Tabernacle Adjustments from Bro R's Pen

Bro Russells commentary on adjustments to the Tabernacle type, and the
division of the Church from the Great Company:

Z 11, p. 22, pars. 5, 6.. beginning with 8th line of paragraph 5

"Similarly, those who have made a full consecration are subjected to severe
tests, and, if they prove unfaithful, they will not remain members of the
Royal Priesthood. But his does not prove that these will be unworthy of
some opportunity for serving the Lord. These will be represented in the
Levite Class. All the Levites are consecrated to God. But the 'more than
conquerors' are the selected ones, the ones who stand the tests and prove
faithful. Such as fail to stand these tests then will be rejected from the
condition represented in the Holy, which is the 'gold' condition and
represents the Divine nature. Being denied the liberty accorded to the
Priests, these will go out from this condition and will have merely the
standing of justification, which, if they maintain, will constitute them
worthy of eternal life. But that life will not be human, because they gave
that up in order to become Priests. Their failure puts them out of the
Holy condition back into the Court condition. Only the Priests will be in
the Holy. Only the Levites will be in the Court. But even the chosen
ones, while separated in their minds, will be commingling with the others
so far as their persons are concerned. The Court, therefore, in its last
analysis, represents the Spirit-begotten ones as separated from the world.
The Great Company class are, therefore, not represented as the Camp, but
are attached to the Priests."

Z 11, p. 234, col. 2, pars. 4, 5 begining at par. 4 line 4

"The Lord's arrangement is that the Great Company class shall have a
special trial and testing and shall be forced forward in the time of
trouble, inasmuch as they did not carry out their covenant of sacrifice
willingly. We must remember that the types of the Law-covenant were
arranged to represent matters as they would be seen by us in the Conclusion
of the antitypical Day of Atonement, and not to represent the things as
they would be seen while they were in progress - some might take our crown;
and we might be thus relegated to the Great Company. So these things
represent the results as they will be in the end of this Age. There will
be a Great Company class which well bear certain iniquities."

Z 11, p. 349, col. 2, last paragraph

"While the Court condition seems to represent at the present time all those
who are approaching God and loving righteousness and desiring harmony with
Him, it appears as though, with the closing of this Age, there will be an
adjustment of matters by which all those who have not come to the point of
full consecration and to the point of Spirit-begetting, who would not
belong to the household of faith and to the Church of the Firstborn, in
the absolute sense, will go out and cease to be recognized as in the Court.
Meantime, the class who have already made consecration, presented their
bodies living sacrifices, received the begetting of the Spirit and enjoyed
for a time the privileges of being members of the Body of Christ - these,
failing to maintain their standing, are represented as separated from the
Little Flock class at the end of this Age. Their condition apparently is
represented by the Court Condition thereafter."

Z 16, p. 39, para 1

"They [Elijah and Elisha] simply walked on. Suddenly the chariot of fire
appeared and separated them.... What dose this signify in antiytpe? We
think that it signifies a division between the Little Flock and the Great
Company."

Z 16. p. 264, para. 1

"It will be after the smiting of the Jordan - after the division of the
people by the message of the Truth and the mantle of Elijah's power - that
the separation of the Church into two classes will take place. Thereafter,
the Elijah class, the Little Flock class, will be clearly manifested,
separate and distinct from the Great Company class. The division, be it
remembered, will be caused by the fiery chariot."

R5761:

"It is our thought that with the closing of the "door" of this Gospel age there will be no more begetting of the holy Spirit to the spirit nature. Any afterward coming to God through consecration before the inauguration of the restitution work, will be accepted by him, not to the spirit plane of being, but to the earthly plane. Such would come in under the same conditions as the ancient worthies came in, no call being opened to them - the high calling not being yet open, and the restitution opportunities not open. But they freely gave themselves up to God without knowing what blessings their consecration would bring, except that they had the intimation that they would, in the future life, have a "better resurrection" than would the remainder of the world."

"Our thought is that whoever under such conditions as these will make a full consecration to the Lord, to leave all to follow in his ways, and will live up faithfully, loyally, to that consecration, may be privileged to be counted as a similar class to those who preceded this Gospel age. We know of no reason why the Lord would refuse to receive those who make a consecration after the close of the Gospel age high calling and before the full opening of the Millennium."


R5846, col. 1 para 2

"Are you expecting the fiery chariot any minute now, or do you think it
some little distance off - perhaps some months yet, or perhaps a distance
off - perhaps some months yet, or perhaps a year, or probably more, is my
thought."

1916 Convention Report, p. 198, col. 2, para 2 under Q. 10, beginning in
the 4th line

"the Great Company class will first be manifested when the Elijah class
will be separated by the fiery chariot, that from that time and onward it
would be proper to speak of some as being of the Little Flock and others of
the Great Company, but that division not having yet been made of the Lord,
you an I would no be authorized to recognize any such division which God
has not recognized. It will be for Him to determine who are of the Little
Flock and who of the Great Company... we do not understand, therefore, that
they are to be viewed as being in the Court at the present time, but after
the Lord has manifested the distinction between the Elijah class, the royal
Priesthood class, and the Great Company class, the Elisha class, then
thereafter those will be represented as being in the Court. But not yet.
The division has not yet taken place." [This was written in 1916.]