STUDY I.
THY KINGDOM COME.
1. What is the most momentous event of earth's history? What should be our attitude toward it? 19 ¶ 1, 2.
2. How would even the world receive the message of the Kingdom's imminence if it understood it? 19 ¶ 3.
3. What general class alone could be opposed to this rule of righteousness, and why? 20 ¶ 1.
4. How do many dread the Kingdom? 20 ¶ 2.
5. What classes of non-Christian persons seem to grasp the fundamental principles of righteousness? How do their theories frequently not work out in practice? 21 ¶ 1.
6. How should those who pray, Thy Kingdom come, conduct themselves, in view of its nearness? 21¶ 2.
7. What will be the nature of the Kingdom? How has it, and how has it not already come ¶ 22 ¶ 1.
8. Of what will succeeding chapters treat? 22 ¶ 2.
STUDY 2.
"THE TIME OF THE END," OR "THE DAY OF HIS PREPARATION"—DANIEL XI.
1. What is the Time of the End? Why is it also referred to as The Day of His Preparation? 23 ¶ 1.
2. What are its last forty years called? 24 ¶ 1.
3. Through whose prophecy do we gain information on the date of this period? How much did he understand about it? What do we conclude therefrom? 24 ¶ 2.
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4. What do Dan. 11 and 12 respectively present? In what peculiar manner is the date of the beginning of the Time of the End fixed in this prophecy? 24 ¶ 3.
5. Why is Chap. XI sealed to many prophetic students? What passage contains the central item? How is it claimed to have been fulfilled? 24 ¶ 4-25 ¶ 1.
6. Why will this not satisfy the careful student? How did our Lord refer to this prophecy? 25 ¶ 2.
7. What is the Desolating Abomination? 26 ¶ 1.
8. To what kingdom does Dan. 11 refer? 26 ¶ 2, 3.
9. Who is the "mighty king" of vs. 3 and 4, and what were his experiences? 26 ¶ 4-27 ¶ 1.
10. What is the correspondence of this prophecy with Daniel 8:3-9, 20-25? 27 ¶ 2.
11. Who is referred to as the King of the South? What two kingdoms did the King of the North represent? Where was the history of Daniel's people pictured in this vision? To whom does v. 17 refer? 27 ¶ 3.
12. How is v. 18 generally applied, and how did this interpretation, carried into chap. 12, influence the Jews at the time of Jesus' birth? How does our present study apply these vs. from v. 18 onward? 28 ¶ 1.
13. Why this change, from the particular method of preceding vs., to touch only prominent features? 28 ¶ 2.
14. How are vs. 17-19 applied? V. 20? 28 ¶ 3.
15. What other translation of v. 20? And how does it apply? 29 ¶ 1.
16. How did the manner of Augustus Caesar's death correspond with the prophetic description? 29 ¶ 2.
17. To whom does v. 21 apply? 29 ¶ 3-30 ¶ 2.
18. How do vs. 22-24 confirm the historical description of Tiberius Caesar? 30 ¶ 3, 4.
19. What was the diplomatic policy of Augustus Caesar and his successors, by which Rome so completely ruled the world, as suggested in v. 24? 31 ¶ 1.
20. Why has the prophecy so particularized in the cases of Augustus and Tiberius? And what were the four divisions of the Grecian Empire, with their rulers, after the death of Alexander the Great? 31 ¶ 2, 3.
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21. How did the titles, King of the North and King of the South, apply? What were their relative powers? 32 ¶ 1.
22. What is the history of these two powers, as outlined in vs. 25 and 28? 32 ¶ 2, 3-34 ¶ 2.
23. How was the prophecy of v. 26 fulfilled? 34 ¶ 3.
24. How should v. 27 be interpreted? 34 ¶ 4.
25. What is the object of vs. 29-30? 35 ¶ 1.
26. To what does v. 31 apply? 35 ¶ 2, first 12 lines.
27. Explain v. 31 in detail. 36 top, to end of ¶2.
28. Explain v. 32. How are these two classes referred to in Daniel 8:11-14? 37 ¶ 1.
29. What were the respective experiences of these two classes? How are vs. 34 and 35 used here? 37 ¶ 2.
30. Explain vs. 34 and 35. 38 ¶ 1.
31. Reasoning from the prophetic description of Grecian and Roman power, what should we expect when it comes to noting the time when Papal dominion should be broken? Briefly, how do vs. 31-35 apply, and down to what period do they bring us? 38 ¶ 2-39 footnote.
32. To whom do vs. 36-45 apply? What important dates are marked by his career? 39 ¶ 1-40 ¶ 1.
33. Show how the statements of v. 36 were applicable to Napoleon. 40 ¶ 2-41 ¶ 3.
34. What was the effect of Napoleon's summary overturning of the Papal power? 42 ¶ 1.
35. How did v. 37 apply to Napoleon? 42 ¶ 2, 3.
36. Explain v. 38. 42 ¶ 4-43 ¶ 1.
37. Explain v. 39. 43 ¶ 2-11 ¶ 2.
38. What particular event marks the exact date of the beginning of the Time of the End? 44 ¶ 3.
39. Explain v. 40. 44 ¶ 4-45 ¶ 1.
40. Show how vs. 41 to 43 apply. 45 ¶ 2.
41. Apply vs. 44, 45. 45 ¶ 3-46 ¶ 2.
42. Explain the connection between and application of vs. 40 and 29 and 30. Also show how vs. 29 and 30 were fulfilled by Napoleon. 46 ¶ 3-47 ¶ 2.
