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TOPICS IN ORDER AS FOLLOWS:

SOUND DOCTRINE
THE CREATOR
BEGINNING OF CREATION
HUMANITY
SATAN
MAN'S FALL
SIN'S PENALTY
THE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE
THE COVENANTS
SHEOL, HADES
THE REDEEMER
UNITY – TRINITY
THE RANSOM
THE ELECT
THE CALL OF THE CHURCH
THE HIDDEN MYSTERY
THE BRIDE
PRECIOUS PROMISES TO THE ELECT
JUSTIFICATION
SANCTIFICATION
BAPTISM
SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE
DELIVERANCE OF ELECT
KINGS AND PRIESTS
MORTALITY – IMMORTALITY
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
THE HARVEST
THE DAY OF VENGEANCE
THE GREAT COMPANY
THY KINGDOM COME
RESURRECTION
MILLENNIAL MORNING
WORLD-WIDE PROMISES
RESTITUTION
DAY OF JUDGMENT
FREE GRACE
SECOND DEATH
GEHENNA.

SYMBOLS USED
A, B, C, D, E, F, represent the six volumes of "Dawn Scripture Studies"; T, "Tabernacle Shadows"; S, "Spiritism"; Z '07-48, "Zion's Watch Tower" for 1907, page 48.
Z '79-9-5 signifies "Zion's Watch Tower," year 1879, ninth calendar month (September), page 5.
N '07-11-24 signifies Newspaper Report of a sermon delivered by Bro. Russell in the year 1907, eleventh calendar month (November), 24th day of the month.
Q '05-10-20 signifies Old Theology Quarterly, year 1905, tenth calendar month (October), page 20.
O-17 signifies Outline of Three Discourses on the Chart, page 17.

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• "Contend earnestly for the Faith," Jude 3; Z '98-176[R2319]; Z '03-423[R3274]; Z '05-78[R3521].
  
• "Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine," 1 Tim. 4:16; Z '93-256[R1569].
  
• "Study to show thyself approved unto God,...rightly dividing the word of truth," 2 Tim. 2:15; Z '02-318[R3096-97]; Z '03-165[R3199].
  
• "Be ready always to give an answer...with meekness and fear," 1 Pet. 3:15; A25[A25:1]; F258[F257:2].
  
• "All Scripture, given by inspiration of God, is profitable,...that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished," 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; A25[A25:1]; Z '97-170[R2166]; Z '03-422[R3273]
  
• "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith," 2 Cor. 13:5; Z '03-376, 377.[R3251]
  
• "Holding fast the faithful word" (see Diaglott), Titus 1:9; 2 Tim. 1:13; Z '95-262; E308, E284.
  
• "In doctrine showing uncorruptness," Titus 2:7; Z '00-332.
  
• "Speak the things which become sound doctrine," Titus 2:1; Z '00-332.
  
• "If any man will do his will, he shall know the doctrine," Jno. 7:16, 17; Z '99-19; Z '01-169; E54, E50.
  
• "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free," Jno. 8:32; Z '03-61; Z '05-60.
  
• "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine," 2 Tim. 4:3; Z '02-5[R2930:11]; B258, 263, 264.
  
• "Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel," Gal. 1:8, 9; D242[D242:1].
  
• "Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine," Rom. 16:17; Z '03-199[R3215:5-6].
  
• "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God," 2 Jno. 9; Z '95-203[R1860]; F302.[F302:1]

• The Existence of a supreme, intelligent Creator established by evidences aside from the Bible. A29-35.
  
• "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God," Psa. 90:2; E94, E86.
  
• "Whose name alone is JEHOVAH," Psa. 83:18; E71, 72, 65, 66[?].
• "I appeared unto Abraham....by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH ('self-existing, or immortal one') was I not known to them," Exod. 6:3; E43, E40.
  
• "I am the LORD (Jehovah):...my glory will I not give to another," Isa. 42:8; E43, 44, 40, 41; F396.
  
• "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one – Jehovah," Deut. 6:4, 5; E43, E40; Z '01-15; (See Mark 12:32, 33).
  
• "To us there is but one God," 1 Cor. 8:5, 6; E58, 415, 54, 398.
  
• Divine Attributes: E435, 482, 421, 472; T124; E36, 37, 34, 35.
  
• Justice, Psa. 89:14; Deut. 32:4. Wisdom, Isa. 40:13, 14; Acts 15:18.
  
• Love, 1 Jno. 4:16; Jno. 3:16. Power, Psa. 89:13; Isa. 55:11.
  
• God, the Creator of All Things, Gen. 1:1; Z '01-203.
  
• God not the Author of Sin. "I make peace and create evil," Isa. 45:7; "Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" Amos 3:6; A124; Z '95-58, Z '95-93.
  
• "I am the LORD, I change not," Mal. 3:6; "With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," Jas. 1:17; E474, 463,464. (Compare "It repented the LORD," Gen. 6:6; Z '96-203.)
  
• "The world by wisdom knew not God," 1 Cor. 1:21; Z '01-203.
  

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• The Logos. "In the beginning was the Word (Logos)," Jno. 1:1; E 93, 85.
• "The beginning of the creation of God," Rev. 3:14; E 95, E97, E87, E88.
• "The firstborn of all creation," Col. 1:15-18; E 95, E86.
• "I will make him, my firstborn, higher than the kings of earth," Psa. 89:27; E 95, E87.
• "All things were made by him," Jno. 1:3; E 95, E87.
• "By him were all things created," Col. 1:16; E 95, 86.
• "God sent his only begotten Son into the world," 1 Jno. 4:9; E 97, E88.
• "We beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father," Jno. 1:10, 14; E 97, E89.
• "Father, glorify me with the glory which I had with thee before the world was," Jno. 17:5; E 96, E87.
• "Before Abraham was, I am," Jno. 8:14, 23, 42-58; E 99, E90.
• "Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way," Prov. 8:22-30; E 102, E93.
• "I am the first and the last," Rev. 1:17; 2:8; E 102, 103, E93.

• "And God said, Let us make man in our image," Gen. 1:26, 27; A 120, A201; F 39-41; Z '01-206[R2836].
  
• "And the LORD God formed man [the body] of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives [spirit]; and the man became a living SOUL," Gen. 2:7; E 332-374, E307-353.
  
• Body, soul and spirit of the Church as a whole, not as individuals, "preserved," 1 Thess. 5:23; E 374, E353.
  
• Man and the lower animals "have all one breath" (ruach, spirit), Eccl. 3:19-21; E 335, E350, 353, E310, 326, E327.
  
• "Thou madest him (man) a little lower than the angels," Heb. 2:7, 8; Psa. 8:4; A 175, A179; E 440, E427.
  
• "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good," Gen. 1:31; E 422, E423, 406, E407.
  
• "His work is perfect," Deut. 32:4; E 334, E309.
  
• "God hath made man upright," Eccl. 7:29; E 422, E406.

• Satan's personality. (Texts, F 609-611.)
  
• "Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about," 1 Pet. 5:8; F 609.
  
• "Ye are of your father, the devil," John 8:44; F 612.
  
• "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you," Jas. 4:7; S 23.
  
• "He [Satan] was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth," John 8:44.
  
• Satan's Power. "Him that hath the power of death, that is the devil," Heb. 2:14; Z '99-60; E 459, E448.
  
• "The god of this world," 2 Cor. 4:4; "Prince of the power of the air," Eph. 2:2; F 199, F617, F627.
  
• "The prince of this world," Jno. 14:30; E 126, E459, 113, E448.
  
• "We are not ignorant of his devices," 2 Cor. 2:11; Z '01-71, 155.
  
• "Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the Prince of this world be cast out," Jno. 12:31; Z '02-191.
  
• "Michael the Archangel...durst not bring against him a railing accusation," Jude 9; Z '98-154; F 608.
  
