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EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH:
CLARENCE LARKIN:
RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD:
TABLE OF CONTENTS AND CHAPTER 1

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THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS
GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH.
THAT IS WHY HE IS GOD.

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THE TEXT OF SOME OF THE BOOKS ON THIS WEB PAGE BY CLARENCE LARKIN HAS BEEN ALTERED TO REMOVE ANY REFERENCES TO THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION, THE AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION, OR A "BETTER GREEK" TEXT. IT HAS ALSO BEEN ALTERED TO REMOVE ANY, AND HOPEFULLY ALL, REFERENCES TO A BETTER TRANSLATION OR BETTER MANUSCRIPTS. THE OFFENDING STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND/OR CORRECTED WITH THE KING JAMES BIBLE. WE ALSO TOOK THE LIBERTY TO REMOVE ANY PARENTHETICAL WORDS THAT WERE OBVIOUS INSERTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION. LARKIN MANY TIMES WOULD INSERT A WORD IN PARENTHESIS IN THE MIDDLE OF A KING JAMES BIBLE SCRIPTURE QUOTE THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY INSERTED FROM THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION WITHOUT HIM IDENTIFYING THAT THE QUOTE WAS FROM THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION. WE REMOVED THESE ALSO. THERE MAY BE SOME DRAWINGS AND TABLES THAT STILL HAVE THESE REFERNCES IN THEM. IF SO, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO EDIT THEM OUT. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE DRAWINGS AND TABLES ARE IN JPEG PICTURE FORMAT AND PROBABLY CANNOT BE EDITED OUT. WITH THE BENEFIT OF BEING ABLE TO INSPECT AND EXPERIENCE THE CORRUPT FRUIT AND POLLUTION OF MODERN ENGLISH VERSIONS (PERVERSIONS), THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ANYONE IN THE YEAR 2013 TO USE ANYTHING BUT THE AUTHORIZED 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE. TO DO SO IS TO BED DOWN WITH A RELIGIOUS HARLOT AND PARTAKE OF HER APOSTASY AND HERESY. GREAT SHAME IS BROUGHT UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BY ENTERING INTO THE SPIRITUAL WHORE HOUSE OF MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. MANY FOLKS WHO DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM CORRECTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE WILL RAISE A BIG STINK WHEN YOU CORRECT THE WORK OF A MERE MAN. THAT IS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.

THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY 

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RIGHTLY DIVIDING

THE WORD

By

CLARENCE LARKIN

Author of the Great Book on

“DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH”

And Other Biblical Works

Copyrighted

by Clarence Larkin

All Rights Reserved


THIS BOOK IS

DEDICATED

TO THE

“DIVINE INTERPRETER”

THE HOLY SPIRIT

WHO THROUGH THE YEARS HAS BEEN MY TEACHER AND HELPER

IN

“RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD.”

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE
Forward.
1. Rightly Dividing The Word
2. Ages And Dispensations
3. Jew And Gentile
4. Church And Kingdom
5. The Four Gospels
6. The Two Advents
7. The Spirit World
8. Satan
9. The Satanic Trinity
10. “The Mystery Of Godliness” And “The Mystery Of Iniquity”.
11. Resurrection Of Jesus
12. The Resurrections
13. The Judgments
14. The Two Adams
15. Atonement And Redemption
16. Sin And Salvation
17. Law And Grace
18. Faith And Works
19. The Two Natures
20. Standing And State
21. Regeneration And Baptism
22. Election And Free Will
23. The Reciprocal Indwelling Of Christ And The Believer
24. The Threefold Work Of Christ
25. Christ Our Passover
26. Heaven And Hell.
27. Judaism And Christianity
28. The Circles Of The Christian Life
29. Palace Beautiful.

CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

NUMBER TITLE
1. The Prophetic Days Of Scripture
2. The Times And Seasons
3. Ages And Dispensations
4. The Three Stages Of The Earth
5. The Prophetic Earth
6. First Day Second Day
7. Third Day Fourth Day
8. Fifth Day Sixth Day
9. The Dispensation Of Judgment
10. The Jews
11. The Five Great Worldwide Kingdoms
12. The Gentiles
13. The Church
14. The Church Versus The Kingdom
15. Kingdom Of God Kingdom Of Heaven The Church
16. The Four Gospels
17. The Two Comings
18. The Mountain Peaks Of Prophecy
19. The Two Advents
20. Daniel's Seventy Weeks
21. The Tabernacle
22. The Threefold Nature Of Man
23. The Underworld
24. Thy Word Is A Lamp
25. Satan
26. The Satanic Trinity
27. The Serpent
28. The Greater Life And Work Of Christ
29. The Virgin Birth
30. Jesus On The Rock
31. The Antichrist
32. Antichrist And The Times Of The Gentiles
33. The Resurrections
34. The Judgments
35. The Two Judgments Of The Believer
36. The Judgment Of Reward
37. The Two Adams
38. I Am The True Vine
39. Jesus And The Lamb
40. Law And Grace
41. Bearded Man Knelling
42. Feeling Versus Faith
43. The Two Natures
44. Which Is My Heart
45. The Natural Man
46. The New Man
47. The Worldly Christian
48. The Sanctified Man
49. State And Standing
50. The Leopards Spots
51. Believer's Baptism
52. Reciprocal Indwelling Of Christ And The Believer
53. Christ The Vine
54 The Threefold Work Of Christ
55. The Dove Descending Upon Believers
56. Christ Our Passover
57. Jesus And The Crown Of Thorns
58. The Heavens
59. Judaism And Christianity
60. The Circles Of The Christian Life
61. Lady And The Harp
62. Palace Beautiful
63. Palace Beautiful First Floor Plan
64. Palace Beautiful Second Floor Plan

FOREWARD

            The Author started to prepare an “A,” “B,” “C,” book to introduce his larger Work on

“DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH,”

but after writing and condensing several times he felt led to abandon that idea and to prepare a book on “Rightly Dividing the Word,” in which the “Fundamental Doctrines” should be “Rightly Divided” in a series of contrasts. The “Fundamental Doctrines” of the Christian Faith are clearly outlined in numerous books on Theology, but they are not available to the average reader and were mainly written for students. The Author has made it the work of his ministry to preach the “Fundamental Doctrines.” To this end he has aimed to express them in the simplest and clearest manner possible. This book contains the cream and meat of his sermons for over thirty-five years, condensed and arranged in a form that will grip and interest the reader, because of the manner of their presentation. The Charts are clear and simple and add much to the value of the book, and will be suggestive to Preachers and Bible Teachers in presenting the “Fundamentals.”

            The book does not contain the opinions of the Author, nor quotations from other writers, but is based solely on the Scriptures, chapter and verse being given for every statement. The book is “Timely” in these days of Apostasy and denial of THE FAITH. The purpose of the book is to confirm in the Faith those who are wavering, and to instruct those who have not been clearly taught the great cardinal Doctrines of the Christian Faith.

THE AUTHOR.

“SUNNYSIDE,”

Foxchase, Philadelphia, Pa.

December, 1920.

Clarence Larkin



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I. Rightly Dividing the Word

 

“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.” 2 Timothy 2:15.


            The Holy Scriptures are not a systematic treatise on Theology, History, Science or any other topic. They are a REVELATION from God of His Plan and Purpose in the Ages as to the earth and the human race. They were given to us piecemeal “at sundry times and in divers manners.” Hebrews 1:1. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit during a period of 1600 years, extending from B. C. 1492 to A. D. 100. The Bible consists of 66 separate books; 39 in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New. These books were written by about 40 different authors. By kings, such as David and Solomon; statesmen, as Daniel and Nehemiah; priests, as Ezra; men learned in the wisdom of Egypt as Moses; men learned in Jewish law, as Paul. By a herdsman, Amos; a tax-gatherer, Matthew; fishermen, as Peter, James and John, who were “unlearned and ignorant” men; a physician, Luke; and such mighty “seers” as Isaiah, Ezekiel and Zechariah.

            It is not an Asiatic book though it was written in that part of the world. Its pages were penned in the Wilderness of Sinai, the cliffs of Arabia, the hills and towns of Palestine, the courts of the Temple, the schools of the prophets at Bethel and Jericho, in the palace of Shushan in Persia, on the banks of the river Chebar in Babylonia, in the dungeons of Rome, and on the lonely Isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea.

