over all Egypt, having married Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On (the City of the Sun), and had all religious matters under his control as well as matters of state; Jesus is to 48 Jehovah's Finished Work. be a King-Priest, and is to marry the Church in the first resurrection, at His second coming, and is to have full control of all Egypt (the whole world) during the coming ages (Rev. 19:16). Joseph was thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh, king of all Egypt (Gen. 41:46); Jesus was about thirty years of age when He stood before Jehovah, the Ruler of the whole world, and began to teach (Luke 3:23). Joseph made a great dinner for his brethren first, for it was an abomination for Egyp- tians to eat with the Hebrews (Gen. 43:31); Jesus first served His brethren, the twelve disciples, at the Passover supper, and He will next 3erve all Egypt (the world) in the coming ages (Rom. 1 :i6). Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, for the famine was sore upon all the land (Gen. 47 :2o) ; Jesus bought all the land of Egypt (the whole world), for the spiritual famine is sore upon all the land (1 Cor. 6:20; Amos 8:11-12). To Joseph was giv- en a change of raiment when he was released from the prison and came before Pharaoh, king of all Egypt (Gen. 41:14); to Jesus was given a change of raiment when He was released from the prison-house of death and appeared before Jehovah, King of all the world. Jesus was changed from mortal to immortal — exalted to the God plane. Joseph gave to all his brethren changes of raiment (Gen. 45 :22) ; Jesus will give to His brethren 144,000 changes of raiment in the first resurrection, clothe them with immortality, and crown them with eternaj. life (1 Cor. 15:51-52). Joseph bought all Jehovah's Finished Work. 49 the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, and the land be- came Pharaoh's (Gen. 47 120) ; Jesus bought all the land of Egypt (the world) for Jehovah, and at the end of the Messianic Reign all the land of Egypt (the world) will become Jehovah's (Ps. 24:1). Jo- seph took an oath of the children of Israel that they would carry his bones up out of the land of Egypt to the land of Canaan when God should visit them in after years (Gen. 50:20); Jesus' bones (not flesh and blood, but flesh and bones) were taken up from Egypt (the world) at His resur- rection, and taken to the heavenly Canaan (Heb. 8:1-2). Joseph's brethren, all the hosts of them, all Israel, go up out of the land of Egypt, to go in- to the land of Canaan (Ex. 12:51); Jesus' brethren according to the flesh are to go up out of the land of Egypt (the world) by their hosts, a thousand generations (Ps. 105:8), to the heavenly Canaan (condition) in the Ages to come (Gen. 2:1; Ephes. 1:10; Col. 1:15-20). Joseph and his wife Asenath became the father and mother of a great host of people — England and America, and these two great nations are their descendants, both those living and those dead; Jesus and His Bride, the wife of the Lamb, the 144,000, are to become the Father and Mother of thousands of millions on the God plane (Rom. 8:21 and 4:6; Isa. 9:6). Joseph was selected to teach the elders (law-makers, senat- ors) of Pharaoh wisdom (Ps. 105:22); Jesus was se- lected to teach the elders (senators, law-makers, priests — Ps. 45:16) wisdom, and they shall be kings 50 Jehovah's Finished Work. and priests and reign on the earth (Rev. 5:9-10). List the blessings of Joseph, from Jacob, his father, who types Jehovah: " The blessings of thy father, even by the God of thy father, Who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, Who shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb; blessings that have pre- vailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills [the Rocky Mountains] ; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren." (Gen. 49:25-27.) List the blessings of Jesus, from Jehovah, His Father: "And I saw, and heard a voice of many angels, in a circle of the throne, and of the living ones, and of the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thou- sands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is that Lamb [Mary's glorified Lamb] which was killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every cre- ated thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, and all things in them; all I heard saying, To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the might, for the Ages of the Ages. And the four living ones said, Amen. And the elders fell down and did homage." (Rev. 5:11-14, Diaglot). Jehovah's Finished Work. 51 Division of the Land of Canaan Among the TrihEs, in Type and Antitype. In Exodus 19 :i-6 we find that in the third month after God led the children of Israel out of Egypt He organized them into a kingdom, and afterward divided the land of Canaan to them by "lot" (Acts 13:19), for an inheritance for about 450 years. After that He gave them judges till Samuel the prophet; then they clamored for a king to go in and out before them and fight their battles for them. After that God gave them kings for 513 years, till they were carried captives to Babylon and their kingdom overturned in 606 B. C. by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. God had prom- ised to take away their tin and dross, and restore their counselors and judges as at the first, and they should be called "A city of righteousness, a faithful town" (Isa. 1 :26). But first they were to be scat- tered among the Gentiles (Luke 1 124) till the times (years) of the Gentiles should be fulfilled (1914) and God would take out from among the Gentiles "a people for His name" (Acts 15:16-17), to be immortalized kings and priests of Israel when re- stored (Rev. 5:9-10; 20:4-6). The restoration of all Israel, both living and dead, the rebuilding of the grand Temple at Jerusalem, and the division of the land (Ex. 19:6; Jer. 31:31-40; Ezek. 16:36-37, 46-48; Dan. 12; Rom. 11 :i 2-16, and especially Acts 15:16-17), are most vividly and beautifully set forth in the above scriptures cited, and many more which space forbids in this work. 52 Jehovah's Finished Work. "The Marriage of The Lamb." (Rev. 19:7.) There is a vast difference between the marriage of the Lamb and the marriage supper of the Lamb. The Spirit of God uses the symbol of a marriage, that with which we are all familiar, to portray to the mind that most blessed relationship of Christ and the glorified Church in future kingdom work in a sin-wrecked world. It uses the symbol of a marriage supper to convey to the mind the "glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all people" when all the world is invited by "the Spirit and the Bride " to come and drink of the water of life freely (Rev. 22:17). Life and salvation for the whole race of Adam is symbolized by "a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb" (Rev. 22:1). This water of life is spoken of by the Saviour as a "well of water, springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14), in each member of the 144,000, the Bride class. These 144,000 wells of the water of life will produce the 'fountain" of the water of life, to be opened up to the " house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and un- cleanness" (Zech. 13:1). This "fountain for sin and uncleanness" will continue to flow on down through a thousand years, swelling into a mighty river at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ and the glorified Church. "And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb." (Rev. 22:1.) Jehovah's Finished Work. 53 (Tune : "The Cleansing Wave.") Oh, I'm so glad to me He *s shown This river deep and wide! 'Twill flow from out the Great White Throne, Through Christ and His dear Bride. Chorus. The Spirit and the Bride say, Come, And "whosoever will" may come. This crystal river of free grace Will flow for all the dying race. This cleansing river y deep and wide, This world will sometime know, And how the ' 'fountain ' ' was supplied From "well-springs" here below. For cleansing shall the river be, While ages come and go, Till all the world so cursed with sin Is washed "as white as snow." The "ransomed" from the tomb shall sing, Without a broken chord ; The universe shall crown Him King, And bow before the Lord. " They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house, and Thou wilt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures." (Ps. 36:8.) "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the City of God, the holy place of the taber- 54 Jehovahy^ Finished Work. nacles of the Most High. " (Ps. 46:4.) " Thou vis- itest the earth, and waterest it; Thou greatly en- richest it with the river of God. " (Ps. 65 :g.) " Make a joyful noise unto God, all the earth; sing forth the glory of His name; make His praise glorious; say unto God, How terrible are Thy works ! Through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies submit themselves unto Thee ; all the earth shall worship Thee, and shall sing unto Thee; they shall sing to Thy name." (Ps. 106 11-3.) The marriage supper of the Lamb, when made at the beginning of the Messianic Reign, is to con- tinue to a thousand generations; about only one hundred have as yet been born. It is to be " a feast of fat things" all down through the "Ages of the Ages" to the "Age without end." In the nineteenth chapter of Revelation we have a re- hearsal of many things enumerated in Revelation 5:11-14, especially the great rejoicing and loud anthems of praise because of the marriage of the Lamb, which took place at the beginning of the thousand years. The nineteenth chapter of Reve- lation begins as follows: "After these things I heard a loud voice as of a great crowd in Heaven, saying, Halleluiah! The solvation; and the glory, and the power df our God: Because true and righteous are His judgments; because He judged [past tense] the Great Harlot, who corrupted [past tense] the earth with her fornication [in her 1260 years' reign during the so-called Dark Ages], and avenged the blood of His servants shed by her hands. And a Jehovah's Finished Work. 55 second time they said, Halleluiah!" Now the question arises, After what things? We reply: After the things enumerated in the eighteenth chapter. The sum and substance of the things mentioned in that chapter is the judgment of the Great Harlot, who corrupted the whole earth in the day or years of her power, during the Dark Ages. Let me call special attention to the symbol used to represent her judgment and final overthrow. "And one strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and shall by no means be found anymore. " (Rev. 18:21.) Please notice that in the sixth verse of this same chapter this great Babylon is to be repaid "double" according to her works. As else- where shown in this work, her "double" of 1260 years could not precede the second advent of Christ, so it must of necessity be rendered to her after the second advent of Christ. Consequently her "double" must measure off a period of 1260 years after the second advent of Christ. This takes us in our chronology 260 years past the end of the Millennium. This period of time then we find to correspond to the time when the great crowd, represented as being in Heaven (but actually on earth at Jerusalem, where the kingdom is "set up," established), say a " second time," "Halleluiah!" This "great crowd" are the people who came out of the Great Harlot while she was receiving her "double" and the seven last plagues were being 56 Jehovah's Finished Work. poured on her. Her dominion was taken away from her at the sounding of the seventh angel when the kingdoms of this world became the King- dom of our Lord and His Christ, 1945. For the sake of perspicuity, we may imagine our view- point to be more than 1260 years beyond the sounding of the seventh angel at the time when the marriage of the Lamb took place, 1945. "And a second time they said, Halleluiah! And her smoke rises up for the Ages of the Ages." Smoke is a symbol of remembrance. The myriads of the on- coming Ages of the Ages will remember the tor- ment and the sorrow that Harlot system of wor- ship passed through during her "double/' and it will serve the purpose of drawing them to the true worship of God and the Lamb. "And the twenty- four elders, and the four living ones, fell down and worshiped that God who sits on the throne, saying, Amen. Halleluiah !' ' What a supper! What a "feast of fat things"! "And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all His servants, and those who fear Him, the little and the great." "And I heard as it were a voice of a great crowd, and as the sound of many waters, and as a noise of mighty thunders, saying, Hal- leluiah! because our Lord God the Omnipotent reigned" [past tense]. We may rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him; because the marriage of the Lamb came (in 1945) and His wife prepared herself [past tense]. "And it was given her [past tense, 1945] that she should be clothed with fine Jehovah's Finished Work. 57 linen, bright and pure, for the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints. And he said to me, Write: Blessed