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be suitable substitutes for the broken
off Jewish branches, so that eventually
the olive tree would have the full num-
Der of branches definitely foreknown
and intended-a few of them natural
branches Including the Apostles and
all the Jews who received Christ in
sincerity and the remainder of that
spiritual olive tree, branches grated
in from amongst the Gentiles. The
tree as a whole, then, represents spir-
itual Israel, the zone new man" men,
toned by the Apostle, whose head is
Christ and whose members are partly
Jewish and partly Gentle, trans
formed, renewed Ephesians ii, 15).
Ignorant of This Mystery.
Continuing his discussion of the SUBJ
ject, in this same chapter, ST. Paul
says, Il would not, brethren, that We
should be ignorant of this mystery, lest
We be wise in your own conceit that
blindness in part is happened to Israel
until the fullness of the Gentiles be
come in. And so all Israel shall be
saved; as it is written, "There shall
come out of Zion the Deliverer."
Let us not make the mistake of sup
posing the Apostle meant that all Is
rael will be saved to heavenly glory,
or to eternal life. Israel will be
Saued from. the blindness and rejection
Of God which came on them as ma
ton when they rejected Messiah. The
great Deliverer who will bless them
will be composed of Messiah, the
Head, and the Church, his Body-com-
posed of overcomers, some of whom
once were Jews and some of whom
once were Gentiles. This great Deliv
erer who comes out Of Zion is the
spiritual Son of Zion, the Messiah, the
King, the Royal Priest, the Judge, the
Mediator of the New Covenant. The
first blessings Of his Millennial King
dom will be upon natural Israel, from
whom the Kingdom was taken away,
and to whom the earthly phase of the
Kingdom will be restored in the hands
of the Ancient Worthless, who will be
the earthly representatives of the heav-
emily Kingdom The Kingdom itself
will be invisible to men. but it's earth
ly representatives will be seen and
known to all mankind; as it is written,
"Ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and all the Prophets. in the
Kingdom Of God" duke xiii, 2S).
He Must Reign Until
The object of our Lords reign is
distinctly set forth in the Scriptures.
Also it's length Of duration. He Is to
bind Satan. 1.-THE prince of this world"
to overthrow entirely his dominion of
sin, ignorance, superstition, as they
now control the human family, bought
with the precious blood. His Kingdom
will cause the knowledge of the Lord
Jehovah to fill the whole earth, that
every creature may receive a blessing
through that knowledge; that as many
as will come into harmony with God
may obtain eternal life, and that all
others shall be destroyed in the Sec
ond Death.
We are distinctly told that this Mil
lennial Kingdom will not last forever,
but for a definite period of time-for
thousand years. The Scriptures
clearly intimate that the work of
havoc caused by the reign of Sin and
Death during six thousand years-from
Adam to the second coming of Christ
will be fully offset by the one thou
sand years reign Of the Kingdom of
Righteousness. How stimulating the
thought! How it must thrill the hearts
of all who love God and their fellow
men, all who grieve to see the Divine
will and standards violated, all who
love Righteousness and hate iniquity.
and realizing that the dying, and the
crying, and the degradation, and the
sin, which prevail throughout the whole
world, are enemies, contrary to the
Lords Kingdom.
st. Paul assures us that in due time
God will give this Kingdom to the
Christ-divine power shall be estab-
lished in the Millennial Kingdom, and
at the end of that Millennial reign
Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to
God, even the Father-the entire work
and purpose of the reign being then
fully accomplished. He tells us that
meantime Christ must reign until he
shall have put down all insubordina-
tion"-everything contrary to the d.
vine will, everything sinful; until he
shall have uplifted mankind out of the
miry clay and the horrible pit of sin
md death; until all shall have been de-
livered who are willing to come into
harmony with the Divine will-such as
God is willing should have eternal life
q Corinthians XIV, 24-2S).
This is the thought brought before
us by St. Peter saying, Times Of re-
freshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord, and he shall send Jesus
Christ, which before was preached
unto you, whom the heavens must re-
tain until the times of restitution of all
things which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all his holy prophets since
the world began" (Acts ill, 1921.
These times of restitution are the
Kingdom times, the times of resur-
rection, the times of human uplifting
from sin and death conditions to life,
and joy, and peace, for all who will re-
ceive the Lords favors upon his terms.
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