NOTE I—FOR PAGES 40, 119
As indicated in the footnote of T 119, our Pastor gave up the thought that the two sons of Aaron who were put to death for offering strange fire (Lev. 10:1-11) represent two classes—Nadab (wilful) the Second Death class and Abihu (he is my father) the Great Company, and came to see that both of them represent Second-Deathers. He formerly thought that he found the idea of two different classes being typed by these in the meanings of their names. But as the text does not intimate any difference in their deaths, and, as we now see, Nadab types new creatures who taught false doctrines in the Parousia, and Abihu types new creatures who teach false doctrines now, in the Epiphany, their typical acts, guilt and punishment being the same, they evidently type members of the same class—the Second Death class. The fulfillments, enable us to see several differences in them: (1) they officiate at different times, antitypical Nadab in the Parousia and antitypical Abihu in the Epiphany; and (2) they lead partially different kinds of siftings, antitypical Nadab led especially the five Second Death siftings of the Parousia, while antitypical Abihu leads Great Company siftings in the Epiphany. The fact that the latter has been leading Great Company siftings is the thing alluded to by the meaning of his name, not that he is a type of the Great Company. The fact that they in the order of their mention represent false-teaching Second-Deathers in the Parousia and Epiphany is analogous to the types of Jannes and Jambres (Ex. 7:11, 12; 2 Tim.
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3:1-9) and of Moses and Aaron smiting the rock twice (Num. 20:7-13; Heb. 6:6; 10:29): Jannes and Moses typing different kinds of false-teaching Second-Deathers of the Parousia, and Jambres and Aaron typing different kinds of false-teaching Second-Deathers of the Epiphany.
NOTE II—FOR PAGE 50
As our Pastor shows in the book, What Pastor Russell Said, p. 26, question 4, he came to see that the antitypical Day of Atonement is the entire period from Oct., 29 A.D. until Oct., 2874, and hence includes the Gospel and Millennial ages. This he shows lies in the meaning of the word atonement, reconciliation, when compared with the facts of the antitype. The word reconciliation implies that both parties at variance with each other become pleased with each other. Through the sacrifices of the Gospel age God will become pleased with the world, when Jesus' merit in these sacrifices is offered to Him for the world in the beginning of the Millennium; and by the world's coming into harmony with God's will through Christ's Millennial ministry it will become pleased with God, which will complete the reconciliation, the at-one-ment. The part of the Atonement Day's service that was covered by Aaron's ministering in his linen garments of sacrifice types the part of the antitypical Atonement Day's service belonging to the Gospel age; and that part of the Atonement Day's service that was covered by Aaron's ministering in the garments of glory and beauty types that part of the antitypical Atonement Day's services belonging to the Millennial age.
NOTE III—FOR PAGE 69
That our Pastor was uncertain, on the matter of sprinkling the blood of the Lord's antitypical Goat before the dealing with Azazel's antitypical Goat would begin, and suggested that certainty could be reached only when the fulfilled facts were before the brethren, appears from the following quotations from the book, What Pastor Russell Said, under the last questions on pp. 289 and 689. We give the former reference first. It begins with the 12th line of page 290: "Then in Leviticus it shows us the place where the Scapegoat is dealt with, after the Lord's goat has been
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dealt with, but that is not proof positive [italics ours] that it will be entirely after [italics ours] the Lord's Goat has been slain, and after its blood has been offered, because these types could not all take place at the same time, and there would naturally be an order for it, this first and that second, and so on; but the fact that the bullock is dealt with first, and that the Lord's goat is dealt with second, and then the Scapegoat is dealt with third, seems to imply that the tribulation of this class will come more especially at the end of the Gospel age, after all of the elect shall have gone in [to the spirit-begotten condition at least]; notwithstanding, we think there is room in the Scriptures to suppose that there have been some of this Great Tribulation class all through the age, while the great mass of them probably belong in this end, because of the peculiar circumstances now prevailing." So far the first reference. The second begins in the 7th line of page 690, reading as follows: "It would seem to be after the satisfaction of Justice in respect to all of these [the Church], the full offering of the Lord's merit, and the full acceptance of the whole matter, that then the dealing would take place with the live goat. The teaching of the type would seem to be that the tribulation that will come upon the Great Company will not come upon them in this official manner until after this dealing with [the imputation of the merit for and to] the Little Flock is finished. While the Great Company may be sharing in the tribulation of the past, yet this special dealing at the end of this age would seem to be after the Church had gone beyond the vail. Yet we must say this, dear friends—that every feature of this type and prophecy belong to the future and is more or less uncertain until it is fulfilled. [Italics ours.] In other words, God did not give prophecy and type in advance for us to speculate upon, but so that when due we might know it. Just as our Lord said of Himself at the First Advent, that when they would see certain things fulfilled then they would know they were the fulfilment of the things written. So as we come down to the beginning of the Time of Trouble [italics ours], those who would then be living and witness the dealings of the Lord with the Great Company class would see in it something which would be helpful
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to them—perhaps more than you and I see now." [Italics ours.] So far the quotation.
