The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-29

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rection. to spirit nature, spirit bodies
etc.s Those Ancient Worthless vii
come forth from the tomb after thu
completion OF the Church, after he
esta blishnent in glory. They vii
come forth perfect men. OF human na
ture. the image aud likeness CT Coo
in the flesh. us was Adam, Great vii
he their degree OF honor as they shall
he used of Messiah as princes in al
the EARTH for the blessing OF Israe
and all Of every nation. people. kin
dred aud tongue.
Abraham's Seed the Elect.
i But Abra ham was to have still
higher Seed. numerically less. for it il
written. Thy Seed shall be as tho
stars of heaven. and as the sands o,
the scashorc." That superior Abra
hamic Seed. las the stars Of heaven.
q spiritual Seed. must be developed
and glorified first. before the blessing
can come to his earthly seed. ..,
Saint Paul explaining the situation
says that the Law Covenant was add.
cd to fiji up the timei between Abra'
ham and the proper time for the .spir.
itual Seed. The Christ 1t twas added
because Of transgression"- sin
had abounded in the world and so de.
graded humanity that:it was necessary
to lift up as a standard Of, righteous.
ness the Law OF the Ten Command
ments. to take the place of the Di.
vine Law which was originally written
in Adams character. When he was
created in the image and likeness of
God Adam needed no Tables of Law
to teach him right from wrong. even
as God needs none. ~,
Saint Paul explains further. saying.
Israel hath not obtained, that which
he seeketh for. but the election hath
obtained it. and the rest were blinded"
Romans XII, ~ Israel desired to be
the Bride Of Messiah-to have the very
choicest blessings which God had TO
give. And Israel got that so far as its
people scae prepared therefor. The
select obtained tia remnant of Is
rael, numerically small as compared to
the whole. were found upon test to be
"Israelites indeed in whom was no
guile" and these became the nucleus
of Messiah's Bride class. =.
! Gospel Preached First to Jews. I.
That every Israelite indeed might be
found the Gospel Message at first was
exclusively theirs. and the first Cen
tile convert. Cornelius, was not admit
ted to Divine favor in this respect un-
til three and half years after the
Cross. Yea. still later. when the Apos-
ties preached the Gospel to every crea-
ture, to people OF every country, and
nationality, as well as to the Jew to
whom IL. was originally confined. they
still gave the Jew the preference, up to
the year A. DO. when the Jewish
pOlity persisted st. Paul. declared this
publicly to the Jews, saying. lit, was
necessary that the Gospel be; preached
FIRST to yon, but seeing ye count your
selves unworthy Of the grace of God,
10, we turn unto the Gentiles. for thus
It Is written in the Prophets"
| We. sec, then, that the nucleus OF the
elect Church which should become the
Bride Of Christ at His second, coming
was Jewish, and that Gods favor to
! the, .Gentiles was His permitting of
them to come in and fill up the foreor-
dained number of the elect Church,
though only after all worthy Jews had
been called and accepted And now.
as Jesus foretold, the Gospel sor good
news of His coming fKingdom:is being
preached in all. the world "for "A wit
ness to gather from every nation,
people. kindred and tongue the sanity
ones to be sharers with the Jewish uu-
cleus in the great honor of becoming
Messiall's Bride and joint-heir. we are
to clearly distinguish between the scit-
messing of these matters amongst all
nations. for the gathering out of an
"elect',,. few. and the blessing of all
nations: under the Kingdom which
/, will come later on. "A failure to see
this has caused confusion in many
| minds. ~ -" 7.1
49,. Heirs of the Promise. -
! We must never lose sight of the ker-
mel of this Gospel Message. The ulti'
mate blessings of the; Messianie King
dom, through the Seed Of Abraham,
will be to all the families Of the earth,
| but. previously, the Divine work is the
catting of the Seed Of Abraham, which
4 is to do that work Of blessing. The
promise was nov made to all the fami-
lies of the earth but to Abraham and
his. Seed. Hence the heirs of the prom
Use are not all the families Of the earth,
but the Seed OF Abraham. 49,
To tue saints. Of Galatia, who had
been .Gentiles but had accepted Jesus
and We're trusting to become Joint
heirs with Gods dear Son in Ellis Mes
sianic Kingdom as members Of His
Bride Elect, Saint Paul writes. IF ye
be Christ's. then are ye Abraham's
Seed, and, heirs according to the. prom
ise." Galatians iii, 29) How strange
that We should have lost sight of this
great Entertained! With our Lord, as
Abraham's Seed, we shall inherit the
earth; as it is written, 81 will give Thee
the heather for Thine inheritance, and
the uttermost parts Of the earth for
Thy possession"
No wonder the Apostles frequently
reminded the brethren Of this great in
heritance which God has in reserya-
ton, for the faithful. No wonder one
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