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| − | office his reigning King in the following spring, to wit,
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| − | A.D. 1915, Therefore the ‘‘fourth year’’ of Christ’s
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| − | reign, corresponding with Solomon’s beginning the
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| − | temple, would begin in the spring of A.D. 1918;
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| − | and ‘‘the second month’’ thereof would begin shortly
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| − | or about one-half month after the Memorial of that
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| − | year, or, to wit, about the middle of April 1918, mark-
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| − | ing the beginning of the building of the antitypical
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| − | temple by the Lord. Mark then the progress of the
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| − | typical temple building: ‘‘In the fourth year was the
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| − | foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the
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| − | month Zif: and in the eleventh year, in the month
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| − | Bul [rain], which is the eighth month, was the house
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| − | finished throughout all the parts thereof, and accord-
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| − | ing to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in
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| − | building it.”’-—1 Ki. 6:37, 38.
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| − | The feast of tabernacles and the dedication of
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| − | the temple followed. ‘‘And all the men of Israel as-
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| − | sembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast,
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| − | in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.’’
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| − | (1 Ki. 8: 2) (See also 2 Chronicles 5:3.) ‘‘ Also, at the
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| − | same time, Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all
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| − | Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
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| − | entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt. And
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| − | in the eighth day [the day after the seven-day taber-
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| − | nacle feast] they made a solemn assembly: for they
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| − | kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the
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| − | feast seven days [total fourteen days]. And on the
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| − | three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent
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| − | the people away into their tents, glad and merry in
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| − | heart for the goodness that the Lord had shewed unto
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| − | David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people. Thus
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| − | Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s
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| − | house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make
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| − | in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he
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| − | prosperously effected.’’ (2 Chron. 7: 8-11) (See also
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| − | 1 Kings 8: 62-66.) Said ‘‘eleventh year’’ mentioned
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| − | at 1 Kings 6: 38 was seven years after 1035 B.C., when
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| − | Solomon began to build the temple, or in 1028 B.C.,
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| − | and the temple dedication in the seventh month thereof
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| − | would correspond with October, A.D. 1925. The dedi-
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| − | eation was about seven years and five and one-half
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| − | months after the temple building was begun. The
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| − | Memorial in 1925 was celebrated April 8, 1925. Hence
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| − | the seventh Jewish month was about coincident with
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| − | October 1925. The completion of the temple in the
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| − | ‘eighth month’’ of the same year was about seven
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| − | years six months after the building was begun. The
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| − | completion thereof would therefore correspond with
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| − | November 1925.
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| − | 31 At the dedication of the temple King Solomon
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| − | prayed and in his prayer referred to the ‘‘stranger’’,
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| − | or foreigner, that should duly come to Jehovah’s tem-
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| − | ple for mercy because of Jehovah’s great, name. (Sce
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| − | 2 Chronicles 6 : 32, 33; 1 Kings 8: 41-43.) Such ‘‘stran-
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| − | gers’’ would foreshadow or correspond with the Lord’s
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| − | *‘other sheep’’, or Jonadabs or people of good will,
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| − | who go to make up the ‘‘great multitude’. Note now
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| − | fhe WATCHTOWER.
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| − | Brooxrtyy, N. Y.
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| − | the facts showing God’s beginning to reveal to his
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| − | people the great multitude.
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| − | 22%n the ‘‘eleventh year’’ after 1914 (to wit, the
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| − | spring of 1915, when Jehovah would induct his reign-
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| − | ing king into office, as above stated) or seven years
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| − | after the coming of the Lord Jesus to the temple and
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| − | his beginning to rear up the temple, God’s consecrated
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| − | people were assembled in convention at Indianapolis,
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| − | Indiana, and on the 29th day of August 1925 that
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| − | assembly of God’s people adopted a resolution entitled
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| − | ‘‘Message of Hope’’, and which was the first and
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| − | only one of the seven resolutions adopted over a pe-
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| − | riod of seven years that was addressed ‘‘To All People
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| − | of Good Will’’. In this connection note that the ‘‘great
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| − | multitude’ (Rev. 7:9, 10), being people of good will,
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| − | joined with God’s anointed remnant of the temple
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| − | company in celebrating the great antitypical feast of
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| − | tabernacles. Interesting, therefore, it is to note that
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| − | the fourteen-day celebration, of the feast and the dedi-
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| − | cation of the building, in the seventh Jewish month
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| − | of 1028 B.C. embraces not only the Jewish atonement
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| − | day (on the 10th day) but also the entire seven-day
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| − | feast of tabernacles (the 15th to the 21st, inclusive)
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| − | with its booths and temple gatherings, with palm
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| − | branches being waved by the people.
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| − | 78 After the feast and dedication celebration Kinz
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| − | Solomon completed the temple in thé eighth Jewish
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| − | month, and this corresponds with November 1925. The
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| − | aforementioned resolution, ‘‘Message of Hope,’’ ad-
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| − | dressed as it was ‘‘To All People of Good Will’’, be-
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| − | gan to be distributed by the millions of copies all over
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| − | the earth on Saturday, October 31, 1925, and contin-
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| − | ued for some time thereafter, and thus the ‘‘Message
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| − | of Hope’’ was taken to the ‘‘people of good will’’.
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| − | Did the- Lord direct this matter? Surely!
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| − | 24 The temple at Jerusalem was typical of Jehovah’s
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| − | ‘‘anointed’’ company of people taken out for his name,
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| − | of which company Christ Jesus is the Head. (Matt.
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| − | 3:16,17; 1 Cor. 3:16) At the modern or antitypical
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| − | fulfillment of Solomon’s dedication of the temple it was
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| − | fitly appropriate that the attention of God’s anointed
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| − | people be called to the outpouring or anointing of
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| − | God’s holy spirit upon all of the approved ones. By
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| − | the Lord’s grace and guidance, at the aforementioned
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| − | convention at Indianapolis in 1925 there was then and
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| − | there called to the attention of those assembled, by
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| − | an address publicly delivered, the fulfillment of the
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| − | prophecy of Joel 2: 28,29 concerning the outpouring
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| − | of the holy spirit upon ‘‘all flesh’’, including those
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| − | who eame to the knowledge of the truth and who
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| − | were gathered into the temple following A.D. 1922.
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| − | It is true that only a few thousand heard that publie
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| − | proclamation or discourse, but in due time, to corre-
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| − | spond with the completion of Solomon’s temple, The
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| − | Watchtower, in its issue of November 15, 1925, pub-
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| − | lished the article previously verbally spoken, to wit,
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| − | “‘The Holy Spirit Poured Out.’’ No man prearranged
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| − | these things, but the Lord undoubtedly did direct them.
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