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P.1800 – §1 A few days after the return of Jesus and
\n the twelve to Magadan from Jerusalem, Abner and a group of some fifty disciples
\n arrived from Bethlehem. At this time there were also assembled at Magadan
\n Camp the evangelistic corps, the women’s corps, and about one hundred and
\n fifty other true and tried disciples from all parts of Palestine. After
\n devoting a few days to visiting and the reorganization of the camp, Jesus
\n and the twelve began a course of intensive training for this special group
\n of believers, and from this well-trained and experienced aggregation of
\n disciples the Master subsequently chose the seventy teachers and sent them
\n forth to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. This regular instruction began
\n on Friday, November 4, and continued until Sabbath, November 19.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1800 – §2 Jesus gave a talk to this company each
\n morning. Peter taught methods of public preaching; Nathaniel instructed
\n them in the art of teaching; Thomas explained how to answer questions;
\n while Matthew directed the organization of their group finances. The other
\n apostles also participated in this training in accordance with their special
\n experience and natural talents.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

ordination, \uc131\uc9c1 \uc784\uba85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. ORDINATION OF THE SEVENTY – P.1800<\/p>\n

P.1800 – §3 The seventy were ordained by Jesus on Sabbath afternoon,
\n November 19, at the Magadan Camp, and Abner was placed at the head of
\n these gospel preachers and teachers. This corps of seventy consisted of
\n Abner and ten of the former apostles of John, fifty-one of the earlier
\n evangelists, and eight other disciples who had distinguished themselves
\n in the service of the kingdom.\n <\/p>\n

P.1800 – §4 About two o’clock on this Sabbath afternoon, between
\n showers of rain, a company of believers, augmented by the arrival of David
\n and the majority of his messenger corps and numbering over four hundred,
\n assembled on the shore of the lake of Galilee to witness the ordination
\n of the seventy.\n <\/p>\n

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Vetus Latina was old and inconsistent.<\/p>\n

Pope Damasus 1 in 382 commissioned Jerome to <\/p>\n

(a) revise the aged Latin Gospels (vetus Latina).<\/p>\n

(b) St Jerome translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into Latin in 406 AD.<\/p>\n

John Wycliffe died of stroke (1382 AD), but 44 years ;syrt. his body was exhumed and burned as a punishment.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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P.1800 – §5 Before Jesus laid his hands upon the heads of the seventy
\n to set them apart as gospel messengers, addressing them, he said: "The
\n harvest is indeed plenteous, but the laborers are few; therefore I exhort
\n all of you to pray that the Lord of the harvest will send still other
\n laborers into his harvest. I am about to set you apart as messengers of
\n the kingdom; I am about to send you to Jew and gentile as lambs among
\n wolves. As you go your ways, two and two, I instruct you to carry neither
\n purse nor extra clothing, for you go forth on this first mission for only
\n a short season. Salute no man by the way, attend only to your work. Whenever
\n you go to stay at a home, first say: Peace be to this household. If those
\n who love peace live therein, you shall abide there; if not, then shall
\n you depart. And having selected this home, remain there for your stay
\n in that city, eating and <\/p>\n

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P.1801 – §0 drinking whatever is set before you. And
\n you do this because the laborer is worthy of his sustenance. Move not from
\n house to house because a better lodging may be offered. Remember, as you
\n go forth proclaiming peace on earth and good will among men, you must contend
\n with bitter and self-deceived enemies; therefore be as wise as serpents
\n while you are also as harmless as doves.
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P.1801 – §1 "And everywhere you go, preach, saying, `The kingdom
\n of heaven is at hand,’ and minister to all who may be sick in either mind
\n or body. Freely you have received of the good things of the kingdom; freely
\n give. If the people of any city receive you, they shall find an abundant
\n entrance into the Father’s kingdom; but if the people of any city refuse
\n to receive this gospel, still shall you proclaim your message as you depart
\n from that unbelieving community, saying, even as you leave, to those who
\n reject your teaching: `Notwithstanding you reject the truth, it remains
\n that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ He who hears you hears me.
\n And he who hears me hears Him who sent me. He who rejects your gospel
\n message rejects me. And he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me."\n <\/p>\n

