Howl Ye Rich Men

Ecclesial Thread (AV Corrected)

1 Come now, [ye] rich men [the WT], weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

2 Your riches are corrupted [by worldly desires], and your garments are motheaten [full of holes – gilded].

3 Your gold [1NC Saints/Res] and silver [2NC Saints] is corroded [their faith has diminished]; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you [so these will likely turn back to Jehovah and Jesus in time], and shall eat your flesh as it were fire [during the lambs evening meal?]. Ye have heaped up treasure [caused all of the saints in the church to become idolaters of you] in the last days [since Henschel’s tour].

4 Behold, the wage [food] of the labourers [bible researchers] who have reaped your fields [many inputs came from people in the church at large], which you kept back by fraud [the WT would not allow anything critical of the church be known and twisted interpretations in a self serving manner], crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth [Jesus].

5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth [enjoyed the power and authority of the dragon], and been wanton [of worldly desires]; ye have nourished your hearts [with corrupt ideals], as in a day of slaughter.

6 Ye have condemned [and] killed the just [one] [Jesus – the 1NC Saints/Res]; [and] he doth not resist you [they are passive under the iron fists of the WT just as Jesus was to the Pharisees].

7 Be patient therefore, brethren [1&2 NC Saints - see Rev 6:11], unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth [all of those in the JAC who belong to Him], and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early [first presence] and latter [second presence] rain [pouring out of Holy Spirit (Pentecost) for the gathering of His people].

This early and late rain also applies to the two rains in each presence of Christ for God's people.  One occurs when the first FDS is appointed to feed and the other in the second FDS who is appointed to feed at the proper time.  The Lord tells them in the first FDS that goes corrupt to "get out of her my people".  These should follow the voice of the Lamb wherever goes into the second FDS!

8 Be ye [the “rich men” (WT)] also patient; establish your hearts [not as wanton ones but as humbled ones]: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh [a stark warning to them].

9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the doors [plural – the 1^st and 2^nd New Covenants].

10 Take, my brethren, the prophets [since the founding of the world], who have spoken in the name of the Lord [as His messengers and faithful slaves], for an example of suffering affliction [which they all experience in some way either by those they love in the church or the world for their witnessing to Jesus], and of patience [not giving up but enduring knowing that the Lord’s day is at hand].

AV Ja 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. [AMEN!]

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