River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-12-22

of the Gospel Age a sanity little
/ flock" would be selected from
amongst men to be Messiah's Bride,
and joint heir with him in his Messi-
anic reign. Few see that this little
/ fl ,ck' has been selected during
these nineteen centuries from every
nation, people, kindred and tongue,
and that they are all saints, in the
spirit of their minds, at least, and
follow the Lamb, whithersoever he
| goeth, walking in the footsteps of
Jesus. Few understand that, as
soon as these joint-sacri6cer with
the Master shall have filled up the
measure of Affections appointed,
then the Kingdom of glory will be
revealed aud all flesh shall see it
together and all shall be blessed by
it.
A SAVIOR-CHRIST THE LORD
1t was propheticdli y, of course,
that the Babe of Bethlehem was call
ed a Savior-he was to be a Savior,
The Christ, the Lord But as the
Babe he was mons of these. He be-
came The Christ before becoming
the Savior and Lord. The word
! Christ signifies anointed. In the Di-
vine purpose it was arranged that
Messiah should be anointed High
Priest of Israel on higher plane
than Aaron-after the order of Mel.
chisedec. psalm 1l0:4). And ev-
cry priest must be anointed to his
office before he could fill it. Sim
ilarly, it was prophesied that Christ
would be the great King, greater
than David and Solomon who were
his ty pes and foreshadows.
The amounting of Jesus was not
with literal oil, but with that
which the oil upon the head of the
kings and priests of Israel typi6ed
the holy Spirit. He received this
holy Spirit at the time of his bap-
tism, the spirit falling upon him
and abiding with him, amounting
him for his great work of antityp-
ical Priest and antitypical King of
Israel, who, as the Messiah long
promis ed, would bless them,
and through them, the world. But
every priest was ordained to offer
both gifts and sacrifices for sins,
and in this also they typi6ed Jesus,
who, under the Divine arrangement
must FIRST offer up himself as sac
rifice acceptable to God for the sin
of mankind-in order that he might
be the Savior or Deliverer of men
from the curse and sin of death
that he might restore them and
their earthly home to the glorious
condition of perfection represented
in Adam in his Eden home. Hence
it was necessary that Jesus should
not only consecrate his life to the
Divine service and be anointed with
the holy Spirit, but that, Specifically
he should lay down his life, even
unto death-even the death of the
cross. AS part of his reward he
was raised to glory, honor and i'm
mortality, on the third day thereaf-
ter.
AS the glorified One he was now
fully commissioned and empowered
to establish the long-promised
Me- sianic Kingdom, but has been
waiting while little flock" have
walked in his footsteps-unti the
elect number shall be completed
and shall share his glory. The
his Kingdom will take the control
of earth. Satan shall be bound
for a thousand years and all the
wonderful blessings promised in the
Law and the Prophets and Gospels
and Epistles shall be fulfilled.
A SAVIOR AND A GREAT ONE"
We have seen how the Son of
God attained his Priestly office, for
the sacrifice of himself; how he was
anointed thereto, and also anointed
to be the great King, and how he has
been merely waiting for the due time
for his Kingdom to begin. Now we
inquire as to the force and signifi-
canoe of the word Savior, and how
he saves his people from their sins!
In the Arabic, Savior signifies
life giver. The Redeemer, glorifed
as the antitypical Melchisedee, "a
priest upon his throne, " is to be the
Savior or life giver of the race, for
whose sin and because of whose
condemnation he died-''the Just
for the unjust, to bring US back to
Cod some during this Age and
some during the period of his Mes
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