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care. Many Of us twisted The Scrip
lures. wrested them from their plain
ly obvious import. and always 10 our
own injury. Some went In the dlrec-
fion Of Universalism; others halfway.
and still others abandoned the Holy
Book. Now we see where we erred.
God has two salvatiOns; one for the
Church and totally different one for
the world. The salvation for the
Church is to heavenly nature. spirit
bodies, and Joint-heiiship with the
Master in His Kingdom, which flesh
and blood cannot inherit. as we have
already seen. The other salvation. for
mankind. is an earthly one, called In
the Scriptures PROSTITUTION" Man was
not an angel originally. not spirit be-
ing. but, as the Scriptures declare,
The first man was of the earth
earthly"
1t was that earthly man. perfect,
in the image of his Creator. for
whose happiness Eden was specially
prepared. BY obedience to God he
might have continued to enjoy his
Eden home everlastingly. BY disobedi-
ence he first lost his fellowship with
God, then his Eden home, and after
nine hundred and thirty years of toll
ing with thorns and thistles in sweat
Of face. the death penalty upon him
reached completion-he died. Adams
race. sharing his weaknesses by laws
Of heredity. have also shared death
with him.
"World Through Him Might Be Saved"
The Scriptures tell us that Gods real
purpose in sending Jesus into the
world was that the world might
through Him be saved"-not the
salvation of the Church; that was
an incidental feature. The Church
is selected that as the Bride or Queen
during the Messianlc Kingdom she
may be associated with her Lord, the
King. as the Seed of Abraham In the
blessing, the saving. of Adam and his
family, or so many of them as shall be
willing, from sin and death conditions.
We remember the Masters words to
the effect that "He came TO seek and
to save trecoverl that which was lost"
We have just seen that It was u hu-
man life. human perfection and an
earthly home that were lost IT is
these. then, that Jesus proposes In due
| time to recover for Adam and his
family. The Messianic reign of Jesus
and his Body-the Anolnted. the
| Christ, The Messiah-wil be for the
| purpose of blessing Adam and all Of
his race with glorious opportunities Of
an earthly salvation. The uplifting,
restoring Influences OF Messiah's King
dom will affect not only Adam and his
race. but also the earth itself. Grad
ually Paradise Lost. as little garden
of Eden, will become Paradise ReOained
as the world beautiful. Then the will
derness shall blossom as rose and
the solitary place shall be glad.
Times Of Restitution"
| At our Lords First Advent the "ac-
| ceptable time" began-the time when
God, having accepted the sacrifice of
Christ Jesus. became willing through
Him to accept the sacrifices of all who
desire to become His dlsciples-to take
up their cross and follow Him through
evil report and good report even unto
death. The entire Gospel Age anti
types Israel's Day of Atonement. and
the sacrifices of our Lord and the
Church, Els Body. are the better sac
rifces." fOreshadOwed by the bullock
and the goat offered typically by the
Jews. This Is the acceptable year OF
the Lord which Jesus declared Qsaiah
lxi, 2; Luke iv. 19,. Gods faithful
people of this acceptable day are
glad TO be invited to present their
bodies living sacrifices, holy and ac'
ceptable unto God" Romans XII, H.
In the end OF this acceptable day will
come the end of all opportunity to thus
sacrifice the human nature and become
joint-heirs with Christ and partakers
of the heavenly nature.
Then will be introduced new period
styled, in the Scriptures, ''Tlmes (oi
years. of Restitution" The acceptable,
day for the Church's sacrifice has last
ed for nearly nineteen centuries. Ant
we know how long the "Times of Resti
tuition" will last-nearly Thousand
years. st. Peter tells us just when thes,
PROSTITUTION Times" will begin. They
did not begin in his day. They have
not begun yet. They will begin as |
result of the Second Advent of Jesus
the Messiah. and the establishment o
His Kingdom and righteousness, Time
of refreshing shall come from the pres
ence of the Lord and He shall sent
Jesus Christ, as before was preache,
unto you. whom the heavens must re
tain until the Times of Restitution o
all things which God hath spoken b.
the mouth OF all the holy prophet
since the world began, For Nose
verify said unto the fathers. A Proph
ct like unto me (of whom | am bu
type or figureI shall the Lord you
God raise up unto you from amongs
your brethren. Him shall We hear 1
all things whatsoever He shall spea
unto you. And 1t shall come to pas
} that the soul that will not obey tina
, Prophet shall be destroyed froI
. amongst the people" (Acts Iii, 1929