43. What two important, facts in connection with Papacy were marked by the date 1799 A. D.? 47 ¶ 3.
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44. How is the decline of the Reformation, with its cause, set forth in vs. 34 and 35? 48 ¶ 1.
45. In what manner was the failure of this reform movement divinely overruled for good? 48 ¶ 2.
46. How has the beginning of the Time of the End affected the error of church and state union? How were the Protestant systems affected by Napoleon's boldly ignoring the Papal blessings and curses? 49 ¶ 1.
47. Was the New Reformation in any sense a religious movement? 49 ¶ 2.
48. What was the ultimate effect of Napoleon's work, and that of the French Revolution, upon the world? How does Rev. 13:3 apply in this connection? 50 ¶ 1.
49. How has the date 1799 marked a new era in thought? And how have the rise and work of the various Bible Societies contributed toward this end? 50 ¶ 2.
50. Contrast the religious reformation of Luther's day with the political reform starting in 1799. 51¶ 1.
51. What influence was exerted upon the world by the Revolution of the American colonies? 52 ¶ 1.
52. How was the French Revolution the legitimate effect of existing civil and religious causes? 52 ¶ 2.
53. What was the natural reaction from such causes? What was infidel France's attitude toward the apostate church and its religious lords? 52 3-53 ¶ 1.
54. How is the French Revolution referred to in Scripture, and of what is it an illustration? Why has Nominal Christianity failed to cure the pestilence of infidelity and anarchy? 53 ¶ 2.
55. Describe the influence of Napoleon's armies and the incident which ended the Papal custom of crowning the civil rulers of earth. 54 ¶ 1.
56. What has history recorded as to humiliations heaped upon the Papacy by Napoleon? 55 ¶ 1-56 ¶ 1.
57. When and under what circumstances was the Pope bereft wholly of temporal power? 56 ¶ 2, 3.
58. Following this, what 'action was taken by Pius VII, and with what effect upon Napoleon? 57 ¶ 1.
59. How are these events regarded by Papacy? How do Papists apply Rev. 20:1-4? 57 ¶ 2.
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60. Give Papacy's history since Napoleon's day. 57 ¶ 3.
61. How did this revolution really carry forward the good work begun in Luther's day? 58 ¶ 1.
62. Briefly review the events marked by 1799. What is the present position of the Man of Sin? 58 ¶ 2.
63. How will this Time of the End terminate? For what is it preparing the world? 59 ¶ 1.
64. What is the evident purpose of the discoveries, inventions and advantages of our day? 59 ¶ 2.
STUDY 3.
DAYS OF WAITING FOR THE KINGDOM.
1. Where do we find the Kingdom work epitomized in prophecy? 61 ¶ 1, 2.
2. Explain in detail Daniel 12:1-3. 62.
3. State the purpose of the rest of Dan. 12. 63 ¶ 1.
4. To what petition on the part of Daniel was v. 4 an answer? 63 ¶ 2.
5. Show how existing conditions since 1799 have fulfilled Daniel 12:4. 63 ¶ 3-64 ¶ 3.
6. For whom were the statements of vs. 5-7 intended? What was the subject of special inquiry? 64 ¶ 4, 5.
7. How many literal years are signified by the time, times and half a time of Dan. 12:7? To what does the flood here refer? Where else is it mentioned, and what was its object, from Satan's standpoint? 64 ¶ 6.
8. What is the interpretation of the water coming out of the mouth of the Serpent? Wherein lay the strength of the French Revolution? How are the truths of that period now regarded by the civilized world? Why were they so disastrous at that time? 65 ¶ 1.
9. What was the intended effect of the flood of Truth, as designed by Satan? 65 ¶ 2-66 ¶ 1.
10. How was this plan providentially frustrated in exact fulfilment of prophecy? Rev. 12:16. 66 ¶ 2.
11. What period was marked by this flood? What were "these wonders" of Dan. 12:6, 7? 67 ¶ 1.
12. In Dan. 12:5, what, is the significance of the two individuals, one on each side of the flood? 68 ¶ 1.
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13. Since Papal power ended in 1799, how can we find when it began? 68 ¶ 2-69 ¶ 1.
14. What dates are Papists themselves inclined to recognize as marking the beginning of their power? 69 ¶ 2.
15. When did the bishops of Rome claim authority over all others? What was the base of their claims? 70 ¶ 1.
16. How were their claims received by the bishops of other large cities? When, and by whom, was the bishop of Rome legally recognized as the "Head of all the Holy Churches"? 70 ¶ 2-75 ¶ 2.
17. Why did this recognition bring no special advantage to the bishop of Rome, for the time? How and when did this exaltation became a fact? 75 ¶ 3.
18. What had been prophesied as to this little horn? How was it fulfilled? 76 ¶ 1-77 ¶ 1.
19. What object may Justinian have had in acknowledging the claims of the bishop of Rome? 78 ¶ 1.
20. Describe the relationship between civil rulers and the Pope until about the 8th Century. 78 ¶ 2.
21. What parts were taken by the French kings, Pepin and Charlemagne, in connection with the attack by the Lombards upon Rome? 79 ¶ 1-80 ¶ 1.
