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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Second

THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

Chapter 1.

The truth indicated — None but the believers of the truth can inherit the Kingdom of God — Abraham, "the Heir of the World" — To inherit with him, men must believe what he believed; and become his children by adoption through Jesus Christ — The gospel and the things of the Kingdom one and the same — It was preached to Abraham, Israel, and the Gentiles, by the Lord God, by Moses, by Jesus, and by the Apostles — Gospel things susceptible of a threefold classification — The Keys of the Kingdom — Entrusted only to Peter — The Mystery of the Kingdom — The Fellowship of the Mystery — "Apostolic Succession" — Qualifications of an apostle of Christ — Import of the phrase "the end of the world" — "The sign" of its approach — The gospel preached to every creature by the Apostles — Modern missionary ism inadequate to the end proposed

0:00:30 - The gospel of the Kingdom of God in relation to Israel and the gentiles

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part First

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

CH. 6. — God the builder of all things — Nothing accidental, but all things the result of divine premeditation — Whatever exists He created for His own pleasure and glory — The purpose of God in the work of creation and providence, revealed in the scriptures — The present order of things merely provisional — The economy of the fulness of appointed times the true "Intermediate State" of a thousand years' duration — The tower of Babel builders, peacemen, and socialists — The principle upon which men attain to the angelic nature, and dignity, defined — God's two-fold purpose in the foundation of the world stated — The means by which it is accomplishing — Dissertation on the Elohim

0:00:26 - The present world in relation to the world to come

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part First

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 5.

Immortality in the present state a positive evil — Immortality in misery unscriptural — The professing world religious from fear — The world's religions useful as a system of Ecclesiastical Police — The Religion of Christ destitute of all worldly goods till his return, when it will possess all things — The doctrine of immortality a divine revelation — The Heathens baffled in their endeavours to discover it — The Mosaic Cherubim God's throne in Israel — The Cherubim of Ezekiel and John — The Cherubic Veil — The Faces of the Lord — The Flaming Sword — Illustrated by Ezekiel's description of the glory of the God of Israel — The brightness of the Spiritual Body — The Way of the Tree of Life — The etymology of the word RELIGION — False religion based upon the idea of appeasing the wrath of God — God already reconciled to the world — The "Word of Reconciliation" committed to the apostles in the beginning — The apostles the only ambassadors of Christ — "The word" preached by the apostles entrusted to the disciples of Christ — "Clergy" and "Laity" distinctions of the apostasy — Religion defined — Its grand desideratum — No true religion without belief of the Truth — The word "faith" scripturally defined — How faith comes — The "religious world" infidel of "the faith" — "Love" scripturally defined by "obedience" — The religious world destitute of the Spirit of God — Religion contemporary only with sin — Summary of principles

0:00:26 - Immortality, religion, “Clergy” and “Laity”

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part First

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 4.

The trial of the Transgressors — Of the Literal and the Allegorical — The sentence upon the Serpent particularized — The "Peace and Safety" cry — Jesus came not to send peace, but a sword — The Peace Society the enemy of God — Cain, Abel, and Seth — Atheism defined — Cain rejected as the progenitor of the Woman's seed, and Seth appointed — The Antediluvian apostasy — The Cainites and Sethites distinct societies — Their union the ruin of the old world, of which eight sons of Seth only survive — The Foundation of the World — The sentence upon Woman — Her social position defined — The sentence upon Adam — The constitution of sin — Of sin as a physical quality of the flesh — Of the hereditary nature of Jesus — Of "original sin" — Men, sinners in a two-fold sense — The Constitution of Righteousness — Men become saints by adoption — The Three Witnesses — The "new birth" explained — The Two Principles — Of "the light within" — The scripture revelation the divine principle of illumination — The awful condition of "the church" — Of the Hidden Man of the heart

0:00:26 - The sentence of death – the ruin of the old world, and the preservation of a remnant

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153: Elpis Israel - God's Law, and How Sin Entered into the World

Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part First

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 3.

Probation before exaltation, the law of the moral universe of God — The temptation of the Lord Jesus by Satan, the trial of his faith by the Father — The Temptation explained — God's foreknowledge does not necessitate; nor does He justify, or condemn, by anticipation — The Serpent an intellectual animal, but not a moral agent, nor inspired — He deceives the woman — The nature of the transgression — Eve becomes the tempter to Adam — The transgression consummated in the conception of Cain — A good conscience, and an evil conscience, defined — Man cannot cover his own sin — The carnal mind illustrated by the reasoning of the Serpent — It is metaphorically the Serpent in the flesh — God's truth the only rule of right and wrong — The Serpent in the flesh is manifested in the wickedness of individuals; and in the spiritual and temporal institutions of the world — Serpent-sin in the flesh identified with "the Wicked One" — The Prince of the World — The kingdom of Satan and the World identical — The Wiles of the Devil — The "Prince" shown to be sin, working and reigning in all sinners — How he was "cast out" by Jesus — "The works of the Devil" — "Bound of Satan;" delivering to Satan — The Great Dragon — The Devil and Satan — The Man of Sin

0:00:26 - God’s Law, and How Sin Entered into the World

Elpis Israel by John Thomas

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THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 2.

The earth before the creation of Adam the habitation of the angels who kept not their first estate — A geological error corrected — The Sabbath day and the Lord's day — The formation of man and woman — The "great mystery" of her formation out of man explained — Eden — The garden of Eden — The original and future paradises considered — Man's primitive dominion confined to the inferior creatures and his own immediate family — Of the two trees of the garden — And man in his original estate

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part First

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 1.

The necessity of a Revelation to make known the origin, reason, and tendency of things in relation to man and the world around him. It is an intelligible mystery, and the only source of true wisdom; but which is practically repudiated by the Moderns. — The study of the Bible urged, to facilitate and promote which is the object of this volume

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Conviction and Conduct by Islip Collyer

(The Faith that Works)

Part 2 Prepare to Meet Thy God, O Israel

Chapter 13

Preparation by All Things

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Conviction and Conduct by Islip Collyer

(The Faith that Works)

Part 2 Prepare to Meet Thy God, O Israel

Chapter 12

Control by Thought

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Conviction and Conduct by Islip Collyer

(The Faith that Works)

Part 2 Prepare to Meet Thy God, O Israel

Chapter 11

Examples of Preparation by Suffering

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