Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-08-26

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Plan: Why does lie allow darkness
10 cover the earth and gross darkness
the heather? Why does lie permit sin
TO he so prevalent that whatsoever Will
| live godly shall suffer persecution.
shall find the way of Righteousness
narrow one. difficult one: Why does
God not restrain the powers of Satan,
and spread the light of the knowledge
of His glory throughout the whole
earth? Why does lie seem 90 leave
the entire matter in our poor. bun
CLING imperfect hands?
Why does lie seem thus Indifferent
TO the heather thousands of millions
and TO the masses of Christendom?
| All, there Is reason. which sanity
ones are gradually coming to see, and
| which. more and more. Is causing
, them to rejoice. through faith. We
now see plainly stated In Gods Word
that the class now being selected Is
| called for n purp0sC-a glorious pur-
pose-in which Adam and all OF his
race shall eventually have blessing
We see that Divine grace Is now Sc
lecting the Church. and that while few
have been called as compared with
| the masses of mankind. many more
are called than will eventually he
chosen. The ELECT" class Is 10 be
made associates with Jesus in His
Messianic Kingdom. heirs OF God.
ioint.hcirs with Jesus Christ
So. as soon as the full number or
elect shall have been found and
shall have been tested and found
worthy, the present method of Divine
operation will change completely. No
longer will God call after the sinner,
where art thou?" No longer will
preaching he the Divine method OF
pursuing sinners. ON the contrary.
everything pertaining TO human inter
ests will. for thousand years. be
turned over 10 Messiah's Kingdom.
"He shall reign from sea to sea. and
from the river 10 the ends Of the
earth" His Kingdom will exercise
force. THE Law shall 20 forth from
Mt. Zion and the Word of the Lord
respecting that Law, from Jerusa-
lem" "and II shall come 10 pass that
the soul who will not obey that great
Prophet. Priest. King. Instructor, will
be destroyed from amongst the peo-
pie" (Acts Ill. 1929.
All the Blind Eyes Shall Be Opened.
To what extent the various beliefs
OF the heather and the creeds OF
Christendom are the work of demons.
Satan and his hosts. no human being
can tell. We may merely surmise. on
the strength of the Apostles words.
that we wrestle not with flesh and
blood merely. but with invisible ''prin-
cipalities and powers. wicked spirits
IN high places" We may judge this
also from the intimation that Satan
has been deceiving the whole world.
We remember the Apostles declara-
ton respecting the doctrines OF de-
mons" (Ephesians vi, II. II, X. Vi;
Timothy ~. H.
When the True Light shall shine.
when the Prince Of Light. the King OF
glory. shall take 10 Himself His great
power and reign. and the Prince Of
darkness shall be bound. then the light
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shall ill the whole earththen the
many Misrepresentation of the Divine
character and Divine Plan will vanish:
the blind eyes shall lie opened. the
deaf ears shall be unst0pped. and the
knowledge of Gods will and of His
gracious Plan Of Salvation will he
fully made known TO every creature.
As we have already seen. these bless
ings will begin nj the time when the
Elect Church shall be completed. The
blessings of the Messianic Kingdom.
according to the Bible. will come first
to the Jews. Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob and all the Prophets will he
the earthly Representatives of the in
visible Messiah. These will be the
Princes in all the earth Psa. xiv, 100.
The Judgments Of the Lord Soon.
Soon the race will he started up the
Highway of Holiness, encouraged by
rewards Of health and strength and
uplifting blessings. and stimulated by
the stripes and punishments which
will be visited upon evil doors in that
time Thus 1.-THE judgments of the
Lord will be abroad In the EARTH" re-
warding righteousness and promptly
furnishing every evil deed and word
and thought. The result Is clearly
stated in the Scriptures THE inhabi-
tants Of the world will learn righteous
ness isaiah XVI. %.
Nevertheless. We are not TO forget
the explicit teaching Of Gods Word TO
the effect that ut the conclusion Of
Messiah's reign. when sin and death
shall have been fully subjected. and
when all shall have been lifted up to
perfection except the wilful sinners
who will be destroyed In the Second
Death--even then God will not per-
init the perfect ones Of that time
to enter upon eternal conditions until
first they shall have been subjected TO
severe trial and testing. Satan shall
be loosed from his prison-house 'for