P.1801 – §2 When Jesus had thus spoken to the seventy, he began
\n with Abner and, as they knelt in a circle about him, laid his hands upon
\n the head of every man.\n <\/p>\n

P.1801 – §3 Early the next morning Abner sent the seventy messengers
\n into all the cities of Galilee, Samaria, and Judea. And these thirty-five
\n couples went forth preaching and teaching for about six weeks, all of
\n them returning to the new camp near Pella, in Perea, on Friday, December
\n 30.<\/p>\n

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2. THE RICH YOUNG MAN AND OTHERS – P.1801
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P.1801 – §4 Over fifty disciples who sought ordination
\n and appointment to membership in the seventy were rejected by the committee
\n appointed by Jesus to select these candidates. This committee consisted
\n of Andrew, Abner, and the acting head of the evangelistic corps. In all
\n cases where this committee of three were not unanimous in agreement, they
\n brought the candidate to Jesus, and while the Master never rejected a
\n single person who craved ordination as a gospel messenger, there were
\n more than a dozen who, when they had talked with Jesus, no more desired
\n to become gospel messengers. <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1801 – §5 One earnest disciple came to Jesus, saying:
\n "Master, I would be one of your new apostles, but my father is very
\n old and near death; could I be permitted to return home to bury him?"
\n To this man Jesus said: "My son, the foxes have holes, and the birds
\n of heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
\n You are a faithful disciple, and you can remain such while you return
\n home to minister to your loved ones, but not so with my gospel messengers.
\n They have forsaken all to follow me and proclaim the kingdom. If you would
\n be an ordained teacher, you must let others bury the dead while you go
\n forth to publish the good news." And this man went away in great
\n disappointment.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1801 – §6 Another disciple came to the Master and
\n said: "I would become an ordained messenger, but I would like to
\n go to my home for a short while to comfort my family." And Jesus
\n replied: "If you would be ordained, you must be willing to forsake
\n all. The gospel messengers cannot have divided affections. No man, having
\n put his hand to the plough, if he turns back, is worthy to become a messenger
\n of the kingdom."<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1801 – §7 Then Andrew brought to Jesus a certain
\n rich young man who was a devout believer, and who desired to receive ordination.
\n This young man, Matadormus,
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1802 – §0 was a member of the Jerusalem Sanhedrin;
\n he had heard Jesus teach and had been subsequently instructed in the gospel
\n of the kingdom by Peter and the other apostles. Jesus talked with Matadormus
\n concerning the requirements of ordination and requested that he defer
\n decision until after he had thought more fully about the matter. Early
\n the next morning, as Jesus was going for a walk, this young man accosted
\n him and said: "Master, I would know from you the assurances of eternal
\n life. Seeing that I have observed all the commandments from my youth,
\n I would like to know what more I must do to gain eternal life?" In
\n answer to this question Jesus said: "If you keep all the commandments–do
\n not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
\n do not defraud, honor your parents–you do well, but salvation is the
\n reward of faith, not merely of works. Do you believe this gospel of the
\n kingdom?" And Matadormus answered: "Yes, Master, I do believe
\n everything you and your apostles have taught me." And Jesus said,
\n "Then are you indeed my disciple and a child of the kingdom."
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1802 – §1 Then said the young man: "But, Master,
\n I am not content to be your disciple; I would be one of your new messengers."
\n When Jesus heard this, he looked down upon him with a great love and said:
\n "I will have you to be one of my messengers if you are willing to
\n pay the price, if you will supply the one thing which you lack."
\n Matadormus replied: "Master, I will do anything if I may be allowed
\n to follow you." Jesus, kissing the kneeling young man on the forehead,
\n said: "If you would be my messenger, go and sell all that you have
\n and, when you have bestowed the proceeds upon the poor or upon your brethren,
\n come and follow me, and you shall have treasure in the kingdom of heaven."
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1802 – §2 When Matadormus heard this, his countenance
\n fell. He arose and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
\n This wealthy young Pharisee had been raised to believe that wealth was
\n the token of God’s favor. Jesus knew that he was not free from the love
\n of himself and his riches. The Master wanted to deliver him from the love
\n of wealth, not necessarily from the wealth. While the disciples of Jesus
\n did not part with all their worldly goods, the apostles and the seventy
\n did. Matadormus desired to be one of the seventy new messengers, and that
\n was the reason for Jesus’ requiring him to part with all of his temporal
\n possessions.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1802 – §3 Almost every human being has some one
\n thing which is held on to as a pet evil, and which the entrance into the
