The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

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Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the
covenant of the Lord with shouting, and
with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets,
and with cyrnbals, making noise with
psalteries and harps. u Chronicles IS rs.
). David also had it in his heart to build
| God great house in His own city, and he
and his son and successor, Solomon, fully
carried out the plan G Chronicles 22:1-11).
o. God was not to blame because all Israel
again apostatized, allowed the enemies of
God of His people and CITY to come in
PoHute, betoul and besmirch the place with
their abominable practices and customs.
l.. Gods purpose and plan has not forever
ms-carrled. 1t yet holds good Jerusalem
Will be again purified, thoroughly c1eansed
and again dedicated to Millennial, Theo-
cratic Rule; made, in reality, the CITY of the
Great King, the Throne of Jehovah. the
Metropolis and Capital of the whole earth.
And He said unto me, Son of man, the
place of My throne, and the place of the
soles OF My feet, where I will dwell in the
midst OF the children of Israel for ever. and
My Holy Name, shall the house of Israel
no more defle neither they, nor their kings
by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of
their kings in their high places. Ezekiel
43Z.
At that time they shall call Jerusalem
the throne of the Lord and all the nations
shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the
Lord to Jerusalem; neither shall thew walk
any more after the imagination of their evil
heart. = Jeremiah 317.
The Lord also shall roar out of Zion
and utter His voice from Jerusalem and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but the
Lord will be the hope of His people. and the
strength of the children of Israel."-Toel
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III. For THAT CITY, THAT M1LLENN1AL.
IHEOCRATIC RULE, A PEOPLE MUST
BE PREPARED AS CoHEIRS
AND Co-RULERs
SO training ground and a system of
teaching preparation must be obtained and
set in operation; hence
Gods Second City ON this Earth
IS the City of Zion, in Illinois, u. s
l. How appropriate the Name: Zion the
place, kingdom, and rule of God on the
earth. 'i'e
Is 1t not very significant that there is but
one such city Zion on the face of the whole
earth now?
No wonder the Devil and his gang are
themselves with helish rage and Satanic de-
for o+i hof
damn the City of Zion-God's miniature
Jerusalem, the one and only city on earth
today where Gods Rule is law-the only
method of procedure.
2. How it came to be laid out, or founded.
In the closing years of the Church Period
The Great Abostasy
was developing with such rapidly; was so
marked and well-nigh universal, that God
saw He Himself would have to interfere in
more noticeable manner and provide
Place of Refuge, if the saints were to be
gathered, trained and made ready for the
Rapture
In other days of wide-sweeping and all
engulfing apostasy, He had been compelled
to interfere, and provide
An Ark Of Safety
or His cause and people would have all
persisted from the earth Such was
The Ark IN Noah'S Day Genesis oil
14;
The Little City of Zoar Genesis 1914
29);
The Ark Of Bulrnshes zvhich sheltered
Moses and Gods deliverance for all Israel
EXODUS 2:1-1O);
The Church 7ohen Jerusalem 7vas DESTROY
ed IN 4. D. 20 Luke Fl 21).
5. SO God laid hold of John Alexander
DoWle and compelled him, under God to
found the Christian Catholic Apostolic
Church on February p, 1896, and the CITY
of Zion July Is, 1901
For months, and even years, before the
above dated opening of the Gates of the CITY
OF Zion for one and all of Gods saints who
wished to pass through in covenant agree
ment to build and then to breserve a city for
GOD, Dr. Dowie had by word and pen ad-
vertised the opening of the gates, and the
conditions upon which settlement upon the
estate and continued residence in the CITY
might be had.
None were left in ignorance unless of
their own volition. Literature, tracts, pam
phlets, and prospectus were sent broadcast.
The whole world could have known of the
intention to found such church and such
a city for God and His people-a real re-
tuge from storm, oppression, and apostasy,
from the world. the flesh, and the Devil
Gsaah 4 IS; 1872; 32:2).
4. Why should John Alexander Dowie and
those associated with him? why should
Wilbur Glenn Voliva and we who are asso-