• "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light," 2 Cor. 11:14; A 259; Z '03-85, 89.
  
• Satan originally perfect and sinless. "His [God's] work is perfect," Deut. 32:4; F 612.
• Satan's ambition and fall. "I will be like the Most High," Isa. 14:13, 14; E 126, E113; F 613, E614; Z '01-215.
  
• "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning," Isa. 14:12; F 618; Ezek. 28:12-19; Z '03-135, and Lu. 10:18; Z '00-235; Z '06-166.
  
• Satan's allies. "Those angels which kept not their first estate," 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; F 619-624; Z '97-181.
• Satan to be bound and destroyed.
• "And he laid hold on Satan and bound him 1,000 years," Rev. 20:1-3; E 236, E218; Z '00-175.
  
• "The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly," Rom. 16:20; Z '01-219, 220; Heb. 2:14; E 407, E409, 390, E392; Matt. 25:41; Z '01-37; Rev. 20:7-9; Z '01-42.
  

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• The warning. "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," Gen. 2:16, 17; A 209; E 23, 22; F 332.
• The temptation and Satan's lie.
• "Ye shall not surely die," Gen. 3:1-4; F 614-616; Z '01- 4-216.
  
• "As the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty," 2 Cor. 11:3; A 61; S 48.
  
• "Adam was not deceived," 1 Tim. 2:14; A 123; E 423, 408; Z '01-218.
  
• "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin," Rom. 5:12; F 333; Rom. 5:19; A 108.
  
• "All in Adam die," 1 Cor. 15:22; E 110-113, 100-103.
  
• "There is none righteous, no, not one," Rom. 3:10; E 105, 96.
  
• "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God," Rom. 3:23; E 423, 407.
  
• "None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him," Psa. 49:7; E 433, 418.

• "Dying thou shalt die," (margin), Gen. 2:17; A 140, 154; E 423, 424, 407, 408; F 331, 332; Z '01-216.
  
• "The wages of sin is death," Rom. 6:23; A 128; F 332.
  
• "The wrath of God is revealed against all unrighteousness," Rom. 1:18; E 425, 409.
• Death signifies destruction of being.
• "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish," Jno. 3:16; Z '00-43.
  
• "If there be no resurrection,...then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished," 1 Cor. 15:13-18; E 371, 349, 350.
  
• "The wicked shall perish," Psa. 37:20; E 405, 388.
  
• "The wicked shall not be," Psa. 37:10; E 405, 388.
  
• "All the wicked will he destroy," Psa. 145:20; E 409, 392.
  
• "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," Gen. 3:19; Z '01-217.
  
• "All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again," Eccl. 3:20.
  
• "That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; as the one dieth, so dieth the other," Eccl. 3:19; E 339, 315.
  
• "Then shall the dust return to the earth, as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God that gave it," Eccl. 12:7; E 340, 366, 315, 344.
  
• "The soul that sinneth it shall die," Ezek. 18:4; E 475, 454, 465, 442.
  
• "His breath goeth forth,...that very day his thoughts perish," Psa. 146:4; S 8.
  
• "The dead know not anything," Eccl. 9:5, 10; E 369, 388, 347, 368.
• Death's concomitants. "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrows," Gen. 3:16; Z '92-360.
  
• "And unto Adam he said,...in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground," Gen. 3:19; E 430, 431, 415, 416; Z '92-361; Z '01-219.
  
• "Cursed is the ground for thy sake," Gen. 3:17; Z '02-191.
• Death called "sleep." "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth...Lazarus is dead," Jno. 11:11-14; E 352, 367, 329, 345.
  
• "Stephen fell asleep," Acts 7:60. "David fell on sleep," Acts 13:36.
  
• "The fathers fell asleep," 2 Pet. 3:4.
  
• "Christ...is become the first fruits of them that slept," 1 Cor. 15:20.
  
• "We shall not all sleep," 1 Cor. 15:51.
  
• All mankind are said to "sleep in Jesus," 1 Thess. 4:14; E 352, 353, 329, 330; E 336-372, 343-350. (See "SECOND DEATH.")

• First faint ray: "It (the Seed of the woman) shall bruise thy head," Gen. 3:15; A 77; F 353.
• The Abrahamic Covenant.
• "In thee and in thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed," Gen. 12:1-3; 28:14; 22:16-18; F 353; Z '97-80; Z '02-343.
  
• The gospel "preached before unto Abraham," Gal. 3:8; Z '00-86, 87.
  
• An unconditional, oath-bound Covenant: Heb. 6:13-19.
  
• "Surely I will bless thee," Gen. 18:18, 19; Heb. 6:14.
  
• "By myself have I sworn," Gen. 22:16-18; Z '97-80, 81; Z '02-343.
  
• "Confirmed unto Isaac and unto Jacob," 1 Chron. 16:16, 17; Gen. 26:1-5; 35:9-12; A 78.
• ::5::
• Two "seeds" promised: [a spiritual] "as the stars of heaven and [an earthly] as the sand which is upon the seashore," Gen. 22:17; Rom. 11:17; A 292; Z '01-248.
  
• Earthly promise to Abraham not yet fulfilled: "And he gave him none inheritance in it," Acts 7:5; A 293; Z '01-250.
  
• The Church developed under Abrahamic Covenant: "We, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise," Gal. 4:28; E 116, 105; F 360; Z '02-343; Z '05-378; Z '07-8.
  
• Spiritual "Seed" developed first. "God having provided some better thing for us, [Spiritual Israel], that they without us should not be made perfect," Heb. 11:39, 40; A 293; T 105-112.
  
• Only steps thus far taken in fulfilment of Abrahamic Covenant. Z '97-83.
• Israel's Covenant.
• ISRAEL. The twelve sons of Jacob: Gen. 49:28; A 78.
  
• "A kingdom of priests, and an holy nation," Exod. 19:5, 6; B 207.
  
• "You only have I known of all the families of the earth," Amos 3:2; F 85, 176; Z '06-105.
  
• "What advantage hath the Jew? Much every way," Rom. 3:1, 2; C 244.
  
• Their hope. "The hope of the promise made of God to our fathers," Acts 26:6, 7; Z '01-250; Z '04-328.
  
• Israel to be re-gathered. "God hath not [utterly] cast away his people which he foreknew," Rom. 11:1, 2; A 108; Z '96-95, 96.
  
• "If the casting away of them [temporarily] be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be?" Rom. 11:15; Z '97-229.
  
• "Blindness in part hath happened unto Israel, until...and so all Israel shall be saved [from their blindness]," Rom. 11:25, 26; A 108; Z '05-379.
  
• God's law originally written in Adam is implied, by "Let us make man in our image," Gen. 1:26; Z '97-229.
  
• Law obliterated by the fall: "When they knew God they glorified him not...and their foolish heart was darkened," Rom. 1:21-28; Z '00-325; D 68-70.
  
• Moses the Mediator of the Law Covenant. "He took the blood...and sprinkled both the book and all the people," Heb. 9:19-21; Exod. 24:8; F 354; Z '97-81.
  
• The Mosaic Law or Law Covenant "added" to Abrahamic Covenant "because of transgressions," Gal. 3:19; F 355, 360, 361; Z '97-81. Typified by High Priest's breast-plate, T 34.
  
• The Law promised life: "The Law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them," Gal. 3:12; Lev. 18:5; Rom. 10:5; Z '97-81.
  
• Law-Covenant found to be "unto death," Rom. 7:10; E 432, 417; Z '96-71.
  
• "The Law was our schoolmaster (pedagogue) to bring us unto Christ," Gal. 3:24; Z '94-350.
  
• Christ "made under the Law [Covenant] to redeem them that were under the Law," Gal. 4:4, 5; E 432, 417.
  