\n kingdom of heaven requires as a part of the price of admission. If Matadormus
\n had parted with his wealth, it probably would have been put right back
\n into his hands for administration as treasurer of the seventy. For later
\n on, after the establishment of the church at Jerusalem, he did obey the
\n Master’s injunction, although it was then too late to enjoy membership
\n in the seventy, and he became the treasurer of the Jerusalem church, of
\n which James the Lord’s brother in the flesh was the head.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1802 – §4 Thus always it was and forever will be:
\n Men must arrive at their own decisions. There is a certain range of the
\n freedom of choice which mortals may exercise. The forces of the spiritual
\n world will not coerce man; they allow him to go the way of his own choosing.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1802 – §5 Jesus foresaw that Matadormus, with his
\n riches, could not possibly become an ordained associate of men who had
\n forsaken all for the gospel; at the same time, he saw that, without his
\n riches, he would become the ultimate leader of all of them. But, like
\n Jesus’ own brethren, he never became great in the kingdom
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1803 – §0 because he deprived himself of that intimate
\n and personal association with the Master which might have been his experience
\n had he been willing to do at this time the very thing which Jesus asked,
\n and which, several years subsequently, he actually did.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1803 – §1 Riches have nothing directly to do with
\n entrance into the kingdom of heaven, but the love of wealth does. The
\n spiritual loyalties of the kingdom are incompatible with servility to
\n materialistic mammon. Man may not share his supreme loyalty to a spiritual
\n ideal with a material devotion.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1803 – §2 Jesus never taught that it was wrong
\n to have wealth. He required only the twelve and the seventy to dedicate
\n all of their worldly possessions to the common cause. Even then, he provided
\n for the profitable liquidation of their property, as in the case of the
\n Apostle Matthew. Jesus many times advised his well-to-do disciples as
\n he taught the rich man of Rome. The Master regarded the wise investment
\n of excess earnings as a legitimate form of insurance against future and
\n unavoidable adversity. When the apostolic treasury was overflowing, Judas
\n put funds on deposit to be used subsequently when they might suffer greatly
\n from a diminution of income. This Judas did after consultation with Andrew.
\n Jesus never personally had anything to do with the apostolic finances
\n except in the disbursement of alms. But there was one economic abuse which
\n he many times condemned, and that was the unfair exploitation of the weak,
\n unlearned, and less fortunate of men by their strong, keen, and more intelligent
\n fellows. Jesus declared that such inhuman treatment of men, women, and
\n children was incompatible with the ideals of the brotherhood of the kingdom
\n of heaven.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3. THE DISCUSSION ABOUT WEALTH – P.1803
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P.1803 – §3 By the time Jesus had finished talking
\n with Matadormus, Peter and a number of the apostles had gathered about
\n him, and as the rich young man was departing, Jesus turned around to face
\n the apostles and said: "You see how difficult it is for those who
\n have riches to enter fully into the kingdom of God! Spiritual worship
\n cannot be shared with material devotions; no man can serve two masters.
\n You have a saying that it is `easier for a camel to go through the eye
\n of a needle than for the heathen to inherit eternal life.’ And I declare
\n that it is as easy for this camel to go through the needle’s eye as for
\n these self-satisfied rich ones to enter the kingdom of heaven."
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1803 – §4 When Peter and the apostles heard these
\n words, they were astonished exceedingly, so much so that Peter said: "Who
\n then, Lord, can be saved? Shall all who have riches be kept out of the
\n kingdom?" And Jesus replied: "No, Peter, but all who put their
\n trust in riches shall hardly enter into the spiritual life that leads
\n to eternal progress. But even then, much which is impossible to man is
\n not beyond the reach of the Father in heaven; rather should we recognize
\n that with God all things are possible."
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1803 – §5 As they went off by themselves, Jesus
\n was grieved that Matadormus did not remain with them, for he greatly loved
\n him. And when they had walked down by the lake, they sat there beside
\n the water, and Peter, speaking for the twelve (who were all present by
\n this time), said: "We are troubled by your words to the rich young
\n man. Shall we require those who would follow you to give up all their
\n worldly goods?" And Jesus said: "No, Peter, only those who would
\n become apostles, and who desire to live with me as you do and as one family.
\n But the Father requires that the affections of his children be pure and
\n undivided. Whatever
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P.1804 – §0 thing or person comes between you and
\n the love of the truths of the kingdom, must be surrendered. If one’s wealth
\n does not invade the precincts of the soul, it is of no consequence in
\n the spiritual life of those who would enter the kingdom."
