Aveust 1, 1949 corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”—Matt. 21:1-43; Ps, 118: 22, 23. 7° So in the spring of 33 Jesus was killed. But God raised him from the dead and elevated him to his own right hand in heaven as the Kingdom Heir. Thus the Messianic Stone, rejected by the Israelite builders, was made the headstone of the corner by Jehovah’s doing. That was three and a half years after his anointing to be King. Correspondingly, at the birth of God’s kingdom in the fall of 1914, Christ Jesus was appointed King, and his parousia began. For three and a half years Jehovah’s witnesses on earth were proclaiming his kingdom and the end of the Gentile times. Then, in the spring of 1918, the warring nations of Christendom showed their rejection of Christ Jesus as newly installed King. How? By using their greatest efforts to suppress Jehovah’s witnesses and by proposing a League of Nations for world rule. Then was the due time for Jehovah to reverse the action of the earthly builders for world domination and make his rejected Stone the Chief Cornerstone in Zion, his capital organization. He did so, giving Christ victory over Satan’s organization in the “war in heaven’. (Rev. 12:1-13) To parallel Jesus’ own resurrection and exaltation to God’s right hand, then would be the due time for Christ’s joint-heirs who were sleeping in death to be raised and exalted to heaven with him. Hence the spring of 1918 would be the time for this. *JTn further harmony with the exaltation of the rejected Christ Jesus to be the Chief Cornerstone in Zion, Jehovah God revived the work of his witnesses on earth in 1919. That year began the greatest campaign of publicity to Jehovah’s kingdom ever in human history, announcing Christ Jesus as His reigning King. This revival of the work of Jehovah’s witnesses which had been practically killed by the political and religious enemies in 1918 was likened to a resurrection in the prophecy of Revelation, chapter eleven. After describing the killing of the witnesses as far as their witnessing publicly is concerned, Revelation 11:11,12 (Am. Stan. Ver.) says: “And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” So the enemies now do! 25 After that the climax of messages, the seventh, is heard: “And the seventh angel sounded; and there How do parallel experiences show resurrection began in 1918? aa To correspond, how did the remnant have a symbolic resurrection? 25. What trumpet then sounded? With what should it be accompanied? She WATCHTOWER. 231 followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord [Jehovah], and of his Christ: and he shal] reign for ever and ever.” Then, to show that the resurrection of the sleeping joint-heirs of Christ was due, the Revelation says: “And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints.” (Rev. 11: 3-18, Am. Stan. Ver.) From then on, whenever any of the remnant of Christ’s joint-heirs on earth die faithful, it is not necessary for them to sleep on in death. No, but they are changed from mortal human to immortal spirit, as the apostle Paul says, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” “For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”—-1 Cor. 15: 51-53; Rev. 14:13, THOSE ALIVE AND REMAINING ** During Christ’s first parousia he raised dead people. He can do the same during his second parousia, There is a remnant of Christ’s joint-heirs yet alive on the earth. Jesus declared that for the sake of these elect ones the days of tribulation upon Satan’s organization would be shortened, in order that they might deliver the Kingdom witness to all nations before the full end of the tribulation comes at Armageddon. Because this remnant remain on earth, does that deny that the invisible, spiritual resurrection of Christ’s joint-heirs that were sleeping has taken place? No. The apostle Paul plainly states that the resurrection of those sleeping jointheirs must precede the death and resurrection of the remnant that lives up to and into the royal presence or parousia of Christ Jesus. To show the time-order of events he speaks as if he himself were one of the remnant and says: “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also will God bring forth with him them who have fallen asleep through Jesus; for this unto you do we say by a word of the Lord,—that we the living who are left unto the presence of the Lord shall in nowise get before them who have fallen asleep; because the Lord himself with a word of command, with a chief-messenger’s voice, and with a trumpet of God shall descend from heaven,—and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” Then what? “After that we, the living who are left, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus evermore with the Lord shall we be ?’—-1 Thess. 4:1417, Rotherham. 27 To accomplish these marvels it is not necessary for the Lord Jesus Christ to descend literally in 26, Does a remnant’s survival deny sleeping saints were raised? Why? 21, Does the Lord literally have to descend in person? Illustrate.
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