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will begin. The Christ, the Messiah.

Will begin. Inc CHRIST, the MESSIAH,
the Mediator In glory, as the Antitypi-
cal Melchisedek, will combine the Of
fee Of King with His other Office Of
Priest. or Instructor and Helper.
The first work will be the applica-
ton of the blood of Atonement. the
Ransom-price for the sins Of the whole
world. AS soon as thus presented on
mans behalf. Divine Justice will &C.
cept 1t. Forthwith the world will no
longer be enemies of God. children Of
wrath. without God and without hope.
but on the contrary. the Ransom price
for their sins having been accepted.
the sentence Of death against all will
be cancelled. and the whole world will
be turned over to the control of the
Mediator. He having mediated to-
wards God. and having made satisfac-
ton for human sin through the merit
Of His own sacrifice. will then pro-
coed to reconcile the world.
During the six thousand years of the
reign Of sin and death the world has
become so alienated from God that the
majority do not earnestly desire recon
Citation. This. however. Is because of
their weakness and ignorance. For a
thousand years the great Mediator will
instruct them. giving chastenings where
necessary and in proportion to their
spirit of wilfulness. and thus gradual
~ He will uplift them out Of their ig-
norance, blindness and sin defilement-
out Of the tomb and out of all the
weaknesses of the dying condition
back into the image Of God. from which
all fell in Father Adam.
The only exceptions to this rule will
be that such as willfully, intelligently
reject the Divine provision for their
recovery will be punished with ever
lasting destruction. They will perish
like brute beasts as st. Peter de-
clares. Oh Peter ii. 12D The grand
finale will be attained when every
creature In heaven and in the earth
and under the earth" shall be heard
acelaiming praise to Him that sitteth
upon the Throne. and unto the Lamb
Decentralization v, 49,
Jesus the church's Advocate.
From the foregoing it will be seen
that the worlds salvation Is to be a
Restitution to human perfection-an
earthly Eden lost through Father
Adams disobedience 1t will be no.
ticed also that the Church has no part
with the world in that Restitution, nor
In that Medal ton for a thousand years.
The Church will be members Of the
Mediator who will confer the Restitu-
ton blessings and privileges on the
non-elect.
But the fact that the Church will
not be numbered with mankind in the
human Mediation. which will take
place during the Millennium. does not
mean that the Church now has no
sins, nor that those sins do not need
to be covered and cancelled. 1t does
mean that the Church is not to get
back the human life and earthly rights
forfeited by Adam and to be restored
under the Mediator's Kingdom. In.
stead. the Church is promised glory.
honor and immortality-heaven ma
ture AS reward for participation
In the sufferings of Christ she shall be
made sharer In His eternal glories.
What the Church needs and has is
an Advocate with the Father-Jesus
Christ the Righteous. Thousands Of
humanity who are weary and heavy
laden with sin and DESTROYS Of recon
Citation with God and who hear the
Message of this Gospel Age and ac-
cept its terms. present their bodies
living sacrifices and purpose to be
footstep followers of Jesus. But be-
cause these are by nature sinners.
children of wrath, under Divine SEN
tence, imperfect. their sacrifices could
not be accepted of the Father as was
that of Jesus: hence they need an Ad-
vocate ..'-... ~.
Jesus has merit in the hands of JUS
dce. the result of His sacrifice, which
Is being kept to be given by and by to
the world of mankind. justifying them
to full Restitution. AS the Advocate
Of His footstep followers Jesus i'm
putes share of the merit of His sac
rifice to the Church to make good her
lmperfections. so that her sacrifice may
In Gods sight be holy and acceptable.
This imputation of the merit of Je-
sus' sacrifice was made for all of the
Church at once-long ago-when He
"ascended up on high. there to appear
in the presence of God for US (as our
Advocated" The already consecrated
disciples in the upper room received
the Pentecostal blessing as the evidence
that Jesus as their Advocate had ap-
peared for them and imputed of His
merit for them. so that their sacrifices
were acceptable to the Father. The
same principle holds true throughout
this GOSPEL Age for this same class.