The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-18

4 q "NAA AT AME MA4NA MlN WIS VI NME WI III
AID bouud TO the Lord and he to them
by the CorcHaRi Of tae Lac entered into
al Mt. Sinai. Under the terms Of that
Covenant 81 was piled that that
Whole ruiiun should constitute the seed
OF Abraham and rule and bless all
other nations, hut the conditions were
the keeping OF the Law perfectly. God.
OF course. knew that. as imperfect men
Israel had undertaken an impossible
contract But he also knew that under
his supervision the contract would not
eventually be to their disadvantage.
but the reverse. He used that nation
as a typical people, their jubilees rep
reSenting the times Of restitution
CArts Iii. 20i coming to the world under
the Millennial reign of Christ. Their
day SabbathS typlhed a coming bless
ing to Spiritual Israel Their year
sabbath typifed a coming blessing to
the world. to the universe, Their Day
OF Atonement for sins typlfed the day
OF better sacrifices. OF Christ and the
Church. Indeed. we may understand
that feshly Israel and all Of its great
affairs were typical fOreshadOwings Of
Gods greater blessings to come In aft
er dispensations.
Jewish Favor eliminated.
The elimination Of the Lords deal.
mgs with Israel was reached. as he had
intended from the beginning, when
Lord Jesus left the glory of the
Father on the heavenly plane and was
made flesh, being born under the Law
Covenant. Not being a direct member
Of the human family, but holy. harm.
less and separate from sinners" he
was perfect and fully able to keep all
the terms of that Law Covenant, and
did so. Thus under the provisions OF
the Law Covenant he. and he alone.
Of all the Jewish nation. could claim
the rights of the Abrahamic Covenant
the blessings foretold and the rightful
authority 10 bless men, for, as the
ruler of earth, he took the place of
Father Adam with all his rights and
authorities described in Psalm viii, At.
BY keeping these rights and priv.
ileges as a man our Lord indeed would
have been an earthly potentate Of con
siderable dignity, the highest amongst
men. But the Fathers place for him
and for the world vas far higher than
this. As an earthly ~potentate he would
have ruled over a falling and dying
race and would have been privileged
merely to counsel, rule and direct their
imperfect energies; but he never could
have brought them to eternal life.
Hence the Divine Plan was that he
should die as the Redeemer Of Adam
and his race, that thus he might have
the just. the legal right to lift out Of
sin and degradation and death all Of
mankind who would fall Ii line with
the gracious arrangements OF the Di-
vine purpose which center In Christ.
1t was In fulflment Of this feature of
the Divine Plan that our Lord laid
down the earthly Kingdom. the earthly
rights, oil that he had, as mans ran
som price (Matthew kill, Az. "Who
gave himself a ransom for all. to be
testified in due time" q Timothy II, o..
avery Knee Shall Bow"
We now have Messiah exalted
and In his possession the authority
justly, legally acquired. whereby he
may bless all the families of the
earth-all the children of Adam, by re-
storing to the willing and obedient
that which was ~lost"-earthly perfec.
ton and dominion. Where will he be.
gin his blessing work? All the prophe-
cies implied that Messiah would begin
his work with Israel and that II should
progress through Israel to all nations.
But the prophecies did not ever hint
at the fact that before giving the res.
tltution' blessing to Israel. under the
New law Covenant Of Jeremiah XXI
81. Messiah would first make use OF
his restitution authority for the
gathering of a special class of people,
"a holy nation. a peculiar people, a
royal priesthood" This, as the Apos.
tie tells us. was kept a Mystery
aud. generally speaking, it is still q
"Nvstery," not only to Israel, but tC
the world. The gathering of the Spir
itual lsraelites was the first step in
the new program. Those of the Jew.
ish nation at III Lords First Advent
who were Of the right attitude of heart
were transferred from Moses to Christ
from natural Israel to spiritual Israel
Then, as WI have seen. from the time
Of Cornelius onward the Gospel mes
sage has been free to all who have the
believing heart and hearing ear to take
the message. These, as a whole, as
our Lord intimated. are but a LITTLE
flock" His words were. Fear not
little flock; for itis your Fathers good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom
luke xii. 32,.
The Kingdom. the life eternal, etc.
which the Lord has to give away, arr
) those of Adam, which were los
through his dlsobedience and repur
chased by our Lord at Calvary. Thes,
he gives to his followers, the '1ittl,
flock" bat not to keep. Earthly resti
tuition blessings are theirs to sacrifc,
only. Whoever will not accept then
on these terms cannot be Jesus dis
clples. Such are the terms Of thu