River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-23

two SeeQS, ana assures US that the
Promise of God made to Abraham APP
pertains to both the Heavenly. Spirit
ual Seed, and the earthly, human-na-
ture class. His words are: Therefore
it is of faith. that it might be by
grace: to the end that the Promise
might be sure to all the seed: not to
that only which is of the Law. but to
that also which is of the faith of Abra-
ham."-Romans 4:16.
God allowed Abraham's posterity.
through Jacob. to go down to Egypt,
and there to become a nation of bond
men. Later. He brought them to
Mount Sinai. where He made a Law
Covenant with them, Moses serving as
it's Mediator. In that Covenant God
promised that if the ~Israelites would
keep His Law perfectly He would use
them as His holy nation for the bless
ing of all nations. But God knew that
Israel could not keep that Covenant
into which they entered.
God had d double purpose in entering
into that Covenant with Israel. "a 1t
served to show them hat they were
sinners, who could not keep the Law
and who could not be blessed them
selves by anything that they could do;
and that hence they could not expect
to be used of God in the blessing of
other peoples. Additionally. it taught
a similar lesson to all others who
would subsequently know about the
arrangement. That great lesson
was hat Gods Law is perfect, and
obedience to it requires perfection, and
that no man is perfect; hence no man
is able to keep the Law of God; hence
no man is entitled to eternal life; for
God purposes to give eternal life only
to the perfect.
(2l Another object was that the Law
Covenant and everything appertaining
thereto were typical, and pointed for
ward to glorious antiques, which
would bring in the real blessings.
The Antiques Far Superior.
The Law Covenant typifed the New
Law Covenant of the future, which
will be in operation for all the families
of the earth during the thousand years
of Christ's reign. The Mediator of that
New Covenant will be the antique Of
Moses-The Christ-Jesus the Head.
and the Church His Body, enthroned
in power and great glory as the anti
typical Melchizedek-a Priest upon His
Throne. AS the typical Covenant was
inaugurated by the sacrifice of bulls
and goats, SO the antitypical Covenant,
the New Law Covenant, will be inaug-
urated upon the basis of "better sac
Covenant had it's Day of Atonement
for the sins of the people, so the an
titypical Covenant will have a much
greater Atonement Day.
The offering of the better sacrifices
takes place during the early part of the
antitypical Atonement Day, which be-
gan eighteen hundred years ago and is
not yet completed. The great Sin-Of-
fering was that of Jesus. finished at
Calvary; but His secondary offerings.
as our great High Priest, have contin-
ued ever since; and during this period
He has been offering up the members
of His Body, justified through His
precious sacrifice. These, the Apostle
declares, are holy and acceptable sac
%riflces, because offered by their great
Redeemer and Advocate.
Soon, we believe, the antitypical
sacrifices will all be slain. Soon all
the members will be glorifed with
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 tnis Chief Resur-
rection; and the glorious change of the
last member of the Body Of Christ. the
Church, will be the consummation 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 a thousand years. this anti
typical Priest, Mediator. King. will be
engaged in blessing mankind-uplifting
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. 21:4.
Redemption Necessary First.
We now see from Gods standpoint
that the Law Covenant was added be-
cause of transgression-to show the
natural tendency of sin, the impossi-
bility of any other way of righting the
matter than hat which God foreOr-
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