Here are quotations about Jesus becoming king in 1878?
...but Behold he has come, and we are now living "in the [parousia] presence of the Son of man." And this has been the character of the present movement, from then until now, -a proclamation of the Lord's presence and of the kingdom work now in progress. The writer, and co-laborers, proclaimed the fact of the Lord's presence, demonstrating it from prophecy, and on charts or tables, such as are used in this book, until the fall 1878, when arrangements were made for starting our present monthly publication, ZION'S WATCH TOWER, and the Herald of Christ's Presence." |
| When, three and a half years later (A.D. 33), our Lord assumed the office of King, a,d permitted (what before he had refused - John 6:15) that the people should mount him upon an ass and hail him King, it marked a point in this antitypical Gospel harvest more important far than of the type. The parallel to this, as we have seen, points to 1874 as the time of our Lord's second presence as Bridegroom and Reaper, and to April 1878, as the time when he began to exercice his office of King of kings and Lord of lords in very deed, - this time a spiritual King, present with all power, though invisible to men. |
Source : MILLENNIAL DAWN, Vol.III, Thy Kingdom Come (1st-ed - 1891), page 150
| The taking of the kingly office by our Lord in A.D. 33, and his first official act in rejecting the national church of fleshy Israel, taken in connection with all the striking parallels of two ages, indicates very clearly that at the parallel point of time in the present harvest, i.e., 1878, mystic Babylon, otherwise called Christendom, the antitype of Judaism, was cut off; and there went forth the message, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and cage of every unclean and hateful bird." - Rev. 18:2. |
Source : MILLENNIAL DAWN, Vol.III, Thy Kingdom Come (1st-ed - 1891), page 153
| But note another itel here. Between the time when Babylon is cast off, falls from favor (1878), and the time when the plagues or troubles come upon her, is a brief interval of time, during which the faithful of the Lord's people are all to be informed on this subject, and gathered out of Babylon. This clearly shown in the same verse; for with the message, "Babylon is fallen" is coupled the call, "Come out of her my people, that ye... receive not her [comig] plagues." |
Source : MILLENNIAL DAWN, Vol.III, Thy Kingdom Come (1st-ed - 1891), page 165
| Our belief that the Kingdom began to be set up, or brought into power, in April 1878, be it observed, rests on exactly the same foundation as our belief that the Lord became present in October 1874 |