The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

I hope. what I have said will help to establish your faith in God's Word. As you see God has been supervisingeverything in the past and that things occurred on the very dates he wanted them to occur, so we may lookforward with confidence to the year 1915. It will not do for us to say that it may be then, or it may be 100 yearsafterwards. It matters a great deal, dear friends; it means that if we are sure 1915 is the year for the great time oftrouble, we will arrange all our affairs according to that. It means also that we, aro now !it the harvest, and thatwe ought to be doing the harvest work, namely, "gathering the Lord's Saints together unto him, those that havemade a covenant with him by sacrifice."Lastly, it means that the time is now very short for us to make our calling and election sure - a very solemnthought. By the very latest, eight years to 1914, and -,cry possibly it may be earlier, possibly by 1912, everyoneof us who are overcomers, who are to be joint-heirs with Christ will have passed beyond the vail. Yes, we knowthat if we are faithful followers of Christ that in six or eight years we will be beyond the vail, and we have onlythat short time to make our calling and election sure. We are not to be over-anxious, dear friends; it does notdepend upon us. A verse that I have had a great deal of comfort from is: "In quietness and confidence shall beyour strength." Not quietness and confidence in yourself, but quietness and con in the Lord's strength shall beyour strength. It means that you are not to rest upon yourselves but upon the Lord, and instead of beingdiscouraged and over-anxious, yet will be the very reverse, and you will rejoice that you will soon be with theLord. You will be anxiously waiting for that time and will lift up your heads and rejoice knowing that yourdeliverance draweth nigh.Summary of the AboveThe Seventy WeeksFleshly IsraelSpiritualIsraelB.C. 519.Building of typical temple underZerubbabel.The CounterfeitA.D. 251Organization of Papacy underCyprian.The RealityA.D. 1326Organization of Reformed Churchby Marsiglio.69 weeks.69weeks.B.C. 454.Commission given to Nehemiahto build the walls of Jerusalem.A. D. 29.Advent of Messiah.A.D. 316Conversion of Constantine toPapacy.A.D. 799Beginning of Papal Millennium.A.D. 1391. Conversion of Huss tothe Reformed Church.A.D. 1874Beginning of the true Millennium.