The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-21


their Head, their Lord Jesus, beyond
the veil. This is the First Resurrec-
ton. The change of Jesus to the
Heavenly condition at His resurrection
was the beginning of this Chief Resur-
rection; and the glorious change of the
last member of the Body of Christ. the
Church, will be the contamination of
the Chief Resurrection. Only the bless
! ed and holy will have part in it.
The High Priest Will Appear.
The typical high priest on the Day
of Atonement, after having offered the
sacrifices, put on his glorious garments,
and then appeared to bless the people
| The antitype will be when our great
| High Priest. Jesus. shall have finished
offering the last member of His Body,
| and when that last member shall have
passed beyond the veil. Then the en-
| tire Melchizedek Priest will put on His
| official robes as King of glory, and be
manifested to the world as the great
| antitypical Mediator. whose sacrifice
satisfies Divine Justice in behalf of all.
Then, for thousand years. this anti
| typical Priest, Mediator. King. will be
| engaged in blessing neutrality-suspicious.
| Adam and all his race from sin and
death; and thus He will fulfil. as Gods
Representative, the promise, God
shall wipe away all tears.-Rev. PA.
Redemption Necessary First.
We now see from Gods standpoint
hot fhn To inf oddn1 he-
cause of transgression-to show the
natural tendency Of sin, the impossi-
bility of any other way of righting the
| matter than that which God foreOr-
| dained; namely. through Jesus and His
| glorious Messianic Kingdom.
We see also that whoever would be
| the Seed of Abraham with power and
authority from God to bless mankind
must. first of all. accomplish redemp-
| tion-must pay the penalty against
mankind In Gods Providence, only
one man was tried and sentenced to
death-Adam. Therefore when the
time came for redeeming mankind it
| required only one man. The Man
| Christ Jesus, to die for Adam. AS
Adams sin had entailed itself through
heredity upon all his children, 50 the
/, redemptive work of Christ's sacrifice
would be c0-erteRsire. and signify recon
ciliation to all of Adams race
Thus it was impossible for anything
to be done in the way of blessing man
kind or granting a resurrection from
| the dead until Christ had died for the
sin of Adam-the sin of the world. On
| the third day after Jesus crucifixion
| God raised Him from the dead, fully
empowered to be the Deliverer of
Adam and his race.
But when Jesus arose from the dead,
| the blessing of the world was not yet
| due. God. who had foreordained that
| Jesus should be the antitypical Seed of
| Abraham, had foreordained also that
Jesus should have a Church to be His
Joint-heir in the Kingdom of glory and
the work of blessing mankind. God
foreordained that all who would be of
this Body of Christ must show the
same spirit that He had-a spirit of
faithfulness, loyalty. self-sacrifice. God
predestinated that this Church class
| must be conformed to the image of His
Son-must possess similar character
All through this Gospel Age God has
been developing the Church as the
Body of the great antitypical Mediator
of the New Covenant These are de-
veloped under special Covenant. diff
ferent entirely from the New Cove
nant, made with the world.
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 Me; those that
have made a covenant with Me by
sacrifice. Psalm sos.
The New Covenant is TO be sealed.
or made operative, through the blood
of Christ The efficacious sacrifice was
that of Jesus Himself. The Church
has share in the sacrifice of Christ as
a privilege; for in Gods order. only by
suffering with Him can she reign with
Him; only by becoming dead with
Him to the earthly life, earthly inter
ests, can she become alive with Him
on the Heavenly. Spiritual plane.
The Choicest Resurrection.
From what we have seen. we are
prepared for St Paups declaration that
Jesus faithful footstep followers only
can share with Him in His Resurrec-
ton. philippians BOO 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 Chiefest
Resurrection; upon such the Second
Death hath no power; they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with Him thousand years."
"Better Resurrection" of Ancient
Worthless.
We come now to the resurrection of
the world in general, and find that of
those who will be resurrected to hui
man perfection there is already select
ed a preferred class. Theirs will be
the chief resurrection on the earthly
plane. These are the holy ones of the
period preceding the coming of Jesus
and the offer of the High Calling of
joint-heirship with Him. Some of this
glorified class ST paul mentions i'm 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 are born of
women there has not risen a greater
than John the Baptist: notwithstand-
ing he that is least in the Kingdom of
Heaven is greater than he"
These Ancient WORTHLESS. bad they
lived during this Gospel Age, would
Royal Priesthood As il is, however.
being approved of God. they were
promised IA better resurrection" than
others of humanity. St. Paul says 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 be per-
fected on the Heavenly plane prior TO
Gods fulfilment of His promises to the
Ancient Worthless ON the earthly plane,