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MARCH
15.
1905
ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
(95-99)
raising
up
out
of
sin
and
death
conditions,
to
perfection
and
life
conditions.
The
calling
forth
of
Lazarus,
therefore,
is
a
good
picture
of
what
may
be
expected
early
in
the
Millennial
reign,
after
the
living
nations
shall
have
been
to
some
extent
enlightened
and
brought
under
the
influence
of
the
heavenly
Kingdom.
Then
all
that
are
in
their
graves,
order
by
order,
class
by
class,
generation
by
generation,
will
come
forth
as
Laz
arus
dId
to
a
measure
of
health
and
a
measure
of
strength,
but
not
to
perfllction
of
being.
Their
cases,
however,
will
be
differ
ent
from
his,
in
that
his
release
from
death
was
merely
a
tem
porary
one:
later
on
he
died
again.
Those
in
the
Millennial
age,
on
the
contrary,
who
will
come
forth
under
the
new
conditions
of
that
Millennial
kingdom,
need
never
die
again,
but
instead,
by
hearing
the
voice
of
the
I:)on
of
Man,
by
obeying
the
same,
going
onward
step
by
step,
they
shall
emerge
grauually
from
all
the
weight
of
the
curse,
from
all
the
weaknesses
and
imper
fections
of
the
present
dying
condition,
to
the
full
life
and
per
fection
and
joy
of
the
life-eternal
condition,
at
the
close
of
the
Millennial
age.
Theirs
wIll
be
the
resurrection
by
judgments,
by
disciplines,
by
corrections
in
righteousness-by
their
gradual
attainment
under
the
systems
of
rewards
and
punishments
then
in
vogue
to
all
the
glorious
perfections
of
huma:l
nature,
as
our
Lord
declared,
"Though
deau,
yet
shall
they
live."
This
will
include
not
only
the
dead
in
the
tombs,
but
also
the
other
dead
who
buried
their
dead-those
who
are
now
nine-tenth"
dead
aud
uu
der
sentence
of
death,
but
who,
contrasting
themselves
with
those
in
the
tomb,
speak
of
themselves
as
ahve.
Then,
whoso
ever
living
shall
be
obedient
to
the
Lord
at
heart
shall
never
die,
but
will
be
granted
an
entrance
to
the
eternal
conditions
beyond
the
Millennial
age,
approved
by
the
Father
as
true
sleep.
-Matt.
25:34.
LAZARUS
NOT
IN
HEAVEN
It
would
be
preposterous
to
suppo"e
that
Lazarus
was
in
heaven
for
four
aays
and
that
the
Lord
in
mercy
and
compas
sion
called
him
away
from
blessed
scenes
there.
The
tears
of
Jesus
and
~is
fail~re
to
o~er
!lony
such
explanation
of
death,
no
less
than
hIS
awakmg
o~
hIS
fnend
Lazarus
as
a
mark
of
his
sym
pathy
and
love,
all
forbId
the
thought
that
Lazarus
had
been
in
heaven.
Besides
this,
we
have
the
Lord's
positive
declaration
that
"~o
man
ha~
ascended
uP.
to
heaven."
(John
3:
13)
Again
the
umform
testImony
of
SCrIpture
is
that
death
is
death,
and
further
our
Lord's
declaration
is
that
when
Lazarus
was
dead
he
was
asleep.
In
his
sleep
of
death
the
four
days
were
but
as
a
moment;
his
awaking
thought
was
next
to
the
one
he
had
when
he
fell
asleep
in
death.
"GREATER
THINGS
THAN
THESE
SHALL
YE
DO"
Stupenaous
as
this
miracle
was,
we
ourselves
see
in
some
respects
still
greater
miracles.
Many
of
the
Lord's
people
have
seen
in
themselves
and
in
each
other
great
transtormatiOlll:!
spoken
of
in
Scripture
as
passing
from
death
unto
lifc.
At
our
recent
New
York
ConventIOn
one
person
in
attclldanee
spoke
to
the
Editor
after
the
meeting
about
consecration.
and
remarkcd
that
for
some
years
she
had
been
an
infidel,
el'tranged
f,
om
the
Lord
and
his
book
by
her
acquaintanee
with
some
whose
COll
duct
in
life
caused
her
to
lose
all
faith
in
Christianity.
She
ex
plained
that
the
remarkable
conversion
of
her
si"ter-in-Iaw
by
the
truth
had
drawn
her
attention
to
it.
She
added,
"I
ncver
saw
so
great
a
change
in
any
human
being
in
my
life,
nor
did
I
suppose
such
a
change
possible.