are those who have been invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. He also said to me, These are the true words of God. " (Rev. 19 13-9.) The Kingdom of God to Come According to the Scriptures. It is clearly set forth in the second chapter of Daniel that there were to be five world-wide em- pires, and that the fifth was the Kingdom of God to come. The first four were symbolized by a great metallic image — the image of a man. The first universal empire was Babylon, which was founded on the ruins of the old Assyrian Empire, which held sway over a very large portion of the then known world, but it was not universal. Babylon became a universal monarchy under the youthful bold Nebuchadnezzar, 606 B. C, and ruled the world till 538 B. C. Babylon was symbolized by the head of gold on the image. Babylon was over- thrown by the Medes and Persians, under King Cyrus. This second world-wide monarchy was symbolized by the silver arms and breast of the image, and ruled the world from 538 B. C. to 531 B. C, a period of 207 years. By this time a third world-wide empire — the Grecian, symbolized by the belly and sides of brass (not legs of iron, as given in the A. R. Version) — under Alexander the Great, had forged its way through seas of blood and fire to the throne. It ruled the world from 331 B. C. to 161 B. C., a period of 170 years. The 58 Jehovah's Finished Work. Grecian kingdom was succeeded by the "iron mon- archy of Rome," whose kings are said to have worn iron crowns. This fourth world-wide empire was symbolized by the hips, legs of iron, feet and toes of iron and miry clay mixed. Rome, pagan, ruled the world from 161 B. C. to about 356 A. D., a period of more than 500 years. The kingdom soon after that fell into fragments like ropes of sand. By 483 A. D. the ten kingdoms of Europe weie the result. Pagan Rome continued in its di- vided state till 610 A. D., and from that on in its papal form till A. D. 1870, when the last vestige of temporal power was wrested from it, under Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, the twentieth day of September. This date is so well authenticated that no historian of any note would attempt to overthrow it. The lease of power of the above our world-wide empires, Babylon, Medo- Persia, Grecia, and Rome, expired in 19 14, with the out- break of a world-wide war. The span of years allotted by Jehovah to these four great empires was "seven times,' ' as given by the prophet Daniel, as every Bible student should know. A symbolic "time" in prophecy stands for 360 years, each day of the year standing for a year. So we find that seven times 360 would equal a period of 2520 years, which, beginning 606 B.C., would end in 19 14 A. D. These 2520 years were referred to by Christ as "the times of the Gentiles/ ' when He said: "Je- rusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled' ' (Luke 21:24)- Jehovah's Finished Work. 59 These same ''times of the Gentiles' ' were spoken of by the prophet Mo&es in Leviticus 26:19-23. Get your Bfble and took it up for yourself. It is after the lease of power of these four world- wide empires expires, in 19 14, between this last date and 1945, that the Kingdom of God is to be set up, as recorded in Daniel 2:44. It is well to note that in tracing the history of these four world-wide empires there is a gradual decline Qr depreciation in the intrinsic value of the symbol used, from the head of gold oh the great image down to the miry clay found in the feet of the image. It is well to note also that England, the Saxons, Isaac's sons, are not, strictly speaking, one of the divisions of the Roman kingdom. Nor are any of the divisions of the Roman kingdom to be found in the Western Hemisphere. This will exclude, absolutely so, these United States. For England (Ephraim, oldest son of Joseph) and the United States (Manasseh, the second son of Joseph) , together with the Jews and the tribe of Benjamin, which cannot now be definitely located, make up the rank and file of the twelve tribes of Jacob, and are to be reorganized into the Kingdom of God by 1945. This is the kingdom which the God of Heaven will "set up" — that is to be established on a permanent and immovable basis and is to be used of God to break in pieces the kingdoms symbolized by the great image. This is the kingdom that is to become "a great mountain" (government) and fill the whole earth. This is the kingdom that 60 Jehovah's Finished Work. Christ taught His disciples to pray for, saying, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth as it is done in Heaven.' ' This is the kingdom the apostle Luke speaks of when he says: "The Lord God shall give unto Him [Christ] the throne of His father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob [the twelve tribes of Israel] forever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end. ' ' (Luke 1:32-33.) This is the kingdom of which Jesus spoke, having returned from the "far country," Heaven, and having received the kingdom: "The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire ,, (not literal fire, but a "fiery trial, " that they may be purified and made white). (Matt. 13:41.) This is the king- dom of which Jesus spoke when He said to the thief on the cross, "Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise." And that other thief will be there also. And, thank God, Christ will remember not only those two thieves, but all thieves in the world, and all the ungodly, of whatever name or order, and give all one fair chance and trial for eternal life. This is the kingdom in which the twelve apostles are to sit upon twelve thrones and be kingdom rulers (Matt. 19:28). This is the kingdom in which the overcomers will sit down with Christ in His throne (Rev. 3:21). This is the kingdom of which the Revelator speaks when Jehovah's Finished Work. 61 he said: "And they shall reign forever and for- ever. " (Greek, "Unto the Ages of the Ages, the eons of the eons.") This is the kingdom of which Jesus spoke when He said: "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto Me, that ye may eat and drink at My table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Luke 22:29). And what more shall I say? Pen cannot write it, brush cannot paint it, type cannot print it, heart cannot express it, imagination cannot measure it; eternity is too short to unfold the ineffable glory. Halle- luiah! Worthy is the Lamb. When Will the Kingdom Be $ET Up? "In the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven [not Christ] set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people ; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." (Dan. 2:44.) The prayer Christ taught His disciples shows that the kingdom belongs to "Our Father in Heaven." Has the God of Heaven given us the exact year, month, and day of the month when the prayer Christ taught His disciples will be answered? We reply, Yes. It is now the privilege of all who were sealed with the Holy Spirit in 1914, just before the outbreak of the world-wide war (Rev. 7) to know when the kingdom will be fully established. Please do not pass this statement by as an assertion of egotism, but follow the writers, and you will rejoice with 62 Jehovah's Finished Work. joy unspeakable and full of glory. Our Father has given us three cycles of years in the twelfth chapter of Daniel by which we can locate definitely the year, the month, and the day of the month when the kingdom will be fully established. There has been so much speculation on this matter of the setting up of the kingdom that no doubt most of the readers of this article will regard this as speculation also. But wait. Do not condemn before you hear and prove these statements false or true. As said above, there are three cycles, and only three, given us in the whole Bible which definitely locate the full establishment of the kingdom. The reader may be as familiar with these three cycles (in Daniel 12) as the writers are; but if we are ig- norant of the date from which to compute the cycles, we will be ignorant of the time when this kingdom is to be "set up." Most Bible expositors are ignorant of the date from which to compute the 1260 year days, or time, times, and a half time of Daniel 12:7. They set certain date for the be- ginning of the 1260 days, and then in the next breath overthrow them. One illustration of this will suffice : il The final rejection of the Pope as the ruler over Rome and the Papal States of Italy, by the Pope's subjects and the king of Italy, A. D. i87 r , by which Antichrist is left without the slightest temporal au- thority." (Pastor Russell, in "The Time Is at Hand," page 356, par. 5.) Please note most carefully that the above author Jehovah's Finished Work. 63 gives 1870 as the date of the "final overthrow." Please hold this date firmly in mind till I quote another paragraph from the same author: " Measuring back 1260 years from 1799 would bring us to A. D. 539, where we shall show the Papal power began." ("Thy Kingdom Come," page 69, par. 1.) Why in the name of reason did not the Pastor, after having established 1870 as the true date of the final overthrow, measure back from that date, and not 1799? "Dead flies cause the perfume of the apothecary to stink and send forth an evil odor. " (Bccles. 10:1.) If the trumpet give an un- certain sound, who can prepare for the battle? Where doctors disagree, who shall rightly decide as to whether the poor sheep are getting food or poison? When doctors of divinity blow hot and then cold, will not the condition be a "lukewarm'' condition, which the Master has declared He will "vomit" out of His stomach? The date 1870, when the so-called Papal Hier- archy was finally overthrown, is the correct date from which to measure off the cycle of 1260 days. This being true, we measure back 1260 years and it brings us to A. D. 610. This is the date from which to compute all three of the cycles in Daniel 12. The three cycles are 1260 — 1290 — 1335, years, on the year-day principle. Now let us compute for- ward from A. D. 610. We find the result to be as follows: A. D. 610, add 1260, equals 1870. A. D. 610, add 1290, equals 1900. A. D. 610, add 1335, 64 Jehovah's Finished Work, equals 1945, the end of the last cycle given, which brings us to the resurrection. "But go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days." Any dates fixing the second presence of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ prior to A. D. 1945 are purely speculative, and not in harmony with the Word of God, and show most conclusively that such time-setters are still in confusion. The date 19 14 was not the end of the Gospel Age, but the end of the Gentile times. The long cycle of 2520 years which began 606 B. C. and which marks the beginning of Gentile rule, and ends in 1914, has no more to do with the three cycles above mentioned than the Kaiser has to do with making peace. The " marriage of the Lamb" can not be con- summated till after the harvest of the Age is done and the gleaning is ended. We have been taught that the main body of the Church was resurrected in 1878, and the "left-over ones" are yet to be resurrected. This is not in harmbhy with the Word oif God. There is not a thimbleful of truth in it. When the espoused virgin is married to Christ, it will all be done at once, and not in partial marriages, some in 1878 and some in 1918. "In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound ["may be about to sound/' Dia.], the mystery of God should he finished. " (Rev. 10:7.) "Pastor Russell was the seventh angel. " (" The Finished Mystery," page 169, par. 6.) On page 72 of the same book, at the bottom of the page, it is Jehovah's Finished Work. 65 asserted that the " mystery' ' will end in 191 8. All this is speculation — the teaching of "foolish vir- gins''; with no oil in their vessels, their lamps are going out. The mystery ends before the seventh angel sounds. Just how long befdre we are not told. Therefore the seventh angel types the Mellennial Age after the Kingdom of God is "set up," fully es- tablished. The proof of this is what the seventh angel says when he sounds. "And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet; and there were loud voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become our Lord's and His Christ' s y and He shall reign for the Ages of the Ages. " (Rev. 1 1 115.) The seventh angel has not sounded yet, nor will he sound till the end of the Harvest Age, 1945. We have been told in "Scripture Studies" that Christ the Harvest Reaper has been present ever since 1878, gathering the golden grain into the heavenly garner beyond the veil, and those who have passed beyond the veil are still engaged in harvest work this side the veil. This is the very taproot of Spiritualism. No the fact is that Christ does not do the reaping at all, nor is He now present. Proof: "The harvest is the end of the world ["the consummation of the Age," A. R. Ver.], and the reapers are the angels. " (Matt. 13 139.) "The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to the other. ' ' (Matt. 24 13 1 .) 