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to the Divine Rule; as the Scriptures
set forth--"to the jew first" This
Bride class has been selected from ev-
cry nation. people. kindred and tongue,
yet in all will be but little flock
Fear not. little flock, ii Is your Fa-
Tiers good pleasure to give you the
Klngdom"-the spiritual, unseen King
dom of Neutrality-suspicious. with
him in his throne-not the earthly
Kingdom which has been promised
definitely to Israel.
The Bride Class and the Great Com
pany.
Other Scriptures have shown us that
there are two classes amongst these
saints. A few, peculiarly devoted, will
constitute the Bride class. And
larger number, not so courageous OF
the Truth and righteousness, will con-
stitute her companions. her servants.
as Rebecca travelled accompanied by
her servants. These two classes are
particularly specified in the Scriptures
(45th Psalm, where we read of the
Messiah Bride and Queen. In her
resurrection glory she is pictured as
the Queen robed In gold Of Ophir with
fine needlework-the glory representing
the divine nature which will be grant
ed her and the fine needlework repre-
senting her glorious righteousness, en-
bellished with the fruits of the holy
Spirit. The Psalmist tells how she
shall be brought into the presence OF
the great King Jehovah and then adds
that the virgins, or companions. that
follow her shall also be brought into
the presence of the King, showing that
there will always be a difference of
rank on the spiritual plane. These two
classes are again pictured In the Law
as Priests and Levites, the Bride class
being represented by the Priests. ow-
ing to their willing sacrifices of the
earthly portion in favor OF the heavenly.
We are not to identify the Bride class
with the nominal Christian Churches,
of today any more than we would iden-
tify the Apostles with the Jewish
Church of their day. The Apostles
were select few, and similarly all
the members of the Church through
out the Age have been n select few
out of nominal many. "The Lord
knoweth them that are his" The true
Church has been selected not only
from all of the twelve tribes of Israel,
but from every other nation, people
and tongue. even so many as the Lord
our God has called.
Rebecca's leaving her fathers house
typified the personal conservation OF
each one who, led of the Spirit, ac-
cepts the Divine invitation to joint
heirship with Christ. The first jew
elry given to Rebecca, when first she
needed the invitation and invited the
servant to her home. represents the
earliest blessing received by believers.
The jewelry she received after she had
decided to go to Isaac and become his
wife represents the blessings of the
Holy Spirit which come upon the fully
consecrated, those who determine to
walk In the footsteps of Jesus In the
narrow way into the Kingdom. under
the guidance of the Holy Spirit
Arrived at the end of her journey,
she found herself in the presence of
Isaac, and Immediately alighted from
her camel and covered herself with n
veil. Thus, pictorially, is represented
the fact that the Church, when having
experienced the change of the First
Resurrection and in the presence of
the heavenly Bridegroom, will no
longer need the guidance of the holy
Spirit, through the Scriptures This
part of the picture. of course, Is yet
future. The Scriptures however. in
dcate and outward conditions cor
roborate the fact, that the time OF
this glorious change Is nigh at hand.
To Be the Mother of Thousands Of
Millions.
Isaac Immediately received Rebecca
and took her into his mothers tent
Sarah had died and Rebecca became
her successor Thus is beautifully
pictured the fact that when the Bride
of Messiah shall be complete on the
will be ut an end and her place, rs Il
channel of blessing, will be taken by
the glorlfed Church Then will be
fulfilled the prophetic blessing of her
relatives, "Be thou the mother Of
thousands Of Millions" Those thou
sands of millions represent the world
& of mankind. which will be regenerat-
ed, or granted new life by the great
Messiah during the thousand years Of
his reign as the Mediator of the New
Covenant.
Messiah will be the regenerator and
his Bride will be the noursher, in
structor, helper of all mankind under
the New Covenant, because it will be
this antitypica Isaac and his Bride
that will mediate for Israel and
through Israel for the world, the New
Covenant of Restitution blessings
(Acts i'll, 1920, "In thee and in thy
Seed shall all the families of the earth
be blessed" applies primarily, as st.
Paul shows, to Messiah and his
Church In glory-the sacrifices being
past, the spiritual nature being attain
ed as n reward for the sacrifices (Gala-
tians Ill, 10, 20).