The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-24

association. He had an ex-
cellent hearing and large and intelli-
titled 1.-The Great Hereafter" The
other we now report. The speaker
said:
our text has not yet been fulfilled,
but we believe the beginning of its
fulfiIlment to be near. 1t pictures
Messiah's Kingdom, for which Chris
tian people have long been waiting
and praying, "Thy Kingdom come;
thy will be done on earth as in heaven"
the same Kingdom for which the
Jews so long waited and are still wait
ing. Our text relates. not to the spir-
itual part of the Kingdom, which the
Gospel church is called to share, but
to the earthly part of the Kingdom.
which belongs to the natural seed of
Abraham. A great mistake has been
made by many of us in the past, IN
that we have not dfscerned and &C
knowledged the two 1sraels, spiritual
and natural, and the separate rewards
and blessings apportioned to these by
the Divine promises of the Scriptures.
Both are to be used of God in fulfill
ing the promise made to Abraham
in blessing all the families of the
earth.
After the completion of Messiah,
head and members. on the plane of
glory the new covenant Will be 1nau-
gurated with Israel. as the Scriptures
distinctly teach Jeremiah xxi $3.50.
our text, IH0I0lOISs waits IN 10 ~
complishment until the last member of
the elect church of Christ shall have
passed beyond the veil
Israel the Earthly Representative.
In the symbolic language of the
Scriptures a mountain is always sym
bolical of a Kingdom. Hence the
mountain of the Lords house means
the kingdom of God and that royal
house or family recognized by him.
For instance, we read that David sat
upon the throne of the Kingdom of
the Lord and that God made cove
nant with him. even the sure neF-
cies of David"-viz., that none but his
seed, his posterity, would ever be rec
oenized as the Divinely appointed rep
resentatives of God in kingly author
itv and power. In other words, Mes
siab was to be the offspring of David,
the great antitypical David (Beloved),
who must reign from sea to sea and
from the river to the ends of the
earth"
The Messiah King on the spirit
plane. the Son of God (and like God
invisible to men, as are also the an
gels). is the antitypical David and the
antitypica1 Solomon, the wise, the
great. the rich. In the days of his
according to the flesh. though begot-
ten of a divine life not tainted by any
human imperfection. He was, there
fore, holy harmless, undef1led and sep
arate from sinners. MS Adilhi u1tleoe
to the will of the Father made him
subject to all of the experiences of suf-
fering and death, as expressed in his
own words, The cup which my Father
hath poured for me. shall I refuse to
drink it? His obedience unto death,
even the death of the cross, demon
onstrated his loyalty to the last de-
gree and he received the high reward
appropriated. Him hath God also
highly exalted and given a name that
is above every name, that at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, both
of things in heaven and things in
EARTH
Exalted to the right hand of Divine
favor he waits only for the Fathers
time to take to himself his great pow
er and reign (Revelation XII, I'D.
Meantime, in harmony with the Di-
vine will, purposed before the founda-
ton of the world, he acts as advocate
for such as have the hearing ear and