Bible Citations in Substantiation
Compiled by C. J. Woodworth
GENESIS
1:26. God designs that man shall have the dominion of
earth. He does not have that dominion yet, as explained in Hebrews 2:8,9, and he cannot
have it until the Life-Giver returns and gives it.
1:28. If it is God's purpose to fill the earth with a race
that shall be all righteous as declared by the prophet, Isaiah 60:21. The basin of the
Amazon is so rich that nothing but a population of swarming billions could ever subdue the
rank vegatation.
2:2, 3. It was the divine plan that man should have six
one-thousand year days of toil under the great taskmaster, Sin, to be followed by a
seventh one-thousand-year day of rest from it. This is here foreshadowed.
2:8,9. This is a picture of what the whole world is to
become. The work we now see everywhere going on about us, of beautifying the earth, is
part of the preparation for Messiah's reign.
3:15. The Messiah is to have the power to destroy Satan and
all the works of Satan, one of which is death. When Messiah reigns, Satan will no longer
have power to lead men into sin and death.
3:21. This looks forward to the sacrifice of the Lamb of God,
and thus to provision for redeeming man from the curse of death.
3:22-24. God purposes that man shall live forever upon earth.
4:4. Abel's sacrifice looked forward to the all-sufficient
one.
4:8. Abel's death represented the death of the Christ; it is
the death of these that makes the future blessings sure.
8:21. In the passing over from "this present evil
world" to "the world to come" God will not smite all, but will save some
alive.
9:11. All flesh shall not be cut off again.
9:15. Again, "Millions now living will never die".
12:3. When the due time comes for blessing all the families
of the earth, those then living will be due for a blessing also.
13:15, 16. Some are promised an everlasting earthly
inheritance.
13:17. Abraham's promised inheritance is to be on the earth.
15:7-21. The word here rendered "whereby" conveys
the thought of, "Please give me all the information available on the subject."
The Lord answered in signs which we summarize:
Eleven symbolic years, the combined ages of these animals, equal 3,960 literal years.
They begin to count, as appears from Genesis 16:3, "after Abram had dwelt ten years
in the land of Canaan" and this, as the Bible chronology shows, was about October 1,
2,036 B.C. 2,035¼ years brings us down to the A.D. period and 1,924¾ brings us to the
full end of the 3,960. 1,924 full years of the A.D. period will end December 31, 1924 A.D.
and ¾ years more ends about October 1, 1925 A.D., at which time there is reason to
believe that Abraham will come into possession of his inheritance.
The attendant phenomena seem to suggest that the vision will be fulfilled during the
time of trouble, pictured by the "smoking furnace" at a time when the Lord Jesus
will be present in his second advent as the light of the world, pictured as a
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lamp". As ten is a symbol of national completeness the ten nations here mentioned
seem to represent all the nations of the earth.
17:8. The everlasting inheritance of Abraham and his
posterity is to be on earth. As some will never die and the time for them to appear is
near it is reasonable to infer that co-inheritors now will never die, and there are
millions of them.
17: 17-19. The name of Isaac, meaning "laughter";
the fact that he typified the Christ, as explained in Galatians 4:28; and the fact that he
was the blesser of all his brethren, as here prophesied, prove that there will come a time
when millions will never die.
18:18. All the nations of the earth, including the dead
nations are here promised a blessing, implying their resurrection. When that time comes
the living will be blessed with opportunities for life also.
19:17-22. As Lot and his two daughters were delivered from
the destruction of literal Sodom and given a little city to live in, so it may be that
many will be delivered from the destruction of churchianity, "that city which is
spiritually called Sodom", Revelation 11:8, and permitted to live on into the new
order of things.
21:14-19. The hopes of the world are knit up with the hopes
of fleshly Israel, whom Ishmael represented, even as Isaac represented spiritual Israel.
The hopes of Zionists were revived at the great Hippodrome meeting in 1910 when Pastor
Russell delivered his address on Zionism in Prophecy to 5,500 Jews. Here the antitipical
Ishmael, ready to die of thirst, was supplied with just the water of life most needed.
This is a sign of the early approach of returning favor to the Jew, new manifest in
Zionism.
22:7, 8, 13. The lamb caught in the thicket represented
Jesus, the blesser of all the living and the dead.
22:18. The living nations will participate in these
blessings.
25:1-4. Keturah represented the New Covenant, God's means for
fulfilling the Abrahamic Covenant and blessing all mankind. She had six sons, representing
that her offspring, at first, are imperfect. But she had ten grandsons, symbol of national
completeness, symbolizing that, in the end, the whole world will own The New Covenant as
their source of life, and by it will reach perfection.
26:3. The living nations will participate in these blessings.
28:12. A vision of our Lord Jesus in his capacity as the
Savior of mankind, bringing blessings of life to all, living and dead.
28:14. The living families will participate in these
blessings.
35:18. The fact that we now see the time of nominal Zion's
travail argues that the time for the blessing of mankind is near. Benjamin, in a way,
brought blessings to his other brethren.
