The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-06-01

the Church. Ills members, will be Hi
brethren, sharers in His rule on thu
Heavenly plane; for is He not declar
ed to be the First-born among MAN.
brethren? (Romans S:29.) The Firs
or Chief Resurrection will bring al
these sons of God to the plane o.
glory, honor and Immortality - borI
from the dead. Then the great Deliv
erer will be fully born, and ready t
begin His great work Of blessing al
the nations-Is Israel being the first OF
these.
my Spirit Upon All Flesh"
St. Peter declares that it was the
glorified Jesus who received the Holy
Spirit of the Father and poured il
out upon the Church at Pentecost
(Acts 2:33) That blessing came t.
the Church because of their coming
into harmony with the Fathers ar
rangement through the Son. The re
ceiying of the Spirit there marked the
recipients as sons of God.
The later Pentecostal blessing upon
the world viii have points of similar
ity as well as points of difference. The
blessing viii come through the great
Messiah as a result of the satisfaction
which He will make for the sins Of the
whole world by applying to the race
the merits of His sacrifice. Thus He
will seal the New Law Covenant with
Israel, and then with the world
through Israel Jeremiah 31:31-34l
The great Messiah Of glory will be the
Mediator of that New Covenant; and
the foundation of that New Covenant
will be the better sacrifices" offered
by this Mediator, as the antitypical
High Priest Hebrews 9:19-23.
The Pentecostal blessing then to
come upon the world win not be upon
the terms Of their sacrificing theii
earthly rights to attain Heavenly
blessing and spiritual sonship On the
contrary, its requirements will be q
conservation to obedience of the III
vine Law; and its reward will be
earthly Restitution to the perfection
Of human nature and to the enjoyment
of all the blessings originally given to
Adam, but forfeited by his disobedi-
ence. ''They shall build houses and
inhabit them. They shall plant vine
yards and eat the fruit thereof" and
'long enjoy the work of their hands"
isaiah 1921, 22) This is the Divine
promise, applicable to mankind, but
not to the Spiritual Seed Of Abraham,
the Church, the Kingdom class, who
must all be changed; for flesh and
blood cannot inherit the Kingdom Of
God."-1 Corinthians 1880
As Jacob was son of Abraham, not
directly, but through Isaac, so also
those blessed under Messiah's Reign
will be children of God, not directly.
but through Messiah Thus it is writ
ten Of Messiah, He shall be called
Wonderful, Counselor. the Mighty One,
the Prince of Peace. the Everlasting
Father" the Father. or Life giver,
to the restored world Of mankind.
isaiah 9:6, ~ The life which He
laid down In sacrifice the earthly life
lis that which He will give to all the
willing and obedient of Adams race
during His Messianic Kingdom-to be
theirs forever. 1t is In this sense that
He will be the Everlasting Father
the Father who gives everlasting life,
which Adam failed to give. Messiah
Himself win have no need for the
earthly life which He laid down; for
as a reward for His obedience the
Heavenly Father has given Him the
higher life-the Divine nature.
The Fathers to Be Princes.
From of old Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
David, etc. were called the fathers.
not only because Of their relationship
to the Jewish nation, but particularly
because Messiah was to come as their
offspring the Seed of Abraham" ''of
the stem of jesse" "the Offspring of
David; and so Jesus was born Of
this very lineage. But His exaltation
by the Father to the spirit plane, and
the fact that His earthly rights nid
down In sacrifice are to go to Adam
and all Of his race who will accept
the same ON the Divine terms, puts
Jesus In the position Of Father, Life
giver, to the world, including Abra-
ham, David, etc. They must all OBJ
tain everlasting life through Him, and
hence will be His children.
Thus the Prophet David wrote Of the
future, Instead of Thy fathers shall
be Thy children, whom Thou mayest
make princes in all the earth" psalm
45:16) Those fathers who are to be
princes are already declared to have
been pleasing to God They attested
their loyalty by faith which worked
in harmony with His will through the
limitations of a fallen nature.
The Fathers, Better Resurrection"
On account of this the fathers are al
ready declared to be worthy of "bet-
ter resurrection" than the remainder
of mankind not so glorious a
as will be granted to the
Church. Their resurrection will be to
the perfection of human nature
mental. moral and physical. Thus they
will stand before mankind as samples
Of human perfection. to which stand
ard, all the race may attain by obedi-
ence, If they will, during the thousand
years of Messiah's Reign.
Those Ancient Worthless Hebrews
III will not only be illustrations of
human perfection, but princes. or
rulers. in all the earth. They will be
the outward and visible representa-
tives OF the invisible Messiah-the
agents through whom the Word of the
Lord will go forth As it is written,
"Out of Zion 1.-THE Spiritual Kingdoml
shall go forth the Law, and the Word
Of the Lord from Jerusalem''-the
earthly manifestation of the Kingdom
men.-Isaiah 2:3
As result of the second outpouring
Of the Holy Spirit, the Prophet Joel
declares, according to our Common
Version. "Your sons and your daugh-
tiers shall prophesy, your old men shall
dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions" A preferred translation
Of this heretofore obscure passage
reads. "Your young men lin that New
will see with clear vision
what your Ancients dreamed of and re-
lated in PARALLELS" This vision of
glory VIII be the Reign of Righteous
ness and the Pentecostal blessing ac-
campaigning it, upon the willing and
obedient, every one of whom shall be
brought to clear knowledge and full
for salvation.
Order of the Blessing.
The order of the blessing is stated
1t will come upon all flesh after those
days, but upon the servants and the
in those days The days
mentioned evidently refer to this Cos
pei Age from Pentecost to the Second
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