MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE: SECTION EIGHT   




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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 "burning



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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 men.






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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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