Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1918 THE SUPREME TEACHER 557
and to send them an energy or inward working of error,
that they may believe THE lie. They believe that they
have found a short cut to the kingdom of heaven, and
they HAVE, because they enter not in by the DOOR, but
climb up some other way." They do not know him who
is the Way, the Truth and the Life, but they take the
kingdom with violence as
THIEVES AND, ROBBERS,
and for a season exercise the powers of the kingdom in
all manner of mighty working and signs and wonders of
falsehood, saying even to the Judge, "Have we not in
Thy name prophesied and in thy name cast out demons,
and in thy name done many mighty works? Then will he
answer them, I never knew you, depart from me, ye
workers of iniquity." Only the man of single eye, of
and blameless life, can discern between' the
righteous and the wicked, between the wheat and the
tares. But already in this period of the consummation
pure, h0|y'
of the age,
the Christ has sent forth his angels to bind
them into bundles, i. e., to gather them together into societies.
The harvest of the tares comes first, in the time
of the world's crucifixion,
THE HoUR or DARKNESS.
The reapers will gather "out
causes of offense, the stumbling-blocks and
THE DOERS OF LAWLESSNESS.
of His kingdom" all the
Then will the righteous shine forth as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father.
At present all is confusion,
BABEL AND BABYLON.
Loud is the warning cry: "Come ye out of Her my people!
that ye may not be partakers with Her sins: and become
recipients of her plagues, for her sins are piled up as high
as heaven. "'
°Rev. xviii. 4-8.