Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-28

sent disloyalty to God, but they surely
do always represent siackness or mat
tention to the Divine message; though
we may be sure of ths Lords faithful
ness in enlightening all who are of the
proper. teachable spirit
John the Baptist's Class.
To what class does John the Baptist
belong, and what will be biz share In
the Kingdom. according 70 our text?
Since the call of God began with the
call of the Church, and since the
Church began at the First advent of
Jesus, it follows that no one was called
of God to salvation prior to Jesus time
nope for forty-one hundred and fifty
years after sin entered the world.
God did. however. recognize the 10y
atty of heart of His Prophet Enoch
and communed with him and blessed
him. etc. God also recognized Abra-
hams faith and spirit of obedience,
and Isaac's and jacobs. and that of
Moses and Aaron and numerous proph-
cts and other faithful ones less notable.
Did he not call these? We answer
that he did not call them to salvation,
for no salvation could be positively
offered until the Redeemer had sacri-
feed; nor were they called to the King
dom, for the same reason. God did
tell them that in due time He would
bless all the world. He did tell them
that in due time the great Ruler of
the world would come forth from
Abraham's posterity In the line of
Isaac and Jacob and the nation OF Is
rael. But telling them of coming
blessing and giving them eternal life
are different matters. st. Paul de-
clares that none of them got everlast-
ing life, and that by the deeds of the
Law no flesh can be justified before
God"
Israers Law Covenant served to
instruct the Chosen People. 1t was
a call to do right, and a promise of
eternal life if they would keep the
Law. HE that doeth these things
shall live Israel learned the lesson
that perfect Law could not be kept by
imperfect beings. Some of them and
some of the Gentiles in due time heard
of Jesus and how God has provided
justifca ton through His sacrifcial
death.
God Provides Some Better Thing For
the Church Than For Ancient
Worthless.
st. Paul tells us the status of those
noble characters, of whom John the
Laptist was the last They were vol
uateer servants of God, so to speak.
Those OF them who were born under
the Law Covenant. by their faith lived
above it and will be fully rewarded
although they lived before any specific
call or offer Of eternal life was made.
Their faith and obedience were pleas
ing to God; as St Paul relates. "AL
these died in faith, not having receiv-
eel the things promised ttheml. God
having provided some better thing for
US (the Gospel church,. that they with
out us should not be made perfect
Hebrews XII. 10. 40).
THE Church of the First-born" is to
be perfected first. and on the spirit
plane, "partakers of the divine ma
ture" III Peter /, A.. In due time those
Ancient Worthless will come forth
from the tomb to receive the blessing
which God declares shall be the re-
ward of their loyalty. AS the Church
will have the better resurrection" on
the spirit plane. so those Ancient
Worthless will have the better resur-
rection" the earthly plane. They
will come forth from the tomb actual
ly perfect, while the remainder of
mankind will be obliged to attain per-
lection by the slow process OF faith,
works. obedience. during the thousand
years of the Kingdom.
Ancient Worthless Will Be Princes In
All the Earth.
Moreover, those Ancient Worthless,
while not members of the Kingdom.
per Sc. which will be spiritual, will be
members of that Kingdom in it's earth
IN phase They will be the Kingdoms
earthly representatives. princes or
rulers. in all the earth, as the Scrip
lures declare psalm xiv, 16l. We re-
member the words of Jesus to this eff
feet: "Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob and all the Prophets in the
Kingdom" but He said not q word
about Himself or His disciples being
seen; properly so, because they, as spir.
1t beings, will be invisible to men.
The Scriptures still further intimate
hof ,1r;Y, hn nd nf
Messiah's reign. all the faithful OF
mankind, all the obedient. will be priv
LEGGED to come into relationship with
the King. This is figuratively repre-
scented in the statement that the great
ones Of earth will bring their glory
and honor into the New Jerusalem"
With such glorious hopes before us,
with such appreciation of our Heaven
" Fathers glorious character and
wonderful Plan. with such a grand
view of our Savior's work. with such
a hope of share with Him in His
Kingdom. what manner of persons
ought we to be in holy living and
godliness! Nor should it be thought
strange that any of the spirit-begotten
now, or the restored or the future,
who would turn their backs upon the
gracious provisions made for their sal
walton. would be considered unworthy
Of further favor or blessing at the
hands of 1od and would die the Sec
ond Observation-Disclosures As Paul says
they shall ne punished with everlast.
ing destruction from the presence Of
the Lord and the glory of his power
0I ThessalonianS |. 81.
Soon the disciples of the Master will
be one with Him beyond the vel
sharers of His glory and Kingdom
Then viii come the time when the
world will believe. The knowledge Of
the Lord will fill the earth and all
the binding and stumbling influences
of the present viii be at an end. The