The Grenada sentinel., 1911-05-05

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In the past those Of us who contin-
ued to believe in the resurrection of
the dead. held some inconsistent the
ories respecting the matter which serv-
ed to make the resurrection doctrine
the more absurd In the minds Of those
| opposed. For instance. we claimed that
the Lo0os. the Son Of God. left the
heavenly or spirit nature and, accord
and that He was resurrected from the
dead a human or heshly being and
ascended to hea ven with body Of flesh.
How absurd! Do not the Scriptures
particularly tell us that in His resur-
rectlon the Son was highly exalted by
the Father. far above angels. principal
tiles and powers and every name that
is named? Do they not tell US that
''nesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom Of God"? Do they not tell
US that the elect Church. in order to
be the Bride Of Messiah and His as
sociate in the heavenlys Kingdom. must
also be "cham0ed." in order that she may
be made like Him. and because flesh
and blood cannot inherit the King
DOM? We have been too careless in
our study Of the Divine Word.
essottsn Of the spirit-Thsn Born.
Our difficulty on this subject arose
from our failure to understand that
h~mon and spirit natures are distinct.
and that God has provided two dis
tinctly different salvations for mankind
the salvation Of this Age being ex-
clusively spiritual. while that Of the
next Age will be exclusively human.
The Lo0os. the Only Begotten Of the
Father. twas made flesh" John I, 1A.
He was not q spirit being incarcerated
In a body Of flesh and wearing 1t as a
garment, or living in it as house. He
became at his birth like others of the
race, except that "He was holy. harm
less. separate from sinners" while all
others are sinners. imperfect. Like
other men. the man Jesus was not a
dual being-a spirit being living In a
human frame. He was merely the hu-
man.
The Redeemer, however. become .
dxaJ being when He received the beget-
ting Of the Holy Spirit at the time Of
His baptism. Thencef0rth. for three
and a half years. until His cruciflxion,
He was a dxal being. The nesh was
i, the same: but the spirit begetting 70
/ ceived from the Father constituted
Him a Heso Ego. a new person. He not
only thereafter had new hopes. based
upon Divine promises, but He had .
new mind or new will specially tIIw-
ntsoted. qvickeHcd. enlightened BY the
holy Spirit.
"Abovs the Brightness Of ths Sum"
St. Paul, the last Of the twelve Apos-
ties to be called ito take the place Of
yudas), needed. as well as the others.
10 be able to scitness to the resurrec-
don Of Jesus. OF this he tells N.
saying, 'He was seen Of Cephas. then
Of the twelve; after that. he was seen
Of above Eve 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.
a. Of one prematurely born" Il CORN
thians xv. 5-6).
In the ordinary course Of events st.
Paul would not have seen the Lord
until His resurrection. when he him
self would come forth as q member
Of ''the Church Of the First-born." He
therefore 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 u and not as He scds.
The proper thought respecting the
resurrection Of our Lord and His pres
ent glory, shows us clearly that His
Kingdom, when 1t shall be establish
ed, will, indeed, be a heavenly King
dom. a spiritual one. From this stand
point only can we see the force Of the
Apostles contrast. when he pictures
to US how Satan. ambitious and
scheming to be the Emperor of the
world, took the path of disobedience.
Satan indeed gained his desire and
is the ''Prince of this world"-over a
sorry Empire. in which sin and death
reign. On the other hand. the Apostle
points US to the fact that our Redeem
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bled himself to take the human ma
ture. to be crucified: and that there
fore God has highly exalted Him and
will give to Him the Kingdom now
usurped by "Satan. the Prince Of this
world"
Satan win be bound for the thou
sand years Of Messiah's reign. The
spiritual Prince Of darkness will b
deposed and the spiritual Prince oi
Light and Truth. as the Fathers hon
t ored Agent. viii be inaugurated al
} King Of kings and Lord Of lords. And
, 1 He must reign until He shall havs
, put all enemies under His feet"-ths
last enemy being death. Adami'
death. the death introduced through
the deceptive lie Of Satan. who was ,
murderer from the beginning and abod
not in the Truth" (John VIZ. ~.