The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-12-13

that at the time he would receive
them back again into his love and
favor he would also humble their
pride by restoring the Samaritans
and the Acknowledgements whom Is
rael detested as interiors and sinners.
God declares that neither of these
peoples had ever committed as serious
sins against Divine goodness as had
Israel, and that when he would again
bless Israel he would bless also these
other peoples In their midst. Let me
quote his words: when thy sisters,
Sodom and her daughters, shall return
to their former estate, and Samaria and
her daughters shall return to their
former estate, then thou and thy daugh-
tiers shall return to your former es-
tote. Nevertheless / will remem
Der my Covenant with thee In the days
Of thy youth. and win establish unto
thee an everlasting Covenant,
and will give them (Sodomites and
Samaritans) unto thee for daughters,
but not by thy Covenant (not under
the old Law Covenant; but under the
New law Covenant of the future).
and / win establish my Covenant with
thee; Din order that thou may
est remember and be COMPOUNDED. and
never open thy mouth any more, be-
cause Of thy shame, when / am paci-
fed toward thee for all that thou hast
done. saith the Lord God" ezekiel
xvi, 5000.
This New and better Covenant is to
be mediated through a personal Mes
siah-a still more glorious Mediator
than Moses, still more glorious King
than David-this One whom Israel be-
gan to look for and to long for. Can
we wonder that they failed to identify
him in the lowly Nazarene who died at
Calvary We cannotl Nothing but
special assistance Of the holy Spirit
would enable any one to trace the con-
nection between the glorious pictures
Of the prophecies and the humble ap-
pearance Of him who came to fulfill
those prophecies. We do see, however,
that the great Messiah Of Glory, Jesus,
In his Second Advent as King of kings
and Lord Of lords, fills absolutely every
demand of Jewish expectation and Of
prophetic outline Some can see. but
others cannot as yet, that he who was
pierced is the same One who, as the
Son of God, in great glory is shortly
| to bless Israel-and all the families Of
the earth through Israel.
abide the Day Of His Coming"
Our text Is from another prophecy
speaking of this same great Messiah,
the Mediator Of the New Covenant.
King of kings and Lord Of lords, who.
as the representative Of the great Je-
hovah, his Father, is to reign until all
enemies shall be put down; until Satan
shall be bound and, ultimately, shall
be crushed-until Adam and his race.
released from Divine sentence. under
the New Covenant provisions, shall be
uplifted out of sin and degradation and
death to perfection and everlasting life
the unwilling and disobedient being
destroyed In the Second Death
The Prophet Malachi points out thai
the Messiah of the New Covenan,
| whom he announces, is the glorious
Mediator and antitypical King for
whom they had waited long and If
whom they delighted to think He
would come to the temple-thus imply
ing that he would be not only an an
titypical Prophet, an antitypical King.
but also an antitypical Priest-"after
the order Of Melchisedec"; "a priest
upon his throne" psalm cx. 4; Zecha-
rfah vi, 13).
But after this joyful proclamation
that their long-expected and gloried In
Mediator Of the New Covenant should
be looked for, they were warned that
bis day would be one of trial, one Of
special testing and proving, that the
Lord might find the antitypical Priests
and antitypical Levites to serve in the
antttypical Temple. He would be like
refner Of fire to take away the dross
and to leave only the pure metal-fery
trials and testings being implied He
would ''be like fuller's SOAP" in the
sense that great washing or purging
would take place to make ready for
the Kingdom the called and chosen
and faithful
At that time the conservation of
judah and Jerusalem unto the Lord
will be accepted as in olden times
| We may understand that this spirit
Of devotion is now reviving amongst
the Jews and particularly amongst
those who are identified with Jerusa-
lem and the Zionist movement Hith-
erto this has been a political move
ment in the interest of Jewish nation
alization and home for exiles Now.
however, the due time has come for
a real movement of those who have
the faith-to draw near to God and to
show their faith by helping forward
In the restoration Of earthly Jerusa-
lem and her interests.
Why Messiah's Coming Delayed.
The First-begotten of the Father. as
his glorious Agent in the great work
Of creation, had the honor granted him
OF becoming the great Messenger of
the Covenant, the great Prophet.
Priest and King of Israel, the great
Michael of Daniel xii, /. But there
1
ment Of this high position: a. By faith
he must lay aside his heavenly glory,
In obedience to the Fathers will to
become q man-not a sinful man, but
a perfect man-holy, harmless. unde-
fled, separate from sinners. (2) Thus
prepared to become the Redeemer it
was his privilege to make full conse-
Grafton of his earthly interest and the
Fathers pleasure to beget him Of the
holy Spirit at Jordan to the spirit ma
ture on the highest plane. For three
and half years his sacrifice burned
upon the altar. 1t was indeed better
than the sacrifice of bulls and goats.
for 1t was a corresponding price for
Adam; an eye for an eye. tooth for
tooth; mans life for mans life. (3l
When Jesus had thus SCIENTIFICALLY part
ed with his earthly life he experienced
resurrection change from human ma
ture to spiritual, like what he was
originally, only higher and more glo-
rious. Thus he was at once both sac
rifice and the spirit begotten priest
who offered that sacrifice. When he
arose from the dead, his personal sac
rifice had ended and his personal per-
lection as a spirit being was COM
pleted-
Then why did he not at once be-
gin his great work as Prophet, Priest.
King and New Covenant Mediator for
| Toro al ond fhroroh mol for tho world ?