What do the fulfilled facts prove? That Azazel's Goat is dealt with before the last member of the Priest's Body leaves the world, and thus before the blood of the Lord's Goat is antitypically sprinkled. We believe that our Pastor's uncertainty on the subject was due to the fact that the priest was in sacrificial robes while dealing with Azazel's goat. We do not recall a clear expression from him on this point. But certainly our thought on it is implied in his teachings in re three things: (1) in his thought that the sacrificial robes represent the Church's condition during her sacrificing time (Z '10, 136); (2) in his thought that the blood of the antitypical Bullock is continued on the antitypical Mercy Seat for atonement purposes until the last of the Great Company leaves the earth (Z '10, 201, col. 2, pars. 1-3; Z '15, 103, par. 5); and (3) in his reason for proving that the Great Company will precede the Ancient Worthies in the resurrection, because the former are granted the covering of the antitypical Bullock's blood until death, while the latter are later, as the first ones so favored, granted the benefit of the antitypical Goat's blood, each use of the merit guaranteeing the resurrection of the pertinent class. (Z '16, 312, col. 2, pars. 1, 2; "What Pastor Russell Said," p. 15, ques. 3; p. 16, ques. 1.) Hence the blood of the antitypical Lord's Goat is not applied until after the Great Company leaves the earth and the Little Flock is yet in the flesh during the dealing with Azazel's Goat.
Doubtless, as in the case of the time parenthesis in re antitypical Elijah's and Elisha's separation and the former's ascent to heaven, the Lord did not allow our Pastor to see clearly on this matter, because such clearness would have hindered the sole trial that He wished His people to undergo in connection with the separation (P, Nos. 6 and 165); so for the same reason the Lord did not allow him to see clearly the time-relation between the Little Flock's going beyond the vail and the dealing with Azazel's Goat and the sprinkling of the blood of the antitypical Goat and the dealing with Azazel's Goat. Nevertheless the extracts from and references to his writings just given demonstrate
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that his doctrinal, typical and prophetical views in re these matters logically force us to the conclusion that the Little Flock must be in the flesh during the World's High Priest's dealing with Azazel's Goat. This is another instance proving that prophecies and types connected with a trial of character cannot clearly be understood until the trial is met by the Faithful.
NOTE IV—FOR PAGE 110
It is true that St. Paul was the principal man in the star of the Ephesian Church, and thus was preeminently for the Jewish Harvest typed by Eleazar. But since the other Apostles were parts of that star (Z '16, 345, 5; 346, 5), since they also shared in the power to bind and loose (Matt. 18:18), and thus were typed by Eleazar in his office described in Num. 4:16, and since they also shared in the antitypical sprinkling of the red heifer's blood toward the antitypical Tabernacle (Jas. 2:21-25; 5:10, 11, 17; 1 Pet. 1:10-12; 3:5, 6; 2 Pet. 1:21; 2:5, 7; 1 John 3:12; Jude 9, 14, 15), we are to understand that they also are included in the type of Eleazar dealing with the red heifer. We have also seen that Eleazar (Num. 3:32; 4:16; 16:37-40) also represents for the Gospel Harvest that Servant. It will also be remembered that it is he who brought to our attention the fact that there has been since 1881 a class of non-spirit-begotten consecrated ones, whom we call Youthful Worthies. (F 156, 157; Z '11, 181, pars. 5-10; Z '15, 269, pars. 11, 12; Question Book 151, 152.) As we have also found that Eleazar has a double typical application: one to the Twelve in the Jewish Harvest, and the other to that Servant in the Gospel Harvest, we understand that in the second application of Eleazar's activities toward the red heifer he represents that Servant's activities toward the Youthful Worthies, whom he always associated with the Ancient Worthies in the spirit of their present services and sufferings and in their future services and rewards. Thus the details of the type of the red heifer in so far as Eleazar had to do with it apply also to that Servant, as the details of the red heifer itself type also the details of the Youthful Worthies.