45:3-5. This revelation of Joseph to his brethren prior to
his blessing of them represents the second advent of our Lord now being gradually revealed
to the world to their ultimate joy.
49:10. Shiloh is Christ, the Prince of Peace, the peacemaker
between heaven and earth. When he begins to draw all men unto himself it will include the
millions now living as well as the dead.
50:17. This represents the spirit of prayer and supplication
as it will shortly be poured out upon millions now living.
50:20. As God was pleased to save much people alive at the
hands of Joseph, so there is reason to believe he will be equally pleased to save alive
millions now living at the hands of Christ.
EXODUS
3:8. This represents the purpose of the second advent of
Christ.
4:4. This represents God's purpose to lay hold upon present
evil conditions, banishing sin and death and every evil thing.
5:17. This sign preceding Israel's deliverance from Egypt we
now see preceding mankind's deliverance from Satan's empire.
7:12. This sign preceding Israel's deliverance shows how our
clear comprehension of the reason for the permission of evil
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completely obliterates by its greater power previous explanations.
7:20. This sign shows how the millions of tracts setting
forth the blessed harvest tidings would seem to churchianity. This sign, fulfilled, shows
that the time for earths deliverance is near.
The succeeding chapters of Exodus, down to 12:30 inclusive, narrating the plagues
successively of frogs, lice, flies, murrain, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the death
of the firstborn. represent successive manifestations of God's power in setting forth
the truth. Among the antitypes of these plagues we see the seven volumes of Studies in the
Scriptures. The fact that these have all been published shows that the deliverance of the
world is nigh.
14:29, 30. The passage of Israel through the Red Sea may
represent that some will pass through the time of anarchy alive.
15:13. This applies to the whole world of mankind.
15:26. This promise to fleshly Israel applies also to the
world of mankind to the end of the gospel age.
16:21. As the Israelites gathered the manna fresh every
morning so the world in the new age will need to seek supplies of grace to live. This will
apply to those living when the day of grace dawns.
16:23. It was the divine plan that man should have a great
Sabbath day for recovery of living and dead from sin and death.
19:10, 11. This third day represents the early morning of the
third thousand-year day beginning with the thousand-year day in which the ransom was
provided for the living as well as the dead.
20:8-10. The Sabbath day typified the great thousand-year
Sabbath day of restitution for the living as well as the dead.
28:33. The bells of gold represent that when the King shall
come the fruits of his redemptive work will be manifest to all.
32:34. This leading of the people into the promised land
represents the leading back of all who will into harmony with God.
34:30. The bright-shining of which Israel was afraid
represents the time of trouble which the world will not be able to endure. Following this
the greater than Moses, Christ, will speak to the living end the dead through the medium
of the vail, the Ancient Worthies.
LEVITICUS
9:23. This appearance of the glory of the Lord unto all
the people represented the time soon coming when "the glory of the Lord [his love for
all men, living and dead] shall be revealed" to all.
13:2. This represents the arrangement of the Lord for the
healing of all mankind, living and dead, from sin, in the new age.
14:4. The cedar wood represents the everlasting life that may
be obtained by living and dead in the Millennial age, the scarlet the blood of the ransom,
the hyssop the cleansing Word.
14:12. The trespass offerings represent the means of
reconciliation shortly to be oponed for the living as well as the dead.
18:5. Those who will keep the new laws may live
everlastingly.
23:3. The Sabbath day typified the great thouasand-year
Sabbath day of recovery of the living and dead from sin and death.
25:10. This represents the coming deliverance of all, living
and dead.
26:18,24,28. The seven Gentile times ended in the fall of
1914.
26:34. 35, 40-45. A reference to the seventy jubilees which
must pass over Israel before they really enter the promised land. These 3500 years began
with the entrance into Canaan in the spring of 1575 B.C., 1574¾ years before the A.D. era
end will come to their full end in 1924¼, o about April 1, 1925, at which time we may
expect the resurrection of the Ancient Worthies and the beginning of the blessing of all
the families of the earth, living as well as dead. The last year of the 3,500 years will
be itself a jubilee year witnessing the antitype, the great jubilee, of restitution.
27:24. Another reference to the coming deliverance of all
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NUMBERS
14:31-34. The last verse of this citation is one of the
keys that unlock the time prophecies and one, therefore, by which we discern that the
world has ended. There seems to be a parallelism in the preceding verses between the
experiences of the professed people of God in this harvest time and the experiences of
fleshly Israel there. We may see that the forty years wandering of spiritual Israel began
in the fell of 1881. The ten unfaithful spies, the worldly clergy, rejected the
restitution message as an awful message, a devilish message, and the people heeded them
instead of heeding the truth. but it may well be that, literally, they and their systems
shall fall to enter in, while their children, literally, shall have the promised
inheritance. It may be that these worldly systems will go down lo the fall of 1921. Or the
forty years may be viewed as beginning with the proclamation of the harvest message in
1878 and ending with the beginning of the downfall of ecclesiasticism, which took place in
Russia lo 1918.
