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GODS GLORY IN THE HEAVENS

OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM

HE reverence of Jehovah is the beginning of

wisdom. Only the foolish say in their heart,
There is no God. Day into day uttereth speech, and
night unto night showeth knowledge. The heavens
declare the glory of God.Psalms 3:10; 14:1; 19:1, 2.
An appreciation of the infinite Power of the Creator
and of our own littleness should make us teachable. The
study of Creation is the Key of Knowledge. Using this
Key we begin to realize that the only worthy ambition is to
co-operate with our Creators beneficent designs
respecting His Creation.
The planets of our System compared with our Sun are
as nothing. Imagine the Suns diameter that of a large
flour barrel: Jupiter would compare as a small orange,
Earth and Venus as peas, and Mercury and Mars as
raspberry seeds.
The Sun is three hundred thousand times the size of
our Earth. A train at thirty miles an hour could go around
the Earth in one month, but three hundred and forty years
would be required for it to travel the circumference of the
Sun.
Our day and night are the result of the Earths
rotation on its own axis, while its motion around the Sun
marks our year. Planets nearer the Sun have shorter orbits,
and hence, shorter years, while remote ones have longer
years. A year on the planet Mercury would equal three of
our months. On Neptune, farthest off, a year equals 164 of
Earths years.
Yet our Sun is only one of the fixed stars, of which
the most up-to-date astronomical methods estimate there
are one hundred and twenty-five millions. Around each of
these .fixed stars undoubtedly revolves a planetary System
like our own. Thus reckoned, there are one thousand
million worlds. Even this is not the limit. If we should
stand upon the farthest and dimmest star, we should no
doubt from there see as many more beyond. We are
appalled at the greatness of the Universe.
The zodiacal signs illustrate various sections of the
heavens, visible at different seasons.

SIGNS OF ZODIAC

RELATIVE SIZE OF SUN AND PLANETS

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THE FIRST DAY OR EPOCH

RINGS IN FORMATION

HE Genesis account tells nothing about the formation

of the Earth itself. It says, In the beginning the Earth
waswithout form and voidshapeless, empty. There
were neither mountains nor valleys, trees nor shrubs,
rivers nor oceans, but the Earth was. How long before that
it had been created, is not stated. The account of the Days
of Creation given in Genesis relates not to the construction
of our globe, but to the ordering of it for human habitation.
There are various theories regarding its formation.
We follow the one most closely harmonizing with the
Bible. It is called the Vailian theory. It assumes that
Saturns rings and Jupiters belts illustrate Earths
development as a planet.
The Earth was once molten, as indicated by the
igneous rocks of the Azoic period: so called by scientists,
but not discussed in the Bible. When the Earth was
molten, its water and minerals were thrown off a great
distance in gaseous form. As these cooled and took shape,
they constituted great rings at a distance from the Earth.
Gradually the motion of the rings became different
from that of the Earth in proportion to the distance from
the center of gravity. These rings of water and mineral
gradually approaching the Earth would be kept off by
centrifugal force, particularly strong at the equator. The
brooding of Holy Energy developed a light, probably
resembling the Aurora Borealisnot sunlight. The Sun
did not appear until the Fourth Day.
Let there be light! and there was light. Thus,
briefly, is summed up the result of the 7,000 years, styled
the First Day. Not that Gods Word would not have been
sufficient for any miracle, but because He prefers to work
out His glorious designs along natural lines.Genesis 1:3.
There are scientists who claim that the Earth still has
one ring about it, an electrical ring which, falling, will in a
few years destroy fermentation, microbes and parasites,
and greatly assist plant and animal life.

RINGS FURTHER DEVELOPED

RINGS MORE FULLY DEVELOPED

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THE SECOND DAY OR EPOCH

LET THERE BE LIGHT

HE expressions evening and morning and day

cannot be understood to signify twenty-four-hour days,
for neither Sun nor Moon was visible until the Fourth Day.
The Earth was swathed in impenetrable darkness.
The word day applies to any period, or Epoch, as
for instance, the Day of temptation in the wilderness
forty years. (Psalm 95:8.) Note again, that we read of the
Day of Christ, evidently referring to the thousand-year
Day in which Messiah is to be King over all the Earth.
(Isaiah 2:11.) In the common affairs of life we use the
word day similarly, when referring to Caesars day,
Napoleons day, etc.
We follow the theory that each of the Seven Days of
the Creative Week was a period of seven thousand years.
This, seven times seven thousand, equals forty-nine
thousand (7x7,000=49,000) years, ushering in a grand
Jubilee Epoch.
As one after another the encircling rings of water and
minerals approached the Earth they would spread out like
a great canopy, but would not be permitted to fall upon the
Earth because of the circumambient air, referred to in
Scripture as a firmament. Saturns rings have not yet
fallen.
God made the firmament in the second, or Palaeozoic
Day, and separated the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament. (Genesis 1:7). The strongly mineralized waters
above the Earth, held off by the firmament and
centrifugal force, greatest at the equator, gradually
concentrated at the two poles, where later they broke and
then reached the Earth, forming layer after layer of
mineralized earth deposited by the water which rushed
from both poles toward the equator.Genesis 7:11, 18.
These rings, or belts, of water and minerals followed
each other as great deluges upon the Earthperhaps
thousands of years apart. The Deluge of Noahs day was
the last, of pure water only, heavier minerals being
attracted first. Hence minerals are generally under several
layers of shale and soil.

SATURN AND EARTH SIZE COMPARED

THE FIRMAMENT ESTABLISHED

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THE THIRD DAY OR EPOCH

LAND APPEARS

ND God said, Let the waters under the heaven be

gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land of the Earth appear; and it was so. And God called
the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called He seas. And the evening and the morning were the
Third Day.
The beautiful simplicity of this statement might
mislead us into thinking that the gathering together of the
oceans and the erection of mountains were works of
magic. While Divine operations are all great and
wonderful, they are usually accomplished by reasonable
methods, called the course of Nature. And Natures
course must be marked out by Natures God.
The ring theory of Cosmogony is that several rings
had precipitated themselves upon the Earth during this
Third Epoch-Day. These, according to the Divine
intention, so increased the pressure on the crust of the
Earth as to cause it to buckle or wrinkle. These
depressions became ocean beds, and the upheavals became
mountain ranges. Thus was the work of the Third Day
accomplished. The waters were gathered into seas and
oceans, the dry land was upheaved and began gradually to
drain off in preparation for vegetation. This draining must
have required a long time.Genesis 1:9, 10.
We need not assume that all the continents as we now
know them were thrown up on the Third Epoch-Day. In all
probability the American continent was thrown up much
later than were Europe, Asia and Africa. Earthquake
disturbances in our day have changed the surface of the
land. They give us a reasonable conception of how the
Divine command was executed on the Third Day,
preparatory to Earths vegetation.
Appropriately we next read: And the Earth brought
forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the
tree yielding fruit. That is to say, vegetation began on the
Third, or Carboniferous Day, though it did not reach its
perfection until after the light of the Sun penetrated. There
are grasses and other vegetation which prosper best in
darksome shades.

VEGETATION BEGAN

VEGATATION FLOURISHED

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THE FOURTH DAY OR EPOCH

THE LESSER LIGHT

ND God made two great lights, the greater light to

rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.
It is not necessary to suppose that the Sun and the
Moon were created after our Earth. Instead there is a much
more reasonable way of viewing the matter. The Sun, the
Moon and the Stars were created long before, but had
never, up to this time, cast their light upon the Earth
because of the impenetrable veil which canopied it.
The appearance of the Sun and the Moon on the
Fourth Day implies that another ring broke at that time
and precipitated its great mass of water and mineral upon
the Earth. Great gullies were washed between the
mountains.
The atmosphere, heavily charged with carbon, was
very favorable to the development of plant life.
It is supposed that the Earth still had considerable
heat in its crust, that oceans were warm and highly
carboniferous, and that the air was surcharged with carbon
to the extent that no breathing animal could have existed.
But those very conditions were extremely favorable to
gigantic growths of vegetation.
This giant vegetation presumably passed into a
condition resembling that of the peat-beds of our day.
These beds of Incipient coal afterwards came under great
pressure, as one after another the rings of Earth came
down in deluges, burying vegetation under slimy deposits.
Our coal-fields are the result.
We are not to assume that the Sun and the Moon
shone on the earth then as now. But they were discernible
even through heavy banks of fog and carbon-laden
atmosphere. The influences of the Sun and the Moon were
necessary to prepare for higher forms of plant and animal
life.
We may as properly lay stress on the word rule as on
the word.made in this text. God caused the Sun to rule the
day and the Moon to rule the night. Besides, symbolically,
it is claimed that the Moon represents the Law Covenant
rule, and the Sun the New Covenant rule.

FORESTS OF COAL PERIOD

SUBMERGING FORESTS OF COAL PERIOD

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THE FIFTH DAY OR EPOCH

STEGOSAURUS LARGE AS AN ELEPHANT

HE carboniferous qualities of the water and the

atmosphere having been absorbed into the cretaceous
organisms of the sea, which formed beds of limestone, and
into the rank vegetation which went to form the coal beds,
the atmosphere of Earth began robe pure enough to permit
life in breathing animals. To this period, therefore, belong
the amphibious developments of animal life, such as the
crocodile and other animals which can live either on, land
or in the water. Birds belong to this period, and in the
latter part of it appeared the great Mammoth and the
Sloth.
The conflict between Evolution and the Bible has
been sharp. Nevertheless, unnecessary friction has been
generated.
Only in respect to man does the Bible declare a
special, direct creation of God. The statements of Genesis
in respect to the lower creatures rather favor something
along the lines of specialized Evolution. God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that
hath life, and fowl that may fly above the Earth. (Genesis
2:20, 21.) This is exactly in harmony with our scientific
findings that the beginning of life came from the waters,
and later extended to the birds, and later to land animals.
The Darwinian theory has disappointed those who
swallowed it without a sufficiency of demonstration as to
its truth. (1 Timothy 6:2.0.) Recent demonstrations show
that every mixture of species and kind, even where partly
successful, means a reversion to the original standards
within the third or fourth generation in plants, flowers,
fruits and in animals.
The correct thought would seem to be that under
Divine supervision various orders of creation were brought
to a state of development and a fixity of species, not to be
turned aside nor thereafter altered. Not one suggestion is
offered respecting human evolution from a lower creature;
but quite the contrary. The Bible furnishes merely a basis
for faith, that the man of God may be thoroughly
equipped.2 Timothy 3:17.

PREHISTORIC ZOO

DIPLODOCUS EIGHTY-FOUR FT.

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THE SIXTH DAY OR EPOCH

THE ANIMAL CREATION

S the carbon-laden atmosphere became more

pure,vegetation became less rank. The animals
changed correspondingly. The heavy-boned Sloth and
Mammoth gave place to less bony varieties of animals,
common today.
The specialization in the case of mans creation is
shown in his vast superiority over the lower animals. The
first man, Adam, was an image of his Creator, the highest
type of fleshly or animal being. That image of his Creator
consisted in his moral and intellectual likeness. It is
difficult to judge from present human conditions all that is
meant by Gods image, because we have no sample of
perfect humanity for comparison. All have sinned and
come short of the glory of God in which Adam was
created. (Psalm 8:5) Sin and Death have reigned and the
Godlikeness has been lost. All need Restitution.
It was toward the close of the Sixth Day, or
approximately forty-two thousand years from the time of
beginning the ordering of Earth, that God created Man.
The image of God from this standpoint would mean a
human being thoroughly in tune with the Infinite One, one
that would have no unrighteousness nor iniquity in him.
Adams transgression was not the result of ignorance, nor
of pure wilfulness. It was the result of temptation, which
his limited knowledge accentuated. His responsibility was
for the knowledge he He knew that he was disobeying
God.
When thinking of man in the image of God, we
instinctively look back to The Man Christ Jesus, holy,
harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners, and like
the first Adam, whose penalty He came into the world to
meet.1 Cor. 15:22.
After Our likeness let him have dominion. Adams
dominion over the lower animals was like Gods dominion
over the Universe. Angels, although in Gods image, do
not have a Godlike dominion over creatures of a lower
order. Mans dominion, overthrown by sin, is to be
restored by Messiahs Kingdom.Acts 3:19-21.

IDEAL LIKENESS OF ADAM

MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL

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THE SEVENTH DAY OR EPOCH

N this presentation, we are following a line of thought

which seems to be growing in acceptance among Bible
students. We are living in the Seventh Creative Epoch, or
Daythat began where the Sixth Day closed, after God
had created Adam in His own image and likeness.
Genesis 1:26, 27.
God there rested from His workfrom creating. He
foreknew the permission of Sin and its dire effects upon
humanity. He foreknew the steps He would take in
providing ultimately a Redeemer for the race, and that the
Redeemer would select a little company of believers,
figuratively styled the Bride of Christ. To this Redeemer
and His Bride, God intended to give the dominion, control
of Earth. God purposed that Messiahs Kingdom of
Righteousness should eventually uplift the willing and
obedient from Sin and Death conditions.
God rested from His work of creating in that He did
not actively employ His Power to overthrow Sin and uplift
mankind. God rested the matter in the hands of the
Redeemer, Jesus, to be accomplished through His sacrifice
for sins and His glorious Reign for the release of mankind
from Sin and Death. The Church, Gods new creation of
this rest period, is Heavenly, not earthly.2 Corinthians
5:17; Hebrews 3:1; 4:1-4.
It is claimed that, according to the Bible chronology,
six thousand years from Adam have already passed. If so,
the thousand years of Messiahs Reign, which is to close
the great Seventh Epoch-Day, is near at hand.
According to this beautiful theory, the work of
Messiah in His thousand-year Reign soon to begin will
complete the Creation. Not only will the race be brought to
human perfection, but incidentally man will have obtained
the needed experience in respect to good and evil.
Meantime, also, the Earth will be gradually coming to a
state of perfectionParadise restored world-wide. Both
human perfection and the perfection of the Earth were
fittingly represented in Eden, when Adam was in his
Makers imagea King.

EARTHS SEVEN CREATIVE DAYS

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MOTHER EVE CREATED

ADAM AND EVE IN EDEN

S the Creation of Adam was at the close of the Sixth

Day, the Creation of Mother Eve is indicated as
having been accomplished in the beginning of the Seventh
Day. However we view the matter, the first pair were
created approximately in the beginning of the Seventh Day
or Epoch, which is now nearly completed. Mother Eve was
merely a portion of Adam separated from him for a special
purposefor the propagation of a race. Adam possessed
originally in his own person the qualities masculine and
feminine which subsequently were divided between him
and his wife, when she was taken from his side.Genesis
2:21-23; 1 Corinthians 11:8.
Adam for a time was alone in Eden, finding no
congenial companionship in the beasts and the birds.
Mother Eve was his mate, bone of his bone and flesh of
his flesh. Their very difference of quality and disposition
made them the more companionable to each other, because
each found in the other the desired complement. They
twain were one; neither one was complete without the
other. The feminine qualities of Adams perfection he still
possessedin Mother Eve.
Adam was the father of the race and failed to give it
life. Jesus is to become its second father, the Second
Adam, through whom everlasting life may be attained.1
Cor. 15:21.
Eve was associated with Adam in the sin and
disobedience which brought the penalty. So the Elect
Church, the Bride of Christ, when completed, glorified,
will be His Joint-Heir in His Kingdom, and His associate
in the regeneration of the world during His Messianic
Reign.Romans 8:17; Matthew 19:28.
Another suggestion has been offered: Jesus declared
that those who attain to that resurrection will neither
marry nor be .given in marriage. As Adam originally
possessed all the qual-l ties of character, masculine and
feminine, so humanity, when fully restored to the image
and likeness of God, will re-attain perfection of
individuality. Sex divisions will then be no more Earth
will be filled with sufficient population.Luke 20:35, 36.

A GLIMPSE OF EDEN

THE FIRST FAMILY

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MOTHER EVE BEGUILED

OBESESSED SERPENT, SATANS TOOL

HE New Testament bears out the story of Genesis of

Mother Eves deception, and that Father Adam
yielded to disobedience through her influence. St. Paul
declares that Adam was not deceived, and that he
therefore had the greater responsibility. The Scriptures
everywhere portray that it is through Adams disobedience
that the condemnation passed upon his entire race. He was
its responsible bead. By one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all
men.Romans 5:12.
The Bible account tells of Mother Eves thirst for
knowledge, and of Satans taking advantage of this,
beguiling her into disobedience. We need not suppose that
the serpent spoke audibly; rather, as we say, Actions
speak louder than words. It is probable that the serpent
spoke in this manner.
God had authorized our first parents to freely eat of
all the fruits of Paradise except of the species called The
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It was
forbidden for a time as a test of their loyalty. The eating of
the fruit of this tree, they were forewarned, would bring
upon them the cursethe Death Sentence. The serpent ate
of various fruits, and seemed especially fond of the
forbidden fruit. Observation proved that the fruit did not
kill the serpent, and the inference drawn by Mother Eve
was that God had forbidden the use of the very best tree in
Eden. Her conclusion was that God had a selfish motive in
forbidding the use of that fruit; that He feared His
creatures would become as wise as Himself.
Mother Eve did not broach these suspicions to her
husband. She would eat, acquire the knowledge God was
withholding, and then assist Adam to it.Genesis 3:6.
Adam realized the seriousness of Eves disobedience.
He thought of the long days before he had her
companionship. Now, he would be lonely again. In
desperation Adam determined to join Eve in the Sin and
its penalty. Adams death was a slow suicide! His dying
lasted 930 years.

TEMPTATION TO DISOBEDIENCE

THORNS AND THISTLES

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EXPULSION FROM EDEN

DANTES INFERNO FROZEN SECTION

HE Word of God must stand, whether it be tile word

promising Eternal Life or the sentence of Death.
There is no variableness with Him, neither shadow of
turning. The curse, the Death Sentence, foretold by the
Lord, was executed, but not instantly. Adam was not
stricken lifeless with a thunderbolt. From the very
beginning God foreknew all, and had planned the
redemption of Adam, Eve and their children. To this end
Jesus came and died, the Just for the unjust. As a result
ultimately the curse of death will be removed. There shall
be no more curseno more dying, sighing, or crying, nor
any more pain.Revelation 22:3; 21:4, 5.
All of us were told, and many of us believed fully,
that the penalty of Father Adams disobedience was
eternal torture, in which all of his posterity must share,
except a fewthe saintly, the Elect. Told that this was the
teaching of the Bible, we accepted without proof.
Thessalonians 5:21.
Now Christian people examine their Bibles more
carefully. They find that the curse, or penalty for sin, is a
totally different one. The wages of sin is death. (Romans
6:23). The soul that sinneth it shall die. This penalty of
death has rested against Adam and his family for six
thousand years. It has brought sorrow, sighing, pain and
trouble; it has blighted our lives mentally, morally and
physically.Romans 5:12.
It is this curse of death that was pronounced against
Father Adam, according to the Genesis account, and also
according to the New Testament. Accursed is the earth
for thy sake; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth unto
thee. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until
thou return unto the ground from whence thou wast taken,
for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. It is from
this curse that Jesus redeemed us by dying, the Just for the
unjust. It is from this death-curse that Messiah rescues all
by a resurrection from the dead. By man came death, by
man also the resurrection of the dead.1 Corinthians
15:21.

ADAM AND EVE NOW CREEDAL THEOLOGY

SATANS MONUMENTAL LIE

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PRIDE JEALOUSY ANGER MURDER

BURNING JEWS SINS INSANITY

O children were born to Adam and Eve in Eden. They

labored with sweat of face for quite a time before
their first-born came. Doubtless he was birth-marked with
a jealous, unhappy disposition. Toil conduced to fretfulness in those who knew a happier lot in Eden. Faultfinding with each other, resentment against the Creator,
discontent with their lot, probably marked their
offspringCain. The world has since been under a reign
of Sin and Death.
Daughters also were born to them, and later another
son, Abel, of a very different disposition from their firstborn. The experience of life may have mellowed their
hearts. They remembered an intimation. of hope connected
with their sentence; namely, that the Seed of the woman
should bruise the serpents head. Abels disposition
indicates that he had a contrite heart, and desired to please
God. If parents realized to what extent mental conditions
affect their offspring, all would strive to bestow favorable
birth-traits on their children.
Years passed. Cain and Abel were inspired by the
promise respecting the Seed of the woman, and the hope
for recovery by Divine favor. They approached the Lord
with offerings to receive a blessing. Abels sacrifice of
animal life God accepted, because it typified the necessity
for Jesus death as the basis for forgiveness of sin. Gods
rejection of Cains offering teaches that without shedding
of blood there can be no remission of sins. Cain should
have procured an animal for acceptable sacrifice, in
obedience to the Divine will. Instead, he allowed anger,
malice, hatred, and strife to burn in his heart, and became
a murderer.Genesis 4:5-8.
St. Paul says that Abels blood cried to God for
justice against Cain. But Jesus blood cried to God for
mercy on the sinner. Every injustice cries to God for
justice. By a special covenant, Jesus and His Elect Church
lay down their lives sacrificially for Adam and his race.
(Romans 12:1.) The better sacrifices completed,
Restitution follows.

