The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-07-05
RUSSELL'S WORD:

Jews.
Volume 2, Page 234) The Jewish har-
vest period of forty years began with our
Lords public ministry, and ended with the
destruction of Jerusalem in A. D. 20.
The harvest of this Age began with our
Lords presence in 1874, and will end in A.
D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of all
Gentle power - a similar period of forty
years.
Volume 2, Page 235) The Fall of A. D.
1874 corresponds to the time of Our Lords
baptism. He 1vas then due to be present
and to begin reaping the Jewish harvest
The spring of 1873, three and one-half
years after 1874, corresponds to the length
Of our Lords ministry and to his riding
into Jerusalem on an ass and that CORE
spends to the date when, during Our Lords
second presence, the nominal church sys-
TENS were all spued out Revelation 3:16),
and from which date (1878) they are no
longer the mouthpieces Of God.
Volume 2, Page 245) The forty years
Jewish harvest ended October, A. D. 90,
and was Immediately followed by the over
throw of that nation. The forty years of
the Gospel age harvest will end October,
1914, and will be Immediately followed by
the complete overthrow of Christendom.
Tn one hour" her judgment will fall upon
her Revelation 1910, II, 1917.
(Volume 3, Page 23) "The Time of the
End" period of one hundred and fifteen
years, from A. D. 1899 to A. D. 1914, is
clearly marked in the Scriptures. "The Day
of His Preparation" is another name given
to the same period The last forty years
of this period is called "The Harvest"
Volume 3, Page 125) A. D. 1874 was
the date of our Lords return so he has been
present since that date.
Volume 3, Page 1917 It was in October
of 1874 when Our Lords second Advent
occurred, and in 1873 he began to exercise
the office of King.
volume 3, Page 1881 Our Lord would
be present in October, 1874, and the Gen
tile Times" will end in 1914.
Volume 3, Page 1887 And now he is
present The Lord has indeed come! HIS
Kingdom has been set mb
Volume 3, Page 1857 With the end of
A. D. 1914, what God calls Babylon, and
what men call Christendonl, will have pass
ed away, as shown from prophecy.
Volume 3, Page 1907 When the knock
of prophecy was heard announcing the
Lords presence in the autumn of 1874,
almost Immediately it began to be recog-
nized and quickly the cry was raised, BE
hold the Bridegroom! he is now here; go
We out to meet him."
Volume 3, Page 228) That the deliv-
erance of the saints must take place some
time before 1914 is manifest. /. We escape,
not by being taken from the scene of trou-
, bic, but by being supported and kept in the
very midst of it.
Volume 3, Page 233) The exact date
of the awakening of the sleeping saints is
not directly stated, but it may be inferred
from Our Lords parable of the young no
b1eman.
Volume 3, Page 234) Since the resur-
rection of the Church must occur during
the forty-year harvest part of "the Time of
the End" (Rev. 1879, we hold that it is
a most reasonable inference, and one in per-
feet harmony with the Lords plan, that in
the spring of 1873 all the holy apostles and
other overcomers of the Gospel Age who
slept in Jesus were raised spirit beings, like
unto their Lord and master. And we, there
fore, conclude that their resurrection is
now an accomplished fact, and hence that
they, as we'll as their Lord, are now present
in the earth.- The fact that we do not see
them is no obstacle to faith when we re-
member that, like their Lord, they are now
spirit beings, and, like him, invisible to men.
The fact that they are invisible, that tombs
were not found opened, and that none were
seen going from the cemeteries, is not an
objection to such as know what to expect
to such as realize that Our risen Lord left
no hole in the walls of rooms he entered
who remember that none, saw the risen Re
deemer, but the fe7v to whom he m1racu-
lousy showed himself; who remember that
he appeared, not in the body in 7vhich he
7vas crucifed, but in various bodies of flesh
to prevent the witnesses supposing that he
still was flesh, or that any one of the bodies
or forms they saw was His glorious spirit
body.
Only by miracle could Saul of Tarsus
see His spirit body while those with him
saw it not
Volume 3, Page 235) Our belief that
the Kingdom began to be set up or brought
into power in April 1873, rests upon the
same foundation as our belief that the Lord
became present on the earth in October
1874, and that the forty-year harvest period
began at that time.
There and then the mountain (kingdon)
of the Lords house (the church) began to
be exalted above the mountains" (l<ing-
doms) of EARTH and there the work of judg-
ing the nations of the whole world began,
preparatory to their final overthrow