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bers, Bridegroom and Bride, Unto
Him every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess to the glory of God"

tongue confess to the glory of God"
ASK Of Me and Will Give"
Although our Lord did not pray for
the world, He will yet pray for them,
/ and His prayer will be answered. The
promise reads, ASK of Me and | will
! give Thee the heather for an inner
itancc and the uttermost parts of the
, earth for possession psalm H. 3.
Jesus did not make this request on
, the night OF His crucifiXiOn because it
was not the Fathers time to answer
that prayer. Appropriately He waited
, and while gathering the elect from
, every nation, people. kindred and
tongue, the Scriptures declare that He
is seated at the Fathers right hand Of
glory expecting or waiting for the
time TO come when the Kingdom under
/ the whole heavens shall be delivered
to Him by the Father This will be
done at the end of this Gospel Age,
when the sanity Body of Christ shall
have been completed. Then .sHe shall
take unto himself His great power and
reign"
A great time OF trouble will fol-
low. The plowshare of sorrow will
! make ready the hearts of mankind for
the great blessings which Messiah will
| then be ready to bestow, because that
/ will be the due time. st. Paul tells
us that NIessiah's reign will be vic
tOrious one: HE must reign until He
shall have. put all enemies under His
feet lin full subjectionl; the last enc
my that shall be destroyed is DEATH"
| Then, after a thousand years, after
having accomplished the purpose OF
the Father in the uplifting Of all the
, willing and obedient of mankind to
earthly perfection the great Prophet,
Priest, Mediator and King of Glory
will at the end of the thousand years.
reign deliver up the Kingdom even to
God the Father, that God may be all
in all q Corinthians XIV. 2S).
While Satan will be bound at the
beginning of Messiah's reign and every
form of unrighteousness will be rooted
out nevertheless the raising Of man
; kind up out Of sin and degradation to
perfection will be gradual work. AS
the regenerating influences operate in
mankind.. they will become more and
more alive. less and less dead-until at
the end Of the Messianic reign Adamic
death will be no more; it shall have
been fully destroyed by the raising of
mankind completely out of it.; the last
enemy that shall be destroyed is death
-Adamic death.
The Second Death will never be de-
stroyed, but will be everlasting. 1t is
not an enemy to God and His right
eousness. but valuable servant to de-
strOy everything wilfully and intelli
gently out Of accord with the Divine
acknowledgements.
Pray For Them.
All who are seeking to walk in the
footsteps of Jesus: ALI who have taken
up their cross to follow Him. may well
rejoice in that feature of His prayer
which says, | pray for those whom
Thou hast given Ne that they may all
be one, as Thou, Father. and I are
one, that the world may believe that
Thou hast sent Me John xvii, 20, 21).
The oneness of Gods people is not
represented in the various sects and
parties Of the present time. 1t is rep
resented i'm the fact that all the coDse-
Grated followers of the Redeemer are
individually united to Him as the
Head and united to each other as
members of His Body. "The Lord
knoweth them that are His" BY and
by. by the power Of the First Resur-
rection, all these shall be perfected on
the spirit plane and constitute the
Kingdom for which we pray, Thy
Kingdom come: Thy will be done, OH
earth as it is in heaven AS a re-
suit of that Kingdoms coming the
world will all be brought to the point
Of believing in Jesus and will all have
the opportunity of obtaining through
Him the gift Of God. eternal life.
Our Lords solicitude was not merely
for the Apostles and earliest members
Of tic Church whom the Father gave
Him in the special sense. as His per
sOnal companions and helpers In the
founding of the Church; he prayed on,
saying, Neither pray / for these alone,
but for all those also who shall be-
Iieve on Me through their Word. The
Masters words outlined to us the D'
. vine Program, And Jesus himself be-
gan to declare the Gospel and brought
life and Immortality to light. He
commissioned His twelve Apostles, ST.
Paul taking the place of Judas, to
speak i'm His Name and as His special
mouth5ieces. Whatever they would
declare to be binding OH earth would
be binding in the sight of God in
Heaven. Whatever they would loose
and declare to be non essential on
earth. we may know would be so by
Divine decree Matthew xvi, 49,.
| In word, Jesus, the Apostles and
4, the Prophets alone are to be consid-
cred the special guides and standard
, bearers for the Church We are to
believe or Him through their word and
not through the word of counsels or
synods or presbyteries. Each individ-
ual Of the Church has his personal re-
| sponsibility. This is in harmony with
our Lords declaration, MY sheep
| know My Voice and they follow Me: a
) stranger will they not follow, but will
! fee from stranger II behoovcs us
today to hearken back to the words Of