REDEMPTION FROM THE CURSE

EFFECTS OF SINS REIGN

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ABEL THE FIRST MARTYR

DEATH LEADS ALL TO SHEOL

HE word martyr signifies witness and is particularly

used in reference to those who witness to the Lords
cause faithfully, at the cost of suffering or death. Abel has
the distinction of being Gods first martyr. It is very
remarkable that nearly all the martyrs have suffered at the
hands of brethren. Thus Jesus and the Apostles received
their persecution chiefly from Jewish brethren, sharers of
the same blessed hopes and promises. (John 16:2, 3.) How
strange that it should be thus!
Similarly, during this Gospel Age, Christians have
suffered martyrdom at the hands of fellow Christians.
Thus the Scriptures foretold, saying, Your brethren that
bated you and that cast you out, said, The Lord be
glorified. But He shall appear to your joy, and they shall
be ashamed. Every martyr, in proportion to his
faithfulness, will ultimately receive a crown of life, while
all persecutors will ultimately be ashamed.
The reign of Sin and Death continued for four
thousand years before God sent His Son into the world to
be its Redeemer and Deliverer. The Redeemer will set it
free from bondage to Sin and Death, but He could not do
so unless first He paid the death penaltydying, the Just
for the unjust. During those four thousand years vague
promises were given from time to time. But no start was
made to fulfil them until Jesus appeared. Even those vague
promises were confined to the Jewish nation. Outside
nations, the Gentiles, received no promises of relationship
to God. They were condemned sinners, and no hopes were
held out to them. As St. Paul says, they were without
hope being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,
and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world.Ephesians 2:12.
For six thousand years, according to St. Paul, we have
had a reign of Sin and Death. Christians are still praying
for the blessed Day of Messiah, for Satans binding. Then
blessings will displace sin, sorrow and death.Revelation
21:4.

MISCONCEPTION OF GOD COPIED

SAVONAROLA BURNT BY SATANS DUPES

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SORROW AND MOURNING BEGUN

THE DOCTOR BATTLING THE CURSE

HE first death in Adams family must have cast a

great shadow. The hope centered in the Divine
promise that the Seed of the woman should bruise the
serpents head was temporarily snuffed out. Shortly after,
Seth was born. His name indicates that his parents hoped
that he would be the man promised of the Lordnot
seeing that the promised One would be the Messiah, who
would come long afterward, and for whose work the world
still waits.
Although we speak of this as the first death, we must
not forget that from the Divine standpoint Adam and his
race were already dead, in that none can regain everlasting
life except through the Redeemers work of SinAtonement.
At present the population of the world consists of
sixteen hundred millions, ninety thousand dying every day.
It is undoubtedly fortunate for our fallen race that we
cannot appreciate deeply the sorrows and difficulties of
others. Each individual, each family, has about as large a
share of sorrow as it can properly bear. Indeed, the poet,
realizing the folly of unrestrained grief, has well sung,

ADAM ASND EVE FIND ABELS BODY

Go bury thy sorrow,

The world has its Share,
Go bury it deeply,
Go hide it with care.
Hope, joy and peace come to us through the Divine
promise that the time is coming when there shall be no
more sorrow or dying, no more sin or pain. For Messiahs
Kingdom shall conquer Sin and Death and cause Gods
will to be done on Earth as fully as it is now done in
Heaven.Matthew 6:9, 10.
Our experiences with Sin and its penalty should make
us all sympathetic. We should do nothing to add to the
sorrow of others, but everything to relieve. The words of
Jesus touch this chord of sympathy, Come unto Me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
There is no rest for the weary of heart except in union with
Christ.

MOURNING FOR THE CURSE-BEARER

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SONS OF GOD, DAUGHTERS OF MEN

ONG before mans creation, angels were created, yet

sin was unknown until Adams day. The beginning of
sin, according to the Bible, was in the Garden of Eden.
Lucifer, an angel of very high rank, had long cherished in
his heart ambitious designs. If opportunity ever offered he
would show God and the angels his grand schemes. His
thought is expressed by the Prophet: I would ascend
above the stars [angels], I would be as the Most High
an Emperor. When Lucifer beheld the first human pair, he
was tempted to try his experiment. They were a new order
of beings in Gods moral image. They had procreative
powers, which no angel possessed. Their offspring filling
the Earth would be his subjects, through whom he would
work out his ambitious schemes. Thus Lucifer became
SatanGods opponent.Isaiah 14:12-14.
All the holy angels were bewildered. His was the first
rebellion against the Almightys laws. No punishment
followed, and the angels queried whether of not God was
able to enforce His laws. Centuries rolled on; the human
family was wasting; Gods penalty, Dying, thou shalt
die, was gradually being enforced. Satan realized that his
kingdom of dying subjects would make but a poor showing
ever. He conceived a plan to outwit God and develop a
new order of beingshybridized humans, infused with
superior vitality.
The angels possessed a God-given power of
materialization. They could appear in human bodies
resembling those of men. The Bible attests this. (Genesis
18.) The angels were permitted contact with the fallen
race to prove whether they could bring mankind back to
God.Hebrews 2:5.
The record of Genesis 6:2-5 is that the sons of God
saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took
unto themselves wives of all they preferred. Thus the
angels became the fathers of a new race, distinct from
Adams. The record is that these were giants, physically
and intellectually men of renown, who filled the Earth
with violence.

LUCIFER PRINCE OF DEMONS

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WHILE THE ARK WAS PREPARING

NOAH PREACHING REPENTANCE

HE disloyal course of the angels apparently continued

for centuries without any outward manifestation of
Gods ability to Check them. Thus all the holy angels were
tested, and all who chose were disobedient in the days of
Noah.Peter 3:20.
Noahs family was singled out as exceptional, in the
statement, Now Noah was perfect in his generation
implying that few or no others were perfectly generated
of pure Adamic stock. (Genesis 6:9.) Noahs family,
therefore, included all the uncontaminatedonly eight
persons. They, by Divine command, built the Ark, and
thus witnessed to the world the Divine intention
respecting a Deluge.
Noahs message respecting a Divine judgment by a
Deluge seemed ridiculous. Until the Deluge there was no
rain. The last of the great rings which then flooded the
Earth was of pure water. For centuries it was spread out
over the firmament. The whole Earth was a great
hothouse. There were practically no changes of seasons,
nor storms, because the great water canopy preserved it in
perpetual Summer. Of that period we read: For as yet
there was no rain on the Earth. (Genesis 2:5). Noah, the
preacher of righteousness, was mocked and considered a
fool because of his faith in Gods Word, just as others of
the Lords people at various times have been mocked by
those who lacked faith, and are yet mocked.
Finally, the Deluge came. The fountains of the great
deep [canopy] were broken up. The breaking of the
canopy precipitated millions of tons of water at both poles,
forming two great tidal waves, covering the Earth for a
great depth, deepening the ocean beds, and throwing up
additional mountains.
The cradle of the world is supposed to have been in
Armenia. Geology tells us that the land of that vicinity was
at one time a quiet settling pond, as evidenced by heavy
alluvial deposits. In this vicinity the Ark floated, and by
Divine protection landed on Mt. Ararat its precious freight
for the worlds new start.

BUILDING THE ARK

ANIMALS ENTERING THE ARK

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NEPHILIM DESTROYED

GIANTS SONS OF THE ANGELS

HE account of the fall of the angels from being sons of

God to be demons helps us to understand why God
decreed the Deluge to wipe out all of the human race
except Noah and his family. We perceive that God from
the first intended to deal only with Adam and his family.
The giant sons of the fallen angels (Nephilim) came into
being contrary to the Divine will; hence, properly, no
provision was to be made for them. They never had a right
to life, nor will they have a resurrection. On the other
hand, all of Adams posterity, redeemed by Jesus death,
must be recovered from death, with full opportunity to
secure everlasting life.
After the Deluge, the demon angels dematerialized
re-sumed their spirit conditions. St. Peter and St. Jude
reveal the penalty inflicted upon them. Those angels
which kept not their first estate, but left their own
habitation [spirit condition], God restrained under chains
[restraints] of darkness, unto the Judgment of the Great
Day.2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6.
The liberties of the fallen angelsdemonswere
restrained. They are unable to use deceptions in the
lightunable to materialize as formerly. Note, however,
that the limitation unto implies that when the great Day
of Wrath shall come, these fallen angels will be
permitted to materialize and become potent factors in the
strife. Other Scriptures indicate that these fallen angels
will have much to do with the great time of trouble with
which this Age will close, and in which Messiahs
Kingdom will be inaugurated.
These fallen angels were cast to tartarusour Earths
atmosphere. Satan, a cherub-angel of higher rank, is styled
the Prince of Demons. They are not in some far-off place
stoking fires, but keep as close to humanity as possible.
Not permitted to materialize, they seek to obsess, to
demonize by clairvoyance and clairaudience. Mankind
would properly resent them if their true character were
known. They therefore personate the dead, communicating
through spirit-mediums.

GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED

THE LAST RING FELL THE DELUGE

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THE END OF THAT AGE

THE WATERS PREVAILED

N the Scriptures, the expression End of the World is

frequently used. St. Peter tells us that the world came to
an end in the Deluge. It was not the Earth which came to
an end; merely that order or condition of things which
prevailed prior to the Deluge ceased there. A new world, a
new order of things, was there ushered in. This is in strict
accordance with the proper translation of the Greek. The
common translation unfortunately has deceived many. We
would better read End of the Agenot End of the
World.
Ages may end and be succeeded by other ages, but
the Bible declares that the Earth abideth forever; that
God formed it not in vain; He formed it to be inhabited.
It has never been thoroughly habitable, nor has it ever
been inhabited, in the proper sense of the term. The work
of Messiahs Kingdom will be to make Gods footstool
glorious, and fit for those restored to His favor. His further
work will be to uplift man and restore him to all that was
lost in Eden and redeemed at Calvary. He will destroy
only the incorrigible.
In the new order of things started by Noah and his
family, God allowed humanity to have its way and to work
out its own schemes without Divine interference, except in
extreme cases. He allowed the world to learn lessons,
while He carried out His own great Plan, of which
Redemption is the center, and Messiahs Kingdom the
circumference, for the recovery of mankind from their
fallen estate.Romans 5:12-14.
The development of Gods Plan has been long from
the human standpoint, but not so from the Divine, for we
read: A thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday;
and again, A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
During six of these thousand-year Days, in which He rests
or desists from interfering with the worlds affairs, God
has permitted a reign of Evil, but His arrangements are
complete whereby Messiah, the Redeemer, will fully
restore all the willing and obedient to all that Adam
forfeited.Acts 3:19-22.

THE MOUNTAINS WERE COVERED

THE ARK ON MT. ARARAT

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THE RAINBOW PLEDGE

GLACIAL PERIOD

HEN Noah and his family came out of the Ark, they
acknowledged God by offering to Him a sacrifice,
and God pledged the Rainbow as a sign that He would
never again destroy mankind by a flood of waters. A
rainbow was never seen before that time, for the reason
given in the Bible; there had been no rain. Furthermore,
the Suns rays did not directly strike the Earth, but merely
through the canopy, with much the same effect as that of a
hothouse.
Many changes were brought about by the removal of
the canopyrains, floods, droughts, thunder-storms,
tornadoes, extremes of heat and cold. These things were
impossible under the canopy. Noahs intoxication is
accounted for along these lines. The juice of the grape had
not previously fermented. Hence Noah could not have
known of its intoxicating effect.
With the collapse of the watery envelope, came the
extreme heat of the tropics and the extreme cold of the
polar regions, before the ocean currents modified them.
The change must have been almost instantaneous. We
have proofs of this. In northern Siberia an antelope was
found imbedded in ice. It had green grass in its stomach,
which proved that its death occurred suddenly while it was
feeding. Similarly, a mastodon was found imbedded in ice
with food between its teeth. Thus is demonstrated that the
poles were once as equable as the temperate zone, and that
in a moment came such a change as could be brought
about only by the breaking of the canopy. The great
glaciers and heavy ice of the Arctic regions, formed thus
suddenly, have existed for centuries. The water did not all
congeal into ice, but like a tidal wave carried great
glaciers and boulders across the North American
continent, and Northwestern Europe, as scientists have
clearly traced. They cut through hills with such force that
they have left their mark for all time. Equatorial currents,
the Gulf Stream and the Japan Stream have since thawed
out much of the polar ice.

THE GLACIAL PERIOD GENERAL VIEW

MASTODON IMBEDDED IN ICE

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DEMIGODS OF GREECE AND EGYPT

ONG have the learned wondered what foundation

Grecian Mythology might have had. Now, taking heed
to the sure Word of God, we percelve that the angels who
materialized before the Flood were the gods of Mythology,
while their offspring, the giants, were the demigods. The
suggestion may well start a flood of reflection in thinking
minds.
Egyptologists have been astonished by their findings
in the tombs of the Pharaohs. In some of these, historic
tablets have been found, tracing the ancestry of the
Pharaohs apparently back to Creationthe first Pharaoh
Adam. But these tablets show so many more generations
than the Bible record that Egyptologists lose all faith in
the Genesis account. They become Higher Critics,
discount the Bible record and pin their faith to the
Egyptian tablets. They confess, however, that these tablets
vary, and more or less contradict each other. Concededly,
the most accurate is THE ABYDOS TABLET, found in
the sepulchre of Seti I.probably the Pharaoh who made
Joseph his Prime Minister and who is supposed to have
died about 120 years before Moses was born,
The chief fault found with this Tablet is that it is not
so lengthy as some of the others. Nevertheless, Pharaoh,
Seti I., preserved this Tablet for us with great care. He
sank a shaft sixty feet deep through solid rock. At that
level his masons cut out the stone staircase on which THE
ABYDOS TABLET is portrayed. An exact copy of it is to
be found in the British Museum. At considerable expense
and with difficulty we have secured the photograph of it,
which we here present. Our object is to show that this best
of Egyptian records fully corroborates the Genesis account.
This list of Pharaohs is shorter than the others
because it omits the names of gods and demigods. It is the
complete Egyptian record of the purely human line of
rulers back to Adam. Furthermore, these omissions occur
at the appropriate placeat the time of the Deluge.
THE ABYDOS TABLET SHOWING ADAM MENA AS
PHARAOH I. AND EVE ISHA HIS WIFE

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ADAM (MENA) WAS PHARAOH I.

HE ABYDOS TABLET fully agrees with Genesis and

is often corroborated by the Greek and Egyptian
historians, Herodotus and Manetho. It shows Adam as the
first Pharaoh, and Noah the twentieth, while the
intermediate eighteen correspond with Genesis with
remarkable accuracy. Menas wife was SheshHebrew,
Ishawoman. Her first son was Pharaoh II.Greek, TetaKhentguilty one; Hebrew, Kanighi; Latin, Athos;
English, Cain. The tablet for Abel represents him as the
non-resistant one.
THE ABYDOS TABLET shows the same order as
Moses (Genesis 4-6), giving first the line of Cain down to
Jabal, who was Kakan. At that time, evidently, the gods
and demigods began to fill the Earth with violence. Setis
list omits the names of these. All demigods were destroyed
in the Deluge. Noah is next in order with a regal title. But
since he was not of Cains family, THE ABYDOS
TABLET there goes back, mentions Abel and Seth, and
Seths line just as given in Genesis (untitled). down to
Noah. These all, as Pharaohs, have their royal ovals, but
no supertitle. After Noah (Nofru), Pharaoh XX, the line
runs through his son Ham (Chamu Chufu). Appropriately
Noahs other sons are ignored; for Shem and Japheth went
to Asia and Europe, while only Ham went to Egypt.
Thus wonderfully is the Bible being vindicated by the
very inscriptions once supposed to contradict it.
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians. Besides this, he was Jehovahs Prophet, and
so certified by Jesus. Although Moses lived two thousand
years after Adam, history connected up very close to his
time, see diagram.
Methuselah
Isaac Amram

Adam
Shem
Levi Moses
Lines drawn to scale, showing overlapping of Adams
930 years, Methuselahs 969, Shems 600, Isaacs 180,
Levis 137, Amrams 137 and Moses 120. The
overlapping periods were respectively 243 years, 68 years,
50 years, 40 years, 58 years and 31 years.

SPHINX SUPPOSED NEWER TOMB OF ADAM, MENA I.

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THE TOWER OF BABEL

BUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL

EARS after the Deluge, the world began to be

populous. The narrative handed down by Noah and
his sons was more or less forgotten, and the bow of
promise lost much of its significance. Losing confidence in
God, the people began the construction of the Tower of
Babel, which was to save them in spite of God from any
flood of waters of the future. Alas, how short-sighted, like
others who possess much worldly wisdom! The Scriptures
deprecate such lack of faith among Christians, and
attempts to protect themselves and their earthly interests,
leaving God and His Plan out of their calculations. Some
today ignore God after this manner, saying, Trust not in
the Lord for the things promised. If you wait for God to do
for you, nothing will ever be done. In other words, we are
living in a day when faith in the Divine will and in the
Divine Plan and promises seems to be on the wane.
God settled the matter by confounding the language
and scattering the people so that they could not co-operate
in fur- ther foolish undertakings. The Bible refers to this,
saying, He hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek
the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find
Him.
The diversity of languages is one of the most
remarkable things in the worldan effectual barrier to
prevent mankind from combining for the accomplishment
of their own purposes, selfish or sinful. It has delayed the
great Day of Wrath.
Now the language barriers are breaking down, and we
find the tendency of humanity to re-unite. Unions and
Trusts are being built by the Rich and the Pooreach for
self-protection. The rule of kings and princes is threatened
by the growth of common language and intelligence in the
masses. Had these barriers been removed two thousand
years ago, similar results would have come too soon
according to the Divine purpose which is shaping Earths
affairs in preparation for Messiahs Kingdom, which will
bless the entire human family.

HAM, JAPHETH, SHEM TYPES

MAP OF RACE DIVISIONS

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ABRAHAM GODS FRIEND

BRAHAM became the friend of God by his

manifestation of faith, when in response to Gods
invitation he left his own country and wandered in
Canaan. By this obedience he became heir of the Promise,
In thee and in thy Seed shall all the families of the Earth
be blessed. St. Paul explains (Galatians 4:23, 24) that
Abrahams wife represented this Covenant, or Promise.
Sarahs barrenness corresponded to the long-deferred
coming of Christ in fulfilment of the Promise. Isaac
typified Messiah, the Heir of the Promise. Isaacs bride,
Rebecca, typified the Elect Church, the Bride of Christ
and His joint-heir in the Promise.
St. Paul says that Hagar typified the Law Covenant
made with Israel at Mr. Sinai, and that the nation of Israel
was typified in Ishmael. (Galatians 4:25.) As Hagar and
Ishmael were cast off when Isaac was born, and had
almost perished, so the Jewish people have been cast off
from Divine favor for eighteen centuries, and today are
nearly famished. As the angel of God pointed to the
fountain of water, and Ishmael was revived so Gods
message now is pointing the Jews to a spring of water;
their Zionistic hopes are reviving. The sacrifice of Isaac
typified the sacrifice of Christ necessary in order for Him
to become the Spiritual Seed of Abraham with power to
bless the world. The servant sent to call Rebecca, the bride
of Isaac is beautifully explained to represent the work of
the Holy Spirit in calling the Church to become the Bride
of Christ and His associate in the great work of blessing
Israel and all the families of the Earth.Acts 3:19-26.
Rebeccas return with Eliezer represents the Churchs
journey during this Gospel Age to meet Christ, the
Bridegroom who will receive her at His Second Advent.
Abraham typified Jehovah God, through whose promise
the blessing of all the families of Earth will come. This
promise has been the hope of Israel for thirty-five
centuries.Galatians 3:29.

ABRAHAM ENTERING CANAAN

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THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM

LOT COVETED WORLDLY PROSPERITY

HE Sodomites possessed a very rich valley and

comparatively avoided that feature of the curse
declaring that bread must be won by sweat of face. These
conditions were conducive to the selfishness and sin which
the Bible charges pride, fulness of bread and
abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand
of the poor and the needy; and they committed
abominations; therefore I took them away as I saw
good.Ezekiel 16:49, 50.
God saw good to make the destruction of the
Sodomites an example of the fate of sinnersdeath, not
everlasting torture, St. Jude says. Jesus declares, Fire
came down from God out of heaven and destroyed them
all.Luke 17:29.
But the Bible teaches that the Sodomites are not
hopelessly destroyedthat Gods mercy through Christ
includes the Sodomites, sinners though they were. Jesus
Himself, as well as the Prophet Ezekiel, declares that at
His Second Coming in His Messianic Kingdom He will
give a trial, or judgment, to the world in general, to all
who do not have an opportunity in the present life. The
Sodomites will then have opportunity to hear of Gods
grace, to accept and rejoice in it.
Jesus declared that in that glorious Epoch the
condition of the Sodomites will be more tolerable than that
of the people to whom He preached at His First Advent.
The reason for this He explains, saying that if the
Sodomites had been granted the same opportunity afforded
the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, they
would have repented in sackcloth and ashes; wherefore, in
the future testing time, it will be more tolerable for them
than for people who heard and rejected the Message.
Matthew 10:15; 11:21-24.
Ezekiels prophecy (16:49-61) is most explicit. It declares
Restitution and blessing for Israel, and incidentally
mentions that the Sodomites will receive favor from God
at the same time-under the New Covenant, under
Messiahs Kingdom. Theres a wideness in Gods mercy,
like the wideness of the sea.

LOT AND DAUGHTERS

ABRAHAM SAW SODOMS DESTRUCTION

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MELCHISEDEC, PRIEST AND KING

THE PYRAMID ISAIAH 19:19

ELCHISEDEC was a priest of God, and at the same

time King of Salem (peace). Abraham
acknowledged him and paid him tithes. God prophetically
declared through the Psalmist, that Messiah would be a
Priest of the Melchisedec order, for ever.Psalm 110:4.
The Jews overlooked this prophecy and thought that
everything of a priestly character in connection with Gods
Plan would be fulfilled through the Aaronic priesthood,
which was merely typical. Their expectancy of the
Messianic Kingdom and glory blinded them to His work
as a sin-atoning Priest.
They saw not that Messiah is to be one of many
members. Jesus is the Head and the Elect Church the Body
of the Melchisedec Priest. Christians are deeply interested
in the Messianic Reign; also in the fact that to become
members of that Royal Priesthood means a participation
with Jesus in the sacrifice of earthly life, as St. Paul
exhorts, in Romans 12:1.
The declaration that Melchisedec was without father
or mother, without beginning of days or end of years, has
puzzled Bible students until recently. The interpretation is
now quite satisfactory and simple: Melchisedec was
without father or mother in the priesthood. He did not
inherit this priesthood. He was without beginning of days
and years in respect to his office, in that no record was
made when his priesthood began, nor any provision made
for a successor. In these respects he typified Messiah.
Hebrews 7:14.
Melchisedec is supposed to have been one of the
Shepherd Kings who invaded Egypt and built the Great
Pyramid, covering twelve acres, known for ages as one of
the Seven Wonders of the worldabout 2170 B.C.
Astronomers tell that its measurements indicate the length
of the year, the weight of the Earth, the distance to the
sun, etc. Its interior passages represent human history
Downward, the course of sin and death; Upward, the Law
Age, the Gospel Age, the Kingdom glory of the Church,
and Human Restitution.

