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to cover the cartlShnd gross darkness
the heatbena Why does lie permit sin
to he 80 prevaleDfhhat whosoever win
live godly shall suffer persecution.
shall find the way OF righteousness a
narrow one, IA difficult one7 Why does
God not restrain the powers OF Satan.
and spread the Rght Of the knowledge
Of His glory throughout the whole
eurth? Why does He seem TO leave
the entire MATES Ain our poor. bun
Cling imperfect nnAls?
Why does uWkaAA. thus Indifferent
to the heather &3H6Fnds OF millions
and to the mass6a Of Christendomp
All! there Is reason, which sanity
ones are graduaifx coming to see. and
which. more ana more, IL causing
them to rejoice. through faith. We
now see plainly stated ia Gods Word
that the class now being selected Is
called for a pHrDose-a glorious pur-
pose--in which Adam and all Of his
race shall eventually have n blessing.
We see that Divine grace is now Sc
lecting the Church, aud that while few
have been called as compared with
the masses OF mankind, many more
are called than will eventually be
chosen The elect" class is to be
made associates with Jesus in His
Messianic Kingdom, heirs Of God,
joint-heirs with Jesus Christ"
So. as soon as the full number OF
select shall fave 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 thouT No longer will
| preaching be the Divine method of
| pursuing sinnere, On the contrary,
| everything pertaining to human inter-
ests win, for a thousand years, be
! turned over to Messiah's Kingdom.
"He shan reign from sea to sea, and
! from the river to the ends Of the
earth" His Kingdom will exercise
force. "The Law shall go forth from
| Mt Zion, and the Word of the Lord
respecting that Law, from Jerusa-
lem;" land 1t shall come to pass that
the soul who win not obey that great
Prophet, Priest, King, Instructor, will
be destroyed from amongst the peo-
ple' (Acts Iii, 1928.
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,
I Satan and his hosts, no human being
can tell. We may merely surmise, on
the strength of the Apostles words.
| hot In 1pt
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 Gphesians vi, IL, 12. r. ";
Timothy fv, ~. - &
When the True Light shall shine
when the Prince of Light. the King Of
glory, shall take to Himself His great
power and reign, aud the Prince of
darkness shall be bound, then the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God
shall fill the whole earth-then the
many misrepresentation OF the Divine
character and Divine Plan will vanish;
the blind eyes shall be opened, the
deaf ears shall be unstopped, and the
knowledge of Gods will and of His
gracious Plan of Salvation win be
fully made known to every creature.
As we have already seen. these bless
ings will begin at the time when the
Elect Church shah be completed. The
blessings of the Messianic Kingdom
according 10 the Bible. will come first
to the Jews. Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob and all the Prophets will be
the earthly Representatives OF the in
visible Messiah. These will be the
Princes in all the earth Psa. xiv, 16).
The Judgments OF tho Lord Soon.
Soon tie race viii be started up the
Highway of Holiness, encouraged by
rewards OF health ana strength and
uplifting blessings, and stimulated by
the stripes and punishments which
viii be visited upon evil Goers in that
time. Thus "The judgments of the
Lord viii 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. o..
Nevertheless, we are not to forget
the explicit teaching of Gods Word to
the effect that at 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 win be destroyed in the Second
Death-even then God viii not per.
NIT 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 prlson-house for
a little season." for this very purpose
of testing the perfected world. All
ihen living, perfect in mind and body.
,hould be loyal to God to the very
tore-should be able to stand any test
of LOYALTY Such as Weld to sin and