River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-03-26


have a free hand there, to do all for
mankind that would be reasonable and
possible. The combination of a strong
Government with merciful assistants
is assured by the fact that our Lord
will be. not only the great King, but
also the great Priest, Prophet and
Teacher. Even so, also. the Church
shall be kings and priests. Their of
fee, their service, will be a combina-
ton of ruling and healing, instructing
and uplifting.
Everything done will come under the
head of Observation-Disclosures dealing.
Every good deed, yea, every good eff
fort, will be rewarded The Judgment
will be blessing. 1t will mean an in
crease of harmony with the Lord and
of character development, and rest-
tutional physical experiences. (Acts
ness there will be the way of light
Instead of the broad road leading to
destruction. with the masses going
down thereon-to the tomb-there will
be the Highway of Holiness. Instead
of stones of stumbling, we are assured
that all the stumbling-stones shall be
gathered out of the way Instead of
beaStly violence, OvermaStering temp
tations and besetments, devouring
mankind because of their inability to
resist the Adversary, the Bible assures
us that Satan will be bound and that
the wild beasts of vice and degeneracy
will all be brought into subsection
Thus nothing shall hurt or destroy in
all Gods holy Mountain Kingdom1.'
And an highway shall be there, and
way. and it shall be called the Way of
Holiness. Isaiah 11:9; 1913.
The Messianic Psalm-seventy- sec
ond-finds it's application in that glori-
Gus Millennial Epoch Thus we read:
Give the King Thy judgments, o God.
and Thy Righteousness unto the Kings
Son. He shall judge Thy people with
righteousness and Thy poor with judg
ment [justice]. He shall judge
the poor of the people. He shall save
the children OF the needy and shall
break in pieces the oppressor.
He shall come down like rain upon the
mown grass, as showers that water the
earth. In His days shall the righteous
flourish; and abundance Of peace as
long as the moon endureth."
"The People Will Learn Righteous
ness"
AS already shown, Gods dealings in
~ OrI1
in the sense Of executing a general
sentence for Adamic sin-a death sen
tence with all that it involves Of men
tai, moral, and physical degeneracy-
dying. All of Gods special judgments
have been with those who were justi-
fed to special relationship through
faith. If we were to judge Of the
number who will be blessed during the
Millennium by the numbers in the Lit
tie Flock of Natural Israel and the
Little Flock of Spiritual Israel, saved
under Gods judgments In advance of
the Millennium. the outcome of the
worlds Judgment would not appear ia
vorable.
But these would not be fair criteria.
Present conditions are permitted to
test and to prove the faith as we'll as
the obedience of those who are under
trial, or Judgment, and who have such
a faith as permits them to grasp the
glorious features of the present call
Consequently, few there will be who
will find the great reward now offered.
Matthew 7:14.
This is as God designs it, because He
is selecting a special class. But the ar
engagements made for mankind in gen
eral are that the darkness and sin of
the present time shall flee away. The
dawning Of the Millennial Morning,
with the rising of the Sun of Righteous
ness with healing in His beams THE
Christ in glory to enlighten the world,
will mean that knowledge will be
granted mankind = facts, evidences.
proofs.
The world will not be required to
walk by faith and not by sight" as
are the Elect Of the Gospel Age. In
stead of the EYE OF FAITH Of the
present time will be the EYE OF UN-,
Cknowledge) then.
Instead of the secret of the Lord being
kept from the world. all of Els gra-
cious purposes will then stand fully
revealed 1.-THE knowledge of the glory
of God shall fill the whole earth as the
waters cover the great deep" (Habak-
kuk 2:14). AS a result. none shall
need to say unto his neighbor and to
his brother, Know the Lord, for all
shall know Him, from the least to the
greatest of them. Every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess, to the
glory of God Jeremiah 81 "a; Romans
14:11; Philippians 2:10, ID. When
every good deed shall receive promptly
and manifestly its reward, and every
evil deed shall receive promptly its
punishment. the world will speedily
learn to avoid the punishments and to
win the rewards by obedience to the
laws of the Kingdom.
The Scope of Our Text.
The Prophet in our context person
ates The Christ. Jesus the Head and
the Church His Body. Note the state