SCRIPTURAL SUMMARY,
WITHOUT COMMENT,
OF PRIMARY DOCTRINES
ARMAGEDDON, THE BATTLE OF GOD ALMIGHTY
Rev. 16: 14, 16: "They are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. And he gathered them together into a place called . . . Armageddon."
Isa. 34: 1-9: "The indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. . . . The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, . . . and their land shall be soaked with blood, . . . For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance."
Isa. 66: 15, 16, A.S.V.: "Behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many."
Jer. 25: 29-33: "I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts . . . for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, . . . And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground."
Joel 3: 9-14: "Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [margin: concision, or threshing]: for the day of the LORD is near."
Zeph. 3: 8: "Wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy."
Zech. 14: 3, 12: "Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth."
Rev. 19:11-21; 20:1-3: "I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. . . . The armies which were in heaven followed him . . . And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. . . And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet . . . And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse . . . An angel . . . laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years."
Mark 13: 30, 32: "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."
See also: 2 Chron. 20:15,22-24; Ps. 2:4-12; 46:6-10; 83:13-18; Isa. 13: 6-19; 24: 1-6; 26: 20, 21; 28: 21; 63: 1-6; Ezek. 9: 5-7; 38: 18-23; 39:.1-11; Dan. 2: 34, 35, 44, 45; Amos 9: 1-5; Hab. 3: 3-16; Zeph. 2: 2, 3; Matt. 24:21,37,39; 1 Thess. 5:3; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; 2 Pet. 3:7,10-12; Rev. 14: 17-20; 17: 14-16.
BAPTISM
Matt. 3: 13-17: "Jesus, when he was baptized, . . . the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
Matt. 28: 19: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy [spirit]."
John 3:22; 4:1,2: "Came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. , . . Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples)."
1 Cor. 10: 2: "And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea."
1 Pet. 3:20,21: "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us."
See also: Acts 2: 37-41.
BAPTISM OF JOHN
Mark 1:4, Diag.: "John was immersing in the desert, and publishing an immersion of reformation for forgiveness of sins."
Luke 3: 2, 3: "The word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins."
See also: Matt. 3:1-11; John 1:33; Acts 10:37; 13:24; 19:3,4.
BAPTISM BY HOLY SPIRIT INTO CHRIST'S BODY AND DEATH
Acts 1:5; 2:1-4; A.S.V.: "John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the holy spirit not many days hence." Rom. 6: 3, 4: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
1 Cor. 12: 13: "For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body." Gal. 3: 27: "As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
See also: Mark 1: 8; 10: 38, 39; Luke 12: 50; John 1: 33; Col. 2: 12.
CHRIST JESUS
Prov. 8: 22-36: "The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth."
Col. 1: 15, 16: "Who is the image of the Invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."
John 1:3,14: "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."
Matt. 3: 16, 17: "Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he
saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
John 18: 37: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."
Phil. 2: 6-11: "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Rev. 1: 18: "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."
Rev. 19: 11, 13, 16: "I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, . . . The Word of God . . . KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
See also: John 8: 58; 17: 5; Acts 4: 12; Heb. 1: 1-4; 2: 9; 1 Pet. 3: 21, 22; Rev. 3: 14.
NOT THE SAME PERSONALITY AS OR EQUAL TO JEHOVAH GOD
1 Tim. 2: 5: "There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
1 Cor. 8: 6: "To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."
1 Cor. 15: 28: "Then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
John 14: 28: "My Father is greater than I."
John 17: 20-23; 10: 30: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me." "I and my Father are one."
1 John 5: 7, 8, A.S.V.: "It is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is the truth. For there are three who bear witness, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one." (See also the footnote on this text in The Emphatic Diaglott.)
John 1: 1, Diag. Interlinear word-for-word translation: "In a beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the God, and a god was the Word."
1 Tim. 3: 16, Diag.: "He who was manifested in flesh, was justified in spirit, was seen by messengers, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory." See Diag. footnote
CHRISTIANS NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE
Heb. 10:1: "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect."
Gal. 3:11-13,19,23-26: "That no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."
Col. 2: 14, 16, 17: "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come."
Rom. 6: 14: "Ye are not under the law, but under grace."
Gal. 5: 18, 22, 23: "If ye be led of the spirit, ye are not under the law. . . The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."
