The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-05-02

the Scriptures declare Romans viii,
III. Indeed, as the Apostle reminds us,
all the blessings of Divine providence
are of the Father From Him cometh
every good and every perfect gift.
He Who thus assembled up on high,
the Prince of glory and partaker of the
divine nature, is the same Who first
descended to the earthly nature, yea,
Who was humbled even unto death,
even the death of the Cross, and went
to the tomb as the sinners substitute
or ransom price. The forty days which
interviewed between the Redeemer's
resurrection and His ascension taught
two great lessons:
a. That the crucified One was no
longer held in the bonds of death, no
longer prisoner in the grave.
e. It also taught that the Risen One
was different in many respects from
what He was before He died. No long
er was He a man. No longer was He
flesh The body of flesh prepared for
Him for the suffering of death had
served its purpose. He needed it no
longer. The Father had raised Him
up to the plane of glory again. AS
Q,tickenin0 spirit He was with the dis
ciples during the forty days, instruct
ing them during the few moments of
each of His seven or eight appearances.
But He was teaching them equally
when invisible to them. He noted their
were in different forms-as a gardener,
as traveller, as a purchaser of fish
on the shore of Lake Liberals, calling
out, "Have you any fish,? and then,
drop the net on the other side"
He revealed Himself to the disci-
pies in various ways in connection with
those TaGteridiieGtions and then straight
way He vanished out of their sight
to be present with them. unseen. for
days. For identification He appeared
on two occasions in q body bearing the
marks of His crucifxion During those
forty days the faithful Teacher estab-
lished the faith of His followers in
Himself as the gloriied Messiah, their
Heavenly Bridegroom, Who would lat
er come again and receive them unto
Himself and at that time give to them
also a similar resurrection 'chdnge"
that they should be like Him, "see Him
as He Is" and not as He t0ds, and share
His glory-because flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of Cod q
Corinthians XIV, 5O).
above the Brightness of the SUM-"
st. Paul. the last of the twelve Apos-
ties to be called Ito take the place Of
Judas, needed, as we'll as the others,
to be able to fcitness to the resurrec-
ton of Jesus. Of this He tells us,
saying, "He was seen Of Cephas, then
Of the twelve; after that He was seen
of above five hundred brethren at
once; after that He was seen of James:
then of all the Apostles; and. last of
all. He was seen of me also. as Of
one prematurely born q Corinthians
Nv, 5-Sl.
In the ordinary course of events St.
Paul would not have seen the Lord I'M
til His resurrection. when he himself
would come forth as a member of 1.-The
Church of the First-born." He there
fore describes his view of Jesus on his
way to Damascus as being like that
of one born before the time In other
words. st. Paul saw the Lord as He
Is and not as He iods. He saw the
Lord of glory, and not the man Jesus.
The appearance was glorious indeed
In various parts of the Bible angels in
their normal condition are pictured as
bright-shining ones. Thus one Of the
Prophets fell as dead before an angel
Of the Lord, whose face shone as the
sun. Thus John the Revelator, granted
glimpse of the glorified 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 and miracle was
necessary for their REPAYMENT.
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 a man. The effect OF
the wrong thought has not only be
| clouded our appreciation of the Ea.
vior in glory, but has also confused
many respecting His Second Advent
1t is safe to say that even yet the ma
| jority of those who are expecting the
| Second Coming of the Son of God and
His establishment of His MessianiC
Throne are looking for Him as a glori
| fed man, forgetting that He sacrificed
Himself as a man, and that He tool
not back that sacrifice, but received
| exaltation to the more excellent glory
than that which He had left to become
our Redeemer.
These wrong expectations respectin,
Messiah's Kingdom have turned tn,
hearts of many in a contrary direction
They have reasoned correctly-that tn,
establishment of an earthly Kingdom
with Christ the King in the flesh ant
His saints joint-heirs with Him in Hi
Throne, also in the flesh, and with al
earthly court-would be a condition o.
things inferior to the present one ant
apparently very inadequate for the &C
complishment of the great thing,
which the Bible promises Messiah
Kingdom will secure.
The proper thought respecting thu
resurrection of our Lord and His pres
ent glory shows us clearly that Hi
Kingdom, when it shall be established
viii, indeed, be heavenly Kingdom
a spiritual one. From this standpoint
only can we see the force of the Apos
ties contrast, when he pictures to nj
how Satan, ambitious and scheming b
be the Emperor of the world, took tn,
| path of disobedience He indeed gain
ed his desire and is the prince Of thi
world"-over a sorry Empire, in which
sin and death reign. On the othel
hand, the Apostle points us to the fac
that our Redeemer, loyal to the Heav
emily Father to the core, humbled Him
self to take the human nature, to b,
crucified; and that therefore God hal
exalted Him and will give to Him tn,
Kingdom now usurped by Satan, tn,
Prince of this world.
Satan will be bound for the THOUSAND
years Of Messiah's reign. The spirit
ual Prince of darkness will be deposet
and the spiritual Prince Of Light ant
Truth, as the Fathers honored Agent
Will be inaugurated as King Of king
and Lord of lords. And "He mus
! reign until He shall have put all enc
mics under His feet"-the last enemy
being death, Adamic death, the dealt
| introduced through the deceptive lie o.
Satan. who was murderer from tn,
beginning and abode not in the Truth
| John viii, AZ.
st. Paul, according to the Greek text
| Institutes a comnarison hatxaon Ga