Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-29

Prophets fell as dead before an angel
Of the Lord. whose face shone as the
sun. Thus John the Reyelator. granted
glimpse Of the gorifed Christ, fell
as dead before Him. The effect Of this
great light above the brightness of the
sun upon the eyes of Saul Of Tarsus
was destructive and a miracle was
necessary for their repairment.
Thus the Lord identified Himself in
glory with His former self. the man
Jesus. These lessons of the Lord
should not have gone unheeded. We
should not have thought of the glori-
! fed Messiah as a man. The effect of
the wrong thought has not only be-
clouded our appreciation of the Sa-
yior in glory. but has also confused
many respecting His Second Advent.
II is safe to say that even yet the ma
jority Of those who are expecting the
Second Coming of the Son Of God and
His establishment of His Messianlc
Throne are looking for Him as a gorl-
fed man. forgetting that He sacrificed
Himself as man, and that He took
not back that sacrifice. but received
exaltatlon to the more excellent glory
than that which He had left to become
our Redeemer.
These wrong expectations respecting
Messiah's Kingdom have turned the
hearts Of many in contrary direction.
They have reasoned correctly-that the
establishment of an earthly Kingdom,
with Christ the King in the flesh and
His saints jOint-heirs with Him in His
Throne, also in the flesh. and with an
earthly court would be condition of
! things inferior to the present one and
apparently very inadequate for the ac.
compllshment of the great things
which the Bible promises Messiah's
Kingdom will secure.
The proper thought respecting the
resurrection of our Lord and His pres.
ent glory shows us clearly that His
Kingdom, when it shall be established,
will, indeed, be heavenly Kingdom.
spiritual one. From this standpoint
only can we see the force of the Apos.
ties contrast. when he pictures to us
how Satan, ambitious and scheming to
be the Emperor of the world. took the
path Of disObedience. He indeed gain,
ed his desire and is the Prince of this
world"-over sorry Empire, in which
sin and death reign. On the other
hand. the Apostle points us to the fact
that our Redeemer loyal to the Heav-
enly Father to the core. humbled Him.
self to take the human nature. to be
crucified: and that therefore God has
exalted Him and will give to Him the
Kingdom now usurped by Satan, the
Prince of this world
Satan will be bound for the thousand
years Of Messiah's reign. The spirit
ual Prince Of darkness will be deposed
and the spiritual Prince of Light and
Truth. as the Fathers honored Agent.
will be inaugurated as King of kings
and Lord Of lords. And He must
reign until He shall have put all enc
mics under His feet"-the last enemy
being death. Adamic death, the death
introduced through the deceptive lie of
Satan. who was murderer from the
beginning and abode not in the Truth"
Uohn viii. Al.
st. Paul. according to the Greek text,
Institutes a comparison between Sa-
tan's course and that of the L0goS
philippians H. O.. He there implies
that Satan was ambitious and sought
TO grasp Divine prerogatives. but that
the LOgOs did not mediate usurpa-
tion to be equal with God" but. on
the contrary, humbled Himself and
made Himself of no reputation. New.
ertheless, eventually, in the outwork-
ing of the Creators great Program.
the One who humbed Himself will be
the Exalted One. and the one who ex-
alted himself will be abased. The
Apostle urges the Church to follow the
example Of esus-"Humbe your
selves, therefore, under the mighty
hand of God, that He may exalt you
Al uue blLut u ItleT v. VI.
Church of tho First. .borns.
AS the 0nly.Begotten of the Father
was begotten Of the Holy Spirit at the
time Of His conservation. as an embryo
New Creature. and as He was born Of
the Spirit or perfected as New Crea.
ture in His resurrection, so also the
Scriptures indicate must be the course
along which the Church is to follow
Him, None can be born of the Spirit
unless first he has been begOtten of the
Spirit and quickened Of the Spirit 1t
is through this spirit-begetting. quick
ening and birth that the "elect of God"
called during this Age to a change of
nature. are made New Creatures
members Of the Amounted One" the
Christ the Messiah the Mediator be-
tween God and the world. undertakings,
under'priests. under.judges, in asso-
citation with their Lord. the Chief.
Priest and bridegroom.
In the present life the new nature Is
merely begun. and. as the Apostle de-
clares, we have 1t as a treasure in
earthen veSsels-in earthly bodies. He
again declares that all the spirit-begot,
ten ones are in a conflict in which 1t is
required that they shall prove them.
selves "Overcomers." Their special
conflict is with their own flesh. The
New Creature, the new will must NOR.
tify the deeds Of the flesh. the desires
of the flesh, 1t must flight good
fight" and demonstrate its loyalty to
God and the principles of His right.
eOuSnPSs Otherwise it will not ba on.