See also: Jer. 31: 31-34 and Heb. 8: 4-10; Matt. 5: 17, 18; Acts 15: 1-29; Rom. 3: 20, 21; 10: 4; 2 Cor. 3: 5-11; Gal. 4: 4, 6; Eph. 2: 8-16; Phil. 3: 9; Heb. 7: 12, 19; Jas. 2: 10, 11.
CHURCH
NOT A LITERAL BUILDING
Acts 7: 48-50: "The most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord."
See also: 2 Chron. 2: 6; Isa. 66: 1, 2; Acts 17: 24, 25; Rom. 16: 5; 1 Cor. 16: 19; Col. 4: 15; Philem. 2.
THE ROCK ON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT
Matt. 21: 42: "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing."
1 Pet. 2: 3, 4, 6-8: "The Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, . . . Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence."
Eph. 2: 19-21: "Ye are . . . fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord."
1 Cor. 10: 4: "They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."
Matt. 16: 16-18: "Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter [Greek: Petros, in masculine gender], and upon this rock [Greek: petra, in feminine gender] I will build my church."
See also: Ps. 118:22,23; Isa. 28:16; Acts 4:10,11.
TRUE CHURCH ORGANIZATION
Eph. 1: 17,22,23: "The God of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body."
1 Cor. 12: 12-30: "As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body. . . . Now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. . . . The eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee . . . Those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: . . . There should be no schism [margin: division] in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members
suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." 1 Cor. 3: 16, 17: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."
1 Pet. 2: 5, 9, A.S.V.: "Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light."
Heb. 12: 23: "Church of the firstborn, which are written [margin: enrolled] in heaven." Phil. 3:20,21, A.S.V.: "Our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory."
See also: Acts 2: 47; 2 Cor. 6: 16; 11: 2; Eph. 5: 23-30; Col. 1: 18; 1 Tim.
3: 15; Rev. 21: 9, 10, 14.
NUMBER COMPRISING THE CHURCH BODY
Rev. 14: 1, 3: "Lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred and forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."
See also: Rev. 7: 4-8.
CONDITION OF THE DEAD
DEAD NOT CONSCIOUS
Job 14: 1, 2, 21: "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He Cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them."
Ps. 6: 5: "In death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?"
Ps. 49: 12, 14: "Man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling."
Ps. 115: 17: "The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence."
Ps. 146:3,4: "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."
Eccl. 3: 19, 20: "That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
Eccl. 9: 5, 10: "The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."
THE DEAD SPOKEN OF AS BEING ASLEEP
2 Pet. 3: 4: "Since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue."
1 Cor. 15: 20: "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." John 11: 11-14: "Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead."
1 Thess. 4: 13, 14: "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring."
See also: 1 Ki. 2:10; 14:31; 22:60; Acts 7:60; 13:36.
DO NOT ASCEND INTO HEAVEN AT DEATH
John 3: 13: "No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven."
Acts 2: 29, 34: "Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. For David is not ascended into the heavens."
CONSECRATION TO DO GOD'S WILL
Ps. 40: 8; Heb. 10: 7, 9: "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."
John 5: 30: "I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father."
John 6: 38: "I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me."
Matt. 26: 39: "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."
Matt. 10:38; 16:24, Torrey: "Whoever will not take up his yoke and follow me is not worthy of me." "Whoever will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his yoke, and come with me."
Matt. 11:29: "Take my yoke upon you."
Matt. 4: 19; 8:22; 9: 9: "Follow me."
1 Pet. 2: 21: "Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps."
Matt. 6: 24, 33: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness."
Rom. 12: 1: "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
EARTH IN GOD'S PURPOSE
LITERAL EARTH TO ABIDE AND BE INHABITED FOREVER
Gen. 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Isa. 45: 18: "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited."
Eccl. 1:4: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever."
Ps. 37: 11, 29; Matt. 5: 5: "The meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever."
Ps. 78: 69: "He built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever."
Ps. 115: 16: "The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men."
Ps. 119: 90: "Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth." Prov. 2: 21, 22: "The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it."
Prov. 10: 30: "The righteous shall never be removed."
See also: Ps. 104:5; Isa. 60: 21.
"NEW EARTH" ORGANIZATION PROMISED
2 Pet. 3: 5-7, 13: "By the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the
world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."
Rev. 21:1,4: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away . . . And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new."
