Every symbol defined in this handbook, alphabetically (leading articles ignored), with its receipts and owning section.
- the ark = the God-appointed structure of separating faith that divides the two streams and saves the remnant; to build it "condemned the world," to enter it is to be shut in by God before judgment — the pattern of every later call to "come out and be separate" (Gen. 6:14; Gen. 6:22; Heb. 11:7; Gen. 7:1; Gen. 7:16; 2 Cor. 6:17; Rev. 18:4). — defined in "As in the Days of Noah — the Two Streams".
- the backward look = the divided heart that forfeits the kingdom, the exact opposite of the ark-builder's forward faith; the hand on the plough that turns back is "not fit for the kingdom" (Luke 9:62) and to "draw back" is "unto perdition" (Heb. 10:38-39) — not the eyes only but the heart still tethered to what was left behind (Luke 17:31-32; Gen. 19:17). — defined in "Remember Lot's Wife — the Backward Look".
- buying and selling = the world's commercial dependence, the lever by which the mark is enforced; the life of Sodom Christ names in the day of His revealing and the merchandise of doomed Babylon, broken by the separated, self-provisioning country life (Rev. 13:17; Luke 17:28-30; Rev. 18:4, 11; AH 141.4; CL 21.1). — defined in "The Seal or the Mark — the Final Marked Contrast".
- calling on the name of the LORD = the dividing act of the faithful seed — open, avowed worship of and dependence on God, by which the line of Seth marks itself off from the line of Cain (Gen. 4:26; Gen. 5:24; Gen. 6:9; GW 51.2). — defined in "As in the Days of Noah — the Two Streams".
- the city = the world's gathered confusion and self-trust — Cain's city, Babel, Babylon the great, the habitation of devils — the place of accumulated corruption marked for destruction, with Sodom and Babylon for its doom-types (Gen. 4:17; Gen. 11:4; Luke 17:28-30; Rev. 14:8; Rev. 18:2). — defined in "Out of the Cities — the Message Refused".
- coming out = the obedient separation of God's people from Babylon the city of confusion, in body and in spirit — the act of faith, the means of deliverance, and the condition of God's reception, culminating in the last message, "Come out of her, my people" (Gen. 12:1; Gen. 19:17; Isa. 48:20; Jer. 51:6; 2 Cor. 6:17; Heb. 11:8; Rev. 18:4). — defined in "Out of the Cities — the Message Refused".
- the country = the place of separation, dependence on God, and refuge — the garden where God first set man and calls him again, the peaceable habitation and quiet resting place He promises His people, away from the crowded city (Gen. 2:8; Gen. 2:15; Isa. 32:18; Heb. 11:9). — defined in "Out of the Cities — the Message Refused".
- the days of Noah = the antitype of the last age — an ordinary eating, drinking, marrying world, advanced in arts and industry yet morally corrupt, heedless and "knowing not" until sudden judgment falls; appointed by Christ as the picture of the time of His coming (Luke 17:26-27; Matt. 24:37-39; Gen. 6:5; Gen. 4:17; Gen. 4:21-22; DA 633.1; CD 435.2). — defined in "As in the Days of Noah — the Two Streams".
- the delay = the avoidable lengthening of probation, the "long years" that might have been spared (the avoidable, typological lengthening that need not have been — distinct from the tarrying in that it could have been spared), typified by Israel's wilderness wandering — eleven days made forty by unbelief, a "breach of promise" of Israel's own making, written for our admonition (Num. 14:33-34; Deut. 1:2-3; 1 Cor. 10:11; 8T 115.5). — defined in "He Might Have Come — the Delay Was Ours".
- the gold tried in the fire (true riches) = faith that works by love — proved and purified through trial — which the True Witness offers in exchange for the false goods; not hoarded ease but tested faith, "more precious than of gold that perisheth"; to "buy" it is to make the exchange the young ruler refused (Rev. 3:18; Gal. 5:6; 1 Pet. 1:7; Heb. 11:26). — defined in "Rich and Increased with Goods — the Laodicean Refusal".
- the goods / riches (false riches) = the worldly increase — business, comfort, position, possessions — that holds the heart in the city and refuses the cross of separation; the thing the Laodicean boasts in and the thing that makes him "poor toward God"; to lay it up is to be the rich fool, to cling to it is to go away sorrowful like the young ruler (Rev. 3:17; Luke 12:16-21; 1 Tim. 6:9-10; Matt. 19:21-22; Matt. 6:19-21). — defined in "Rich and Increased with Goods — the Laodicean Refusal".
- Laodicea (the lukewarm, self-sufficient church) = the last-days church of Christ that is neither cold nor hot, deceived by its own prosperity into saying "I have need of nothing" while Christ sees it "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked"; its disease is the love of the world that displaces the love of the Father, leaving a name and a profession but no zeal, unwilling to die to self and bear the cross of separation (Rev. 3:14-17; Rev. 3:15-16; 1 John 2:15-17; Matt. 6:24). — defined in "Rich and Increased with Goods — the Laodicean Refusal".
