Do you know that “the term judgment signifies more than simply the rendering of a verdict, and that it includes the idea of a trial as well as a decision based on that trial”? and that “this is true not only of the English word judgment, but also of the Greek word which it translates”?

Do you know that the term day, both in Scripture and in common usage, though most frequently used to represent a period of twelve or twenty-four hours, really signifies any definite or special period of time? Do we not speak of Luther’s day, and Washington’s day, and do we not read in Scripture of the Day of Jubilee, the Day of Salvation and the Day of the Lord, when “he shall judge the world in righteousness”? Psa. 9:8; 119:7; Isa. 2:11,12 [A:138-139].

Do you know that “the first great judgment [trial and sentence] was at the beginning in Eden, when the whole human race, as represented in its head, Adam, stood on trial before God”? and that “the result of that trial was the verdict — guilty, disobedient, unworthy of life; and the penalty inflicted was death”? Gen. 3:3; Rom. 5:18; 6:23 [A:140].

Do you know that the Jewish age was another judgment day, in which a class, spoken of in the Bible as the house of servants, was tried and judged? Heb. 3:5.

Do you know that the Gospel age, in which we live, is also a judgment day? — and in it another class, which is spoken of in scripture as the house of sons, (the church) are being tried, and its members, one by one, judged and sentenced as either worthy or unworthy of being joint-heirs with Christ? John 9:39; I Tim. 5:24; I Pet. 4:17; Heb. 3:6.

Do you know that God “hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained” (Acts 17:31), and that this judgment day is the great Sabbath (rest) of a thousand years duration which is yet to come, and is also the resurrection day? (Acts 17:31; Jas. 5:4; Rom. 9:29; II Pet. 3:7 8) — and that it is during this resurrection day (Acts 24:15) that all the non-elect world who will have gone the broad road to destruction (Matt. 7:13-14), shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth, be re-animated? (John 5:25-28) — and that they shall come forth (be reanimated) not simply for the pronouncement of a verdict, but to be judged and resurrected (if they will), by that righteous judge, and be blessed with fullness of life in Christ, by the promised elect (church, the Christ) seed of Abraham? Jude 14, 15; Rev. 20:4-6; I Cor. 15:21, 22, 23; Gen. 22:18; 26:4; Gal. 3:29.

Does this not prove that the world’s “resurrection day” and the world’s “judgment day” are one and the same? — and is it not also called the “Lord’s day”? And while all are being brought back from the prison house of death in the body and then resurrected in character, etc. — or made “alive” in Christ — will they not also be judged (tried) as to whether or not they are worthy of life eternal? Psa. 118:24.

Will not the earth abide (remain) forever? (Eccl. 1:4; Psa. 104:5; Isa. 45:18). Is not time divided into three worlds: the world and heavens that were destroyed by water, the “present evil world,” of which Satan is the prince, and the world which is to come, in which our Lord will be the righteous Judge and King? II Pet. 3rd chapter; Gal. 1:4; Heb. 2:5; 6:5.

Will not the fire of God’s jealousy destroy the present evil world? (Zeph. 1:18; 3:8). Will not our Lord destroy sin and its results, sickness and death? (Heb. 2:14; I John 3:8). Has he not also promised to raise upon the ruins thereof a world without end? (II Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21:1-6) — and to restore all things? (Act, 3:21; 15:13-17; Isa. 11th chapter; 35th chapter; 65:17-25; 66:22, 23) and make all (his sheep) alive, both in body (Acts 24:15; I Cor. 15:38), and in Christ? (I Cor. 15:21-27).

Do you know that Biblical chronology coincides with many symbolic and parabolic prophecies of scripture, that the end of this present evil world will be in the year 1915? — and that it will come about by the dissolving or melting of the present elements (or order of things), viz., the present social, political and ecclesiastical “world,” through universal war and revolution, with a reign of lawlessness in its wake? ^*

Do you know that during this time of trouble, there will be tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be? And except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened? Matt. 24:21, 22; Dan. 12:1-4; Rev. chapters 9 and 18.

Do not all people, both good and bad, living and dead, belong to the Lord, who bought them? Has he not redeemed all from death with his own precious life? (I Tim. 2:6) and is he not “Lord of both the dead and living”? (Rom. 14:9). After the destruction of Satan’s kingdom and the establishment of our Lord’s upon the ruins thereof, will not all the unjust hear the voice of the King and come out of the graves and dwell in the earthly kingdom of the Lord and be blessed with a righteous judgment? I Cor. 6:20; Heb. 8:12; I Pet. 1:18, 19; Hos. 13:14; Psa. 98; Rev. 21:1-6.

Will not our blessed Lord with his church be the Priest, Prophet and King of this world without end? (Heb. 6:20; 7:1-4). Will not his kingdom grow and fill the whole earth? (Dan. 2:31-45) — and is not this the kingdom he taught us to pray for, saying, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done [not alone in heaven] in earth as it is in heaven”? Matt. 6:10; Dan. 7:27; II Pet. 1:11; Rev. 21:1-5.

* See the 1916 Foreword to volume II, “Studies in the Scriptures”

Is not the “Judgment Day” of the world the grand and glorious day of the Lord? (Psa. 118:24), and did not the prophet David say, “Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh, to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth”? Psa. 96:11-13.

