The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-08


are reminded 10y the Apostle that he
was put to death In the flesh and
made alive IN spirit.n spirit being, lie
died rs u man this side the veil. lie
arose II New Creature the other side
the veil Il spirit being He was "sown
In corruption, raised In interruption;
soWn In dishuuur, raised In glory:
sown natural body, raised II spiritual
body" As the ChurChs Head and
Forc.ruunCr he passed beyond the
veil; and now shortly, rs participants
with him and as the second battalion
of the glorious triumphul procession,
will follow "thc Church which is his
Body" sharcrs with him In the First
Resurrection, his Bride.
Next in professional order following
the Bride class, the very elect" will
come the great company" from every
nation, people, kindred and tongue, the
hOnored servants Of the heavenly
Bridegroom and Bride The virgins
her companions" psalm xiv, ~, will
follow after the Bride into the pres
cnce of the great King Jehovah. Next
In professional order will come the
Ancient Worthless from faithful Abel
down TO John the Baptist, the greatest
OF the prophets. But these will come
forth from the tomb in human pcrfcc-
ton and not in the spirit perfection OF
those preceding Qlcbrcws Xi, $40;
Matthew ri, III. In their human per
lection similar to that of Adam before
his transgrCSSiOn plus their develop
mcnt in faith and obedience, these will
constitute frstfruits of Israel and OF
the world of mankind. Under their
ministration, supervised by the glori-
fled ones beyond the veil, the work OF
restitution and uplifting the captives
of sin and death will progress until.
at the close OF that thousand years OF
the reign of righteousness, every hui
man being OF loyal character will be
completely freed from the bondage OF
sin and death and impcrfection and,
with the Ancient Worthless, will march
in the grand procession into the pres
enCe of Jehovah God,
Thus the great Redeemcr and De-
livercr will not only present the saint
ly Church bamelcss and irrcproach-
able before the Father in love, but
likewise will liberate all who will OF
Adams race, now asleep and dcgrad
ed. No wonder the Scriptures declare
of the end of his triumphal procession.
"IIe shall see of the travail of his
soul and be satisfied" isaiah Iii, IL.
"And Gave Gifts Unto Men,
All the blessings which, in Gods
providence, are not coming to the
Church during this Gospel Age, and
all the blessings that in the Millennial
Age will flow to natural Israel, "the
rebelliouS also" and all the blessings
that will flow through Israel and its
New Covenant to all the families OF
the earth. proceed directly or Indirect
ly from the great victory which our
Lord Jesus gained over sin and death
Our text and context, as well as the
Psalm from which the quotation is
made, bears out this thought. 1t Is
because our Lord descended, because
he left the heavenly glory, and be-
cause, in harmony with the Fathers
will. our Rcdeemer left the courts OF
heavenly glory and humbled himself to
become man, and then "humblrd
himself to death, and even to the death
of the cross" that his eXaltation came
as "A reward of his loyalty to the Fa-
Tiers will.
And in the Divine Plan it IS because
his resurrection body and glory We're
reward, a bleSsing-his earthly body
and nature and rights had not been
forfeited through diSObedienCe-thath he
had the latter with all its privileges to
bestow upon Adams dead and dying
race. He gave the merit of that saCri-
flee, first imputedly, on behalf of all
DESTROYS of walking in his steps Of
self-sacriiice even unto death, that
these might be, in the Fathers good
pleasure, counted as his members and
companions Oh the heavenly plane. To
this end the first gifts were bestowed
at pentecost; and all of similar class
throughout this age have had oppor-
tunlty for participation therein. Adj
ditionally gifts of helpfulness asd in
struCtiOn and assistance were provided
through the apostles orators, pastors
and teachers of the Church-for the
qualification of these sanity footstep
followers for the work of service in
building up the Body of Christ, until
, the elect Body shall be complete
QIpheSians iv, lib.
Soon these gifts and blessings and
privileges now granted and imputed
to the Church will be no longer needed
by the class being prepared for the
heavenly joint-heirShip, Then the gift
| Of the MillenniaI EingIom, and
through Israel the gift of the New
Covenant Jeremiah XXI 81, will be
bestowed upon the bood-bought world,
granting to them individually the OPP
portunity of recovering from all their
, detilement and impcrfection
Let us then hail this great Redcemer
/ and Delivcrer LOyd Of all! Let us bow
our hearts to him now and voluntarily
| put on the yoke of his service and Suf-
| fer with him outside the camp" that