- ated bv those parativelv ne r aspiring :he!% as jeauers.
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T h e ~ a r a i i e tionsof the ipx37 and that of ties. as ail
k.3 shir, on the pi tabcmacic, .A- tar, its cnnr etc. : and t i r t
Each aiso en& separation. - a d v e n ~ of C-
Tha t thesg 1 in t ! lemsei~~s , a good of l to the encii; -
doubt : but tiia our applicarioni to grow ins sitions, is r--
There a re r j leis are dm=& between t advent of :n, tures,
that is. and proph 3 - d required t wi~icil those which (, have to
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n: in of tile 11i;i1 priest : washing his flesi~, j fatal
--r,eaknes, viz. It makes three stares of ctc. XIIU more. they saw
llirn go in, UII - I c o m i a ~ , to ciose up tile Jewish, 2nd
Int1.0-
r der ihe sail jdesir. ,111d iie wiil come I ducz tile gospei
nqe, and fiur >races, a t tills back to tile chnrch, in Iilce
manner as tliep 1 advent: for we were even then Drearninz a saw him
s o ; and nor, in an invisible manner. Eourt!i stage. or tlle
coming with I ~ i s saincs. Hence, h e wiii a q i n zcash hi.$&
witil nra- , to complete tile se&nci zdvent, nnd intro- I te r
by the nord , jusz as lie nasned it. during j duce tile miileiinial
age. 3 a t aci4nlttinr:::ac 2 I that * ' forty davs, ' after ile
zntered tiie true / four stages in this harvest and time o f t r o
u b , , tabernacle or sanctuary, and before iie en- / le, ending in
1911, and which compieteiy j. C T tered the -710s~ Holy. 2'. e.
whiie on his way cioses the t i 6 e G f the Gentiles, are riecessa-
q in. A n d rve know the t rue tabernacie, cal- ry. whiie 'out
three stages were necessav in . 9 led t!;e sanctuary, (Heb. 9 : 4
1, and outside 1 tile corresponding and parallei period, O ~ C ~ O
S - , the " second vail," is nu t :he alorified churcli / ing up
the Jewish economy, still, 1 had nev- as some afirm, since
thesanctzcary was to be i e r supposed that our expectations
looking to -
. . W O l ' h , is.
And it i
Propilet conle to: h t rn of any par:& prophec - Lord p: a
sin o h r r i : x in the end ple fror
cieansed after h e 3300 iiays. and a glorified church requires r
~ o cleansing.
When oiir Hi+ Priest comes, the church " bone of his bone. and
flesh of liis flesil," are again to be " washed with water by the
word, even as they were washed on his way
goat. quire i i ~ pex
the spring of 1878, as the third stage oJ' the adve~zt were
realized ; I was not aware that any one clain~ed that Christ came
as King, in tile spring of 1378; much less that any
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' one has proved it. 111 that case rlle coming of Christ, in ail
irs stages, all that he is ever
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in. Anti this is when and how the whole 1 to come, is in the
pasr. F o r there is no Bi- horizon of the c l~urch is to be
ligiited up, 1 ble io prove chat Christ corn& US Xinc/, but bv
the coming, (parousia, yresence) of the 1 once. If h e is ro come
as icing twice, per- ) . ~ b n of man; w e n as :he naturai horizon
is, haps h e may so come. a third, or perhaps a L, I by rhe
lightning whicil shines from one part fourttl time. B u t ?s there
is no proof that / under heaven, to tile other part under heav- /
Cllrist came in a third character. in 1878; 'I
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when the time passed. me had to renounce ; % J en' & oun
that arrangement of the paralleis, just as we <
I n the spring of 1875, had to renouncbour expectation of
transla- the '. iiarx-est " or the rion a t that time. B u t this
does not meak- I ing a definite period en tile system of paraiiels
between zhe law * , gan in :he autumn of 1874: our immediate ' and
gospel, because that system is a scriptur- conclusion was, that C
i~r i s t had come. T h e 1 ai fact. It onlr proves, wnat has h e n
true,
3s,-as the prc~!ii~etic 1 in eacn and every ?base of this whoie
move- us in be;ie\-ini. *hat the - c time / ment from '43, to the
present time, viz. At I
of harvest " of the gospei age has cvmmenced, each poinr. where
we espected t ra~sla t ion, I I I
Christ nz.u.st be here.-"In the tirne of 1lar / there iias, of
necessitv, been a premarure ar- ves: i \xi11 saz to die rezperq."
etc. (31 >tt. , rangement. or cron.jing of events. HOW I : 0 ) .
Anairi. in the a s t e rn oi pnraiiels 1 could we expect
translation, unless all the between the Jewish mid gospei
c~ispencatio~~s, , events due hefore transiation, couid beincor- we
taugilt that Jesus came '13 n sin oifering porated into our
appiications? In 1 U 3 we at his b ~ r r h , as r e a p - , a t
!,is baptisn;: and haci nll the events oi tile whole f ' d a oi
tile as 1ci.tlg.just prior to his crucifixion. T h u s Lord."
crowded into a nucsi~eil, as i~ were. 1 making three stages, at
tile first advent. , And so, as the movement iias gone on, aiid
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S o w , tile pamileis, (*so we said), demand light has
increased. there has been less and t three s:agtts , (no more, no
lessj, a t Iiis sec- less of this crowding of events; because, as i
ond c o r n ~ i ~ ~ : - - X s t h r scapegoat, at the enti tile
movement was hifilied. the increased of the " 0 9 t1a.r~. or in
lS4i ; a, reap?, in light enabled us to detect those p;arts wiiicil
- \ the :Lntu:rtn ot l>7i : and as killl/, in tile were
spurinus. ,4nd so, as racii prlase oi the t span: of 1s::: : ant i
ni l~ci l three stages 1 movement has p s s e d , those wito have
been s / ~ ~ I ? L ~ J hare cornpiered the sec>olzd comin2, in a
posiiioli to do so, have seen d i e zreat , 8 if tile parililcls r
v e r ~ ~ perfect, nnii our appil- , tan21ed web or coniusiol~,
mixed with t h e crrfio17 corl-ett, (:is or11 breti~ren, whose
ianlps little truth we iiad in 1843, gradua!ly unfbid went o u t
mhtn the ) c , ? z r + otc!?p+/ ut '. oil " was and fall into a
true Scri1,turai-position. require(i in tile spring of l r i k ,
still claim). T l ~ i s errand readiustirlg nmonp the ciosins , 4
Bui unfortun:ttel!--i(,r them. tiiat 1)arucui:tr featuresniici
details of each a n u e v e r p argu- n;.rar:gemi.rir ot
paraiit.i,, and ; u \I ilicll they, ment, (.tnd this of the
parnilels, is no excep- ~ : L \ . ~ T I ; 110 ncivancei; licllt,
srrll ciing, has a tionj. cannot oi course, be so f d y appreci- *
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