- Lot's wife = the half-separated soul — body out of the city but heart still in it — lost in sight of refuge; she "looked back from behind him" and became a pillar of salt (Gen. 19:26), named by Christ as the standing warning to the last generation (Luke 17:32; Luke 17:31). — defined in "Remember Lot's Wife — the Backward Look".
- the mark of the beast = forced conformity to the beast's worship — its counterfeit Sabbath — received in forehead or hand, the very places God sets His seal and bound His law; enforced through commerce, its wage the unmingled wrath of God and "no rest," the antithesis of the Sabbath rest of the seal (Rev. 13:16-17; Rev. 14:9-11; Deut. 6:8; 3AM 94.3). — defined in "The Seal or the Mark — the Final Marked Contrast".
- the present call = the still-open summons to come out of Babylon and the city, sounding now before the door shuts — a present voice, not a closed verdict; the True Witness standing and knocking and the heaven-voice crying "Come out of her, my people," conditional and personal, answerable by any who will hear, open until the plagues fall (Rev. 18:4; Rev. 3:18-20; 2 Cor. 6:17-18; Matt. 25:6, 10; GC 604.1; JNN 285.3). — defined in "Come Out and Be Ready — Why He Tarries, and How He Comes".
- readiness = the watching, separated, sealed state of those who will meet the Lord without looking back — loins girded and lights burning, waiting to open immediately, watching because the hour is unknown, not sleeping but sober, a full coming-out that does not look back; its end the cry "Even so, come, Lord Jesus" (Luke 12:35-37; Matt. 24:42-44; 1 Thess. 5:6; Gen. 19:26; Rev. 22:20; MWV1 194.2). — defined in "Come Out and Be Ready — Why He Tarries, and How He Comes".
- righteousness by faith = the righteousness of God — Christ Himself, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS — received by faith "without the deeds of the law" yet establishing the law, counted to the believer as to Abraham; the gospel, "the power of God unto salvation," a living faith that works; the "faith of Jesus" of Rev. 14:12, "the third angel's message in verity" (Hab. 2:4; Rom. 1:16-17; Rom. 3:21-31; Jer. 23:5-6; Gen. 15:6; Jas. 2:17-18; Rom. 5:1; 1SM 372.2). — defined in "The Third Angel in Verity — Righteousness by Faith".
- the seal of God = the Sabbath sign and the settled, sanctified character of the commandment-keeping, faith-of-Jesus remnant, set in the forehead (the mind/allegiance); the "seal of the righteousness of the faith," producing faultless, immovable character (Eze. 20:12, 20; Exo. 31:13; Rom. 4:11; Rev. 7:2-3; Rev. 14:1, 5, 12; THB 44.2; DD 49.2; 3AM 90.2). — defined in "The Seal or the Mark — the Final Marked Contrast".
- the seal of the living God = the mark set in the forehead (mind, choice) on those sealed before the winds are loosed; the Father's NAME — His character — written within by the Holy Spirit; a settling into the truth and the reproduction of Christ's character, righteousness by faith made permanent in the commandment-and-faith people of Rev. 14:12 (Rev. 7:2-3; Rev. 14:1; Eph. 4:30; LDE 219.4; LDE 221.1). — defined in "The Third Angel in Verity — Righteousness by Faith".
- Sodom = the doomed city whose ease and plenty entangle the righteous who linger in it; its iniquity is "pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness," not first gross crime (Eze. 16:49-50), its end fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24-25), set as an "ensample" to the last ungodly age (2 Pet. 2:6), the city out of which God's people must come (Rev. 18:4; 2 Cor. 6:17). — defined in "Remember Lot's Wife — the Backward Look".
- the tarrying = the prolonging of the time before the advent (the term Scripture and the parables use for the genuine prolonging), charged not to God but to His people's unreadiness; the bridegroom tarries while the virgins slumber, the wicked servant says "My lord delayeth," yet the Lord is "not slack" and the day may be "hasted" by readiness (Matt. 24:48; Matt. 25:5; 2 Pet. 3:9, 12; Hab. 2:3). — defined in "He Might Have Come — the Delay Was Ours".
- the third angel's message = the final warning of Rev. 14:9-12 against the beast, his image, and his mark, consummated in a people who "keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" — law and gospel fused, not bare law-keeping but commandment-keeping faith; its substance is righteousness by faith, proclaimed with a loud voice and the Spirit in large measure (Rev. 14:9-12; Rev. 14:15; 1SM 372.2; TM 91.2). — defined in "The Third Angel in Verity — Righteousness by Faith".