19:9. These ashes of the red heifer, kept for the cleansing
of the people from sin, represent the remembrance of the faithfulness of the Ancient
Worthies which will be available for all ere long.
21:9. The serpent of brass represented sin, Satan's agent in
luring our first parents into condemnation, hence our Lord Jesus who took the place of the
sinner, living and dead.
DEUTERONOMY
4:9-11. These words, applicable to Israel at the
inauguration of the old Law Covenant, will be applicable to all mankind, living and dead,
at the inauguration of the new Law Covenant. The fulfillment of these symbols we now see
going on about us.
4:40. Under the new Law Covenant Israel and, by extension,
old mankind, living and dead, may, if obedient, live forever.
5:12-14. Fleshly Israel's day of rest typified the coming
time in which the whole, world, living and dead, shall rest from sin.
5:16. Those may live forever who honor Jehovah and the New
Covenant, represented here by father and mother.
18:15-18. A prophecy of the coming offer of life to all.
28:1-14. Representing the blessings coming upon all the
world, living and dead, with the advent of the new Law Covenant.
30:15, 19. These words apply to all the world, living and
dead, in the dawn of the new age. They have never yet had fulfillment; never yet has a
real offer of life for the living been held out to any.
32:43. This rejoicing of the nations of earth with Israel has
not yet taken place, but it will take place for both living and dead.
JOSHUA
1:11. The three days' preparation of victuals represent
the thousand-yeer day in which Christ was crucified and the two succeeding ones in which
the church is gathered out. Upon this food the world, living and dead, will feed in the
age almost at hand.
5:12. Representing new offers of life to millions living.
6:20. This represents the utter overthrow of the powers of
sin, and the end of all necessity for any man to die. Already we see the walls of the
antitypical Jericho, churchianity, tottering.
14:10. This keeping of Caleb alive from the time Israel left
egypt until the promised land had been conquered and divided represents how some will go
over into the new age without dying.
JUDGES
3:9. The judges of ancient times were not only rulers but
deliverers. The present commotion in the earth is due to the fact that the Judge is here
and the judgment day is under way. The Judge not only will suppress all wrong but will
hold out life for all.
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1. SAMUEL
2:6. Soon none will need longer to go into
the grave.
11:12, 13. In some senses of the word the
first king of Israel represented earth's new king— "not willing that any
should perish".
2. SAMUEL
7:10. When the time has come that Israel
shall "dwell in a place of their own and move no more" the time will also have
come when "millions now living will never die".
19:21, 22. David was a type of earth's
coming king—"not willing that any should perish".
1. KINGS
1:51, 52. Solomon similarly was a type of
earth's coming king.
8:56. The rest from their enemies which came
upon fleshly Israel represents the real rest coming upon all the living and dead.
2. KINGS
4:5, 6. This pouring out of the oil
represents the pouring out of the holy spirit upon all flesh, living and dead. Every
vessel fitted for its reception shall be filled to the full with Gods spirit.
1. CHRONICLES
16:31-34. The judgment day, which we have
already entered, is a time of hope and blessing for all mankind, living and dead.
17:9. A permanent dwelling place signifies
the end of death.
2. CHRONICLES
36:21. A reference to the seventy jubilees
beginning in the spring of 1575 B.C. and ending in the spring of 1925. When these jubilees
are complete the time will have come for blessing all.
NEHEMIAH
8:5-12. This reading of the law by Ezra
and the aid rendered by his thirteen assistants, followed by the rejoicing of the people,
seems to represent the coming unfolding of his Word by the lord, the cooperation of the
twelve tribes of spiritual Israel and the great company, and the subsequent joy of all,
living and dead.
33:14-30. Elihu, not one of the three
contenders with Job that were reproved by the Almighty, but a fourth one whose utterances
seem to have been guided by the Lord, calls attention to the fact that God has repeatedly
warned mankind during this night time of evil: that man has seen strange visions upon his
creed bed throughout this period, but now that we are in the day of wrath he is getting
his eyes and ears open. No longer shall man be permitted to follow their own plans. Then
follows the history of a man that is sick, his pains, his failing appetite, his loss of
flesh, all suggesting his speedy dissolution. Then he explains that if the time has come
for the second advent of the Lord, the Messenger of the Covenant, God's interpreter of his
own character, the fairest among ten thousand, God is gracious unto the sick one and says,
in substance, He need not die, the ransom has been applied for him; if he will repent of
his sins he may grow young again and live forever."
38 11-15. Evil is permitted only to a certain
extent. Here its coming end is shown as associated with the fixed time for the coming of
the Dayspring from on high. When he comes, in the language of verse 14 (Leeser) "She
is changed as the sealing clay and all things stand as though newly clad". All things
shall be made new; death shall be no more.
42:12. Job's experiences picture the
experiences of those of mankind that shall live through the time of anarchy.
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