It
led
me
to
believc
that
there
was
a
power
in
Christianity.
and
I
began
to
investigate
the
re
ligious
teachings
set
forth
in
MILLENNIAI,
DAWNS
which
had
>:0
powerfully
affected
my
sister-in-law.
I
am
convinced
of
its
truth,
and
am
considering
the
subject
of
consecration,
and
trust
that
you
will
pray
for
me."
"'So
let
our
lives
and
tongues
express
The
glorious
Gospel
we
profess;
1:'0
let
the
glories
in
us
shine,
That
all
may
know
that
we
are
thine."
READING
FROM
THE
SWEDISH
REVISED
BIBLE
DEAR
BROTHER
RUSSELL
:-Herewith
I
hand
you
some
inter
esting
readings
from
the
Revised
Swedish
Bible.
Yours,
KIHLGREN.
Iso..
21
:12.
"The
watchman
answereth:
Morning
has
come,
and
still
it
is
night.
If
ye
will
ask
more,
[than
the
question
in
verse
11]
ye
may
ask;
come
back
again"
[for
more
informa
tion
?].
Iso..
28:8-13.
"For
all
tables
are
full
of
nauseating
vomits,
not
a
clean
spot
is
found.
Who
thcn
[asks
the
class
mentioned
in
verse
7?]
is
it
he
desires
to
learn
understanding,
and
whom
can
he
make
to
give
attention
to
his
preaching?-Are
we
then
recently
weaned
from
the
mother's
milk,
recently
taken
from
the
mother's
breast?
For
it
is
nagging
upon
nagging,
nagging
upon
nagging,
prating
upon
prating,
prating
upon
prating,
a
little
here,
a
little
there
[as
if
this
class
should
say:
'What
does
he
take
us
for
?-we
are
no
babies
either;
it
was
not
yester
day
we
discarded
the
old-fashioned
theory
of
the
fall
and
the
redemption
of
man,
etc.,-we
are
full-grown
mature
Higher
Critics;
and
yet
there
are
a
few
old
fogies
who
never
let
us
alone,
but
are
nagging
at
us
ceaselessly,
giving
out
tracts,
papers
and
books,
which
represent
us
before
the
public
as
deceivers,'
etc.]
Well,
yes,
through
stammering
lips
and
in
a
strange
language
shall
he
speak
to
this
people,
he
who
ncvertheless
has
said
unto
them:
'Here
is
the
place
of
rest,
let
the
weary
get
rest;
here
is
the
place
where
refreshment
is
givcn
out,'
but
sueh
they
would
not
hear.
And
thus
the
Lord's
Word
shall
be
for
them,
'nagging
upon
nagging,
nagging
upon
nagging,
prating
upon
prating,
prating
upon
prating,
a
little
herc.
a
lIttle
the1'e,'
so
that
they,
as
they
walk
on,
fall
backward
and
are
crushed,
become
ensnared
and
captured."
[Refusing
to
accept
God's
grand
plan
for
salvation,
which
would
give
them
rest,
they
are
annoyed
by
those
who
are
pointing
out
its
beauty,
which
to
them
is
merely
prating,
and
the
result
is
that
they
fall
completely
into
the
snares
of
the
adversary].
The
context
seems
to
favor
the
thought
brought
out
in
this
rendering,
though
differing
from
the
English
rendering.
VOL.
XXVI
ALLEGHENY,
P
A.,
APRIL
1,
1905
THE
HEAVENS
ROLLING
TOGETHER
No.7
During
the
past
twenty-five
years
we
have
several
times
expectations,
as
heretofore
set
forth
in
these
columns,
are
that
called
attention
to
the
Scriptures
which
speak
of
the
Day
of
after
the
federative
influences
already
begun
in
Protestantism
the
Lord
and
declare
that
in
it
the
"heavens
shall
roll
together
shall
have
knit
the
joints
and
members
the
more
closely
the
like
a
scrol1."
(Iso..
34:4)
We
have
pointed
out
that
this
one
to
the
other,
the
entire
federation
of
Protestants
will
re
means
a
coming
together
of
the
extremes
of
Christianity,
Ro-
ceive
some
kind
of
Episcopal
sanction,
recognition,
or
ordina
man
Catholicism
and
Protestantism.
Other
Scriptures
show
tion
through
the
Episcopal
system,
and
that
theneeforth
Pro
lIS
that
the
consolidation,
federation
and
unification
of
Protes-
testantism
the
world
over
will
assume
a
more
activc
and
dog
tants
is
now
in
order.
This
is
already
well
under
way
and
con-
matic
influence
in
the
civil
life
and
political
affairs
of
Christen
stitutes
in
the
symbolic
book
of
Revelation
the
"image
of
the
dom,
co-operating
with
Roman
Catholicism
as
a
sister
institu
beast"-the
symbolic
beast
itself
represented
by
Papacy.
