p. 9 | Whose Shall These Things Be? by Washington Morse

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1907

“Whose Shall These Things Be?”

By Washington Morse

WASHINGTON MORSE

“So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. . . . Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not. . . . Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding.” Luke 12:20, 21, 32-36.

Now we understand that at the end of the twenty-three hundred years of Dan. 8:13, 14, our Saviour went in to the wedding (meant to be illustrated in the parable of Matthew 25) and into the investigative judgment. It is also certain that he will soon return from the wedding, and we are admonished not only to be ready, but to be waiting. The people of these days are the people who are passing through the time of the investigative judgment.

In Luke 12:43, 45, 46, there is a blessing pronounced upon those servants who are giving meat in due season to the household. The servant who is doing that is preaching the Lord’s coming at the same time that the evil servant is saying, “My Lord delayeth his coming.”

How are we to provide for ourselves “bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not”? It is by selling, and giving alms, and by employing our time and talents in the Lord’s work. If we have this world’s goods, we can not transfer our treasure to heaven and hold it still in our possession. Shall we give that which the Lord has committed to our trust, or shall we still cling to our property to be consumed with it by the fires of the last day? There can be no doubt that we are nearing the brink of eternity. “Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”

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