River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-23

Bur when Jesus arose from the dead.
the blessing of the world was not yet
due. God. who had foreordained that
Jesus should be the antitypieal Seed Of
Abraham. had f~oreordained also that
Jesus should have a Church to be His
Joint-heir in the Kingdom of glory and
the work Of blessing mankind. God
f~oreordained that all who would be of
this Body of Christ must show the
same spirit that He had-a spirit of
faithfulness, loyalty. self-sacrifce. God
predestinated that this Church class
must be conformed to the image of His
Son-must possess similar character.
All through this Gospel Age God has
been developing the Church as the
Body of the great %antitypical Mediator
of the New Covenant. These are de-
veloped under a special Covenant. diff
ferent entirely from the New Cove
nant. made with the world.
Jesus did not become the great Medi-
ator under the Law Covenant: for the
Law Covenant offered life; whereas
the Covenant under which Jesus quail
fed called for death. The Church of
Christ is developed under the same
Covenant under which the Master
qualified. which reads: Gather My
saints together unto Me; those that
have made a covenant with Me by
sacrifce."-Psalm 50:5.
The New Covenant is to be sealed.
or made operative. through the blood
of Christ. The ~efficacious sacrifice was
that of Jesus Himself. The Church
has a share in the sacrifice of Christ as
a privilege; for in Gods order, only by
suffering with Him can she reign with
Him; only by becoming dead with
Him to the earthly life. earthly inter
ests, can she become alive with Him
on the Heavenly. Spiritual plane.
The Choicest Resurrection.
From what we have seen, we are
prepared for st. Paul'S declaration that
Jesus faithful footstep followers only
can share with Him in His Resurrec-
ton. philippians 3:10o Only those
who are to reign with Him will re-
ceive. in the resurrection, the Divine
nature. to which He was changed in
His resurrection. The Masters words
to these are: Blessed and holy are all
they that have part in the Chiefest
Resurrection; upon such the Second
Death hath no power; they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and. shall
reign with Him a thousand years"
Next to the Royal Priesthood of the
First Resurrection will be the antityp-
ical Levites. Their resurrection will
be to spirit conditions, because they ex-
perienced the begetting of the Spirit.
Failing to get the highest prize-joint-
heirship with the Savior-they will CON
stitute the Great Company. ''whose
number no man knows" to serve God
in His Temple. AS the Levites of old
were the servants of the typical priest
hood. so these antitypical Levites will
be the servants of the Royal Priesthood
in the great work of blessing and in
structing mankind.
hCGOITCCbEOH VI AnCISfIC
Worthless.
We come nuW to the resurrection OF
the world in general, and find that of
those who will be resurrected to hui
man perfection there is already select
ed a preferred class. Theirs will be
plane. These are the holy Ones Of the
period preceding the coming Of Jesus
and the offer OF the High Calling of
jOint-heirship with Him. Some Of this
glori1ed class st. Paul mentions in He
brews II: Enoch, Noah, Abraham.
Isaac. Jacob. all the Prophets and those
less notable. The last of these was
John the Baptist, as Jesus testified,
saying, among them that are born Of
women there has not risen a greater
than John the Baptist; notwithstand-
ing he that is least in the Kingdom Of
Heaven is greater than he"
These Ancient Worthless, had they
lived during this Gospel Age, would
doubtless have been members of the
Royal Priesthood. AS it is, however,
being approved of God, they were
promised "a better resurrection than
others of humanity. st. Paul says of
them: ''These all died in faith, not
having received the promises, = = +
God having provided some better thing
for us, that they without us should not
be made perfect" BY this the Apostle
signifies that the Church must be per-
fected on the Heavenly plane prior to
Gods fulfilment of His promises to the
Ancient Worthless on the earthly plane.
Hebrews 11:13. 40.
The better resurrection of the An
Gent Worthless will be to human perfec-
ton, to be used by Messiah as earthly
representatives of His Spiritual King
dom. Of this Jesus said to some: "Ye
shall see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
all the Prophets in the Kingdom"
They will be seen because they will be
human beings. Christ and the Church