Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-09-06

year, proclalmlng liberty for the pa0-
pie and restitution of all that has been
lost through sin, and which is to be re-
stored through Messiah's Kingdom.
Bible Studelts know also how the
New Testament abounds with refer
ences to the Kingdom! the Kingdom!
the Kingdom! Nearly all the parallels
that our Lord gave were in illustration
of something connected with the King
dom or the class called out OF the
world to inherit the spiritual Kingdom.
Ali such know. too, that the Great
Teacher proclaimed that Kingdom and
taught us and all Of his followers to
pray for it, Thy Kingdom come! Thy
will be done on earth as it is done in
heaven" They all know, too, that all
of the Apostles refer to that Kingdom
and point the Church to it's estab-
lishment for the realization of her
hopes-the time when the marriage
Of the Lamb will take place-the time
when Gods New Covenant with Israel
will go into effect. The time when he
who scattered Israel will also gather
them, and when the Law shall go
forth from Mt. Zion. the Celestial
Kingdom, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem, the capital of the
earthly princes. Gods remedy is just
what humanity is coming to realize it
needs. In its establishment. as the
Scriptures declare, 1.-THE desire Of all
nations shall come" Haggai ii, y.
Bible Students are more and more
coming to see that this Gospel Age is
! the time in which Messiah is select
| ing from amongst men-of Jews and
Gentiles-a sanity class and is testing
! and proving their loyalty to God and
| to righteousness. These are to be
| Messiah's assistants-the Bride, the
Lambs Wife. AS Abraham typified
the Heavenly Father. so the Messiah
was typified by Isaac. And Messiah's
Bride and joint-heir and co-laborer in
his Kingdom was typifed by Rebec-
ca. Thus seen the great Plan Of God
has progressed we'll
The Great Day of Wrath.
Our neglect of the Word of God and
| our study instead of the Talmud and
the Creeds Of the dark ages have been
| our undoing. Under all this wrong
| influence we have failed to cultivate
| the fruits of the Holy Spirit--meek-
ness, gentleness, patience, longsuf-
fering, brotherly kindness, love. In
| stead we cultivated pride, ambition,
| selfshness. We have done those
| +hinUc which vva OYobt not 70 baua
done, and we have left undone those
| things which we ought TO have done.
| Our help must come from God. Ac-
| cording to our understanding of the
| Scriptures help is near. but coming in
an unexpected way. Pride and selfish
| fruitage of strife. The bad exam
| pie set by Christian people has extend
| ed to the world and been thoroughly
| appropriated. 1t has become the spir-
| it of the world-of all classes. Now,
as faith in the Bible is waning and
respect for God and his Word is pro-
| portionately waning. what could we
| expect but that which the Scriptures
| declare is at hand. namely, the time
| of trouble such as never was since
there was a nation?" The selfshness
| which both rich and poor. learned and
ignorant. have cultivated WILL in that
| time of trouble. be represented in con-
! fiicts between labor unions and CAPT
| talistic trusts. The Bible declares that
| then every mans hand will be
II, q
will be lOst-the bond Of human sym
| pathy and brotherhood will be utterly
| snapped in riOtous selfishness.
The Scriptures identify this trouble
with Messiahs taking to himself his
Kingdom power and beginning his
reign Daniel xii, /; Revelation xi, 49,.
| Thank God. the intimations of the
Scriptures are that the conflict of that
time will be short. 1t must. however
last long enough to teach humanity a
lesson never to be forgotten-that God
and his arrangements must stand first
and must be obeyed, if blessing is
sought.
Messiah's Kingdom Invisible.
When it is remembered that Messi-
abs Kingdom is not only to bless those
| living at the time Of its establishment,
but gradually 10 awaken the dead from
the slumber of the tomb and to give all
Of Adams race a full opportunity for
attaining life eternal or death eternal,
then it will be seen that the Kingdom
must be a spiritual one. Then, too,
Messiah's Kingdom of light is repre-
sented as superseding Satan's Kingdom
of darkness-both spiritual. With this
| thought our text is in full accord
"a King shall reign in righteousness. -
(Messiah will be that Great King, his
Bride being associated with him.)
| And princes shall execute judgment
in the EARTH carrying out the DEGREES
and regulations of the Heavenly Mes
siah. This is the meaning of the
Lords promise to Israel, Il will re-
store thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellors as at the beginning" Qsa-
| lab i. 26).
The princes who will execute judg-
ment will all be Israelitish and all
| pe.fect men-tried and approved of
| God. They will be the Ancient Wor-
| thies, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and
| the prophets These men, great in
| faith and obedience to God, will be
| known to the Jews as the fathers"
as the prophecy respecting them de-
| clares, Instead of the fathers shall be
| the children, whom thou (Messiah)
mayest make princes in all the earth"
| They will be the children of Messiah
in the sense that they will derive their
resurrection life from him. the Great
King. Indeed. the Scriptures assure
US that eventually the whole world
shall receive new life from Messiah,
| in Offset to the life received from
Adam forfeited through sin. Thus
amongst the various titles Of Messiah
mentioned by the prophets we find
that he will be the "Age-lasting IA
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