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1804 – §1 And then said Peter, "But, Master,
\n we have left everything to follow you, what then shall we have?"
\n And Jesus spoke to all of the twelve: "Verily, verily, I say to you,
\n there is no man who has left wealth, home, wife, brethren, parents, or
\n children for my sake and for the sake of the kingdom of heaven who shall
\n not receive manifold more in this world, perhaps with some persecutions,
\n and in the world to come eternal life. But many who are first shall be
\n last, while the last shall often be first. The Father deals with his creatures
\n in accordance with their needs and in obedience to his just laws of merciful
\n and loving consideration for the welfare of a universe.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1804 – §2 "The kingdom of heaven is like a
\n householder who was a large employer of men, and who went out early in
\n the morning to hire laborers to work in his vineyard. When he had agreed
\n with the laborers to pay them a denarius a day, he sent them into the
\n vineyard. Then he went out about nine o’clock, and seeing others standing
\n in the market place idle, he said to them: `Go you also to work in my
\n vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will pay you.’ And they went at once
\n to work. Again he went out about twelve and about three and did likewise.
\n And going to the market place about five in the afternoon, he found still
\n others standing idle, and he inquired of them, `Why do you stand here
\n idle all the day?’ And the men answered, `Because nobody has hired us.’
\n Then said the householder: `Go you also to work in my vineyard, and whatever
\n is right I will pay you.’
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P.1804 – §3 "When evening came, this owner of
\n the vineyard said to his steward: `Call the laborers and pay them their
\n wages, beginning with the last hired and ending with the first.’ When
\n those who were hired about five o’clock came, they received a denarius
\n each, and so it was with each of the other laborers. When the men who
\n were hired at the beginning of the day saw how the later comers were paid,
\n they expected to receive more than the amount agreed upon. But like the
\n others every man received only a denarius. And when each had received
\n his pay, they complained to the householder, saying: `These men who were
\n hired last worked only one hour, and yet you have paid them the same as
\n us who have borne the burden of the day in the scorching sun.’
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1804 – §4 "Then answered the householder:
\n `My friends, I do you no wrong. Did not each of you agree to work for
\n a denarius a day? Take now that which is yours and go your way, for it
\n is my desire to give to those who came last as much as I have given to
\n you. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? or do you
\n begrudge my generosity because I desire to be good and to show mercy?’"<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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4. FAREWELL TO THE SEVENTY – P.1804
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P.1804 – §5 It was a stirring time about the Magadan
\n Camp the day the seventy went forth on their first mission. Early that
\n morning, in his last talk with the seventy, Jesus placed emphasis on the
\n following:<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1804 – §6 1. The gospel of the kingdom must be
\n proclaimed to all the world, to gentile as well as to Jew.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1804 – §7 2. While ministering to the sick, refrain
\n from teaching the expectation of miracles.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §1 3. Proclaim a spiritual brotherhood of
\n the sons of God, not an outward kingdom of worldly power and material
\n glory.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §2 4. Avoid loss of time through overmuch
\n social visiting and other trivialities which might detract from wholehearted
\n devotion to preaching the gospel.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §3 5. If the first house to be selected
\n for a headquarters proves to be a worthy home, abide there throughout
\n the sojourn in that city.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §4 6. Make clear to all faithful believers
\n that the time for an open break with the religious leaders of the Jews
\n at Jerusalem has now come.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §5 7. Teach that man’s whole duty is summed
\n up in this one commandment: Love the Lord your God with all your mind
\n and soul and your neighbor as yourself. (This they were to teach as man’s
\n whole duty in place of the 613 rules of living expounded by the Pharisees.)
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §6 When Jesus had talked thus to the seventy
\n in the presence of all the apostles and disciples, Simon Peter took them
\n off by themselves and preached to them their ordination sermon, which
\n was an elaboration of the Master’s charge given at the time he laid his
\n hands upon them and set them apart as messengers of the kingdom. Peter
\n exhorted the seventy to cherish in their experience the following virtues:<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §7 1. Consecrated devotion. To pray always
\n for more laborers to be sent forth into the gospel harvest. He explained
\n that, when one so prays, he will the more likely say, "Here am I;
