[August 1]
If any man serve Me, let him follow Me. John 12:26
IT IS time for the establishment of the true kingdom—it
is just at hand. It is time for the gathering
of the elect out of every quarter, every district of this
figurative Babylon in which the Lord's people are captives
to these devices of Satan; it is time for a reassertion
of the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free;
it is time that the Lord's people should recognize him
as their only King and Director; it is time for them
to hear the words, "Cease ye from man, whose breath
is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?"
(Isaiah 2:22) It is time for the Lord's people to realize
that the Lord is entirely competent to conduct his own
work in the way most pleasing to himself, and most
advantageous to those who are truly his; it is time for
them to look to the Lord to see what agents, what
channels of truth, what ministries of service in
spiritual Israel he has provided or is providing.
When we come to realize the situation, we find
that all this matter of recognizing popes, cardinals,
bishops, doctors of divinity, etc., is contrary to the divine
arrangement—in direct antagonism to the same;
but that, nevertheless, it has not hindered and will not
be permitted to hinder, the accomplishment of the
Lord's work and the gathering of the true Israelites,
the elect, the precious, the Lord's jewels, out of nominal
Israel. This work of the Lord is going gradually on,
regardless of what the people in general may do.
Z'03-203 R3217:3(Hymn 312)