66 Jehovah's Finished Work. The Rksurrecteon Is Not the Harvest. The proof of this is that Christ raises the dead, and changes the living saints, and this work is all done at the same time (i Thes. 4:16). Jesus says: "I am the resurrection and the life." The angels have nothing to do with the resurrection of the dead or the changing of the living. Their work applies to the living saints a'nd tares. They make the separation of the wheat and tares previous to the resurrection. The angels gather the wheat (the " elect") into the "barn" condition, a place of safety from the wind and storm, and the "tares" into "bundles," that they may be burned — not literally, but be purified by suffering "loss." " The harvest is the consummation of the Age." Was the Gospel Age consummated in 1878 or 1914, as per Brother Russell? Most certainly not. But it will be in 1945, as elsewhere shown in this book. The living saints will need a "land of Goshen" somewhere during the "time of Jacob's trouble"; it may be in the land of Palestine, at or near Je- rusalem. In that "time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation," "he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty" (Ps. 91; read all). In the end of the Jewish Age, the twelve apostles, and the seventy, and about five hundred brethren were harvested out of that typical people ; but that had nothing to do with the resurrection. Still, Jesus said: "The fields are white to the harvest." Jehovah's Finished Work. 67 Dear reader, hear the Word of the Lord: "I counsel thee to buy of Me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eye salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. " (Rev. 3:18.) Please remember that Christ is not "the chief reaper,' ' nor is He a reaper at all as Brother Russell teaches. We are forbidden to call any man on earth "master," "rabbi," or "father." "He that sowed the good seed is the Son of Man, and he that sowed the tares is an enemy." That pernicious doctrine of the harvest of the main body of the Church having taken place in 1878 is a "tare," and is not of the Father's planting, and must be rooted up. He uses the angels to gather His elect this side the veil, for the kingdom, and the angels to gather out of the kingdom all things that offend on the other side the veil. Angels and men, principali- ties and powers then being made subject unto Him. "And when He [God] again bringeth the first-born into the inhabited earth, He saith, Let all the angels of Jehovah worship Him." Jehovah has not yet brought His first-born back into the inhabited earth. Or, in other words, the second advent of Christ has not yet taken place. Proof: "He [Christ] shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High ; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David." (Luke 1:32.) Has Jehovah built again the taber- 68 Jehovah's Finished Work. nacle of David, and set up the ruins thereof, that all the Jewish people may seek unto it, and all the Gentiles over whom His name has been called? We must answer, No. How then can Christ take the throne and kingdom before there is one for Him to take? The penitent thief on the cross said: "Remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. " How can Christ come into a kingdom when there is no kingdom for Him to come into? The kingdom cann N ot be established without the kingdom rulers. Christ's kingdom rul- ers are stijl sleeping in the diist of the earth, and will not be waked out of the sleep of death till they are needed in the kingdom — approximately between twenty-five or twenty-seven years in the future. When God brings Christ's "body," the Church, back again into the inhabited earth, He will bring it all at the same time. Any other way would do vio- lence to the figure of a birth. "Shall a nation be born at once?" Yes. Christ, the Anointed One, and Head of that nation, was born near two thou- sand years ago. The "body" is soon to be born and united to the Head, and come into the kingdom a full-grown man. The 144,000 kingdom rulers all enter the kingdom at the same time. Proof: " Then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (1 Thess. 4:17.) Pastor Russell taught us that the Church would Jehovah's Finished Work. 69 be glorified or taken beyond the veil in 1914. Ever since that his blind followers have been setting dates for the Church to be taken home to glory. Some say 1918, 1921, 1924, 1927, etc., and one has placed it in 1938. All these dates are im- aginary, and all who look for "deliverance" at any of these dates are doomed to bitter disappointment. Let us not be wise above what is written. No prophecy of the Word of God is of any private in- terpretation. The anointed family of God is not to be in ignorance of the time when it is to be de- livered. "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. " (1 Thess. 5:2.) Christ said that the gates of Hades should not prevail against His Church. The gates of Hades, the death condition, will be opened in the resur- rection, at the end of the 1335 days of Daniel 12, when Daniel will be raised from the dead. We notice that there are two classes in that resurrec- tion, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. A short time or season before 1945 the earthly phase of the kingdom will be fully "set up" or established. The Turk will be driven out of Palestine, and the Jewish people restored there. The Temple will be rebuilt, in all its glory and grandeur, and Jerusalem become the grand metropolis of the world. Christ and His Bride will enter into that grand Temple soon after the resurrection, passing in through the east gate or door. Proof: "Afterward he brought 70 Jehovah's Finished Work. ffle to the gate that looketh toward the east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and His voice was like a noise of many waters, and the earth shined with His glory And the glory of the Lord came into the house [Temple] by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard Him speaking to me out of the house; and the Man stood by me. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And My holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their kings, by their whore- doms, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places." (Ezek. 43:1-6). The world-wide war will come to a temporary lull, when the great world-war powers will get tired of rolling earth's "garments in blood," and the "beast" and his "image" will take control of the situation, and the "peace and safety cry" will be heralded to the four winds. They cry "peace" now, but then they will cry both "peace" and "safety"; for the churches, which assume to be the ambassadors of peace, will have full control. For "one hour" symbolic time, or fifteen days literal time, the great peace bells will ring all through the earth. Beyond the ringing of these great peace bells, the "peace and safety cry," the "time Jehovah's Finished Work. 71 of Jacob's trouble' ' comes, out of which he is to be delivered. The prophet Isaiah says: "I saw the Lord sit- ting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the Temple." The Lord, speaking of Je- rusalem, the metropolis of the New Kingdom, says: "Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when the spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity." (Zech. 14:1-2.) When Jerusalem was besieged and taken by Titus (A. D. 70), the whole city went into captivity. But at this time only half of it goes into captivity. "But the residue of the people are not cut off from the city." The reason for this is as follows: "Then shall Jehovah go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. And His [Christ's] feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Je- rusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall re- move toward the north and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel; yea, ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake, in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And the Lord my God shall come, 72 Jehovah* s Finished Work. and all the holy ones with thee." This marks the time when the Bridegroom and the Bride come "into the kingdom." This will be the twentieth day of September, 1945, corresponding to the time 1870, when Victor Emmanuel wrested from the Papacy the last vestige of temporal power. The long cycle of 2520 years, beginning 606 B. C. and ending in 1914, marks the expiration of the right of Gentile kingdoms to rule over the affairs of this old sin-cursed world. It also marks the beginning of the time of the ten virgin kingdoms of Matthew 25. It also marks the beginning and sealing of the "wise" virgins of that kingdom, and their testing. This article is not in harmony with prior views taken by one of the authors of this book (J. A. O.), but it is the design and ambition of the writer to drop all error and gather up all truth. "Wise men change their minds sometimes, but fools never. We understand that the sealing work of Revelation 7, just prior to the outbreak of the world-wide war, is synchronous with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, by which the remnant or "feet members" of the anointed family of God, the 144,000, will be able to "know perfectly" when the "mystery" will be finished. "The Spirit searcheth all things; yea, the deep things of God." "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed to the day of deliverance." The above date, 1914, also marks the beginning of the time when the ' ' God of Heaven ' ' began to tear away the world kingdoms and make them as the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, Jehovah's Finished Work. 73 which the winds (wars) carried away, so that no place is to be found for them any more, in order that the New Kingdom might be set up, and in process of time become a great mountain (government) and fill "the whole earth. 11 The things above enu- merated are some of the things the Holy Spirit is now making known to the "feet members.' ' "And he shall show you things to come. 11 il Ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know it." "You have no need that any one teach you, but the anointing teaches you all things" — spiritual and divine. What Wiu, Be the; Manner of the Kingdom? It will be an absolute monarchy y in which "one new man 11 the anointed Christ Head and body, will be an absolute ruler. A theocracy , in which the natural, social, civil, financial, commercial, and Christian rights will be safeguarded, with pains and penalties inflicted upon all willful trans- gressors. Some who are incorrigibly wicked will have to be killed and remain dead for a long time in order to reform them, and then be raised to life again. "And it shall come to pass in that day [the Millennial day] that Jehovah will punish the hosts of the high ones, on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit ["dungeon," margin], and shall be shut up in the prison ; and after many days shall they be vis- ited" ["punished," margin]. (Isa. 24:21-22.) "See now that I am He, even I, and there is no god 74 Jehovah's Finished Work. with Me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. " (Deut. 32 139.) The kingdom will be the antitype of the ancient kingdom of Israel restored. It will be an answer to the question of the disciples of Jesus as recorded in Acts 1:6: "Lord, doest Thou at this time re- store the kingdom to Israel?" The Master told them that it was not for them to know at that time the seasons and times which the Father had put in His own power, but it would be given them to know it after the Holy Spirit came upon them at Pentecost. After that they were to be His witnesses concerning the kingdom unto the " ut- termost parts of the earth." In Isaiah 1:24-27 the prophet speaks con- cerning this kingdom as follows: " Therefore, saith the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah! I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and avenge me of Mine enemies. And I will turn My hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin ["alloy," margin]; and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning ; after- ward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town. Zion shall be redeemed with jus- tice, and her converts with righteousness." Paul tells us, in Acts 13:29, that God gave them judges for 450 years, till Samuel the prophet, and then they clamored for a king, that he might go in and out before them, and fight their battles Jehovah's Finished Work. 75 for them; and God told Samuel to make them a king, for they had not rejected Samuel, but had reacted God, that He should not reign over them . Then God gave them Saul, the son of Kish. So they had a line of kings, good and bad, for the space of 513 years, including the reign of Zedekiah, the last reigning king in the line of Judah, who was carried captive, with his people, to Babylon, where they remained in captivity till 536 B. C. This typical kingdom people with their city Je- rusalem were to be trodden down of the Gentiles till the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled, which times ended 19 14 A. D. The Lord says the wrath of man shall praise Him, and the remainder of wrath He will restrain. The warring world powers are now paving the way for