The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-04

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come forth from the tomb after the
completion Of the Church. after her
establishment In glory, They will
come forth perfect men. of human ma
ture, the image and likeness of God
In the flesh, as was Adam. Great will
be their degree of honor as they shall
be used Of Messiah MS princes In all
the earth" for the blessing Of Israel
and Ill Of every nation. people, kin
dred md tongue, =
Abraham's Seed tho Elect. .....-.
But Abraham was to have a still
higher Seed, numerically less, for 1t Is
written. "Thy Seed shall be as the
stars Of heaven, and rs tho sands of
the seashore." That superior Abra-
hamic Seed, "as the stars OF heaven"
spiritual Seed, must be developed
and glorihed first, before the blessing
can como to his earthly seed.
Saint Paul, explaining the situation,
says that the Law Covenant was add
ell to fill up the time between Abra-
ham and the proper time for the spir-
ftual Seed. The Christ 1t "was added
because OF transgression'-bec 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
nents, to take the place Of the d.
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 tho election hath
obtained 1T, and the rest were blinded"
Nomans II, - 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 toere prepared therefor The
ELECT" obtained ia 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.
That every Israelite indeed might be
found the Gospel Message at first was
exclusively theirs, and the first Gen
tile convert, Cornelius, was not admit
ted to Divine favor in this respect un-
til three and q. 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
as well as~t the Jew to
whom it was originally confined. they
still gave the Jew the preference I'D to
the year A. ID: 70. when the Jewish
polity persisted. st. Paul declared this
publicly to the Jews. saying. ut was
necessary that the Gospel be preached
first to you, but seeing ye count your
selves unworthy Of tile 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 forcor-
da1ned number Of the elect Church,
though only after all worthy Jews had
been called and accepted. And now,
as Jesus foretold, the Gospel or good
news Of His coming Kingdom 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 sharcrs with the Jewish nu-
cleus In the great honor Of becoming
Messiah's Bride and jointheir. We are
to clearly distinguish between the 1cit-
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 OH: * failure to see
this has caused confusion in many
minds. ---.--..- -.'..
Heirs Of tho Promise.
We must never lose sight Of the kerr
mel Of this Gospel Message The u!ti-
mate blessings Of the Mcssianic King
dom, through the Seed Of Abraham,
will be to all the families Of the earth,
but, previously, the Divine work is the
calling Of the Seed Of Abraham, which
is to do that work Of blessing. The
promise was not made to all the fami-
lies Of the earth but to Abraham and
his Seed.-HeBee the heirs Of the PROM
ise are not all the families Of the earth,
but the Seed Of Abraham
TO the saints Of Galatia, who had
been Gentiles but had accepted Jesus
and were trusting to become joint
heirs with Gods dear Son in His Mes
sianic Kingdom as members Of His
Bride Elect, Saint Paul writes "If We
be Christ's, then are We Abraham's
Seed, and heirs according to the, prom
ise.'~ Galatians iii, 90 How strange
that we should have lost sight Of this
great inheritance! With our Lord, as
Abraham's Seed, we shall inherit the
earth; as It Is written, II Will give Thee
the heathen for Thine Inheritance, and
I. II