Peace in the name of our Redeemer.
Time doesn't allow for a thorough going over of every single point made in the article "Prophetic Events Closing Zechariah" [Beauties of the Truth, August 2016]. Suffice to say, to me it's so ridiculous that it's a wonder that anyone can read this and call it the Truth.
While they were bound to hit close to the truth on a number of items by virtue of the fact that they were starting with Brother Russell's work as their opening premise (as everyone should!), they certainly ended up in the ditch with an odd theory that Messianic Jews are now the "House of David", as a special class to be working as direct assistants to the Ancient Worthies.
You might call the publication "beauties of theories" because they're just fish stories. Anybody can say probably this and maybe that, but when you say of "The House of David" in Zechariah 12 that ""This may point to a group described today as Messianic Jews" and say "maybe" this group will be working side by side as "direct assistants to the ancient worthies"! This places them above their fellow Jews (?), those encouraged by Pastor Russell to keep their own faith and traditions. This is replacement theology.
That there's a special class higher than the Jews, between the restitution class and the spiritual class as "special helpers" to the Ancient Worthies is something never taught by That Servant, nor hinted at by his chief defender and exponent brother Paul Johnson, the two Star Members - the Lord's own composite messenger to the Church of Laodicea.
This article is described as being "condensed from an after-hours panel at the 2016 International Convention in Szczyrk, Poland." Even the merest babe in Present Truth knows this view does not agree with Pastor Russell, whose work they crafted the article with as their premise. Their theory also does not agree with Reason nor the Bible. Of course they do not mention what was really taught by That Servant, that there will be a class of consecrated between the ages that could be referred to as "youthful worthies" ...
Brethren! As for me and my home, we've away with these publishing houses who through similar fish stories are just leading you hook line & sinker into the worst areas of fishing in the entire ocean. They're fishing for the wrong things, expecting the wrong things, looking for the wrong things to happen and from the wrong direction. These editors are just the fallible representatives of the errors left us by crown losing Great Company bumblers, those who began these bad Levitical movements - those who abandoned the 6 Volumes of That Servant to whatever degree they have...
Think of it. "Messianic Jews" are the people who are as confused about Judaism as they are about Christianity - representing the worst kind of Jews because they're the ones who left their religion (the opposite of what Pastor Russell encouraged them to do, which was to keep to their own religion of Judaism and not to convert nor to assimilate, not to take on Christianity with their replacement theology) - and not only that but they next take on a trinitarian form of Evangelical fanaticism that is far from the Truth, and much more into the far reaches of the depths of error! Then our dear wayward editors take this confused group of people, call them part of "the House of David". How did their entire experience as betrayers of their natural brethren and errorists and opposers to true spiritual brethren (Truth People), how did that prepare them to help the Worthies in the Kingdom?
So now the "High Calling" brethren have joined up in the exact parallel belief that their "low calling" brethren share. That's the same thing as taught by the L.H.M.M. who have their own special class above the restitution class known as the "Consecrated Epiphany Campers" - who they refer to as a "special people" who will theoretically be working with Ancient Worthies, who are higher among the restitution class, lower than the little flock and great company and yet higher than the Jews! And that's the bottom line. That's replacement theology at it's core. Higher than the Jews! In spite of what the Apostles and our Pastor have thoroughly taught us ("To The JEW FIRST")
Romans 1: 16For
I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek.
And finally, their entire presentation and their subsequent expectations
on Zech 12 and Ezekiel 38 are in lockstep with the same beliefs, the
same errors and the same erroneous views held by Hal Lindsay and the
rest of the TBN viewing Evangelical crowd, the charismatic crowd, those
"Christians" so-called in Christendom - in the City - who expect all
of these Bible verses to happen in the future when in reality they are
happening now right under their own noses. They write about how in the
future, Israel's enemies may fight against one another as they did in
the days of old. Have they not seen Israel's worst enemy Syria in the
news lately? Talk about fighting each other! Yet when Bible Students
look at Syria today, do they see any connection? Are they permitted to
see?They're waiting for a time in the future when Jerusalem will be split and divided and yet don't dare look at Wikipedia. In 1948 Jerusalem was divided for the first and only time in it's long history of millennia, and it remained that way for 19 years. All of the items from the passage of Zechariah14: 2 were fulfilled to a "t". Why don't Bible Students see God manifesting Himself through His amazing Divine Providence over historical events? Who will consider whether or not these things are fulfilled?
They did accurately point out the U.N.'s continual condemnation of the tiny nation of Israel (with 20 U.N. resolutions against Israel last year with only three against all the other nations of the earth combined. RcB). That in itself could serve as prima facie proof that this verse is fulfilled already, naturally through the course of recent history. Are they not able to see from their own writings enough to put together all the prophetic verses which show recent fulfillment?
Again time doesn't allow for picking apart all their fanciful theories, such as the one about which segments of Israeli society are which "third" of Zechariah 13:8-9! We certainly agree with their thoughts that there will indeed one day be a "removal of false ideologies." Clean up always begins at home. In conclusion, it appears the "narrow way" brethren, those publishing "Beauties of the Truth" at leaset - now share a parallel view with but just called by a different name. In this they join the Jehovah's Witnesses who are already have their own erroneous earthly "Jonadab" class.
Praise be to God for preserving and works of that servant Pastor Charles Taze Russell forever!
Yours in Truth,
Bro. Regan
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