The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-01

His Church. His Bride class. the Royal
Priesthood. are the only ones of the hu-
man family promised share in the
Heavenly rewards and blessings-that the
Divine arrangement for the remainder of
mankind is an earthly Paradise and hui
man perfection in the Divine likeness.
They fail to see that the sanity Church.
gathered from the world for eighteen CEN
turtles, viii compose Spiritual Kingdom
which. backed by Infinite Wisdom and
Power. will better serve tho worlds inter-
ests than could any earthly kingdom:
and that. furthermore, the Divine Plan
provides that the Ancient Worthless. from
Abel down to John the Baptist. are to be
resurrected perfect human beings. and
made princes in all the earth'-repre-
sentatives, agents. of the invisible Spir.
itual Kingdom then in control
Our minds have been SO long blinded by
false theories. and the Bible has received
so little intelligent study without SEQ
tartan glasses, that it is not surprising
that we have all so seriously erred In SO
important a matter.
Messiah's Kingdom Invisible.
Some OF the noblest minds have been
repealed from faith in the Second Advent
by the thought of an earthly Kingdom
with Christ and the saints in regal state.
They were quite right in thinking that
earthly royalty would be beneath the
dignity of Messiah and His Bride The
Scriptures declare that Jesus left His
glory humbled Himself to become a
man. in order to be the great Sin-Offer-
ing for our race. But the Redeemer
prayed to be glorif1ed with the glory
which He had with the Father before
the world was; and He promised His
Church a share in His Heavenly glory.
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glory. Heavenly inheritance and glorious
change to Heavenly conditions, and will
He give US. instead, earthly glory and
merely perfection in the flesh?
How slow We have been to see that
God never purposed that. either Jesus or
His faithful Elect should remain in the
flesh. We misunderstood a few Bible
statements. We read. Every eye shall
see Him." and forgot that there are
eyes of understanding as well as nat
ural eyes. We forgot that Jesus declares
that very few now see or hear-only the
sanity. whose eyes of understanding
have been opened by the amounting Of
the Holy Spirit. We forgot that Jesus
said. "A little while and the world seeth
Me no more When once We discern
that He has been given a spirit nature
again. that He no longer has the human
nature which He surrendered as a Sim
Sacrifice. then We see why the world will
see Him no more and why the Church
must be changed by resurrection power
before she can see Him.
81 VIII Come Again."
Jesus left the world not so much in
the sense of going so far away that He
could not see His disciples and commu-
nicate with them. but rather in the sense
that He would not do so. He would
compel them to walk by faith and not
by sight" to search the Scriptures" and
to receive the spiritual blessings through
the fellowship of the Truth. By His
Holy Spirit He would be with them, and
not by further manifestations.
His Second Coming would be at the
end Of the Age, to awaken His sleeping
saints and change them to the Heavenly
state Thus He would come again and
receive His Church unto Himself-hrst
the sleeping ones and subsequently those
alive and remaining. who would expert
c., 80 49, surrection change in the
moment of death. Additionally, in the
Harvest with which the Age ends. He
promised to take special supervision OF
the gathering of His Elect
This stage of HIS Coming Is called. in
the Greek. His Parousia-His presence.
The world Is not to know of His Parou-
y.
secret-"as a thief in the night" Jesus
said that at His Parousia tho world
would be eating. drinking, planting.
building, and know not of His Coming
I'm the Harvest of the Age. even as the
world in the DAYS of Noah knew not. The
intination is. however. that some of
Co.'s people would be aware OF His
Parousa: while others, the Foolish Wiz
gins. would be overcharged with cares of
this life and know not
If Jesus really meant it when He said.
"A little while and the world seeth Ne
no more" how can humanity know
about the new. invisible kingdom? The
Bible answers most distinctly. 1t tells of
the shining forth. the Epiphania, Of the
Messianic Kingdom. 1t tells OF His
Apokalupsis or revealment-"He shah be
revealed in flaming fire." This flaming
fire signifies severe Judgments. a. else
where These are to be so severe that
the elements of society will melt with
the fervency of the heat In terrible
Time of Trouble. Additionally, the
heavens" the ecclesiastical systems. will
be involved. and will pass away with
a great commotion. 1t Is from this re-
yealing In flaming fire. Divine cenSure
upon the world. that the great. the hish.
the mighty. The poor. all. shall seek TO
hide thmselves in the dens and caves
Of the earth''-in the social orders ana
in affiliations with strong governments.
etc
Gradually mankind will see that Il II
the wrath of the Lamb" that causes
the Time of Trouble such as was not
since there was a nation" The plow-
share of trouble will go 50 deep that they
will effectually learn the lesson. As their
eyes of understanding open stilf more
widely they will discern the beauties
and blessings OF the Messianic King
dom-"the desire of all nations"
But first The Christ. Jesus the Head
and the Church the Body. Bridegroom
and Bride must enter into the glory Of
the Kingdom Then Will be established
the earthly phase Of the Kingdom under
the Ancient Worthless. The world VIII
"see Abraham Isaac. Jacob. and all the
Prophets" but will rot see the King, nor
the Bride nor 1.-The virgins. her COM
panions'' on the spirit plane These VIII
be as invisible to humanity as are Sa-
tan and his demon host
. One of our great obstacles In the past
has been the failure to discern that God
has been presenting two distinct saliva
tions-that Of the Church to the spirit
ual. Heavenly. Divine nature. and thar
of the non-elect. through The Church TO
them will come the opportunity or earth-
ly Restitution to human perfection. IN
the image and likeness of God, as was
Adam-in a worldwide Paradise Our
Savior's First Advent was necessary Tor
the redemption of mankind. His Second
Advent is for the overthrow of satan
and for the release Of sinners.
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