The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-05-05

kASlElk= kUo2LLll men; yea. ioV tne
rehellous a o.
that the Lord God might dwell among
them. Psalm 6S:lS.
Pastor Russell declared that one OF
the serious errors engrafted into the
Christian faith is the supposition that
Jesus Is still man This wrong
thought prevails especially amongst
Premillenarians. and helps to turn
many away from faith in the prcInii-
leunial coming of Christ for the bless
ing of all the world Many Christians
perceive that reign of Christ IN the
flesh would he inferior to spiritual
reign. Hence the general rejection OF
faith In the Second Coming of Christ
and the establishment Of His Kingdom.
He showed that all Christians firmly
believe that Jesus was spirit being
before He came into the world. All
believe that spirit being is of a high
err order than human being, and that
Jesus made great stoop when lie laid
aside the glory of His prehuman condi-
ton to become "the Man Christ Jesus
Man Is "a little lower than angels,
even in his perfection.
The Pastor declared that surely no
Bible student supposes that the Eeav-
emily Father had permanently degraded
His Son from station higher than
angels to one below them. Yet many
Christians profess TO believe this very
thing. The ascension OF Christ Is claim
ed to prove it. How absurd to suppose
that our Lord Jesus, accustomed to
spirit conditions and made flesh for
4 short period coiild be otherwise than
disconnected and seriously disl9nored
by tho Father. If He hiss body Of flesh.
Ascends Where He Was Before.
Mistaken views respecting the word
ascend have helped to confuse lis. St
Paul. explaining our text, shows that
the ascension of Jesus is to I've con-
sIdered Id conjunction With His de-
scending. (Ephesians 4;s-1i1 He that
assembled il the same that descended.
thirty four years before. Did the de-
scendlng have reference TO the kind of
body? Surely not, Then the ascend
Ing has no reference to the kind OF
body.
| The descending signified the humilia-
ton. the leaving Of spiritual glory. to
be born of the flesh. The life of the
Logos was transferred from the spirit
body to the body Of the babe. that He
might become the Man Christ Jesus.
Similarly. the begctting Of the Holy
Spirit came to Jesus at His baptism.
and for three and half years 1t con-
stituted Him spiritual Priest. whose
work was to offer Himself" That
Offering ended ut Calvary. When on
/, the third day. the Father raised Him
| from the dead. it was the Priest who
| was raised to glory. honor and lmmor
tality-not the sacrificed human body
AS Il Is written. "A body Inst Thou
prepared Me for the suffering Of death.
Jesus sacrifice was finished at Cal
| vary. as He said He dieth no more
and therefore has no further use FOL
the body of flesh. What became of 1t
the Pastor would not undertake to say
Il was not seen In the tomb. But ths
soul, not the body, was raised to life
i "Thou wilt not leave Ny soul ID Sheol
-Hades-the tomb.
Why Body Of Flesh Was Used.
We must remember two things. salt
the Pastor. Followers of Jesus wer'
required to have fun faith; ~ Tha
Jesus was the T.ogos. who bad de
! scended from the spirit plane 10 tn
human c., That He had died sacriH
cially. and that God raised Him fsrn
the dead.
Unless these two points were fun.
established. they could not continue a
Jesus disciples. acceptable with IN
! Father. and capable of receiving th
Holy Spirit, But they could not re
ceive spiritual things until after tn
spirit beget,ing Mt Pentecost. Henc
their instructions must he along earth
ly lines
II after His resurrection. Jesus ha
appeared 10 them as He did to Saul q
Tarsus. what proof would they hav
that 1t was the same Jesus who ha
died? How could the Message of I'll
resurrection and ascension have bee
conveyed to their minds: Some ocnla
demonstration was necessary to- rot
stitute basis for faith. Therefor
our Lord demonstrated 10 His disc
pies the fact that u great change ha
taken place.
School of Christ. learning n great les
son. To have crowded all lessons upo
them at once would have been injur
Gus. So Jesus bad said. See job
1912, IS.