THE "TIMES OF RESTORATION". "Repent, therefore, and turn around so as to get your sins blotted out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the person of Jehovah and that He may send forth The Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven, indeed, must hold within itself until the times of restoration of all things (universal restoration. NEB) of which God spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets of old time." (Acts 3:19-21).
We are told that our Lord Jesus
Christ is to be kept within heaven itself until the coming "times of
restoration" and that Jehovah has spoken through His holy prophets
concerning these "times". It was while the apostle Peter was
addressing "Men of Israel" that he pointed out to them that
although they had disowned Jesus Christ the Chief Agent of life when he was on
earth, they should now repent and turn to Jehovah so that His Christ may be sent
to them, appointed by God, for their release by ransom during the period of the
"restoration of all things".
(3:12-18). "Furthermore, there
is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not another name under heaven that
has been given among men by which we must get saved." (4:12). For it was
Jehovah Himself who "made known to us His hidden purpose
THE "TIMES OF RESTORATION"
OF "ALL THINGS". WHAT "THINGS"?
2,300 "evenings and mornings"
and other integral prophetic "times" did elapse during the
prophesied "appointed times of the nations". (Luke 21:24. Dan
8:13,14. See Page 849). During these "times"
denunciations upon "every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of
God" were prophesied. (2 Cor 10:5). These denunciations are described in
great detail in the "Little Scroll". (Rev 10:1-11). But while
during these "times" the "disgusting thing" of
unsealed men appointed as JW
'elders' were
"trampling" on the "holy place" that is the anointed
temple class of God on earth, accurate Spirit knowledge from The Christ Michael
was released to his anointed brothers to accomplish a Spirit corrective work
within them for their own sanctification and to reveal the apostate "man
of lawlessness"
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