\n send me." He admonished them to neglect not their daily worship.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §8 2. True courage. He warned them that
\n they would encounter hostility and be certain to meet with persecution.
\n Peter told them their mission was no undertaking for cowards and advised
\n those who were afraid to step out before they started. But none withdrew.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §9 3. Faith and trust. They must go forth
\n on this short mission wholly unprovided for; they must trust the Father
\n for food and shelter and all other things needful.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §10 4. Zeal and initiative. They must be
\n possessed with zeal and intelligent enthusiasm; they must attend strictly
\n to their Master’s business. Oriental salutation was a lengthy and elaborate
\n ceremony; therefore had they been instructed to "salute no man by
\n the way," which was a common method of exhorting one to go about
\n his business without the waste of time. It had nothing to do with the
\n matter of friendly greeting.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §11 5. Kindness and courtesy. The Master
\n had instructed them to avoid unnecessary waste of time in social ceremonies,
\n but he enjoined courtesy toward all with whom they should come in contact.
\n They were to show every kindness to those who might entertain them in
\n their homes. They were strictly warned against leaving a modest home to
\n be entertained in a more comfortable or influential one.<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §12 6. Ministry to the sick. The seventy
\n were charged by Peter to search out the sick in mind and body and to do
\n everything in their power to bring about the alleviation or cure of their
\n maladies.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1805 – §13 And when they had been thus charged
\n and instructed, they started out, two and two, on their mission in Galilee,
\n Samaria, and Judea.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1806 – §1 Although the Jews had a peculiar regard
\n for the number seventy, sometimes considering the nations of heathendom
\n as being seventy in number, and although these seventy messengers were
\n to go with the gospel to all peoples, still as far as we can discern,
\n it was only coincidental that this group happened to number just seventy.
\n Certain it was that Jesus would have accepted no less than half a dozen
\n others, but they were unwilling to pay the price of forsaking wealth and
\n families.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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5. MOVING THE CAMP TO PELLA – P.1806
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P.1806 – §2 Jesus and the twelve now prepared to
\n establish their last headquarters in Perea, near Pella, where the Master
\n was baptized in the Jordan. The last ten days of November were spent in
\n council at Magadan, and on Tuesday, December 6, the entire company of
\n almost three hundred started out at daybreak with all their effects to
\n lodge that night near Pella by the river. This was the same site, by the
\n spring, that John the Baptist had occupied with his camp several years
\n before.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1806 – §3 After the breaking up of the Magadan
\n Camp, David Zebedee returned to Bethsaida and began immediately to curtail
\n the messenger service. The kingdom was taking on a new phase. Daily, pilgrims
\n arrived from all parts of Palestine and even from remote regions of the
\n Roman Empire. Believers occasionally came from Mesopotamia and from the
\n lands east of the Tigris. Accordingly, on Sunday, December 18, David,
\n with the help of his messenger corps, loaded on to the pack animals the
\n camp equipage, then stored in his father’s house, with which he had formerly
\n conducted the camp of Bethsaida by the lake. Bidding farewell to Bethsaida
\n for the time being, he proceeded down the lake shore and along the Jordan
\n to a point about one-half mile north of the apostolic camp; and in less
\n than a week he was prepared to offer hospitality to almost fifteen hundred
\n pilgrim visitors. The apostolic camp could accommodate about five hundred.
\n This was the rainy season in Palestine, and these accommodations were
\n required to take care of the ever-increasing number of inquirers, mostly
\n earnest, who came into Perea to see Jesus and to hear his teaching.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1806 – §4 David did all this on his own initiative,
\n though he had taken counsel with Philip and Matthew at Magadan. He employed
\n the larger part of his former messenger corps as his helpers in conducting
\n this camp; he now used less than twenty men on regular messenger duty.
\n Near the end of December and before the return of the seventy, almost
\n eight hundred visitors were gathered about the Master, and they found
\n lodging in David’s camp.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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6. THE RETURN OF THE SEVENTY – P.1806
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1806 – §5 On Friday, December 30, while Jesus was
\n away in the near-by hills with Peter, James, and John, the seventy messengers
\n were arriving by couples, accompanied by numerous believers, at the Pella
\n headquarters. All seventy were assembled at the teaching site about five
\n o’clock when Jesus returned to the camp. The evening meal was delayed
