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226 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
with me in my throne, even as I conquered and
sat down with my Father in his throne ."-Revelation
2 :26-28 and 3 :21, NW .
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During all the centuries since the giving of
those Kingdom promises, the calling and choosing
of the believers and the preparing and proving
of them worthy of the Kingdom has been going
on. Since the Kingdom class is finally only 144,000
with their Head Jesus Christ, then at the consummation
of this system of things there must be
only the last members, a remnant of the ones
called and chosen for the Kingdom, yet on earth .
3 Describing the work that marks his second
presence, Jesus used a parable of the kingdom of
heaven and said : "As for the right kind of seed,
these are the sons of the kingdom ; . . . The harvest
is a consummation of a system of things, and
the reapers are angels . Therefore, just as the
weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it
will be in the consummation of the system of
things . The Son of man will send forth his angels,
and they will collect out from his kingdom all
things that cause stumbling and persons who are
doing lawlessness, and they will pitch them into
the fiery furnace. There is where their weeping
and the gnashing of their teeth will be . At that
time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as
the sun in the kingdom of their Father ." Matthew
13 :38-43, NW The harvesting of the King-
2 . Why could there be only a remnant of such yet on
earth?
3 . How did Jesus describe the harvest of the Kingdom
class?