Milford chronicle., 1909-07-09

THAI their table of divine mercies
and promises would become q trap and
a snare to them making them proud
and arrogant instead Of humble and
thus showing the uuGtness of the ma.
iority of them for a share with Mes
siah IN the spiritual part of the King
dom The Apostle pictures these iu
the olive tree, whose roots represent
ed the Abrahamic Covenant and
whose branches represented the Jews
f. He points our that nearly all the
(. branches wore broken because Of
( unbelief-and that the unbeiief was
because of an improper condition of
heart He says that those Jews who
received Jesus were the branches not
I broken off. and that God during this
age has been choosing out from
/ amongst the Geutiles such as would
I be suitable substitutes for the broken
I off Jewish branches, So that eventually
/ the olive tree would have the full mum
/ ber of branches definitely foreknoWn
and iuteuded-a few of them natural
branches Including the Apostles and
all the Jews who received Christ in
sincerity and the remainder Of thar
spiritual olive tree, branches grated
in from amongst the GeuuIes The
tree as 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 ana partly Gentle, trans
formed renewed Ephesians ii, 10.
Ignorant of This Mystery.
Continuing his discussion of the sub
iect 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 i'm part is happened to Israel
until the fulluess of the Genties 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 mis- q Of sup
posing the Apostle meant that all Is
rael will be saved to heavenly glory.
or to eternal life Israel will be
saUcd from the blindness and rejection
Of God which came on them as a 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- |
enly Kingdom The Kingdom itself |
will be invisible TO men, but its 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. 2sl.
He Must Reign Until
The object of our Lords reign is |
distinctly set forth iu the Scriptures /
Also its length of duration. He is to .
bind Satan. 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
viii cause the knowledge Of the Lord
Jehovah to dll the whole earth. that
every creature may receive a blessing
through that knowledge; that as many
as viii 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
lenuial Kingdom will not last forever.
but for d definite period of time-for
a 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
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 iuiquity.
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
power shall be estab-
ished in the Alillennial Kingdom, and
1t the end Of that Millennial reign
Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to
4od even the Father-the entire work
ind purpose of the reign being then
July accomplished. He tells US that
Meantime Christ must reien until he
hall have put down all insubordina-
ion"-everything contrary to the d-
-ine will. everything sinful: until he
hall have uplifted mankind out of the
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