Isa. 65: 17: 66: 22: "Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." "As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain."
Isa. 32: 1: "Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment."
Ps. 45: 16: "Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth."
DIVINE MANDATE TO MAN CONCERNING THE EARTH
Gen. 1:27,28, Roth.: "God created the man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land."
Gen. 9: 1, 7, Roth.: "God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth; ... be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth, and multiply therein."
Ezek. 47: 22: "It shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel."
ADDITIONAL EARTHLY BLESSINGS UNDER KINGDOM RULE
Matt. 6: 10: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."
Isa. 9: 6,7: "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."
Luke 2: 14, Douay: "Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will."
Ps. 72: 1, 4, 7, 8: "Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth."
Mic. 4: 1-4; Isa. 2:2-4: "In the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But
they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it."
Prov. 29: 2: "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice."
Ps. 67: 6, 7; 85: 12: "Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us."
Ps. 145: 13, 16: "Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing."
Isa. 25: 6-8: "In this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy n this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces."
Isa. 66: 1; 60: 13: "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: ... I will make the place of my feet glorious."
Isa. 11:6-9; 65:25: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
Isa. 33: 24: "And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick."
Jer. 33: 6: "Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth."
John 8: 51: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death."
John 11:26: "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
1 Cor. 15: 25, 26: "He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
Rev. 21:4: "There shall be no more death."
HELL THE GRAVE
"HELL," "GRAVE" and "PIT" FROM HEBREW WORD "SHEOL"
Ps. 16: 10; "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [sheol]; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."
Ps. 55: 15: "Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell [sheol; margin, the grave]."
Jon. 2: 1, 2: "Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell [sheol; margin, the grave] cried I, and thou heardest my voice."
Gen. 37: 35: "His sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave [sheol] unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him." Job 14: 13: "O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave [sheol], that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!"
Job 17: 13, 16: "The grave [sheol] is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness." "They shall go down to the bars of the pit [sheol], when our rest together is in the dust."
Num. 16: 33: "They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit [sheol], and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation."
See also: Ps. 9: 17; 86: 13, marg.; 139: 8; Isa. 14: 9, marg.; Hos. 13: 14.
"HELL" and "GRAVE" FROM GREEK WORD "HADES"
Acts 2:27,31: "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [hades], neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell [hades], neither his flesh did see corruption."
Rev. 20: 13, 14: "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [hades; margin, the grave] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell [hades] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."
1 Cor. 15: 55: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave [hades; margin, hell], where is thy victory?"
"HELL" FROM GREEK WORDS "GEHENNA" AND "TARTAROS"
Matt. 10: 28: "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell [gehenna]."
Matt. 23: 33: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell [gehenna]?"
Mark 9: 43-48: "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell [gehenna] fire."
2 Pet. 2: 4: "God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [tartaros], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment."
IDOLATRY
Ex. 20: 4, 5: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou Shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them."
Isa. 42: 8, A.S.V.: "I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images."
Ps. 96: 5: "All the gods of the nations are idols."
Ps. 106: 36: "They served their idols: which were a snare unto them."
Dan. 3: 1-18: "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. . . . Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered ... be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."
Ps. 115: 4-8: "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: they have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them."
2 Cor. 6: 16, 17: "What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; . . . Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."
1 Cor. 10: 14: "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry."
1 John 5:21: "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
Col. 3: 5: "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry."
1 Sam. 15: 23: "Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry."
Rev. 13:4-16: "They worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, . . . And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life . . . And I beheld another beast . . . saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."
See also: Ex. 32: 7, 8; Lev. 26: 1; Deut. 4: 15-28; Judg. 2: 17; Ps. 97: 7; Isa. 2:20; 44:9-20; 45:16; Jer. 10:1-15; Mic. 5:13; Hab. 2:18,19.
IMMORTALITY
JEHOVAH ALWAYS POSSESSED IMMORTALITY
Ps. 90: 2: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
Jer. 10: 10, margin: "The LORD [Jehovah] is the true God, he is the living God, and a king of eternity."
1 Tim. 1:17, A.S.V.: "Unto the King eternal, immortal [margin: incorruptible], invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen."
CHRIST JESUS GIVEN IMMORTALITY AT HIS RESURRECTION
John 5: 26: "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself."
1 Tim. 6: 14-16: "The appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath Immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting."
