The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-03

| tles, whether t0ey were Jupdueso OF
nominal Christians, will have that
much whereof to be ashamed. and to
| overcome and rectify.
Does Not Wish to BE Misunderstood.
Do not misunderstood me. am not
ignoring the fundamental Christian
| doctrine that Christ died for our
sins, according to the Scriptures, and
rose again for our justification" am
affirming that doctrine and carrying
It to its legitimate conclusion. The
Bible, the inspired Authority of Chris
tendon, clearly teaches that the sac
riflcial death of Jesus, the just for the
| unjust, was not for a mere handful,
| but for the entire race. That sacrifi-
cial death took place more than four
thousand years after Adams sin, but
1t Is to be made efficacious for Adam
and all Of his race--not merely for
those who have heard the Message of
Divine grace, nor merely for those who
have lived since the sacrifice took
| place. but, as the Bible declares, "Je-
sus Christ, by the grace Of God, tasted
death for every man." (Hebrews II, 81
! Another Scripture distinctly shows
that the Divine favor and blessing re-
sulting from Jesus death is not only
| to be benefit to the Church, to those
| who now believe and walk in the foot
steps of the Redeemer, but will ulti-
| mately benefit all the remainder of
| mankind Thus we read, "He is a
| Precipitation satisfaction for our sins
| (the Church's sins), and not for ours
! only, but also for the sins of the whole
world" q John Ii, - All mankind,
therefore, must ultimately receive a
benefit. a blessing, as result of Je-
sus' death, and this will include your
| ancestors. This is the method God
has adopted for the fulfilment of His
glorious promises of thirty-five hun
dred years ago to Abraham-to which
| promise our Creator gave His oath,
that we might have strong consolation
and faith in its fulfilment. The prom
| Use is that "All the families of the
earth shall be blessed" and, addition
| ally, that the blessing shall come to
them through Abraham's Seed.
| Christendom's Great Mistake.
The great mistake made by Chris
| tendon has been in overlooking the
fact that Gods great work thus far
has been only the finding of the prom
the blessing will reach all peoples
Primarily, this gracious offer was made
to Abraham's natural posterity, the ma
ton of Israel, If they could keep per
fectly the terms of their Law Cove
nant. But they were unable so to dc
because, like the remainder Of the race
they were fallen, imperfect. Then II
was that God revealed to them that
! He would send them Savior, who
would deliver them from their owr
weakness and use them In carrying
the blessing and favor to the whole
world.
In due time God sent His Son, Jesus
to be the Redeemer. Jesus left the
glory which He had with the Father
and humbled Himself to human ma
ture, yea, even to death, the ignomin
ious death of the cross. Thus doini
He provided the Ransom-Price for thu
sins Of the whole world, for the pen
atty upon the race was a death pen
atty, the result of one mans disobedi
ence Thus the death Of Just One
for the unjust is sufficient to consti
tute a satisfaction of the Divine Law
the redemption Of the race from Its
death sentence. Thus was secured tC
all an opportunity for resurrection
"As by a man came death by Mar
also comes the resurrection of the
dead; for as all In Adam die, even sc
all in Christ shall be made alive, every
man In his own order''-not all at once
Il Corinthians XIV, Il, %.
Jesus, the Redeemer. having finished
His sacrifice, was returned to heaven
ly glory at the right hand of Divine
Majesty, far superior to angels, etc
He now is ready for His great work.
Why the delay, do you ask? The
Scriptures very clearly inform us that
special, sanity class, to be gathered
out of all nations, peoples, kindreds
and tongues. is to be associated with
the Redeemer In His great work OF
| blessing the WOriu. IL IS IoT LniS Iofe
ordained company to be called, chosen
and found faithful that the Messianic
Kingdom delays. 1t Is my opinion that
the delay is nearly over-that very
soon the last member Of the glorious
company will have passed beyond the
veil, and that then, forthwith, the suf
ferings of The Christ, Head and Body
being ended, Messiah's glorious King
dom will begin.
What Israel Did Not Obtain.
st. Paul points US to the fact that
the Jewish Age, up to the time OF
Jesus, accomplished great moral up
lift In that nation, but that the nation
as a whole was not sanity and hence
as whole, could not be the Redeem.
er's associates in His Messianic King
dom. When Messiah came to His own
and they received Him not. but cru
cited Him. they as a nation were re-
jected from Divine favor for a time.
But some of them were Israelites In
deed-some of them received Jesus, be-
came His disciples. and were accepted
of God by the begetting Of the Holy
Spirit. at and after Pentecost. to be
| momhars of tho uouaa If Sous-Ynor1-