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TABLES OF THE LAW REPLACED


TABLES OF THE LAW REPLACED
Thou art God ready to pardon,
gracious and merciful, slow to anger and
abundant in loving kindness '-Nehemiah h
9:17.
Whoever fails to see that Moses, Israel
and the law were types, fails to get the
real lesson from them. Moses was not
| merely<a type of Jesus; but, as ST. Peter
| explains, he was a type of the entire
church of Christ, of which Jesus is the
head. st. Peters words are: Moses truly
said unto the fathers. a prophet shall
the Lord your God raise up unto you of
your brethren, like unto me"-Acts 1922,
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| Jesus was raised up first, and since PEN
| teeost the raising up from amongst the
brethren has progressed. The work will
be consummated when the full number of
the church shall have been accepted to
glory Then the antitypical Moses will
begin his great work of delivering all who
desire to come back into harmnoy with
God-all of whom were represented in the
IL tribes of Israel.
The church of this gospel age is "a kind
of first fruits Ito God) of His creatures"
James :1s. Otherwise it is called the
church of the first borns, and was TYPICAL
ly represented in the tribe of Levi, all
OF whom represented the first borns of
| Israel, saved in the Passover. These were
divided into two classes-the priests and
their servants. The priests represented
| the Christ-High Priest and under priests
| The Levites represented the remainder OF
| the overcomers.
The antitypical priests will become a
royal priesthood Jesus, the great High
Priest, invested with kingly hohors, Will
have associated with Himself the faith
| full little flock, His joint heirs The re-
mainder of the overcoming church are
to be colaborers on less glorious plane.
yet spiritual. The work of all will be
primarily to bless all desiring to come into
harmony with God.
|. The First Tables of the Law
The first tables of the law were pre-
pared by the Lord Himself. as well as
written by Him. This represents the fact
that man was created a perfect image of
his Creator, in full accord with the divine
will and fully expressive of the divine
| law. Adam needed no further prepara-
tion, and no other law than that which
was in and of himself as a perfect
| being.
But by reason of sin this law was
broken. Poor humanity has no longer 4
proper Judgment respecting sin and right
eousness. Man needs the great Mediator,
to make reconciliation for his iniquity and
to rewrite the law of God in his flesh.
Then Moses was instructed to hew out
two more tables of the law. This repre-
sents that the Christ of glory is fully
commissioned to prepare the hearts of
mankind for the rewriting of the divine
law. To prepare men to obey Gods law
will require their restitution-their lifting
up out of sin and degradation. This work.
committed to Moses in the type, is in
the antitype committed to Christ.
Moses second coming down from the
the mountain with the two tables of tho
law was peculiarly different from the
presentation of the first tables, which
were broken. Coming with the second
tables, Moses face si1one; and 1t was
necessary for him to put on a veil, which
thereafter he wore in the presence of the
/ Israelites. but removed when entering the
presence of God.
This is understood to signify that
Christs work as mediator, at His second
coming, will be accompanied by a yelling
| of His glory, so that the world will not
see Jesus. This He declared. Yet a
little while, and the world seeth Me no
more; but ye shall see me- The apostle
! explains that the church will be pre-
pared to see Christ by being changed
from the earthly to the heavenly ma
| ture. 1--WE shall see Him as He isl for
| I'VE shall be like Him '-"changed In
moment, in the twinklng of an eye;" for
/ flesh and blood cannot inherit the king
dom of God."-I John 80; Corinthians
| 10 :50-52.
| The putting on of the veil (Exodus 34:4,
$3.50 represents that at Christ's second
| advent when He will accomplish HIS
great work as mediator for man and be-
come their leader into the land of prom
| ise-paradise restored-He win veil His
glory from mankind, and speak to them
through the veil, and not directly from the
spirit plane. Mankind will see Jesus no
more. Instead, they will see Him rep
resented I'm the ancient worthless; as he
declared: "Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob and all the prophets. Luke, IL :2S
Mankind will not see the ancient wor-
thies as they we're. Rather, the world
will see them resurrected In human per-
lection. In the image of God, samples OF
what the world may attain by needing
the word sof the great Prophet-the anti
typical Moses. st. Peter tells us of that
time, saying, "It shall come to pass, that
every soul which will not hear ti1at