Rev. 1: 18: "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore."
CHRIST'S BODY MEMBERS ULTIMATELY GAIN IMMORTALITY
Rom. 2:7, A.S.V.: "To them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life."
Rom. 6: 5: "If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."
1 Cor. 15: 53, 54: "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then . . . Death is swallowed up in victory."
2 Tim. 1: 10, A.S.V.: "Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality [margin; incorruption] to light through the gospel."
JEHOVAH GOD
Gen. 2: 4, A.S.V.: "Jehovah God made earth and heaven."
Deut. 10: 17: "The LORD your God is God of gods, and LORD of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward."
Deut. 32: 4, 35: "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence."
Ps. 3: 8: "Salvation belongeth unto the LORD."
Ps. 36: 9: "With thee is the fountain of life."
Ps. 47: 7: "God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding."
Ps. 62: 11: "Power belongeth unto God."
Ps. 89: 14: "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face."
Prov. 2:6,7: "The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous."
Isa. 33:22, A.S.V.: "Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us."
Isa. 42: 8, A.S.V.: "I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images."
Isa. 45: 5: "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me."
Isa. 57: 15: "Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
Jer. 10: 10, A.S.V.: "Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation."
Jer. 23: 24: "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."
Ezek. 6: 7, A.S.V.: "And ye shall know that I am Jehovah."
Mal. 3: 6: "I am the LORD, I change not."
Matt. 19:26; Luke 1:37: "With God all things are possible." "With God nothing shall be impossible."
John 1: 18: "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son. which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."
2 Cor. 1: 3: "God . . . the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort."
Heb. 12: 29: "Our God is a consuming fire."
Jas. 1: 17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
1 John 4: 8: "God is love."
See also: Ex. 3: 14, 33: 20; Isa. 14: 24, 27; 46: 9-11; 1 Tim. 1: 17.
TEXTS WHEREIN THE KING JAMES VERSION USES "JEHOVAH"
Ex. 6:3: "I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them."
Ps. 83: 18: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."
Isa. 12: 2: "The LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation."
Isa. 26: 4: "In the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength."
See also: Gen. 22:14; Ex. 17:15; Judg. 6:24; Ps. 68:4; and the marginal readings of Ex. 6: 2; Jer. 16: 21; 23: 6; 33: 2, 16; Ezek. 48: 35; Jon 1: 9. "Jehovah" occurs in the original Hebrew Scriptures 6,823 times, and the King James Version Bible indicates these occurrences by printing "Lord" and "God" in capitals and small capitals, thus: LORD; GOD.
JUDGMENT
CHRIST JESUS THE APPOINTED JUDGE
Jer. 23: 5: "The days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth."
John 5: 22: "The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son."
1 Cor. 4: 4: "He that judgeth me is the Lord."
Isa. 11: 3, 4: "He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek."
See also: Ps. 72: 1-4; Acts 10: 42; 17: 31.
JUDGMENT OF THE CHURCH
Mal. 3: 1-3: "The LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple . . . But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."
1 Pet. 4: 17: "The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"
Matt. 24: 42-51: "Ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. . . . Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
See also: Isa. 6: 1-8; Zech. 3: 1-8; Matt. 21: 12, 13; 25: 1-30; Rev. 11: 18.
JUDGMENT OF NATIONS; ITS EXECUTION AT ARMAGEDDON
Matt. 25:31,32: "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats."
Ezek. 9: 2-7: "He called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; and the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city . . . and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark."
Jude 14, 15: "The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed."
See also: Isa. 2:4; 11:1-4; Zech. 9:9,10.
THE 1,000-YEAR JUDGMENT DAY
Acts 17: 31: "He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead."
2 Pet. 3:7,8: "The day of judgment . . . that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
Rev. 20:4,11-13: "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: . . . and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it ... And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."
See also: Ps. 96: 10-13; Luke 22: 30; John 5: 27, 29, A.S.V.; 1 Cor. 6: 2, 3; 2 Tim. 4: 1.
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH
Rom. 3: 20, 23-26, 28: "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: . . . For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Rom. 5: 1, 9, 18, A.S.V.: "Being therefore justified by faith, . . . justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him. So then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the free gift came unto all men to justification of life."
Rom. 8: 33: "It is God that justifieth."