\n for more than an hour while these enthusiasts for the gospel of the kingdom
\n related their experiences. David’s messengers had brought much of this
\n news to the apostles during previous weeks, but it was truly inspiring
\n to hear these newly ordained teachers of the gospel personally tell how
\n their message had been received by hungry Jews and gentiles. At last Jesus
\n
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1807 – §0 was able to see men going out to spread
\n the good news without his personal presence. The Master now knew that
\n he could leave this world without seriously hindering the progress of
\n the kingdom.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1807 – §1 When the seventy related how "even
\n the devils were subject" to them, they referred to the wonderful
\n cures they had wrought in the cases of victims of nervous disorders. Nevertheless,
\n there had been a few cases of real spirit possession relieved by these
\n ministers, and referring to these, Jesus said: "It is not strange
\n that these disobedient minor spirits should be subject to you, seeing
\n that I beheld Satan falling as lightning from heaven. But rejoice not
\n so much over this, for I declare to you that, as soon as I return to my
\n Father, we will send forth our spirits into the very minds of men so that
\n no more can these few lost spirits enter the minds of unfortunate mortals.
\n I rejoice with you that you have power with men, but be not lifted up
\n because of this experience but the rather rejoice that your names are
\n written on the rolls of heaven, and that you are thus to go forward in
\n an endless career of spiritual conquest."
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1807 – §2 And it was at this time, just before
\n partaking of the evening meal, that Jesus experienced one of those rare
\n moments of emotional ecstasy which his followers had occasionally witnessed.
\n He said: "I thank you, my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that,
\n while this wonderful gospel was hidden from the wise and self-righteous,
\n the spirit has revealed these spiritual glories to these children of the
\n kingdom. Yes, my Father, it must have been pleasing in your sight to do
\n this, and I rejoice to know that the good news will spread to all the
\n world even after I shall have returned to you and the work which you have
\n given me to perform. I am mightily moved as I realize you are about to
\n deliver all authority into my hands, that only you really know who I am,
\n and that only I really know you, and those to whom I have revealed you.
\n And when I have finished this revelation to my brethren in the flesh,
\n I will continue the revelation to your creatures on high."
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P.1807 – §3 When Jesus had thus spoken to the Father,
\n he turned aside to speak to his apostles and ministers: "Blessed
\n are the eyes which see and the ears which hear these things. Let me say
\n to you that many prophets and many of the great men of the past ages have
\n desired to behold what you now see, but it was not granted them. And many
\n generations of the children of light yet to come will, when they hear
\n of these things, envy you who have heard and seen them."
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P.1807 – §4 Then, speaking to all the disciples,
\n he said: "You have heard how many cities and villages have received
\n the good news of the kingdom, and how my ministers and teachers have been
\n received by both the Jew and the gentile. And blessed indeed are these
\n communities which have elected to believe the gospel of the kingdom. But
\n woe upon the light-rejecting inhabitants of Chorazin, Bethsaida-Julias,
\n and Capernaum, the cities which did not well receive these messengers.
\n I declare that, if the mighty works done in these places had been done
\n in Tyre and Sidon, the people of these so-called heathen cities would
\n have long since repented in sackcloth and ashes. It shall indeed be more
\n tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment."
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P.1807 – §5 The next day being the Sabbath, Jesus
\n went apart with the seventy and said to them: "I did indeed rejoice
\n with you when you came back bearing the good tidings of the reception
\n of the gospel of the kingdom by so many people scattered throughout Galilee,
\n Samaria, and Judea. But why were you so surprisingly elated? Did you not
\n expect that your message would manifest power in its delivery? Did you
\n go forth with so little faith in this gospel that you come back
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1808 – §0 in surprise at its effectiveness? And
\n now, while I would not quench your spirit of rejoicing, I would sternly
\n warn you against the subtleties of pride, spiritual pride. If you could
\n understand the downfall of Lucifer, the iniquitous one, you would solemnly
\n shun all forms of spiritual pride.
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P.1808 – §1 "You have entered upon this great
\n work of teaching mortal man that he is a son of God. I have shown you
\n the way; go forth to do your duty and be not weary in well doing. To you
\n and to all who shall follow in your steps down through the ages, let me
\n say: I always stand near, and my invitation-call is, and ever shall be,
\n Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
\n rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am true and loyal,
\n and you shall find spiritual rest for your souls."<\/font><\/p>\n

