The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-06-06


through the Prophet c'Let their table
become trap and snare"-rsalm
Xix. 22). so also, God through the
prophets has foretold their blessing
later on-that they would be the first
to be blessed under the glorious Spir
itual Messiah of many Members.
Thus II IS written. There shall come
out of Zion the Deliverer and He
shall turn away ungodliness from ia
cob" Here. pictorially, Zion is
mother and her Offspring is the Mes
siah. Looking again Mt the type, we
see that Abraham represented Jeho-
yah and that Sarah. his wife. repre-
sented the great Covenant through
which Messiah would be developed
"In thy Seed shall all the families of
the earth be blessed Genesis xii.
II, 1SD. "1f We be Christ's. then are
ye Abraham's Seed and heirs according
to the promise" Galatians Ill, 10. 29).
1t has required more than eighteen
centuries to give birth to this great
Deliverer. Jesus, the Head, was the
"First.Born from the dead;" ana the
Church, His Members. since devel-
oped, will be His brethren, sharers in
His rule on the Heavenly plane. For
is He not declared to be "the First
Born among many brethrenY The
First or Chief Resurrection will bring
all these Sons Of God to the plane of
glory, honor and immortality-born
from the dead; then the great Dellv-
erer will be fully, completely born and
ready to begin His great work of
blessing all the nations-Israel being
the first of these.
"My Spirit Upon All FLESH"
st. Peter declares that it was the
glorihed Jesus who received of the Fa-
ther and poured out upon the Church
at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit. That
blessing came TO the Church because
of their coming into harmony with
the Fathers arrangement through the
Son The receiving of the Spirit there
marked the recipients as sons of God
The later Pentecostal blessing upon
the world will have points OF similar
ity as well as points of difference.
The blessing will come through the
great Messiah and as result of the
satisfaction He viii make for the sins
of the whole world. by applying to
the race the merits OF His sacrifice by
which lie will seal the New Law Cove
nant with Israel; and then, with the
world through Israel Jeremiah XXI,
3D. The great Messiah of glory win
be the Mediator of that New Covenant.
and the foundation of that Covenant
will be "the better sacrifices offered by
this Mediator. as the Antltypical High
Priest QIebrews tx. 1929
The pentecostal blessing then to
come upon the world will not be upon
the terms of their sacrificing their
earthly rights to attain heavenly bless
ing aud spiritual sonship; on the con-
trary, its requirements viii be a con
secratlon of obedience to the Divine
Law; and its reward will be earthly
Restitution to the perfection of human
nature. and to the enjoyment Of all
the blessings originally given to Adam
and forfeited by his disobedlence. All
| coming under that blessing viii ex-
perience the uplifting and restoring
to all that was lost In Adam. They
shall build houses and inhabit them.
They shall plant vineyards and eat the
| fruit thereof. and long enjoy the work
Of their hands" isaiah Ky, 2l) This Is
the Divine promise, applicable to them
and not applicable 20 the Spiritual
Seed OF Abraham, the Church. the
Kingdom class, who must all be
changed. because "hesh and blood can
| not inherit the Kingdom of God"
As Jacob was a son Of Abraham, not
directly. but through Isaac, so also
those blessed under Messlah's reign
will be children OF God, not directly.
but through the Messiah. Directly,
they will be the children Of Messiah.
Thus It Is written OF Messiah, "He
shall be called Wonderful. Counselor,
the Mighty One, the Prince Of Peace
and the Everlasting Father-the Father
or Life-glver to the restored world Of
mankind. The life which He laid down
in sacrifice namely the earthly life, Is
the one which He will give to all the
| WILING ana ODeuleHl Oh Auuu IuSe
during His Messianic Kingdom-to be
theirs forever. It Is In this sense that
He will be the Everlasting Father-the
Father giving everlasting life, which
father Adam failed to give. Messiah
Himself Will have no need for the
earthly life which he laid down. be-
cause the Heavenly Father has given
I<n, as a reward for His obedience,
the higher llfe--the divine nature.
The Fathers to Be Princes.
From Of old Abraham, Isaac, jacob
David, etc, were called the fathers, not
snly because Of their relationship "a
tie Jewish nation. but particularly be-
cause Messiah was to come as their
Offspring" Seed of Abraham" ''of
the stem of jesse" "The Offspring Of
David" and so Jesus was born 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
I Al. a. 4