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THE REMNANT OF KINGDOM HEIRS 227
dom class takes place during Christ's second presence,
and he is the great Reaper as well as the
one who first sowed the Kingdom seed .
4 The harvest work is part of the telltale sign
of the parousia of the King Jesus Christ in spirit.
By that work he separates the imitation Christians
from the true Kingdom heirs, making the
distinction between them very sharp and clear .
He indicated that this harvest work would proceed
after World War I and the casting of Satan
and his demons out of heaven. Note his words to
that effect in his prophecy on the sign of the consummation
of this system of things : "Immediately
after the tribulation of those days the sun will
be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers
of the heavens will be shaken . And then the
sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven . . . .
And he will send forth his angels with a great
trumpet-sound and they will gather his chosen
ones together from the four winds, from one extremity
of the heavens to their other extremity ."
That would be a gathering of his faithful joint
heirs from all the world under heaven, for "the
field is the world" . Matthew 24 :29-31, NW
Those alive on earth that are gathered make up
the remnant . Revelation 12 :17 speaks of them
as the remnant of the seed of the woman . The
dragon, wrathful because of being cast down to
earth, makes war against them because they observe
God's commands and carry forward the
4. When did Jesus show it must proceed? How do the
remnant shine?