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PASTOR RUSSELSER.M0N'

bullock on behalf Of the priestly fam
! lily found its antitype in the death Of
| Jesus, which began with His consecra-
! ton ut Jordan and was completed at
| Calvary, three and a half years later.
| AS a Man. Jesus offered up sacrificial-
| ly His human nature. the body which
He had taken for the special purpose
! of sacrifice. That sacrifice was salts
factory to God. as was indicated by
! His raising up Jesus from the dead.
| Moreover. we are assured that our
| Lord was not only raised up out Of
death. but raised up as New Crea-
| ture, to a still higher nature than that
| which He had before He undertook
| the Fathers commission to be the
worlds .Redeemer. Prophet, Priest and
| King. His resurrection was philip
plans lii. 10Y to glory. honor and i'm
mortality. far above human nature,
angelic nature. municipalities and pow
ers and every name that is named
Ephesians |. 81. So
The risen Son Of God remained forty
| days with His disciples. and when He
assembled up on high He appeared in
the presence of God. and according to
the type made application of the merit
| Of His sacrifice for, the Household Of
| Faitil-the antitypical Levites. The
| acceptance of His Atonement Sacri-
| Ace. and incidentally the acceptance Of
| His waiting followers. was manifest
| ed by the descent of the Holy Spirit at
| PentecOst.
| Adding Members to His Body. :,
AS Aaron in the type. by Divine di-
rection, accepted his sons to be men,
| bers with him in the priesthood. under
his headship. so in the antitype; Christ
Jesus during this Gospel Age has been
| accepting members to the Royal
Priesthood. of which He is the Head.
And these are taken from the Levites,
| for which class the Atonement was
made by Aaron in the type and by
Jesus in the antitype.
| Aaron in the type, after sprinklfng
the blood Of the bullock and making
Atonement for the House OF Levi,
| came forth and slew the goat. So
| Christ. having finished making Atone
| ment for the sins Of the antitypical
Levites, came forth at Pentecost; to
bless them and to accept them as joint
sacrificers and as joint-heirs.s The goat.
which Aaron slew as the second por-
ton of his sin-offering, represented all
the faithful footstep followers Of Jesus
| In the nearly nineteen centuries that
have elapsed since Pentecost. Respect
| Ing these Jesus prayed, saying, II pray
not for the world, but for those whom
| Thou hast given Me; neither
pray I for these alone, but for all those
who shall believe on Me through their
word. that they all may be one, as Thou.
| Father, and are one"-''I in them and
Thou in Me.''-John xvii. 8. 1923.
Incidentally; Jesus as the High Priest
| In glory began at Pentecost the sacri-
| fcing of the goat class, His faithful
| followers. The work has continued
| ever since, The sufferngs Of Jesus
have thus been prolonged for centuries.
| AS st. Peter declares, 1.-The prophets
spake of the siffferings Of Christ and
OF the glory that should follow q Pc
ter 1, 10. IL The sufferings have not
vet been completed. and hence the
| glory has not yet come When the full
number foreordained Of God shall have
| faithfully finished their course in death
| the sacrifices of the antitypical Day Of
Atonement will be at an end The
great High Priest with His Body will
| pass beyond the second veil into the
heavenly glories. the First Resurrec-
| ton completing the transfer. The bless
| ing of the people will then be in order.
| ~ An, Jesus Whom Thou Persseutist."
| That Jesus thus recognizes His fol-
lowers as His members is clearly at
tested by the Apostle. In their flesh
! they are counted as members Of Jesus;
as New Creatures. spirit-begotten, they
are counted as members of The Christ.
Thus Jesus said to Saul OF Tarsus,
speaking Of His followers. saul. Saul,
j why persecutest thou Mew 81 am Jesus
| whom thou persecutest." (Acts tx, 4.
81 The same thing is true of any truly
consecrated follower Of Jesus.
While such are in the world and
suffer, the sufferings Of Jesus are not
| completed And the glory Of Christ
| can be fully attained only in proper
ton as the sufferings of Jesus are
completed. In the type, all this was
pictured in the things which happened
| to the Lords goat, which typified the
faithful, sacrificing members, the
flesh of Jesus. AS the goat passed
/ through all the experiences Of the bull
lock. SO the footstep followers Of Jesus
are to have similar trials, difficulties.
oppositions. prosecutions, to those
| which came to the Master.
With the completion of the Priest
Of Glory at the end of the sufferings of
the flesh will come the effusion Of the
blood on behalf of Israel and all Of
Adams race of every nation. In the
4 type Aaron took the blood of the goat.
his secondary sacrifice, and sprinkled
It on the Mercy Seat on behalf Of all
/ the people of Israel. representing all
who will become the people Of God of
| every nation. Forthwith Divine &C
/ ceptance of these sacrifices spoke the
forgiveness Of the sins Of ALL.
/ SO In the antitype. When our Lord
/ che second time sprinkIes the blood in
the Most Holy, the sins Of all the peo-
| pie--the whole world-will be Cancelled.