Gal. 2: 16: "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
See also: Acts 13:38,39; Rom. 4:24,25; 8:30; 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 3: 11, 24; 1 Tim. 3: 16, Diag.; Titus 3: 7; Jas. 2: 17-26.
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
1 Chron. 29: 11, A.S.V.: "Thine is the kingdom, 0 Jehovah, and thou art exalted as head above all."
Matt. 6: 10: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."
Luke 22: 29: "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom."
Luke 12: 31, 32: "Seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
Rev. 20: 4: "They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
1 Cor. 15: 24, 28: "Then Cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; . . . then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
Matt. 11: 11: "Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he."
John 3: 5: "Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
1 Cor. 15: 50: "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God."
John 18: 36: "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight."
Luke 17:21, margin: "Behold, the kingdom of God is among you."
Isa. 9: 6, 7: "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end . . . The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."
Rev. 12: 1-5: "She brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God."
Ps. 2: 1-6: "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed . . . Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion."
Ps. 110:2: "The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies."
Dan. 2: 44: "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever."
Dan. 7: 13, 14: "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."
Ps. 145: 13: "Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations."
Rev. 11: 15, 17, A.S.V.: "The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever. . . . We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign."
See the topical heading "Second Coming of Christ Jesus" for signs marking the establishment of God's kingdom.
MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL
ORDINATION
Isa. 61: 1,2; Luke 4: 17-19: "The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim lib-
erty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn."
Joel 2:28,29; Acts 2:16-18: "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."
Isa. 43: 10, 12, A.S.V.: "Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God."
John 15: 16: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit."
COMMISSION TO PREACH
Matt. 24: 14: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
Mark 13: 10: "The gospel must first be published among all nations."
Luke 9: 60: "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God."
Matt. 28: 19, A.S.V.: "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit."
Acts 1:8: "Ye shall be witnesses unto me . . . unto the uttermost part of the earth."
1 Cor. 9: 14, 16: "The Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!"
2 Cor. 5:20: "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ."
1 Pet. 2: 9: "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light."
Rev. 22: 17: "The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
See also: Isa. 6: 9; Ezek. 3: 4, 17; 9: 4; 33: 7; 2 Tim. 4: 2.
OBEDIENCE TO COMMISSION
Acts 4: 19, 20: "Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
Acts 5: 29: "We ought to obey God rather than men."
Rom. 1:31,32: "Covenantbreakers . . . are worthy of death."
Jas. 1:22: "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only."
See also: Jer. 1:7,8,17; Matt. 10:26,27,32,33; Gal. 1:8-12.
MANNER OF PREACHING
Heb. 13: 15: "Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."
Matt. 10: 7, 11-14: "Go, preach, saying. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet."
Mark 1: 38: "And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth."
Luke 8: 1: "And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him."
Acts 5: 42: "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."
Acts 20: 20: "I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house."
Acts 17: 17: "Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them."
Luke 13: 26: "Thou hast taught in our streets."
Prov. 1:20,21, Amer. Trans,: "Wisdom cries aloud in the streets, she lifts up her voice in the squares; at the head of noisy thoroughfares she calls, at the openings of the city gates she utters her words."
Prov. 8: 1-3, Amer. Trans.: "Does not wisdom call, and reason lift up her voice? At the head of the highways, on the road, between the streets she takes her stand; by the gates that enter the city, at the doorways she cries aloud."
Acts 15: 36, Amer. Trans.: "Some time after, Paul said to Barnabas, 'Come, let us go back and revisit the brothers in each of the towns where we made the Lord's message known, to see how they are doing.'"
See also: Hos. 14: 2; Matt. 11: 1; Acts 2: 46, 47.
"OTHER SHEEP"
John 10: 16, A.S.V.: "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and they shall become one flock, one shepherd."
See also: Isa. 56: 3-8; Matt. 25: 32-34; Rev. 7: 9-17.
PRAYER
JEHOVAH A GOD ABLE TO HEAR PRAYER
Ps. 65: 2: "O thou that nearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come."
Eph. 3: 19-21: "God . . . unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory."
See also: Neh. 2:2-6; Dan. 9: 20-23; Jon. 2:2,7; Jas. 5: 17, 18.
VALUE OF PRAYER, AND INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING IT
Isa. 56: 7: "Them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people."
Jas. 5: 13, 16: "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. . . . The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
Matt. 6: 5-13, A.S.V.: "When ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray . . . that they may be seen of men. . . . They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. . . . After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
John 16: 23: "I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you."
