Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-12-27

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~ Creation is His
House. 1t is the
Fathers intention that every apartment
of the Universe shall be pcopled with holy.
happy beings. Sin and sorrow will not be-
permitted. All the wicked will He de-
stroN." psalm. cxiv. 3D The Scriptures
intimate at least five distinct classes of
spirit beings-angels. municipalities, pow
ets. cherubim. %seraphi,n. Each order is
perfect on it's own plane. "All Gods work
is perfect God made maj in His own
image, perfect. upright, holy, but dis
obedience and sin have wrought mental,
moral and physical inftrmities.
God provided Adam a mansion. the earth
and it's Eden garden, Paradise. But sin
mot unforeseen) brought Adam and his
race under a death sentence. God could
have inflicted the penalty to the full. by
annihilating His creature and creating
another pair; but He chose to permit Sin
and Death to reign during Six Great Days
of a thousand years each. He allowed
Satan and the fallen angels to indulge in
sin, and mankind to come under its bane-
full influence. thus to give valuable les
sons to both angels and men respecting
the exceeding sinfuiness of sin.
The Divine Program announced in the
Bible for dealing with this rebellious prov
ince will be carried out by the Kingdom of
Messiah. during the Seventh Great Thou
sand-Ycar Day. Then Satan will be bound.
and every evil influence restrained. The
Sun of Righteousness shall arise with
healing in His beams" The curse of
death will be set aside by One whose life
constitutes the Ransom-Pric or cost of
deliverance.
During that reign man will be recovered
from the tomb, and assisted out of his
fallen state, into righteousness, truth and
life everlasting. made possible by the
Messianic Kingdom. for which we pray,
Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on
earth, even as it is done in Heaven"
Humanity's Mansion Perfected Earth.
AT the close of Messiah's reign, the
mansion appropriated to Adam and his
race will be fully released from the curse.
and Gods footstool will be a glorious
Paradise, Osaiah tx, 49, All refusing the
blessings OF Messiah's Kingdom will be
destroyed by the Second Death.-Acts iii.
%: Revelation XN, IA, Is.
While places We're rranged in the Di-
vine Plan for the angels, and while the
earth is the Divine provision for human
ity, there was no habitation perfected for
the Church. This is because the Church
is a New Creation.
Writing of these, st. John says: The
world knoweth us not, even as it knew
Him not" ST. Pau refers to this New
Creation as the ministers of God" All
of these are required to demonstrate their
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row way of self-sacriAce, by faith and
not by sight to endure hardness as
good soldiers OF the Lord Jesus" to prove
faithful unto DEATH" that they may at
tain thus the Grown of life To all of
them. 1t is declared, Through much trib-
ulation shall ye enter the Kingdom
BUT all of this class have the assurance
that ''all things shall work together for
good to them that they shall not be
tempted above that they are able to stand,
but that with every temptation the Lord
will provide a way of escape;' and that
their deepest distresses shall work out for
them all "a far more exceeding and eter-
nal weight of glory
This New Creation, the Apostle declares,
is made a spectacle to angels and to
men," God is giving the angels a great
object lesson in connection with the de-
velopment of this New Creation. They
are seeing that no matter how degraded
the being, God is able and willing to bless
them abundantly il they prove their heart
loyalty to him; and that God is able to
transform some of the mean things of this
world into polished ''jewels." "a royal
diadem in the hands of thy God."-Mal-
achi iii, II; Isaiah xii, 3.
Heavenly. Mansion for Church..
God has designed for the church, saying.
God hath given unto us (consecrated.
followers of jesus exceeding great and
precious promises, that, by these We might
become ~paftakers Of the Divine nature
Oil Peter !. ~ God is now bringing forth
the highest grade of all His Creation.
higher than men, than angels, than prin-
cipalities, powers. cherubim and seraphim
Ia Little Flock.'' partakers of the Dr.
vine nature. The faithful who will attain
to the glorious calling Of this age will, as
the Bride OF Christ, he His 'joint-heirs,"
and "partakers of HIS Divine nature"
Eye hath not seen: ear hath not heard;
neither nave entered the human heart the
things which God has in reservation for
them that love Him"-the choicest man
sion, the highest place. AS our Lord Je-
sis in His Resurrection ascended up "far
above angels" so His church will share
His Resurrection. be made like Him."
''see Him as He u.s. and His glory
The Masters death was for humanity in
general, but itg merit remained to be APP
propriated at the erd of this age, at the
Inauguration OF His Kingdom. The whole
world still .'lieth in the wicked one" and
are all Children of wrath and will con-
tinue so to be until Christ applies merit of
His sacrifice in their behalf.
Meantime, the Lord deals merely with
His church, as we read: He appeared in
the presence OF God for u.s. Hebrews tx.
2D-as the church's advocate, tt make
satisfaction for our sins" Through His
imputed merit, the door of opportunity
has been opened for more than 10 centuries
to walk in the marrow way In the foot
steps of Jesus.
Altogether. these aye but a Little Flock.
yet they are all saints. and the prepara-
ton in them and for them will be COM
pleted as soon as their number IL full
$4,000. For these He has the highest
place prepared mex. to Himself, In His
Throne. wen as He y next to the Father
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