The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-31

l. lhey are pointed out IN the WORD Or
GOD Ezekiel 317-21:
Son of man. 1 have made thee watchman unto
the house of Israeli therefore hear the word at my
mouth, and give them warning from me-
When say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely
die; and thou givest him not warning, speakest
to the wicked from his wicked way, to save
his life; the same wicked man shall die in his
niquity; but his blood will require at thine hand
Yet if thou the wicked and he turn not
from his wickedness, from his wicked way, he
shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
Again, When righteous man doth turn from his
righteousness, and commit iniquity and I lay a
stumbngblock before him, he shall die: because
thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in
his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done
shall not be remembered; but his blood will I
quire at thine hand
Nevertheless if thou the righteous man,
that the righteous sin not, he doth sin, he
shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou
hast delivered thy soul
Ezekiel 20, TO-
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent
unto me; and, 10, roll of book therein
And he spread it before me; and it written
within and without: and there was written therein
lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
HabakkuE 2:1-3:
will stand upoff my watch and set me upon the
tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto
me, and what / shall answer when I reproved.
And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may
run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for appointed time but
at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it
tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it
will not tarry.
2. The WATCHMAN is as necessary as any
soldier assigned to picket duty in the NIGHT.
If picket goes away from his post, or falls
asleep at it, and the enemy passes the line for a
surprise attack that picket is court-martaled,
taken out and shot.
5. Specific are the duties of THE WATCH
MAN. He must tell exactly what he Sees
whether good or bad - just what is approaching
the sleeping city and nation.
GREAT WAS HIS RESPONSIBILITY SO
sure of him were the people and his king, that
they slept through the long night in apparent
security
4. The continued life of the WATCHMAN
depended upon his faithful adherence to duty and
place He must not give false alarm, nor fail
to report instantly what he saw and all he saw.
). The prophet = as Moses, Elijah, Paul, ETC.
was Gods WATCHMAN in Israel He was
to peer into the future and properly interpret
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Esther l 13
The king said to the wise men, which knew the
times.
Chronicles 1872:
VI the cnllQren OF lSSachar, were men that had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel
ought to do.
Matthew 16:1-4:
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came and
tempting desired him that he would shew them
sign from heaven.
He answered and said unto them When it is
evening ye say, 1t will be fair weather: for the
sky is red.
And in the morning, 1t will be foul weather |
today; for the sky is red and lowrng. We
hypocrites, discern the face of the sky; but
can ye not discern the signs of the times?
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh af- |
ter sign and there shall no sign be n unto it,
but the sign of the prophet Jonas.
The prophet-watchman was, therefore, Gods |
mouthpiece the herald of future Righteousness
= THE RULE OF GOD ON THE EARTH
6. This PROPHET-WATCHMA wasted |
no time in literary orations; in entertaining the |
people; in reciting the poets in essaying and |
sermonizng on HUNANISM.
He never gave toast, nor would he receive one. |
What went we out into the wilderness for to see? (
prophet? Yea, say unto you, and more than a |
prophet; for this is he of whom it is written Be-
hold send MY MESSENGER before My face who |
shall declare the way before Me.
The WATCHMAN suddenly rose up, gave the
alarm, shouted his message of warning and dis
appeared
The watchman was not the chief thing: it was
his alarm, his warning, his message
7. The General Overseer is Gods WATCH