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the Divine blessing Of life everlasting.
The time for instruction and uplifting
is declared to be thousand years. The
power for the instruction Is the Mes
sianic Kingdom, the Rulers Of which
will be Messiah and His Bride-joint
heir with Him in Ills Kingdom. Dur
ing the past nineteen centuries God. by
His Word and providences, has been
calling and drawing a ''little flock" to
Christ TO be His Bride.
And not until all of these shall be call.
ed drawn. tested. proven faithful unto
death as followers in the Masters foot
steps, will the elect Body be complete
Sin and Death. be begun and accom-
plished. For that day the saints are
waiting and praying. "Come, Lord
Jesus, come quicklyw And for that
day the whole creation is waiting, al
though not clearly informed respecting
the blessings in store for them Romans
viii, 10. 81.
"The last Enemy"--Death.
st. Paul points us to the great De
liverer, the glorifed Messiah, ut the
time when He shall take the Kingdom
under the whole heavens and begin the
fulfilment of the prayer He taught us,
''Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done
on earth as IN heduen" He tells us He
must reign until He shall have put all
enemies under His feet-"The last en-
emy that shall be destroyed is death"
U Corinthians XIV, 26). The meaning
is clear. Messiah's Kingdom will ad-
dress itself promptly to the rectifica-
tion OF every form of unrighteousness,
financial, political, social. religious.
He will rule the world with o rod of
iron and every nation and every sys-
tenn or element contrary to the Divine
standards of righteousness will be bro
ken to shivers with His "iron rod"
Thus will righteousness be established
in the earth in the midst of "a time
OF trouble such as never was since
there was nation"
Bet the putting down of sin will be
but the beginning of Messiah's work.
Satan being bound, and the reign OF
SIN thus estopped. each transgression
will receive just recompense and
each good endeavor just reward.
Gradually mankind will rise out OF sin
and therefore proportionateiy come
from under the power of death until
all the willing and obedient shall be
fully delivered from all danger as re-
hn
ed our race for sixty centuries. Not
only so, but those twenty thousand
millions who have gone into the pris-
on-house of death will he released
not all at once, but gradually, as the
Apostle declares. Every man in his
own order" or band.
BY the close of the thousand years
OF Messiah's reign, His victory over
Sin and Death will he complete. Every
member of Adams race will have been
lifted from the prison-house of death
1t will be 4 prison-house no longer, for
there Will be no prisoners in 1t; man
kind will have been lifted out of the
clutches of Sin and Death, weakness
and depravity, by the processes Of res
titution, resurrection, uplifting (Acts
Ill, 1929. The victory over sin will
be complete, because all. who love sin
being released from the condemnation
OF the Adamic death. will be destroyed
In the Second Death. Thus AdamiC
Sin and Death will finally be complete,
ly routed and the prison-hOuse of death
be broken up. And Adam and his
famiiy, not willingly sinners, Will all
be set at liberty restored to human
perfection, as the earth will be brought
to Edenlc perfection.
20 Death, Where Is Thy sins2"
Thea wiH be brought 10 pass the Divine
prophecy, 20, DEATH where il thy
sting2 O, grave, where Is thy victory p
Il Corinthians xv, 55)
We must notice when this Is to be
brought TO pass. II Is not now true
The sting OF death Is In us all, for
as the Apostle explains, Sin Is the
sting of death. And because all have
been stuDg by sin. all are dying. II
will require the entire MeSsnnc Age
to fully extract from humanity tn,
virus. the sting, OF sin by bringing
mankind 10 perfection Only as the
sting of death Is removed will the pow
er of dcnth rolnX because II Is part
of the Divine Low that THE soul that
slnncth, II shall die" Death now has
It's sting But when that which Is
perfect shall have come, the sting Will
be gone, the lmperfection and weak
ness viii be gone, the cause for sln
Will also be gone,
Not now, but then, viii be brought to
pass the saying, 20, Hodes. where Is
thy ylctory?" Hades, sheoi. the grare,
has been having victory over Adams
face for over sixty centuries. And It's
victory Will not he entirely ovcrthrown
until the Rcdcemcr shall have deliv-
cred from the power of the grave The
last member Of the human family for
all of whom "lle died, the Just for the
unjust, To bring us back TO God"
Thus, ms the Apostle says, with the
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