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Priests and Levites of the Jewish Dis
pensation. With the completion of
this Church. gathered out of all ma
tions. sects and denominations, Divine
favor will return again to the natural
seed of Abraham. Ae the Jew was
granted the first privilege or opportu-
nifty of becoming the Spiritual Seed
Of Abraham, he will likewise have the
first opportunity to participate in the
blessing which then will come to the
whole world of mankind ITO the
Jew first' Is the Divine order in re-
Hpect to both of these blessings. To
this agree the words of the Apostle
Paul.
After telling of the Divine election
OF the Church. the sanity few of both
Jews and Gentiles. the Apostle adds.
IL would not, brethren. that ye should
be ignorant concerning this Mystery.
that blindness. In part lonly,
not perpetuall. has happened unto
Israel" When the full, "elect." Spir-
itual Seed shall have been gathered.
shall have been completed from
amongst the Genties, then all Nat
ural Israel shall be saved from their
blindness and outcast condition (Ro-
mans ln.
st. Paul points out that as Israel's
stumbling was directly foretold
through the Prophet C"Let their table
become trap and snana~--Psalm
Xix, 22), so also, God through the
prophets has foretold their blessing
later on-that they would be the first
to be blessed under the glorious Spir.
itual Messiah Of many Members.
Thus It is written, There shall come
out of Zion the Deliverer and He
shall turn away ungodliness from ia
cob" Here, pictofially, Zion is
mother and her Offspring is the Mes
siah. Looking again at the type, we
see that Abraham represented Jeho.
yah and that Sarah, his wife, repre-
sented the great Covenant through
which Messiah would be developed.
I'm thy Seed shall all the families of
the earth be blessed Genesis xii.
II. 1S). IF ye be Chrlst's, then are
ye Abraham's Seed, and heirs according
W tnC Ditiilot Ill. III, SOI.
1t has required more than eighteen
centuries to give birth to this great
Deliverer. Jesus, the Head, was the
"First-Born from the dead;" and the
Church. His Members, since devel-
Oped, will be Ills brethren. sharers In
His rule on the Heavenly plane. For
Is He not declared to be "the First
Born among many brethrenT The
First or Chief Resurrection will bring
all these Sons of God to the plane of
glory. honor and immortality-bor
from the dead; then the great Deliv-
erer will be fully, completely born and
ready TO begin His great work of
blessing all the nations-Israel being
the first of these.
my Spirit Upon All Flesh"
st. Peter declares that it was the
glorified Jesus who received of the Fa-
ther, and poured out upon the Church
at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit That
blessing came to the Church because
of their coming into harmony with
the Fathers arrangement through the
Son. The receiving of the Spirit there
marked the recipients as sons OF God
The later Pentecostal blessing upon
the world will have points Of similar
ity as well as points of difference.
The blessing will come through the
great Messiah and as result of the
satisfaction He will make for the sins
Of the whole world, by applying to
the race the merits of His sacrifice by
which He will seal the New Law Cove
nant with Israel; and then, with the
| world through Israel Jeremiah XXI,
3D The great Messiah Of glory will
be the Mediator of that New Covenant,
and the foundation of that Covenant
will be "the better sacrifices offered by
this Mediator, as the Antitypical High
Priest QIebrews TX. 1929.
The Pentecostal blessing then to
come upon the world will not be upon
earthly rights to attain heavenly bless
| Ing and spiritual sonshlp; on the con-
trary, Its requirements will be con-
secration Of obedience to the Divine
| Law; and Its reward will be earthly
Restitution to the perfection Of human
nature, and TO the enjoyment of all
the blessings originally given to Adam
and forfeited by his dlsobedience. All
coming under that blessing will ex-
perience the uplifting and restoring
to all that was lost In Adam "rhey
shall build houses and inhnblt them.
They shall plant vineyards and eat the
fruit thereof, and long enjoy the work
OF their hands" Qsaiah lxv. 2n. This Is
the Divine promise, applicable to them
and not applicable to the Spiritual
Seed OF Abraham, the Church, the
Kingdom class, who must all be
changed. because flesh and blood can
not inherit the Kingdom of God"
Az Jacob was son OF Abraham, not
directly but through Isaac, so also
those blessed under Messlah's reign
Will be children of God, not directly.
hut through the Messiah. Directly.
they Will be the children OF Messiah.
Thus II Is written of Messiah, "He
shall he called Wonderful. Counselor,
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