We
tion.
might
here
remark
that
nothing
in
this
word
"beast"
is
spe-
These
are
the
two
extremes
of
the
heavens
or
ecclesiastical
dally
derogatory
or
invidious-neither
in
our
use
of
the
word
powers
of
the
present
time,
and
our
Lord's
declaration
that
110r
lD
the
Scriptural
use.
Throughout
the
Scriptures,
in
the
they
shall
be
rolled
together
as
a
scroll
signifies,
not
that
they
symbolisms
of
Daniel
and
the
Apocalypse,
beasts
are
freely
used
will
ever
become
one
roll,
but,
remaining
two
rolls,
will
be
as
symbols
for
nations,
governments,
earthly
power,
though
dr?-Wll
together
~y
mutual
interest
and
nec{'ssity
for
co-oper
never
used
as
representing
the
divine
power-the
true
church,
atIon.
Theso
thmgs
mmt
be
expected
before
the
outbreak
of
thE.'
true
kingdom,
which
shall
ultimately
prevai1.
the
weat
tribulation,
which
will
evcntuate
in
the
>:ymbolical
We
have
already
pointed
out
It
general
organization
of
"the
burning
or
destruction
not
only
of
the
present
Elodal
structure
image
of
the
beast"
effected
in
1846,
and
arc
waiting
for
what
represented
n~
the
earth.
but
thp
burning
and
consuming
al~o
in
the
symbol
iEl
referred
to
a~
the
"giving
of
life
to
the
image."
of
the
symbolipal
h{'aven~
rolled
togethcr
as
It
s{'roll.
That
This
life,
or
vital
energy.
which
the
image
is
to
receive
shortly,
drpadful
anar{'hy.
whiph
will
rlestroy
everything
of
our
present
comes
from
what
is
described
as
the
two-horned
beast,
which
in
{'onditionEl
and
civilization.
will
in
so
doing
prepare
the
way
for
our
understanding
is
the
church
of
England
and
Ireland.
Our
the
establishment
of
the
heavenly
kingdom.
In
view
of
these
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Marca 15, 1905 raising up out of sin and death conditions, to perfection and life conditions. The calling forth of Lazarus, therefore, is a good picture of what may be expected early in the Millennial reign, after the living nations shall have been to some extent enlightened and brought under the influence of the heavenly Kingdom. Then all that are in their graves, order by order, elass by class, generation by generation, will come forth as Lazarus did to a measure of health and a measure of strength, but not to perfection of being. Their cases, however, will be different from his, in that his release from death was merely a temporary one: later on he died again. Those in the Millennial age, on the contrary, who will come forth under the new conditions of that Millennial kingdom, need never die again, but instead, by hearing the voice of the Son of Man, by obeying the same, going onward step by step, they shall emerge gradually from all the weight of the curse, from all the weaknesses and imperfections of the present dying condition, to the full life and perfection and joy of the life-eternal condition, at the close of the Millennial age. Theirs will be the resurrection by judgments, by disciplines, by corrections in righteousness—by their gradual attainment under the systems of rewards and punishments then in vogue— to all the glorious perfections of human nature, as our Lord declared, “Though dead, yet shall they live.” This will include not only the dead in the tombs, but also the other dead who buried their dead—those who are now nine-tenths dead and under sentence of death, but who, contrasting themselves with those in the tomb, speak of themselves as alive. Then, whosoever living shall be obedient to the Lord at heart shall never die, but will be granted an entrance to the eternal conditions beyond the Millennial age, approved by the Father as true sleep. —Matt. 25:34. LAZARUS NOT IN HEAVEN It would be preposterous to suppose that Lazarus was in heaven for four days and that the Lord in mercy and compassion called him away from blessed scenes there. The tears of ZION’S WATCH TOWER (95-99) Jesus and his failure to offer any such explanation of death, no less than his awaking of his friend Lazarus as a mark of his sympathy and love, all forbid the thought that Lazarus had been in heaven. Besides this, we have the Lord’s positive declaration that “no man has ascended up to heaven.” (John 3:13) Again the uniform testimony of Scripture is that death is death, and further our Lord’s declaration is that when Lazarus was dead he was asleep. In his sleep of death the four days were but as a moment; his awaking thought was next to the one he had when he fell asleep in death. “GREATER THINGS THAN THESE SHALL YE DO”’ Stupenaous as this miracle was, we ourselves see in some respects still greater miracles. Many of the Lord’s people have seen in themselves and in each other great transtormations spoken of in Scripture as passing from death unto life. At our recent New York Convention one person in attendance spche to the Editor after the meeting about consecration, and remarked that for some years she had been an infidel, estranged f.om the Lord and his book by her acquaintance with some whose conduct in life caused her to lose all faith in Christianity. She explained that the remarkable conversion of her sister-in-law by the truth had drawn her attention to it. She added, “I never saw so great a change in any human being in my life, nor did I suppose such a change possible. It led me to believe that there was a power in Christianity, and I began to investigate the religious teachings set forth in MILLENNIAL Dawns which had so powerfully affected my sister-in-law. I am convinced of its truth, and am considering the subject of consecration, and trust that you will pray for me.” “So let our lives and tongues express The glorious Gospel we profess; So let the glories in us shine, That all may know that we are thine.” READING FROM THE SWEDISH REVISED BIBLE Dear BRoTHER RUSSELL:—Herewith I hand you some interesting readings from the Revised Swedish Bible. Yours, KIHLGREN, Isa, 21:12, “The watchman answereth: Morning has come, and still it is night. If ye will ask more, [than the question in verse 11] ye may ask; come back again” [for more information?]