The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-08-30
The Church of the
Living God
By Apostle Willis F. Jordon

lhe Church is the one institution of God
to which the Testimony, Gods message TO
men concerning His Son Jesus the Christ
has been committed.
lhe first mention of the Church is in
Matthew 1918. Note just what Tesus did
say in this passage:
i say unto thee that thou art Peter
Greek betroS, stone, a small pebble. easily
kicked about by any foot.
"And upon this Rock"-Greek betrn.
solid rock, great mountain ledge, unbreak-
able, unmovable-the Lord Tesus Christ
11mSelt, the Great Foundation Rock of the
Church.
All the saved, the regenerated. the
Lords people, between Pentecost and the
Rapture, constitute her membership. God
only knows who they are; for ''the Lord
only knoweth them that are His
Ibis Church was officially and publicly
born = came into existence as both an or
gan1sm and an organization on Pentecost-
tltty days after the crucihxion Of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
From the beheading of John the Baptist
and the turning away of Jesus Christ from
Israel as nation to the calling of individu-
al believers to leave the doomed nation. and
the rejected religion of Judaism and to
come unto Himself Matthew II $3.50:
II :46-5O) this Church was in process of
conception = preparing to be born on the
Day of Pentecost.
Until that Pentecost, the Church was the
Hidden Mystery:
Now to Him that is of power to stablish
you according to my gospel, and the preach
ing OF Jesus Christ, according to the revela-
tion of the mystery, which was kept secret
since the world began,
But now is made manifest, and by the
scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the everlasting God made
known to all nations for the obedience of
fa1th;-Romans 1925, &c.
The Church Mystery was Divinely in
tended:
According as He hath chosen us in Him be-
fore the foundation of the world, that we
should be holy and without blame before Him
IOV0."EpQ0S1dnS 4.
Compare Ephesians SLIP.
1t was especially given to the Apostle
Paul to make known the Church Mystery:
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you
and fill up that which is behind of the afflic-
tions of Christ in my flesh for His body's
sake, which is the Church:
to the dispensation of God which is given to
me for you, to fulfill the Word of God
Even the mystery which hath been hid
from ages and from generations, but now is
made manifest to His saints:
To whom God would make known what is
the riches of the glory of this mystery among
the GentilesA which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory:-CollOssians 1:24-27.
Unto me, who am less than the least of all
saints, is this grace given, that should preach
among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
of Christ;
And to make all men see what is the fell
lowship of the mystery, which from the be-
ginning of the world hath been hid in God.
Who created all things by Jesus Christi
EpheSianS 3:8, 9.
Consider the Destiny of the Church
She will soon be complete in her Divinely
intended, foreknown and foreordained num-
Der:
For | would not, brethren, that We should
be ignorant of this mystery, lest We should be
wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness
OF the Gentiles be come in.-Romans 1925.
Simeon hath declared how God at the first
did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a
people for His Name.
And to this agree the words of the prophets
as it is written,
After this will return, and will build again
the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down:
and will build again the ruins thereof, and will
set it up:
That the residue of men might seek after
the Lord and all the Gentiles, upon whom
My Name is called, saith the Lord, Who doetb
all these things.-Acts 15:14-17
Her completion will be Accomplished
shortly before the Seven Years, including
the Great Tribulation, from which the Chr;st
has promised to keep her: