Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-07


| ing Messiah's Kingdom, merely ex-
| plains that Restitution blessings will
| 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
| 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 off from life as unworthy
of any further favor at the hands Of
| the great Redeemer-M essiah-ail of
whose dealings will represent Divine
Justice. Wisdom. Love and Power.
Mans Years as a Trees.
The Scriptures tell us that under
Messiahs Kingdom the days of a man
shall be as the days of a tree. And
it 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
fed by the priests and LevitcS, "The
Church of the First-born. whose names
are written in heaven"
Messiah's Kingdom is to dominate
the earth for thousand years, with
view to blessing Adam and all of his
posterity - with a view to uplifting
them from sin and degradation and
death. The uplifting Influences will
begin at once. following the great time
of trouble with which the Kingdom
will be inaugurated. The judgments
of the Lord will be abroad in the
earth and the inhabitants of the world
will learn Righteousness. None shall
longer need say to his neighbor or his
brother. Know thou the Lord; for all
shall know Him, from the least unto
the greatest of them" for ''the knowl-
edge of the Lord shall fill the whole
earth" der. XXI. a. Isaiah XII. 81.
Whoever then, by obedience to the
laws of the Kingdom will avail himself
of the blessed privileges of Restitu
ton (Acts iii. 1921. will not only be
helped upward out Of mental. moral and
| physical imperfection, step by step to-
ward perfection. but. so long as he
progresses. he may live-clear dewn
to the end of that blessed thousand
years. If we had never seen trees; if
our own experiences had been with veg
citation such as perishes within year,
we might have difficulty in believing
Some one who would tell US of having
seen trees centuries old. Such a state
, ment would seem as unreasonable to
us as to tell us that humanity could
live for a thousand years or forever.
Have we not indeed seen children
old and wrinkled looking. yet only in
their teens? And have we not seen
others cheerful. fresh and compare
lively young looking at sixty and sew
enty?
All Unrighteousness Is Sin.
At the present time God "winks"
at much of the wrong-doing that
there is in the world He does not
interfere. with it. But of course ev-
cry transgression carries with it nat
urally more or less of depraving in.
fluence on the transgressor's mind and
I body. The conscience is the most ten.
| der and the most important element of
our human nature. Whoever violates
| it, whoever Injuries it, much or little
! will proportionately be disadvantaged
| in the future and will have all the
more difficulty in rising up gradually
| out of his degradation and weaknesses,
even with all the helps that will then
be available. Thus will be fulfilled the
] Scriptural declaration. Whatsoever a
| man soweth. that also shall he reap"
With all mankind redeemed there
will be nothing whatever of the past
| chargeable against any on the books
| of Divine Justice. The great High
| Priest" by his better sacrifices, will
have made full satisfaction to the de
| mands of Justice but the weaknesses,
mental. moral and physical. resulting
from more or less wilful and deliber-
| ate sin, must still be reckoned on, and
| thus every idle word and every idle
| thought, every idle and vicious action
| of the present time, by making its
mark upon the characters of men, is
| providing for corresponding difficd.
ties On their part in that glorious day
of their opportunity.
The suggestion of our text is that
| the great Messiah will rot temporize.
| for the entire period of His reign,
with those who do not show a proper
appreciation of opportunities when
fully brought in contact with them
and clearly understanding the terms
| Of Divine grace. But one hundred
years is quite a considerable period Of
probation and surely every reasonable
mind will concede that so long a de-
lay in meeting out the full penalty
of sin, Second Death, manifests the
extreme limit of reasonable mercy.
The Church's Triumph Shorter.
The Church. whose trial Is in prog
ress during this Gospel Age, receives
individually much shorter period of
probation than our text declares will
be granted TO mankind in the future
Gods sanity people are expected to
develop character and 20 approve
themselves to God as "overcomers'
within a very brief space of life. And
not only so, but they are required to
walk by faith and not by sight"
They merely have Gods Word as re-
spects His justice aGd Love and gra-
cious plans. while, in the next Age,
the world will have he actually in
stead of the promise -the world wi.i
walk By sight The glory of the
Lord shall be re called and all flesn
shall see II together Qsa.ah Il. 81.
The world during Messiah's reiTn
viii be privileged TO walk in a high
way of holiness. from which all the
stumbling stones viii have been gath
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