The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-12-13


A:#: that Gods people
(fPASTOR RUSSElL)l today have SUI
periOr advantages
for Bible study; hence Bible students
see new light in texts long considered
obscure. His text today was of this
character 1t gives Jesus the title.
Everlasting Father" or the Father
who gives everlasting life. At one
time it seemed to contradict other
Scriptures-''The God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ hath begotten
u.s." "My Father and your Father; My
God and your God;'' and other texts.
But now in the clearer light the con-
tradiction vaniShes.
Jehovah God is the Father or Life
giver to the Church: but Jesus is to be
the Father or Life-giver to the world.
HE shall be called the Everlasting
Father and the Prince of peace" Not
until the end of this Age will He be-
gin His reign as King of kings and
Lord Of lords" The earth is a rebel
lious province under reign of sin and
death. The early part of Messiah's
reign will be for breaking down insti-
tutions contrary to the Divine arrange
ment Not until after 1.-The battle of
the great Day,"-''Armageddo
He have the title prince of Peace"
and thereafter men shall learn war
no more"
The Second Adam-Jesus.
Tho fret Adam nrrnocod to ho tho
father or life-giver of human race
But sin, disobedience, interfered with
this arrangement-as God had fore
seen and provided for. When Adam
lost his own right to life. he could
transmit to his children only a dying
human body. The legal right to life is
gone.
Humanity needs a Deliverer-not
from eternal torment not from purga-
tory, doctrines of the Dark Ages with
out Scriptural foundation-Lut from
sin and death. What the world really
needs is Life-giver. exactly what God
tells us Jesus is to be-a Father. who
will give to the willing and obedient
everlasting life. The meaning of the
word Savior" is Life-giver.
When the Logos accepted the Heav.
emily Fathers offer to become the
worlds Redeemer, it involved the
transfer of His life to human condi.
TONS ''The Word was made flesh"
John i. 40, not sinful. imperfect flesh.
but perfect, suitable to be a Ransom
a corresponding price-for Adam, that
He might redeem Adam and his race
"He was holy, harmless, undefled and
separate from sinners"
To be the Everlasting Father. it was
necessary for Jesus to purchase man.
kind by giving Himself Ransom
Price at Calvary. God raised Jesus
from the dead, New Creature of the
Divine nature, to be the Second Adam.
1.-THE Second Adam is the Heavenly
Lord prepared to be the Father. OF
Life-giver.
AS only one man, Adam, committed
the trespass which involved tie race,
so the purchase Of the race required
only the one life which Jesus sacri.
feed. Whenever He shall apply the
merit of that sacrifice to Adam and his
race, Justice will turn over the world to
Him. For thousand years He will
reign to suppress forcibly sin and
death, and to raise. the willing and
obedient to human perfection as His
earthly children.
AS Jesus, the Lord Of Glory, is to be
the Second Adam, the Everlasting
Father to the world, so the Second Eve
is to be the Church on the spirit plane.
Throughout this Gospel Age an cleo
ton has progressed, to find and prove
whom God will esteem worthy to be
made partakers Of the Divine nature,
.'heirs Of God, joint-heirs with Christ"
their Lord, little Flock-perhaps
literally the $4,000 Of Revelation.
These will not become the bride, the
Lambs Wife," until the end Of this
Age. 1.-THE marriage OF the Lamb" will
come, for "His Wife, will have made
herself ready for the work Of the Mes
sianic Kingdom.
Deliver Up the Kingdom.
After the thousand years, Messiah
will deliver the Kingdom to the Fa-
Their, as st. Paul declares. Then. as
the Father tested Adam, so He will
test humanity as respects their loyalty
to God and righteousness This test
ing will demonstrate who are worthy
Of everlasting life. The unworthy shall
perish in the Second Death.
God has already made provision for
perfect men to become the Princes of
the world during Messiah's reign, those
faithful servants referred to in He
brews ri. 38-40. Who can know of the
glorious privileges awaiting the Bride
of Christ, the Second Eve, and not feel
stimulated to make his calling AID
election sure!