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