EXTERIOR OF THE PYRAMID

PYRAMIDS INTERIOR PASSAGES

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JOBS ADVERSITY AND RESTITUTION

JOBS ADVERSITY SYMBOLICAL

HE story of Job, Prophet of Uz, a contemporary of

Abraham and Melchisedec, is full of interest to Bible
students. Not only the facts, but their typical significance,
interest us, when we learn that Jobs experiences
represented the fall and rising again of humanity.
Job was wealthy, honored and prosperous. Suddenly
disaster came upon him. A bolt of lightning struck the
house where his sons and daughters were having a
birthday party. They were all killed. Then he lost his
sheep, asses, goats, camels and herds. Under the stress, he
lost his health and broke out with boils from head to foot.
Next he lost his friends, who declared that all this meant
his utter repudiation by God. Finally, his wife turned
against him and said, You are cursed of God; I wish you
would die! Poor Job wished the same and prayed, O that
Thou wouldst hide me in Sheol [the tomb] until Thy wrath
be past; that Thou wouldst appoint me a set time and [in
resurrection] remember me. (Job 14:13.) Messiah will
fulfil this prophecy.
All of this loss of health, strength, friends and wealth
taught Job valuable lessons. Similarly, poor humanity is
learning important lessons of its need of Divine care.
Under Gods providence Job was restored to
prosperity, health, etc. He got back just as many children,
twice as many oxen, sheep, camels and asses. Bible
students tell us that it ultimately will be so with humanity,
according to the Bible; that the curse of sin and death will
be removedthat instead the blessing of God will flow
down upon the human family for a thousand years, giving
back life to all who have gone down into death, and
multiplying the blessings of the Earth more than double.
This lesson is further illustrated in Israels Jubilee Year,
when all debts were canceled and the people returned to.
their original possessions. (Leviticus 25:13.) This typed
the period referred to as the Times of Restitution.Acts
3:19-23.

JOBS RESTITUTION PROPHETIC

ISRAELS JUBILEE TYPED RESTITUTION

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SEEKING A BRIDE FOR ISAAC

SEEKING A BRIDE FOR ISAAC

IBLE students seem well agreed that Isaac represents

Christ. As Abraham gave his son Isaac, in whom
centered the promises, to be sacrificed, so the Heavenly
Father gave His Son, Jesus, to be the Sin-Offering for
Adam and his race, and received Him again from the dead,
as Abraham figuratively received Isaac.Hebrews 11:1719.
Isaacs bride, Rebecca, typified the Church of Christ,
which is to become His Bride in the resurrection, at His
Second Coming. The correspondencies are remarkable. If
Isaac represented Jesus, then Abraham would represent
the Heavenly Father, and Eliezer, the servant, sent to get
the bride, would typify the work of the Holy Spirit, the
Spirit of Truth.
The custom in olden times respecting marriage
differed from the custom of our day. God evidently
arranged that Jewish customs should illustrate spiritual
things. Thus, instead of Isaacs seeking a bride, Abraham
sought a bride for him, sending by Eliezer. Thus the
picture is complete, as Jesus declared, No man can come
unto Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw
himinvite him.John 6:44.
As Rebecca was found with the sheep, watering them,
so those called to be the Bride of Christ are usually found,
not in fellowship with wolves, but with the Lords sheep.
Moreover, Rebecca and the sheep were found at the well,
symbolically representing the desire o the Little Flock
class for the Water of Lifethe well representing the
Bible.
Rebecca was found serving water to the flock,
representing well those whom Jesus would select for His
Bride class. He is seeking, not for those who would lord it
over the sheep, but those who feed, refresh and serve
them.
The blessing upon Rebecca was, Be thou the mother
of thousands of millions. (Genesis 24:60.).To some Bible
students this implies that the Church of Christ will mother
in regeneration the millions of Adams race, as the
glorified Redeemer will be their Everlasting Father.
Isaiah 9:6.

ELIEZERS GIFTS TO REBECCA

ELIEZER AT BETHUELS HOME

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JACOBS LADDER DREAM

ESAU SELLING HIS BIRTHRIGHT

HATEVER uninspired writers have said in

condemnation of Jacob, the inspired writers of the
Bible say nothing in special condemnation, but much in
his praise. His faith was specially commended.
Jacob was the acknowledged heir of the great
Covenant God made with his grandfather Abraham. This
promise was considered so important, and faith in it so
necessary, that God subsequently confirmed it by His oath.
Divine Wisdom indicated beforehand that the blessing
would not come through Ishmael, but through Isaac.
Genesis 21:12.
St. Paul states that this Divine decision was made
before either Jacob or Esau had done anything bearing
upon the choice. God simply foreordained that the blessing
should come through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and later
through Jacobs family, the children of Israel.Romans
9::11, 12.
Esau loved pleasure and sport. Jacob, his twin
brother, born a moment later, loved the Abrahamic
Promise, and counted all earthly possessions as nothing in
comparison to the gaining of that prize. Both men were
hungry one day; Jacob had prepared himself a feast, but
instead of giving one half to his brother, he offered him
the whole of it in exchange for his inheritance in the
Promise made to Abraham. Esau gladly accepted,
esteeming the food more precious than a promise which
seemed likely never to be fulfilled.Genesis 25: 31-34.
Jacobs mother, knowing Esaus lack of character,
concluded that Jacob, having purchased the birthright,
might properly impersonate Esau and obtain the blessing.
She knew that it would mean to him loss of home and risk
of life. Fleeing from home Jacob lay down at night by the
way, and had the dream of a ladder reaching from his
headstone clear up to Heaven, with angels ascending and
descending. The dream represented the fulfilment of the
Abrahamic Covenant, in which Jacob was deeply
interested, the reestablishment of peace and fellowship
between Heaven and Earth.

ISAAC BLESSING JACOB

JACOB SERVING FOR RACHEL

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JOSEPHS COAT IDENTIFIED

JOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BRETHREN

ACOB had become a patriarch, the father of twelve

sons, the younger two of whom were Joseph and
Benjamin. The elder ten kept the flocks. Joseph went to
them as his fathers messenger to learn of their welfare,
and to take them delicacies. His brethren hated him
through jealousy, sold him into slavery in Egypt, and took
his elegant coat of many colors, bedraggled it in the blood
of a kid and the dust and brought it to their father. Jacob
identified it as Josephs; and heart-broken he cried
bitterly, I will mourn for my son Joseph until I join him in
Sheol. (Genesis 37:35.) Sheol is the Hebrew word for
tomb.
This is the first use of the word Sheol in the Bible.
Sheol is the only word translated hell in the Old
Testament, Common Version. All scholars now admit it
really signifies the tomb, the death-state. Jacob did not
think of his beloved son as having gone to a Sheol of
eternal torture, nor did he have the thought of joining him
there.Jacob knew of no such place as Dante and others
describe.
The explanation is simple. In old English literature
the words hell, grave and pit were used
interchangeably, as in the translation of the Old
Testament. Sheol is translated grave and pit more times
than it is translated hell in our Common Version. Its
equivalent in New Testament Greek is Hades, also
signifying the tomb, the grave, as all scholars agree. Jesus
was in Hades, Sheol, but was raised the third day by
Divine Power, from the tomb, the death condition.
The translators of the Revised Version Bible refused
to translate these words, Sheol and Hades, by our English
word Hell, because the gradual change of language has
attached a totally different meaning from what it originally
hadthe grave. See marginal readings of Psalms 55:15;
86:13.
The learned translators, however, could not agree to
render these words grave and tomb, and left them
untranslated. Compare versions and margin of Isaiah 14:9,
11.

HELL OF THE DARK AGES DANTE

THE BIBLE HELL SHEOL HADES

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MY GRAY HAIRS TO SHEOL

JOSEPH HONORED BY PHARAOH

oseph, sold into slavery in Egypt, was under Divine

supervision. His trials and difficulties worked for his
development and faith. God ultimately honored him in
Egypt with a position second only to Pharaoh. In harmony
with his dream, there were seven years of plenty, and then
seven years of drought and famine. Acting under the
guidance of his dream, as the kings agent, Joseph stored
up wheat enough in the first seven years to carry the
people over the famine. Thus Joseph was their savior
life-giver.
Joseph was a type of Jesus who, rejected by His
brethren, the Jewish nation, was exalted by the Heavenly
Father to be next to Himself in glory and power. Joseph
was the life-preserver, bread-giver, to the Egyptians. Jesus
is yet to be the life-preserver of the world of mankind
during His reign, giving the willing and obedient the
Bread of everlasting life.
The famine affected Jacobs family. The ten sons
went to Egypt to buy wheat, and knew not Joseph as
Pharaohs prince. Joseph asked if they were not spies, and
inquired about their family matters. Then he gave them
wheat, telling them that the famine would continue, and
they would need more wheat but that if they came again,
and hoped to receive it, their younger brother Benjamin
must come with them to prove their story. Benjamin was
Josephs full brother.
When the time came to journey to Egypt for more
wheat, Jacob refused to let Benjamin go, until the others
refused to go without him. He then said Take the lad but
if you do not bring him back to me alive, it will mean my
death; it will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
Sheolthe grave.
This is the second occurrence in the Bible of the word
Sheol which really signifies the tomb, but is mistranslated
hell thirty-one times in our Common Version. it is the only
word rendered hell in the Bible for 4,150 years after
Adams fall. Hades is the New Testament equivalent for
Sheol. See St. Peters quotation of Psalm 16:10 in Acts
2:27.

JACOB AND JOSEPH MEET

JACOB BLESSING JOSEPHS SONS

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JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN

JOSEPHS HONOR NEXT TO PHAROAHS

N due time Joseph revealed himself to his brethren.

After speaking sternly to them he made them a feast,
sending them portions from his own table. They were
astonished and fearful, wondering what the kindness
signified. Then, sending away the Egyptian servants,
Joseph made himself known to his brethren, assuring them
of his forgiveness, and that God had caused all of his
trying experiences to work out for his good, and that he
was glad to be the saver of their lives as well as the lives
of the Egyptians, under the Providential guidance which
sent him to Egypt.Genesis 45:4-8.
It is assumed by Bible scholars that if Joseph
typically represented Christ and His Church, exalted to
Kingdom honors, so Josephs brethren would represent the
Jews, and the Egyptians represent the remainder of
mankind. If this be true, it tells us that neither Jews nor
Gentiles have aught to fear from the glorious exaltation of
Messiah. On the contrary, the Glorious One who was
crucified, premeditates a great feast of fat things for the
whole world, including his brethren, who sold him to be
crucified.Isaiah 25:6.
The strength of Joseph centered in his knowledge of
the Divine Promise made to Abraham. Surely a knowledge
of Gods Plan seems indispensable. Trust in God was the
secret of faithfulness in all the worthy ones of the past.
The same principle still holds true. It seems true, as
sometimes charged, that lawlessness is growing in
proportion as Higher Criticism destroys faith in the Bible
and its promises.
When later the Israelites moved into Egypt, we see
the faith of Joseph manifested in his dying request. He
said, God will surely visit you and bring you out of this
land [Egypt] into the land [Canaan] which He sware to
Abraham. He was solicitous that his bones be carried
with the Israelites into Canaan. (Genesis 50:24, 25.).
Josephs various experiences seem to Bible students to
typify those of Jesus and His Churchin suffering and in
subsequent glory and honor.

EMBALMING JOSEPHS BODY

ISRAELITES IN BONDAGE

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AT THE BURNING BUSH

PHARAOHS DAUGHTER FINDS MOSES

OSES showed himself great in every sense of the

word. As an infant, Moses was placed by faithful
parents where an Egyptian princess found him, amidst the
bulrushes of the Nile, and adopted him. Safe in the midst
of his enemies, he received an ample education in all t}m
learning of the Egyptians. The honors of the Egyptian
Court were his, but he was too patriotic to enjoy them
while his kinsmen suffered severe persecutions. Intent
upon helping his brethren, he slew an Egyptian
taskmaster. He was disappointed that his brethren did not
appreciate his endeavors to aid them, but reported him as
a traitor to Egypt.
He fled to Midian, and was gone forty years. Then
Gods time having come, he was sent to deliver his people
Israel; but, by now he was timid and feared his inability.
By Divine command, Aaron became his mouthpiece, and
the message was carried to Pharaoh that Israel must be let
go. This commission to Moses was given at the burning
busha bush which apparently was all aflame, yet not
consumed. The Lords messenger used this means for
communicating the Divine message in an impressive
manner, and to give him courage and confidence in his
mission.
The truthfulness of the narrative is confirmed by Jesus.
Certain Sadducees, denying the resurrection, sought to
entrap Him, inquiring whose wife a woman would be if
during her lifetime she had had seven husbands. Jesus in
reply defended the doctrine of the resurrection. He
declared that when God said to Moses, I am the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, this surely meant that
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were to be resurrected. The
Sadducees denied the resurrection and all future life. On
the contrary, Gods word at the mouth of the angel proved
that there is to be a resurrection of the dead. God thus
spoke of things that were not as though they already were.
All live unto God in the sense that in Christ He has
provided for the reawakening of all, in due time.

ISRAEL AT THE RED SEA

SONG OF DELIVERANCE

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THE PASSOVER INSTITUTED

MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH

IME and again Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh

with God s message, Let My people go! Time and
again plagues were given as a punishment for refusing to
let them go. Time and again Pharaoh declared that if the
plagues were stopped he would let them go, and time and
again he broke his word. The Scriptures say, And for this
very purpose God raised Pharaoh up, that He might show
forth His Power through him. This is interpreted to mean
that God could have brought another prince to the throne
of Egypt. He favored this particular Pharaoh because of his
wicked self-will, obstinacy and selfishness.
The Scriptures declare that the Lord hardened
Pharaohs heart. The explanation is that it was the
goodness of God that hardened Pharaohs heart. Divine
goodness and generosity were shown in the removal of the
various plagues as soon as Pharaoh promised to do right.
This, instead of inciting him to love and obedience, led
him to a greater obstinacy. lie determined, as he had
passed through one plague after another, that others could
not be much worse. He paid dearly for his defiance.
Exodus 4:21; 7:3; 14:4.
The tenth plague was the crisis. All the first-borns of
Egypt died, but the first-borns of Israel under the sprinkled
blood were safe. Thus God pictured the Church of the
First-horns, now being called out from the world. After
glorification by the First Resurrection they will be the
Royal Priesthood, Spiritual Levites, for the blessing of
all Israel, and through Israel, all the families of the Earth.
Bible students hold the Passover night to have
typified this Gospel Age of nearly nineteen centuries,
during which the spirit begotten ones, the church of the
First-borns, are to be passed over, or specially saved, and
made partakers of the Divine nature and associates in the
Messianic Kingdom for the blessing of the later born,
during Messiahs Reign. The blood sprinkled on the doorposts typed faith in the blood of Christ.

EATING THE PASSOVER

FIRST-BORN OF EGYPT DIED

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ISRAELS WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES

GATHERING MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS

SRAEL was taught lessons of faith in the wilderness.

God sent them Manna. It came in the night in very small
grains. It required time and patience to gather and prepare
it. Not only was it a necessity, but it corroborated the
Divine sentence, In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, until thou return to the ground. Labor has been one
of our most valuable lessons. Without it our race would
have sunken still lower. Countries in which labor has been
a necessity attest this by their greater intelligence.
Jesus explains that He Himself is the antitypical
Manna, or Bread from Heaven, of which we must partake
if we would have everlasting life.John 6:48 58.
The conspiracy of Korah and his associates against
Moses leadership resulted in their all going down alive
into the pit (Hebrew, Sheol), the tomb. So all opponents of
Messiah will perish in the Second Death.Acts 3:23.
God sent Israel a miraculous supply of quail. Our
Common Version permits the inference that quail fell
around the camp several feet deep. This is pointed to by
critics as absurd. The correct and reasonable thought is
that quails, wearied from flight across the Red Sea, flew
within a few feet of the ground, where Israel easily
captured great quantities.
The lesson of the Smitten Rock is noteworthy. When
the people were famished, Moses smote a rock in the
name of the Lord, water gushed out and the people were
refreshed. St. Paul says that this was prophetic of Christ
who by His death supplies the Water of Life, which is for
allIsraelites indeed.
A plague of fiery serpents attacked the Israelites. By
Divine direction Moses made a serpent of brass and raised
it up. The Israelites were directed to look to that serpent
for healing. The fiery serpents represent Sin, inflicting
death. God has provided life for the sin-bitten world
through the crucifixion of Christ. He was treated as a
sinner, in order that sinners might be freed from sin and
death.

KORAH AND HIS COMPANY ENGULFED

THE SMITTEN ROCK

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THE LAW COVENANT AT MT. SINAI

MOSES VEILED WITH THE LAW

OSES served as mediator between God and Israel at

Mt. Sinai. The people there covenanted to keep the
Divine Law. God promised that if they could do so,
perfectly, they should have everlasting life. Furthermore,
they could then comply with the sacrificial conditions of
the Seed of Abraham, typified in the offering of Isaac, and
inherit the Promise, In thy Seed shall all the families of
the Earth be blessed.-Deuteronomy 5:1-6; Genesis 22:18.
The people eagerly accepted the arrangement, saying,
All these things will we do, not realizing the full import
of the Law. Jesus explained it to mean, to love God with
all the heart, mind, soul and strength, and ones neighbor
as ones self. Imperfect, like all mankind, the Jews could
not keep this perfect Law. Unworthy of life, they could not
redeem others; hence could not bless other nations.
When they became discouraged, God assured them
that later He would make a New, or more favorable,
Covenant with them through a greater than Moses, who
would help them out of their fallen condition and fit them
to be the channel for the Divine blessing to men.
Jeremiah 31:31; Malachi 3:1-3.
In due time Jesus came, the promised Messiah, not in
glory as they had expected, but in a lowly condition, to die
for Sin. He came unto His own [nation] and His own
received Him notthey crucified Him. (John 1:11.)
Nevertheless, Jesus began I-Ils work of selecting Spiritual
Israel, the Spiritual Seed of Abraham. He accepted first
the loyal Jews. (Romans 11:7.) Still there were not enough
to complete the foreordained number of the Elect.
Consequently the Call to be the Elect Abrahamic Seed was
extended to the Gentiles. For more than eighteen centuries
He has been gathering the Elect Spiritual Seed of
Abraham, the holy from every nation and sect. When
complete, these, the Bride, or Bodyof Christ, will be
Gods channel of blessing to all the families of the Earth,
in harmony with the Promise made to Abraham.
Galatians 3:29.

MOSES SPEAKING TO ISRAEL

THE WILDERNESS JOURNEY

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THE TYPICAL TABERNACLE

KILLING THE SIN-OFFERING

OD foreknew the Israelites would be unable to fulfil

the Law Covenant, and although He gave minute
instructions respecting the Tabernacle, and the sacrifices
to be offered therein, yet it was only for the lessons it
would convey to us. The Tabernacle, in its Court, Holy
and Most Holy, in its furniture, priests and sacrifices,
illustrated the most important features of the Divine Plan.
St. Paul informs us that the bullock of the sin-offering
on the Day of Atonement typified Jesus in the flesh. The
killing of the bullock represented the sacrifice of Jesus,
begun at His baptism. In His sacrificing, Jesus was also
the antitypical High Priest. The offering of incense on the
Golden Altar represented Jesus heart endeavors in doing
the Fathers will.
Carrying the blood into the Holy represented the
consecration of the antitypical priest, the veil thus
symbolizing the death of his will, because of which he is
accepted as a New Creature. The High Priest passing
under the veil typified The Man Christ Jesus pouring out
His soul on Calvary, laying down in death the body which
God prepared Him.
The High Priest sprinkling the Mercy-Seat typified
Jesus, in Heaven itself, offering to Justice, first His own
sacrifice, and then His Churchs sacrifice. Nothing could
be done with the blood of the Goat (the Church) till the
blood of the Bullock (Christ Jesus) had made it holy and
acceptable.
The High Priest washing and dressing in the Court
represented The Christ complete, changing from the Body
of humiliation to conditions of glory and power. Clad in
his robes of glory, the High Priest represented Messiah,
empowered to bless mankind.Exodus 28:2; Philippians
3:21.
Aaron blessing the people typified Messiah at His
Second Advent blessing all who will become true
Israelites during the Messianic Reign. The people shouting
and falling on their faces represented recognition of the
end of the reign of Sin and Death. Their arising
represented resurrection.

