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light which no man can approach.
Whom no man hath seen nor can See
The Only Begotten of the Father. the
LoOos. when made flesh. revealed the
Father to mankind John |. 49,. The
faithfulness of the Logos as the Man
Christ Jesus was rewarded by the Fa-
ther with glory. honor and immortal
ity--the divine nature.
And this great privilege has been
given to an elect little hock,' the
Bride class. to become associated with
Jesus in the sufferings of this present
time and in the glory to follow. The
invitation TO the Church is to follow
the example of Jesus their Redeemer,
to walk in His steps, to sacrifice earth
ly interests and with Him become par
.9kers of the divine nature-glory. hon
or and Immortality I'll Peter /. ~. Our
Lord Jesus corroborates the same
thought. saying, las the Father hath
inherent life Immortality in the high
est sense of the word-deathleSsness
so hath He given unto the Son that
He should have inherent life.' and
that He might give 1t unto whomso-
ever He woud--the Bride class, the
overcomers. more than conquerors."
Everlasting Life For Humanity.
AS we have seen. the Almighty alone,
possessed inherent Immortality until
He gave Il as a reward to His glorious
Son, 'The Beginning of the creation
Of God" BY and by, in the First Res
direction, when the elect "overcomers"
shall enter upon this same plane OF
Immortality. the opportunity to become
of this nature will be closed, so far as
the Scriptures declare.
The Immortality enjoyed by the an
gels, otherwise spoken of In the Scrip
lures as everlasting life, is not inner
ent immortality. but an eternal main
tenance in life by the Creator, subject
to the condition OF obedience and right
eousness.
In this same sense of the word Adam
was immortal. but his immortality was
dependent upon his obedience. When
sustenance was withdrawn. He was
expelled from Eden that the sentence
Of death might take effect, dying thou
shalt die" Similarly. Satan and 9th
ers of the angels. because Of disobedi-
ence. will be destroyed. hence their inn
mortality was conditional. as was that
of humanity.
The redemption to be accomplished
by the Redeemer during His reign as
Messiah is to reinstate all the willing
and obedient In human perfection and
Divine favor. as these were enjoyed
by Adam before his transgresson. All
the wilfully wicked, all not desirous of
returning to fellowship with God
through the Redeemer, will be destroy
ed In the Second Death. The test will
be so thorough, so crucial, that God
declares that there shall be no more
crying, no more dying; which implies
| that there will be no more sin-that
the lessons connected with human and
angelic transgresson will be so thor
oughly learned that those found worthy
of eternal life will have their charac-
ters eternally fixed In respect to right
eousness and sin, as Gods character
| Is fixed and Interchangeable.
Life and Immortality.
| The Scriptures, ns we have already
intimated. use the word immortality In
mon In our general usage. They ap.
| ply the word to the Father and to the
Son, and to the Bride, the Lambs
| Wife. The blessing of everlasting life
provided for angels and for men found
obedient to the Divine will is Scrip.
turnlly cnlled. not Immortality, but
everlasting life,
Thus the Scriptures explain ihe two
fold work of Christ: ~ The work for
the world, in providing for all the will
ing and obedlent OF mankind. ever
lasting life: (2) the work for the
Church, In making possible for the will.
ing and obedlent OF the Bride class,
glory. honor and Immortality, the dl.
vine nature The Scriptural express
sion Is that Christ brought life and
immortality to light through the Cos
pei" I'll Timothy \ 10). Everlasting
NV Nao 'i WV tSh'ptN P"Se
but not specifically stated. The dec
laration that the Seed of the woman
should "bruise the Serpent's head" i'm
piled recovery from sin and death
victory over the Adversary, n release
Of mankind from the death penalty.
But II was not specific. The promise
of God TO Abraham, that in his Seet
all the families of the earth should bt
blessed, contained an intimatlon of Q
Divine provision for the restoration o.
humanity from death and the preseD
fallen condition, n restitution to eter
nal life conditions. But there wa'
nothing specific in It. The Prophets
also gave intimatlons OF coming bless
ings through n great Messiah, but fail
ed to say that eternal life would b'
the grand result,
The Glory to Come.
Not until the Savior appeared ant
made His conservation unto death, oil
behalf of the race, was 1t proper TO
even Him to give such assurances