• Christ made an end of the Law Covenant, "nailing it to his cross," Col. 2:14; B 85.
  
• Unbelieving Jews still under the Law Covenant. "Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness [only] to him that believeth," Rom. 10:4; Z '06-105; F 379.
  
• Purpose of the Law Covenant to manifest the imperfection of all mankind, and the perfection of Christ Jesus, F 355; Z 97-81, 82.
  
• God will make "a new covenant with the house of Israel," Jer. 31:31-34; F 358, 359.
• The New Covenant.
• "This shall be the Covenant,...I will put my Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts," Jer. 31:33, 34; Z '97-229; Z '02-343.
  
• The New Covenant a later addition to the Abrahamic Covenant, Z '97-81, 82; typified by High Priest's Ephod, (back part), T 30, 31.
  
• The New Covenant for "all the families of the earth," Gal. 3:8; Z '97-229; F 358, 359.
  
• The Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus, Heb. 12:24; 9:15; 8:6; Z '97-82 and "the Church which is his Body," Eph. 1:22, 23; Z '02-344; Z '07-9, 10.
  
• Requirements of the New Covenant, – "faith, love, obedience and reformation to the extent of ability," Z '97-82, 83; F 359.
  
• Object of the New Covenant, Z '97-82, 1st col.
  
• New Covenant not yet gone into effect, F 358; Z '02-344; Z '05-378.
  
• God will pour out his Spirit "upon all flesh" when the New Covenant becomes operative, Joel 2:28; T 88, 89; E 235, 260, 217, 239.
  
• The three Covenants allegorically represented in Sarah, Hagar, Keturah, Gal. 4:22-31; Gen. 25:1; E 116, 117, 105,106; F 361.
• Resume.
• "The whole subject becomes transparent when we see that the Abrahamic C. (which needed no mediator because it was God's unconditional promise, ::6:: confirmed by his oath) is the full, broad statement of the divine plan, and that as the Law Covenant was added (to illustrate the inability of sinners to help themselves and) to manifest Christ Jesus as the Seed of Promise, so the New Covenant is added (to the Abrahamic Covenant) also, not to hinder the blessing of every creature, but to make that blessing of knowledge and the Millennial Kingdom opportunities more effective, – even unto everlasting life – to those approved under it." Z '97-83.

• Sheol. "The Hebrew word Sheol occurs 65 times in the Old Testament Scriptures. It is 3 times translated pit, 31 times translated grave, and 31 times translated hell." "Oblivion, a better translation." E 375, 354.
  
• Jacob's relation to sheol: "I will go down into the grave [sheol] unto my son mourning," Gen. 37:35; E 376, 355.
  
• "Ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave [sheol]," Gen. 42:38; E 376, 355.
  
• Korah, Dathan and Abiram went to sheol: "They...went down alive into the pit [sheol, oblivion]," Num. 16:33; E 377, 356.
  
• Job's desire: "Oh, that thou wouldst hide me in the grave [sheol, oblivion]!" Job 14:13; E 380, 359.
  
• All go there, good and bad: "What man is he that liveth and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand [power] of the grave [sheol, oblivion]?" Psa. 89:48; E 386, 365.
  
• Power of God in sheol: "If I make my bed in hell [sheol, oblivion], behold thou art there," Psa. 139:7, 8; E 386, 366.
  
• Jonah in sheol: "Out of the belly of hell [sheol], cried I," Jonah 2:2. The great fish's belly was Jonah's tomb, E 394, 374.
  
• Hades. "In the New Testament the Greek word hades is the exact equivalent of the Hebrew word sheol. The Apostles, in quotations from the O.T., render sheol by the word hades." E 394, 374.
  
• A city in hades: "Thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell [hades, oblivion]," Matt. 11:23; E 394, 375.
  
• The Church secure: "The gates of hell [hades, the tomb, oblivion] shall not prevail against it," Matt. 16:18; E 395, 375; Z '06-173.
  
• Christ in hades: "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [hades, the tomb, oblivion]," Acts 2:27; Psa. 16:10 [sheol]; E 396, 377.
  
• Christ holds the keys of hades: "I have the keys of hell [hades, the tomb, oblivion] and of death," Rev. 1:18; E 397, 378.
  
• Sheol and Hades to be destroyed: "O grave [sheol, oblivion], I will be thy destruction," Hos. 13:14; E 392, 373. "O grave [hades, oblivion], where is thy victory?" 1 Cor. 15:55; E 397, 377; H 66, 67.
  
• Sheol and Hades refer to the condition or state of the soul, while Qebar, Hebrew for tomb or grave, refers to the place of the dead body, E 369, 347, footnote; E 382, 362.
  
• (See "GEHENNA.")

• "I will ransom them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death," Hos. 13:14; E 392, 393, 373, 374; Z '01-41.
  
• "When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son," Gal. 4:4; E 463, 451.
• Pre-existence.
• "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God," Jno. 1:1; E 94, 86.
  
• "The beginning of the creation of God," Rev. 3:14; Col. 1:15; E 95, 87.
  
• "Father, glorify thou me with the glory which I had with thee before the world was," Jno. 17:5; E 96, 87.
  
• "I proceeded forth and came from God," Jno. 8:42; E 98, 89.
  
• "What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?" Jno. 6:62; E 98, 89.
  
• "I am the living bread which came down from heaven," Jno. 6:35, 51; E 98, 89.
  
• "Before Abraham was, I am," Jno. 8:58; E 99, 90.
• Became a man.
• "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," Jno. 1:14; E 103, 104, 93-95.
  
• "He took upon him the form of a servant," Phil. 2:7, 8; E 88, 411, 455, 81, 394, 443.
  
• "Made a little lower than the angels," Heb. 2:9; (Psa. 8:4-6); A 179; E 440, 427.
  
• "Made of a woman, Gal. 4:4; E 116, 117, 105, 106.
• ::7::
• Yet "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners," Heb. 7:26; E 105, 107, 95, 97, 116, 117, 105, 106.
  
• "Though he was rich,...he became poor," 2 Cor 8:9; E 96, 87.
  
• "Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God," 1 Jno. 4:1-3; E 320-324, 295-299.
• Titles of the Redeemer.
• The Logos: "In the beginning was the Word [the Logos]" Jno. 1:1; E 93-103, 84-93.
  
• The Only Begotten One: "God sent his only begotten Son into the world," 1 Jno. 4:9; Jno. 1:14; E 97-102, 88-92.
  
• David's Son and Lord: "If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?" Matt. 22:42-45; E 143-150, 129-136.
  
• The Root and Offspring of David: "I am the root and the offspring of David," Rev. 22:16; E 150, 136.
  
• The Second Adam: "The Second Adam is the Lord from Heaven," 1 Cor. 15:45-47; E 152, 137.
  
• The Everlasting Father: "His name shall be called...the Everlasting Father," Isa. 9:6; E 156, 141.
  
• The Son of Man: "Who is this Son of man?" Jno. 12:34; E 163-176, 149-153; Z '06-171; Matt. 13:41; 24:27, 37; 25:31; Mark 8:38; Jno. 6:62; 3:13.
  
• The Son of God: "That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God," Luke 1:35.
  
• "I said, I am the Son of God," Jno. 10:36; Z '01-93.
  
• "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" Lu. 2:49; E 98, 89.
  
• "I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God," Jno. 1:34; Z '04-382.
  
• "These things saith the Son of God," Rev. 2:18.
  
• The Advocate: "If any man sin we have an Advocate," 1 Jno. 2:1; Z '07-7.
  
• The Mediator: "Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant," Heb. 12:24; Z '07-9.

• "Father signifies life-giver, while 'son' signifies the one who has received life from another," E 65, 60.
  
• "To us there is but one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ," 1 Cor 8:6; E 58, 54.
  