the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their waste cities and their beautiful Temple. Israel, the house of Jacob, has been cast off from Divine favor. He has "hidden His face from them" for a cycle of 2520 years, dating from 606 B. C. and ending in 1914, till the "times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.' ' Brother Paul speaks of it as follows in Romans 11:15: "For if the casting away 6i them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?" Israel was cast off from God's favor at the end of seventy weeks, but is now being re- ceived back to God's favor, and by 1945 will be- come the head nation of the world, the earthly phase of God's kingdom. j6 Jehovah's Finished Work, Modern Historical Evidence, Re the Last of Au, the State Power of the Pope Sep- tember 20, 1870, AT IO O'CLOCK A. M. It has been elsewhere shown in this work that the Pope lost all his state power on the twentieth day of September, 1870, giving an unimpeachable date from which to compute the three great cycles of years — the 1260, 1290, and 1335 year days of Daniel 12. Running backward, with the 1260 year days as a measuring-line, we find the so- called Papal kingdom was established in 610 A. D. Running forward, with the 1335 year days in hand as a measuring-line, we find they terminate in 1943, September 20th, 10 o'clock a. m. This last date brings us to the end of "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jer. 30:7). But he is to be delivered out of it, for Christ will then come into His kingdom. The prophet Daniel calls it "a time of trouble such as there never was since there was a nation, even to that same time, and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one whose name is found written in the book." It is the Resurrection Day, "when many of them who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and age-lasting contempt" (Dan. 12:2). It is the time when the Lord descends frdm Heaven with a shout, "with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God," and the dead in Christ will rise first (1 Thess. 4:16). It is the time of the sounding of the seventh angel, when the kingdoms of this world became the Kingdom of Jehovah's Finished Work. 77 Jehovah, and His Christ (Rev. 11:15). It is the time of which the prophet speaks when he says: "Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat [east of Jerusalem] ; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. " (Joel 3:12.) It is the time when the great Judgment Day of the world begins (Acts 17:31). It is the time when Jerusalem will be encompassed with two hundred millions (Rev. 9:16) of armed warriors, looting and killing. For full understanding of this, read Ezekiel 38 and 39. Many modern historians, journalists, generals, missionaries, and ministers confirm our findings as infallibly correct as to the loss of all the state power of the Pope in 1870 A. D. On the 4th of September, 1870, Napoleon III. met his downfall, and later died an exile in England. The Empress made good her escape the same day. The 12th of the same month the Italians swarmed through the Papal States, bound for Rome. On the 19th battle was set in array against the doomed city, under General Bixeo. The siege began September 20th, at 5 o'clock a. m., and Rome surrendered at 10 a. m. There and then the last vestige of state power was wrested from the Pope. In the conflict, which lasted only five hours, the Pope had 8,000 troops and 60 pieces of artillery, while General Bixeo had 11,000. The Pope did not like the resolute faces of those Italians with their bris- tling guns, and so surrendered to Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy. It is hardly a mere coincidence that 78 Jehovah's Finished Work. Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, stands as a type of the true Victor Emmanuel of God, Christ Jesus the Lord, who will take full control of all the king- doms of this world, both civil and religious, on the twentieth day of September, 1945, according to the time cycles as given in Daniel 1 2 . The Pope acknowledged to Cardinal Antonelli his defeat in 1870, as follows: "I have been aban- doned by Catholic Europe, and I must yield. " (Lon- don Daily Telegraph.) Again the Pope breaks out in the anguish of his soul as follows: "Alas! Alas! I am abandoned of my children !" (Quoted by Elder W. C. Van Meter, Baptist missionary in ofome in 1870.) "Thus fell the temporal power R the Pope." (J. D. McCabe, in "History of the World," page 510.) Corroborating all we have said above and quoted, on October 2, 1870, the Italians voted to renounce the temporal power of the Pope. Total vote, 40,831; only 46 votes in favor of the Pope. ("Kings and Peoples," page 433-4.) Hear the decree of the Italian Government, November 1, 1870: "All the political authority of the Pope and the Holy See is abolished, and will remain so. " (Abbott's "History of Italy/ ' page 619.) Hear what The Modern Review says: "Since the dogma of . . . papal infallibility, Catholicism has been bound hand and foot with grave-clothes. Judgment had already begun to come upon it." (Issue of July, 1882, page 485.) "All the strongest clericals now regard the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope as hopeless." (London Telegraphy No- Jehovah's Finished Work. 79 vember 26, 1895.) General Klangler's address to the soldiers on September 21, 1870, is as follows: "Rome has fallen. " (American Encyclopedia, page 412.) Cast your eye on that marble tablet in the wall surrounding Rome and read the following: "This tablet will record in after days the 2nd of October, 1870, when all Romans solemnly joined Italy, under the Constitutional Government of Vic- tor Emmanuel and his successors. The favorable vote was 40,785, and only 46 against it." (Dr. Forbes.) Hear what Pope Pius IX. said on March 12, 1877: "It is already the seventh year since a usurping government invaded this Holy City [Rome], filling the universal Church with mourning. " "The Italian Catholic newspapers are in mourning. " {Christian Herald.) Till September 20, 1870, the Italian people paid taxes and tribute to the Pope in the Vatican. Since then the Italians assess the Pope, and he is required to pay his taxes the same as any other Italian citizen. He tiks often been quoted as saying: "I am a prisoner in my own palace/ ' In St. James' Church, New York, Father Luke is reported as saying: "There is not a Catholic country now in the world; .... persecution is general throughout the world; .... persecution in Rome is worse than anywhere else. .... The convents of Rome are