from Bro Johnson

regarding the Progressive Tabernacle and THE ADJUSTMENT OF MATTERS RE THE HOLY

As Bro. Russell showed (see, e.g., Z 4745; comp. E Vol. 4, pp. 126-128), in the adjustment of matters in the closing of the Age as it pertains to the Holy, the Great Company (those Spirit-begotten ones who would not prove to be "more than conquerors," i.e., who would lose their crowns) were to be put out of the Holy back into the Court. Thereafter they would no longer be typed by the priests in the Holy, nor would their death be typed in the high priest passing beyond the Second Veil into the Most Holy; rather, they would be typed by Levites in the Court. After Bro. Russell's death, Bro. Johnson set forth many proofs showing that the time for the adjustment of matters pertaining to the Holy had set in in the Fall of 1914, when the Epiphany, or Apocalypse, period of our Lord's Second Advent began and the Parousia (reaping) period ended, and that by that time "the whole Church had been set up tentatively and individually" (1 Vol. 8, pp. 174, 175; E Vol. 11, pp. 472, 473). Among these proofs were many lines of Scriptural evidence showing that the Gospel Harvest Reaping (as distinct from the gleaning, which continued about 1½ years longer) ended by Oct. 1914 (see C, Appendix, pp. 387-404; E Vol. 5, Chap. 111; E Vol. 7, pp. 307-309; comp. Bible Standard Extra No. 51), and that the door of entrance into the High Calling closed at that time. Also, he showed that, beginning shortly after Bro. Russell's death (P '34, 1). 179, par. 1, lines 1-14), the Great Company began to be manifested as no longer in the Holy, but back in the Court (E Vol. 4, pp. 211-213; E Vol. 8, pp. 169, 170).

Let us note carefully, however, that when the Great Company members, who had had their justification vitalized and Had been Spirit-begotten for the purpose of becoming of the Royal Priesthood, were put out of the Holy, they did not thereby lose their Spirit-begettal, nor forfeit their consecration, or their vitalized justification; but they could no longer thereby secure for themselves a standing in the Holy. Though back in the Court, they retained these, BUT WITH A CHANGED PURPOSE, i.e., for becoming Epiphany Levites. They had lost forever their opportunity of becoming of the Royal Priesthood. Thus while throughout the Gospel Age, including the Harvest Reaping time, the Holy typed the condition of all embryo New Creatures, regardless of whether they were crown-retainers or crown-losers, when we came to the Epiphany, or Apocalypse, period, there was a decided adjustment of matters, a decided change, as the Tabernacle antitype progressed to the building of the Epiphany Court as distinct from the Holy, which change we must recognize if we would walk in the light on the subject as it has advanced; for, in the Epiphany picture, the Holy, as a finished work, represents the Spirit-begotten condition, not of all embryo New Creatures, but of the crown-retainers only (comp. E Vol. 10, p. 209).