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manity who will may enter into His
rest--rest from sin and from Satan and
from everything that would hinder
| them from full return to the Heaven
ly Fathers love and favor.
| Now we see that the great work of
that thousand year Sabbath will be the
healing Of the morally lame and the
i giving Of sight and hearing to the
minds now blinded and deaf under the
evil Influences of the great Adversary
''the god of this world lwhol hath
| blinded the minds of them that believe
not."-Il Corinthians w. H.
| One Born Before the Time.
Many have remarked at the peculiar
ity of Saint Paul's statement that he
saw the Lord as one prematureiy born.
But, If at first the statement was dark
and puZZling, now it is luminous and
enlightening His thought is this: the
time for giving ocular demonstrations
Of the Lords resurrection had gone by;
the next manifestation of Him is TO he
10 His saints. and after that to the
world. Thus we read: I'VE shall be
like Him. for we shall see Him as He
is'.-made like Him by our resurrection
change from the human conditions to
the spirit conditions.
Strictly speaking, then, the expert
ences of Saul Of Tarsus were out of the
ordinary. No one else than he alone,
not even the SANITY, We're to see the
Lord before their resurrection change,
in the end Of this Age When there
fore he saw Jesus. he saw Him before
the time more than eighteen centuries
before the time. Moreover, he saw
Him rs one born before the time--as one
resurrected before the time. We are
to have in mind the Scriptural use Of
this word 5Orn-that the Church must
all be begotten of the Holy Spirit in
order to experience the resurrection
birth.
Thus, concerning our Redeemer's res
direction, we read: HE was the First
born from the dead;' and again, He
was the First-born of many brethren"
So the hope Of all of Gods people Is
that the begetting of the Holy Spirit in
the present time will be followed by
the resurrection birth, which Saint
Paul describes in this same chapter,
saying, ut is sOwn in weakness, it is
raised in power; it is sown an animal
body, it is raised a spirit body" g..
With these things before our mental
eye We see the meaning Of the Apos-
tie in the words, HE was seen of me.
also. as of one born before the time"
He was not thus seen by the other
Apostles. They saw Him merely as
He appeared-sOmetimes in one form
of body and with appropriate cloth
ing, at other times in another form
and with diverse clothing. He appear
ed and disappeared. but they, did not
see Him. the New Creature, they saw
merely the various forms in which He
appeared. But Saint Paul saw the
Lord more nearly as all the saints shall
see Him when they shall be Born from
the dead by the glorious resurrection
changes. . #
chureh's Glory to BE Greater Than
That of the Angels.
One great difference between the eff
feet Of what Saul saw and what the
entire glorious Church will see in the
resurrection Is, that Saul's eyesight
was injured by the sight; besides, he
saw nothing very distinctly-merely a
binding light, which the voice ex-
planned to be the appearance or mani
festatiOn Of Jesus. Far more precious
will be the experiences of the Church.
Before beholding Him who is declared
to be ''the express image Of the Fa-
theirs person." whom no man hath
seen nor can see, dwelling in light
which no man can approach unto'-be-
fore this, we shall have been changed,
glorifed. This will enable us to see
Him as He is, for the glory Of the
Church will be like to the glory of her
Lord, and superior to the glory of the
angels. --.
While heavenly glory does not con-
sist exclusively of brightness, never
theless the Scriptures everywhere seem
to associate bright-shining with the
heavenly ones, and would imply that
the higher the station and rank the
brighter will be the sheen, the glory.
Thus the glory of the Heavenly Father
is represented as being so great that
few could endure it; and angels and
seraphim are represented as yelling
their faces before the Divine glory,
which so greatly transcends their own.
1T should not, therefore, surprise us
that the Scriptures everywhere repre-
sent that our Lord Jesus and the
Church, made partakers of the divine
nature" Oh Peter 1, II, will have a
great honor and brightness. far above
that Of angels and all others except
that Of the Heavenly Father. AS the
Lord Jesus was able to veil the glOries
Of His person and to appear as a man
after His resurrection, SO undoubtedly
He could do as respects the world,
during the thousand years of His Mes
sianic Reign.
And, similarly, it would be possible
for the Church to appear as men with
the glory yelled. 1t might appear at
first as though this was what was sig
nified through the Mosaic type when
Moses, representing Messiah in glory,
came down from the mountain, his
face radiant, but yelled for the sake
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