• "I and my Father are one," Jno. 10:30; E 81, 82, 75, 76. (Compare with "That they may be one even as we are," Jno. 17:20-23.)
  
• "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," Jno. 14:7-10; E 83, 77. (Compare with "No man hath seen God at any time," Jno. 1:18 and Ex. 33:20.)
  
• "God manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit," 1 Tim. 3:16; E 84, 77. (Compare, "That the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our flesh," 2 Cor. 4:10,11.)
  
• "Thought it not robbery [meditated not a usurpation] to be equal with God," Phil. 2:6; E 86-90, 79-82. (Compare with "My Father is greater than I," Jno. 14:28.)
  
• "In heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth," 1 Jno. 5:7, 8; E 61-64, 56-58; Spurious, omitted from oldest Greek MSS. See also Revised Version.

(E 435-494, 421-486.)

• "I have found a ransom," Job 33:24; E 472, 462.
  
• "The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom [corresponding price] for all," 1 Tim. 2:5, 6; A 150; E 441, 442, 427, 428.
• The Law of God's Justice.
• "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot," Ex. 21:23-25; Levit. 24:17-21; Deut. 19:21; Z '03-108.
  
• "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins," Heb. 9:22; E 454, 455, 442, 443.
  
• "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins," Heb. 10:4; E 438, 425; Z '03-108.
  
• "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith...a body thou hast prepared me," Heb. 10:5; B 155.
  
• "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," Jno. 1:29; E 457, 446.
  
• "The Word was made flesh," Jno. 1:14; T 52.
  
• "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead," 1 Cor. 15:21; E 105, 438, 439, 95, 424, 425.
  
• "He took not on him the nature of angels," but "was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death," Heb. 2:16, 9; E 439, 440, 425, 426.
  
• "Being found in fashion as a man,...he became obedient unto death," Phil. 2:8; E 411, 394.
• ::8::
• "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood," Heb. 9:12; Z '01-180.
  
• "The Son of man came to give himself a ransom," Mark 10:45; E 104, 441, 442, 94, 426, 427.
  
• "He is the propitiation for our sins,...and for the sins of the whole world,"
  
• 1 Jno. 2:2; E 352, 454, 328, 442; Z '00-87.
  
• "He was wounded for our transgressions," Isa. 53:5; E 136, 122.
  
• "He poured out his soul unto death,...and bare the sin of many," Isa. 53:12; E 141, 127.
  
• "Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself," Dan. 9:26; A 58; B 68.
  
• "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone," Jno. 12:24; Z '01-11; Z '05-111.
  
• "I lay down my life for the sheep," Jno. 10:15, 11; Z '99-63, 64.
  
• "Ye were not redeemed [bought] with corruptible things,...but with the precious blood of Christ," 1 Pet. 1:18, 19; E 403, 445, 385, 432.
  
• "Ye are bought with a price," 1 Cor. 7:23; E 458, 446, 447.
• The Ransom-price.
• "The wages of sin is death," Rom. 6:23; and "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures," 1 Cor. 15:3; E 454, 442.
  
• "Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood," Rev. 5:9; E 443, 454, 455, 430, 442, 443.
• The Ransom-price not taken back.
• "Put to death in the flesh, made alive [resurrected] in the spirit," 1 Pet. 3:18; E 93, 464, 84, 453; Z '01-126.
  
• "The first man is of the earth, earthy, the second man is the Lord from heaven; the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam, a quickening Spirit," 1 Cor. 15:45-48; E 466, 455.
• The Ransom accepted.
• "God hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world,...and hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him [Christ] from the dead," Acts 17:31; T 88.
  
• Manifested by outpouring of Spirit at Pentecost: "Being by the right hand of God exalted,...he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear," Acts 2:33; Joel 2:29; E 238, 219.
  

• "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God," 1 Pet. 1:2; F 178-180; Z '00-344.
  
• "Chosen in him before the foundation of the world," Eph. 1:4; A 193; E 192, 177.
  
• "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood," 1 Pet. 2:9; Z '97-97.
  
• "Knowing, brethren, beloved, your election of God," 1 Thess. 1:4; F 191.
  
• "He shall send forth his angels and gather together his Elect," Matt. 24:31; Z '00-344.
  
• "Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son," Rom. 8:28-30; F 181, 182; Z '00-342.
  
• "The called according to his purpose," Rom. 8:28; Z '98-253; Z '03-68, 69.
  
• "They that are with him are called and chosen [Elect, – the same word in the Greek]," Rev. 17:14; Z '00-345.
  
• Two parts in Election, – God's part and our part, F 185.
  
• "Give diligence, brethren, to make your Calling and Election sure," 2 Pet. 1:10, 11; F 185; Z '00-345; Z '05-197.
  

• "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus," Phil. 3:13, 14; F 67, 68.
  
• "Holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling," Heb. 3:1; A 222; T 22, 26, 27.
  
• "Called to be saints," Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:1, 2; F 87.
  
• "Called unto the fellowship of his Son," 1 Cor. 1:9; F 87.
  
• "Ye are called in one hope of your calling," Eph. 4:4; F 93, 125.
  
• Character of the called: "Ye see your calling, brethren,...not many wise men after the flesh, not many noble, are called," 1 Cor. 1:26-29; F 88.
  
• "Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith," Jas. 2:5; Z '00-58, 348; Z '01-53.
  
• Conditions of the call: "Brethren, by the mercies of God, present your bodies a living sacrifice," Rom. 12:1; F 122. See also Heb. 8:3; Z '01-54; Z '03-405.
  
• "Fight the good fight of faith," 1 Tim. 6:12; F 91.
  
• ::9::
• "Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his Kingdom and glory," 1 Thess. 2:12; F 91.
  
• "God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble," 1 Pet. 5:5; F 90.
  
• "As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation," 1 Pet. 1:15; F 92.
  
• "Called to glory and virtue," 2 Pet. 1:3; 1 Thess. 4:7; F 90.
  
• "That ye should show forth the praises of him," 1 Pet. 2:9; F 92.
  
• "Be thou faithful unto death," Rev. 2:10; F 444.
  
• Object of the Call.
• "That they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may believe that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me," Jno. 17:21-23; F 213; Z '05-136.
  
• To be "joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him," Rom. 8:16, 17; F 87, 88
  
• "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world,...and angels?" 1 Cor. 6:2, 3; A 146; Z '06-154.
  
• Time of the Call is limited.
• "Now is the acceptable time," 2 Cor. 6:2; "Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts," Heb. 3:15; F 94-96.

• "The mystery hid from ages,...now made manifest," Col. 1:26; A 77-80; E 162, 146; T127; Z '03-148.
  
• "Christ in you the hope of glory," Col. 1:27; A 81; Z '03-374.
  
• "The fellowship of the mystery," Eph. 3:9; A 88; Z '03-148.
  
• "God anointed Jesus with the holy Spirit and with power," Acts 10:38; A 81.
  
• "The anointing which ye [consecrated believers] have received of him abideth in you," 1 Jno. 2:27; T 37.
  
• "As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ; and if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's Seed, and heirs according to the promise," Gal. 3:27, 29; A 85.
  
• "The mystery of God finished," Rev. 10:7; A 87
  
• The Body.
• "For as the body is one, and hath many members,...so also is [the] Christ," 1 Cor. 12:12-28.
  
• "We being many are one Body in Christ," Rom. 12:5; F 73
  
• "We are members of his Body," Eph. 5:30.
  
• "The Church which is his Body," Eph. 1:22, 23; A 82; T 36.
  

• "How God did visit the Gentiles to take out a people for his name," Acts 15:14-17; A 81; B 86; Z '98-317.
  
• "Hearken, O daughter, and consider,...forget thine own people and thy father's house," Psa. 45:10-15; C 193.
  
• "I have espoused you to one husband, as a chaste virgin to Christ," 2 Cor. 11:2; F 363.
  
