"And it came to pass, when Jehovah would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal." 2 Kings 2:1   The journey Elijah and Elisha from Gilgal to river Jordan depicts (2 Kgs 2:1-14) depicts the same as the second going forth of all the virgins to meet the Bridegroom (from Lord Jesus’s parable; Mt 25:1-13). Both episodes, one from the Old Testament and the other from the New, illustrate the final phase of the completing of the Church class, started with a clear message from God about the time of her glorification. Elijah knew that he was going on his last journey, and the virgins in the parable, both wise and foolish, have been awakened by the cry at a midnight that ultimately the Bridegroom had come to take them to Himself.       In 1916, in the preface to the second volume of Studies in the Scriptures, its author wrote: "This Volume [being published in 1889] sets forth, what its author has been preaching for over forty years, that the "Times of the Gentiles" chronologically ended in the fall of A.D. 1914… We could not, of course, to know in 1889, whether the date 1914, so clearly marked in ...more