[423]Furthermore, Jesus said with reference to his second presence: "For
wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together".
(Matthew 24:28) And so it is. The carcass here refers to the spiritual
food provided for the household of faith. The eagles are those of keen
vision and sharp appetite, anxious to know of the Lord's Word, and
equally anxious to feed upon it. Hence we find gathering together many
earnest Christian people in groups in various parts of the earth, who
know no nationality, whose citizenship is in heaven, whose allegiance
and devotion is to the Lord and to his kingdom of righteousness.
[424]Jesus defines the wheat class as the true followers of himself,
children of the kingdom, and the tares as the imitation Christians, who
are Christians in name only. He declared: "Let both grow together until
the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers,
Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them; but gather the wheat into my barn."--Matthew 13: 30.
[425]It is a well-known fact that since 1878 there has been a tendency
on the part of all denominations to bind themselves into leagues and
combines, associations, Interchurch World Movement, etc., thus
fulfilling this prophetic statement of the Lord of binding together the
merely nominal Christians preparatory for the great fire, the great time
of trouble, which is now upon the earth.
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