• "The marriage of the Lamb is come, and his Wife hath made herself ready," Rev. 19:7-9; C 199.
  
• "Come hither I will show thee the Bride, the lamb's wife," Rev. 21:9, 2; Z '01-198.
  
• "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come!" Rev. 22:17; Z '99-197, 27; Z '05-31.
  

• "Exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature," 2 Pet. 1:3, 4; A 346; C 220; E 406, 388; T 65, 66.
  
• "If ye do these things...an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly," 2 Pet. 1:10, 11; Z '97-146; Z '00-345, 346.
  
• "This is the promise he hath promised us, even eternal life," 1 Jno. 2:25; E 404, 386.
  
• "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life," Rev. 2:10; A 284.
  
• "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him," 2 Tim. 2:12; F 439; T 48; Z '01-53.
  
• "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom," Lu. 12:32; A 72; T 119.
  
• "Father, I will that they also be with me where I am," Jno. 17:24; Z '05-139.
  
• "When he shall appear, we shall be like him," 1 Jno. 3:2, 3; F 722.
  
• "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne," Rev. 3:21; F 69.
  

::10::

• God the justifier: "That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus," Rom. 3:26; E 17, 434, 17, 419; F 101.
• Justified by God's grace: "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus," Rom. 3:24; F 105; Titus 3:7.
• Justified by his blood: "Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him," Rom. 5:9; F 105.
  
• "How much more shall the blood of Christ...purge your conscience from dead works, Heb. 9:14; F 105.
  
• "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin," 1 Jno. 1:7; F 105, 106.
• Christ raised for our Justification: "Who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification," Rom. 4:25; F 106.
• Justified by faith: "Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God." Rom. 5:1; F 106-108.
• Justified by works:" Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only," Jas. 2:24; F 108, 109.
• Object of Justification in this age: "We beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain," 2 Cor. 6:1; F 117; Z '05-233; Z '07-63.

• "This is the will of God, even your sanctification," 1 Thess. 4:3; F 121, 136, 137; Z '99-4.
  
• "Brethren, I beseech you, by the mercies of God," Rom. 12:1; F 122.
• Two parts: "Sanctify yourselves;" "I am the LORD which doth sanctify you," Levit. 20:7, 8; F 123, 133; T 41.
  
• "The very God of peace sanctify you wholly," 1 Thess. 5:23; E 263, 242.
  
• "Sanctify them through thy Truth: thy word is Truth," Jno. 17:17; E 264, 266, 243, 245; F 137-140.
  
• "Elect through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience," 1 Pet. 1:2; E 264, 243.
  
• "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God," Heb. 10:7; E 212, 295; T 53.
  
• "If any man will come after me, let him take up his cross," Matt. 16:24; Z '00-116-119.
  
• "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp," Heb. 13:13; T 60-62.

• John's baptism unto repentance: "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance," Matt. 3:11; F 432, 433. (Compare 1 Cor. 10:2.)
• Christ's baptism:
• "So many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death," Rom. 6:3-5; F 434-436; Z '00-285.
• John's and Christ's baptisms contrasted: Acts 19:3-5; F 428.
• "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God," Col. 3:3; F 436.
• Two parts:
• The real baptism, – immersion of the will in the will of God: sanctification.
  
• The symbolic baptism, – immersion of the body in water. F 437, 450.
  
• "I have a baptism to be baptized with," Lu. 12:50; F 438.
  
• "Are ye able to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" Mark 10:35-39; F 441.
  
• "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God," Heb. 10:7; T 53, 54.
  
• "By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body," 1 Cor. 12:12, 13; F 442.
  
• "If we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with him," Rom. 6:8; F 439, 443.
• Is the symbolic baptism necessary?
• "Teach all nations, baptizing them," Matt. 28:19, 20; F 446-450.
  
• "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness," Matt. 3:13-15; F 437, 438.
• Baptism of fire: "He shall baptize you with...fire," Matt. 3:11; F 445.
• "Baptized for the dead," 1 Cor. 15:29; F 455.

::11::

• "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," Rom. 8:14; E 177, 178, 163, 164.
  
• "The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal," 1 Cor. 12:7; Rom. 12:3; E 201, 185; Z '00-362.
  
• "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh," Gal. 5:16; E 218, 201.
  
• "Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you," Rom. 8:9; F 436, 437.
  
• "Be ye filled with the Spirit," Eph. 5:18-20; E 265-267, 244-246.
• The Spirit's Witness. "The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the sons of God," Rom. 8:16; E 245-248, 226-229.
  
• "Every branch in me that beareth fruit, he purgeth it," E 251, 252, 230, 231; Z '99-108.
  
• "Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth," Heb. 12:6-8; E 253, 231, 232.
  
• "Whosoever is begotten of God, sinneth not," 1 Jno. 5:18; E 255, 235.
  
• "If ye were of the world, the word would love its own;" "All that will live godly...shall suffer persecution," Jno. 15:19; 2 Tim. 3:12; E 256, 257, 235, 236.
  
• "Whosoever shall confess me before men," Matt. 10:32, 33; E 257, 237.
  
• "Whosoever is begotten of God overcometh the world," 1 Jno. 5:4; E 258, 237.
  
• "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God," Jno. 6:45; E 53, 50.
  
• "He will show you things to come," Jno. 16:13; E 259, 239.
  
• God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things," 1 Cor. 2:9-12; E 178, 219, 164, 201.
  
• "God hath given us the spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind," 2 Tim. 1:7; E 271-284, 249-262.
• Seal of the Spirit, (love). "Ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise," Eph. 1:13, 14; E 267-269, 246-248.

• "The whole creation groaneth...waiting for the redemption [deliverance] of our Body,...the manifestation of the sons of God," Rom. 8:22, 23, 19; C 228; E 447, 434.
  
• "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up,...for your redemption [deliverance] draweth nigh," Lu. 21:28; C 227.
  
• "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape," Lu. 21:36; C 228. (Compare Psa. 91:4; 46:1-5.)
  
• "They shall be mine in that day when I make up my jewels," Mal. 3:17; Z '98-363.
• Time of deliverance. "God will help her [the Church] at the dawning of [her] morning," Psa. 46:5; (Leeser); C 230.
  
• "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth," Rev. 14:13; C 240-242.
  
• "When he was returned, having received the Kingdom, he commanded these servants to be called unto him," Luke 19:12-27; C 233-235; Z '00-361; Z '01-60.
• Manner of deliverance. "We shall all be changed [the living no less than the dead saints] in a moment," 1 Cor. 15:52; C 232, 233, 237, 238.
  
• "We shall all die like men," but "we shall not all sleep," Psa. 82:7; 1 Cor. 15:52; C 238, 239.
• Order of deliverance.
• "The dead in Christ shall rise first," 1 Thess. 4:16, 17; A 318; C 233-240.
  
• "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father," Matt. 13:43; A 239; Z '01-52, 202.

• "Ye are a chosen generation, a Royal Priesthood," 1 Pet. 2:9; T 27; B 208; Z '97-95.
  
• "Consider the High Priest of our profession, Jesus Christ," Heb. 3:1; T 22, 26, 27; A 222: Z '01-228.
  
• "Every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices," Heb. 8:3; Z '03-405.
• ::12::
• "Thou hast made us unto our God kings and priests," Rev. 5:10; D 425; Z '01-201.
  
• "They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years," Rev. 20:4; A 91.
  
• "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world...and angels?" 1 Cor. 6:2, 3; E 384, 364; Z '00-266.

• Mortality, – a condition in which death is a possibility.
  
• Immortality, – a condition not liable to death, in which death is an impossibility, A 185.
  
• "In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die," Gen. 2:17; A 184, 185; E 408, 416, 423, 391, 400, 407. (Compare with Satan's lie, Gen. 3:4; Z '01-217; Z '05-23.)
  