22. What corroborative testimony to the foregoing is found in Roman Catholic writings? 80 ¶ 2-82 ¶ 2.
23. Why was Daniel not satisfied with hearing the limit placed upon the desolating abomination? What did the angel further tell him? 82 ¶ 3.
24. Why do the 1290 and 1335 prophetic days have the same starting point as the 1260 days? 83 ¶ 1.
25. What conditions are indicated in connection with the understanding of these two periods? 83 ¶ 2.
26. Reckoning from A. D. 539, when did the 1290 and 1335 days end, respectively? 84 ¶ 1.
27. What religious movement began about 1829? Was it confined to America? 84 ¶ 2.
28. How did this movement end? What were its designed effects? What were the correspondencies between it and the First Advent? 85 ¶ 1.
29. How has its disappointment served ever since to
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test the consecrated children of God? How was it a part of the Lord's special providence? 86 ¶ 1.
30. How do our interpretations of Daniel's visions differ from Mr. Miller's? What did the movement distinctly mark, and what did it accomplish? 86 ¶ 2.
31. What was the cause of his failure to rightly interpret and apply the prophecies? 87 ¶ 1.
32. Describe his life and work. 87 ¶ 2-88 ¶ 2.
33. Explain the waiting earnestly until the 1335 days ended. Who thus waited and were blessed! 88 ¶ 3-6.
34. How is this message regarding Michael's Kingdom symbolically represented in Revelation? 89 ¶ 1.
35. What encouragement as to this disappointment and apparent delay is given by Habakkuk? 89 ¶ 2.
36. What resulting evidences of consecration, Bible study and faith were noted. 89 3-90 ¶ 1.
37. What parable did Jesus give to illustrate this period of waiting? What word in the text marks the time when the parable would apply? 90 ¶ 2-91 ¶ 1.
38. Are the numbers in the two classes of virgins significant? To whom does the term virgin apply? 91 ¶ 2.
39. How does the movement noted in this parable correspond with the one begun by Mr. Miller? 91 ¶ 3.
40. What did the lamps represent? What was signified by their general trimming! By the oil? 92 ¶ 1.
41. How is the disappointment of 1844 referred to? How did this tarrying affect all the virgins? 92 ¶ 2.
42. What differences are shown between the first and second movements? What is the antitype? What was the proclamation at the second movement in 1874? 92 ¶ 3.
43. What does the parable forewarn? Where will the foolish virgins buy their oil? Why not get it from the wise virgins? What is its cost to both classes of virgins? 93 ¶ 1.
44. In the expression, "Go thy way till the end" (Dan. 12:13), what does the "end" signify? Is it the same as the "Time of the End"? What will be the "lot" of Daniel at the end of the days? 94 ¶ 1, 2.
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STUDY IV.
THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 2300 Days.—Dan. 8:10-26.
1. Give briefly conclusions reached in our previous study on the Man of Sin, citing Scriptures. 95 ¶ 1.
2. What is the special purpose of our study of Dan. 8:10-26? Who are the sanctuary class? 95 ¶ 2.
3. What is the relation between our present study and the preceding one, "Days of Waiting"? 95 ¶ 3.
4. Interpret Dan. 8:10-26. 96 ¶ 1-97 ¶ 1.
5. How is Rome, civil and papal, represented in Daniel's visions of Chaps. 2, 7, 8? 97 ¶ 2.
6. How is the continual sacrifice (Dan. 8:11) generally applied? How is it properly applied? 98 ¶ 1.
7. Was Christ's continual sacrifice abolished by Papacy? What false doctrine completely set aside the merit of Christ's continual and effectual sacrifice? 98 ¶ 2.
8. What is the Mass, as generally understood by Protestants? What is its true significance? 98 ¶ 3.
9. Explain the doctrine of Transubstantiation, in connection with the celebration of the Mass. 99 ¶ 1.
10. What special care is taken if a single drop of wine be spilled, or crumb of bread lost? 99 ¶ 2.
11. Quote the answers given in the Roman Catholic (American) Catechism to the following questions: A. What is the holy eucharist? B. Is it not bread and wine which is first put upon the altar for the celebration of the Mass? C. What happens by these words? D. What is this change called? E. What is the Mass? F. What is the difference between the sacrifice of the Mass and the sacrifice of the Cross? G. What effects has the Mass as a sacrifice of propitiation? H. To whom are the fruits (benefits) of the Mass applied? 100 1-101 ¶ 6.
12. What four essentials are recognized in the celebration of the Mass? 101 ¶ 7.
13. Explain the priest's part in it. 101 ¶ 8.
14. What is said on the Mass as a sacrificial ceremony in the Canons of the Council of Trent? 101 ¶ 9, 10.
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15. What is the real reason why Papacy denies the continual sacrifice and substitutes a false one? 102 ¶ 1.
16. What was the corner-stone of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland? What has been the burning article in the Church of Rome? 102 ¶ 2.
17. When do Romanists claim the Mass was instituted? What is the earliest recorded reference to the Mass? Is the exact date of its introduction important? 103 ¶ 1.
18. What is the significance of the statement, "the base of his Sanctuary was overthrown"? 103 ¶ 2.
19. What doctrine is the "base of the Sanctuary"? And what results followed the displacing of the continual sacrifice? 103 ¶ 3-104 ¶ 1.
