Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-12-06


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, and Himself be subject to the
Father Corinthians XIV, 22-2S.
To some 1t may appear that a thou
sand years Is too short time to fully
uplift humanity-those living at the
time of the Second Coming and all that
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 in 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
,ranted 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
Dispensation-a hundred years, in
which to fully decide his eternity.
either for life everlasting or death
verlastng-Isainh. Ky, 90.
From the Bible viewpoint the Day of
Christ is ample for the great work to
which it has been cOnsecrated by the
All-Wise creator from before the foun-
dation of the world Nor should we for
get that all power in Heaven ana in
earth is vested in the One who then
shall take the Throne. Neither should
we forget that the Church has for eight
cen centuries been under special prep
aratiOn and instruction i'll the School
of Christ, preparing them for their
work as n 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,
Messiahs Kingdom Invisible.
Some of the nobIeSt minds have been
repealed from faith in the Second Nd
vent by the thought that an earthly
Kingdom with Christ and the saints iu
regal state is unreasonable. They were
quite right in thinking that earthly
court and state would he beneath the
dignity of Messiah and His Bride. The
Scriptures declare that Jesus left His
glory, humblcd Himself to become "a
man. in order that He might be the
great Sin-Oftering for our race. But
the Redeemer prayed to be glorifci
with the glory that He had with the
Father before the world was. Yes; and
lie promised His Church, His Bride, a
share in His Heavenly glory. Did He
lead us to expect a Heavenly glory,
Heavenly Inheritance and glorious
change from earthly to Heavenly con
dition, ana 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 glorifed far above
angels, municipalities and powers
made Il 'partaker of the Divine MT
ture." The promise to His Church is
t. share His glory. The Apostle dis
tinctly tells that in the resurrection the
faithful will he changed q Corinthi
ans XIV. 5l, 50 and made like the glo
rified Redeemer. and also of the Divine
nature. I'll Peter i, ~ The Apostle
explains the necessity for this change,
saying. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God."-I Cor XIV, 81.
How slow we have been to see that
God never purposed that either Jesus
or His faithful Elect should remain in
the flcShl 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 n little while and the world seeth
Me no more" When once we discern
that He has been gloriiied- that He
has been given ii spirit nature again,
that He no longer has the human mn.
ture, which He surrendered as Il 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
festations after resurrection. Unless
lie could establish the faith of His
disciples in His resurrection, they could
not receive the Pentecostal blessing
u therefore, He spent with them forty