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Him, that He may establish Ellis reign
OF Righteousness. blessing the world
and releasing all the prisoners OF Sin
and Death.
The delay is not In any sense an indi-
cation Of weakness. nor Of any change
in the Divine program. 1t merely in
dicates that there IS another feature
of the Almighty's purpose which we
did not for time discern. The work
is to be great one. Twenty thousand
are to be delivered from
deaths prison-house. And all Of them
will need instruction. uplifting. chas-
tening, schooling, to prepare them for
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
sia0ic Kingdom. the Rulers Of which
will be Messiah and His Bride-joint-
heir with Him i'm His 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
ell. drawn, tested. proven faithful unto
death as followers in the Masters foot.
steps. will the elect Body be complete
and the Staying Of the great monster,
Sin and Death, be begun and accom-
plished. For that day the saints are
waiting and praying. Come, Lord
Jesus. come quickly!" And for that
day the whole create is waiting, al
though not clearly informed respecting
the blessings in store for them (Romans
viii, 10, 2D.
"The Last Ensmy"-peath.
st. Paul points us to the great De
liverer, the glorifed Messiah. at the
time when He shall take the Kingdom
under the whole heavens and begin the
fulflment 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-"rhe last en-
envy that shall be destroyed is death"
Il Corinthians xv, % The meaning
is clear Messiah's Kingdom will ad
dress itself promptly to the rectifca-
ton of every form of unrighteousness.
financial, political, social. religious.
He will rule the world with 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 u nation"
But 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 a just recompense and
each good endeavor Just reward
Gradually mankind will rise out Of sin
and therefore prOpOrtiOnately come
from under the power of death, until
all the willing and Obedient shall be
fully delivered from all danger as re-
spects the monster which has devour-
ed our race for sixty centuries. Not
only so, but those twenty thousand
millions who haze gone into the pris-
on-house of death will be 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 be complete Every
member Of Adams race will have been
lifted from the prison-house Of death.
1t will be prison house no longer. for
there will be no prisoners in it; 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
iii, 1929. The victory over sin will
be complete, because all who love sin
and are willingly it's servants. after
being released from the condemnation
Of the Adamic death. will be destroyed
in the Second Death Thus Ada mic
Sin and Death will finally be complete
ly routed and the prison house of deat tn
be broken up And Adam and his
family. not willingly sinners. will all
be set at liberty restored to human
perfection, as the earth will be brought
to Edenic perfection.
20 Death, Where 10 Thy sins7"
Then setH be brought to pass the Divine
prophecy. 20. death, where is thy
sting? 0. grave, where is thy victory"
Il Corinthians Ky. 55>.
We must notice when this is to be
brought to pass. 1t 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 stung by sin, all are dying. 1t
will require the entire Messianic Age
to fully extract from humanity the
virus, the sting, of sin by bringing
mankind 10 perfection. Only as the
sting Of death is removed will the pow
er Of death relax. because it is part
of the Divine Law that 1.-The soul that
sinnetb it shall die" Death now has
its sting. But when that which is
perfect shall have come, the sting will
be gone, the imperfectiOn and weak
ness will be gone, the cause for sin
will also be gone.