20. Since the abomination was set up, what has been the attitude of saints toward the Antichrist? What assurance did God give as to the limitation of the Abomination's triumph? 104 ¶ 2.
21. Were the 2300 days literal days? Why not? 105 1.
22. In his explanation of the vision, what method was employed by the angel Gabriel? 105 ¶ 2.
23. How did this explanation affect Daniel? Why was it well for him, and all God's children since, that the vision was not fully revealed at that time? 105 ¶ 3.
24. What misunderstanding of the vision troubled Daniel? How did God further explain regarding Daniel's people? Dan. 9:2-19, 21-27. 106 1-107 ¶ 1.
25. What is to be specially noted here as to the 490 days, and the 2300 days? What purpose would the fulfillment of this prophecy serve? 107 ¶ 2.
26. Noting this, how shall we find where the 2300 days were fulfilled? 107 ¶ 3-108 ¶ 1.
27. How has the work of historians been manifestly overruled by God as to fulfilled prophecies? 108 ¶ 2.
28. Accordingly, what does history record on the cleansing of the sanctuary? How had it become defiled? What was the key-note of the Reformation? 108 ¶ 3.
29. Why was justification by faith the right doctrine with which to begin the cleansing? Was the cleansing to be of the host or the sanctuary? 109 ¶ 1.
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30. Who was the leading spirit of the Reformation? How many theses were nailed by him on the church door at Wittenberg? When? How were they received by the Pope? What response was made by Luther? 109 ¶ 2.
31. Why was this cleansing not popular? How were Luther and his associates partly overpowered. 109 ¶ 3.
32. Was the Reformation purely religious? What does history record on this in Switzerland, Geneva, Scandinavia, Denmark, Sweden and Germany respectively? What is signified by the "Religious Peace"? Where and when was it concluded? 110 ¶ 1-111 ¶ 2.
33. Considering the political conditions which prevailed during this period, what facts excite our admiration? When did progress and reform come to a standstill? 111 ¶ 3.
34. What was the snare by which Satan blocked the work of further cleansing? How was the deadly wound of Papacy "healed"? Rev. 13:3. 111 ¶ 4.
35. Although for a time interrupted, what subsequent progress has been made along the line of the prophecy concerning the "2300 days"? 112 ¶ 1.
36. While the "cleansing" has progressed, what tendency has marked every step of reformation? 112 ¶ 2.
37. Cite instances of this tendency in the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church. 112 ¶ 3.
38. What cleansing was done by the Wesley's, and how did they also obstruct further progress? What have Universalists and Unitarians done and failed to do? 113 ¶ 1.
39. What error was cast out by Baptists? What is their attitude now on further cleansing? 114 ¶ 1.
40. When, and by whom, was the "Disciples" sect organized? What special reforms were advocated by them? What is their position now on further reform? 114 ¶ 2.
41. What has been the great obstacle toward the increasing and progressive work of cleansing? 115 ¶ 1.
42. What was probably the most thorough reform work of all? What great discovery rewarded William Miller's diligent searching of the Scriptures? 115 ¶ 2.
43. What was Mr. Miller's teaching as to Christendom's claim to be ruling over the world? 115 ¶ 3.
44. To the removal of what popular error did his
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preaching lead? What terrible doctrines had grown out of this fundamental error? 116 ¶ 1.
45. When this root error began to be torn up, what associated errors were likewise cast aside? 117 ¶ 1, 2.
46. What truths respecting Adamic death and the death of the Redeemer began next to be recognized? To what foundation doctrine did this lead? 117 ¶ 3-118 ¶ 1.
47. Was the Sanctuary class, as a whole, cleansed at this time? 118 ¶ 2.
48. What was Mr. Miller's erroneous view on the "cleansing of the sanctuary"? While greatly disappointed in their expectations, what valuable experiences were gained by the Lord's people during this period? 118 ¶ 3.
49. What condition of affairs obtained in the Sanctuary class by 1846, the end of the 2300 days? 119 ¶ 1.
50. What great, organization founded in 1846 has served to mark the Sanctuary class as a cleansed and separated company? Has this Sanctuary class been added to since 1846? What course has been followed by many who originally were of the cleansed Sanctuary? 119 ¶ 2.
51. What has been the portion of those of the Sanctuary class who have kept free from the yoke of bondage, and followed on to know the Lord? 120 ¶ 1.
52. If the defiling abominations were entirely removed in 1846, what blessed work of restoration in the Lord's house should be expected to follow? 120 ¶ 2, 3.
STUDY V.
THE TIME OF HARVEST.
1. Why is "The Time of the End" so named? What name is given to its last 40 years? 121 ¶ 1.
2. Why is this Harvest the most momentous period of the Gospel Age? What is its object? 121 ¶ 2.
3. What will be the contrasting positions of the Church and the world during this period? 122 ¶ 1.
4. What preparatory work has been going on among the Lord's people since 1799? 122 ¶ 2.
5. How did God guide his saints until 1846? 123 ¶ 1.
6. How did the 1844 disappointment affect the faithful
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few? What has been the Harvest message of the watchers since the "1335 days touched"? Who only will be able to receive this message? 123 ¶ 2.
