The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-27

| 1t ha0 been blot upon the OtherwiS,
wonderful and gracious management
of the Great Creator. Elsewhere Cod
VIII. was perfectly done. Amongs
men there had been for forty cen
turtles reign of sin and death. SataI
exercised usurped influence over man
kind. preying upon human weakness
ignorance and superstition. AS thu
Apostle declares, he had become eth,
god of this world" who now worketi
in the children OF dsobedience" Ql
Cor. iv, A; Eph. ii, p. In the language
of Jesus he was the Prince, or ruler, oil
this world, in that the great mass OF
mankind, some willingly, more igno
rantly. were his servants.
We can only imagine how matters
must have appeared to the holy an
gels, who for long centuries previously
had witnessed no disloyalty to God
and no unhappiness amongst His crea-
lures on any plane of being; for them
now to see Satan in rebellion and 9TH
Ell angels following his course and be-
coming demons. and to see man, made
| in Gods image, denounced and his
| heart of tenderness turned to heart
of stone and sefishness, so that
I Mans inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn
All this must have been bewildering
to the loyal angels. who doubtless won
dered whether or not the Universe
could thus pass from the control of the
Almighty Creator. Undoubtedly they
were aware of the Divine intimation
of better day. as expressed in the
promise that the Seed of the woman
should ultimately bruise the Serpent's
head; bat ah, things had gone from bad
to worse since that glorious promise
was made, and Divine Power seemed
less able than ever to grapple with the
powers of darkness. How they must
have wondered at this!
Gods Oath bound Promise.
Undoubtedly the angels had heard of
the Divine promise made to Abraham,
and buttressed with the Divine oath.
that by these two immutable assur-
ances--God's Word and His oath--the
blessings promised might be confident
ly expected. And that promise was
twofold: a. That all the families of the
earth should eventually be blessed. and
(2l that this blessing should come to
them through Abraham's posterity or
seed. We can well imagine how this
joyful news would spread amongst the
heavenly hosts: "A better day is COM
ing: the reign of sin and death in the
world is to be stopped. The blessing
and put an end to ignorance, supersti-
ton, blindness sin, dying, crying and
pain" "Ahn' they must have said, eli
naliy God is about to take action and
to demonstrate His great Power. We
felt sure all along that He possessed
this Power; and yet it seems strange
to us that He did not exercise it sooner.
But these rejoicing angels must have
wearied as they perceived the appar-
ent failure OF their expectations. Aft
er long years Of waiting. Ishmael was
born. hut seemed very unsuitable
beir-scaroely 2 fuldlment of the prom
Use Long years later came Isaac.
whose Supernatural birth seemed to
point 10 the ful6lment of the promise.
But he accomplished nothing wonder
ful and died. transmitting the glorious
promise and hope to Jacob. More long
years passed and Jacob did not fulfil
the promise but left it to his family
as whole--a rather unpromising FAM
lily as respected the blessing of man.
kind. Then the nation of Israel. so
far from blessing other nations, went
into bondage TO the Egyptians; and all
of Gods promises seemed to have fail
ed.
The Testing of the Angels Continued.
All. what a testing He gave the
loyal angels. How their faith in Wis
dom and Power Divine must have
been tried Finally. under Moses. the
Divinely appointed leader the nation
of Israel suddenly emerged from slav-
cry and. under Divine favor. reached |
Mt. Sinai and there entered into Cove
nant-relationship with God, as the seed
of Abraham, heirs of the original
promise of blessing the world. Now
matters began to look toward a full
filment of the gracious promise that
in Abraham and his seed ali the families
Of the earth would be bessed-not-
withstanding the fact that Abraham aDQS
dead.
The trying experiences of the wilder
ness must have been disappointing.
not only TO the Israelites. but also to
the interested angels beyond the veil.
who. st. Peter tells u.s. earnestly de-
sired TO look into these things and
sought for the fulflment of the prom
Use. Il Peter i, 10. IL Finally Ca
naan, the land of promise. was reach
Ell. but the progress of Israel toward
and blessing was
slow. One after another of their enc
mics brought them under tribute.
Then came their prosperity for a time
under King David, who set up the
throne of the kingdom of the Lord. and
then under King Solomon. the glories
Of whose kingdom typified that of the
coming Messiah, of which they knew
nothing. Then came further failures.
Babylonian captivities-all wasting dis
couragements.
Meantime the discoura ged Israelites
found that they themselves were not
receiving the blessing that they had
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