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Levites; and all the people OF Israel
ultimately will be brought. through the
merit of the precious Atonement. into
full relationship with God and to ever
lasting life.
OF these better sacrifices" the bull
lock represented our Lord Jesus, in
His own person. The merit of His
death is throughout this Age imputed
to His true followers-the sanity few
the Royal Priesthood, and to the larger
number of less jealous followers repre-
scented by the tribe of Levi. All OF
these were covered. reconciled. blessed,
directly through the imputation OF
Christ's merit, when He appeared In
the presence of God for us. after His
ascension. Divine acceptance of His
merit being manifested by the imparta-
ton Of the Holy Spirit at PentecOst.
But that was not the completion of
Jesus sacrifice. In the type the bullock
was only one part Of the sacrifice. Next
followed the Lords goat. which repre-,
scented the class Of Christians addressed
by st. Paul in his exhortation. Il be
seech you. brethren. by the mercies OF
God, that We present your bodies liv
ing sacrifice. holy and acceptable to
God" (Romans xii, ~ During this
Gospel Age the followers OF Jesus have
beensprivileSed to present themselves
to Him for sacrifice, but they do not dc
the sacrificing. He. the spiritual High
Priest. has proceeded i'm His work fol
more than eighteen centuries. offering
up for acceptance by the Father all
who have become His true disciples
denying themselves and taking up theil
cross and following Him faithfully.
All these are represented by the
Lords goat Of the Day of Atonement
sacrifice Ueviticus 1G,. and We're rep
resented in the PentecOstal blessing
There all of this class We're accepted
representatively and all Of them were
devoted to sacrifice. according to the
terms Divinely arranged AS soon as
the fOreordained number constituting
the sacrificial Body Of Christ shall have
been sacrificed. the better sacrifices
will be complete. and all the members
Of the Body of the Great High Priest
will pass to the Head beyond the veil
into the Most Holy. Then the work OF
this Gospel Age will be at All end. Then
the work of the New Dispensation will
begin-the blessing of the world.-Titus
Il. IA.
"This is My Body"
Lutherans as well as Catholics hold
that the Eucharist means more than
q memorial of the broken body and
shed blood of Christ Catholics hold
that they have authority for consider
ing the bread and wine which have
been blessed as the actual flesh and
the actual blood of Jesus, because, say
they. Jesus so treated the matter In
the first Eucharist: ION the same
night in which He was betrayed. He
took bread and brake it, saying. This
is My body. which is broken for you.
, Likewise He took the cup. saying,
This is My blood. shed for many for
the remission Of sins" Hence they
reason that If Jesus recognized the
matter thus as His actual body and
actual blood. so might all Of His fol-
lowers. No. we answer. most evident,
~ Jesus meant. this bread represents
My flesh. and this wine represents My
blood.
| Our Catholic brethren who hold 9th
erwise evidently forget that at that
time Jesus flesh was not yet sacrificed
and His blood was not yet shed
Therefore the bread and the wine
which He handled could not by any
possibility have been more than mere
representatives-be He still had
the original. How strange that we
should have overlooked this so long!
| In harmony with what we have al
ready said respecting the better sac
rifices," we note that St Paul explains
that the bread and the wine not only
represent and symbolic the flesh and
the blood Of Jesus. but additionally
the flesh and blood Of all consecrated
people who for centuries have been
participating with their Redeemer In
the sacrifice of earthly things. that
they may be joint-heirs with Him in
His glorious Kingdom which is to
bless and restore the willing and ODE
dent of mankind. st. Pauls words
are. THE cup of blessing which we
bless. is it not the communion (com-
mon union of the blood of Christ
The Loaf which we break. is it not
the communion<tcommon union) of the
Body of Christ? For we. being many,