7. How has the Lord prepared both the hearts and heads of His people during this period? 124 ¶ 1.
8. While time prophecies each had a distinct purpose, what has been unitedly their central object? 124 ¶ 2.
9. What events had to tarry until the second advent of Jesus, as foretold? 124 ¶ 3.
10. What purpose was served by the Jubilee Cycles as to the date of our Lord's return? How did the Law and the Prophets corroborate them? 125 ¶ 1.
11. How is the Lord's second advent related to the time of his first advent? In what three characters is our Lord's presence shown in the Parallels? How far into the Harvest does the parallelism continue? 125 ¶ 2.
12. How was the Lord's second advent indicated by Daniel? What was the key to the 1335 days? 126 ¶ 1.
13. Explain the apparent in harmony between Oct. 1872, as beginning the seventh thousand years, and Oct. 1874, as the date of Jesus' return. 127 ¶ 1, 2-128 ¶ 1.
14. How shall we harmonize the apparent discrepancy between the Lord's being present in Oct. 1874, and the Gentile Times not closing until 1914? 128 ¶ 2.
15. While the time-prophecies point to 1874 as the date of the second advent, what further evidences corroborate the mathematical proofs? 129 ¶ 1.
16. How does 1874 agree with Daniel's prophecy on Michael and the Time of the End? 129 ¶ 2.
17. How may the focus of time-prophecy upon the harvest and the second advent be effectually impressed upon the mind? (Note pp. 131, 132.) 130 ¶ 1.
18. How much greater is the testimony of our Lord's second presence new than were the proofs granted to His disciples during His first advent? 130 ¶ 2.
19. What have been the Gospel-age experiences of the faithful, waiting, consecrated people of God? What is the blessed position of the saints now? 133 ¶ 1, 2.
20. As shown in Matt. 25:14-30, what is Jesus' first
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second-advent work? What is the significance of the expression, "Enter into the joys of your Lord"? How is this being fulfilled now? 133 ¶ 3-134.
STUDY VI. THE WORK OF HARVEST.
1. What does harvest imply? State the nature of Jesus' special teaching in the typical harvest. 135 ¶ 1.
2. What were our Lord's words to his disciples as he sent them forth in the typical harvest? 135 ¶ 2.
3. In the Jewish harvest, did the Lord do a special missionary or conversion work? Observing the type, what work should we expect in the Gospel harvest? 136 ¶ 1.
4. In this present harvest, what classes are to be separated? Describe the characteristics of wheat and tares, respectively. What is the estimated number of so-called Christians, Catholics and Protestants? 136 ¶ 2.
5. What did Jesus instruct as to, separating wheat and tares during the Gospel age? Have the sects obeyed this? What has been the result? Why is it important that we know the Lord's method, as well as the time for proper separation? 137 ¶ 1.
6. What is the sickle used in both harvests? What is the command to the reapers in this harvest? 139 1.
7. Out of what and into what are the saints gathered? What associated work is also due? In what sense is it the wheat that is gathered out? The tares? 139 ¶ 2.
8. Why was the wheat, in the parable, not to be bundled, while the tares were to be thus treated? 140 1.
9. What is the field? How did doctrinal strife in the Reformation affect the wheat? 140 ¶ 2.
10. How does the sickle affect the wheat and tares, respectively? What is the spirit of the tares? 140 ¶ 3.
11. What fact does each of the tare class seem to recognize? What kind of judgment would this class prefer? What fact is each sect compelled to acknowledge? What do they seek to accomplish? 141 ¶ 1.
12. Cite a popular cord tied by sectarianism. What advancement in methods and liberty do the International
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S. S. Lessons appear to offer? How are these lessons treated by each denomination? 141 ¶ 2.
13. What is the effect of these union methods? Is the union real or only apparent? 142 ¶ 1.
14. How does the International Lesson system hinder the earnest student in his search for Truth? 143 ¶ 1.
15. What evil effects have Sunday School methods on parents, children, and others in general? 144 ¶ 1.
16. What is the usual experience of an independent Bible class leader? Where is the true teacher's place, and the true Bible student's proper place? 144 ¶ 2.
17. What is sectarianism's program, and the principal design of its meetings, etc.? 145 1.
18. Will the burning of the tares be a momentous affair? Is the fire of the parable literal? 145 2.
19. Does the burning of the tares imply a destruction of all the individuals of the tare class? 146 ¶ 1.
20. What is the significance of the good seed? When and by whom were the tares sown? How? 146 2.
21. How does the field appear to many, and what is its real condition? 146 ¶ 3.
22. Why are many of the tares not to be blamed for their false position as imitation wheat? 147 ¶ 1 to 3.
23. Describe the burning of the tares? 148 ¶ 1.
24. What does the parable further declare respecting the ultimate experiences of the wheat class? What popular error does this statement contradict? 149 ¶ 1.
25. What were the facts in the Jewish harvest with reference to the wheat and the chaff? 149 ¶ 2.
26. How has the Lord rendered us doubly sure that we are now living in the harvest? 149 3.
27. How were the time features of the Jewish harvest related to the faithful few and the nominal mass, respectively? To whom did Jesus come in A. D. 29, as Bridegroom and Reaper, and with what result? When, in A. D. 33, he presented himself as King, what important date in the antitypical harvest was thus marked? 150 ¶ 1.
28. Explain how our Lord's doings, while typically acting as King of Israel, find their parallel in the present antitypical harvest. 150 ¶ 2-151 ¶ 1.
