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Offspring" Seed of Abraham "of
the stem of jesse" "The Offspring Of
David" and SO Jesus was horn of this
very lineage. But His exaltation by
the Father to the spirit plane. and the
fact that 1t was His earthly rights
which He laid down in sacrifice, which
are to go to Adam and all of his race
who will accept the same on the Di-
vine terms, puts Jesus In the position
VI Father or Llfe-giver to the world
and to Abraham. David, etc, as well
They must all obtain their everlasting
life through Him. and hence Will be
His children. Thus the Prophet David
wrote of the future, "Instead Of thy
fathers shall be thy children. whom
thou mayest make Princes in all the
earth" psalm xiv, 16) Those fathers
who are to be Princes are already de-
clared to be pleasing to God. They at
tested their loyalty to Him by a faith
which worked in harmony with His
will through the limitations of fallen
nature.
The Fathers to Get "a Better Resur-
reetion"
On account OF this they are already
declared to be worthy of "better res
direction" than the remainder Of man.
kind-but not so glorious q resurrection
as will be granted to the Church. Their
resurrection will be to the perfection Of
human nature-mental, moral and phys
ical. Thus they will stand before man
kind as samples of human perfection,
to which standard, by obedience, all Of
the race may attain, IL they will, dur
Ing the thousand years of Messiah's
reign and Kingdom.
Those Ancient Worthless (Hebrews
xD, will not only be illustrations of hu-
man perfection. but they will be made
Princes" or rulers In all the earth.
They will be the outward and visible
representatives Of the Invisible Mes
siah and the Agents through whom the
Word of the Lord will go forth; as 1t
Is written, "The Law shall go forth
from Mt Zion the Spiritual Kingdom),
and the Word of the Lord from Jeru-
salem"--the earthly manifestation Of
the Kingdom amongst men.
Pastor Russell gave an extraordinary
Interpretation to q heretofore hard-to-
be-understood portion of Joel's proph-
ecy: "Your young men lin that New
Dispensatonl will see with clear vision
what your Ancients dreamed Of and re-
lated In parallels" This vision of glory,
the Pastor declared would be the
Reign of Righteousness and the Pen
tecostal blessing accompanying it, upon
the willing and obedient, every one
of whom would be brought to clear
knowledge and full opportunity for sal
walton.
Order of tho Blessing.
The order of the blessing is stated.
1t will come upon all flesh after those
days, but upon the servants and hand
maldens IN those days. The days NELL
toned evidently refer to this Gospel
| Age-from Pentecost to the second
coming of Christ
In this period, of now nearly nine
teen centuries, Gods Holy Spirit has
been granted to His faithful ones. and
| to these alone. Only the fully conse-
Grated have been accepted of the Lord
as living sacrifices, and only SUCH have
been begotten of the Holy Spirit that
| they may be new creatures In
Christ" During all this time, the
world has been unrecognized so far as
the Holy Spirit is concerned.
Indeed. the Apostle after Pentecost
| went still further and declared that
'the whole world lieth In the Wicked
One" The only action of the Holy
| Spirit must be. as In the case Of Felix,
to "reprove the world Of sin and right
eousness, and of a coming Judgment"
| Our text declares, however, that the
time Is coming when the tporld WI. re-
ceive share of the great Divine bless
ing, which was fully assured by the
death of Christ But Its time of favor
will be "dfter those days'-after this
| Gospel Age shall have come to an end .
after the New pispensation shall have
begun.
To the Jew First.
Only Jews received the Pentecostnl
blessing The Gentlles were excluded
for three and half years thereafte
In harmony with n Divine promise
made to the Jewish nation. Then
came the time for similar privilege
| to be extended to the Gentlles.
rejoice with you today, FELLOWSHIP
dents of the Word Of God, that this
graat gift Of God is still obtainable,
that the time has not yet fully come
when the door of Opportunity to this
high-calling must close Close 1t will.
| so soon as the full number of the
"elect" shall be completed, Thank
God that another door will then open;
the door of Restitution to human per-
fection and to earthly life, grand be-
yond the power of description.
Then Gods Holy Splrit--holy power
will, through Christ. be outpoured upon
all lesh-upon all mankind. Messiah
win inaugurate the New Dispensation
by sealing with Israel the New Cove
nant In His blood; as says the Lord
| through the Apostle Paul, "This is my
Covenant with them when | shall take
away their sins. AS concerning the
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