The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-04-06
THE GREAT i
HEREAFTER i
By PASTOR RUSSELL Il
of Brooklyn Tabernacle Is

the mountains and shall be exalted above
| the hills; and all nations shall flow into
it.-Isaiah liz.
Our text has not yet been fulfilled,
| but we believe the beginning Of It's full
fillment to be near. 1t pictures Mes
| siah's kingdom for which Christian
people have long been waiting and
praying, Thy kingdom come; they
will be done on earth as 1t is in
! heaven"-the same kingdom for which
| the Jews so long waited and are still
waiting. Our text relates not to the
! spiritual part Of the kingdom, which
the Gospel church is called to share,
but to the earthly part of the kingdom,
which belongs to the natural seed OF
| Abraham. A great mistake has been
made by many of us in the past, in
that We have not discerned and &C
| knowledged the two Israels, spiritual
and natural, and the separate rewards
| and blessings apportioned to these by
| the Divine promises of the Scriptures.
Both are to be used of God in fulfilling
| the promise made to Abraham-in
blessing all the families Of the earth.
After the completion of Messiah,
! Head and Members, on the plane Of
| glory, the New Covenant will be in
augurated with Israel as the Scrip
lures distinctly teach Jeremiah XXI.
! 31-34. Our text, therefore, waits for
its accomplishment until the last mem
Der Of the elect Church Of Christ shall
have passed beyond the vale.
In the symbolic language of the
! Scriptures a mountain is always sym
bolical of a kingdom Hence the noun
| tain of the Lords house means the
kingdom Of God and that royal house
or family recognized by him. For in
stance, We read that David sat upon
the throne of the kingdom of the Lord
and that God made a covenant with
| him, even the sure mercies of David
VIZ, that none but his seed, his pos
| terity, would ever be recognized as the
| Divinely appointed representatives of
God in kingly authority and power. In
other words, Messiah was to be the
offspring of David, the great antitypical
David (Beloved), who must reign
from sea to sea and from the river to
the ends of the earth"
The Messiah King on the spirit plane,
the Son of God land like God invisible
to men, as are also the angels, IS the
antitypical David and the antitypical
Solomon, the wise, the great, the rich.
In the days Of his flesh our Lord was
the Son of David according to the flesh,
though begotten of q divine HE not
tainted by any human imperfection.
He was, therefore, holy, harmless IN
defled and separate from sinners His
faithfulness to the viii Of the Father
made him subject to all of the eXpe-
rlences Of suffering and death, as ex-
pressed in his own words The cup
which my Father has poured for me,
shall l refuse to drink it? His obedi-
| ence unto death, even the death Of
| the cross, demonstrating his loyalty
to the last degree and he received the
high reward appropriated Him hath
God also highly exalted and given a
| name that is above every name, that
at the name Of Jesus every knee
should bow. both of things in heaven
and of things in earth"
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attain n win eternal life. These
Ancion+ W-ortbies are enumerated in
the Observation-Disclosures, Isaac, Jacob,
the prophets, etc, and described by
st. Paul in Hebrews 11:38-40. To these
belong the earthly promises of
the Old Testament. They never
heard of the heavenly or spiritual
promises. Their loyalty will find its
reward in the fact that they will come
forth from the tomb no longer blem-