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29. Did the rejection of fleshly Israel signify the rejection of Israelites indeed? What is the parallel in this harvest? 151 ¶ 2.
30. During his ministry, before he cast off the Jewish system, how did Jesus regard the scribes and Pharisees? What is the parallel in the Gospel harvest? 152 ¶ 1.
31. When was the message, Babylon is fallen, etc., due? Of what was it the antitype? 152 ¶ 2.
32. How were the plagues, falling and destruction of mystic Babylon in part typed? Give dates. 153.¶ 1.
33. Why was Judaism properly a union of church and state, while Christendom is not? 153 ¶ 2.
34. What were the original and later meanings of the word Babylon? When was it applicable to the Church of Rome, and why now to all Christendom? 153 ¶ 3.
35. Were the errors of Great Babylon discovered by any of the Lord's people before the harvest period? 154 1.
36. What were the experiences of the wheat while associated with Antichrist? What has been the condition of Babylon since 1878, as to the Truth? 154 ¶ 2.
37. What command to the Lord's people is coupled with the statement, Babylon is fallen? What two thoughts are thereby impressed? 155 ¶ 1.
38. Show the distinction between all previous reform movements and this final complete separation from Babylon, quoting Scriptures in proof. 156 ¶ 1.
39. Why do some fail to comprehend this utter rejection of Babylon? Jer. 8:7-13. 156 ¶ 2-157 ¶ 1.
40. Explain Jer. 8:14, 15. 158 ¶ 1.
41. What reply should be made to those who ask, Why does not the Lord institute a great and successful reform movement among the sects? 158 ¶ 2-159 2.
42. How was the Lord's reason for discarding all human organizations shown in His dealings with the various sects of the Jewish nation? 159 ¶ 3.
43. Explain the two parables used by our Lord to illustrate the wisdom of His course. 160 ¶ 1, 2.
44. How do they now apply? 160 3.
45. Show how our Lord followed the suggestions of the parables at the first advent; and is now. 161 ¶ 1.
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46. What was the experience of those at the first advent who followed prominent religious leaders? 161 ¶ 2.
47. At what time are God's people of the present time, still in Babylon, considered as being of her? 161 ¶ 3.
48. Apply the expression, "a cage of every unclean and hateful bird," etc. 162 ¶ 1, 2.
49. What proportion of criminals in and out of Babylon was reported in 1873? 162 ¶ 3-163.
50. Explain and apply the Scriptural statement as to the cause of this mixed condition in Babylon. 164 ¶ 1.
51. What causes the separation of the wheat from the tares? Why are all the tares and some of the wheat fearful? What course should the wheat follow? 164 ¶ 2.
52. What are the plagues of Babylon? Why are many Bible students unprepared for the realities? 165 ¶ 1.
53. What period intervenes between the casting off and the destruction of Babylon? What is its purpose, as Scripturally stated? Rev. 18:2; 7:3; Dan. 12:10. 165 ¶ 2.
54. What is used as a sealing and separating agent? Before what? 166 ¶ 1.
55. Is this work of sealing and separating now in progress? If so, what does it prove? 166 ¶ 2.
56. Why is the command, Come, not, Go? 167 ¶ 1.
57. What does God's Word indicate as to the nominal church after its fall from favor? 167 ¶ 2.
58. What kind of trial was our Lord's ministry to the Jewish nation? How was this indicated? 167 ¶ 3.
59. What course did Jesus pursue? 168 ¶ 1.
60. Cite an incident which proved that the priests were the responsible representatives of the people. 168 ¶ 2.
61. Why should we note particularly the object and results of the trial of the Jewish Church System? What did Israel profess? Why did God, through prophecy, reveal His foreknowledge of Israel's failure? 169 ¶ 1.
62. Why did Justice demand that Israel should be tested before God's further plan should go into effect. What was that further plan? 169 ¶ 2.
63. What bearing did the "seventy weeks" of Divine favor have upon Israel's trial? 169 ¶ 3.
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64. When did the last week begin and end? Was this entire week devoted to testing the nation as a whole? How and why was the test cut short? Why did Jesus after His resurrection, in telling His disciples to preach to all nations, add "beginning at Jerusalem"? 170 ¶ 1.
65. Show in detail how the seventieth week in the type finds its parallel in the Gospel harvest? 171 ¶ 1.
66. How do the clergy and the common people now regard the thought of Jesus' second advent? 172 ¶ 1.
67. How are the clergy deceiving themselves? What is the foundation of their delusive hopes? What are the facts as to the progress of Great Britain? 172 ¶ 2, 3.
68. What energized Christendom in opening the ports of heathen nations to their commerce? 173 ¶ 1-174 ¶ 2.
69. Have present governments, therefore, any rightful claim to be called, "Christian Nations"? 174 ¶ 3.
70. 70: What scathing criticism was made by Canon Farrar? What comment has been made upon it? 175 ¶ 1, 2.
71. How was opium forced on China and Japan? 175 ¶ 3.
72. What else has Christendom taught? 176 ¶ 1.
73. What report was made by a prominent missionary on the present effect of Christianity in India? Why are his hopes for the future unwarranted? Were all heathen nations to become converted to the condition of so-called Christian nations, what would result? 176 ¶ 2-178 ¶ 2.