• "The soul that sinneth it shall die," Ezek. 18:4; "The wages of sin is death," Rom. 6:23; E 354, 355, 403-405, 332, 333, 385-387; Z '02-260.
  
• "What man is he that liveth and shall not see death," Psa. 89:48; E 386, 365.
  
• "In Adam all die," 1 Cor. 15:22; E 112, 100; F 698.
  
• "As one dieth, so dieth the other,...so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast," Eccl. 3:19, 20; E 339, 406, 315, 389.
  
• "All the wicked will he destroy," Psa. 145:20; E 409, 392.
  
• "This mortal must put on immortality," 1 Cor. 15:53; E 413, 397; B 108.
  
• "Christ hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, "2 Tim. 1:10; A 206; E 406, 389.
  
• "As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself," Jno. 5:26; E 407, 389.
  
• "Who only hath immortality," 1 Tim. 6:16; E 409, 392; Z '00-383.
  
• "We know that we shall be like him," 1 Jno. 3:2; F 694.
  
• "Partakers of the divine nature," 2 Pet. 1:4; E 406, 388; F 62, 63.
  
• "To them who by patient continuance in well doing do seek for glory, honor and immortality, eternal life," Rom. 2:6, 7; E 407, 412, 390, 395; F 727.

• "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again," Jno. 14:3; A 89.
  
• "Blessed those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching," Lu. 12:36-39; D 613; Z '96-47.
  
• "When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him," Matt. 25:31; Z '00-101.
  
• "Ye shall see the Son of man, sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven," Mark 14:62; Z '95-110.
  
• "Our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour," Phil. 3:20; Z '03-120.
  
• "Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me," Rev. 22:12; A 90.
• Conditions in the earth.
• "This gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached for a witness unto all nations," Matt. 24:14; A 91; D 567.
  
• "The sun shall be darkened,...and the stars shall fall from heaven." Matt. 24:29; D 583, 584.
  
• "Upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity," Lu. 21:25, 26; D 596.
  
• "In the last days perilous times shall come," 2 Tim. 3:1-5; B 259; Z '99-99.
  
• "There shall come in the last days scoffers," 2 Pet. 3:3, 4; B 167.
  
• "As a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the earth," Lu. 21:35; Z '95-87.
  
• "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief," 1 Thess. 5:4, 5; B 22; C 139.
  
• "He shall gird himself and make them [his servants] to sit down to meat," Lu. 12:36-42; Z '00-271.
  
• "Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together," Matt. 24:28; D 610.
  
• "Learn a parable of the fig tree," Matt. 24:32-34; D 602.

• The Parousia, – (presence, mistranslated coming).
  
• "Tell us what shall be the sign of thy coming [presence] and of the end of the age," Matt. 24:3; D 565.
  
• "As the days of Noe, so shall also the presence of the Son of man be," Matt. 24:37; D 606.
  
• "As the lightning,...so the presence of the Son of man," Matt. 24:27; D 581.
  
• "And he shall gather together his Elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other," Matt. 24:31; D 600.
• ::13::
• "Two shall be in the field,...two grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, the other left," Matt. 24:40, 41; D 609.
  
• "The sign" of his parousia, – "Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven," Matt. 24:30; D 597-599.
• The Epiphania, – (bright shining, or manifestation, translated appearing), Z '98-262, 270.
  
• "Keep thou this commandment...until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ," 1 Tim. 6:14.
  
• "Who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing," 2 Tim. 4:1.
  
• "A crown of righteousness, which the Lord...shall give me...and unto all them also that love his appearing," 2 Tim. 4:8.
  
• "Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing," Titus 2:13.
  
• "Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness [epiphania] of his coming [parousia, – presence]," 2 Thess. 2:8; Z '98-271.
  
• The Apokalupsis, – (revealment, uncovering, as of a thing previously present, but hidden).
  
• "The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed," Rom. 8:18.
  
• "When his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also," 1 Pet. 4:13.
  
• "Kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time," 1 Pet. 1:4, 5.
  
• "A partaker of the glory that shall be revealed," 1 Pet. 5:1.
  
• "The day shall declare it, for it shall be revealed by fire," 1 Cor. 3:13; Z '98-271; 1 Pet. 1:13; 2 Thess. 1:7, 8; 1 Cor. 1:7 (Z '98-271); 1 Pet. 1:7; Rom. 8:19; Lu. 17:29; Z '98-271.

• (B 142-170.)
• "Behold I come as a thief," Rev. 16:15; 3:3.
  
• "The day of the Lord will so come, as a thief in the night," 2 Pet. 3:10; 1 Thess. 5:2; B 168.
  
• "The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God," 1 Thess. 4:16.
  
• "With a shout," (compare Isa. 13:4; B 146).
• "The Voice of the Archangel," (Archangel, – chief messenger, the Messenger of the Covenant, Mal. 3:1).
  
• "Michael, [who as God]," Dan. 12:1.
  
• "He uttered his voice, the earth melted," Psa. 46:6; B 147.
  
• "The Trump of God," – the last trump," 1 Cor. 15:52; Rev. 11:15; B 147-149. The trumpet of Jubilee, Lev. 25:10; B 197-200; D 601.
  
• "As it was in the days of Noe,...they knew not,...so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man [days of his presence]," Lu. 17:26; Matt. 24:37-39; B 162; D 606. (Compare with "Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him," Rev. 1:7; Matt. 24:30; B 152, 153.)
  
• "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation [not with outward show, – margin]," Lu. 17:20; B 142. (Compare with "The Lord shall be revealed from heaven...in flaming fire," 2 Thess. 1:7, 8; B 150-152.)
  
• "This same Jesus shall so come in like manner," Acts 1:11; B 153. (Compare with "As the lightning [bright-shining, (the sun)] cometh out of the east,...so shall the presence of the son of man be," Matt. 24:27; B 155; D 581-583.)
  
• Object of the Second Advent. (Acts 3:19-21; A 94, 95.)
  
• "That he might gather together in one all things in Christ," Eph. 1:10; A 242.
  
• "He must reign until he hath put all enemies under his feet,...and all authority and all power," 1 Cor. 15:25, 26; A 222.
  
• "Our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom," 2 Tim. 4:1; Acts 17:31; B 145; Z '97-298.
  
• (See "RESTITUTION" and "DAY OF JUDGMENT.")
  

• "Of that day and hour knoweth no man," Mark 13:32, 33. 37; B 18; D 605.
  
• "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power," Acts 1:8; B 120.
  
• "But ye shall receive power, after that the holy Spirit is come upon you," Acts 1:8; B 120.
  
• "In the time of the end, the wise shall understand," Dan. 12:9, 10, 4; D 606.
• ::14::
• "Ye, brethren, are not in darkness," 1 Thess. 5:1-4; B 21.
  
• "We have a more sure word of prophecy," 2 Pet. 1:19; B 20.
  
• "The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the prophets," Amos 3:7; B 22.
  
• "The Spirit of truth...will show you things to come," Jno. 16:13; B 169.

• "The harvest is the end of the world (age)," Matt. 13:39; B 234; Z '00-101.
  
• "Thrust in thy sickle, and reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe," Rev. 14:15; B 234; C 139; Z '98-276; Z '02-95.
  
• "After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them," Matt. 25:14-30; Lu. 19:12-27; C 133; Z '98-276; Z '02-95; F 662.
  
• "The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God," 1 Pet. 4:17; Z '98-138.
  
• "Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth," Rev. 3:14-22; C 160, 180; Z '02-95.
  
• "Come out of her, my people," Rev. 18:2-4 – (A.D. 1878); B 240; C 152-156; Z '01-56; Z '02-95.
  
• Hurt not the earth,...till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads," Rev. 7:2, 3; B 169; C 165, 211, 303.
  
