The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-13

Eon-must possess similar character.
ALI through this Gospel Age God has
been developing the Church as the
Body Of the great antityplcal Mediator
Of the New Covenant. These are de.
veloped under a special Covenant, diff
ferent entirely from the New Cove
nans, made with the world. B
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 Ne; those that
have made a covenant with Me by
aacrihce."-Psalm S0:5.
The New Covenant ia to be sealed,
or made operative, through the blood
OF Christ. The ~ef1cacious sacrifice was
that Of Jesus Himself. The Church
has G share I'm the sacrifice OF Christ az
a privilege; for in Gods order, only by
suffering with Elm can she reign with
Him; only by becoming dead with
Him to the earthly life, earthly inter
egts, can she become alive with Him
on the Heavenly, Spiritual plane.
THE chiefcss ~Resuvr~osson.
From what we have seen, we are
prepared for st. PauEs declaration that
Jesus faithful footseep followers only
can share with Him In His RegurTec-
ton. philippians 8:t0.) 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 Choicest
Resurrection; upon such the Second
Death hath no power: they shall be
priests Of God and OF Christ, and shall
reign with Him q thousand years"
Next 10 the RoyRI Priesthood OF the
First Resurrection win be the anG2typ-
ical Leyltes. Their resurrection VIII
be 10 spirit conditions because they az
perfenced the begetttng OF the Spirit.
Failing to get the highest pFtze-jotRt-
1bAEbHAH WAN G4S -LACY &%A~
stitute the Great Company, ""vvFEasss
number no man knows" to serve God
In His Temple. As ths Lewsesg OF cid.
were the servants Of the typical priest,
hood, 80 these antitypbcal Levftes will
be the servants Of the Royal Priesthood
In the great work OF blessing and in
stRuct1ng mankind. ~.
"EetesP Re~surFsotio0F' @e Ancient
Worthless. K,
We come now to the resurrectdoa Of
the world In general, and find that of
those VINO will be resurrected to hui
ed a preferred class. Theirs viii ba
the CHIEF resurrection on the earthly
plana These are the holy ones Of tbs
period preceding the coming Of Jesus
ana the offer Of the High Calling Of
3Oint-heirship with Him. Some Of this
giorf11ed class st. Paul mentions in He
brews Il: 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 ere born OF
women there has not risen q CREATES
than John the Baptist; notwithstands
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 tho
Royal Priesthood. AS Il is, however
being approved OF GOD, they werd
promised "a better resurrection than
others Of humanity. st. Paul gay8' 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 DO per.
fected on the Heavenly plane prior to
Gods fulflment Of His promises to the
Ancient Worthless on the earthly plane.
Hebrews IL ia, 40.
The better resurrection Of the An.
cienf Worthless will be to human perfec%
hon, to be used by Messiah as earthly
representatives Of His Spiritual King
dom OF this Jesus said to some: eye
shall see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
all the Prophets In the Kingdom"
They win be seen because thsy win be-
human 6etaos. Christ and the Church
will be saseeE, because they will be
sP&TSe betngs. AS Jesus said, yet q lit.
tie while, and the world seeth Me mo-
more" Even the Church sees neither
Lord until she is changed.
The Worlds Resurrection.
As deotb constituted the Divine curse
upon Adam, which the whole world
inherited by natural laws, and as sick
ness, sorrow and pain are eIensessss OF
death, the rolling away of the curse
will mean the realing sway OF sickness,
pain, sorrow and death. God has pro-
vided a thousand years for this great
work. which win include all the uaem-
berw Of the human family, ''svery man
In his own order" Those who have
fanen asleep must needs be awakened.
Then the worlds resurrection program
will begin. It will include the pro-
gressive steps OF uplifting out OF sin,
ignorance. imperfection, back to Gods
image and likeness. Only the wilfully
wicked shall ultimately be destroyed
in the Second Death.
Then every creature In Heaven and
earth. everywhere, win be heard say
ing, Praise, glory, honor, dominion
and might, he unto Him that sitteth
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