74. What is the estimated number of professed Christians? Should we expect that Babylon would be prepared for the real Kingdom of God, or desire it? 179 ¶ 1.
75. Why do the chief ones of Christendom fail to recognize the new King now present? What will be their portion during this harvest? 179 ¶ 2-180 ¶ 1.
76. Was it the Sanctuary or the host in 1878 that was rejected? How long has the Sanctuary class existed, and what have been its experiences? Who was the last chief priest used of God to deliver a message to fleshly Israel only a few days before it was cast off? 180 ¶ 2.
77. Why is it in vain that some try to defend their particular sect as an exception to the general character of Babylon? Why is Babylon so named? Of what sin is every sect of the nominal church guilty? 181 ¶ 1, 2.
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78. Why do some of God's children in these sects fail to recognize their bondage? What steps should be taken by such in order to test their true position? 182 ¶ 1.
79. What should all having the truth do? 183 ¶ 1, 2.
80. What may all the faithful expect as a result? What should be their course? 183 ¶ 3.
81. Describe the varying degrees of bondage among the different sects. Why wear any human shackles at all? What is the ideal condition to be sought for? 184 ¶ 1.
82. What does belonging to a sect mean? 184 ¶ 2.
83. How are these shackles generally esteemed by members of the different sects? 185 ¶ 1.
84. What is often experienced by the truth-hungry as to the teachings of the different sects? 185 ¶ 2.
85. Why is the feeling of uneasiness, if not bound by the chains of some sect, so general? 186 ¶ 1.
86. What will Protestant sectarians admit as to the true Church? How is the thought that one must belong to some sect contrary to the teachings of Jesus? 186 ¶ 2.
87. Explain how some have been in Babylon and yet have not recognized either the advantage of full liberty or the hindrances of sectarian bondage. 187 ¶ 1.
88. How is the illustration of the ax laid to the root, as used at the first advent, applicable now? 187 ¶ 2.
THE TESTING AND SIFTING OF THE SANCTUARY CLASS.
89. What generally preceded the coming out of Babylon? What experiences result? 188 ¶1, 2.
90. By whom was the Sanctuary class represented at the first advent? What testing came upon it immediately after the casting off of nominal Israel? 188 ¶ 3.
91. What is the parallel since 1878? 189 ¶ 1.
92. Explain the significance of Jesus' typical act of cleansing the temple, and show the antitype? 189 ¶ 2.
93. What did the scourge typify? 189 ¶ 3.
94. What two parables go beyond the general separation and show the subsequent testing of the Sanctuary class? Matt. 25:1-16; 22:1-14. 190 ¶ 1.
95. In the parable of the "Ten Virgins," what was the
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difference in these virgins, that led to their separation into two classes? 190 ¶ 2; Z. '10-244, 245.
96. Almost immediately after the knock of prophecy, announcing the presence of the Lord, was heard, what cry was raised? When will it cease? 190 ¶ 3.
97. Show how the marriage custom of the Jews beautifully illustrated the Church's betrothal and marriage with Christ her Lord. 191 ¶ 1; Z '09-360.
98. Why is the Bride not mentioned in the parable? Where else are the foolish virgins indicated? 191 ¶ 2.
99. How did the wise virgins fitly illustrate the only proper attitude for the Lord's betrothed? 192 ¶ 1.
100. What two things are evident from this parable, as to the Bridegroom's presence? 192 ¶ 2.
101. Who alone know of the Lord's presence, and how long will it remain a secret? 192 ¶ 3.
102. Explain Psa. 45:10-17. 192 ¶ 4.
103. What does it mean to be of the truly "wise virgins"? 193 ¶ 1-194 1¶ 1.
104. How did other virgins become foolish? 194 ¶ 2.
105. When will they realize their mistake? 194 ¶ 3.
106. How long will the proclamation of the Bridegroom's presence, the going forth to meet Him and the entering in with Him to the marriage continue? What is meant by the shut door? Why will the Master not open the door again? 195 1.
107. What is the door? What class does it affect? Does the shut door mean the end of God's mercy? 195 ¶ 2.
108. How was the going in with the Lord to the marriage illustrated in the Jewish marriage custom? How is this feature now being fulfilled? When did the feasting by faith begin? 196 ¶ 1-197 ¶ 1.
THE WEDDING GARMENT TEST.
109. What is taught by the Wedding Garment parable? By what figures are the consecrated represented? In considering these what must we remember? 197 ¶ 2.
110. What does this parable teach, that could not be illustrated under the figure of the bride? 198 ¶ 1.
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111. What did the wedding garment signify in the Jewish marriage custom? 198 ¶ 2.
112. As a symbol, what does the wedding garment illustrate? How is the prospective Bride now engaged while in the ante-chamber? 198 ¶ 3-199 ¶ 1.
113. What does this parable teach as to a final test of the wise virgins? What does taking off the wedding garment mean? 199 2-200 ¶ 1; Z '09-360; Z '10-12.
114. Realizing the danger of falling, what should the truly consecrated do? What two facts are overlooked by those who do not hold the Head? 200 ¶ 1.
115. Who are represented in the parable as being "bound," and what is their final experience? 201 ¶ 1.
116. Is this feature of prophecy being fulfilled during this Harvest period? 201 ¶ 2.
117. When did putting off the wedding garment first appear among Truth people? What is subsequently done by those who discard the robe? 202 ¶ 1.
