The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-08

deemer. Today's study tells OF the
| Kingdom, but from another stand
point. II explains the work OF the
Kingdom after II shall have been
set up--after Messiah at his Second
Advent shall have gathered His
Jewels" to constitute His Bride class
after these shall be with Him In
the Throne of His glory-after He
shall have taken unto Himself His
great power and shall have begun
His Messianic reign OF Righteousness
under the whole heavens" II IL
important In every study OF the
| Scriptures that We recognize the d.
vine Plan as q whole and properly
locate the teaching Of each parable
We know that the parable OF the
sheep and the goats belongs not to
this Age, but to the coming Age OF
Messiah's glorious reign, because the
introduction declares this, saying,
when the Son Of man shall come In
His glory and all the holy angels
With Him, then shall He sit upon
the Throne of His glory. and before
Him shall be gathered all nations:
and He shall separate them one from
another as a shepherd divideth his
sheep from the goats" Those sheep
and goats will not include the
Church, to whom the promise Is.
when He shall appear. We also
shall appear with Him In glory
sharing His Throne.
The salvation of the Church Will
be finished before the salvation OF
the world will begin. Todays study
pictures the salvation Of the world,
showing us how every member OF
Adams race will be on trial during
the reign of Messiah and, by his
obedience or disobdience to the light
and knowledge then prevailing. he
will be deciding his own everlasting
future, either as sheep or as a
goat. It will require the entire one
thousand years OF Messiah's reign
to- complete the testing and separ-
ating work.
All then obedient will be recog-
nized as children of God and breth.
rem. All the disobedient will be reck-
oned as children of the Adversary
and worthy to share his fate, be-
cause, under favorable conditions,
they were rebellious. Such shall be
destroyed with Satan In the Second
Death, which IL symbolically repre-
sented as fire, because fire is always
destructive. never preservative. On
the contrary. the sheep class at thu
conclusion Of Messiahs reign will
have reached perfection. the image
and likeness of God, on the human
plane. These will be invited to be-
come the kings Of earth under the
Divine supervision-even as was
Adam In his original perfection
crowned with glory and honor and
set over or in control Of the earthly
creation psalm viii, 3-5).
The terms and conditions which
will test and determine who will be
sheep and who will be goats, who will
be obedient or disobedient to the Di-
vine regulations, Will be mercy, kind
thetic character is the only one
which God purposes shall have eter-
nal the wolfish or devilish character,
or even the goat character-of way
wardness and unsubmissiveness, will
be accounted unworthy of any
further blessing after the close
of the reign OF Messiah. The testing
then will not be as to believing or
disbelieving. striving to do well or
not striving to do well. The church
is dealt with now along such lines.
Gods dealings with US make allow
ances for our unwilling imperfections.
But In the trial of the world in the
future every man shall be tried ac-
cording to his work, not according
to his faith. In that time knowledge
will have practically supplanted
faith: hence faith will have no spe-
cial rewards. Work will then have
the rewards. and each member Of the
race will be expected to strive for
perfect works and to be assistants of
the Great King Emmanuel and His
Bride, the Church on the spirit plane.
Mankind will be enabled gradually to
attain such perfection of mind and
of body as will make perfect works
possible. At the conclusion of the
Millennial Age perfect works only
will be rewarded.
Rewards and PunIshments.
We have already referred to the
rewards hat-will be granted TO the
sheep" class at the close of Mes.
slabs Kingdom-they will enter into
life eternal and become possessors
Of the earthly Kingdom originally
given to Adam, but lost through dis.
obedience, and redeemed by the sac.
rifice OF Jesus and restored by his
Messianic reign, for which we pray
Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be
done on earth as In heaven"
AZ for the goat" class, we have
already intimated that their punish
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