The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-06-13

HIS rule on the Heavenly plane. For
10 He not declared to be the First
Born among many brethrenr The
First or Chief Resurrection viii bring
all these Sons Of God to the plane OF
glory, honor and immortality-born
from the dead; then the great Deliv-
erer VIII 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
glorined Jesus who received of the Fa-
Their, 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 viii have points Of similar
ity as well as points Of difference.
The blessing viii come through the
great Messiah and as a 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 VIII seal the New Law Cove
nant with Israel; and then, with the
world through Israel Jeremiah Hxi,
81. The great Messiah OF glory win
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 Hebrews IL, 1929.
The Pentecostal blessing then to
come upon the world win not be upon
the terms Of their sacrificing their
earthly rights to attain heavenly bless
ing and spiritual sonship; on the con-
trary, its requirements VIII be con-
secration of obedience to the Divine
Law; and its reward win 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 disobedience. All
coming under that blessing will ex-
perience the uplifting and restoring
to all that was lost In Adam. They
shall build houses and inhabit them.
They shall plant vineyards and eat the
fruit thereof. and long enjoy the work
Of their hands" isaiah lxv, Ply. 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 "fiesh and blood can
not inherit the Kingdom Of God"
AS Jacob was q son Of Abraham, not
directly, but through Isaac, 30 also
those blessed under Messiah's reign
win be children Of God, not directly,
but through the Messiah. Directly,
they will be the children Of Messiah.
Thus II IL written of Messiah, "He
shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
the Mighty One, the Prince Of Peace
and the Everlasting Father-the Father
or Lfe-giver to the restored world Of
mankind. The life which He laid down
In sacrifice, namely, the earthly life. is
the one which He viii give to all the
willing and obedient Of Adams race
during His Messianic Kingdom-to be
theirs forever. It Is In this sense that
| He will be the Everlasting Father-the
Father giving everlasting life. which
father Adam failed to give. Messiah
Himself win have no need for the
earthly life which he laid down. be-
cause the Heavenly Father has given
Him, as q reward for His obedience,
| the higher life-the divine nature.
The Fathers 70 Be Princes.
From Of old Abraham. Isaac, Jacob,
| David, etc., were called the fathers, not
only because of their relationship to
the Jewish nation. but particularly be-
cause Messiah was to come a. their
offspring-"ths Seed OF Abraham" ''of
the stem of Jesse" 1.-THE Offspring Of
David" and SO Jesus was born Of this
very lineage. But His exaltatlon by
the Father to the spirit plane, and the
fact that 1t was His earthly rights
which He laid down In sacrifice, which
are to 90 to Adam and all Of his race
who win accept the same On the d.
vine terms. puts Jesus In the position
Of Father or Lifs-giver to the world,
and to Abraham, David, ETC., as well.
They must all obtain their everlasting
Life through Him, and hence viii be
Bis children Thus the Prophet David
wrote Of the future, 'Tnstead Of thy
fathers shall be thy children, whom
thou mayest make Princes In all the
earth" psalm XIV, 16). Those fathers
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clared to be pleasing to God They at
tested their loyalty to Him by a faith
which worked in harmony with His
win through the limitations Of fallen
| nature.
The Fathers to Get "a Better Rssur-
| rection"
On account Of this they are already
declared to be worthy Of a 'better res
direction" than the remainder Of man
kind-but not SO glorious a resurrection
as will be granted to the Church. Their
resurrection win be to the perfection Of
human nature-mental, moral and phys
zeal. Thus they win stand before man
kind as samples Of human perfection,
to which standard, by obedience, all Of
the race may attain. II they win, dur
ing the thousand years of Messiah's
reign and Kingdom.
Those Ancient Worthless Hebrews
I'D, VIII not only be illustrations Of hu-
man perfection, but they win be made
Princes" or rulers In all the earth.
They win be the outward and visible
representatives Of the invisible Mes
siah and the Agents through whom the
Word Of the Lord will 60 forth; az It
is written, "The Law shall go forth
from Mt Zion (the Spiritual Kingdom),
and the Word Of the Lord from Jeru-
salem"-the earthly manifestation Of
the Kingdom amongst men.
Pastor Russell gave an extraordinary
Interpretation to a heretofore hard-to-
be-understood portion Of Joel's proph-
ecy: your young men Tin that New
Dispensationl wiz see with clear vision
what your Ancients dreamed Of and re-
lated in parallels" This vision Of glory,
the Pastor declared, would be the
Reign Of Righteousness and the PEN
tecostal blessing accompanying it, upon
the willing and obedient, every one
Of whom would be brought to clear
knowledge and full opportunity for sal
vation.
| Order Of the Blessing.
The order of the blessing Is stated
It win come upon all flesh after those
days, but upon the servants and hand
maidens IN those days. The days men,