118. What does the Bridegroom ask those who discarded the robe? What is their reply? 202 ¶ 2.
119. What does the outer darkness mean? How does the binding affect the loyal ones? Who are the servants that do the binding? 203 ¶ 1.
120. Why is the responsibility and penalty of those bound and cast into outer darkness greater than that of professing Christians generally? 203 ¶ 2-204 ¶ 1.
121. Is the door shut before the inspection begins? If not, what are the conditions, especially since 1878? 204 ¶ 2.
THE END OF THE HIGH CALLING NOT THE CLOSING OF THE DOOR.
122. Do the Scriptures give the exact date at which the door to the feast will be closed? 205 ¶ 1.
123. What is signified by an open and shut door? What does the door in the parable represent? 206 ¶ 1.
124. How else did our Lord refer to this door? What two graces are essential to all who would walk the narrow way successfully? 206 ¶ 2.
125. What is our only door to glory? 207 ¶ 1.
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126. In what three ways might the date for the closing of the door be indicated? 207 ¶ 2.
127. In which of these three ways is there clear intimation that the door will be closed? 208 ¶ 1.
128. What does it mean to co-operate with the Lord in the present time? What, therefore, must the closing of all such opportunity signify? 208 ¶ 2.
129. What does suffering with Christ mean? 209 ¶ 1.
130. What will be required of all accounted worthy of everlasting life? What more must be required of the "Bride, the Lamb's Wife"? 209 ¶ 2.
131. How is this character developed and demonstrated? How should every trial be met? 210 ¶ 1.
132. Previous to what time must the Bride class have been tested and approved? 210 ¶ 2.
133. In what manner, gradually or abruptly, should we expect the closing in of the night? 211 ¶ 1.
134. How is the present referred to in Rev. 7:2, 3? How should all the wise virgins be occupied? 211 ¶ 2.
135. What takes place after the Harvest? 211 ¶ 3.
136. What will the night's coming prove? 211 ¶ 4.
137. Do the faithful go at once to their reward when approved? What does "having done all, to stand" mean? 212 ¶ 1.
138. Does the end of the high calling signify the closing of the door? When did the general call end? What is the Call? 212 ¶ 2.
139. What does the closing of the "door" in the parable of Matt. 25 signify? 213 ¶ 1.
140. What two features has the Gospel-Age call had? What change is implied by a harvest? 213 ¶ 2.
141. What parable illustrates it? 213 ¶ 3.
142. Explain this parable in detail. 214 ¶ 1.
143. Show the correspondence between this parable and the parable of the Wheat and Tares. 214 ¶ 2.
144. Was the net to catch all the fish of the sea? What was ended when the net was ordered ashore? What is the agency for the calling and the separating work? 215 ¶ 1.
145. How should those who are thus instructed of the Master alter their previous methods of service? 215 ¶ 2.
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146. What message attracts the wheat? 216 ¶ 1.
147. When will sowers and reapers rejoice together? Explain Amos 9:13. 216 ¶ 2.
ISRAEL'S SEVENTIETH WEEK A FIGURE OF THE CLOSE OF GOSPEL FAVOR.
148. Why was Israel's seventieth week so exactly marked? What did A. D. 29 mark, and what is the parallel? What did A. D. 33 witness, and what is the parallel? To whom was the last half of the typical week of favor devoted, and what is the parallel? 216 ¶ 3-217 ¶ 2; Z '97, 105 ¶ 2, 3, lower article.
149. Of what did the Jewish and the Gospel favor, respectively, consist? When did each end? 217 ¶ 3.
150. What call followed the Jewish favor? Why was the change not so noticeable to the Jews? 218 1.
151. What is lapping on the general call since 1881? Why is this change little noticed? 218 ¶ 2.
152. Who only could explain the High Calling? Why cannot it be extended now? 219 ¶ 1.
153. While the general call has ceased, has the door been shut? For what purpose does the door stand open after the "call" has ended? 219 ¶ 2.
154. How did the ending of the call in 1881 affect those who had already become God's servants? 220 ¶ 1.
155. Does one's recently coming to a clear knowledge of God's promises to His faithful servants prove that he was called and accepted previously? 220 ¶ 2.
156. What proof is there that the testing of the called ones is not yet finished? 220 ¶ 3.
157. When the door of opportunity has been shut, how will this affect the foolish virgins? 221 ¶ 1.
158. While the door still stands open, what should be the course of the consecrated? 221 ¶ 2.
159. What of those now consecrated, who were not when the call ceased? 221 ¶ 3-222 ¶ 1.
160. How may the evidences of having been begotten of the Spirit serve to encourage these? 222 ¶ 2.
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THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Matt. 20:1-16.
161. To what period of time does this parable apply? Who are the laborers? 223 ¶ 1; Z '10-264 ¶ 3.
162. What did the calls represent? When only was it clear what the wages would be? Who are the eleventh hour laborers? Did the Master promise any definite reward to these? 223 ¶ 2-224 ¶ 1.
163. What similarity is there in the Gospel Age? What is the message to the eleventh hour class? 224 ¶ 2.
164. What is their only hope? 224 ¶ 3.
165. How should we exhort those who but recently came to know and love the Lord? 225 ¶ 1.
166. What is the lesson for all who have covenanted to serve the Lord, but neglect His work? 225 ¶ 2.