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constitute the great Seventh Day of
earth's history-six thousand years un.
der the Curse. and the seventh thou
sand in recovery from the Curse. st.
Paul adds that after Jesus shall have
accomplished the work assigned to
Him in connection with rebelliOus
man. He will deliver up the Kingdom
| to,GOd. AMI Himself be subject to the
Father.-,l Corint hians XIV, 22-2S.
To some il may appear that thou
sand years is too short time to fully
| uplfft humanity-thOse living at the
time OF the Second Coming and all tina
are: in their graves. Some think that It
will be even too short to bring the
! whole, earth to the. promised Edenic
perfection. We are to remember. how
ever. that while Messiah will probably
use human instrumentality i'm connec-
ton with His work. nevertheless the
inventions and developments Of the
past century give us a glimpse Of the
wonderful Intelligence which may be
granted to humanity in proportion as
the Curse is rolled away and Divine
/ blessing fills the earth. The majority
OF our. race have never had fifty years
OF life experiences, good or bad. But the
| promise is that each shall have twice
that length Of time to learn the Truth,
under the blazing light Of that New
Dispensatien-a hundred years. in
which to fully decide his eternity.
either for life everlasting or death
everlasting Isaiah, lxv. 20. .
From the Bible viewpoint the Day of
Christ is ample for the great work to
which It has been consecrated by the
AllWise Creator from before, the foun-
dation of the world. Nor should we for
get that all power in Heaven and in
earth is vested in the One who then
shall take the Throne, Mother should
we forget that the Church Ius for eight
cen centuries been under special prep
aration and instruction in the School
of Christ, preparing them for their
work as Royal Priesthood. They will
be able to sympathize with the groan-
ing creation and be merciful. even In
the administration of stripes necessary
to many for their assistance along the
Highway OF Holiness. then opened UP.
Messiah's Kingdom Invisible.
Some of the noblest minds have been
repealed from faith i'm the Second Ad-
vent by the thought that an earthly
Kingdom with Christ and the saints In
regal state is unreasonable. They were
quite right in thinking that earthly
court and state would be benea th the
dignity Of Messiah and His Bride The
Scriptures declare that Jesus left His
glory. tumbied Himself Ito, become a
man, In order that He might be the
great SiD-OHering for our race But
the Redeemer prayed to be glorified
with the glory that He had with the
Father before the world was. Yes:apd
He promised His: Church: His Bride,
share in His Heavenly glory. Did He
lead us to expect a Heavenly glory.
Heavenly inheritance = and glorious
change from earthly to Heavenly con
Gition. and will He then. instead. give
us earthly glory and, merely perfection
IN the flesh: .-....- ~
Oh, no. no. We have all sadly over
looked certain features of Gods Word.
Jesus did not remain poor, did not re-
main flesh. did not remain human, In
His resurrection not only was He re,
ceived by the Father up where He was
before: but He was giorfied far above
angels. principalities and bowers,
made '!partaker of the Divine ma
rI,a fn io Iss
to share His glory. The Apostle dis
tinctly tells that in the resurrection the
faithful will be changed q COrinthi-
ans XIV, 81, 81, and made like the glo-
rified Redeemer. and also of the Divine
nature. Oh Peter i, A. The Apostle
explains the necessity for this change,
saying. Flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom Of God."-I Cor. XIV, SO.
How slow We have been to see that
God never purposed that either Jesus
or His faithful Elect should remain In
the flesh. A few Bible statements mis-
understood got us into difficulty. We
read, Every eye shall see Him., and
forgot that there are eyes of under
standing, as well as natural eyes. We
forgot. that Jesus declares that very
few now see or hear--only the sanity,
whose eyes of understanding have been
opened by the amounting of the Holy
Spirit. We forgot that Jesus said also,
Yet little while and the world seetb
Ne no more" When ,Once+we discern
that He has been glorified-thats He
has been given q spirit nature again,
that He no longer has the human ma
ture. which He surrendered as Sin
Sacrifice. then we can see why the
world will see Him no more. and why
the Church must be changed by resur-
rection power before she can see Him.
We misunderstood our Lords mani
festatiens after. resurrection. Unless
He could establish the faith of His
disciples In His resurrection, they could
not receive the Pentecostal blessing.
Therefore He spent with them forty
days. watching over them. appearing
in various forms, as a gardener, as
traveller. etc. all TO convince them.
first. that He was no longer dead. but
risen: aud second, that He was no
longer man. but a Spirit Being He
demonstrated this by doing exactly
what the angels did. AS they appeared
in the flesh. ate. talked and vanished.
so did He Then He ascended up on
high not as a human being. "a little