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

Scriptures, that in 1878 A.D. those who slept in Chrktarose in the First Resurrection.'The 17th chapter of Genesis continues the allegory ofthe Law Dispetisation :Gem. 17 : 1-27. And when Abram was ninety yearn old and nine, theLORD appeared to Abram. and said unto him. I am the Almighty God:walk before me. and be thou perfect. 2 And I will niake my covenantbetween me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly. j AndAhram fell on his fa&: and God talked with him, saying. 4 As for me,. Mold, my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of manynations. 5 Neither shall thy nam; ally more be called Abram. but thyname shall be Abraham : for a father of Illany nations have I made thee.6 And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of.thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish my covenantbetween me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generationsfor an everlasting covenant, to I= a God unto thee, and to thy seed afterthee. 8 And I will give unto thee. and to thy seed after thee, the landwherein thou art a stranger. all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting. possession; and I will be their God. 9 And God said unto Abraham,Thou shalt keep my covenant tl~erefore thou and thy aced after thee Intheir generations. 10 This is my covc~~aht, which ye shall keep, between1 me and you and thy seed after thee : Everv man child among you shall"We find that there m a time-parallel between the birth? of the naturalseeds of Abraham, and the twonations, fleshy and spiritual, whichthose two seeds typify. According to the notes of time given in the narrative.Ishmael was born betwcen lo and 11 years after Abraham recciredthe covenant from God on first entering the land of Canaan, or sa.~ 10%years. It was 25 years interval between the covenant and the btrth ofIsaac the true seed (Gen. 12: 4-2 ; 21 5 1. A3 we have noticed ?\ready.the entering of Abraham into Canaan with Sarah when he recetved thecovenant was allegorical of l;od coming down to earth with His oathboundcdvenant, and creating Adam as head of His earthly kingdom(Adam being typified by Lot ). Until Jesus Christ was raised from thedead the "SarahCovenantVwasbarren anduntil 1878 A.D. the membersof tie Church, the "Body" of Christ, ;ere not born from the dead (andeven now the "feet" meml~n still await their birth). But in 1575 B.C.the Hagar Covenant brought fort11 her fleshy seed. when they crossedJordan and entered as a nation into their own country. The interval8between the covenant wit11 Abrahani and the births of lshmael and Isaac.are in tile same proportionate ratio as the long periods between the creationof Adam 4128 B.C. and the entrance of the tieshy seed into theirland as a nation in 1575 B.c.; and the entrance of tile spiritual Seed orI-loly Nation into their heavenly inheritance in 1878 A.D. (Or, to state theratio : As 25 years is to I& years, so is 6006 years to 2553 years--the ratiois tbe same.)A3 21