closed. The shrines of her saints are used for stabling Victor Emmanuel's horses. Never was suffering so little relieved. Who knows but we are nearing those days when the light of the sanctuary shall be ex- 80 Jehovah's Finished Work. tinguished?" When one of the authors of this little volume was traveling the Central Illinois Conference as an M. B. minister, several columns came out in the Northwestern Advocate giving the details of the overthrow or wresting of the state power from the Pope. The authors of this little volume bear no ill will toward popes or cardinals, priests or Catholic people, or any other religious sect or people; for we must all stand together in defense of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or be slaves to the war lords of Germany. We simply narrate these his- toric facts that the millions may know where we all are on the great ocean of Time, and be able to see when the new order of things will succeed this world-wide war; when anguish and " distress of nations with perplexity' ' and "garments rolled in blood' ' shall have an end; when the "Prince of Peace/' the "Immanuel of God," the "Pilot of Galilee," shall speak again, not to that little rock- bound sea, but to the world-wide, tempest-tossed sea of humanity, His "Peace, be still." The New Covenant. The New Covenant is the sure mercies of David. It will not be made till the restoration of Israel to their "former estate" in the Holy I^and. The Psalmist of Israel speaks of this New Covenant as follows: "The Rock of Israel spake to me: One that ruleth over men righteously, that ruleth in the fear of God, shall be as the light of the morn- ing when the sun riseth, a morning without clouds, Jehovah's Finished Work. 81 when the tender grass springeth out of the earth through clear shining after rain. Verily, my house is not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire, although He maketh it not to grow." (2 Sam. 23:3-5.) It was not then time for the covenant to grow and bear fruit. The barren condition of that covenant was typed by the barren fig-tree which the Master cursed, because "the time of figs was not yet." It could do nothing but bear leaves. Listen to the Divine assurance given to David: "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. Once have I sworn by My holiness, I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. But Thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with Thine anointed, Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant [but only till the res- toration of Israel], Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast brought his strong- holds to ruin. " (Ps. 89 :34~39.) The above promise and oath types Christ, the seed of David, the Son of God. We find this beautiful truth set forth in 2 Samuel 7:13: "He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My son." 82 Jehovah's Finished Work. Peter delares that Christ was raised from the dead to sit upon David's throne. His words are as follows: " Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on His throne. " (Acts 2:30.) Matthew 25:31 declares that when the Son of Man comes in His glory, that then He sits on a throne. He cannot sit upon two thrones at the same time, so the evidence is conclusive that He is then sitting on David's throne. This truth cannot be successfully controverted. We add another text to confirm it: "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of his father David. And He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end. " (Luke 1 132-33.) The throne of David was not in Heaven, but on the earth. For David is not ascended into Heaven, but his sep- ulcher is with us even to this day. How then could he have a throne in Heaven? The throne of David was at Jerusalem. " Then Solomon sat on the throne of Jehovah as king, instead of David his fathet, and prospered, and all Israel obeyed Him. " (1 Chron. 29:23.) Now, as Christ sits on David's throne, and David's throne was in Je- rusalem, so the throne of Christ will be in Jeru- salem. It will not be some imaginary throne, somewhere up in boundless space, and no one knows where. It is quite evident that there are Jehovah's Finished Work. 83 two thrones. One is the throne of "the Majesty in the heavens' ' (Heb. 8:1). When Christ ascended up on high, He sat down on the right hand of the Father's throne. In Revelation 2:21 Jesus says: "He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with Me in My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father in His throne." In Mat- thew 19:28 Jesus told His disciples that "in the regeneration" they should sit on twelve thrones," "judging the twelve tribes of Israel." The Re- generation Age and the ages beyond that will be required to make all things new. In Daniel 7:27 we learn that the dominion, the kingdom, and the greatness of the kingdom are to be under the whole heavens, and not above them. And that all is to be given to the people of the saints of the Motet High. Notice that the kingdom is to be given to the people of the saints, and not to the saints. Christ and the saints take pos- session of it first. Jesus said to His disciples: 1 'And I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as My Father appointed unto Me, that ye may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. " (Luke 22:29-30.) This grand truth is further elucidated by what the prophet says: "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in Mount Zion [the earthly phase of the kindom restored], and in Je- rusalem, and before His elders shall be glory. " (Isa. 24:23.) "Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the 84 Jehovah's Finished Work whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king." (Ps. 48:2.) "Je- hovah hath sworn unto David in truth; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. If thy children will keep My covenant and My tesstimony that I teach them, their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore. For Jehovah hath chosen Zion ; He hath desired it for His habitation. This is My resting- place for ever. Here will I dwell, for I have desired it." (Ps. 132:11-14.) So far as we have gone, we see that the Kingdom of God and the throne of God are under the whole heavens, according to Daniel 7:27. This is in haimony with the prayer Christ taught His disciples : "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in Heaven, so on earth." The Lord's "controversy with the nations" is now on, and it will not abate until they are over- thrown, and the Kingdom of God set up on their ruins. " Therefore wait y