• "At the last trump,...the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed," 1 Cor. 15:52; C 232; F 723.
  
• "The dead in Christ shall rise first," 1 Thess. 4:16; Z '02-95; C 233; F 663.
  
• "We which are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord, in the air," 1 Thess. 4:17; C 238; Z '02-95.
  
• "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth," Rev. 14:13, 16; C 240; Z '02-95.
  
• "How beautiful the feet of him...Thy God reigneth;...There standeth one among you whom ye know not," Isa. 52:7; Jno. 1:26; B 237.
  
• "He shall be for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel," Isa. 8:14; B 241.
  
• And he shall send his angels, and they shall gather his Elect from the four winds," Matt. 24:31; D 600.
  
• "Gather my saints together, unto me," Psa. 50:5; B 104; Z '02-118.
  
• "Behold, I stand at the door and knock," Rev. 3:20; Z '02-91. (Compare Lu. 12:37, 42-44.)
  
• Last work of the harvest: "He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God," Rev. 19:15; D 18.
• The Three Harvests: Z '01-37.
  
• Harvest of the Jewish Age, "Wheat and Chaff," Matt. 3:12; Jno. 4:35, 36; C 135, 136.
  
• Harvest of the Gospel Age, "Wheat and Tares," Matt. 13:30; C 136-141, 148, 149.
  
• Harvest of the Millennial Age, "Sheep and Goats," Matt. 25:31-46; Z '01-37; D 644.

• (D 11-20.)
• "The day of vengeance is in mine heart," Isa. 63:4; D 11.
  
• "It is the day of the LORD'S vengeance," Isa. 34:8; D 11.
  
• "The day cometh that shall burn as an oven," Mal. 4:1; A 319; B 151.
  
• "The elements shall melt with fervent heat;" "The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll," 2 Pet. 3:12; Isa. 34:4; D 552.
  
• "A day of darkness and of gloominess,...let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble,...for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?" Joel 2:2-11; D 543.
  
• "Wait upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey," Zeph. 3:8, 9; A 317; D 269.
  
• "And I will bring distress upon men, because they have sinned against the LORD," Zeph. 1:14-18; A 316.
  
• "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you," Jas. 5:1-6; D 11.
  
• "Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD," Ezek. 7:17-19; A 319; D 149.
  
• "They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on [over] us," Hos. 10:8; "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth," Isa. 2:17-21; D 149.
  
• "Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world," Matt. 24:21; D 578. (See Dan. 12:1; D 579.)
  
• "He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God," Rev. 19:15; 14:18-20; D18. (Compare Isa. 63:1-6.)
  
• (See also Jer. 25:31; Micah 6:1, 2; Isa. 34:1, 2, 7, 8; 11:4.)
  

::15::

• "Lo, a great multitude,...which came out of great tribulation," Rev. 7:9, 13-17; A 214; F 93; T 59, 60, 68-72; Z '97-160-162; Z '01-96.
  
• "Who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage," Heb. 2:15; T 60.
  
• "To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh," 1 Cor. 5:5; T 69, 71.
  
• "If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire," 1 Cor. 3:15; T 69; Z '01-255.

• Promises.
  
• "Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth," Isa. 65:17; 66:22; Z '96-270.
  
• "We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," 2 Pet. 3:13; A 67, 334; Z '01-199.
  
• "Jehovah shall be king over all the earth in that day," Zech. 14:9; A 303.
  
• "And the desire of all nations shall come," Hag. 2:7; A 266.
• Manner.
• "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation [outward show]," Lu. 17:20, 21; A 276, 277.
  
• "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God," Jno. 3:2, 3; A 277-282.
  
• "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, [by divine power]," Dan. 2:34, 45; A 255, 256.
• Time.
• "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom," Dan. 2:44; B 99; D 623-629.
  
• "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return," Lu. 19:11-15; A 283.
• Two phases.
• "Who shall ascend into the hill [literally mountain, symbol of kingdom] of Jehovah? or who shall stand in his holy place [Temple]?" Psa. 24:3, 4; A 301.
  
• Abraham's seed: "As the sands of the sea and as the stars of heaven," Gen. 22:17; A 288; F 355; T 34.
  
• "Out of Zion [the spiritual phase] shall go forth the Law, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem, [the earthly phase]," Isa. 2:3; D 619, 620.
  
• "To him that overcometh will I give power over the nations," Rev. 2:26-29; D 624.
  
• "Ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God," Lu. 13:28, 29; D 19. (See Heb. 11:4-40.)
  
• "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it," Jer. 3:17; A 296.
  
• "Behold, the days come, that the city [Jerusalem] shall be built to the LORD," Jer. 31:38-40; C 266.
  
• "And the nations shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory into it," Rev. 21:22-26; Z '01-202.
  
• "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world," Matt. 25:31-34; A 305.
  
• "And the Kingdom...shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom," Dan. 7:27; A 303-306; D 618.
  

• (Anastasis.)
  
• "If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen,...your faith is vain, ye are still in your sins," 1 Cor. 15:13-17; F 695; Z '04-167.
  
• "He was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification," Rom. 4:25; F 105, 106.
  
• "As all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be made alive," 1 Cor. 15:22; F 695-699.
  
• Two Resurrections: First or Chief, and the after or inferior resurrection, F 694.
  
• "Every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at [during] his presence," 1 Cor. 15:23; F 699.
  
• The Resurrection "of life" [Resurrection of "the just"] and the Resurrection "of damnation" [judgment] of the unjust," Jno. 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15; F 708; Z '01-47.
• The First Resurrection.
• "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept," 1 Cor. 15:20; Z '04-173; Z '05-156.
  
• ::16::
• "The dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain, etc.," 1 Thess. 4:16, 17; C 233, 238.
  
• "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First Resurrection," Rev. 20:6; A 197, 288; D 618.
  
• "As we [the Church] have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly," 1 Cor 15:49; F 722.
  
• "It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that we shall be like him," 1 Jno. 3:2; F 694, 722.
  
• "That I may know him and the power of his resurrection," Phil. 3:10; Z '98-175; Z '00-122; Z '03-107.
  
• "Being put to death flesh, but made alive spirit," 1 Pet. 3:18; B 108; E 93, 84.
  
• "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God," 1 Cor. 15:50-53; B 128; Z '99-23.
  
• "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed," 1 Cor. 15:51, 52; C 239; F 723.
  
• "As one star differeth from another in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead," 1 Cor. 15:41, 42; F 725.
  
• "It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory," 1 Cor. 15:43; F 728.
  
• "Partakers of the divine nature," 2 Pet. 1:4; A 196; F 62-64.
  
• The After Resurrection.
• "Afterward they that are Christ's during his presence," 1 Cor. 15:23; F 699.
  
• "The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth,...unto the Resurrection of judgment," Jno. 5:28, 29; F 708.
  
• "They that hear [obey] shall live," Jno. 5:25; F 708.
  
• "Those accounted worthy to obtain that world and the Resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage," Lu. 20:35, 36; F 712; Z '04-344-347.
  
• The Better Resurrection.
• "That they might obtain a better resurrection," Heb. 11:35-40; D 619; F 704-707.
  
• Sodomites promised a resurrection: "When thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate," Ezek. 16:53-56; A 110-112.
• Probable manner and order of World's Resurrection.
• "Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first," Matt. 19:30; D 640, 641.
  
• The law of Anastasis by judgment: "And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people," Acts 3:22, 23.
  
• (See "RESTITUTION.")

• "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning," Psa. 30:5; A 9.
  
• "The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning," Psa. 49:14; E 384, 363.
  
• "God shall help her, and that right early," Psa. 46:5; C 230.
  
• "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father," Matt. 13:43; A 239; Z '99-188.
  
