The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-12-10

ne Kingdom NOW In Embryo.
Our Lords many parallels refer to
His Church as a Kingdom class,
Royal Priesthood. This does not signi-
fy that He intended them to occupy
places of honor and distinction now.
The Master Himself was neither
King nor a Priest on earth. His is
the Melchisedec Priesthood OF the Mes
sianic Age. Then He will also be the
Great King over all the earth, as well
as the Great Prophet or Teacher and
the Great Judge or Ruler. Well did
He declare to PLATE, MY Kingdom is
not of this Age" John xviii. 36l. AS
His sanity followers are to share in
His Kingdom. they also must wait for
its establishment. While waiting they
ale to pray. Thy Kingdom come: Thy
win be done on earth. as it is done in
Heaven"
OF this Royal Priesthood the Apostle
declares, 1.-The world knoweth us not"
We are priests aud kings only from the
Divine standpoint. which none are able
to recognize except the brethren"
Only in embryo are Gods saints spok-
en- of as the Kingdom class. They are
on probation. Jesus says that the
overcomers will he granted to sit with
Him In His Throne as actual members
of the Royal Priesthood. to reign with
Him a thousand CHARACTERIZATION iii,
FL; Xxx. T..
ale Must Reign Until"
St. Paul. after telling about the
resurrection of the dead. explains that
the resurrection of the Church to
glory. honor and Immortality will be
first on the program. Subsequently all
will be resurrected. every man in his
own order.'' and Christ will reign
until He shall have put down all in
subordinatsoa Other Scriptures clear
ly inform us that the length of His
reign will be thousand years. 1t will
constitute the great Seventh Day of
earth's history-six thousand years I'M
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.-I Corinthians XIV. 22-28.
To some II may appear that 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 1t
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 fundamentally in connec-
ton with His work, nevertheless the
inventions and developments of the
past century give us a glimpse Of tile
wonderful intelligence which may be
granted to humanity in proportion rs
Me 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
everlasting. Isaiah, Ky, &C.
From the Bible viewpoint the Day OF
Christ is ample for the great work to
which 1t has been consecrated by the
| All-Wise Creator from before the foun-
dalton 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. Neither should
we forget that the Church has 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 viii
be able to sympathize with the groan-
! Ing creation and be mercifuls 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 in 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 beneath the
| dignity of Messiah and His Bride. The
Scriptures declare that Jesus left His
glory, humbled Himself to become a
man, in order that He might be the
great Sin-Offering for our race. But
the Redeemer prayed to be glori6ed
with the glory that He had with the
Father before the world was. Yes; and
He promised His Church, His Bride, q
share in His Heavenly glory. Did He
lead US to expect Heavenly glory
Heavenly inheritance and glorious
change from earthly to Heavenly con
dition, and will He then, instead, give
us earthly glory and merely perfection
In the flesh?
| Oh, no, mol 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 glorified far above
i angels. principalities and powers
made a 'partaker of the Divine M
/ ture" The promise to His Church il
to share His glory The Apostle dis
i tinctly tells that in the resurrection the
| faithful will be changed" Il Corinthi
ans XIV. 81, 52D aud made like the gIo
rified Redee-ner, and also of the Divine
nature. III Peter i, A. The Apostle
Il explains the necessity for this change
saying. Flesh aud blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God."-I Cor XIV. 90.
How slow we have been to see thai
God never purposad that either Jesus
or His faithful Elect should remain il
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-o.ly the sanity
whose eyes of understanding have beer
opened by the amounting Of the Holy
Spirit. We forgot that Jesus said also
yet little while and the world seetl
Me no more" When once we discern
that He has been glorified that II,
has been given a spirit nature again
that He no longer has the human IA
ture, which He surrendered as a Sin
Sacrifice. then we can see why The
world will see Him no more, and why
the Church must be changed by resllr
rection power before she can see Him.
We misunderstood our Lords mani
festations after resurrection. Unless
He could establish the faith of His