The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-10-10
LOOKING THROUGH the rype

Palestine. the Land Of Promise. One
chastisement after another failed to
move him to submission until finally
an intense calamity availed The
tenth plague was the shifting of the
irst-bom Of Egypt, while the Israel
ties were protected, thus showing Di
vine interest in and care over Israel
Their first-born were miraculously pre-
served-to represent In type the Church
Of the Firs'-born. The true Church
OF Christ are not all that will be saved
in the Divine Program, but merely, as
st. James says, These are kind OF
hrst-fruits unto God of His creatures
(James |, Is: Revelation xiv, ~. The
after-fraits will come In due time
under the further development of the
Divine Plan Of the Ages-as the result
Of Messiah's reign of a thousand
years.
Some time after their deliverance
from Egypt, by Divine direction. the
first-borns of all the families and tribes
OF Israel were exchanged, person by
person, for he one tribe of Levi. The
Levites thereafter represented the
Ftrst-born of the Church-they alone
represented the first-borns Of Israel
passed over in that night. Subsequent
ly the tribe of Levi became the In
structors Of the nation in religious mat
tiers and from them was chosen one
family for the Priesthood-Aaron and
his sons.
The Scriptural picture is plain. In
the antique we are still In the night OF
passing over Soon the Morning Of the
New Dispensation. under Messiah's
reign, will begin. and all DESTROYS OF
serving God and having His blessings
will be delivered from the depressing
power of Satan and his hosts. typified
by Pharaoh and his army God in
tends to deliver the whole world from
6atan's power Satan shall be bound
for thousand years. during Messiah's
reign, and is ultimately to be destroy
ed, and the people Of God-all who de
sire to worship the Lord and to enter
into the glorious Land of Promise
will be led forth. The frst-born of
these is the Church of this Gospel Age.
which will be associated with Christ
in His heavenly Kingdom-''the Church
Of the First-borns, whose names are
written in heaven"
Priests and Levitea Antitypical
The entire tribe Of Levi was specially
eonsecaated to the Lord, and specially
separate from the other tribes and was
given no Inheritance in the land Thus
the entire Church of Christ are begot-
ten of the Holy Spirit to a superior.
heavenly nature; they will have no in
heritance with mankind in general in
the earthly blessings restitution to hui
man perfection and participation In the
blessings of the world wide Eden to
be. The promise under which they are
now being developed is a heavenly.
spiritual one Their change win be a
glorious one from earthly nature to a
heavenly nafure-they will all be like
Christ. "They will neither marry nor
be given In marriage, but will lin thisl
be like unto the angels; neither can
they die any more"
But as from amongst those first
borns Of Israel the family of Aaron
was selected TO be the priests. so from
this Church OF the First-borns God
shows US that He is selecting Royal
Priesthood little flock" Aaron
and his sons were few In comparison
to ali the tribe Of Levi, SO only a
sanity few expect to attain to glory,
honor and Immortality with Christ.
These are referred to in the Scriptures
as members Of the Body of Christ"
even as the UNDER priests, Aaron's
sons, In the type, were members OF
Aaron Under another beautiful fig
ure this Priestly few are styled the
'sBride of Christ" and His joint-heirs
in His Kingdom and work.
Chosen to Bless the People
As these Levites, including the
priests, were elected, or selected, for
the purpose Of being the instructors Of
Israel, so we perceive the Scriptures
TO teach that the Church of the First
born, when gIoriied. will be associ-
ated with Messiah In His great work
Of blessing and instructing all the peo-
ple-an the families Of the earth. The
knowledge of the Lord at that time
win be made known to all mankind;
all the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped.
All the Leyite class win share In the
work OF blessing, which the Lord for
30 many centuries has declared
through the mouth Of all the holy
Prophets.
The merit of the death Of Jesus. the
Just for the unjust, when applied on
behalf Of the whole world. will be
efticacious for the cancelling Of the
sins OF the world, and their full re-
Cancellation to the Father. It will
be Divine mercy. however, which will
prevent mankind from being at once
turned over directly to the Father. as
soon as the satisfaction for their sins
shall have been rendered and accepted
at the close Of this Age Of dealing with
the Church. Instead New Law Cove
nant will be sealed and made operative
with Israel, and under that New Cove
nant the whole world will be privi-
legged to come into relationship with
Messiah and the blessings of His King
dom. which win represent to them d.
vine mercy, power and opportunity for
returning to human perfection and an
everlasting, earthly home-or. rejecting
this grace. they will die the Second
Death, from which there win be no
recovery.
The effect OF the New Covenant will
be to bring the willing and obedient
OF all the people Of earth fully back
into harmony with God; and this. at
tanned at the end Of Messiali's reign
Of thoussnd years, will prepare the
way for the surrender Of everything
to the Heavenly Father, that He may
be all In all. and that the world there
after may be dealt with as perfect be-
ings, along the lines Of absolute justice
and without any further need Of
Mediator or other merciful provisions.
The Plth Of the Argument.
This is the pith Of St Paul's argu-
ment In our text and context He
points US down to the contamination
Of this Age--to the time when the
Church Of the Flrst-born shall be COM
pleted on the plane Of glory-to the
time when Israel and the world of
mankind win reach the place where
GOD win Introduce the New Covenant,
typiied In the Law Covenant. Az the
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