The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
Wherein Did the Jews Fail?

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Wherein Did the Jews Fail?
The Jew did not fail. All the prom
ises of God made to them are still
theirs. He never offered them spirit
ual favors, He never suggested that
He would take them to Heaven. The
strongest promise made, even to Abra-
ham, was that all the land which
could be seen would be given to him
and to his seed. All the blessings of
Israel were to come through Messiah,
whose kingdom is about to be inaugur-
ated.
What God did for the Jews at the
first advent of Jesus was something
more than He ever promised to do for
them. He foretold through the proph-
cts that Messiah would suffer; yea,
that "as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, even so must the Son
of Mar be lifted up The Jews merely
fulfilled a part of the divine program.
Had Messiah gone to another nation,
doubtless there would have been SINH
lar results. No other nation, indeed,
was so well prepared as the Jews by
N'' '''t' bSN''ii lctSh lhC law
and the prophets.
What God did for that nation more
than He promised to do was tina He
gave them an opportunity of becoming
more than the natural seed Of Abra-
ham,. He gave them the opporunii$ of
becoming spirit beings-members oil
Spiritual Israel. So many as received
Jesus, and became consecrated to be
Father. begotten of the Holy Spirit,
received into the family Of God as
Spiritual Israelites, as the spiritual
seed of Abraham. But these were
few.
Then divine favor turned to the Cen
tiles, and gave to them a similar OPP
portunity of coming into membership
with the spiritual seed of Abraham.
This work has required nearly nine
teen centuries and is now about COM
pleted. In other words, we under
stand that the Messiah class is about
complcte-Jesus the head, faithful Jews
next, the faithful from the Gentile
next.
Jesus the head long ago entered into
Ills glory. Some of His members
have already entered in, and soon the
last members will pass beyond the
veil. Then the preparatory work of
making up the Messianic class will be
completed.
Immediately on the Inauguration of
the Messiah, His work of ruling and
blessing will begin. At that point.
according to the Scriptures, Natural
Israel will return to Gods favor, and
be granted the chief blessing under
the new administration. And through
the kingdom of Israel. as the earthly
representative of Messiah's invisible.
spiritual kingdom. the blessing of ,Io-
hoVah will reach to all the families
of the earth.-Genesis 1878; 22:17-1S,
What IraeI Did Not See.
The Jewish people failed to note
those portions of prophecy which fore
told Messiah's sufferings. AS a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so He
would neither open His mouth nor use
any of His superior powers to hinder
the accomplishment Of God will in
respect to His death. isaiah 53:7).
chastiscment for human sin was |
horne by Him, in order that, as mans
rcdeemer, He might have the right to
forgive human sin and to raise man
kind out of their degradation and bring
them back into harmony with Gods
law. fully justified through the blood
of the rcdeemer. Not only the Jews
failed to see the necessity for a dying
Savior, hut the whole Gentle world
nay be said to equally fail to grasp the
import of Jesus death.
The death of Jesus was necessary for
TWO reasons: Cd AS mans redemption
price: () AS e~videncing His own
faithfulness to God, His own loyalty
even unto death, and consequently His
right to the divine promise of a glori-
eXaltation, compromising His de-
His self-sacrifice. and honoring
his name above every name-making
Him parlaker Of the divine nature.
his redemptive work. the
penalty of divine justice would have
rested forever p o the human race,
and none could have beer rcsurrected
from the dead. The sentence of death
man would bring him to the same
Of nonenity as the diving Of
the brute accomplishes in him. But
God knew in advance of His. own pur-
pose to arrang for mankind the pay
nent of the penalty through His Son,
who died, the just for the unjust, to
bring them back into harmony with
God.
1t is tor this reason that none living
PRIOR to Jesus were accepted to SON
in Gods family, after Father
Adam lost that privilege through dis
Only after the redemp-
ton could the invitation to sonship be
extended. Those who accepted needed
10 wait until Pentecost to receive it.
lheE waited until Jesus. who died for
lheir sins, assembled up on High to
rake reconciliation on our behalf
the Father accepted all who
anne unto Him through Christ, and
ne hoiy spirit came upon Sob. induct-
ing them into the divine @lmily as
sons.
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and the world is thai the church is
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