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stance ii provides that man must re-
turn to the dust from which he came
God enforced this Judgment by TAX
ing man away from the perfect food
that was in Eden and by causing him
to earn his bread by tilling the soil
outside of Eden, which produced i'm
perfect food; and the eating of this
food poisoned mans system, and he
gradually died. Under this condition
all of his children were brought
forth; hence all were born in sin
and shapen in iniquity-Psalm 51:5:
Romans 5:12
1T follows, then, that II man is ever
to have life he must be released from
the judgment of condemnation and
death and be provided with the means
of sustaining life. The Bible dis
closes that this provision was long
ago made. God promised to redeem
man from death. (Hosea 1914
Amongst the human race no man
could redeem his brother psalm
49:O Therefore in the fitness of
time Jehovah sent forth into the earth
his beloved Son, who was born of a
woman but not begotten by a man,
born holy, harmless and separate
from sinners. (Hebrews 1920 AS to
why Jesus came to earth and lived
here for thirty-three and one-half
Scriptures answer. He came to give
his life a ransom Matthew 20-2S),
that the people might have life
John 1910 AS the perfect man Adam
had been sentenced to death, the per-
feet man Jesus voluntarily permitting
his life to be taken from him pro-
vided a corresponding price or offset,
and the acceptance of this sacrifice
by Jehovah would result in the legal
release of Adam and his offspring
from the Judgment above mentioned
THE death and resurrection of
Jesus occurred more than eighteen
hundred years ago. Why, then, has
not his death resulted in bringing life
to the human race? The answer is,
that the Scriptures set forth that it
is Gods purpose to take out from
amongst the nations a people for his
name (Acts 1910, and after this
he will set up his kingdom. Before
Jesus assembled on high he informed
his followers that he would return
and receive them to himself; and
from Pentccost. until his kingdom he
has been gathering out from the
world those willing to make volun-
tary sacrifice with him and be his
faithful followers unto death. These,
says the Apostle, constitute with
Jesus the seed of promise through
which the blessings should come.
Galatians 3:16. 81. %.
Because of the blessings that
were expected to come to the race.
the great event to which all Bible
students have looked forward, both.
Jews and gentiles, has been the end
of the old order and the coming of
the Messianic kingdom. Jews have
not believed Jesus to be the Messiah,
while Christians have. Every one of
the Jewish prophets foretold the COM
ing of the Messiah, however; and
every one foretold that the setting up
of his kingdom would mark the be-
ginning of the restoration of man and
all the things that he had lost (Aets
3:19-24) If the Bible is to be believ-
ed, then the restoration of man to hui
man perfection is the great objective
of the divine plan toward man. I'm
less God intends to give the human
race an opportunity for restoration.
then all the promises set forth in the
Bible are meaningless and must fail
But we know that they cannot fail
With one accord all the sacred
writer's CT the New Testament hold
out that the death of Jesus was for
the purpose OF delivering man from
the condition OF death. Jesus. by the
grace of God. tasted death for every
man. (Hebrews 2:9) There is one
God, and one mediator between God
and men. the man Christ Jesus, who
gave himself ransom for all, TO be
testified in due time q Timothy
1855. 81 He is the satisfaction for our
sins; and not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the who'd world Il
John 2:2) The very foundation of the
Christian religion is lased upon the