. Isa, 28:8-13. “For all tables are full of nauseating vomits, not a clean spot is found. Who then [asks the class mentioned in verse 7?] is it he desires to learn understanding, and whom can he make to give attention to his preaching?—Are we then recently weaned from the mother’s milk, recently taken from the mother’s breast? For it is nagging upon nagging, nagging upon nagging, prating upon prating, prating upon prating, a little here, a little there [as if this class should say: ‘What does he take us for ?—we are no babies either; it was not yesterday we discarded the old-fashioned theory of the fall and the redemption of man, etc.—we are full-grown mature Higher Critics; and yet there are a few old fogies who never let us alone, but are nagging at us ceaselessly, giving out tracts, papers and books, which represent us before the public as deceivers,’ etc.] Well, yes, through stammering lips and in a strange language shall he speak to this people, he who nevertheless has said unto them: ‘Here is the place of rest, let the weary get rest; here is the place where refreshment is given out,’ but such they would not hear. And thus the Lord’s Word shall be for them, ‘nagging upon nagging, nagging upon nagging, prating upon prating, prating upon prating, a little here, a lttle there,’ so that they, as they walk on, fall backward and are crushed, become ensnared and captured.” [Refusing to accept God’s grand plan for salvation, which would give them rest, they are annoyed by those who are pointing out its beauty, which to them is merely prating, and the result is that they fall completely into the snares of the adversary]. The context seems to favor the thought brought out in this rendering, though differing from the English rendering. Vou. XXVI ALLEGHENY, PA., APRIL 1, 1905 No. “Il THE HEAVENS ROLLING TOGETHER During the past twenty-five years we have several times called attention to the Scriptures which speak of the Day of the Lord and declare that in it the “heavens shall roll together like a scroll.” (Isa. 34:4) We have pointed out that this means a coming together of the extremes of Christianity, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Other Scriptures show us that the consolidation, federation and unification of Protestants is now in order. This is already well under way and constitutes in the symbolic book of Revelation the “image of the beast”—the symbolic beast itself represented by Papacy. We might here remark that nothing in this word “beast” is specially derogatory or invidious—neither in our use of the word mor in the Scriptural use, Throughout the Scriptures, in the symbolisms of Daniel and the Apocalypse, beasts are freely used as symbols for nations, governments, earthly power, though never used as representing the divine power—the true church, the true kingdom, which shall ultimately prevail. We have already pointed out a general organization of “the image of the beast” effected in 1846, and are waiting for what in the symbol is referred to as the “giving of life to the image.” This life, or vital energy, which the image is to receive shortly, comes from what is described as the two-horned beast, which in our understanding is the church of England and Ireland. Our expectations, as heretofore set forth in these columns, are that after the federative influences already begun in Protestantism shall have knit the joints and members the more closely the one to the other, the entire federation of Protestants will receive some kind of Episcopal sanction, recognition, or ordination through the Episcopal system, and that thenceforth Protestantism the world over will assume a more active and dogmatic influence in the civil life and political affairs of Christendom, co-operating with Roman Catholicism as a sister instituion. These are the two extremes of the heavens or ecclesiastical powers of the present time, and our Lord’s declaration that they shall be rolled togethcr as a scroll signifies, not that they will ever become one roll, but, remaining two rolls, will be drawn together by mutual interest and necessity for co-operation. These things must be expected before the outbreak of the great tribulation, which will eventuate in the symbolical burning or destruction not only of the present social structure represented as the earth. but the burning and consuming also of the symbolical heavens rolled together as a scroll. That dreadful anarchy, which will destroy everything of our present conditions and civilization, will in so doing prepare the way for the establishment of the heavenly kingdom. In view of these [3531]
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