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THE PAROUSIA (PRESENCE) OF OUR LORD JESUS, Part 6

sickleharvest — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:18:43 +0000

“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 PAROUSIA (PRESENCE) OF OUR LORD JESUS, Part 5

sickleharvest — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:16:27 +0000

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 PAROUSIA (PRESENCE) OF OUR LORD JESUS, Part 4

sickleharvest — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:29:15 +0000

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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THE PAROUSIA (PRESENCE) OF OUR LORD JESUS, Part 3

sickleharvest — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:28:20 +0000

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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THE PAROUSIA (PRESENCE) OF OUR LORD JESUS, Part 2

sickleharvest — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:27:26 +0000

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 (PRESENCE) OF OUR LORD JESUS, Part 1

sickleharvest — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:25:42 +0000

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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THE REAL OBJECT OF OUR LORD’S RETURN

sickleharvest — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:57:00 +0000

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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The 40-year harvest, Part 2

sickleharvest — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:46:50 +0000

THE SUPPOSITION THAT THE HARVEST ENDED IN 1914 A MISTAKE The Pastor next proceeds to show another mistake, that he desired to correct, and it will be seen that if his conclusions are correct, and had been heeded, very much of the confusion and erroneous teaching that has existed since in the Church would have been avoided. It will be seen as we quote his words that it was his thought: (1) That the Harvest did not end in 1914;...

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The 40-year harvest, Part 1

sickleharvest — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:46:33 +0000

“As for the Harvest being a period of 40 years or if not, how long it might be, this is a matter entirely proper for us to investigate and to discuss. The question is, Is there anything in the Bible that will enable us to determine exactly how long this work of harvesting at the end of the Gospel Age will last? Concerning this matter no expositor except one has expressed any opinion, as previously stated it has been the...

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The Harvest Question

sickleharvest — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:46:06 +0000

As you recall in our first post entitled. “The Voices of the Three Sighs”, Part 1 we mentioned that at the time this article was published in 1900 it was the consciences of the Pastor and those associated with him that the Harvest of the Gospel age, which was believed at the time to be the same length as that of the Jewish age, viz., 40 years was already 27 years complete and that only 13 years remained, the last...

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