• "Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings," Mal. 4:2; Z '01-202; Z '05-381.
  
• "At evening time it shall be light," Zech. 14:6, 7; D 655.
  

• "The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together," Isa. 40:5; T 83.
  
• "All nations shall come and worship before thee," Rev. 15:4; Z '00-310.
  
• "They shall teach no more every man his neighbor,...for the shall all know me, from the least unto the greatest," Jer. 31:33, 34; Z '02-183.
  
• "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow," Phil. 2:10, 11; Z '05-382.
  
• "He that overcometh shall inherit all things," Rev. 21:7; Z '01-201.
  
• "As truly as I live, the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah," Num. 14:21; D 656.
  
• "Then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they, may all call upon the name of the LORD to serve him with one consent," Zeph. 3:9; D 272, 519; F 710.
  
• "The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God," Isa. 52:10.

::17::

• (A 149-172; E 155, 140.)
• "Times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord," Acts 3:19-21; A 222; Z '02-183.
  
• To this end Christ both died and rose, that he might be Lord [ruler, controller] both of the dead and living," Rom. 14:9; A 149.
  
• "In thy Seed ["which is Christ"] shall all the nations of the earth be blessed," Gen. 22:18; Gal. 3:8, 16, 29; T 83.
  
• "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be [not were] made righteous," Rom. 5:18, 19; A 156.
  
• "And an highway shall be there,...it shall be called The way of holiness," Isa. 35:8-10; A 215; Z '95-42.
  
• "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them," Isa. 35:1-6; A 161.
  
• "They shall build houses and inhabit them," Isa. 65:21-24; Z '05-200.
  
• "The earth shall yield her increase," Psa. 67:6; and "The inhabitant shall not say I am sick," Isa. 33:6; A 190-193.
  
• "In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book," Isa. 29:18, 19; D 519.
  
• "Behold, I bring you good tidings which shall be unto ALL PEOPLE," Lu. 2:10; A 107.
  
• "And he laid hold on Satan and bound him a thousand years, that he should deceive the nations no more," Rev. 20:1-3; Z '00-175, 334.
  
• "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes," Rev. 21:4; T 76; Z '00-57.
  
• "The ransomed of the LORD [all mankind] shall return [from the grave] and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads," Isa. 35:10; A 218.
  
• "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh," Joel 2:28.
  
• "The eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears unstopped," Isa. 35:5.
  
• Restitution to begin with the living nations, Z '95-191, ' 4. "To the Jew first," Rom. 11:16.
  
• "The LORD shall save the tents of Judah first." Zech. 12:7; A 294; C 256; Z '97-229.

• Three great judgment days: Adam's, the Church's, the World's, A 140-142.
  
• God "hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness," Acts 17:31; A 137-147; F 396.
  
• "I will restore thy judges as at the first," Isa. 1:26; (See Judg. 3:9-11 for illustration of a judge in Israel); A 142, 294.
  
• "The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son," Jno. 5:22; A 142, 143; E 424, 408.
  
• "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world,...and angels?" 1 Cor. 6:2; Z '00-358
  
• "They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years," Rev. 20:6; D 618.
• Length of Day of Judgment.
• "The day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men...with the Lord as a thousand years," 2 Pet. 3:7, 8; Z '99-186; F 19.
  
• "He must reign until he hath put all enemies under his feet," 1 Cor. 15:25-28; A 304.
• Character of Day of Judgment.
• With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity," Psa. 98:9; A 143.
  
• "It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee," Matt. 11:23, 24; A 110; Z '98-59.
  
• "He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears," Isa. 11:1-5; Z '98-307-309.
  
• "When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness," Isa. 26:9; D 627.
  
• "He shall judge among the nations,...they shall beat their swords into plowshares," etc., Isa. 2:4; E 47, 44.
  
• "Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice...because he cometh to judge the earth," 1 Chron. 16:31-34; A 143.
• The Law of the Day of Judgment.
• "Every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge," Jer. 31:29, 30.
  
• "The soul that sinneth, it shall die," Ezek. 18:4, 20-24; E 354, 355, 331, 332.
  
• "As a lad shall one die a hundred years old, and as a sinner shall be accursed he who dies at 100 yrs. old," (Leeser); Isa. 65:20; D 643. ::18::
• The Results of the Day of Judgment.
• "And it shall come to pass that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people," Acts 3:23; F 709.
  
• "And he shall set the sheep on his right hand but the he goats on the left," Matt. 25:31-46; A 144; D 644; Z '98-141; Z '00-101.
  
• "He that overcometh shall inherit all things,...but the unbelieving shall have their part in the Second Death," Rev. 21:7, 8; Z '01-201, 42.

• As none of the texts on Election belong to the next age, the Millennium, so all of the texts teaching Free Grace belong there.
  
• "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come....And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely," Rev. 22:17; A 96, 97.
  
• "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters," Isa. 55:1; Z '05-217.
  
• "God will have all men to come unto the knowledge of the Truth," 1 Tim. 2:3-6; A 106-108; Z '02-183.
  
• "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people," Lu. 2:10; A 130, 131; Z '01-23.
  
• "In thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed," Gen. 28:14; Gal. 3:8; T 91; Z '01-23.
  
• "That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man," Heb. 2:9; A 97, 104, 344.
  
• "He is the propitiation for our sins,...and for the sins of the whole world," 1 Jno. 2:2; F 164, 334; Z '01-23.
  
• "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," Jno. 1:9; Z '99-284.
  
• "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me," Jno. 12:32; Z '99-218; Z '00-189; Z '02-11.
  
• "All shall know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD," Jer. 31:34; A 215; Z '03-445.

• "The fearful, and unbelieving,...shall have their part in the lake of fire,...which is the Second Death," Rev. 21:8; B 153; H 57, 58, 63; Z '01-42.
  
• "The beast and the false prophet (Symbolic) were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone," Rev. 19:20; H 57, 58.
  
• "And the devil [system of error] that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, and shall be tormented day and night," Rev. 20:10; H 64. (Compare Heb. 2:14 and Psa. 145:20.)
  
• "Death and hell [Hades, the grave] were cast into the lake of fire [destruction]. This is the Second Death," Rev. 20:14; H 65-67; E 399. (Compare with Hos. 13:14 and 1 Cor. 15:55.)
  
• "There is a sin unto death [Second Death]," 1 Jno. 5:16; F 165. (See also Jude 11-13; 2 Pet. 2:10-22.)
  
• "It is impossible,...if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance," Heb. 6:4-9; F 166.
  
• "If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the Truth," Heb. 10:26-29; F 167.
  
• "The wicked shall be [re]turned into hell [sheol] and all the nations that forget God," Psa. 9:17; H 67-70; Z '01-43.

• Gehenna ("hell"), the Grecian mode of spelling the Hebrew words which are translated "The Valley of Hinnom," outside the city of Jerusalem, and serving the purpose of sewer and garbage burner, H 23, 24, 31; Z '01-30.
  
• "Whosoever shall say 'Thou fool,' shall be in danger of hell fire [Gehenna]," Matt. 5:22; H 25, 26; Z '01-31. (See also Matt. 5:29, 30; H 27-29; Z '01-32.)
  
• "Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell [Gehenna]," Lu. 12:4, 5; Matt. 10:28; H 29-31; Z '01-32.
  
• "Into hell fire [Gehenna], where their worm dieth not, and fire is not quenched," Matt. 18:8, 9; Mark 9:43, 48; H 31-34; Z '01-33. (Compare Isa. 66:24, "the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me.")
  
• "How can ye escape the judgment of hell [Gehenna]?" Matt. 23:33, 15; H 34; Z '01-34.
  
• "The tongue is a world of iniquity,...set on fire of hell [Gehenna]," Jas. 3:6; H 35; Z '01-34.