PRIEST ENTERING HOLY

SPRINKLING THE MERCY-SEAT

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CROSSING THE JORDAN

MOSES BLESSING JOSHUA

INALLY, after their wilderness journey of forty years,

the Israelites were brought to the Jordan, and shown
where they were to cross over under the leadership of
Joshua. Moses meantime, after blessing Joshua, had died
in Mt. Nebo.Deuteronomy 4:21, 22; 9:1; 32:48-52; 34:5,
9.
On this occasion, a stupendous miracle permitted the
Israelites to pass through the bed of the Jordan into
Canaan, the waters being cut off. Everything was so well
timed by the Lord that when the Priests stepped up to the
waters, bearing the Ark, and their feet touched the outer
edge, the waters began to subside. The Priests advanced as
the waters subsided, and stood in the midst of the river
Jordan until all the hosts of Israel had passed over.
Joshua 3:3-17.
Infidelity has scoffed at this incident as an
impossibility, but recent research shows that the miracle
did take place, and the means which the Lord adopted for
it. Be it understood that every miracle, from the Divine
standpoint, is simple enough. Yet God, even in miracles,
usually operates along the lines of natural means. It is now
ascertained that the waters of the Jordan were cut off some
miles above the place of crossing, at a place called Adam.
There a great hillside slid into the river, filling its bed and
causing the water to back up, forming little lakes.
Gradually it cut its way through. It was then that the
Israelites passed over Jordan dry shod.
Antitypically, the crossing of Jordan would represent
the fact that Gods people now pass from death unto life,
through faith in the blood of Jesus. The new life begun,
they walk by faith, they live by faith, and by faith they
fight the good fight, in the name of the Lord and under His
guidance. And the name Joshua means Jesus, Savior,
Deliverer.
Respecting the types and prophecies of the past the
Apostles tell us that the Law was a shadow of better things
coming after, and that those things were written for the
special instruction of the Church.Romans 15:4; Hebrews
10:1.

ISRAELITES ENTERING CANAAN

THE PEOPLE SAW AND PROSTRATED

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JOSHUAS LONG DAY

DISCOMFITURE OF THE AMORITES

HERE was some foundation for the Bible narrative of

Joshuas long day. Some Bible students claim that the
language of the Hebrew text teaches that the day was dark,
that the Sun did not shine at allan extremely unusual
thing for Palestine. The enemies of Joshua were Sun
worshipers, and the darkness of the day foreboded that
their Sun-god was eclipsed. In the narrative, the immense
hailstones killing so many seems quite in line with this
interpretationthat the day was dark instead of light
that the obscurity of the Sun and the Moon was really a
great phenomenon, which Joshua made use of to discomfit
the foe, commanding the Sun and the Moon to stay
hidden/Joshua 10:11-14.
The other explanation is equally logical. It assumes
that the Sun was visible during the day, and that heavy
clouds refracted the Suns rays unusually late in the
eveninguntil the Moon rose, so that there was no time
without light.
Either explanation is satisfactory. It is quite
unnecessary that any stumble over this Bible narrative.
The triumph of Gideons little army over a host,
typified the final victory of Christ and His followers over
the hosts of Sin. The broken vessels represented selfsacrifice to let the light shine outthe trumpets the
Gospel Messagethe sword Gods Word. Of Gideon and
his brethren it is written that each looked like the son of a
king. Christ and His followers all are Godlike in
character.Judges 7:16-25; 8:18.
Jephthahs daughter was not sacrificed in death as a
fulfilment of her fathers vow. She merely took the vow of
perpetual virginity and figuratively became dead to the
world after spending a brief season with her virgin friends.
The Bible is simple and reasonable when understood.
Judges 11:30-40.
The overthrow of the Midianites by Gideons band and
Jephthahs dedication of his daughter to the Lord in
perpetual virginity, belong to the period of the Judges, of
whom Joshua was first.Acts 13:19, 20.

GIDEONS BAND LIGHT BEARERS

JEPHTHAHS DAUGHTER MEETS HIM

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DAVID ANOITED BY SAMUEL

DAVID SLAYING A LION

story of the selection of David, the shepherd boy, to

THEKing over Israel, is full of interest for both old and
be
young. The Prophet Samuel, who did the anointing, was
guided specially of the Lord. Samuel himself was
dedicated to the Lord in his youth. When the time came for
him to anoint a successor to King Saul, all the sons of
Jesse passed before him. They were a fine family, and he
was expecting one after another to be the proper one, but
God guided him otherwise. David, the lad who was with
the sheep, was not thought of until all the others had been
scanned in vain; then David was brought, and the Lord
indicated that this was the one to be anointed.1 Samuel
16:1-13.
The story of David is of special interest to us because
his name signifies Beloved, and because he typified The
ChristJesus and His faithful brethren, the Church,
Gods specially beloved, the Elect, who are to inherit the
Messianic Kingdom.
David was anointed long years before he became
king. So Christ received the anointing of the Holy Spirit at
His baptism, and the Church received the anointing at
Pentecostlong years before the Messianic Kingdoms
establishment. The trials and testings of David were to
prepare him for his office as king. And likewise the trials
and difficulties of The Christ, Head and Body, fit and
prepare them for the Kingdom.
In typical Israel, the priestly office was kept distinctly
separate from the kingly office, but in Christ the two
offices combine. This was illustrated in the double office
of Melchisedec, who was a priest upon his throne, or a
royal priest. Similarly, The Christ, Head and Body, will be
the antitypical Royal Priesthood, to reign for a thousand
years. This is in harmony with St. Peters statement, Ye
are a Royal Priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.
It agrees with the statement that those who share in the
First Resurrection will be kings and priests unto God and
reign with Christ a thousand years. Revelation 20:6;
5:10; 1 Peter 2:9.

GOLIATH BEHEADED BY DAVID

DAVID ANOITED KING OVER ALL ISRAEL

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KING SAULS LIFE SPARED

SAUL THROWING JAVELIN AT DAVID

Israels kings. He was

KING SAUL was the first of his brethren, and fromtall,
head and shoulders above
the
human standpoint was rather ideal. He had considerable
wisdom, too. Indeed, that was his failure. He overlooked
the fact that his Kingdom differed from all other
kingdoms, and he attempted to rule after the manner of
other kings. In the case of Israel, God declared Himself
King, and the person upon the throne was really His
representative, and should be guided by Him in everything
Because David at heart was anxious to do all these things,
and very repentant whenever he learned that he was
wrong, he was spoken of as a man after Gods own
heart. His heart was right.
The anointing of David was kept a secret, but Saul
nevertheless began to see that Gods favor was with
David, and that the people of Israel loved him, especially
after he delivered them from Goliath, and won a number
of battles. King Saul selfishly desired that his own family
should be perpetuated upon the throne, and hence he was
bent upon destroying David. He made him an outlaw, and
on every occasion sought to kill him, and thus thwart
Gods purpose.
David, on the contrary, on two occasions had King
Sauls life at his disposal, yet did not take it. In this he
was a man after Gods own heart. God had caused him to
be anointed, and would give him the throne. Until Gods
time should come, David would wok. In sparing King
Sauls life, David acted in harmony with the Lords will:
Touch not Mine anointed, and do My Prophets no harm.
King Saul was Gods anointed, and it was for God to
depose him and to give the throne to David in His own
time. And He did
How valuable it would be to all of us to learn this
lesson of patience and waiting upon the Lord, for Him to
direct in His own time and in His own way. This was the
spirit of Jesus: Not My will [as a man], but Thine [Father
Divine], be done.Luke 22:42.

SAULS LIFE SPARED BY DAVID

SAMUEL REPROVING KING SAUL

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THE FATE OF THE AMALEKITES

SENNACHERIBS ARMY DESTROYED

ING SAUL never seemed to enter into the spirit of

the Lords commands. He always manifested selfwill; even when given special directions through the
Prophet Samuel, he deviated and was reproved.
One failure of King Saul was when called upon to
slaughter the Amalekites and drive them out, he did not
fully obey. He spared the king, etc. Many have thought it
strange that God would give such commands as this and
others similar. The most satisfactory explanation is that
the whole world is under the death sentence, and that it
makes very little difference whether they die by pestilence,
famine, or sword. The wickedness of the Amalekites is
declared to have come to its full, just as with the
Sodomites. The decree was extermination.
Had the slaughtered people, as we once thought, gone
to eternal torment, the matter would have been most
horrible. However, the entire aspect is changed when we
recognize that Gods provision for the Amalekites as for
the Sodomites is a resurrection, secured by Christs death.
As we have already seen, the Sodomites are to have the
privilege of returning to their former estate, and to
human perfection. So all who do not receive a knowledge
of God in the present life are to have that opportunity
during Messiahs Reign.
Another illustration along this line is that of
Sennacheribs army, which was smitten by the angel of the
Lord in one night, probably by a sand-storm.2 Kings 19:
35, 36.
Gross misconceptions of Gods character and the
Bible teachings accumulated during the Dark Ages, when
the Bible was not in existence so far as the masses were
concerned. Bibles were very expensive and possessed only
by the few; besides, very few could read. They did not
know that the worship of an eternal torment deity is the
worship of Moloch, which God specially condemned. The
dawning light of a New Age shows us Gods character of
love and illuminates the Bible, making its teachings most
reasonable.Proverbs 4:18.

DESTRUCTION OF GOMORRAH

DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH

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THE WITCH OF ENDOR

CASTING OUT A DEMON

E have already noted that the fallen angels at the

time of the Deluge were barred from further
materialization. Since then they have sought otherwise to
influence humanity. Few would communicate with them if
they knew their real character; hence they represent
themselves as being our dead friends and relatives. As
such they attempt to communicate with the living through
mediums, who are deceived, else they would not serve
as mediums for demons.Isaiah 8:19; Deuteronomy 18:
9-12.
In olden times these mediums were called witches,
wizards, necromancers. They had familiar spirits, or
were familiar with the spirits who were disobedient in the
days of Noah.
God had forewarned Israel against these evil spirits
and their mediums. He said that no such mediums should
be permitted to live in the land of Israel. They might
operate amongst nations not under Divine care, but Gods
representative, Saul, was commanded to put to death all
such.
When King Saul got out of fellowship with God, who
refused further communications, he turned for advice to a
witch at Endor, and asked her to awaken Samuel the
Prophet, who meantime had died. The evil spirits
impersonated Samuel easily enough, and the witch gave
the King messages in his name, whereas Samuel was dead
and could not give or receive messages. King Saul saw
nothing; he merely received an answer from the witch,
who said she saw and heard Samuel.
The evil spirits have some way of knowing much
respecting the future. But anybody under the
circumstances might have known the fate to expect for
Saul and his army. The King himself knew what to expect.
It was this that troubled him and led him to seek the witch,
contrary to the Divine command. It is not for a moment
supposable that God and Samuel, having refused to
communicate with the King, would change and permit a
witch, condemned by the Divine Law, to overrule the
matter.1 Chronicles 10:13, 14.

THE DEMONIAC OF GADARA

ST. PAUL CASTING OUT A DEMON

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THE PROPHETS REPROOF

WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS

HERE is one thing about the Bible distinctly different

from every other bookits honesty. Although David
was king and his own family succeeded him for
generations, nothing prevented the full details of his
misdeeds in respect to Uriah and his wife. The wrong is as
fully exposed as though the King had been a menial of the
lowest class.
The Prophet of the Lord was sent directly to the King
by Divine command. He made a parable showing the
injustice, and asked what would be the just decision. King
David was angry, and asked the name of the unjust man
that he might be punished. Gods Prophet fearlessly
declared, Thou art the man! Humbly, the King confessed
his sin to the Lord. He had already seen his horrible
mistake, but its portrayal intensified the wrong. He wept
and prayed before the Lord in sackcloth and ashes for
forgiveness.
In this respect David was a man after Gods own
heart. Every time he was overtaken in a fault and snared
by his own weakness, he confessed, reformed and sought
forgiveness.
God accepted King Davids penitence and restored
him to His favor; but this did not prevent his suffering
punishment for his wrong course. Whom the Lord loveth
He chasten-eth.Job 5:17; Proverbs 3: 11, 12; Hebrews
12:5, 6.
The honesty of the Bible is exemplified in both the
Old Testament and the New. We are told of Abrahams
mistakes: the friend of God. We are also told the
faults of the Apostles. The noble St. Peter was so
overcome with fear that he denied his Master three times
with oaths. We are told of St. Peters dissembling before
Jews and Gentiles. We are told that St. Paul, the Apostle
that took the place of Judas, was once the cruel Saul of
Tarsus, who authorized the stoning of St. Stephen, and
was very injurious to the early Church. Of St. Peter and St.
John we read: They were ignorant and unlearned men.
No other book in the world manifests so great honesty or
deserves the same confidence as the Bible.

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LOST SHEEP

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SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY

DAVIDS CHARGE TO SOLOMON

S King David, who was after Gods own heart, loyal

to Him, represented The Christ in earthly trials,
afflictions and victories, so King Solomon typified the
Church glorified. Whereas King Davids reign was full of
wars, King Solomons had none. He was not only a prince
of peace, but was a wise, rich king, who builded the
Temple of Jehovah.1 Kings 4:24; 6:1; 10:4, 23, 24.
King Solomons fame spread abroad through the then
civilized earth. The Queen of Sheba, who came to see for
herself, declared that the half had never been told. Jesus
referred to this visit of the Queen of Sheba, saying that she
came from a great distance to hear the wisdom of
Solomon. Thus she put to shame the people of Palestine,
who disregarded the great Teacher of superior wisdom, a
greater than Solomon.
Evidently our appreciation of values depends much
upon the eye. So the eyes of our understanding must be
opened before we can truly appreciate spiritual things.
Thus Jesus said to His followers, Blessed are your eyes,
for they see; and your ears, for they hear.Matthew
13:16.
Already we see many of the inconsistencies of the
past. No longer would a Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Canterbury condemn to the flames Sir John Oldcastle
because of episcopalian differences. Our eyes, both
Catholic and Protestant, have opened and are still opening.
What we evidently need is that the eyes of our
understanding should be opened widely that we might see
the lengths and breadths, the heights and depths of the
love of God. God is pleased to open the eyes of only a
small class at the present time; namely, that class which
turns from sin and makes a full consecration to walk in the
footsteps of Jesus. Their eyes shall be opened that they
may see the King in His beauty, even by the eye of faith,
looking through the telescope of Gods Word. Beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, the followers of Jesus
are changed into the same image, from glory to glory.
2 Corinthians 3:18.

HAULING TEMPLE TIMBERS

SOLOMON AND QUEEN OF SHEBA

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THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD

KING SOLOMONS SACRIFICE

E have already noticed that the Tabernacle

represented Gods temporary residence with the
Israelites. Later on, the Temple was substituted for the
Tabernacle. Thus God indicated that He would later abide
permanently with His people.
King David, as we have seen, represented Christ
during this Gospel Age. He collected the materials for the
Temple, but was not permitted to build. The lesson is that
the Divine arrangement complete is not to be established
by Christ in the flesh, but by the Christ of glory,
represented by Solomon.
The Temple of Solomon was destroyed in B.C. 606,
but later on King Herod, who was not a Jew, but a
descendant of Esau, favored the Jews by building a great
Temple which was in its grandeur in Jesus day.
Those Temples were merely typical of the greater
Temple which St. Paul and St. Peter declared to be the
Church. The Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye
are; and again: Ye are built up a Holy Temple, a
habitation of God through the Spirit. St. Peter declares all
of Gods faithful saints to be Royal Priests, living stones
in the Temple of God, through which, eventually, all the
world shall have access to God.
The stones of Solomons Temple were shaped at the
quarry before being brought to the Temple site. Likewise
its beams were prepared in advance. The workmen put
together the Temple without sound of hammer. Every
piece was so thoroughly fitted that no force was necessary.
This typified the building of the antitypical Temple,
the preparation of the Church in the present life and their
construction by and by as Gods Spiritual Temple, by
resurrection power. This is the meaning of the trials,
chiselings and polishings which all true Christians must
receive. The resurrection change will bring all these living
stones together without force or compulsion. Then the
glory of the Lord will fill the true Temple and the New
Dispensation will begin.

KING HERODS TEMPLE

THE TEMPLE CONSECRATED

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ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL

ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS

HAB, King of Israel, misled by his queen,Jezebel,

perverted the religion in Gods typical Kingdom. The
ordained worship in the Temple was neglected and image
worship established. The faithful Prophet Elijah reproved
King Ahab, and was compelled by the wicked Queen
Jezebel to flee into the wilderness, where ravens fed him
for three and one-half years.2 Kings 17:5, 6.
Finally, by Gods direction, Elijah reappeared and
challenged the priests of Baal to a public test as to which
god could answer prayer, Jehovah or Baal. Whichever god
would accept the offering by fire from heaven to consume
the sacrifice, should be acknowledged as the true God.
The Israelites saw the fairness of the proposition, and
Baals priests could not avoid the issue. Elijah gave them
the preference. All day long they agonized, cut themselves
with stones and cried to Baal to accept the offering and
vindicate his cause. Elijah mocked them, saying, Cry a
little louder! Baal may be sleeping! or perhaps he has gone
on a journey!
When the evening came, Elijah gave his test. First of
all he had water carried and poured over all the altar and
the sacrifice, that there should be no mistake; lest any one
might think of any concealed fire. Then Elijah prayed to
God to vindicate His cause. Fire descended from heaven
and consumed the sacrifice, licking up even the water in
the trench. When the people saw this they gave a great
shout and declared, Jehovah, He is God! 1 Kings 18:3039.
Bible students claim that Elijah represented the True
Church, Queen Jezebel a false religious system, Ahab the
governments of Earth. The time of Jezebels persecution.
when Elijah hid in the wilderness and there was no rain
for 1260 days, represented 1260 years of spiritual drouth
(538 A.D. to 1798 A.D.), when the antitypical Jezebels
power to persecute to death ceased.Revelation 12:6, 14;
13:5.
Elisha, Elijahs successor restored the Shunammites
son.

ELIJAHS SACRIFICE ACCEPTED

ELIJAHS CHARIOT OF FIRE

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KING ZEDEKIAH BLINDED

OH! THOU WICKED PRINCE

OD promised King David that the Messianic

Kingdom should come through his line, and for
several centuries no king reigned in Jerusalem except
Davids posterity. The last was King Zedekiah. Of him
God declared through the Prophet (Ezekiel 21:25-27), 0
thou profane and wicked prince, whose time is come that
iniquity should have an end Take off the diadem, remove
the crown; this shall not be the same. I will overturn,
overturn, overturn it, until He come whose right it is, and I
will give it to Him. This was another way of saying that
there would be no more kings of Davids line until
Messiah. This has been fulfilled during the long period of
2519 years from then until now. All later kings were
tributary, and none of Davids line.
When God took His Kingdom from Zedekiah, He told
him through one of the Prophets that he would be carried
prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon; and by another
Prophet that he would never see Babylon. Both prophecies
came true, for Nebuchadnezzar caused his eyes to be put
out when a prisoner, and in that condition he went to
Babylon.
But Gods promise to David, Of the fruit of thy loins
shall a king sit upon thy throne forever, was not broken.
The message to Zedekiah merely indicates that the throne
ceased to be recognized of the Lord, and would thus
remain until Messiahs Kingdom.
But the First Advent of Jesus did not fulfil this
prophecy; for, although Jesus is the Messiah, He has not
yet entered upon His Kingly office. Jesus began His
service as a PriestHe offered up Himself. His offering
continues these nineteen hundred years. Since Pentecost
He has been accepting and offering as His members such
as present their bodies living sacrifices. (Romans 12:1.)
These joint-sacrificers are promised, as members of the
Body of Christ, a share in the Messianic reign of a
thousand years, for the blessing of Israel and the whole
world.Revelation 20:6.

KING ZEDEKIAH CAPTURED

THY WORD IS TRUTH

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JERUSALEM DESOLATED SEVENTY YEARS

ISRAELITES LED CAPTIVE

EBUCHADNEZZAR, after blinding King Zedekiah,

deported him and the people to Babylonia, and
utterly destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple with fire. The
Bible says that the city lay desolate for seventy years.
Those seventy years of desolation of Jerusalem are
Scripturally declared to have been a punishment upon the
Israelites for not properly keeping their Jubilee years,
which God had appointed them. Every fiftieth year was to
be a Jubilee year, when all debts expired and all property
was to be returned to its original ownertypifying the
coming Times of Restitution. (Acts 3:19-21.) But the
Israelites, like all other peoples, were selfish. They knew
that this observance would mean loss. Hence they kept
these Jubilee Sabbaths very imperfectly for awhile, and
gradually discontinued them.
God explains that the seventy years desolation
following the taking of the Israelites into captivity was a
substitute for the whole number of Jubilee years. This we
read was, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for so
long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfil
threescore and ten years.2 Chronicles 36:21; Jeremiah
25:11.
Bible students reason that if the entire number of
Jubilees was to be seventy, and if the Jubilee cycles were
forty-nine years each, then seventy cycles from the time
the Jubilees were instituted would mark the beginning of
the Antitypical Jubileethe Times of Restitution. This
they reckon somewhere about the year A.D. 1874. Many
hold that we are living in the time when the Antitypical
Jubilee is being inaugurated; mankind will return
gradually to all their rights and privileges for a thousand
years. The present social unrest is incidental to the great
change. We are living in the beginning of the New Era.
Growing intelligence is bringing emancipation, and shortly
the Messianic Kingdom will multiply the blessings and
wipe out the curse.Revelation 21:4, 5.