John 17: 9: "I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me."
1 Tim. 4:4,5: "Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
See also: Jer. 7: 16; 11: 14; Zech. 8: 21, 22; Matt. 21: 13, 22; Mark 12: 40; Rom. 12: 12; Eph. 6: 18; 1 Pet. 4: 7.
WHOSE PRAYERS HEARD, AND WHOSE NOT HEARD
Prov. 15:8,29: "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous."
Prov. 28: 9: "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination."
Jas. 4: 3: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
1 Pet. 3: 12: "The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil."
See also: 2 Chron. 7: 14; Ps. 66: 18; 102: 17; 109: 6, 7; 145: 18; Isa. 1: 15; John 14: 13.
PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE
Gen. 2: 17: "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Ps. 92: 7: "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of Iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever."
Ps. 145: 20: "The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy."
Jer. 51:57: "They shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake."
Ezek. 18:4,20: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."
Acts 3: 23: "Every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people."
Rom. 1:32: "The judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death."
Rom. 6: 23: "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
See also: Ps. 9: 17; 37: 10, 20; Matt. 25: 46, Diag.; 2 Thess. 1: 8, 9.
RANSOM
NEED FOR A RANSOM, AND HOPE FOR IT
Rom. 5: 12: "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."
Rom. 3: 10: "There is none righteous, no, not one."
Ps. 51: 5: "I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."
Ps. 49: 7: "None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him."
Hos. 13: 14: "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction."
See also: Job 33: 24, 25; Ps. 49: 15; 103: 4.
BASIS FOR THE RANSOM ARRANGEMENT
Ex. 21:23,24: "Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Lev. 17: 11: "The life of the flesh is in the blood: and 1 have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul."
Heb. 9: 22: "Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."
RANSOM PROVIDED THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST JESUS
John 1: 14: "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."
Heb. 2: 9: "We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man."
Heb. 9:12,23-28: "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. ... So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation."
Matt. 20: 28: "The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."
1 Tim. 2: 6: "Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."
Heb. 5: 9: "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."
See also: Isa. 53:5,10-12; Mark 10:45; John 1:29; 3: 16, 36; 6:51; 10:10,11,15; Acts 4:12; Rom. 5:8-10; 1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1: 14; Titus 2: 14; Heb. 10: 4, 5, 10-20; 1 Pet. 1: 18, 19; 3: 18, A.S.V.; 1 John 1:7; 2:2; 4:10,14; Rev. 5:9; 7:14; 14: 3, 4.
RESURRECTION
John 11: 25: "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."
1 Cor. 15:21,22: "Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
Acts 24: 15: "There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust."
John 5: 28, 29, A.S.V.: "Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment."
Job 14: 13-15: "Appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee."
See also: Job 19: 25, 26; Isa. 26: 19; Luke 20: 37; Heb. 11: 17, 19; Matt. 22: 31, 32.
"FIRST RESURRECTION"
1 Cor. 15: 20, 23, 44, 49, 51, 52: "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. . . . As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised Incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
1 Thess. 4: 14-16: "If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first."
Rev. 20: 6: "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."
See also: Rom. 6: 5; 2 Cor. 5: 1-4; Phil. 3: 10, 11; 1 Pet. 1: 3; 3: 18, A.S.V.; Rev. 1: 5.
"BETTER RESURRECTION"
Heb. 11: 35: "Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection."
GENERAL RESURRECTION
Rev. 20: 5, 12, 13: "The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [margin: grave] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."
Luke 20: 35, 36: "They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection."
SANCTIFICATION
Lev. 20: 7, 8: "Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you."
John 17: 17, 19: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth."
Rom. 15:16, A.S.V.: "Sanctified by the holy spirit."
Eph. 5: 25, 26: "Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word."
1 Thess. 4: 3, 4: "This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour."
2 Tim. 2:21: "If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use."
Heb. 10: 10, 29: "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. . . . The blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified."
See also: Acts 26: 18; 1 Thess. 5: 23; Heb. 2: 11; 13: 12; Jude 1.
SATAN AND HIS DEMONS
THEIR ORIGIN AND CONTINUED EXISTENCE
Ezek. 28: 12-18: "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; . . . Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. . . . Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries."
Gen. 3: 4: "The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die."