Does not St. John the divine speak of those days as the time when “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away”? Rev. 21:4.

Do you know that the apostle says that God winked at the times of ignorance, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead? Acts 17:30, 31.

Shall not the elect church (144,000 of Rev. 14:1-5) rule and reign with her Lord a thousand years? (Rev. 20:4-6). Will they not with him judge the world during this thousand-year judgment day which God has appointed? (I Cor. 6:2) Know ye not that they shall also judge angels? I Cor. 6:3.

When our Lord with his church takes unto himself his great power and reigns over his kingdom with righteous judgment, will not the wilderness and the solitary places be glad, and the deserts rejoice and blossom as the rose? Will he not create new heavens [ecclesiastical elements] and a new earth? [society]. Isa 65:17; Rev. 21:1-6. Will not there be an highway there, where wayfaring men, though fools, need not err therein? and will not the ransomed (all people) of the Lord return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads? — and shall they not obtain joy and gladness, and will not sorrow and sighing flee away? Isa., 35th chap.

Is not this the third way taught in Scripture? (Isa. 35:8). Does not the elect church, the promised seed of Abraham, walk the narrow way to LIFE, and the non-elect world walk the broad way to DESTRUCTION during this present evil world? (Matt. 7:13, 14). Will not our Lord destroy the present evil “world” (not the globe) and establish on the ruins thereof the “world” to come, without end? (II Pet. 3:5, 12). Will not the elect church (144,000) which faithfully walked the narrow way to life during this present evil “world” rule and reign with “her” Lord in his glorious, world-wide kingdom to come? (Rom. 8:16, 17; II Tim. 2:11, 12). Will not all the non-elect who have gone the broad way TO destruction, hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth? (John 5:25-28). Are they not a part of the ransomed of the Lord? (Isa. 35:10; Hos. 13:14). Is it not He that “turnest man to destruction and sayest, Return, ye children of men”? (Psa. 90:3). Will they not then be returned (called back) from destruction and entered upon the highway of HOLINESS, to be blessed with righteous judgment, gradual resurrection, and, if they will, with eternal life? (Isa., chap. 11). Will not this be the fulfillment of the glorious promises of God, that the seed of Abraham (the church, head and body) should bless all the families of the earth? Gen. 12:1-3; Heb. 6:12-20; Rev. 21:1-5.

Does not our Lord imply that he has, or will have, more than one fold of sheep, when he says, “Other sheep I have which are not of this [elect] fold: them also must I bring”? (John 10:16). Don’t you know that this is just another way of informing us of an elect fold (the church, those of the first, or chief, resurrection) and a non-elect fold (to be brought later from among the residue of the people) in the second resurrection [time]? (Acts 15:17) — and that the non-elect fold, after they shall have heard his voice and come forth from destruction (the grave) in the second resurrection, are to be blessed by the elect fold of the first resurrection, who at that time will be ruling and reigning with the Lord? Rev. 5:10.

Was not that “world” and heavens destroyed by water in Noah’s day, the first world and heavens? Is not the present evil world and heaven, which is to be destroyed by the fire of God’s jealousy, the second “world” and heavens? — and is not that world without end, which is to be established by our Lord, the third world and heavens? II Pet. 3:5, 6, 7, 13.

While Satan and his evil angels are in the second heaven, invisibly ruling over the second, or present evil world, will not Christ and his church be in the third heaven, invisibly ruling and reigning over the third world, which is yet to come? Luke 17:20; Jno. 14:30; Eph. 2:2; Rev. 11:15; 20:6.

While Satan’s kingdom is a dead and dying one, and all are on the broad road to destruction, will not the kingdom of Christ be a living one, with all the redeemed returning from the destruction into which they had gone and enter upon the “highway of holiness”? Matt. 7:13, 14; Isa. 35:8.

Will not all in the graves hear a voice out of the third heaven, and come forth into the third world, to walk upon the highway and have the privilege of being made ALIVE in Christ? Acts 24:15; Isa. 35:8; I Cor. 15:21, 22.

Is not this the third heaven to which Paul (as one born out of due time) was taken? — and whether in the body or out of the body, he knew not, was he not permitted to look into the future and behold the glorious kingdom of the Lord — the third world as a restored paradise? (Rev. 21:1-5; II Cor. 12:1-5). Can we not imagine what a grand sight his eyes beheld when he looked upon the restored earth with its millions of reunited families praising

God for such a great salvation? Can we not imagine the glorious results which will follow when the devil is bound that he may deceive the nations no more, and his works — sin, sickness and death, also the grave, and everything that hurts in all God’s holy kingdom—shall be destroyed? Rev. 20:2; 21:1-5; Isa. 2:4; 11:9; 35:9; I Jno. 3:8.

Will not the fulfillment of this grand and glorious judgment of our redeemer and saviour necessitate, first, the destruction of the present (evil world) order of things, the social, ecclesiastical and political, and the establishment of new and infinitely better conditions on the ruins thereof, that the redeemed (all people) of the Lord may walk in the highway that will then be for those? And will not this necessitate the restoration from death of all the redeemed and the resurrection of all the obedient from among those thus restored? And would this not necessitate future probation? Rev., 20th and 21st chapters.

Hail to the Lord’s anointed,
Jehovah’s blessed Son!
Hail, in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression,
To set the captives free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.