A Stumbling Bock “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.” (Isa 55:8) The problem is that the vast majority of professed Christians have great difficulty in accepting this fact, that the Lord’s ways of doing things are not the same as our own, that his ways are superior to ours. This has led to much of the confusion existing in the professed Church today. They have chosen the worlds way over…
It has been mentioned in our study on Chapter 14 (Revelation) that the three angels (messages) of this chapter pointed to the date A.D. 1878, and that it represents not only the time in which the nominally professing church (Great Babylon) was cast off, but that several other key events took place at this time. 1) It likewise marks the beginning of the Laodicean stage of the church, the seventh and last stage, and 2) Most importantly of all it…
“Let no one hastily conclude that there are no evidences of Restitution about us, nor that the Sun of Righteousness is not already gilding the watch towers (the prophets and others so appointed) of Zion and enlightening the world. Let him, on the contrary, reflect that we are already in the day when the hidden things are being made manifest (lies and corruption both in the public and government don’t go long hidden and undisclosed); and let him remember that…
“Having shown from both the Law the prophetic account the evidence of the Jubilee prophecy, let us state this last proof or evidence in another form, for the benefit of some still troubled, thus: The full number of Jubilee cycles which God had ordained was seventy, as shown by the plain statements relative to the reason for the seventy years desolation of their land. This was to include those that Israel had observed in an unsatisfactory manner, which we have…
Prophetic Evidences Corroborative “While the previous evidence shown in our last post is strong and clear just as it stands, we now present prophetic testimony which proves that we began counting the Great Cycle (50 x 50) at the right point. Our Heavenly Father knew the fear and trembling with which our faith would grasp these exceeding great and precious promises, and hence he has doubled the already strong cord of evidence, furnished in the Law, by additional testimony through…
The Time of our Lord’s Second Advent Revealed “Having determined from our previous post that the great antitypical Jubilee, the “Times of Restitution of all things” was reached in October A.D. 1874, let us consider what must follow, from the standpoint of reason, and then see if any other scriptures will either support or contradict those conclusions. First, we infer that when the “Times of Restitution” are due to begin, the presence of the GREAT RESTORER is also due. This…
“As we shall shortly see that, reckoned from the beginning of the seventy years of desolation under Babylon, the great cycle ends with the year A.D. 1875, it will be manifest to all that this great cycle (the antitype) could not have commenced at an earlier date, prior to the Babylonian captivity; for if we place it even one Jubilee earlier (50 years), it would locate the termination of the cycle fifty years earlier than A.D. 1875, namely A.D. 1825;…
“That the antitype of the Jubilee did not in any sense begin (i.e., take place) when the Israelite’s ceased to observe (the last typical event) is evident; hence it must be that the grand cycle began to count then, even though Israel and all the world are completely ignorant of the fact, and of the great antitypical Jubilee by which it will be terminated. We are not to look for the great Jubilee of Jubilees to begin after this cycle,…
“It is important to note that the Jubilee applied NOT to Israel’s priesthood (typical of the Gospel Church), but to the others only; for the priesthood was given no possessions (no inheritance in the earth, whether of property or family), and hence could neither lose any nor have any restored. The Jubilee was for all the people except the priestly tribe, and hence typifies, not those blessings which are to come to the Church, the “Royal Priesthood,” but the restitution…
Israel’s Jubilee Year “The year of Jubilee was a Sabbath of rest and refreshing, both to the people and to the land, which God gave them. It was the chief of a series of Sabbaths or rests. They had a Sabbath DAY every seventh day; and once every year (following Passover) these typical Sabbath days reached a climax–i.e., a cycle of seven of these Sabbaths, thus marking a period of forty-nine days (7 x 7 = 49), was followed by…