The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-26

IiACy WILL US SldQ 10 receive Oh divine
grace upon divine terms. To this
great event ST. Paul refers US in Ro-
mans XII, 2734.
Although God foreknew all that had
happened the offer of the kingdom to
Israel was just as bona fide, just as
genuine, as though he had not known
it. God always does his parti What
ever failure there is in any matter of
contract belongs to humanity.
If thus we have before our minds
the origin of Palm Sunday and what
1t signified as the climax of the test of
natural Israel in respect to Messiah,
note that in Gods providence there is
a similar test for us Christians
Enemies for Your Sakes."
! ST. John emphasized particularly the
fact that the rejection of the Jewish
nation, because of their rejection of
Messiah, did not apply to all the in
dividuals of that nation. AS the
| Prophet Isaiah had foreto1d (Romans
TX, 27-33) there was a small, faithful
| section or remnant" This remnant
accepted Christ and were by him ac-
| cepted and became the nucleus or
| foundation of Spiritual Israel on the
Day of Pentecost. Thus we read. 'He
came unto his own (nation) and his
own received him not Gas a nation) !;
but to as many as received him. to
them gave he liberty (privilege) to be-
come sons of God. even to them that
believed on mis- name; which were be-
gotten not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God'-at Pentecost (John /, 11-13).
Thus so far as the spiritual part of
Gods great promise to Abraham is
concerned it has passed from the Jew
lsh nation; but there still remains for
them glorious earthly portion, to
which they will be introduced at our
Lords second coming. Then their
sins will be Cancelled, and as a people
the Hebrews will return to divine
favor and will inherit the earthly fea-
lures of the promise made to their
fathers. Then, through them, Gods
blessing will be extended to ali ma
tons and peoples under IsraePs New
Covenant, which will then become OBJ
erative at the hands of their great
Mediator-the Christ, the Messiah in
glory. But by that time the election
OF the saints of this Gospel Age will be
complete and the Messiah in glory win
include Jesus the Head and the Church
ms ms Body-joint heirs with him in his
kingdom-joint heirs with him in the
hamic promise Galatians iii, 291.
All this is clearly stated by the
Apostle in Romans XII 1882. But
somehow our eyes of understanding as
Christians have been hidden so that,
until of late, we have not seen these
lengths and breadths, these heights
and depths of divine love and wis
we now see these things is a corrobo-
rative evidence that they are nigh at
hand. Just SO it was at our Lords
hrst advent. Many things pertaining
until the time of their fulfillment
came, and then only the "Wise Vir-
gins" were so blessed. so assisted.
that they trimmed their lamps effec-
lively and were enabled to see these
beauties in the divine plan.
The Time of Our Visitation.
Apparently very few of Gods peo-
pie until recently, have noted the fact
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history to that of Natural Israel. Few
have seen that these are dealt with
all through the scriptures as type and
antitype. Few have noticed that from
the death of Jacob to the death of
Jesus finds its exact parallel of 1,8451 u
years between the death of Jesus and
our day. Few have noticed that in
both cases there is a nominal and a
tenn was tried and all but the Israel
ties indeed failed Likewise will be
the experience Of the Spiritual Israel
Inc nominal Christian systems will be
tried, and all will fail except the spir-
it-begotten and faithful. AS only
remnant or small number were found
In the proper condition at the first
advent, so the Scriptures clearly init
mate that only a small number will
be found sufficiently sanity and zeal
Gus and loyal to the Lord and the
principles of his truth in the end of
this age, to era duate with first honors.
AS there was a special period of
testing and trying at the close of the
Jewish Age, lasting for forty years, so,
the Scriptures clearly indicate, there
is a special Sitting anG testing due to
come to Christendom during the clos
ing forty years of this Gospel Age
before the Inauguration of the glorious
Millennial blessings. AS the trials and
tests came upon the Jews in a subtle
manner, to test their faith and obe-
dience. so even more subtlety must
we expect will be connected with the |
trials and test1ngs in the harvest time
of this Gospel Age. OF this time the |
Lord through the prophet said, "who |
may abide the day of his presence, |
and who shall stand when he appear |
eth? for he is like a Iefiner's fire and |
like fullers' soap; and he shall sit as |
a refiner and purifier of silver, and /
he shall purify the sons of Levi, and |
purge them as gold and silver, that |
they may offer unto the Lord accept |
able sacrifices (Ma1achi ill., 2, 81.
Both Houses of Israel.
Natural and Spiritual Israel are con-
trasted. The Lord through the proph- |
ct foretold that Messiah would be 4
"for a stone of stumbling and for a 1
rock of offense to both the houses of /
IsraeP'-to Natural Israel and to Spir-
itual Israel. We have seen how the |
first house stumbled on that Palm Sun
day-celebrated today. They stumbled |
because they knew not the time of
their visitatic n''-they did not know /
that the time had come for the eStab-