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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"
(Acts Iii. 20) coming to the world under
the NIillennal reign of Christ. Their
day Sabbaths typified coming bless
ing to Spiritual Israel. Their year
Sabbath typified q coming blessing TO
the world. to the universe. Their Day
of Atonement for sins typifed 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
fngs with Israel was reached. as he had
intended from the beginning. when
our Lord Jesus left the glory of the
Father on the heavenly plane and was
made flesh, being born under the Law
Covenant. Not being 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 CovoMlnt. 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 Abraha mic Covenant
the blessings foretold and the rightful
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 u 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 was 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.
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 in 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. all that he had, as mans ran
som price (Matthew xiii. Az. who
gave himself ransom for all. to be
testified III due time" q Timothy ii, g..
"Every 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-
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 ISrae! and that it should
progress through Israel to all nations.
But the prophecies did not even hint
at the fact that before giving the res
titution" blessing to Israel. under the
New claw, 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 Mystery,
and, generally speaking, it is still a
.'Mystery," not only to Israel but to
the world. The gathering of the Spir-
itual IsraeliteS was the first step in
the new program. Those of the jew
ish nation at our 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 we 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 whole. as
our Lord intimated, are but little
HOOK. lis WOFuS were. Ftdi uOt,
little flock; for it is your Fathers good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom"
duke xii, 80.
The Kingdom, the life eternal. etc.,
which the Lord has to give away, are
those of Adam. which were lost
through his disobedience and repur-
chased by our Lord at Calvary. These
he gives to his followers, the little
flock" but not to keep. Earthly reSti-
tuition blessings are theirs to sacrifice
only. Whoever will not accept them
on these terms cannot be Jesus dis
ciples. Such are the terms of the
heavenly or high calling bestowed
upon his followers. They must take
up their cross and follOto him in the
sacrifice of earthly life and earthly
restitution rights, if they would share
with him the glory and honor that
will be his in his exalted station.
s'The a1Orld to come" merely signifies
the epoch to come. the epoch wherein
dweleth righteousness, where right
eousness will be in the ascendant, and
whore sin will no ahSOlI1tnIy IIndnr tho