SLAUGHTER OF THE JEWS

BLOWING JUBILEE TRUMPETS

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NEBUCHADNEZZARS DREAM INTERPRETED

NEBUCHADNEZZAR GREAT AND PROUD

ANIEL, a young Israelite taken captive to Babylon

with others, later became Gods Prophet. King
Nebuchadnezzar had an impressive dream which on
waking he could not recall. His wise men could not help
him. Finally Daniel, guided by the Lord, told both the
dream and its interpretation.Daniel 2:1, 5, 26-30.
The dream and its interpretation interests and
concerns us today as much or more than it did
Nebuchadnezzar. In his dream the King saw a great Image;
its head was gold, its breast and arms silver, its belly and
sides brass, its legs iron, and its feet iron intermingled and
smeared with clay. Then the King saw a Stone cut out of
the mountain without hands and hurled at the feet of the
Image. The Image fell, ground to powder, and the wind
carried it away. Then the Stone grew until it filled the
earth.Daniel 2: 31-35.
The Divine interpretation of this dream, given
through Daniel, explains that the head of the Image was
the Babylonian Kingdom, the breast and arms the
succeeding Medo-Persian Empire, the belly and sides of
brass the Grecian Empire, which followed, and the legs
the succeeding Roman Empire. The feet represented the
Holy Roman Empire and its successors; the iron of the
feet the civil power, the clay intermingled and smearing
over the iron pictured the ecclesiastical power of our day.
Thus seen, we are living in the days of the ten toes, or
divisions of the Image.
The Stone represents Gods Kingdom, which the clay
on the feet of the Image imitated. The Stone represents
Gods Elect Church, gathered out from Jews and Gentiles,
and from every nation and denomination, to constitute
Messiahs Kingdom. Shortly, this Kingdom will be
established in power and great glory, and the kingdoms of
this world will disappear as by magic. Messiahs Kingdom
will then grow until it fills the whole earth, and brings all
things under its control, every wilful sinner being cut off
in the Second Death.

NEBUCHADNEZZARS MADNESS

THE KINGS REASON RESTORED

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DANIELS DREAM ANOTHER VIEW

EARTHS FOUR UNIVERSAL EMPIRES

ETWEEN Zedekiah and Messiah, there has been a

long period of time. During this period God gave a
lease of government to the Gentile Kingdoms, represented
in Nebuchadnezzars Image. That lease of power to rule
the world as best they could was to last for seven
timesseven symbolic years, each day of which (lunar
time) would represent a year. Thus seven times would
mean seven times three hundred and sixty, that is, 2520
years. That period is apparently due to expire in 1915. In
other words, very soon the Gentile lease of Earthly
Dominion expires. Then the due time will come for
Messiahs Kingdom to begin its reign. This seems to
explain present social unrest.
The same facts presented to King Nebuchadnezzar,
God showed under different symbols to the Prophet
Daniel. Instead of a great Image, Daniel saw great Beasts.
This means that the Gentile governments, so grand to
worldly men, appear beastly from the Divine viewpoint.
Surely we can agree to this as we look over the bloody
pages of history; the world has been under beastly rule,
even though the best it was able to provide for itselfand
though much worse conditions could be imaginedfor
instance, Anarchy.
The first beast of Daniels dream, a lion, represented
Babylon; the second, a bear, Medo-Persia; the third, a
leopard, Greciathe four heads representing Alexander
the Greats successors, four generals. The fourth beast
represented the Roman Empire. Its ten horns corresponded
to the ten toes of the Image. The horn that had eyes and
was crowned, is believed by many to represent
ecclesiastical power enthroned amid political power.
A judgment scene was shown to Daniel, in which all
these governments were disapproved, and the dominion
taken from them and given to One who appeared like unto
The Son of Man. The Kingdom given Him was a perpetual
one, that all should serve and obey Him; and all beastly
governments were destroyed.Daniel 7:13-27.

PERSIAN GLORY QUEEN ESTHER

JEWS IN BONDAGE

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KING BELSHAZZARS FEAST

IN THE FIERY FURNACE

RIDE overbalanced Nebuchadnezzars judgment, and,

in the plain of Dura, he was led to erect a great image
of himself as Earths Ruler, to which all people were
required to bow down in obedient reverence! If the people
could regard him as a god, they would be the more sure to
obey him. But among them were three Hebrews who
refused to bow the knee. Their religious scruples were not
respected. It was enough that they were defying Emperor
Nebuchadnezzar. A great furnace was heated seven times,
or as hot as possible, and into it the three servants of God
were cast. The men who threw them in inhaled flame and
died. Nebuchadnezzar and his lords, looking over toward
the furnace, saw the three unhurt and with them One like
unto the Son of God. Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged the
God of the Hebrews and commanded all the people to
worship Him. Although Gods people today may be
subjected to fiery trials, they will probably not be literally
burned in a furnace. Nevertheless, Gods power can keep
their hearts in every trouble.
It was after this that Nebuchadnezzar became insane
and beast-like lived upon herbage, seven years, after
which his reason was restored and he gave glory to God.
Later on came Belshazzars Feast, the handwriting on
the wall and the fall of Babylon. When the kingdom of the
Medes and Persians, represented in the Image by tim
silver, and by the Bear in Daniels vision, took possession
of the dominions once ruled by Babylon. Cyrus army,
turned aside the Euphrates, marched in through the riverbed and captured the city supposed to be impregnable.
Babylon is the symbolical name in Revelation for a
great Ecclesiastical System. Its fall is described as
accomplished through the drying up of the symbolical river
Euphrates, that the way of the Kings of the East might be
prepareda Royal Priesthood, of which Christ is the
Head. The river represents people and wealth.
Revelation 17:15.

BELSHAZZARS LAST FEAST

DAIEL INTERPRETING THE HANDWRITING

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KINGS DARIUS AND CYRUS

DANIEL ANSWERS THAT HE IS SAFE

ANIEL the Prophet ranked high with King Darius for

his integrity. His associates hated him because he
prevented graft. They knew of no way to get hold of
Daniel except on account of his religion. They urged upon
King Darius the influence that would accrue from
announcing himself the only one to be worshiped. They
urged that this would impress the people, make them more
loyal to his government. They got a decree issued that
anybody wor-shiping any other god than Darius should be
thrown into a den of lions. Then they spied upon Daniel
and convicted him.
It was a Medo-Persian law that royal decrees could
never be ignored. Hence, although King Darius was very
sorry to know of his most faithful officer being caught, he
was unable to change the arrangement. His only hope was
that Daniels God might do something for his deliverance.
Daniel was cast into the den of lions, but in the
morning was brought forth safe. Then those who had thus
entrapped him, by the Kings command were cast into the
den of lions, the same as Daniel, and devoured.Daniel
6: 14-24.
At the end of the seventy years of the desolation of
Jerusalem, God stirred up the heart of Cyrus, who then
was on the throne, to issue a proclamation giving liberty to
all Israelites to return to Palestine. He also gave money,
and decreed that the vessels of the Lords House, which
had previously been taken, should be restored.
Approximately fifty thousand Israelites returnedso few
out of the many taken into captivity. The zealous, full of
faith in the Abrahamic Promise, returned, rebuilt the city,
and, in Ezras time, the Temple. The others had become
worldly-minded and interested in Babylon. Thus God
separated the dross of Israel to prepare them for Messiah.
Yet the Israelites indeed were few corn-to the whole,
when their day of visitation came.
The romantic story of Queen Esther, wife of King
Ahasuerus, follows the period of King Cyrus decree.

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TEMPLE VESSELS RETURNED

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THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES

JONAH TYPE OF THE JEW

ZEKIELS vision of the valley of dry bones, which

came together, were clothed with sinews, and then
with skin, an exceeding great army, is supposed to
represent the resurrection of the dead. But this conjecture
seems to be erroneous. The Prophet declares that this
picture represents the revival of Israels Hopes. First the
dry bones of hope, then sinews of strength, and finally,
comeliness and completion. We read, This is the whole
House of Israel, which say, Our hope [of again becoming a
nation] is dried; we are cut off from our parts.Ezekiel
37:1-14.
The fulfilment of this prediction seems to be in
progress now amongst the Jewish people. Only a short
time ago they, had no hope; then came Zionism, the dry
bones of hope for amelioration from suffering, but without
any faith in the Abrahamic promise. Later, we see the
Jews growing in trust in the Abrahamic promise and
coming together with strength, wealth and faith. The time
is evidently not far distant when their national hope will
be rehabilitated and they shall rejoice again as a people.
Isaiah 40:1, 2; Romans 11:25-33.
The Scriptures tell about the resurrection of the dead;
that it will not be the body which dies that will be
resurrected. The body returns to dust. In the morning of
Messiahs Reign, God through Him will grant each of
Adams race a body as it hath pleased Him. The saintly
few will share in the First Resurrection, to glory, honor
and immortality, the Divine nature, far above angels. Then
will come Gods blessing upon the world, to give them
Restitutionearthly bodies. It is manifestly much easier
for God to give as He purposes, a new body, than, as we
once surmised, to gather each atom of dust from every
quarter to restore it as the same body. Not a passage of
Scripture mentions the resurrection of the body, but many
passages mention the resurrection of the soul, which will
be awakened and given a new body, earthly for the earthly
class, Heavenly for the Heavenly class. 1Cor. 15:37-40.

ENTERS THE HELL BELLY JONAH 2:2

RESURRECTION PREFIGURED MATT. 12:40

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THE LOGOS MADE FLESH

THE ANNUNCIATION

HE Jewish nation, failing to keep the Law Covenant

of Sinai, failed to make good as the Seed of Abraham
fit to bless the world. Then the due time came for God to
provide MessiahRedeemer and Deliverer for Israel and
all peoples. He would become flesh, of Abrahams family,
fulfil the Law Covenant terms, and then by self-sacrifice
would become Abrahams Seed on the Spirit plane, able to
succor all who would come to the Father through Him.
In St. Johns Gospel (1:1-5) Jesus in His pre-existent
condition is described as the Word of God, or Logos, The
First-born of all Creation.Colossians 1:15.
Ancient kings addressing their people sat behind a
lattice, in front of which stood a representative who
uttered the kings message to the people. Such
representative was called the. Logosthe kings word, or
mouthpiece. The illustration is forceful, beautiful, when
applied to Gods Only Begotten Son, through whom God
speaks to humanityto the Church now, to the world
shortly, through the Messianic Kingdom.
The literal translation of John 1:1 throws much light
upon a subject hitherto dark. In the beginning was the
Logos, and the Logos was with the God, and the Logos
was a God; the same was in the beginning with the God.
All things were made by Him, and without Him was not
one thing made that was made. The Logos was made flesh
and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, as the glory
of the Only Begotten of the Father. Jesus tells us the
same thing in other language, saying, He was the
beginning of the creation of God. (Rev. 3 :14.) He was
the beginning and the ending, the first and the last, the
Alpha and the Omega. (Rev. 21:6.) The thought is clear;
Jehovah God directly created no other being than the
Logos, and Him very great and in the likeness of Jehovah.
How distinctly, yet briefly, all this is stated by St. John!
Next in the Divine Program was the annunciation to
Mary, then, the greatest event of history, the birth of our
Redeemer.

JOSEPH AND MARY START

THE ARRIVAL AT THE INN

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TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY

SHEPHERDS GOING TO THE CITY

NLY as we associate the Babe of Bethlehem with the

Logos by and through whom all things were made, do
we get our mental focus respecting Jesus. His life was not
from Adam, through Josepha forfeited life. It was a
transferred life. The Logos, who was rich in spirit
privileges, glory and honor, for our sakes became poor
[The Man Christ Jesses] that we by His poverty might
become richthat mankind might be redeemed from the
cursethe Death Sentence and all it includes of sorrow,
pain and alienation from God. A body hast Thou prepared
Me for the suffering of death? The death of a spotless
One was necessary as a Ransom-price for Adam and his
race.1 Timothy 2:6.
No wonder the angels rejoiced to announce to the
shepherds the Logos made fleshthe Babe of Bethlehem.
Fear not! Behold, we bring you good tidings of great joy,
which shall be unto all people! Few have analyzed the
Message, few have seen how comprehensive its scope. It is
for Jews and Gentilessinners all all people. Only a
few have yet had opportunity to get this great joy; but the
Redeemer promises that He will yet be the True Light to
lighten every man that cometh into the world.John 1:9.
For unto you [mankind] is born this day in the City
ofDavid a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Ah! the
meaning of that word Savior! It means Life-giver! The
right to live had been lostall are dying. The Life-giver
came to provide life everlasting for the dying race. Thank
God for a Life-giver, a Great One, able to save unto the
uttermost!Hebrews 7:25.
The Peace on Earth, good-will to men prophecy has
not yet been fulfilled, but it is nearing. The birth of the
Babe was one step toward it; the death on the cross was
another; the glorious resurrection and ascension of the
Logos again to the Spirit plane were other steps. The
selection of the Church as Messiahs Bride is another,
nearly completed. The Messianic Kingdom will complete
the blessed prophecy.

WE MEN GUIDED BY THE STAR

ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS

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JOHN THE FORERUNNER

PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE

HE work of redemption began with Jesus

consecration to death at 30 years of age, symbolized
by His Baptism. There He who was made flesh for the
purpose, gave Himself to be a Ransom-price for all, to be
testified to all in due time. The humbling of the Logos to
take human nature, the birth of the Babe of Bethlehem,
and the years of development afterward, were incidental.
Similarly, the work of John the Baptiser was a
preparation. His mission was the announcement of Jesus
as the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the
world. He reproved sin and exhorted to righteousness as
necessary to all who would receive Messiah and be
received and blessed by Him as sharers in the Kingdom
He would establish.
John preached, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
P,e-pent ye? Only the Israelites indeed, without guile,
received Messiah, and became associates in His glorious
work. Johns Baptism was the washing away of sins
against the Jewish Law, and was intended only for Jews
not wholly faithful.
Johns Baptism symbolized cleansing from
defilement, and was preached to the Jews, and was
applicable to them only. Gentiles were excluded. How
could they repent and get back into covenant relationship
when they had never been in relationship? The Jews, still
under the covenant made with them at Sinai through its
mediator, Moses, had relationship with God, for, as St.
Paul says, they were all baptized into Moses, in the sea
and in the cloud. Every Israelite in heart relationship with
God through Moses, was transferred from Moses to Christ,
and needed no additional baptism into Christ, because
already accepted in Moses, the type of Christ.
When the Call began to go to the Gentiles, several at
Ephesus believed and were baptized by Johns Baptism, as
though they had been Jews. This was a mistake. At St.
Pauls word they were rebaptized, into Christs death.
Gentiles needed to be baptized directly into Christs
death.Acts 18:25; 19:3-5; Romans 6:3; 11:17-25.

GOING UP TO JERUSALEM

JESUS QUESTIONING THE D-DS

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THE BAPTISM OF JESUS

THE CARPENTERS SON

HEN Jesus presented Himself to John at Jordan to

be baptized, it caused surprise. John declared. I
have more need to ask You to baptize me! You have no sin
to wash away! Jesus did not explain the matter. He merely
said, Suffer it to be so now. He thus intimated that He
was not following Johns baptism to wash away sins, but
that His baptism had another special meaning, which He
did not disclose. St. Paul explains to us that Jesus
baptism symbolized His full consecration of His life to
God as a sacrifice, even unto death.Hebrews 10:5-9.
Jesus afterward indicated that His entire ministry was
a fulfilment of tim consecration made at thirty, when He
was baptized. It symbolized His immersion into death
yielding His life to the service of God. At the close of His
ministry, He said, I have a baptism to be baptized with,
and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! (Luke
12:50.) The next day, on the cross, He cried, It is
finished! His baptism into death, begun at Jordan, was
there completed.
In this matter the followers of Jesus copy Him. They
are baptized into His death, and thus into His Body, the
Church. (Romans 6:3.) This baptism into The Christ
company, or Body, will not be completed until the last
member shall have passed into death. Then the baptism of
Christ as a whole will be finished. Then beyond the veil,
by the First Resurrection, the entire Body will receive
glory, honor and immortality and be joint-heirs with Jesus
in the Kingdom then established. If we suffer with Him,
we shall also reign.
As Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens
[higher things] were opened to Him. Heavenly Truths
became clearer. He could understand the deep things of
God. (I Corinthians 2:10.) This enlightenment came by
the receiving of the Holy Spirit. So His followers received
a measure of the Spirit, begetting them as sons of God,
joint-heirs with Christ. They also are illuminated
Hebrews 10:32.

NEARLY THIRTY OFF FOR BAPTISM

ANOINTED BY THE SPIRIT

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GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM

PRAY YE, THY KINGDOM COME

OR more than sixteen centuries Israel had waited and

prayed for the coming of Messiahs Kingdom to exalt
them, and to bless the world. The announcement that the
Kingdom was at hand was a good Messageor Gospel.
But not enough Jews were in condition of heart to be
Israelites indeed, worthy to share with Jesus in the
glorious service of His great, long-promised Kingdom. He
came unto His own [people], but His own received Him
notthey crucified Him. But to as many as received Him
[few] He gave the liberty, or privilege, of becoming sons of
God, of passing from the House of Servants, under Moses,
to the House of Sons, under the Headship of Jesus. This
was effected at Pentecost, by the begetting of the Holy
Spirit.John 1:11-13; Heb. 3: 1-6.
Not enough worthy Jews being found, the Kingdom
offer was withdrawn from them, and for nineteen centuries
God has been completing the foreordained number from
saintly Gentiles. Outward signs and the prophecies
demonstrate that the Kingdom was not set up then, and did
not begin to bless the world. Instead, all the unready of
Israel were broken off from Divine favor for a time, while
the Call to the Kingdom was sent to the Gentiles, to take
out of them a people to complete the foreordained Body
of Christ. (Romans 11:1-7, 11, 12.) Holy, saintly
characters from every nation have been gathering for
nineteen centuries, until now the number is nearly
complete and the Kingdom about to be established.
When, therefore, the election of the Spiritual Seed of
Abraham shall be accomplished, this Gospel Age will end.
Then will begin the Messianic Age, in which Christ and
the Church shall reign in spirit power.Revelation 5: 10;
20:6.
Then the blindness of Israel will be removed, and the
blessings of the New Dispensation will come to them, and
through them to all the families of the Earth, as God
promised. That the Church is the Spiritual Seed of
Abraham, to bless Natural Israel and the world, is clearly
shown in Galatians 3: 16, 29.

THE TWELVE APOSTLES

THE SEVENTY EVANGELISTS

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PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM

THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE

ESUS parables chiefly relate to the Kingdom. Some of

them show how the Jews failed to become heirs of the
Kingdom, and how the Gentiles came in for a share.
Others show the Kingdom class suffering violence during
this Age as a part of their preparation for the Kingdom
glories. The Kingdom of Heaven [class] suffereth
violence. The violent have dominated it by force for
centuries.
The parable of the Kings Son shows that the Jews
had the first opportunity for joint-heirship with Messiah in
Ills Kingdom. Then the Gentiles received the invitation.
And these, not many wise or learned, have for eighteen
centuries been prepared for Messiahs Kingdom. Do ye
not know that the saints shall judge the world?1
Corinthians 6:2.
In the parable the Wedding Garment represents a
faith relationship with God through Christs merit. The
one who discarded it was cast out of the Bridal Company.
This prefigures the fate of all who reject the efficacy of the
sacrifice of Christ in atonement for their sins. They will be
forced out of the light of Present Truthinto the outer
darkness of the world. By and by they will realize their
loss of the Kingdom with chagrinweeping and gnashing
of teeth.
The Pearl of Great Price illustrates the Kingdoms
priceless valueit is worth its costour all.
The Wheat-field parable of the Kingdom represents
the Church during this Age. The wheat, almost choked out
by tares of error, yet finally ripened and gathered into the
Heavenly garner, will be the Sun of Righteousness to
usher in the New Day of Messiahs Kingdom.Matthew
13:43.
The parable of the Talents represents how each
consecrated disciple of Jesus is a steward of his own
talents, and that according to his faithfulness will be his
share in the Kingdom. Faithfulness in using the few
talents of the present will bring great opportunities for
blessing the world in the next Age. I will make thee ruler
over many things.Matthew 25:21.

MARRIAGE OF THE KINGS SON

PARABLE OF THE TALENTS

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THE PRODIGAL SON

RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL

HE Scribes, Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were

the Eider Brother of the Prodigal Son parable.
Publicans and sinners, careless of spiritual privileges,
were the Prodigal, estranged from their Fathers House.
Jesus shows Gods attitude toward the returning prodigal.
For such He provides a feast, a blessing which all may
share, if they will. Those who received Jesus Message
included not many great, wise or noble, but chiefly
penitent prodigals.
The parable of Dives and Lazarus illustrated the same
lesson. The Jewish nation was Dives, the Rich man. His
table, his spiritual food, the promises of God, was
abundantly supplied; his raiment, fine linen, represented
justification, effected through the typical Atonement-day
sacrifices. His purple robe represented, symbolically, the
fact that he was identified with Gods Kingdom, purple
being a symbol of royalty. Lazarus represented the
hopelessness of the sinners and Gentiles, who hungered
for a share in the promises to Abraham, but who got only
crumbs until Israels rejection.Matthew 23:38.
The Poor mans sores represented a sin-sick
condition; the dogs which licked them represented the
sympathy of Gentile dogs. This was illustrated in the
Syrophenician woman whose daughter Jesus healed. She
was not a Jewess, and therefore Jesus at first refused to
aid her, saying, It is not proper to take the childrens
bread and give it to dogs. But she pleaded: Yes, Lord,
yet the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the childrens
table. Jesus gave her the crumb.
The Rich man, the Jewish nation, died to his great
blessings. Nationally he fell asleep in Hades, and awaits
reawakening. But personally the Jews passed into a great
time of trouble, symbolically represented as fire, for
eighteen centuries.
Lazarus also died to his condition of disfavor, and
found himself in Abrahams bosoma child of
Abraham. Thus the Gentiles have become Abrahams
Seed, and heirs of the Spiritual part of the Abrahamic
Promise.Galatians 3:29.

THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN

DIVES AND LAZARUS

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NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH

THE WIDOWS SON AWAKENED

HEN Jesus found the mourners bewailing the death

of Jairus daughter, tie put them forth, saying, The
maid is not dead, but sleepeth. Then He awakened her.
Man does not die the same as beast. Although death to
man and beast is cessation of life, yet to man God has
given precious promises of a future life by a resurrection.
There are numerous assurances that mankind shall be
restored from death to receive things promised. Therefore
the Scriptures speak of man as not dying, but merely
falling asleep. The unconscious sleepers are all promised
an awakening in the Resurrection Morn. Jesus declared
that all in their graves shall hear His voice and come
forthsome to a life of eternal reward, for present
faithfulness; others to a trial, or judgment, to determine
their everlasting destiny.John 5:28, 29. R.V.
Jesus awakened Lazarus, whose sisters were Martha
and Mary, at whose home He frequently stopped at
Bethany. When Lazarus was seriously sick, the sisters sent
Jesus the message, Lord, he whom Thou lovest is sick.
To their surprise he allowed Lazarus to die. .Mentioning
the matter to His disciples, He said, Our friend Lazarus
sleepeth, and later, Jesus said unto them plainly,
Lazarus is dead. Jesus said not a word about the dead
going to Heaven, purgatory or hell, as was once believed.
See John 3:13; 11:13,14; Acts 2:29-35.
This word sleep has long been used as symbolical of
death. Abraham slept with his fathers, and his fathers
were heathens. St. Paul refers to those who sleep in
Jesus, and tells us We shall not all sleep, referring to
those who remain alive until the establishment of
Messiahs Kingdom, and the First Resurrectionat the
beginning of His Reign.
These sleep neither in Heaven, purgatory nor a hell of
torment. The Bible declares, They that sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake, some to shine as stars, and
others to be in contempt and shame, until they have
demonstrated their repentance and loyalty.Daniel 12: 2.

THE AWAKENING OF LAZARUS

THOU ART THE CHRIST

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CAPERNAUM CAST DOWN TO HELL

BETHSAIDA CAST DOWN TO HADES

APERNAUM, the scene of the majority of Jesus

mighty works, is now marked merely by a ruin.. In it
we see fulfilled Jesus prophecy, Thou, Capernaum,
which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to
hellto Hadesthe tomb. Symbolically that city was
lifted to heaven in privilege as being the Masters own city
during His ministry. Its great privileges meant great
responsibility, and hence Jesus told them that if the same
mighty works done in their midst had been done in Sodom
and Gomorrah, they would have repented. He said, In the
Day of .Judgment, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and
Gomorrah than for you.
The Day of Judgment is undoubtedly the thousandyear Day of Christs Reign, in which judgment, or trial,
will be granted to the world, to separate sheep from
goatsto determine those worthy and those unworthy of
everlasting life. That glorious Epoch will be a blessed Day
of privilege, light and grace, in which all the darkness of
sin will vanish. It will be more tolerable for those who
sinned without light than for those who enjoyed great
privileges and opportunities.
Bible students are coming to see that the Day of
Judgment has been greatly misunderstood. It has been
thought of as a time of condemnation, instead of which it
will be a period of testing, to see who, under trial, will be
found worthy and who unworthy of everlasting life, which
Jesus died to secure for all of Adams race desiring it on
Gods terms.
The first Judgment Day was in Eden. Father Adam
because of disobedience was sentenced to death. For six
thousand years his race has been under that sentence.
Jesus died to release all from that sentence, and to grant to
all an opportunity of everlasting life. Only a faithful few,
an Elect class, have yet been blessed. Their judgment, or
trial, is in advance of the world, that they may be with
Jesus judges of the world during the worlds trial, or
Judgment Daythe thousand years. 1 Corinthians 6:2;
Acts 17:31.

TYRE CAST DOWN TO HADES

CHORAZIN CAST DOWN TO HADES

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SHEEP AND GOATS PARABLE

VALLEY OF HINNOM GEHENNA

HIS parable pictures the Kingdom conditions after the

Church is glorified and the Kingdom established It
will begin fulfilment When the Son of Man shall come in
His glory, and all the holy angels with Him. All nations,
including those now asleep in death, will be on trial before
Christs Judgment Seat, to determine their willingness or
unwillingness to come fully into harmony with God, and to
receive the Divine blessing of life everlasting, or,
contrariwise, to be destroyed in the Second Death.
Those developing the wayward, goat-like disposition
will pass to Messiahs disfavor, represented by His left
hand. At the close of the Millennium, the separation will
have affected the entire human family, and have brought
all into one of two classes. One class will be rewarded
with the gift of God, eternal life. The other class,
unworthy, will get the punishment which God has
provided, namely, destructionkolasin, cutting off from
life. The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Their destruction is symbolically represented by fire,
and was illustrated by the fires in the Valle>. of Hinnom
(mistranslated Hell), in which the garbage of Jerusalem
was destroyed. The Valley of Hinnom (Greek, Gehenna)
was once quite deep. Only dead carcasses were put into it,
including those of very vicious criminals. It symbolized
hopelessnessannihilation. Jesus used Jerusalem as a
figure of the New Jerusalem. This valleyGehenna
prefigured the Second Death, from which there will be no
redemptionno recovery.
Gehenna was earlier called Tophet. When Israel
became idolatrous, the image of Moloch was erected there
and children were roasted alive in the arms of the image
sacrificiallydevilishly. Good King Josiah defiled it for
garbage purposes.
Our pious fathers provided worse idols for us
Creed-idols! To these we were taught to sacrifice millions
of heathens, and non-elect infants. But their day is gone!
Thank God! Saner views of God are ours, and a truer
interpretation of the Bible.

MOLOCH PROTOTYPE OF TORMENT DEITY

IN GEHENNA SECOND DEATH TYPED

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KINGDOM WORK ILLUSTRATED

HEALING THE SICK

OT only did Jesus and His disciples preach about the

Kingdom, and teach about it in parables, but the
mighty works which Jesus did were intended to
foreshadow the still greater work to be accomplished by
His Kingdom during His Millennial Reign. Matt. 4:23;
Isa. 35:5, 6.
This is intimated by the words, These things did
Jesus and manifested forth His glory. In other words, the
works of Jesus were foregleams of the work of His
Glorious Kingdom. Many of His mighty works were done
on the Sabbath for the same reason. As the six days in the
week represent toil and travail, the result of sin, so the
seventh day represents the Millennium, the rest of the
people of God, secured to all who accept it through the
merit of Christs sacrifice.
The turning of water into wine represented how the
plain things of the present time, the simplicity of present
Truth, will yet be transmuted by the Lord into the joys of
the Kingdom, at the Marriage Feast in glory.
The cleansing of the lepers represented cleansing
from the leprosy of sin. The one who returned to give glory
to God represents the fact that only a little flock
appreciate the favor of sins forgiven during this Age.
The healing of the sick represented the great fact that
all diseases (mental, moral, physical) will be healed by
Messiah, the Good Physician, Royal Priest, typed by
Melchisedec.
The opening of the blind eyes and of the deaf ears
represented the greater fact that in due time the eyes and
ears of understanding of all mankind will be opened, and
Gods glory will be appreciated. All flesh shall see it
together. Isa. 40:5.
Our Lords Transfiguration on the Mount was another
illustration of the Kingdom. His disciples knew not
whether it was a reality or a vision, until Jesus said, Tell
the vision to no man until The Son of Man be risen from
the dead. Later, St. Peter declared that what they saw in
the holy mount represented Messiahs Kingdom.2 Peter
1:16-18.

HEALING THE INFIRM AT BETHESDA

BLESSED ARE THE MEEK

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HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST

IN THE HOME AT BETHANY

OWARD the close of Jesus Ministry He came to

Bethany, to the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary
the same Lazarus whom He had awakened from the sleep
of death. Mary chose this opportunity to anoint the
Masters feet with Precious Ointment, which He declared
was an anointing for His burial.Matthew 26: 12.
The next day tie sent for an ass and rode thereon into
Jerusalem, after the manner of Israels kings. When Jesus
came in sight of Jerusalem, He wept over the city,
exclaiming, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the
Prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how
often would I have gathered thy children as a hen
gathereth her brood under her wings, but ye would not!
Now, I say unto you, Your house is left unto you desolate!
Ye shall see Me no more until that day [of Messiahs
glory] when ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the
name of the Lord! (Matthew 23:37-39.) Meantime the
Kingdom is not abandoned, merely delayed. Messiahs
Bride will be only partly Jewish. Israel hath not
obtained the coveted chief favor; but the Elect obtained
it.
The multitude caught the spirit of the occasion, that
Jesus was the promised King, and hailed Him as Messiah.
They scattered clothing and palm-branches before Him,
implying that the best of Earth was not too good for One
so great. Meantime, they shouted, Hosanna to the Son of
David! the long-promised Messiah of Davids line!
Blessed is He that cometh in the name of Jehovah!
Matthew 21:9.
The Pharisees, who did not believe, thought the
procedure sacrilegious, and told Jesus to stop the shouting.
Jesus replied that the Prophet Zechariah (9:9) said,
Shout, and therefore there must be a shout. If they
should hold their peace, the very stones would cry out.
God had declared it; there must be a shout; the prophecy
must be fulfilled.
Cleansing the Temple of money-changers and
merchants followed our Lords triumphal entry into the
city.

ANOINTING JESUS FEET

CLEANING THE TEMPLE

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THE COST OF THE KINGDOM

THE NEEDLES-EYE GATE

HE Bible surely tells us that the way to the Kingdom

is difficult and narrow, that the cost of being disciples
of Jesus is self-denial and cross-bearing. Many wonder
that the promises are thus restricted and not to all who
strive to do right, without faith or self-sacrifice.
The parable of a camel creeping through a Needleseye illustrated how the rich must unload their wealth if
they would prepare to share the Kingdom. The little gate
in the larger one was called a Needles-eye.
Bible students now explain that difficulties are
attached to the gaining of the Kingdom because God
desires a very choice little company for that glorious
position. He has made the trials so severe that only the
saintly will avail themselves of the opportunity to gain the
Kingdom.
The young ruler asked Jesus: What shall I do to
inherit eternal life? Jesus referred him to the Law, which
promised eternal life to any Jew who would keep it. The
young man replied that he had done his best, but still was
dying. Jesus loved him for his good endeavors, and pointed
him to a new way to life everlasting, by self-sacrifice as
His disciple. Additionally he might become a joint-heir
with Jesus in glory, honor and immortality.Mark 10:1725; Romans 2:7; 8117.
Two dear disciples asked to sit next Jesus on the
Throne of His Kingdom. The Master replied, Are you able
[willing] to drink of My cup of self-denial, self-sacrifice,
ignominy and shame? Are you able to be baptized into My
deathto self-will, to cutting off from every earthly
privilege, if such be Gods providence for you?Matthew
20:22; Mark 19:35-38.
Those loving disciples answered that they were ready
for anything, with the Masters help. He assured them and
us that He will furnish trials and assistances, and that if
faithful to the end, we shall have a crown of life. But the
honors and glories of the Kingdom will not be determined
by grace, but by Justice.Matthew 20:23; Revelation
3:21; 2:10.

COMMERCIALIZED RELIGION

REQUESTING KINGDOM HONORS

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THE MEMORIAL SUPPER

THE MEMORIAL SUPPER

IVE days after Jesus rode on the ass. offering Himself

as Israels King, came the Passover, typical of the
passing over of the Church of the First-barns.
Jesus was tim Lamb of God to take away the sin of
the world. In order to do this, He must be the Passover
Lamb. St. Paul says, Christ our Passover is slain,
therefore let us keep the feast. Jesus ate the typical
Passover lamb with His disciples. Then He took
unleavened bread, and fruit of the vine, as representing
His own flesh and His own blood, and instituted an
antitypical Passover Supper.
Jesus followers were to do this in remembrance of
His death as the antitypical Lamb. He said, Except ye eat
the flesh and drink the blood of The Son of Man, ye have
no life in you. Of course, the outward performance would
be nothing except as it would symbolize heart experiences.
In their hearts, .Jesus followers must realize that His
death is the Ransom-price for the sins of the whole world;
that without it there would be no everlasting life. Such
believers constitute the Church of the First-barns, who
pass into life in advance of the worldin the First
Resurrection.Revelation 20:6.
St. Paul shows a still deeper meaning to the
Memorial Supper. All the followers of Jesus are
represented in the One Loaf that is being broken, and as
sharing in the One Cup of suffering, shame, ignominy and
death. (1 Cor. 10: 16 17.) Only such will be members of
His glorious Body, the worlds Prophet like unto
Moses.Acts 3:19-23.
The disciples neglected to wash each others feet or
even the Masters. Jesus performed the service as a lesson
in humility not as a ceremonial. The spirit of the lesson
is that we render each other any service possible, as
members of Christ.Acts 9:5; 1 Corinthians 12:27.
After the Supper, Jesus with the Eleven went to
Gethsemane, where Judas betrayed Him to the officials
with a kiss. Then followed the memorable closing scenes
of our Lords life.

GETHESEMANE SUFFERINGS

JESUS BEFORE CAIAPHAS

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ECCE HOMO! BEHOLD THE MAN!

THE MAN CHRIST JESUS

ARLY the next morning Jesus was led to Pilate and

.charged with Treason against the Emperor in
asserting Himself a King. His accusers were the foremost
Jews. Pilate realized the malice of the charge, to secure
the death of an inoffensive person. Learning that Jesus was
from Galilee, he sought to rid himself of the responsibility
by sending Him to King Herod. But Herod would have
nothing to do with Jesus. He had heard of His miracles,
and feared. After Herods soldiers had mocked Jesus, He
was returned to Pilate. His accusers insisted that if Pilate
should let Him go, that would prove disloyalty to the
Roman Emperor.
Pilate sought to release Jesus, and to satisfy the
clamor, ordered Him to be scourged. But this did not
satisfy the mob, which cried, Crucify Him! Finally,
Pilate, placing Jesus prominently, exclaimed, Ecce
Homo!Behold the Man! You have no other Jew His
equal! Would you crucify Him? The mob cried the more
persistently, Crucify Him! Nothing is more hearthardening than religious errors.
Jesus was not the mobs ideal of a king. Had He been
coarse;, vulgar, a boaster, He would have been more
nearly their ideal of a person likely to lift their nation from
under the Roman yoke, and to become conqueror, like
Alexander the Great. The world looks with a measure of
reverence upon Jesus, but still He is far from the human
ideal. Neither are the footstep followers of Jesus the
worlds ideals. They with Jesus are counted peculiar. As
St. John wrote, As He is, so are we, in this world
despised as respects human ideals.
Humanity fails to realize that Gods purpose in Christ
and His followers has been to prepare them by meekness,
gentleness, patience, long-suffering and love for the
glorious work of Messiahs Kingdom, to bless all
mankind. Present experiences are necessary, the Bible
declares, that this Royal Priesthood may be, later on, a
sympathetic Priesthood in respect to mankind.Hebrews
2:10; 3:1; 5:8-10; 12:11.

ECCE HOMO! BEHOLD THE MAN!

EARTHS HEROES WARRIORS

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THE DYING THIEFS HOPE

LEAVING THE PRETORIUM

ILATE washed his hands in the sight of the people as

expressing his innocence of Jesus death; then he gave
the necessary orders for the execution. The Roman
Government expected him to be absolutely just in respect
to Roman citizens; dealings with others were to be
conciliatory.
Two thieves were crucified at the same time, one on
either side of Jesus, over whose head was charged the
crime for which He was crucified: Jesus, the King of the
Jews. Few deaths are so painful as crucifixion.- Matthew
27: 37.
One thief made sport of Jesus, saying, If you are
Gods Son, the Messiah and King, prove it by coming
down from the cross. If Jesus had saved His life, He could
not have become the King and Savior of the world,
because only by His death could the Death Sentence
against Adam and his race be met. Jesus died willingly a
sacrificial death.
The other thief defended Jesus, saying that He had
done nothing amiss, whereas they were receiving a just
penalty.
After this defense the penitent thief turned to Jesus,
saying, Lord, if You are a King and ever come into Your
Kingdom, remember this poor thiefdo something for
me! Jesus replied, Amen! i.e., So be itas you ask!
Although I seem to have not a friend in Heaven or Earth,
yet I say unto you this dark day, You shall be with Me in
Paradise. My Kingdom will be established. Under its
influence Earth will become a Paradise. You shall be
rewarded there.
The misplacement of the comma in our common
English Version has thrown us all astray. Evidently Jesus
did not go to Paradise that day, because Paradise is not yet
established. Furthermore, three days after, when lie arose
from the dead, He said to Mary, I have not yet ascended
unto My Father. St. Peter tells us that He was dead and
that His soul was raised from the dead on the third day.
(Acts 2:31.) All people are to be blessed by Messiahs
Kingdom, but penitence prepares for quicker blessings and
fewer stripes.

THE REDEMPTION PRICE

THE NIGHT OF THE CRUCIFIXION

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QUICKENED IN SPIRIT

HE IS RISEN

ECAUSE still natural men, the disciples could not

comprehend spiritual thingsuntil Pentecost. It was
necessary, therefore, that Jesus resurrection should be
humanly demonstrated. Only believers could receive the
Pentecostal illumination. They must believe, and know
also that He is no longer a man, but again a spirit being.
The third day after Calvary the women who carried
embalming spices found the sepulchre empty. Mary met
Jesus, but knew Him not, for He appeared as a gardener.
Jesus revealed Himself by His voice. He said, I have not
yet ascended to My Father and your Father, to My God
and your God. The news spread. St. Peter and St. John
were amazed, and both ran to the sepulchre. They saw
nothing but the vacant tomb and the folded clothes.
Later the same day, two of them journeyed to
Emmaus. They were conversing eagerly when Jesus, in
another form, unrecognized by them, joined them. He
quietly explained to them the types and prophecies which
foretold Jesus death as mans Redeemer, saying, Thus it
behooved Messiah to suffer and to enter into His glory.
Telling the experience afterward they said, Did not our
hearts burn within us as He talked with us by the way and
opened unto us the Scriptures? At their evening meal, He
revealed Himself, and vanished.
The same evening many of them were gathered in the
upper room discussing the remarkable events of the day,
the doors being shut, yea, bolted, for fear of the Jews.
Suddenly while the doors were still shut, Jesus appeared
in their midst, still differently. This time He appeared like
His former self. Even this affrighted them, though He told
them that what they saw was flesh and blood, and proved
it by eating. He was no longer the fleshly Jesus; in His
resurrection He returned to the spirit condition. (1
Corinthians 15:44.) But He had power to materialize, as
the holy angels (and Himself, before made flesh) had
done.

EN ROUTE TO EMMAUS

EMMAUS HE VANISHED

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ST. THOMAS THE DOUBTER

JESUS APPEARS IN GALILEE

N the following Sunday, Jesus again appearedin

the upper roomSt. Thomas being present. He had
rebuked his brethren for being too easily convinced that
they had seen Jesus, and said that he would not believe
unless he felt the print of the nails and the spear wound.
Jesus appeared again in a body like that of His
humiliation, with the marks of the spear and the print of
the nails. He urged Thomas to be convinced, but told of
still greater blessings for those who without those proofs
were able to fully believe.John 20:26-29.
The Bible tells that Jesus is no longer flesh, but a
spirit being, since His resurrection. As St. Paul declares,
the Church must all be changed, because flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. We must all be
changed that we may be spirit beingslike Him, which
surely means that He is no longer flesh. He was put to
death in flesh, and quickened in spirit, writes St. Peter.
1 Peter 3:18.
Jesus appeared to His followers three times on His
resurrection day, and five times more during the
succeeding thirty-nine daysbriefly. This was a part of
the great lesson that Jesus was no longer dead, and no
longer fleshthat He is highly exalted.Philippians
2:9; John 6:62.
Saul of Tarsus caught a glimpse of the risen, glorified
Jesus, unveiled by flesh, shining above the brightness of
the sun at noonday, and the brief glimpse cost him his
eyesight. If Jesus had thus appeared to His disciples
during the forty days after His resurrection, they would
have been alarmed, bewildered, unable to comprehend the
matter. St. Paul refers to his glimpse of Jesus, saying, He
was seen of me as one born before the time. His words
are explained to mean that all of Gods people, the Church
of the First-horns, are to be born into spirit conditions by
their resurrection. Thus changed they will see Messiah as
He is, in His great glory. But Saul saw Him before the
time.1 John 3:2.

HE BLESSED THEM

HE WAS SEEN OF ME ALSO ST. PAUL

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THE PENTECOSTAL REST

I WILL COME AGAIN

ENTECOST, the fiftieth day, was the Jubilee day, as

the fiftieth year was the Jubilee year. The fiftieth day
followed a Sabbath Day cycle (7x7 =49), as the Jubilee
year followed a Sabbath Year cycle (7x7 =49). As the antitype of the Jubilee Year will usher the world into the
glorious rest in Messiahs Kingdom and in the New
Covenant relationship with God, so the antitype of the
Jubilee day ushered believers into a rest of faith at
Pentecost. So St. Paul explains, We who believe do enter
into rest. All truly Christs are enabled to keep a Sabbath
rest of faith and trust all the time, not merely on the
Seventh Day, or on the First Day. Every day to them is a
rest by faith in Christs sacrificea Sabbath to the soul
foreshadow of Heavenly Rest.
None could enter into this true Sabbath rest, until
Jesus had opened the way. His death was necessary as
mans Ransom-price. His resurrection was necessary to
enable Him to apply that price on our behalf. He ascended
on High, there to appear in the presence of God as the
Advocate for His disciples. He imputes His merit to cover
their imperfections, and to make their sacrifice acceptable
to God, that they may suffer with Him and be glorified
with Him. For the faithful there remaineth a rest. still
more completeto be attained in their resurrection
change.Hebrews 4: 3, 9, 11.
Under Jesus direction, the Apostles, His followers,
were not to begin their work until they received the
Pentecostal blessingthe Holy Spiritthe evidence of
their acceptance as sons of God. The only thing they did
during that time before their own acceptance, was the
choosing of a successor for Judas place; but evidently God
never recognized their choice. In His own due time God
brought forth St. Paul to be the twelfth Apostle-one of
the twelve foundation stones of the New Jerusalem.
(Revelation 21:14.) The error of supposing Apostolic
Succession in the Churchs bishops was a costly one. It led
to many grievous errors.

