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comparatively small cost it can be in
undated and made to rejoice with the
remainder of the world. by sharing in
! the Millennial blessing. The Scriptures
prophesy also that the Dead Sea will
be connected with the ocean. and that
region become once more prosperous.
Still More Wonderful Things.
Pastor Resell. dealing with the CON
text. pointed out that it tells the whole
story. He applied Verse to the pres
cut time. declaring that lie was seeking
to carry out its command. Strengthen
We tie weak hands and confirm the
feeble kuces Say to them that are OF
a fearful heart. BE strong, fear not:
behold youg God will come with vcnge-
ance. cvcu God with a recompense: lie
will come and save you."-N Verses ). I.
The Church is here addressed-not
the world True. Messiab's coming is
TO bless the world but before the bless
ing can come to the world, the Elect
Church must Grst be gathered BY the
change of the First Resurrection, the
Elect will cease to be Of the bumaD
! like unto the angels" but hi9her-''par-
takers of the Divine Nature.
This Elect class. the Pastor declared,
Ia ScripturaIly called The Bride. the
Lambs Wife In all Of Gods dealings
with humanity this class is TO have the
preemincnce. as Spiritual Israel. They
are not all children Of Abraham by ma
ture. he said. but are his children by
faith: for Abraham typically was the
Father Of the Faithful. Abraham rep
resented Jehovah. as Isaac typi6ed the
Son. Jesus, and Rebecca. lsaac's bride.
typificd the Church The first Of this
company was gathered from the natur-
al seed Of Abraham. but the company
rs n whole has been completed out Of ev-
cry nation. people. Kindred and tongue.
None. however. but sanity. holy ones
can he members of this Elect class.
After its completion. the Divine bless
ing will extend through it to natural
Israel and through them to all nations
again. The blessing then to be be-
slowed however. will not he OF the
| same character They will all be earth
~ bleSsings-the life and health in
Paradise will all be earthly. Only the
Church Of the First-bOrn. begotten OF
the Holy Spirit. know: and only such
can go on to make their calling and
election sure and attain the birth Of
the Spirit in the resurrection. All 9th.
ers rema lining Of the human nature will
get the blessings which God has pro-
vided for humanity. These the Pastor
said. will surpass anything of which
the human mind has ever yet conceived.
Opening the Blinded Eyes.
The miracles which Jesus did at His
First Advent were merely little illus
trations of the much greater work
which He will accomplish at His Sec
ond Advent. He explained this to the
Apostles. saying. Greater works than
these shall ye do. tSee John 14:l23 1t
, is greater work now to open the eyes
Of human understanding to appreciate
the Divine Character and Plan than to
open the natural eyes, as Jesus did. So
i'm the future Jesus and His Church,
during the thousand years Of Messiahs
Kingdom. will open blinded eyes Of
understanding. unstop ears that hare
long been deaf to the Truth, loose to
! sing praises to God tongues that have
never yet experienced that blessing.
Moreover. as our context declares, the
lame will be strong and leap for joy.
! We are not disputing that all the
lameness, deafness. ailments Of the
present time. will quite disappear dur
ing Messiahs reign of thousand
years We are merely laying emphasis
on the fact that the greater blessings
will come also: the lamenesses. for i'll
stance. Of human weakness and frail-
ty incident TO the fall and it's heredi
tary influence All this lameness will
be done away with-gradually.
! What new aspect earth will wear
when Paradise shall bloom. when
righteousness shall prevail, when sick.
ness and sin, sorrow and pain and dy-
ing shall gradually fade away before
the touches Of the glorious sunlight Of
that New Dispensation!
"A Highway shall Be There"
The context declares that then
! Highway of Holiness shall be estab-
ished The Hebrew word signifies
public thOroughfare. 1t will be dis
tinctly different from the broad road OF
the present. which is do,Cn,0ard one.
The Highway will be an uptoard walk.
1t will be distinctly different also FROM
the na,To1 ,oay and rugged path of the
Church of the present time. Instead
of being rough. thorny way. beset by
trials and difficulties, liable to attacks
of the world. the flesh aud the Adver-
sary. it will be the reverse Of this.
| No lion and ravenOus beast will be
there The beastly propensities and
appetites will no longer have power to
entrap, ensnare and devour the poor
human family All stumbling-stones
of error will be cleared out Of the way.
whereas now the Christians pathway
Is full of them Indeed, all of our six
hundred creeds are more or less stones
of stumbling more or less indicate the
doubt perple-ity and uncertainty in
which Gods people have been travelling
We thank the Lord for the prospec-
tive change to be brought in by Mes
slabs Kingdom. Satan will then be
bound and no longer allowed to plant
the seeds of discord. strife. error. mis-
understanding of God. nor be permit
ted to water these seeds. On the con-
| arary en- Huopoo tl,op will ha fa