River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-02-26


| projections of the flesh. back to the
! perfection lost in Eden and redeemed
at Calvary. Thus our great Redeemer
assures us that He will make all things
new.
"The Restitution of All Things"
| The Masters declaration that He
would ultimately make all things new
is the equivalent of the message given
us by St Peter. He declared that
times of refreshing shall come the
| opposite of the curse He declared that
then would come Times / or years] of
Restitution of all the things which God
has spoken by the mouth of all His
| holy Prophets since the world began"
Other Scriptures show us that those
! Times. or years. of Restitution will be
one thousand. In other words, they
| will cover the entire Seventh DAY.
Acts 3:19-23
Making all things new again is mere
| ly restoring all things to their original.
| perfect condition. This is the Restitu-
tion of all things which God has spo-
ken by the Prophets. This is the rails
ing up. the resurrection. of the dead
world Adam fell from his perfection
| in the image of God His restoration.
his making new again. will include not
only the awakening from the tomb, but
the raising out of all the weaknesses
and imperfections which accompanied
his dying, back to what he was at the
beginning. a perfect man in Gods i'm
age-"very good!
Door Open to All of Adams Seed.
Had Adam remained perfect his chill
dren would have been born perfect.
All our imperfections, then, are part
of the curse which has come upon us
! through heredity. To speak of the
wiping away of the curse is merely an
other way of telling of restitution. re-
neWing. resurrection. This work will
begin with the establishment of Mes
siah's Kingdom, and will give each
member of Adams race the fullest op-
pOrtunity of resurrection, restitution.
renewing.
The basis for this favor was the
RanSOm-price which Jesus paid for
Adam and his race when He died, 1.-THE
Just for the unjust" to bring us back
to God. The penalty which Jesus paid
for us was not eternal torment, but the
death penalty-and likewise the recov-
cry, or salvation. or saving, will not
be from hell of torture, but from
the tOmb-the Bible hell. Without
| Gods interference on our behalf Adam
and all his race would ultimately have
| persisted, as do brute beasts. Gods
Remedy has been Christ's sacrifice,
to make satisfaction for our sins, t0
be followed by Christ's Kingdom--tbe
Kingdoms uplifting influences to save
the willing and obedient from sin and
death.
New Heavens and New Earth.
In the symbolic language of the BIZ
BILE the heavens are sometimes used to
represent the spiritual powers-the
church; and the earth to represent
civil and social organization. The BIZ
BILE represents that the present heavens
and earth are out of accord with the,
Divine purposes, and are to pass away
with a great cOmmOtiOn.
We understand this to mean that in
the end of this Age the nominal church
systems and all the ecclesiastical pow
ers of the world will fall into cOnfu-
sion, disruption, and pass away. Speed,
lily will follow similar conditions in the
social and political earth, 1t also will
pass away with great commotion, con-
fusion. This destruction is symbolical-
ly called fire. But the Lord has prom
Used a new heavens and a new earth
established along better lines and prin-
ciples-in full accord with the Divine
will In this. we read, righteousness
will dwell.-2 Peter 81. IL, 10.
The new heavens will not be the
church nominal. 1t will conSist of
Christ and the elect Church, gathered
out Of all the nations and denomina-
tions-saints. 1t will be Che very ideal
of righteousness. the Divine ideal, and
will be given the control of mankind
for thousand years. Gradually dur
ing those thousand years q new earth
will develop--society will be organized
under new conditions-fn harmony with
the regulations of Messiahs Kingdom.
This II another picture of how our Re
deeQaer as the glorious King will make
aff things new.
/ The Grandeur of the New.
God through the Prophet declares,
J BE We glad and rejoaee in that which
] create For, bshold, l create new
| heavens and a new earth; and the for
mer shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind" isaiah 65:17, 49, So far
superior in every way will be the New
Dispensatian that nome will even think
of making comparison or calling to
mind the things of the present time
except by way Of remembering the les
sons. experiences. ETC., learned under
the present sad conditions of the groan-
ing creation.
The new creation will be gradual,
not sudden The entire thousand years
of MesSiah's Kingdom will be neces-
Sary for the perfecting of the fallen