The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-12-19

that wrath and gotten back into har-
mony with God are the sanity few. be-
gotten Of the Holy Spirit. The escape
of these from Divine wrath or the |
death sentence is not actual. but by
fsith They reckon themselves as hav
ing passed "from death unto life"
As for the remainder of the world, |
they are not thus reckoned. for they
are yet in their sins. still children of
wrath and experiencing the penalty of
sin. The world will continue under
these conditions until the completion
Of the election of the Church. and then
the Redeemer, who now occupies the
position Of Advocate toward the
Church. will assume new Office; he.
with His Church associated with Him.
VIII become the great Mediator be-
tween God and men He will mediate
for Israel and for all the families OF
the earth-appropriating the merit of
His sacrifice for the sins Of the whole
world, even as in the beginning of this
Age He imputed this merit to the
Church for the covering of her sins.
Thenceforth. as soon as the great
High Priest shall have sealed that New
Covenant for the world. and the Faith
er shall have accepted it. the sins OF
the world will be cancelled. That Is
to. say. death. the wrath of God re
vealed against all unrighteousness for
six thousand years. will Immediately
be cancelled as respects all who will
then avail themselves of the privilege
and enter into the New Covenant re-
lationship. The glorious Mediator of
that New Covenant win bind Satan for
thousand years and scatter all the
ignorance and superstition which now
Harken the human mind and cause
Misrepresentation of the Divine Word
and character. simultaneously He will
let loose the blessed influences of truth
and enlightenment and the whole
earth shall be filed with the light of
the knowledge of the glory Of God"
Thenceforth the wrath of God viii
no longer be revealed ASainst any on
account of Adams aggression. 1t
win no longer be necessary to be sick
or in pain. or dying. On the contrary.
all may be making good. rapid prog
ress up, up. up out Of weakness and
dying conditions. back toward the full
perfection of human nature which
Adam had before he sinned. when he
was In the image Of his Creator.
There viii still be the marks Of the
wrath. upon mankind, the weakness
and imperfections Of the human flesh.
These marks will not be fully blotted
out until toward the close of the thou
sand years Of Messiah's reign This
agrees fully with ST. Peters words.
THAT your sins may be blotted out
when times Of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord. facts
III. 49, 1t is therefore one thing to
have our sins forgiven and to realize
that God is no longer angry with us
but reconciled, and 1t is quite another
thing to know our sins are blotted out
The sins of the Church are forgiven
the moment we are accepted of God
through Christ and made partakers of
the Holy Spirit and are styled chill
dren of God and heirs. But the
marks, the blemishes of sin. continue
with US as hong as we have our pres
ent. imperfect bodies. This to the
Church will mean that the blotting
out Of their sins VIII be in death, be-
cause the Church will he awakened in
the resurrection perfect. 'spotless."
without blame" ''irreprovable." The
Apostle describes this resurrection as
the Chief Resurrection. saying. SIT is
sown in weakness, it is raised in pow
er; it is sown an animal body. it is
raised a spiritual body."-I Corinthians
Nv, A; Rev. Xxx. 6.
"The Wrath to Come"
II we have seen what has constitut-
ed the Divine wrath as it has been re-
vealed for six thousand years. we will
be the better prepared to understand
what to look for in respect to any
future manifestations Of Divine wrath
Wrath to come We are to clearly
distinguish between the wrath Of a
good man and the wrath OF bad
man, and how these would manifest
themselves: and, similarly, we should
be able to discern between the wrath
Of God and the wrath Of the devil
. The wrath Of God. as exhibited to us
for six thousand years on the pages
Of history. has been just dealing
tho abandonment to destruction of
those who are not worthy Of everlast-
ing life, by reason Of disobedience to
Divine Law.
The redemption accomplished for
these through the death of Jesus will
eventually be gloriously worked out.
and give to every. man a full oppor-
tunity of recovery. harmony with God
and everlasting life The reason why
God makes this provision for redemp-
ton is because only one man sinned.
wilfully and intelligently. All the re-
mainder Of his children were "born In
SIM and under the death sentence.
The redemption therefore is In order
that every individual may have an
| opportunity for reaching decision as
to obedience or disobedience.
The lesson of sin aud death is taught
first. In the few years Of the present
life, and the marks of sin will go
over till the next Age. Those marks
win be deepened in proportion as any
In the present life live below the
plane Of their knowledge of the d.
vine standard and in wilful opposition
thereto While being instructed re-
speeding the other side of the ques
tion-the Divine requirements and the
blessings attending them, mankind will
be given an iadfUidnal trial or test. to
demonstrate whether the great lesson
has been rightly learned. The willing
ana obedient will get the reward of
eternal life. the unwilling and disobe-
dent will receive the anal penalty, the
Second Death 1t viii be anal in that
God will make no provision for rescue
from that Second Death. 1t will be
. Everlasting destruction" I'll Thess.i.e.
AS the wrath Of the present time is
the Divine death sentence upon the
race. 30 the wrath to come" win be
the second death" sentence, which
Will fall upon all who sin wilfully,
after they have come to knowledge
Of the truth. With this wrath to
come" in this complete sense, may
be included inferior manifestations of
Divine wrath: for instance. such as
came upon the Jews In the end of
their Age-destroying them as ma
tion-and such as Is to come upon
Christendom in the end Of this Age.
Both OF these are styled days Of
wrath. days of vengeance" The Di
vine vengeance which overthrow the
Jewish polity took cognizance of the
fact that as a nation they had en-
joyed great privileges for centuries.
1t took note Of the fact that they