The Lord's Great Army

The Lord's Great Army

"this great army of discontents--patriots, reformers, socialists, moralists, anarchists, ignorants and hopeless"

The Lord's Great Army

And the Lord, through the Prophet Ezekiel, referring to this same time, and to the approaching calamities of Christendom, says:

"And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil: and they shall pollute it...Make a chain [bind, unite them together; let them make a common cause], for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city [Babylon, Christendom] is full of violence. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the great to cease, and their honored places [their sacred places, their religious institutions, etc.] shall be defiled." Ezek. 7:13-24

This may be understood to signify that the uprising of the masses of Christendom in anarchy will, during the prevalence of lawlessness, be so extremely brutal and savage as to outrival the barbarities of all heathen invasions-- as was the case in the French Revolution. Or it may signify an uprising of the peoples of India, China and Africa against Christendom--a suggestion already made by the public press anent the revival of Turkey and the uprising of the millions of Mahometans. Our opinion, however, is that "the worst of the heathen" are those in Christendom who are "without God" and without Christian sentiments or hopes; who hitherto have been restrained and held in check by ignorance, superstition and fear, but who in the dawn of the twentieth century are rapidly losing these restraining influences.

The Lord, by his overruling providence, will take a general charge of this great army of discontents--patriots, reformers, socialists, moralists, anarchists, ignorants and hopeless--and use their hopes, fears, follies and selfishness, according to his divine wisdom, to work out his own grand purposes in the overthrow of present institutions, and for the preparation of man for the Kingdom of Righteousness.

For this reason only it is termed "The Lord's great army." None of his saints--none who are led by the spirit of God as sons of God are to have anything to do with that part of the "battle."

 Pastor Charles T. Russell "Scripture Studies" volume 4 "The Day of Vengeance" [re-named "Battle of Armageddon"  D551]

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This is the MANNA FOR MAY 31

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak-Rom. 14: 21.

It is a very serious crime against the law of love and against the Lord's injunction, to cause one of His brethren to stumble (Matt. 18: 6), but it would also be a crime in His sight for us to stumble others-to hinder them from becoming brethren, and of the household of faith. Hence, it is clear that although knowledge might remove all prohibition of our consciences and all restraints of our liberty, yet love must first come in and approve the liberty before we can exercise it. Love places a firm command upon us, saying, Thou shalt love the Lord with all thine heart, and thy neighbor as thyself. Love, therefore, and not knowledge, not liberty, must finally decide every question-Z '03, 43 (R 3144).

The strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak. Cheerfully ought they to surrender their preferences in natural things to the spiritual interests of the weak. The thought of stumbling one for whom Christ died will be a successful deterrent to a faithful follower of Christ from self-indulgence at the expense of a weak brother. Yes, such an one would gladly lay down life to save a weak brother rather than to indulge self to his injury-P '34, 63.

Parallel passages: Rom. 14; 1 Cor. 8; Rom. 15: 1-3; 1 Tim. 4: 3, 4; Col. 2: 16; 1 Cor. 9: 10, 22; 10: 23, 24, 31-33; 13: 5; 1 Pet. 4: 2; 2 Cor. 5: 15; Phil.2: 4, 5; Matt. 13: 44-46; 16: 24, 25; Acts 20: 22-24.

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