            While the Bible has been compiled in the manner described, it is not a “heterogeneous jumble” of ancient history, myths, legends, religious speculations and apocalyptic literature. There is a progress of revelation and doctrine in it. The Judges knew more than the Patriarchs, the Prophets than the Judges, the Apostles than the Prophets. The Old and New Testaments cannot be separated. You cannot understand Leviticus without Hebrews, or Daniel without Revelation.

While the Bible is a “Revelation from GOD” it is not written in a superhuman or celestial language.           If it were we could not understand it. Its supernatural origin is seen in the fact that it can. be translated into any language. The language of the Scriptures is of three kinds. Figurative, Symbolical and Literal. The Figurative is explained by the context, the Symbolical either in the context or somewhere else in the Scriptures, and the rest should be taken literally. That is we are to read the Bible as we would read any other book, letting it say what it wants to say, without allegorizing or spiritualizing its meaning.

            While the Bible was written FOR all classes of people, and FOR our learning, it is not addressed to all people in general. Part of it is addressed to the JEWS, part to the GENTILES, and part to the CHURCH. These three constitute the “Three Classes” into which humanity is divided. 1 Corinthians 10:32. It follows therefore that while the whole Bible was written for the instruction of the Church, it is not all written about the Church. The Church is not mentioned in the Old Testament. The Old Testament is mostly taken up with the history of one nation, that of Israel. When we take the Old Testament promises and apply them to the Church we rob the Jew of that which is exclusively his. For illustration, the prophecy of Isaiah in the chapter headings is largely applied to the Church,



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whereas the very first verse declares that it is – “concerning JUDAH and JERUSALEM.” Isaiah 1:1. In the New Testament the Epistles of Hebrews and James are Jewish. The Epistle of James is addressed, not to the Church, but to the “TWELVE TRIBES scattered abroad.” James 1:1. In the Epistle to the Hebrews many Christians stumble at the words “fall away” (Hebrews 6:4-6), and “if we sin wilfully,” Hebrews 10:26. But these words do not apply to Christians. They were spoken to apostate Jewish professors of Christianity who had never been born again, and who, if they did not accept Jesus as their Messiah, practically crucified Him again, and were as bad as their brethren who did crucify Him.

            ALL Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction, (2 Timothy 3:16), and what happened to Israel was written for our ENSAMPLE and ADMONITION, (1 Corinthians 10:11), but we must not apply to the Church what does not belong to it. To do so is to misapply Scripture and lead to confusion.

            In “Rightly Dividing” the Word we must also distinguish between the work or offices of Christ as Prophet, Priest and King. A careful study of the Chart, “The Threefold Work of Christ,” , will show that these offices are not held at the same time. We must also distinguish between the “Prophetic Days” of Scripture. See the Chart on “The Prophetic Days of Scripture". We must also distinguish between the “Times” and “Seasons.” Between the “TIMES PAST” when He spoke by the Prophets, and these “LAST DAYS” in which He has spoken to us by His Son. Hebrews 1:1-2. As. to the “TIMES” we have them designated as the “TIMES OF IGNORANCE,’” (Acts 17:30); the “TIMES OF THE GENTILES,” (Luke 21:24); the “TIMES OF REFRESHING,” (Acts 3:19); the “TIMES OF RESTITUTION,” (Acts 3:21); and the “Dispensation of the FULNESS OF TIMES.” Ephesians 1:10. See the Chart of “The Times and Seasons”. From the statement the “TIMES OF THE GENTILES,” we see that when the “Gentiles” are in power the “Jews” are not. And as the “Times of the Gentiles” is still running, the Church cannot be in this Dispensation a governing or Kingdom power. We must also not forget the “DIVINE CONJUNCTIONS” and the “DIVINE DISJUNCTIONS” of the Word of God.’ We must not separate what God has joined, as the “Word of God” and the “Spirit of God,” nor join what He has separated as Baptism and Regeneration, Law and Grace, the Church and the Kingdom.

            But it is not enough to classify the Scriptures in the manner already mentioned, we must learn to separate the Scriptures as to “TIME” and “ETERNITY,” and the different “AGES” and “DISPENSATIONS” of “Time.”





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