P.1808 – §2 And they found the Master’s words to
\n be true when they put his promises to the test. And since that day countless
\n thousands also have tested and proved the surety of these same promises.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

7. PREPARATION FOR THE LAST MISSION – P.1808
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1808 – §3 The next few days were busy times in
\n the Pella camp; preparations for the Perean mission were being completed.
\n Jesus and his associates were about to enter upon their last mission,
\n the three months’ tour of all Perea, which terminated only upon the Master’s
\n entering Jerusalem for his final labors on earth. Throughout this period
\n the headquarters of Jesus and the twelve apostles was maintained here
\n at the Pella camp.
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P.1808 – §4 It was no longer necessary for Jesus
\n to go abroad to teach the people. They now came to him in increasing numbers
\n each week and from all parts, not only from Palestine but from the whole
\n Roman world and from the Near East. Although the Master participated with
\n the seventy in the tour of Perea, he spent much of his time at the Pella
\n camp, teaching the multitude and instructing the twelve. Throughout this
\n three months’ period at least ten of the apostles remained with Jesus.
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P.1808 – §5 The women’s corps also prepared to go
\n out, two and two, with the seventy to labor in the larger cities of Perea.
\n This original group of twelve women had recently trained a larger corps
\n of fifty women in the work of home visitation and in the art of ministering
\n to the sick and the afflicted. Perpetua, Simon Peter’s wife, became a
\n member of this new division of the women’s corps and was intrusted with
\n the leadership of the enlarged women’s work under Abner. After Pentecost
\n she remained with her illustrious husband, accompanying him on all of
\n his missionary tours; and on the day Peter was crucified in Rome, she
\n was fed to the wild beasts in the arena. This new women’s corps also had
\n as members the wives of Philip and Matthew and the mother of James and
\n John.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n

P.1808 – §6 The work of the kingdom now prepared
\n to enter upon its terminal phase under the personal leadership of Jesus.
\n And this present phase was one of spiritual depth in contrast with the
\n miracle-minded and wonder-seeking multitudes who followed after the Master
\n during the former days of popularity in Galilee. However, there were still
\n any number of his followers who were material-minded, and who failed to
\n grasp the truth that the kingdom of heaven is the spiritual brotherhood
\n of man founded on the eternal fact of the universal fatherhood of God.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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