The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-14


noon service was. 'THENCEFORTH
THERE SHALL BE NO MORE
death OFF AN INFANT OF
DAYS. NOR OF AN OLD MAN WHO
HATH NOT FILLED HIS DAYS.
FOR THE DYING ONE SHALL BE
BUT THE CHILD AT AN HUN
DRIED YEARS OLD-A SINNER AT
A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. HE
SHALL BE ACCURSED"-CUT OFF
FROM LIFE ISAIAH Lxv. 20,. The
speaker said:--
Our text Is a part of the Divine
prophecy of the blessings which win
come to Israel and to the whole world
during Messiah's glorious reign Of a
thousand beginning with the
close of this Gospel Era. Succeeding
verses tell that In that glorious Epoch
landlordism will be thing of the
past 'They shall build houses and
Inhabit them; they shall plant vine
yards and eat the fruit of them; they
shall not build and another Inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat"
Additionally we read. They shall not
labor in vain nor bring forth for trou-
BILE" Further we read that then the
wolf and the lamb shall feed togeth-
er and the lion shall eat fodder like
the bullock
No Spiritual Sheep. Oxen, Wolves, Etc.
No end of confusion has been Gre
ated by the intent Of well-meaning
people to apply these prophecies as
the reward of the Church In heaven
Nothing in the Scriptures warrants us
In thinking that there will be spirit
ual, heavenly sheep and oxen. wolves
and lions, vines and houses. planting
and building. Those who reject the
clear Bible teaching respecting Mes
sianic reign of righteousness cannot
understand the Bible at all. Not
single passage of the Old Testament
tells of heavenly hopes or promises.
Only a few Of them teach heavenly
things at all. and then indirectly.
As. for instance. in the types Of the
Old Testament the garments of the
High Priest. glorious and beautiful,
symbolic. we believe. the heavenly
grandeur. honors and glories of Mes
siah during the period of His reign.
Similarly Gods promise to Abraham
declares that His Seed. His posterity,
shall be as the stars of heaven and
as the sands Of the seashore. Moth
ing in this statement would necessa-
rily teach heavenly state or condi-
ton Only by the aid of the New Tes-
lament and the Holy Scriptures illu-
mination can we see that two Seeds
of Abraham are distinctly referred to.
the stars Indirectly implying the Spir-
itual Seed. while the sands Of the sea
shore refer to Abraham's Natural
Seed. AS 1t is written. 81 have con-
stituted Thee a father of many ma
tions''-like unto God.
So the Spiritual Seed of Abraham is
now being developed With its COM
pletion this Age will end and the Nat
ural Seed of Abraham will return to
special favor and become the leading
nation Of the world under the guild
ance and direction of the spiritual and
invisible, yet All-Powerful, Kingdom
Of Messiah.
The blessing through natural Is
rael will gradually extend to every
nation. in that the door will be open
ed by which all nations may come
into and become part of Abraham's
Seed. and thus into harmony with
Messiah's Kingdom. Whosoever re-
fuses this great privilege and blessing
Of Messiah's Kingdom will be destroy
ed from amongst the people in the Sec
ond Death
Hundred Year Old Children.
Centenarians Of the present time are
few, and they by no means are like
children. Usually they are wrinkled and
haggard We are to remember. how
ever, the Bible record that several Of
the earlier members of Adams race
lived nine hundred years. or rather.
they were more than nine hundred
years in coming fully under the SEN
tence against sinners-"By one mans
disobedience sin entered into the
world, and death as a result Of sin;
and thus death passed upon all men.
because all are sinners tRomans v, 12l.
Gradually. and especially since the
food. when a great change took place
in our cosmogony. human longevity
has decreased, while mental. moral
and physical ailments have increased.
Several of Adams children did not
have their first born child until after
they were a century old In conirma-
ton of this. and correspondingly In
a - ~
we find that the Ancients were strong
er than we, mentally as well as phys
ically; for they intermarried brothers
with sisters and cousins without In
Jury. whereas today the mental weak
ness of the race is such that one out
Of every one hundred and fifty adults
is In an insane asylum. and the mar
riage of brothers and sisters is pro
hibited, and even the marriage Of Sec
ond cousins is disapproved and held
responsible for increasing weak-mind-
edness.
We see, then, that our text, describ-
ing Messiah's Kingdom, merely ex-
plains that Restitution blessings win
recover mankind from the effects of
the fall, so that it shall then be as It
was In Adams day--that full human
rightness, maturity, will be reached in
q century and that man dying then
would be dying in childhood as COM
pared with the remainder Of the race.
The further guarantee is that none
will die even at hundred years Of
age, except wilful sinners who, refus-
ing to submit themselves to the regu-
lations Of Messiah's Kingdom, viii
then be cut of from life as unworthy
Of any further favor at the hands OF
the great Redeemer-Me Of
whose dealings will represent Divine
Justice, Wisdom, Love and Power.
Mans Years as a Trees.
The Scriptures tell us that under
Messiah's Kingdom the days of man
shall be as the days Of a tree. And
1t is believed that some trees live to
be at least a thousand years old. This
is Gods provision for every man-ev-
cry member of the human family
after He shall have accomplished the
work of this Gospel Age, the selection
of the Spiritual Seed Of Abraham. typi-
fed by the priests and Levites, "The
Church of the First-born. whose names
are written In heaven"
Messiah's Kingdom is to dominate
the earth for thousand years, with q
view to blessing Adam and all OF his
posterity = with a view to uplifting
them from sin and degradation and
death. The uplifting influences win
begin at once. following the great time
of trouble with which the Kingdom
will be inaugurated The judgments
of the Lord win be abroad In the
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