To the truly consecrated people
of God, who have been identified with these various sectarian or
denominational systems the Lord has been calling in this time of the
harvest, saying: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers
of her sins, and receive not her plagues". (Revelation 18:4) Concerning
his work with the others, the wheat class, Jehovah through his Prophet
long ago said: "Gather my saints together unto me, those who have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice". (Psalm 50:5) The great work of the
harvest, that is to say, the proclaiming of the second presence of the
Lord and the gathering together of those who truly love his appearing,
has been so remarkably fulfilled since 1874 that it is one of the most
striking and conclusive proofs of the Lord's second presence.
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[426]It might be reasonably expected that the clergy of various
denominations would be anxious to know and anxious to tell the people
about the presence of the Lord, and would therefore joyfully receive any
news concerning his presence. We find the facts to be just to the
contrary, however, and we again notice that this is one of the evidences
given by Jesus himself marking his second presence. He said: "But as the
days of Noah were, so shall also the coming [presence] of the Son of
man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah
entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them
all away; so shall also the coming [presence] of the Son of man be.
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