The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-09-14
THE DISCIPLES PRAYER
Matthew 69-13)
ERRONEOUSLY ABSOLUTELY SO) CALLED
THE LORDS PRAYER
Eye Openers for Earnest Seekers After Truth
Matthew 6:9-13)

are resated in the Epistles, and it therefore has
moral application to the Church, and should be
read and studied and given its proper place and
its proper application.
The world is filled today with so-called ethical
movements based upon the Sermon on the Mount
But these movements are of the devil They have
no use for the blood Of Christ, and do not admit
the necessity of the New Birth.
1t is plainly taught in the Sermon on the Mount
that no one in Israel can become subject of the
Kingdom Of the Heavens, when it is established,
except through the New Birth.
Chapters Eight and Nine, which we have read
and heard read thousand and one times in Zion,
are made up of narratives of miracles of healing
wrought by Jesus the Christ
First, John the Baptist announced the Kingdom
of the Heavens as at hand; second, Jesus an
nounced the Kingdom of the Heavens as at hand;
third, having announced the Kingdom of the
Heavens as at hand, He proceeded to set forth
the principles of the Kingdom; and next, He
wrought miracles Of healing, thus proving that He
was able to destroy the consequences of sin and
showing that when the Kingdom of the Heavens
is set up at the beginning of the Millennium, and
throughout the Millennium, Divine Healing will
have to be accepted and lived by all.
In the Tenth Chapter, Jesus called twelve dis
ciples = these twelve disciples were Jewish dis
ciples, and their ministry and mission was to the
"lost sheep of the house of Israel" and to the
"lost sheep of the house of Israel" ONLY They
were to deliver the same message John the Baptist
delivered, the message Jesus delivered =
namely, that "The Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand"
In the Eleventh Chapter, beginning with the
Twentieth Verse; we have an account of Israel's
rejection of the offer made to them.
At the Twenty eighth Verse of this Eleventh
Chapter, Jesus delivers new message not the
message "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand"
but the message Of PERSONAL DISCIPLE
SHIP
In the Twelfth Chapter, verses Forty-six to
Fifty, we have the announcement of the new re-
lationships He said:
For whosoever shall do the will of My Father Who
is in heaven the is My brother and sister and
mother
He then left the house, signifying that He was
beginning to depart from Israel; and He "sat by
the sea-" signifying that He was going to the
multitudes.
In the Thirteenth Chapter we have presented
the seven mysteries of the Kingdom of the
Heavens = that is, the Kingdom of the Heavens
in mystery form, as it has existed since Israel's
rejection and the departure of the King.
Let one and all observe that there was no
Church at this time, and that there was no Church
until the Day Of Pentecost that the Church is not
mentioned in Mark, Luke, and John that it is not
mentioned in the Gospel according to St. Matthew
until the Sixteenth Chapter, the Eighteenth Verse,
and there only as prophecy.
Why did Jesus in Matthew 1916, command the
twelve disciples to go to the "lost sheep of the
house of Israel" and to them only?
Why did Jesus in Matthew 10 20, charge the
disciples that they should tell no man He was
Jesus the Christ?
Why, in Matthew 5:22, when the woman of
Canaan said, 'Have mercy on me, o Lord Thou
Son of David" did He not answer her?
These questions are all very simple, and yet
professed Bible students by the thousands cannot
answer them for the simple reason that they mix
up Israel and the Church, and they take the Scrip
lures that belong to Israel and give them to the
Church, and the Scriptures that belong to the
Church and give them to Israel
Let us look for minute at Joel the Second
Chapter, which is read and quoted by lot of
hare Drained fanatics who know no more about
the real meaning of the chapter than baby knows
about Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Did you ever have one of these fools ask you
the question, "Have you received the latter rain ?"
What is the precise meaning of Joel 2:23?
Be glad then We children of Zion, and rejoice in
the Lord your God for He hath given you the
former rain moderately, and He will cause to come
down for you the rain, the former rain, and the
latter rain in the first month
In this verse, we observe the words former
rain and the words "latter rain"
Any one who will read the chapter, will see
at once that this refers to literal rain upon the
literal Land Of Palestine; and that all this twad-
die indulged in by hare Drained fools about the
latter ran is nothing more nor less than the
frothings of lunatics devil-possessed
The Second Chapter Of Joel begins with an ac-
count of the invasion of Palestine by the King Of