The Cairo bulletin., 1911-12-25

exercised usurped influence over man
kind. preying upon human weakness.
ignorance and superstition. As the
Apostle declares. he had become the
god Of this world" "who now worketh
In the children OF disobedience' III
Cor. ", 4; Eph. II. p. In the language
of Jesus he was the Prince, or ruler. Of
this world. In that the great mass OF
mankind, some willingly, more igno-
rantly. were his servants.
We can only imagine how matters
must have appeared to the holy au-
gels, who for long centuries previously
had witnessed no disloyalty to God
and no unhappiness amongst His crea,
lures on any plane ct being; for them
now to see Satan ID rebellion and 9th
er angels following his course and be-
coming demons. and to see man. made
in Gods image. demonized and his
heart Of tenderness turned to a heart
OF stone and selfishness. 50 that
Mans inhumanity TO man
Makes countless thousands mourn
All this must hare been hewidering
to the loyal angels. who doubtless won,
dered whether or not the Universe
could thus pass from the control OF the
Almighty Creator Undoubtedly they
were aware Of the Divine intimatlolt
OF Il better day. rs expressed in the
promise that the Seed Of the woman
should ultimately brulse the Serpent's
mead; but nh, things had gone from bad
to worse since that glorious promise
was made. aud Divine Power seemed
less able than eyer to granple with the
powers OF darkness. How they must
have wondered at this.
Gods oath. bound Promise.
Uddouhteily the angels had heard of
the Divine promise made TO Abraham,
and buttressed with the Divine oath.
that by these two. immutable, assur.
ances-- Gods Word and His oath--the
blessings promised might be confident.
" expected, And that promise, was
twofold: q, That all the families OF the
earth should eventually he blessed and
ca that this blessing should come to
them through Abraham's posterity or
seed We can well imagine how this
joyful news would spread amongst the
heavenly hosts - better day Is com
Ing, the reign Of sin and death In the
world Is to be stopped The blessing
Of The Lord Is to reach the fallen race
and put an end to ignorance, snpersti'
ton. blindness. sin, dying crying and
pain"' "Al." they must have said, III.
nally God Ii about to take action and
to demonstrate His great Power. We
felt sure all along that He possessed
this Power. aud vet 1t seems strange
to us that He did not exercise 1t sooner
But these rejoicing angels must have
wearted rs they perceived the appar.
ent failure OF their expectations. Aft
er long years OF waiting. Ishmael was
born, but seemed very unsuitable
her--searcely u fuHlment Of the prom
isc, Long years later came Isaac.
whose supernatural birth seemed 10
point to the fultllment Of the promise.
But he accomplished nothing wonder
full and died. transmitting the glorious
promise and hope TO Jacob. More long
years passed aud Jacob did not fulfil
the promise. but left IT to his family
as whole-a rather unpromising fam
fly rs respected the blessing OF man.
kind Then the nation OF Israel. so
far from blessing other nations. went
into bondage TO the Egyptians; and all
of Gods promises seemed to have fail
3D.
Tho Testing Of the Angels Continued.
All, what q testing He gave the
loyal angels. How their faith IN Wis
dom and Power Divine must have
been tried. Finally. under Moses. the
Divinely appointed leader. the nation
Of Israel suddenly emerged from sIav-
cry and. under Divine favor, reached
Mt. Sinai and there entered into Cove
nant relationship, with God. as the seed
Of Abraham. heirs OF. the original
promise ~ blessing the world, Now
matters began to look toward Il full
filment OF the gracious promise that
IN Abraham and his sccd all the families
Of the earth would be blessed-not-
outstanding the fact that Abraham mds
dead
The trying experiences OF the wilder
ness must have been disappointing.
not only TO the lsraeIltes. but also to
the Interested angels beyond The veil.
who. St Pe:as tells us. earnestly de
sired 20 look into these things anu
sought for the tutilment OF The prom
Use. Il Peter 1, 10. ID Finally Ca
man. the laGd OF promise, was reach
ell but he progress OF Israel toward
world domination and blessing wa
glow. one after another Of their enc
mics brought them under tribute
Then came their prosperity for time
under King David. who set M the
| throne OF the Kingdom OF the Lord. and
then under King Solomon. the glories
" whose kingdom typitied that OF the
| coming Messiah. Of which they knew
rothng Then came further failures.
BabyIonian captivities- all wasting dis
] couragements. tt
Meantime the discouraged lsraelite'
found that they themselves were no
receiving the blessing that they ba,
hoped for under the Law Covenant
everlasting life. The Law had salt
! tint whoever would act In harmon.
| ,,ltl, 40 Gamma nda vould hava life