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Prophets fen as dead before an angel

Prophets fell as dead before an angel
Of the Lord. whose face shone as the
sun Thus John the Revelator. granted
glimpse Of the elorified Christ. fell
as dead before Him, The effect Of this
great light above the brightness Of the
sun upon the eyes Of Saul of Tarsus
was destructive aud miracle was
necessary for their repairment
Thus the Lord identified Himself In
glory with His former self the man
Jesus These lessons OF the Lord
should not have gone unheeded We
should not have thought Of the glori-
fed Messiah as man The effect OF
the wrong thought has not only be-
clouded our appreciation of the Sa-
vior In glory. but has also confused
many respecting His Second Advent.
II Is safe to say that even vet the ND.
jority Of those who are expecting the
Second Coming of the Son Of God nd
His establishment of His Messiaiii
Throne are looking for Him as a gIori-
fed man. forgetting that He sacrificed
Himself as man. and that He took
not back that sacrifice. but received
exaltatiOn to the more excellent glory
than that which He had left to become
our Redcemer.
These wrong expectations respecting
Messiah's Kingdom have turned the
hearts Of many in a contrary direction
They have reasoned correctly-that the
establishment Of All earthly Kingdom.
with Christ the King in the flesh and
His sahits joint.heirs with Him in His
Throne. also in the flesh. and with an
earthly court would he a condition Of
things inferior to the present one and
apparently very inadequate for the ac-
complishment Of the great things
which the Bible promises Messiahs
Kingdom will secure.
The proper thought respecting the
resurrection OF our Lord and His pres.
ent glory shows us clearly that His
Kingdom. when 1t shall he established.
will. indeed. be heavenly Kingdom.
spiritual one. From this standpoint
only can we see the force Of the Apos.
ties contrast, when he pictures 10 us
how Satan. ambitious and scheming to
be the Emperor Of the world took the
path of disObedience. He indeed gain.
ed his desire and Is the prince Of this
world'-orer sorry Empire. in which
sin and death reign. On the other
hand. the Apostle points us TO The fact
that our Redeemer. loyal to the Heav.
emily Father to the core. humbled Him.
self to take the human nature. to be
crucified: and that therefore God has
exalted Him and will give TO Him the
Kingdom now usurped by Satan. the
Prince Of this world
Satan will be bound for the thousand
years Of Messiah's reign. The spirit.
ual Prince Of darkness will be deposed
and the spiritual Prince of Light and
Truth. as the Fathers honured Agent.
will be inaugurated as King Of kings
and Lord Of lords And He must
reign until He shall have put all enc
mics under His feet'-the last enemy
being death. Adanic death the death
introduced through the deceptive lie Of
Satan. who was murderer from the
beginning and abode not In the Truth"
Dohn viii. a.,
ST. Paul. according TO the Greek text.
Institutes comparison between Sa.
tan's course and that of the Logos
philippians II. Co. He there implies
that Satan was ambitious aud sought
to grasp Divine prerogatives. but tina I
the Logos did not mediate a usurpa.
ton to he equal With God" but. on
the contrary. humbled Himself and
made Himself of 10 reputation. New
ertheless, eventually, in the outwork.
ing Of the Creators great Progra III,
the One who BUNDLED Himself will lie
the Exalted One. and the one who ex.
allied himself will be abased The
Apostle urges the Church to follow the
example of Jesus-"Humble your
selves. therefore. under the mighty
hand of God. that He may exaIt you
in due time" q Peter Y. 81.
Church Of the First. bcrn..
AS the Only Begotten of the Father
was begotten Of the Holy Spirit at the
time Of His conservation. as an embryo
New Creature. and as He was born of
the Spirit or perfected as a New Crea.
ture in His resurrection, so also the
Scriptures indicate must be the course
along which the Church is TO follow
Him. None can be born of the Spirit
unless first he has been begotten of the
Spirit and quickened of the Spirit. I,
is through this spirit-begetting. quick
ening and birth that the "eiect of Cod
called during this Age to change OF
nature. are made New Creatures
members Of the Amounted One" the
Christ. the Messiah. the Mediator be.
tween God and the world. under-k kings
under priests, under.judges. in asso
citation with their Lord the Chief
Priest and bridegroom
In the present life the new nature is
merely begun. and. as the Apostle de.
clares. we have it As treasure in
earthen vessels-in earthly bodies. He
again declares that all the spirit begot
ten ones are In conflict in which il is
required that they shall prove them
selves "orercomers. Their special
conflict is with their own flesh. Tie
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