Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-12-08

H Covenant, whom We
|E&SE ssas ss$*$ M delight In; Behold,
: #S he shall come, saith
S$s@s Jehovah of Hosts.
IF 81 ~ But who may abide
ftl&9. u kLoaEEEM the day OF his com:
EI N d, n ss..'n IN al. 8 Is ss
Said Pastor Rus
SELFISH thousand years ago in Eden our
Maker. when justly sentencing his dis
obcdient children to death, intimated that
ultimately the Seed of the woman would
bruise the serpent's head. This mysteri-5
Gus promise was the first intimation Of
the Divine mercy which our gracious
Creator had purposed in himself from
before the foundation of the world. Ever
noble kind and gracious, our Creator re-
strained his mercy for the good of his
creatures-that we might learn to appre-s
fciate the exceeding sinfulness of sin. For
the good OF the angels also, that they
might know of his Justice, as well as of
his Wisdom and his Power, God insisted
upon dealing with his creatures from the
standpoint of exact Justice. They had
sinned and had thereby forfeited all claim
upon the eternal life given them condi-
tionally. Eternal torment, as we have all
ready seen, did not in any sense or de-
gree enter into the Divine intention His
sentence upon man. plainly stated, was.
Dying thou shalt die, !" not, Living thou
sLalt live in torment. The soul that
sinneth, it shall de- God intended to ex-
ernplify in his dealings with our race a
principle of Divine government to be
made operative everywhere and ultimate
ly amongst all his creatures on the spirit
plane, as well as upon the earthly.
Gods message through Enoch was the
first mention made in the Bible of the
great Messenger Of the Covenant Mes
siah, although at that time the Covenant
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hold the Lord cometh with nyriads Of
his holy ones to execute justice in the
earth"-to grant mankind another trial.
another opportunity for everlasting life.
God thus intimated the ultimate accom-
plishment Of Atonement for Adamic sin,
and the resulting blessings upon Adam
and his race. s d. 6E
Next Abraham was the recipient Of
special promise which further revealed
that the great Messenger of the Covenant
who would bless the world would be of
Abrahamic stock. Later, 430 years after
the Abrahamic Covenant of general bless
ing, God entered into special Covenant
with the nation of Israel to the effect that
If they kept his Law the Abrahamic bless
ing would be fulfilled through them-they
would be Gods agency or channel for
the blessing of mankind. For centuries
they endeavored to fulfill the require
ments of their Law: but, since that Law
represents the full possibilities of per-
feet humanity, the Israelites were unable
to meet it's requirements. Hence, so far
from blessing all nations, they We're un-
able even to- maintain themselves in a
blessed state -. 3.
A New Covenant and Better Media
When Israel came to realize the hope
&c., 1-oS
and thus proving their worthiness of eter-
nal life and their preparedness to be.
Gods channel of blessing to others they
were naturally discouraged, Later, God
through the prophets Informed them that
their Law Covenant was merely a fore.
runner and type of a better Covenant
which he would effect for them in his
own due, time Their New Covenant
would have a better Mediator than Moses
"a more capable one This message was
sent through Moses himself, who declared
to the fathers, "A Prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up from 3, amongst your
brethren like unto me IT am hts type. but
he will be much greater]; and it shall
come to pass that whoever will not obey
that Prophet shall be destroyed from
amongst the people" Acts 3:25)
If New Covenant was to take the
place of the old one and a New Mediator
was to take the place of tho old mediator.
there would Of necessit-, be a better Priest
to take the place of the Aaronic priest
and better sacrifices to take the place
of these of the Law Covenant These
IL I'rs were minated, here little and
there little, throughout the prophecies Il
GrrdCrllv Israel began to look for and to
long for the promised Messiah, the Mes
senger and Media tor of their promised
New Covenant FIe must be great indeed
If he would be greater than Moses. He
must be vie. If Solomon was but hir
type. What kind Of better sacrifices
than those of bulls and goats he would
offer they were 5perplexed5 to know; but
in Melchsedec they had a fore-figure Of
how the great Messiah would be, not only
the antityplcal Prophet but the anti
typical Priest and antitypical King, all In
one person; for these various duties and
Offices and their blessing would center in
Messiah VI. I'LL, 33s
Finally came the time mentioned in our
text, when the Lord declared that this
great kingly. priestly antitype Of Moses
would shortly appear. He Is styled the 4
Messenger Of the covena ant nt-the New
Covenant: the One of whom they had i
been delighting to hear Nevertheless,
with the blessings he would bring to the j
world through Israel, there would be test
ings of faith, obedience, character. The
Messenger of the Covenant would sud
denly come to the Temple. ~
This is the testimony of the last Of the
prophets, Malachi. Nevertheless, several
centuries elapsed with no manifestation
of Messiahs glorious Kingdom i and
1srael's New Covenant. Had God forgot
ten his promises to Israel |? 5 rs # 81 5.
q Then in IsraePs history there came IN
a parenthesis. as it were. AS a nation
they were CASTOR from Divine favor for
"a length of time equal to that in which
they had ENJOYED God s favor Now, that
duplication or double of experience has
been fulfilled, as was pred icted by the
Prophets Jeremiah 1918; zechariah, 9:l2;:
Isaiah 4O:1 g The double has passed and
the time for the Mediator to inaugurate
Isracl's New Covenant has arrived.
Shortly the great Messiah be re-
vealed to sthe3eye of under nding Of an
expectant world but will be Invisible to
the natural sigh His Is donl will be
ever where. In full exercise of heavenly
powers yet men will not be able to say
Lo. here. or Lo there. The nearest APP
proach to the glorious Invisible Kingdom
Will be through the earthly representa-
tivess OF the New Dispe nsa i on a bra ham,
Isaac and Jacob 8. The New Covenant will