Ex. 9: 16, Leeser: "But for this cause have I allowed thee to remain, in order to show thee my power; and in order that they may proclaim my name throughout all the earth."
See also: 2 Pet. 2: 4; Jude 6.
THEIR ASSAULTS, AND PROTECTION THEREFROM
Rev. 12: 7-17: "There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, . . . and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. . . Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. . . . And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Rev. 16: 13, 14: "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."
1 Pet. 5:8: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."
Jas. 4: 7: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
Eph. 6: 11, 12, A.S.V.: "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against
the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."
2 Cor. 11: 14, 16: "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness."
See also: Job 1: 6-12; 2: 1-6; Matt. 4: 1-11; John 8: 44; 2 Cor. 2: 11; 1 Tim. 4:1; 1 John 3: 8; Rev. 2: 10; and the topical heading "This Present Evil World".
THEIR DESTRUCTION
Gen. 3: 15: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
Rom. 16: 20: "The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet."
Isa. 14: 12-15: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
Ezek. 28: 18: "Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee."
Heb. 2: 14: "Through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil."
Rev. 20: 1-3, 7-10: "He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, . . . And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations . . . And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire."
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS
NOT IN FLESHLY FORM, BUT AS A SPIRIT CREATURE
John 14: 19: "Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more."
2 Cor. 5: 16: "Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more."
1 Tim. 6: 14, 16: "Jesus Christ . . . dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto."
Matt. 25:31: "The Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory."
2 Thess. 1:7,8: "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ."
TIME OF SECOND COMING SET BY GOD'S WORD
Ezek. 21:27: "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him."
Luke 21:24: "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
Dan. 4: 16: "Let seven times pass over him."
Rev. 12: 6, 14: "Feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days . . . nourished for a time, and times, and half a time."
Ezek. 4: 6: "I have appointed thee each day for a year."
PHYSICAL SIGNS MARKING THE SECOND COMING
Matt. 24: 3-36: "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered . . . nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences,
and earthquakes . . . they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake . . . many false prophets shall rise, . . . And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; . . . the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place . . . then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. . . . This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."
Luke 21: 25, 26: "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."
Luke 17: 26-30: "As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."
2 Tim. 3:1-5: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
2 Pet. 3: 3-5, 10: "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant . . . But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
See also: Mal. 3: 1-3; Mark 13: 3-80; Luke 21: 7-32; 1 Thess. 5: 3; 1 Pet. 4: 17; Rev. 17: 3, 8-14; and topical heading "Kingdom of Heaven".
SOUL AND ITS MORTALITY
Gen. 1: 20, margin: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath soul."
Gen. 1: 30, margin: "To every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for meat."
Gen. 2: 7: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Num. 31: 28: "Levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep."
Judg. 16: 30, margin: "And Samson said, Let my soul die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell."
Ps. 78: 50: "He spared not their soul from death."
Ps. 89: 48: "What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?"
Isa. 53: 12: "He hath poured out his soul unto death."
Ezek. 18:4,20: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."
Acts 3: 23: "Every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people."
See also: Josh. 10: 28-39; Ps. 7: 5; 22: 29; 33: 18, 19; Matt. 10: 28; Jas. 5: 20; Rev. 16: 3.
STANDARD OF CHRISTIANS
Num. 2:1,2,17: "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch." "Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards."
Deut. 5:9: "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children ... of them that hate me."
Ps. 20: 6: "We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions."
Ps. 60: 4: "Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah."
S. of Sol. 2: 4: "His banner over me was love."
Isa. 49:22,23: "Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers."
Isa. 62: 10: "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people."
"THIS PRESENT EVIL WORLD"
Gal. 1:3,4: "Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world."
John 14: 30: "The prince of this world Cometh, and hath nothing in me."
2 Cor. 4: 4: "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
1 John 5: 19, A.S.V.: "The whole world lieth in the evil one."
1 John 2: 15-17: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
John 15: 18, 19: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
Rom. 12: 2: "Be not conformed to this world."
1 Cor. 3: 19: "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."
2 Tim. 2:3,4: "Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."
Jas. 1:27, Murdock's Syriac translation: "The worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world."
Jas. 4: 4: "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."
See also: John 8:23; 12:31; 16:11,33; 17:14-16; 18:36; Eph. 2:2; Col. 2: 8.
