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FAITHFULNESS EHOVAH preserves the faithful. (Ps. 31: 23) Those who abide in the ro,ral house of Jehovah will maintain their integrity under all conditions now and will be faithful to him for ever. Rules and requirements must be observed and followed out as they have been made by the "higher powers", God and his organization. (Rom. 13: 1-4) Such rules and requirements were foreshadowed by the careful measurements set forth in Jehovah's prophecy written by gzeldel (chapter 41) concerning the marvelous temple shown by Jehovah in a vision he gave that prophet. Ezeldel had been led from the outside through the gate into the outer court and into the inner ('ourt, and now he stood on the porch at the door of the temple: "Afterward he [Ezckiel's heaven-sent guide] brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the taber- nacle." (Ezek. 41: 1) That building was the most im- portant of all the structure upon which Ezekiel's eye had been f(·asting. His guide first measured the posts J of the door, or entrance to the temple; but the height of these posts is not given in the measurements: These posts stood beside the temple door. Ezekiel's guide, before going inside of the temple, measured the door thereof on either side, and the length and the breadth of the temple. "And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side; and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits." (Ezek. 41 : 2) These measme- ments show what is required of the priests who enter the temple or royal house of Jehovah. "Organized Christianity," by its spellbinders, has for many years taught the people that one might accept Christ Jesus as his Savior while on his deathbed and die and im- mediately go to heaven. The careful measurements made by the guide of Ezekiel from the outer gate pro- gressively to the temple show that such eC(·lesiastical claim is entirely erroneous. 1'he one whom Jehovah be- gets and then invites to his house must first prove his faithfulness at each step he takes before he takes the next progressive step.
