River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-01-22


ter voluntarily carried out the work.
Nor was this contract without reward
For the joy set before Him our Lord
endured the cross. despising the shame.
and is now glorified mt the right hand
of the Heavenly Father. (Hebrews
12:2J The Logos was created spirit
being-not a man. human being
and could not be mans Redeemer ex-
cept by leaving Ills glorious spirit
plane and becoming man" 1.-THE Man
Christ Jesus, who gave Himself Ran
som for ALL Timothy %. 6.
In the past we have been too care
less in our study OF the Bible. Now we
see that the word Ransom. dntjittrOn
in the Greek signifies a corresponding
price. And this is what was necessary
for mans redemption, and what Jesus
provided. As bulls and goats could not
be corresponding price because of in
feriority TO man. so an angel, or even
the glorious Logos Himself. could not
have ransomed man. could not be Il
corresponding price because not on the
same plane of being. Thus the Scrip
| lures explain that it was necessary for
the Logos to become a perfect man in
order to effect the ransom OF Father
Adam, giving a corresponding price
for his human life. How simple it all
is when we accept the plain statements
! Of Gods Word!
Knowing that the Scriptures tell that
God has provided redemption for the
whole world in Christ, Christian people
have been trying to make themselves
believe that the entire world has been
blessed through Christ ever since He
died. the Just for the unjust" Some
even go so far as to imagine that in
some way or other He must have ac-
complished some blessing Of the mil
! lions who died during the four thou
sand years before He tasted death for
every man.
How foolish we were in trying thus
| to deceive ourselves! Plain honesty
would have helped us all a great deal.
We should have said, it is plain enough
that the millions of the four thousand
years before Christ died got no bless
ing through Him; and that the masses
of humanity, including the hundreds
of millions Of heather, during the nine
| teen centuries since He died have re-
ceived no blessing from Him. In hon
esty we must confess that none except
| the Church class have yet received a
blessing from the hands of Jesus.
After making this candid admission,
we should have looked more carefully
| into the Bible for an explanation, and
no doubt we would the sooner have
| become enlightened; but, deluding our
selves and claiming that all mankind
are having a fair trial, we have in
creased our darkness. Dishonesty is
never advantageous. 1t is especially
disadvantageous when exercised along
| the lines Of religion Now, as we be-
come more honest with ourselves and
the facts, the darkness begins to flee
| away; and the true teaching of the
Bible begins to shine out LUMINOSITY.
"The Election Obtained It."
St. Paul draws our attention to the
| fact that God proffered certain great
blessings to the Jewish people in their
Law Covenant, which they were I'M
able to acquire because of inherited
weaknesses common to mankind He
| tells us that when Jesus came. IsraeIs
testing came: and that in rejecting
Him they rejected the chiefest of
Gods blessings, but did not cut them
selves off entirely from His favor; for
Gods gifts and calling to Israel have
not been abrogated. He says, Israel
| SoI, hC
eth for 1.-THE highest favor of God
but the Elect obtained it, and the rest
were blinded. Romans 11:7.
Here we have the key God is max
! ing an election, or selection, from
amongst mankind. He desires a Little
Flock of extremely faithful. self-sacri-
| fcing, sanity ones. to be joint-heirs
with their Redeemer in a great work
which Divine Wisdom and Love have
laid out for Him. This Little Flock,
the Elect, are to be Heirs of God and
Joint heirs with Jesus Christ their
Lord, in the Messianic Kingdom.
That Kingdom, when set up in great
power and glory. invisible to men, yet
all-powerful in their midst. will bring
to pass all the glorious promises of
the Bible ST. Peter declares that at
the Second Coming of Jesus will come
Times of Restitution. times of bless
ing mankind in his earthly home, turn
ing it into a paradise and bringing
mankind back into the image and like
ness Of God. That great work is to
be done by the Elect-The Christ
Jesus the Head and the Church His
Body-Jesus the Bridegroom and the
Church His Bride.
Bride Makes Herself Ready.
The work of electing the Church has
been an individual one, requiring thus
far nearly nineteen centuries. But
God. who is rich in Wisdom. is using
the various members of the Church
during this period as His ambassa-
doris, as His servants. to call one an
other. to build one another up in the
most holy faith. Thus. as the Scrip
lures declare, the Bride is to make
| herself ready for the union with the
Heavenly Bridegroom. which is to be
accomplished at His Second Coming,
when she shall have experienced the
change in the First Resurrection-to
Heavenly nature and Kingdom: for
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
| Kingdom of Cod"
Now. as Bible students. we are be
ginning to get the eyes OF our under
standing opened to the grievous mis-
] take which orr forefafhers made anl