Sickle of Truth

“IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS.” (1) We have a number of general prophecies, indicating that we are living in the time of the Master’s second presence. We have already referred to Daniel’s testimony respecting “the time of the end,” in which many will run to and fro, and knowledge will be increased, and the wise understand; and later, and as a result, will follow the great time of trouble foretold. Then we have the inspired dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and its…

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THE TIME OF THE PAROUSIA (PRESENCE). It will doubtless surprise many (especially those in the nominal or professing church, many of whom are the Lord’s true children, consecrated, howbeit merely “babes in Christ” lacking any true development in the knowledge and graces of our Lord due to a lack of proper food, i.e., truth) to learn that there is much Scripture proof that we are already in the time of the presence (parousia) of the Son of Man, – that we are…

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THE LORD’S WORK FORESHOWN IN HIS PARABLES. His work is clearly outlined in various of his parables, which were given that the Watchers might know – might not be in darkness. The parable of the wheat and the tares shows this period of the parousia (presence) preceding the epiphania (manifestation), and represents it as the “harvest” time of this age. The Son of Man sowed the good seed, and his servants followed, doing work in the field down throughout the age; finally, the end…

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PAROUSIA VS. EPIPHANIA, APOKALUPSIS. Because not heedless, careless, indifferent servants of the King, but faithful and earnest ones, the Watchers have scrutinized every little particular which fell from the lips of him who spoke as never man spoke; and all the messages which he has sent them through his faithful apostles and prophets. And discriminating carefully, they discern that there are three words of distinctly different signification, used in respect to the Lord’s second advent; namely, parousia and epiphania and apokalupsis. Parousia is used in respect…

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HOW ARE WE TO WATCH? Our watching consists not in looking up into the sky, – “stargazing;” for those who study the Lord’s Word to any purpose soon learn that “the day of the Lord so cometh as [like] a thief in the night,” and that its dawning cannot be discerned with the natural eye. If the Lord’s people could discern anything by watching the sky with their natural eyes, could not the world discern the same thing? If the second advent…

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THE PAROUSIA OF OUR LORD JESUS AND HIS SUBSEQUENT APOKALUPSIS AND EPIPHANIA– AT HIS SECOND ADVENT. – We live at a time when many in the profess church say that the Lord’s second advent is near even at the door, and who claim to be awake and watching, but alas how few of these are truly awake, and who are looking in the right direction. The foregoing we present for the benefit of those who are TRULY awake, those who…

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If the real object of our Lord’s return could be clearly understood by all of his true people, unquestionably every sincere Christian would be longing and waiting for that event, as the glorious realization of their best hopes and desires, the one without which all others would be valueless, meaningless. The second coming of our Lord is closely related to the first advent as respects the divine plan of salvation. The entrance of sin into our world six thousand years…

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