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Show I HEAVENLY MANSIONS IN FATHER'S HOUSE I I Jesus Now Makes Ready For fl 1 His Bible, the Church I ,, I Plaoei For Humanity and For tho TO r Angel, of Varloua Degrees, Chor- fi r urbim, Seraphim, Principalities and Powers, but None Prev.oualy Pro. , pared For the Bride-She lo Gcd'a New Creation Hero to Be tho Hfgh- tV3 I 8t Place' tho Divino Nature. (A r JHmiE1 ' 'll Prt n C Paator 4 ' HH-2iSl Rus'ill's(Uicoiirses T f HSllji horc today lrom w RSnJT1 tiler's House are aK HweS lun,iy Elusions; "Iff' HkF" I go to pie- ,w Hfc?TOtK a pl-lCe Jor aff JjBuMHH you; I Wll St BBfiliB come again nnd Ye- ""b ' -W celvo you unto My- ,3 I MfflPWc. Klf IT)) self." John xiv, 'Si t 2' 3' 31 ' ?ft Heaven,r Father "dwclleth not Sf S P1 temD'es made with bands " In tho ib Sf8 aenBe the wuole Creation la S a P18,,3011. every apartment of which I f lull ultimately bo ieopled with holy I (hnppy boings. "All tbe wicked will Ho jS destroy." Psalm cxlv, 20. jfl Man's fallen condition is the result m fit heredity. God mitde Adnm in His J! fvrn Image, perfect, upright, holv. Dls- obedience and sin hare wrought men- B tal, moral nnd.physlcal InhrmitJea. and a j'Thero Is none righteous, no. not one." 1 AH are prone to sin "as the sparks to fly upward." I J Ood provided Adnm a manslon-the I rth-Pnrndlse. But sin (not unfore- lUtlf Ben brouGht Adnm nnd his race un- (I der a death sentence. God chose to Ul permit sin and dentil to reign during I Six Great Days of a thousand vears ft each, thu3 to give valuable lessons to jW f0111 angels and men. He does not in-jm in-jm (tend that this lesson shall work dlsild-B dlsild-B vantage io any. He has provided a j; treat Redemption which 6hows His i feympathy for His creatines and the un- changeableness of His Law. j The Divine Program for dealing with this rebellious province is to be car-jj car-jj lied out by the Kingdom of Mebsiah, I during the Secnth Great Thousand-year Thousand-year Day. Satan and every evil luflu- : ence shall bo restrained "The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing In His beams." and the curse of death xvlll be set .iside. Man will be assisted assist-ed toward righteousness unil life evei- lasting bj the interposition of the Kingdom foi which we pray. "Thy a Kingdom come Tin will be done on I eaith, ceu .is It Is done In Heaven." !"" Humanity's Mansion Perfected Earth. ' At the close of Messiah's reign the I "mansion" appropriated to Adam and I his race wil be fully released from I the curs? and Cod's footstool will be i a gloiious Paradise (Isaiah It. 13) I ft All i ef using the blessings of MessIah'H lB Kingdom will be dc! roj cd by the Sec 9M ond Death -Acts III, 23, Ke xs, U, 15 I While there were places arranged In the Divine Pl.in for the angels, and foi huinnnitv. no Inbitition was pert ec ted for the Church This is because the Church Is n New Creation , Writing of these. St John says "The world lcnoweth us not. even as It knew Him not " St Paul refers to this New Ci cation as the "ministers of God." All of these demonstrate their faith and obedience by walking the "narrow wnv" of self s.iciitlce, "by faith and not bv iloht ' To all of them it Is declared. "Through much trlbuia tlon shall ye enter the Kingdom " But this class hae the assurance that "all thiugb work together for good to them"; that tbe. "shall not bo templed above that the. aie able to ben." This New CientfoiJ Is "made a spectacle spec-tacle to angels and men"; God Is giving giv-ing the angels a gicat object lesson In connection with the development oC this class. Ho is nble to transform some of the me.nl things of this woiid 1 finto polished "jewels," "a rojnl diadem iu the hands of thy God "-Mulachl 3 111. 37; Isaiah KII. 3 Heavenly Mansion For Church. ;H St. Pelei tells about the "mansion' r designed for the Church, saying. "God ,hath gien unto us consecrated foi-f. foi-f. bowers ol Jesus exceeding great nnd :l (precious piomNes. that by these "we 4 anight become pnit.iUon, of the Dhlna I ,nalure"-II Peter i. 4. 1 Tlius ao mi what it means to be h members of the New Creation! "IJyo K bath not seen, eai hath uot heard, nel-I nel-I ther hine entered the human heart the R ; i things whleh (Jod hath In reset vittlon A ' : for them that love IIIm"-the choicest fk mnnsiou I lie highest place! As our m. Lord .leus in His Itesurrectlon ascend I' cd "fai aboe angels." so will His I Clturch wlin will share Ills Kourrec- 5; tlon. and he made "lil.e niui." "see Him as Uo K" .Uid shnre nis glory Si Thc Master"-, death was for human- ffi Itv In general, but Its met it remained la , to" be appioptlnted ut the inauguration 4 ', of His Kingdom The whole world I Btlll "lleth In the Wicked One" until I ; Chrlgt makes satisfaction foi their sins Rl Kvith the uieiit of Uis sicrlllce ISV Meantime, our Lord deals merely with HIk Church, as we read "He ap-gW ap-gW penred In I lie pnenee of God for " i S (nobrews I j,. 2D-as tlie Church Ad I -ocnte. to mpl.e ' atlsf iction fon ou I I flitu." The picpnjatloii in us and foi fH us tvIU he completed when the number 4 is full-l-l.'O it f for u to lompiv ) I with thc conditions of out covenant of siciltlce nud lo "wall: In His steps.' & 1 thus to mnfco our "calling nnd election I aitre." as members of the New Crcatlotl? H 'W .nn |
