Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-23
Purpose of the Jewish Age.

THE Jewish age. its law and types. led
up to and prepared the way for the grand
work Of this gospel age, which scripturally
is declared to be the selection from among
men of little flock. jealous for good, for
righteousness, for truth to be ioint-heirs
with the Lord Jesus in the kingdom which
the Lord proposes shall ultimately suppress
Satan and destroy the works of darkness.
and lift up all the willing and obedient Of
the human family. The Scriptures declare
that all these dealings of God are more or
less along the lines of an election. God
elected Abraham choosing him from many
others in the world to be the one through
whom the gracious promises would reach
fulfllment He chose definitely between his
sons that the seed should come through
Isaac. He dealt definitely with Isaacs sons
determining before their birth through
which the promised Messiah should
come The entire nation Of Israel was thus
elected out from among the other nations
of the world to be Gods special people and
to perform the types recorded and the
prophecies, etc, that he graciouSly pur-
posed to give for the information of a class
still future at that time-spirftual Israel, of
which Christ is the head and the church
his body During this gospel age, also. the
operation of divine power has been some
what along the lines of election or selection.
Divine providence has Unquestionably guild
ed the light of the gospel more to some
tons than to others. with the result that
apparently the majority of the little flock
now being selected have been chosen from
among the peoples of Europe and their
descendants in America. This is not an cleo
ton in an Objectionable sense, but an cleo
ton in the sense of faVOring some more
than others with opportunities for service,
for the developing of character, and thus
for preparation for ioint-heirship with the
Lord in His kingdom for which We pray
thy kingdom come and which according
to His instruction we expect will come when
the election of the church has been COM
pleted-when the Jewels shall have been
polished and prepared for His use.
with the close of this present evil world
or dispense ton and the opening of the
world of dispensation which is to have no
end all election and preference seems to
disappe according to scriptural teaching.
So far as the milennial age is concerned. it
appears not to be one of choice or election.
but rather one of free grace in which all
the families of the earth shall be blessed
with full clear knowledge of God, and with
full opportunity for serving and obeying
Him and attaining thus everlasting life And
while we cannot refer to the millennial age
and prove it. as can the Others from the
testimony of Scripture and history, we can
no less clearly prove to all what its char
acter will be. Concerning the miilennial
age the Scriptures assure us that in that
day of ChrSt'S reign the world in general
will be blessed they specify that the
knowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole
earth as the waters cover the great deep,
so that none need say to his neighbor They
declare to us that in His day. the day of
His kingdom when He shall have taken
His great power and exercised it to the re-
straint of Satan and to the dispensing of the