VIEWING CEREMONIES ST. PETERS, ROME

THE MILLENNIUM SYMBOLIZED ISA. 11:6

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PENTECOSTAL PREACHING

KEYS OF THE KINGDOM TO ST. PETER

NLY The Twelve were specially ordained to Apostleship, to be mouthpieces of Jesus to the Church. Their
decision would bind on Earth the things bound in Heaven,
and loose on Earth things loosed in Gods sight. Even
these did not receive the Heavenly Fathers sanction until
Pentecost, when they received the Holy Spirit.
Scripturally, no one is authorized to preach or teach except
he has received the Spirit of God. And every one who has
received that Spirit has Divine authority to preach, wholly
irrespective of earthly ordinations.Isaiah 61:1.
This we are told is the import of the prophetic words
respecting Jesus the Head and the Church His Body: The
Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, for He hath ordained
Me to preach good tidings to the meek. All who have
received that Divine anointing, have the Divine
commission to preach the good tidings. Whoever has not
received that Heavenly authority cannot be a Divine
ambassador.
In fulfilment of Jesus words, I give unto you the
Keys of the Kingdom, St. Peter symbolically used two
Keys in connection with the Gospel: the first Key on the
Day of Pentecost, to open the door of invitation to all Jews
to become members of the Body of Christ, the Church,
through begetting of the Holy Spirit. Three and a half
years later he used the other Key and threw open the door
to the Gentiles. Cornelius was the first Gentile admitted to
membership in Christ.
Thousands of the holiest Jews by obedience to Gods
command came yearly to Jerusalem to observe Pentecost.
Thousands thus were attracted to the Pentecostal
preaching and carried their blessing and enlightenment
throughout the world.
There will yet be a second Pentecostal blessing. Only
the special servants and handmaids of the Lord share the
first and attain the Kingdom. Under Messiahs Kingdom
Gods Spirit will be poured out on all flesh. They will see
that of which their ancients prophesied.Joel 2: 28, 29;
Acts 2: 16-18.

ST. PETER PREACHING RESTITUTION

FIRST I. B. S. A. CONVENTION

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GODS CHOSEN VESSEL

ST. PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS

F St. Paul, Jesus said, He is a chosen vessel unto

Me to bear My Name to the Gentiles. (Acts 9:15.)
He is first brought to our attention as one of those
who consented to the death of St. Stephen. Subsequently,
he went about breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord.Acts 9: 1.
When we see the power of the Truth in its
transforming influence upon the human mind, we are
amazed. Yet we should remember that God never coerces
the free will. In St. Pauls conversion, Jesus merely
showed an honest man wherein he was wrong, and what
privileges he would have in connection with a Divinelydirected course.
St. Paul became the successor of Judas. There were to
be twelve Apostles of the Lamba crown of twelve stars
on the Churchs browand twelve foundations to the New
Jerusalem, and in them were the names of the twelve
Apostles of the Lamb. We are sure St. Pauls name is
amongst them. This is in accord with the testimony that he
was not one whir behind the very chiefest of the Apostles,
and was more abundant in visions and revelations than
they all. Matthias was chosen before Pentecost and was
never recognized by God.
St. Paul is the most prominent amongst the Apostles,
all of whom were glorious characters, especially chosen of
God for His special service. Like the other Apostles, St.
Paul had nothing to say respecting an eternity of torture for
anybody. He declared that those ultimately found
unworthy should be punished with everlasting
destruction. It is St. Paul who especially set forth that
Jesus must come a second time, and then must reign until
He shall have put all enemies under His feet. Through this
noble mouthpiece Jesus sent us particulars of the
resurrection of the just and the unjust, the change of the
Church at Christs Second Coming, the character of
Antichrist, etc. If St. Pauls Epistles were omitted, how
great would be our ignorance on many subjects!

ST. PAUL BEFORE FELIX

ST. PAUL PREACHING AT ROME

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GENTILES FELLOW-HEIRS

CORNELIUS REPRESENTATIVES

ODS Covenant with Abraham gave assurance that

all the blessings God purposed for mankind would
come to them through Iris posterity. The .Jews were the
natural seed of Abraham, and properly to them belonged
the promises. But when all Jews possessed of the faith of
Abraham had been privileged to come in with Jesus and
become His joint-heirs in the Messianic Kingdom, then
God through St. Peter used the second Key to the
Kingdom. He threw open the door of opportunity to the
Gentiles, that they might become fellow-heirs with the
Jews in the .Messianic Kingdom.
Three and a half years after Pentecost the angel of the
Lord appeared to Cornelius. tie told him that now Cod was
ready to accept his prayers and his devotion. He told him
to send for St. Peter at Joppa. From him he would hear
words necessary to be believed in order that he might be
fully accepted of God and receive the Holy Spirit.
Three messengers were sent to fetch St. Peter.
Meantime God prepared the Apostle. He was told that
what God had cleansed he should not consider any longer
unclean. St. Peter associated his dream with his visitors,
and promptly went to Cornelius home. He found
Cornelius and his family devout and ready to hear. He
proceeded to tell them the true story of Jesus: His death,
His resurrection, the call of the Church to be His Bride
classproving their worthiness by loyalty and faithfulness
even unto death.
While St. Peter was speaking, these consecrated
people, drinking in the Message, fully accepted the terms
of disciple-ship. Then God gave a manifestation of His
acceptance of them by the gift of the Spirit, such as was
common to all Christians at the beginning of this Age. St.
Peter, astonished, then said, If these have received the
Holy Spirit, who can forbid them water baptism, which is
only a symbol of their consecration to be dead with Christ
? Here Gentiles first began to be grafted into the Olive
Tree of Romans 11:17.

ST. PETER AT CORNELIUS HOME

CORNELIUS SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

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THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH

LAST PRAYER IN THE ARENA

RADUALLY the Gospel Message found hearing ears

amongst the Gentiles, but fewer in number. The Law
training of the Jews had been Gods special blessing to
them, preparing some of them for the Gospel. The first
Church in which Gentiles seemed to predominate in
numbers was at Antioch. Barnabas, Silas and others were
prominent amongst the brethren there, and later St. Paul.
It was at Antioch that the followers of Jesus were first
called Christians. Many Christians wish that no other
name had ever been accepted.
The Antioch Church, according to the Bible record,
had very simple arrangements, similar to those practiced
by Jesus and the Apostles. Forms and ceremonies had not
yet entered, to crowd out the simplicity of Christ with
mere forms of godliness. They met for growth in grace,
knowledge, love and to assist each other in the narrow
way. When fairly under way in their studies, they partook
of the missionary spirit, and authorized and financed a
mission which was conducted by St. Paul and Barnabas.
Other missions were also conducted, as recorded in the
Book of Acts.Acts 13: 1-5.
Not long after this, the terrible persecutions of Nero
and Diocletian came upon the Church. These Roman
Emperors found diversion and relief from ennui in the
horrible tortures they inflicted upon the inoffensive
followers of Jesus, whose mission in the world is merely
to do good to all men as they have opportunity, especially
to the household of faith, and to prepare themselves and
each other for association with their Redeemer in the
coming Kingdom.Galatians 6: 10.
Why did God permit persecutions? The answer is that
testings of faith and loyalty to God are as necessary to
Jesus followers as they were to Himself, and for the same
reasonto develop and crystallize character. These
corresponded to Jesus own persecution and crucifixion.
Thus He explained, saying, It was necessary that The Son
of Man should suffer and enter into His glory. The Elect
walk in His steps.

MARTYURS DEVOURED BY BEASTS

DRIVING LIONS BACK TO CAGES

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BEREAN BIBLE STUDENTS

THE GOSPEL IN THE WOODS

HE little gathering of believers at Berea is famous

amongst Gods people by St. Pauls declaration:
They f Berea were more noble than those of
Thessalonica, in that they searched the Scriptures daily to
see if these things [which St. Paul preached] were true.
(Acts 17:11.) They were but a little class, yet their
faithfulness to Gods Word caused them to be known as
Berean Bible Students. The early Church met not in costly
temples, nor did their elders and deacons have rich robes
of office, nor did the services consist of showy display.
They simply gathered as children of God, begotten of the
one Holy Spirit and inspired by the One Faith once
delivered to the saints. They gathered as the brethren of
Jesus, that they might be under His direction and care as
the only Head of the Churchas He declared, One is
your Master even Christ, and all ye are brethren. They
met to study the Message of Jesus and the Apostles.
Bible students in our day have much advantage over
these. We have convenient cheap Bibles, ability to read
them, and good lights such as our forefathers never
thought possible.
Bible students today are encouraged also when they
consider that the Bible distinctly teaches that when men
shall be running to and fro, and world-wide knowledge
shall be increased, then the Wise Virgins, the Lords
people, will understand certain features of the Divine Plan
previously kept hidden by Divine intention. They perceive
that we are in this day of running to and fro by every
means of conveyance, and that free schools, compulsory
education, etc., are bringing the foretold increase of
knowledge. These things mark the time for the wise of
Gods people to understand the Bible. How needful for
this special light, when so many are falling away from all
faith in the Bible, under the teachings of so-called Higher
Criticism, which denies that the Bible is the Divinely
inspired Message of God! (Daniel 12:1-10.) We should not
only awake, but put on the whole armor of God.

CHAINED BIBLE OF MIDDLE AGES

BIBLE STUDENTS MODERN BEREANS

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APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION

ELECTION OF A POPE

LL Christians claim that there were erroneous

doctrines taught in the past which cannot be
supported in the clearer light of our Day. All rejoice in the
spirit of greater amity spreading amongst Christians of
various denomi-nations-Catholic and Protestant. How did
Christianity get into such a befogged condition that
followers of Jesus thought they were honoring God in
torturing their fellow-men? With great unanimity, Bible
students seem to be reaching the conclusion that the
difficulty started in the doctrine of Apostolic Succession
the doctrine that Bishops of the Church were Apostles,
inspired in the same sense as The Twelve.
Pope Plus X. realizes that the people no longer regard
the Bishops as inspired authority and successors to the
Apostles in office. Evidently himself dissenting, he has
recently commanded that Roman Catholics be instructed to
study the Bible, thus to come under the influence of the
teachings of the inspired Twelve Apostles. All are
gradually seeing that The Twelve Apostles of the Lamb
(St. Paul taking the place of Judas) are the only Divinely
inspired authorities of the Church.
The Church, after the death of the Apostles, not
having the conveniences of Bibles and education, looked
too implicitly to their Bishops, or Pastors, and without
authority accredited them with Divine inspiration similar
to The Twelve. After two hundred years the mistake was
partially recognized, and an attempt was made to rectify it.
but in the wrong direction. It was found that the different
Bishops taught widely different, contradictory doctrines. It
was realized that these contradictions were not inspired by
the Holy Spirit.. The Emperor Constantine (not baptized)
called the Nicene Council of all the Apostolic Bishops,
at Nicea, A.D. 325. About one-third, 384, came. These
were commanded to decide on a Creed. They wrangled for
months. Then the Emperor decided and the Nicene Creed
was the result. The Emperors edict was that all not
consenting to it should be exiled.

CORONATION OF POPE LEO XIII

THE VATICAN COUNCIL

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THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

LOUIS THE PIOUS DOING PENANCE

RADUALLY the name of Christianity spread among

the peoples of Europe, without its Masters Spirit.
The name Christian became popular. In the day of King
Charlemagne, the title, Holy Roman Empire, was
established. The significance of the title is illustrated by a
famous picture in the Chapter House at Florence, Italy. It
shows the Emperor and the Pope seated side by side upon
a throne, and descending from each by steps, the various
officers of the Empire; on the Emperors side, generals,
etc., and on the Popes side, bishops, the clergy, etc. Some
claim this as a public acknowledgment of the marriage of
the professed Virgin of Christ to Civil Power, in the Book
of Revelation styled harlotry.Revelation 17:1-5.
The basis of the alliance was the doctrine which then
obtained, that the Second Coming of Christ as the Messiah
to rule the world for a thousand years was thus fulfilled.
The claims set forth were that it was the Divine intention
that Christ should be represented in the earth by the
Papacy, and that His government should be carried on
through earthly princes. This condition of things prevailed
in Europe for centuries. In the Sixteenth Century the
Reformation movement sprang up. These daughters of the
Church of Rome married earthly power, and started Holy
Empiresof their own.
This entire theory and its Systems received a severe
blow when Napoleon Bonaparte took the Pope a prisoner
to France. The spell of sacerdotal rule was broken. In
September, 1870, Victor Immanuel took possession of
Romea fatal blow.
Bible students are generally agreed that Church and State
union is contrary to the spirit of the Bible, an error of the
Dark Ages; that the Church of Christ is not to reign with
the princes of the Earth, nor to be married to them, but to
wait for her marriage till the Second Coming of her
Redeemer, to be united with Him in the First
Resurrection. Then she shall reign with Him forever.
Revelation 19:7; 20:6.

NAPOLEON DEFYING THE POPE

NEPOLEONS SOLDIERS AT SARAGOSSA

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CRUSADES AND CRUSADERS

PREACHING THE FIRST CRUSADE

HE name Christian had become popular in Europe.

Nearly everybody was recognized a Christian unless
he disavowed it and claimed to be a Jew. The drowsy spell
was broken by what some would term a fanatical outburst
of fervor, which claimed that Christians should wage war
on the Turks, Jews and others. The Crusades made their
mark in history. Under the spirit of the time, thousands of
the noblest of their day traveled hundreds of miles by land
and sea to fight for the Cross against the Crescent. It was
considered specially grievous that Jerusalem was under
Moslem control, and thousands of lives and fortunes were
spent in Crusades to deliver the Holy Sepulchre from the
Infidel Turk.
From our present-day standpoint and clearer
perception of things, people generally style the Crusades
an outbreak of foolishness, wasted effort, manifest
ignorance and bigotry. But perhaps Christians today have
something equally foolish and irrational. The human mind
will be active in some way. The folly of others is easier to
recognize than our own.
Some day it will be owned that Christendom today is
as foolish in some respects as in the days of the Crusaders.
Do not the great kingdoms of earth style themselves
divisions of Christendom (Christs Kingdom)? Are they
not building great Dreadnaughts that cost a fortune for
every discharge of their cannons? Are they not drilling vast
armies, and equipping them with costly implements of
war? For what purpose? Either because they have evil
designs upon the other so-called Christian nations, or that
they distrust the others. How foolish this shall yet appear!
How much better it will be when the Word of God is
fully accepted, and when its spirit of Justice and Love will
govern the world! Then the wealth and energy wasted in
Crusades, Dreadnaughts and armament will be used to the
general betterment of the people. Only Messiahs
Kingdom can restore man to Gods image and make Gods
footstool glorious.

BY THIS SIGN CONQUER

HUSS BEFORE THE COUNCIL

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HUSS, WYCLIFFE, TYNDALE ETC.

CRANMER, LATIMER AND RIDLEY

HE lessons of the past should never be forgotten. But

we Should cover with a broad mantle of charity, much
of its wickedness. The Church early lost the inspired
Message, and unconsciously adopted the error that the
teachings of the Bishops were the equivalent in authority
of those of the Apostles. Through this broad channel
grievous errors swept away precious truths. Lords Old
Roman World declares, In the Second Century there were
quiet bishops, intrepid martyrs, who addressed their flocks
in upper chambers, and who held no worldly rank. The
Third Century saw the Church more powerful as an
institution. When Christianity, in the Fourth Century,
became the religion of the court, it was used to support the
very evils against which it originally protested. The clergy,
ambitious and worldly, sought rank and distinction. They
became lazy, arrogant and independent. The Church was
allied with the State, and religious dogmas were enforced
by the sword of the magistrates.
Fortunately there are always advanced thinkers on all
lines. Such are generally considered fools, and persecuted.
In reality they are the greatest benefactors of mankind.
Huss suffered for his faithfulness to the Bible. Wycliffe
and Tyndale were persecuted. Tyndales Bible was burned
publicly by high ecclesiastics, in front of St. Pauls
Cathedral, London.
Later on, Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, once
associated with the Roman Hierarchy, but subsequently
with the English Hierarchy, were publicly burned, because
of their change of faith. In the light of today we see less
difference between the two Hierarchies. Both Catholics
and Protestants agree in condemnation of the atrocities of
the past, perpetrated in the name of our Redeemer, one of
whose titles is Prince of Peace, and who admonished,
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
children of God. Thank God! Our mental eyes, with
clearer light, see greater lengths and breadths and heights
and depths of Love Divine!

WYCILFFE BEFORE THE COUNCIL

TYNDALE TRANSLATING THE NEW TESTAMENT

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LUTHER, ZWINGLI, MELANCHTHON

LUTHER NAILING THESES ON CHURCH

OBODY today believes that Martin Luther stepped

so fully out in advance of all others that he could be
said to have grasped the Truth, the whole Truth and
nothing but the Truth. Even Lutherans cut two of his
Ninety-five Theses, but wishing to keep the number the
same they divided two others. All agree, however, that
about the time of Luther, civilization took a step forward.
Catholics are better Catholics today, and Protestants better
also.
Dr. Luther was the head of a Catholic College for the
instruction of German youth for the priesthood. He had
heard about the Bible, but like others for thirteen centuries
before him, he trusted in the decisions of the various
Apostolic Councils of tim Churchthe various
promulgated Creeds. These he believed to be Biblical.
But one day he chanced to see a Latin copy of the
New Testament. His curiosity led him to read it. He was
amazed at its simplicity. He wrote the Pope, suggesting
the calling of a Council to ascertain whether there had
been a gradual digression from the Bible. The Pope did
not take the suggestion kindly. Luther was branded a
heretic, unfrocked, excommunicated. This treatment only
convinced him the more of the difference between the
Bible methods and teachings and the modern ones. He
began to write tracts which he scattered all over Germany,
amongst the comparatively few people then able to read
in any language. Gradually, through much tribulation, the
Bible became more prominent.
Those holy, honest-hearted Reformers only partially
comprehended the Bible. Much of the smoke of
superstition and bigotry still affected their mental eyes.
Nor have we gotten out of the fog yet. Thank God,
however, Bible study is reviving, influencing people of
every denomination. Let us remember that only the few of
old were able to read. A Bible cost a fortune. It was
thought useless because of erroneous trust in BishopApostles and their Creeds.

LUTHER BURNING PAPAL BULL

EARLY PRESBYTERIANS, COVENANTERS

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TETZEL SELLING INDULGENCES

ST. PETERS CATHEDRAL

BOUT the time that Martin Luther began to study the

New Testament and was amazed at its simplicity
when he was grasping the great Bible Truth of justification
by faithhe encountered Tetzel. The effect was to
convince him the more that great errors had gradually
crept into the faith and spirit of the Church. Tetzel was
selling Indulgences under the Popes authority. The
proceeds were to be used in completing St. Peters
Cathedral at Rome.
Tetzel may or may not have exceeded his authority,
but the record is that he preached, not the merit of Christs
sacrifice, but the power of the Pope, and of himself, his
agent, saying, You have friends in Purgatory, suffering
there for various sins. The Pope has the power to release
them; I am his agent. Those who donate to this fund drop
their money into this box, assured that the moment they do
so their friends will be released from Purgatorial suffering.
Catholic though he still was, and a believer in
Purgatory, Luther could not tolerate such a commercial
proposition as that the grace of God should be purchased
with money. He denounced Tetzel vigorously.
So far as we are aware, the public sale of Indulgences
has been stopped in most civilized lands, but until recently
in Mexico many Church tables were spread with
Indulgences, specifying various sins and crimes, and
bearing fixed prices.
Protestants, and some Catholics, have assumed that
these Indulgences are permits to sin. The Church of Rome,
however, claims that they never issue permits to commit
sin, but merely so much remission of Purgatorial
sufferings.
Amongst Bible students today, there seems to be a
growing conviction that the Bible teaches that there is no
consciousness in deaththat the awakening moment in
the Resurrection Morning will connect up with the dying
thought. The proof-texts for Purgatory they apply to saints
in this life, to the worlds stripes in the next .Age, and
to the time of trouble.

LUTHER TRANSLATING THE BIBLE

INQUISITION PREPARATION

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THE HOLY (?) INQUISITION

MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW

ATHOLICS and Protestants are inclined to call the

doings of the Inquisition very unholy. Facing the facts
charitably, we remember that it belonged to a less favored
day. With enlightenment, thank God, has come a keener
sense of the Justice and Love which Jesus inculcated:
Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you and
persecute you and say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for My sake.Matthew 5: 44; Mark 13: 13; Luke
6:27.
The Law given Israel at Mt. Sinai expressed merely
Justice in its command, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself. How seriously indeed portions of Gods Word
were overlooked in the persecutions of the Inquisition! Not
only was there no love nor sympathy, but Justice in every
sense of the word was violated. Thank God for the light of
a better day!
There is in the human heart a treacherous disposition
to do evil, if only an excuse for it can be found. As the
Jews found an excuse for crucifying Jesus, stoning
Stephen, etc., so the Inquisitors found an excuse for their
persecutions. Like Saul of Tarsus, they thought they did
God service. Matters have changed greatly, but
persecution is still practised along different lines
ostracism, slander, boycotting. The Bible refers to this,
saying, Your brethren which cast you out said, The Lord
be glorified! But He shall appear to your joy, and they
shall be ashamed.Isaiah 66:5.
The mob spirit, the lynching spirit, is but a less legal
form of The Holy Inquisition. A Chicago Methodist
Episcopal minister, angered at Prof. Farson, is quoted by
the Indianapolis News and the New York Tribune as
saying: If I had the power I would skin that man, salt his
hide and tack it on a barn door. The secular editor of the
News says, If such a violent outbreak was made by one
who preaches the Gospel of Peace, what may we not
expect from the sons of Belial?
Evidences multiply that the mob spirit, the Inquisition
spirit, is growing. All should be on guard.

