The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-10
Th. unehsnaeabIe One.

was no one at that time to appreciate
God-it requires full view Of the
perfected Plan Of the Ages to make
known to any and to all the glory of
the Lord. AS we have just seen, thus
| far the secret of the Lord and the
| glories of his character are known
only to his sons" begotten of his
holy Spirit But the time nears when
'the whole earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the great deep"
He and his glorious government will
| then be "the desire of all natlons;'
"The glory of the Lord shall be reveal
ed and all flesh shall see II together"
GIaggai II, z; Isaiah xl, 81.
st. Paul assures us that every fea-
ture Of the Divine Plan which we see
in process OF execution was known to
Jehovah from before the foundation
of the world. He declares that these
things God purposed in himself before
the foundation of the world. The
creative processes, which have been
operating for thousands of years, were
all surely elaborated In the mind Of
Jehovah before the creative work be
| gan. In that purpose angels had n
part-of how many grades we may
not surely know, but they are various
ly designated in the holy Scriptures as
'angels, principalities and powers"
Later came the creation of man, "a
| little lower than the angels" and
crowned with earthly honor, dignity
and power, in the image and likeness
of his Creators glorious power.
These creations varied not in degrees
J Of perfection and imperfection. Each
was perfect on its own plane. Each
| intelligent creature was a free, moral
agent, and hence, whether on the an
gellc or human plane, was created in
| the likeness of God, unblemished, but
with different capacities and abilities
Almighty God infinite in Wisdom,
justice. Love and Power, purposed the
orderly exercise of his infinite powers,
as great Father, desiroils of giving
life and happiness to his creatures.
These intelligent ones were desig-
mated Sons OF God" so long as they
maintained their attitude of perfect
loyalty to him. their Creator and Fa.
thcr. Not only was II the Divine
intention thus to give pleasure to
millions of creatures to be created but
1t was also the Divine viii to manifest
to his creatures his own greatness and
the perfection of his own goodness
that they might enjoy him and he en-
Joy them everlastingly.
We are>not to understand that Al
mighty God was lonely in that great
Eternity before creation began. On
the contrary. human loneliness is
largely because of human deficiency.
What we lack we seek for In others.
But the great Jehovah lacked nothing;
he was complete in himself; he needed
rot companionship to complete or to
supplement his happiness 1t was his
pleasure TO create that his creatures
might have joy by rejecting as
whole his Divine qualities implanted
in their constitutions.
The wreck of the human race pro
duced by sin he well foreknew. Nor
did this wrecking of human hopes de-
feat, nor was 1t in danger Of defeating,
the Divine purpose. 1t merely demon
strates to angels and to men the graces
OF the Divine character and shows unto
nll the more fully the qualities Of God
proper to be appreciated aud copied.
The Seven Sealed Scroll.
When God would illustrate TO us his
own great personality, when he would
show TO his creatures how he Is work
Ing all things according to the coun.
sci OF his own WILL he pictured It sym
bolically in the Book OF Revelation.
In that vision the Throne Of the Eter-
nal One is graphically portrayed as the
seat Of Divine power and authority
| for the Universe. with angels as minis
tering spirits. Then is described z
scroll In the right hand of Jehovah
In Divine power and keeping. Tha,
scroll. written inside and outside. was
"sealed with seven seals" represent.
ing the complete secrecy Of the Divine
| purposes related in that scroll From
before the foundation of the world II
had been in the hand lin the power
of the great Eternal. He had given
hints respecting IL and had caused II
to be symbolized in the Law and itC
some extent 10 be described by the
Prophets. But still 1t was Hidden
Mystery. because the~prophets under
stood not the things which they wrote
nor could any understand them unit
the Fathers due time" which lie had
| purposed In himself
| Not only was the Divine Program
thus sealed and safely secreted but Il
was the Divine determination that Il
should be given only to the one whC
would demonstrate his worthiness Il
be Jehovah's honored Agent for the
carrying out of those purposes--pre
destlnated before the world was. TIL,
honor OF being the Agent, the Repre-
sentative of Jehovah, TO carry out the
Divine purposes. should be disclosed
in advance only to the one who would
demonstrate his worthiness to be the
great Messiah, the great Dellverer
the great Prophet. Priest. Judge, Kinl
OF Israel.
High as the Redeemer stood in thu