The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-07
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These great blessings of restitution.
for which Israel and the whole world
are waiting, cannot be brought about
until first the special salvation of a
special class, the salvation Of the very
elect-not to human nature. but to
heavenly nature. as the Bride of Christ
shall be accomplished. The select
Ing Of these has progressed for nearly
nineteen centuries and, apparently, Is
about complete. The Divine blessing
and work then to be inaugurated will
be restitution to earthly nature and
perfection-"to the Jew first"
Satan Serves the Saints.
During all these centuries, while
Satan has been the Prince or ruler
amongst the children Of this world.
and while he has blinded them with
his sophistries and falsehoods, he has
also done another work for the sanity
few now being called to the heavenly
places. For these he has, so to speak.
turned a polishing grindstone to pre-
pare them for the riches Of the heaven
~ glory as new creatures, as heirs OF
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their Lord. Quite unwittingly, we
may be sure, he has served the Crsa-
tors purposes and helped to prepare.
through. trials, this class for the gI0-
rious things which God has In reser-i
walton for those that love him.
In Divine dealings, Gods wisdom,
foreseeing the end, is able to use the
wrath Of men and OF the fallen angels
and OF Satan to praise him and to work
out blessings to his elect Church, and
the remainder. which does not thus
work, he can and does restrain. Hence
the Divine promise that 'all things
shall work together for good to those
that love God. to the called ones ac-
cording to his purpose"
Satan as an Angel of Light.
st. Paul declares of Satan, 1--WE are
not ignorant of his Devices" and he
tells US that Satan and his servants
transform themselves into servants Of
righteousness, etc. We see this prin-
ciple In operation as we read Church
history. Satan, all through this Age,
has sought to pervert Christian hopes
and dsstort Christian doctrines by pre-.
senting counterfeits of Bible truths.
Thus, for instance, the Scriptures tell
us that eventually the Church, "a lit
tie flock" will be associated with Mes.
siah in his Kingdom of glory to reign
a thousand years. 1t was Satan's
method to counterfeit this hope, to sug-
gest 10 men the establishment of an
earthly Kingdom with an earthly littIa
flock, an earthly glory, an earthly
reign. This was set forth as the full.
hllment of the second Psalm.
And when later on some of Satan's
dupes began to get free from some Of
his snares, he became their leader In
an opposite direction, called them re-
formers and led them to claim that all
the civilized Kingdoms of the earth
are the kingdoms of Christ. This is
the status of affairs today. The world
In general believes that Christ's King
dom has come. even though they are
still praying, Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it Is In
heaven" Satan has led them away
from careful attention to making theiF
own calling and election sure by Chris
tan character development, into the
various reform movements of the
world, whose trial time has not yet
come. Thus Christians of all denom-
nations have been bewildered, con-
fused by the artful wiles of our enemy.
Now, however. as the morning of the
New Dispensation dawns. our eyes Of
understanding are opening. We per-
ceive that our Adversary has but a
short time until he must be- bound for
thousand years; that the Messianic
Kingdom must prevail that all the
families of the earth may be blessed
through the Seed of Abraham. Final
", at the close of that reign of right
eousness, the Scriptures declare that
Satan shall be destroyed.
The Church is the Body of Christ,
Of Messiah. Hence the Apostles words
of our text apply to the Church in
glory THE god of peace shall bruiso
Satan under your feet shortly