River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-02-12
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posed iii Himself from before the
foundation of the world Ever noble.
kind and gracious. our Creator re-
strained His mercy for the good of
His creatures that they might learn
to appreciate the exceeding sinfulness
of sin For the good of the angels
also. that they might fully know of
His Justice. as we'll as of His Wisdom
and His Power. God insisted upon
dealing with His creatures from the,
standpoint of exact Justice. Man had
sinned. and thereby had forfeited all
claim upon the eternal life which God
had given him conditionally
Eternal torment, as we have already
seen. did not in any sense or degree
enter into the Divine purpose His
sentence upon man, plainly stated,
was Dying. thou shalt die not Liv
ing, thou shalt live in torment. Gene
sis 2:17) God purposed to exemplify
in His dealings with our race prin-
ciple of Divine government to be made
operative everywhere ultimately
amongst all His creatures on the spirit
plane as we'll as upon the earthly.
Long centuries after. God spoke to
Abraham, but first tested his faith and
loyalty. To him the Almighty men
toned the same great Deliverer who
would bruiSe the Serpents head God
gave A braham the assurance that this
One would in some way be identified
with his posterity. so that He might
properly be called the Seed of Abra
ham. God said. I'm thy Seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed"
The Divine Program was not chang
ed, bat more explicit statements were
given respecting it. Thereafter all
who were taught of God would know
to look for the Messianic blessing
through Abraham's Seed. This Cove
nant was afterward confirmed with an
Oath to Abraham, and later to Isaac
and then to Jacob. This Covenant
became the basis of Gods adoption OF
the entire nation of lsrael-all of ia
cob's children. They were the heirs
of the Abra hamic PrOmise-the Oath
bound Covenant All the hopes that
have thus far preserved Israel as
people are built upon the foundation
of this Covenant. secured to them by
the Word and the Oath OF our un-
changeable God.
If it should seem strange to us that
the Almighty Jehovah should conde-
scend to make Oaths to His creatures
respecting the gracious gifts of His
hand. / remind you that God knew
what Abraham did not know; namely.
that the Promise attested by that Oath
would linger for more than thirtynine
hundred years without accomplish
ment. God foreknew that without His
Oath to this Promise Israel would
naturally feel either that He had for
gotten it, or that something had Oc-
Cured to alter or amend the Divine
Program Hence the Oath and the
fact that this Covenant is called the
Covenant of the Oath
Promises 10 Jacob All Earthly.
From Genesis to Malachi there is
nothing in the Holy Scriptures that
implies a change Of nature from hu-
man to spiritual for mankind in gen
eral. Nothing intimates that man
kind will ever be like the angels. The
prophetic promises, on the contrary.
tell of restitution to the former estate
to human perfection and to an Eden
home restored world wide. The Ju-
bilee system of the Law of Moses
taught this same lesson On the fif-
tieth year every slave was set at lib
erty and every property reverted to its
original owners. In this God pictured
mans return to harmony with Him
self-man's liberation from the bond
age of Sin and Death, his restoration
to the image of his Creator, from
which he fell through sin. and the re-
turn to him of the dominion of earth
in its glorious perfection.
| remind you of the wonderful word
pictures drawn by the Prophet Isaiah.
He tells that the wilderness shall bios
som as the rose; that streams shall
break forth in the desert; that the
blessing of the Lord shall be upon the
earth, and it shall yield its increase.
He tells that then the inhabitant shall
no more say, / am sick, when all the
blind eyes shall be opened and all the
deaf ears shall be unstopped.
The Prophet jeremiah tells us that
then it will no longer be necessary to
say to ones neighbor or to ones broth
er, Know thou the Lord; for all shall
know Him, from the least to the
greatest. The Prophet Habakkuk de-
clares that in that glorious time the
knowledge of the glory of God shall
fill the whole earth.
These blessed conditions cannot come
to the world, according to the Scrip
lures, until first Gods blessing shall
be upon His ancient people Israel, as
attested by the Oath bound Covenant,
that through them the blessing shall