THE MORNING AFTER THE MASSACRE

HUGENOTS FLEE TO AMERICA

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CALVIN AND SERVETUS

CALVINISTS MONUMENT TO SERVETUS

N Geneva, Switzerland, there was dedicated in 1912 a

monument bearing the following inscription: In
memory of Michael Servetusvictim of religious
intolerance of his time, and burned for his convictions at
Champel, on September 27, 1553. Erected by the
followers of John Calvin, three hundred and fifty years
later, as expiation for that act, and to repudiate all
coercion in matters of faith.
Thus have the followers of John Calvin demonstrated
to the world that they have progressed far beyond the
teachings of their leader in the spirit of true Christianity
the spirit of Justice, of Love. Calvinists deserve
congratulations on their progress, from all Christians
Catholics and Protestants all of whom have been
making similarly good progress during the intervening four
centuries. None now would justify Calvins course in
sentencing Servetus to be burned.
Others burned at the stake usually had the fuel piled
at their feet. The flames were inhaled with the smoke, and
the victim was speedily unconscious to suffering. For
Servetus Satanic ingenuity arranged the burning fagots at a
distance. He literally roasted alive, in horrible torture,
nearly five hours in the name of God, of Jesus, of
Righteousness, Truth, Justice, Love, Christianity and
Civilization.
It seems remarkable that only now we are realizing
that a man so deficient in the spirit of his Master as to
murder his brother, should not be an accepted teacher of
the Word of God and its spirit. Only now are Bible
students realizing that Brother Calvin was not the inventor
of the doctrine of Election, but merely of the doctrine that
all the non-elect would suffer everlastingly. Now we see
that the terms, the Elect, the very Elect, are Bible
terms! and that those who make their calling and election
sure, will be glorified in the First Resurrection. Now we
see that the Elect will be associated with Jesus in His
Kingdom, which will bless the non-elect all the
families of the Earth.Galatians 3:29.

BURNING BIBLES ST. PAULS, LONDON

MARTYRS MEMORIAL AT OXFORD

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THE WESLEYS MOBBED

PERSECUTION OF METHODISTS

EGRET as we may the multiplied sects of

Christendom, we must look upon them all with
sympathy. The establishment of each, marked a further
endeavor to get nearer to God and the true Light. The
Wesleys returned to the simplicity of the early Church in
preaching, Class gatherings, Bible study, etc. Naturally
they were opposed by Churchianity. Cattle were driven
amongst the worshipers to interrupt their meetings; they
were mobbed. Similarly, Baptists, Presbyterians and
others have had their experiences of persecution,
hindering Bible study and worshiping of God according to
their consciences.2 Timothy 3: 12.
What manner of persons ought we to be? As we
note the bitter persecutions of the past, and the narrow
way of all who follow Jesus only, we should the more
forgive arrogance and bigotry. All should turn away from
human traditions and everything contrary to the Bible.2
Peter 3:11.
Christian people in all denominations are reaching
this conclusion, and studying Gods Word without creedal
spectacles, in Bible classes, or in their homes.2 Timothy
2:15.
Wesley uncovered another precious Bible truth. He
declared Calvins doctrine impossible for his acceptance,
as Calvinists now do. Brother Wesleys theme was Free
Grace, and his favorite text, The Spirit and the Bride say,
Come, and whosoever will may come and take of the
Water of Life freely. His heart was broad and loving, but
the real breadth of Grace Divine was not then seen. He did
not discern that his beautiful text relates to the blessing of
the non-elect during Messiahs Reign; that the Church will
not become the Bride until the marriage, at our Lords
Second Coming. Soon after, the Spirit and the Bride will
bid all mankind partake of life everlasting.
Now we see the connecting link between Election and
Free Grace. Gods Election of a saintly Kingdom class is
the work of this Age. The Elect in glory will in the next
Age extend Gods Free Grace to all. Romans 8:28, 29;
Revelation 22: 17.

THE PILGRIMS FLEE FROM PERSECUTIONS

PILGRIMS PERSECUTING BAPTISTS

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OUR MODERN TEMPLES

THE BERLIN CATHEDRAL DOME

REAT Temples, or Cathedrals, have been erected

throughout the civilized world. Their founders
doubtless were inspired more or less to emulate Solomon
and Herod in their great Temples of the past. No fault
need be found with these from some standpoints. All the
circumstances being equal, it would be a shame for
Christians to meet for Divine worship under conditions
inferior to those of their homes. In many instances,
however, the people who have donated the money for the
erection and upkeep of these buildings have been
extremely poor, and have been cajoled into the expenses
by misleading sophistries.
In the days of Jesus and the Apostles, it was not
considered Christian work to raise money for Church
purposes. Today money-raising is the ideal work for
Jesus. The Apostles taught that the real work of the
Church of Christ is not to build up costly edifices beyond
their means, involving them in debt, but to build
themselves up in the most holy faith. The Temple of God
is holy, which Temple ye are, if so be that the Spirit of
Christ dwell in you. Gods people are the living stones
under Divine supervision, being shaped and polished for
places in the Glorious Spiritual Temple. Through that
antitypical Temple, God will send His blessings. Tim
removal of the curse, and the wiping away of all tears, will
follow.
While using these modern Temples, let us not forget
that they are not the real Temple, or Church. It is
composed of the saints of God, who day by day are seeking
to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, in the service of the
Truth, doing good to all men as they have opportunity,
especially to the household of faith. If inclined to criticize
our forefathers for building costly Cathedrals while
neglecting the Bible, let us remember that coming
generations may make similar or worse comments on us
for building scores of costly Dreadnaughts for injury to our
fellows. With what shame we will look back upon our own
faults! The thought should make us humble.

JOHN KNOX PREACHING CALVINISM

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEMPLE

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REJECTED AND DESPISED

HRIST is here in contrast with the rich, the learned,

the religious and the irreligious of our day
Christendom. The Holy Spirit gives the spirit of a
sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7.) To sacrifice present
interests for eternal ones is wise. Is it any wonder that
artists represent the world as wealth-mad, glory-mad,
pleasure-mad?
The Christian Herald of a somewhat similar picture,
says: This allegorywhich a critic has aptly called A
Painters Sermonis applicable to conditions in every
part of the civilized world. It is a picture to study and to
ponder over, that the full import of its teaching may be
understood.
The Christian Commonwealth of the same, said: On
either side passes the heedless crowd. A prominent figure
is a priest, proudly conscious of the perfection of the ritual
with which he is starving a higher life. Over the shoulder
of the priest looks a stern-faced divine of very different
type, and, Bible in hand, he turns to look at the Divine
figure. The startled look on the face of a hospital nurse in
the foreground is very realistic. So absorbed is the man of
science with his test-tube that he never glances at the
Christ at his side. One of the most striking features is that
of a false beauty, hurrying from one scene of pleasure to
another. In the background stands an angel with bowed
head, holding the cup which the world He loved to the
death is still compelling the Christ to drink.
The passers-by represent the non-elect, whose only hope
lies in the Kingdom of Messiah. The Elect in this picture
are represented in the person of the suffering Savior
members of the Body of Christ, the Church. He that
despiseth you despiseth Me. These faithful members of
the Body of Christ are not confined to one denomination,
but constitute the saintly ones of every church and outside
of every human system. They are the Wise Virgin class,
being fitted by ignominy for the Heavenly Kingdom, and
its great work of blessing humanitythe non-elect.

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DANIEL IN THE CRITICS DEN

COLLEGES TEACHING HIGHER CRITICISM

MASTER of art has given us a picture which well

represents the attitude of the Higher Critics toward
the Book of Daniel and its wonderful prophecies, which
more clearly than any others point out our day, its present
experiences and what is to be expected. Of course, in
dis.crediting Daniel and the Prophets, and the Psalms of
the Old Testament, these critics really discredit Jesus and
the Apostles. These Higher Critics of all the great colleges
have undermined faith in the Bible as the Word of God,
and thus undermined all faith in a personal Creator with
many.
These critics have little to say against Him who spake
as never man spake; but the discerning minds of our day
perceive that as Jesus and the Apostles quoted Daniel and
the Prophets as Divinely inspired, the discrediting of the
one is the rejection of the other. How could we rely upon
the testimony of Jesus and the Apostles respecting other
matters, if they erred respecting the prophecies of the past
?
The condition of Christendom today is truly
deplorable; and although we can see how it has come
about, it seems almost impossible to restore a faith once
lost. Only the very honest-hearted may we expect will be
recovered. Their deflection had its start with the
impossible thought that all except a handful of humanity
must suffer to all eternity at the hands of fire-proof devils,
because God thus foreknew and arranged matters from
before the foundation of the world. They cast away the
Bible because of the erroneous view that it is the
foundation of all these various religious errors.
This unbelief advances like a mighty wave, and its
influence is sweeping away all hope respecting a future
life. It is preparing the world for anarchy. The wonder is
that the great and rich, supporting colleges which thus
teach, do not realize that they are bringing anarchy upon
the world.
Even now, Labor, like the blind giant Samson, is
groping for the pillars whose fall will overthrow present
conditions.

SIGNS OF THE SON OF MAN

ASSAULT ON MONASTERY

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MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO

ALL IN ONE MANS LIFE

VERYBODY knows that stimulated by printing there

has been a greater development of knowledge along
every line within the past century than during the
preceding fifty-nine centuries. Everybody knows that the
telegraph, telephone, wireless, electric lights, gas lights,
steam railroads, electric roads, machinery, conveniences,
etc., of our day were all unknown a century ago.
But although we know this to be true, it seems almost
incomprehensible to the rising generation. These things
have come so gradually that few realize that they are
foregleams of the great thousand-year Day of Messiahs
Kingdom in which the curse will be fully removed, and
instead the blessing long-promised of God will be
outpoured upon humanity abundantly.
The Bible declares the coming glory of Earth, when
God shall make the place of His feet glorious, when the
whole Earth shall be a Paradise of God. Our great
scientists, who give no heed to the Bible, testify that
present attainments are as nothing to what is just at hand.
God describes our day in Daniels prophecy, saying,
In the Time of the End (of this Age), many shall run to and
fro; knowledge shall be increased; the wise shall
understand . . . and there shall be a time of trouble, such
as never was since there was a nation.Daniel 12:1-10;
Matthew 24:21.
Are we not in the midst of the running to and fro
which this prophecy predicted? We must, therefore, be
living today in the period designated the Time of the
Endthe time in which this Age will gradually close and
the New Age will gradually dawn with greater blessings.
The first locomotive was built only ninety years ago. Now,
in every land, multitudes are running to and fro, whose
grandfathers probably never traveled fifty miles from their
birthplace. Surely no prophecies could be more accurately
fulfilled than this one.
Who but God could have known and foretold this
marked peculiarity of our day? Jesus quoted a part of this
prophecy.

A MODERN STEAMSHIP

AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE

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KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED

PRIMITIVE VS. MODERN PRINTING

ANIEL not only declared that our day would be

marked by running to and fro, but also gave another
indication: Knowledge shall be increased. Surely we
have this fulfilment also. Instead of plowing with a
crooked stick, we have up-to-date steam-plows which
accomplish a hundred times the work. Contrast writing
upon stone and upon parchment, laborious and expensive,
with our modern printing. Contrast the beginning of
printing with today!
No printing establishment in the world better
illustrates the perfection of this art in our day than does
the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington. No
library better illustrates modern learning than does the
Congressional Library. Today the learning is not confined
to the great, the wealthy, or the few; it is general. The
Schools of the civilized world are full, and thus, too,
knowledge is increasing.
How wonderful that God foreknew all these things
and foretold them through Daniels prophecy twenty-five
centuries ago, saying, Many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased! Here we have it! We are
evidently in the Time of the End mentioned, and well we
may rejoice in the oncoming New Age! No longer do we
hold that the world will literally end, and with a
combustion which will reduce it to a cinder. We are ready
to believe Gods Wordthat He created not the Earth in
vain, He formed it to be inhabitedto be the Paradise
home of humanity, regenerated under Messiahs
Kingdom.Isaiah 45:18.
Year by year we see the Earth preparing for full
inhabitation. Recent earthquakes closed some and opened
other channels of the Japan Stream, affecting the climate
of Alaska and the Arctic zone remarkably, Gradually the
glaciers in the form of icebergs are running out and
dissolving in the more Equatorial waters. Gradually the
Earth is preparing to blossom as the rose. Gradually the
curse will be removed and the blessing of God will be
substituted.Isaiah 35: 1.

A MODERN GANG-PLOW

PANAMA CANAL UPPER GATUN LOCKS

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A TIME OF TROUBLE

FRENCH REVOLUTION BREAD RIOTS

ANIELS prophecy has one prediction not yet

realized. He declares, There shall be a time of
trouble such as never was since there was a nation. Jesus
confirmed this prophecy and added the words, No, nor
ever shall be. If a great time of trouble must come, it is
comforting to know that it will be the last of its kind. And
this evidently will be because its lessons will be so severe
as to make no repetition of them necessary. Furthermore,
according to the Bible, upon the ashes of that time of
trouble Messiahs Kingdom will be established with full
power and glory, to accomplish His great work of human
blessing and uplift from sin and death. Christ will reign!
Satan will be boundS.-Revelation 20:1-4.
The prophecy declares that while men are running to
and fro and knowledge is increased, the wise of Gods
people will understand the Divine Plan as never before.
The Mystery will be finished. The seals will be broken.
The dawn will appear. Jesus Parable of the Virgins
applies to the end of this Age. It declares that amongst
Gods people (all Virgins) there will be some foolish.
Only the wisewilltrim their lamps, examine the Bible,
and understand.Matt. 25 :1-12.
We need not detail the coming trouble. Everybody
sees it. It will be a battle between giantson the one side
financial giants, trusts, etc.; on the other side gigantic
labor organizations. Both parties are preparing. Both
parties expect to fight to the finish. Both parties expect to
win. Both parties will be disappointed, for both will lose.
The Bible predicts that the result will be most terrible
anarchy a time of trouble such as never was! We can
but imperfectly surmise the details of the trouble, but the
Scriptures imply that it will include social, financial,
political and religious institutions. The anarchy of the
French Revolution, and the anarchy which overthrew the
Jewish nation, A.D. 70, are Scriptural illustrations of what
may be expected soon. The Bible counsels Meekness and
Justice as safeguards.Zephaniah 2:3.

FRENCH MOB LOOTING

THE DAY OF WRATH

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CATHOLIC, MILITANT, TRIUMPHANT

THE CHURCH MILITANT

ATHOLIC signifies general, inclusive. It cannot

properly be applied to any church except The Church
of the First-borns, written in Heaven. (Hebrews 12:23.)
The latest thought of Bible students is that the names
Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, are not
catholic, but are names of divisions. Likewise the terms
Church of England, Church of Germany, Greek Church,
Church of Rome, are sectional names and not properly
termed catholic.
The term, Church Militant, signifies the Church at
War. It was the wrong thought when the Church undertook
to war with carnal weapons, either against nations or
against heretics through the nations. She has no
commission for such a warfare. It will be hers, eventually,
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with
fetters of iron, and to execute the judgment written. This
honor have all His saints. It will be hers eventually, when
glorified, to sit with Christ in His Throne, and to exercise
dominion over the nations, and to break them in pieces as
a potters vessel. (Revelation 2:27.) But all this will be
beyond the First Resurrection, in her Heavenly inheritance
of Glory, Honor and Immortality.
The Churchs warfare in the present time is to fight
a good fight of faith. It is an individual warfare in which
the consecrated members of the Church must stand their
ground, and do their battlings by the assistance of the
Captain of their salvation, and the support of His Word.
The brethren may greatly assist one another, building one
another up in the most holy faith. Those who are faithful
unto death will receive a crown of life, and a share with
their Redeemer in His Kingdom.
The Church Triumphant will be invisible to men
because changed in the First Resurrection and perfected on
the spirit plane. As St. Paul declares, We must all be
changed, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom
of God. It will operate through earthly representatives,
the Worthies of the pastAbraham, Isaac and Jacob and
all the Prophets.

TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH

THY KINGDOM COME

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NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH

PANAMA CANAL CULEBRA CUT

ANY of the precious teachings of the Bible are

conveyed in symbolic language. Indeed all language
is pictorial. Thus the Heavens are the higher, or
ecclesiastical and spiritual powers connected with the
present order of things, while the Earth is the lower, or
social order of things. In Bible usage, the mountains of
earth represent the great governmental strongholds,
while the sea represents the restless class which secretly
or openly desires to engulf society. Thus the Bible tells
that the Heavens and the Earth, or spiritual and social
conditions which were before the Deluge, perished there,
and a new order of things, social and ecclesiastical, sprang
up, which still persists. The present order, ecclesiastical
and social, is called the world, or Dispensation which now
is. It is also called This present Evil World, because evil
holds supremacy. The Scriptures promise that there shall
be a new Heavens and a new, Earth (ecclesiastical
and social), and we are assured that therein will dwell
righteousness. Isaiah 65 :17; 2 Peter 3 :13.
St. Peter describes the passing away of the present
ecclesiastical Heavens and social Earth in a great fire,
once misunderstood to refer to a literal burning of the
Earth. The Divine assurance is to the contrary, that the
Earth abideth forever, that God formed it not in vain,
but to be inhabited. The fire of this passage is evidently
the same symbol frequently used in the Bible. It represents
the trouble, destruction, which will completely overwhelm
the present ecclesiastical and social order in anarchy.
Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:21.
The new spiritual Heavens of the future will be
Christ and the Church in heavenly glory and power. As
Gods promised Kingdom, it will rule the Earth, blessing
and uplifting the non-elect of every nation, people, kindred
and tongue. The new Earth will be the new social order
which will come into being at that time, under the
direction and guidance of the new Heavensthe
Messianic Kingdom.Matthew 6: 10.

BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

SOCIALISM PREFIGURED BY SAMSON

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EARTH RESTORED, PERFECTED, COMPLETE

THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM

URSUING the thought with which we started, we

perceive that the Seventh Creative Day, or Epoch, will
be a period of seven thousand years. Under Messiahs
glorious reign that last thousand years Restitution work
will bring Earth to the condition originally designed by
God! It will complete the creation of Earth, and of
mankind as a race of God-like rulers of Earths affairs.
Man, having tasted both Good and Evil, and having chosen
Good, will be granted life everlasting. The disobedient
lovers of Evil will be destroyed in the Second Death.2
Peter 2:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:9.
It is not in the power of human tongue or pen to
portray the glorious perfection of the earthly Paradise
condition. The most glorious qualities of mind and heart
known amongst men must of necessity be imperfect as
compared with the perfection of Gods image as it will be
restored in all the willing and obedientthe unwilling and
disobedient being destroyed.
Already we see beginning the Restitution blessings
promised in prophecy. Yet we are only in the beginning of
the thousand
in which, under Messiahs guidance, Gods Wisdom
and Power will undoubtedly work miraculous changes in
a natural way. It is refreshing to all hearts and to Christian
faith to know that as the Prophet declared, The desert
shall rejoice and blossom as the rose, and in the
wilderness shall waters break out, so these things are
beginning to be experienced. In the far Western parts of
the United States, and in Mesopotamia, the land of
Abraham. human ingenuity, engineering feats, etc., are
working miracles. Divine Wisdom is behind them, just as
Divine Power is now blessing all of Earths affairs, and
making the world most wonderfully rich.
If human skill is able to produce such beautiful fruits
and flowers as are now manifest on every hand, what may
we not expect will be the condition of the perfect earth
when the curse shall be fully removed by the glorious
Redeemer? Surely it will be the desire of all nations.
Haggai 2:7.

UNDER VINE AND FIG TREE

EARTH, GODS FOOTSTOOL TO BE GLORIOUS

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HALLELUJAH CHORUS AND AGES TO COME

INDIA NEEDS RESTITUTION

ITH the close of the thousand years of the

Messianic Kingdom, the great Mediator bill deliver
over the Kingdom to the Father. (1 Corinthians 15:24.)
The Father will not receive the human family to eternal
life without first giving them a test along the lines of strict
obedience to }/is will. Satan will be loosed for a little
season to demonstrate who are absolutely loyal at heart
and not merely obedient for the sake of policy. Those who
then fail, will be destroyed with Satan in the Second
Death. (Revelation 20:7-9.) Thus the earth will be
absolutely cleansed Then every creature in Heaven and
Earth will exclaim, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and
power, be unto Him that upon the Throne and unto the
Lamb forever! (Rev. 5:13.) Then there shall be no more
sickness or dying. The former things of sin and death will
have passed away.Rev. 21:4.
Nor will the glory of Christ and the Church end with
the restoration of mankind. Not only do the Scriptures tell
us that unto Christ every knee shall bow, both of tilings in
Heaven and things on Earth, but That in the Ages to
come God will show the exceeding riches of His grace and
His loving kindness toward us [the Church] in Christ
Jesus.
As God made not the earth in vain, but to be
inhabited, this same principle doubtless applies to the
other planets of our solar system, and to one thousand
millions of other worlds of which Astronomy tells us. They
are all to be peopled, and the things learned in the sinexperience of our Earth are to be their instruction. It is the
Divine decree that the Logos shall be the honored agency
through whom all creative work shall be accomplished in
the future, as in the past, and His Church, His Bride, will
be with Him in all His glorious hereafter. Truly ours is a
Great God, worthy of worship, obedience, love. Only the
foolish can say in their hearts, There is no God. Who
shall not reverence Thee, O Lord . . . when Thy righteous
acts are manifest?Revelation 15:4.

JAPAN NEEDS RESTITUTION

CHINA NEEDS RESTITUTION

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