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All Things
BY
DR. W. B. GODBEY
of He Hew Testament Commentator and translator
PUBLISHED
FOR
THE
AUTHOR
BY
GOD'S REVIVALIST OFFICE CINCINNATI^
OHIO
ALL THINGS REHEADED IN CHRIST "
In Adam all die
(I
; even so
in Christ shall all be made
15:22.) fought the battle of Eden he achieved the greatest victory of the ages, because Adam was so wonderfully made as actually to become the constitu ency of every human being who ever would come into existence in all the flight of endless ages. Eve was no excepvlion to the unity of hur^anity in Adam, as she was not a denovo creation, but a trans formation of Adam 's rib ; having been created with alive."
Cor.
When Satan
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Adam. Satan exhibited wonderful wisdom in the and Eve
en
manip
campaign, taking in the serpent route for Adam, the citadel of humanity, so
ulation of the Eden
captured him, he had already stormed the citadel and actually taken captive every human being who ever would come into the world. that when he
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CHAPTER I. The Transcendent
Victory
of Christ.
victory over humanity was really the history of the ages, that of unprecedented Christ is nevertheless transcendent; actually reaching every human soul, far hack in the prenatal state, five or six months antecedently to the physical birth. He brews 2:9: "By the grace of God, Christ tasted death for every one/^ "huper pantos." i. e., for every human being. The word ''huper" is constantly used for the vica rious, substitutionary atonement which the Lord Jesus Christ made, and here it says, "for every one," not as in the English Version, "every man." This passage is so important, revelatory of the infantile relation to the kingdom, that every one ought to have it. While Satan's in
"Education forms the common mind. As the twig is bent so is the tree inclined.
One of the
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Popes of Rome said, "Give me the first seven years of a child, and you may have all the bal ance." As he was not saved, and did not know the Lord in His saving power, but steadfastly believed that salvation is simply sacramental, i. e., that you are saved by the ritual of the Catholic Church, which has seven sacraments, five of them the children. of papal super4
Ahh
stition;
charist,
the first
them, Pope felt
two of
the
seven
THINGS.
orthodox
5
baptism,
and the Eu
that if he could be with
years of its
life,
he could
so
a
child
teach it
the Roman Catholic catechism that it would stick to it
life, get the priest to forgive its sins, die in the Catholic Church and make its way to heaven through the fires of purgatory, burning out inbred sin. The New Testament is exceedingly plain and all its
straight on the infantile relation to the Kingdom, here assuring us that Christ tasted death for every one; clearly involving the conclusion that every human be ing is at first a citizen of the Kingdom. This is abundantly confirmed by the prodigal son and his elder brother, who were both born in the father 's house, which is the kingdom of grace ; the latter never having sinned out, but was there, loyal and true, when his younger brother, scathed, pealed and miraculously rescued from the hogpen by the skin of his teeth, got back to the father's house, all the way from the hogpen, next station to Hell. Though we see he had never forfeited his infantile justification, as he said to his father that he had never violated his commandments, and he did not correct him, showing clearly his retention of his infantile justifi cation, all that time, yet he badly needed sanctification to take th6 fret and jealousy out of him, which he mani fested in his refusal to come into that glorious holiness meeting, sweeping along with a high pentecostal tide.
Our Savior's treatment of the babies in all His ministry, taking them in His arms and certifying, "Of
kingdom," irrefutably authenticates their citizenship, and thus gives the Church a positive afesursuch is my
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legitimate membership and "fac simile" right to water baptism, the badge of that citizenship ; even holding them up not only as members, but as the paragon membership, exemplary for all adults, whom He positively notified to repent and become as little children by the humiliation and regenera tion superinduced by repentance ; otherwise they never can enter the kingdom of heaven, i. e., the family of ance
of their
God.
Thus, while Satan had made his grand run and actuQ]ly captured the very citadel of humanity, when he lassoed Adam, yet you see how our wonderful Christ enters the field, actually getting ahead of Satan by dropping his Gospel lasso over every human neck be fore he is born into the world, thus superinducing the wonderful yet indisputable reality that, despite the fioodtide of depravity which the devil turned on hu manity through fallen Adam, yet every soul is born into the world a citizen of the Kingdom, only getting out by personal transgression. Christendom has been terribly confused by the wrong translation of John 3:3, "born again," which, if true, would send to Hell every child who has died physical birth, as the "again" would put
before the
spiritual birth, which we are all obliged to have lose our souls, after the physical, leaving no chance whatever for the multiplied millions who die before the physical birth. It is astounding how errors cling to people like barnacles to the ship beam. Jesus never did say, "born again," but, "born from above." "Palin," "again," is not in the text at all and never was, but "aiioothan," which simply means "from the or
above.
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Therefore it is
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ALL a
birth which
comes
down from
God out of Heaven. All the
Catholics, Campbellites and millions besides tangled up tightly in the dangerous heresy of baptismal regeneration, using this passage, John 3:3, as their Gibraltar, when there is not a word of truth are
in it and
It is
never was.
astounding
that Christendom has been
hung
on
this sawyer through the ages, when Jesus so clearly refuted it, at the same time castigating Nicodemus for his
blunder, referring
to the fact that he
was
a
teacher in Israel and should have known better,
Nicodemus thought He meant a physical birth and said, "How can a man be born when he is old; can he second time into his mother's womb and
enter the
showing positively that he thought some thing was to be done to his body, but Jesus proceeded That which is generated of to correct him. Verse 6 : which is generated of that depravity is depravity; the Spirit is spirit; marvel not that I say unto you, you must be born from above;" thus certifying posi tively that He had no allusion to the human body, but be born?"
"
to
a
birth which
forms the human
eomes
down from Heaven and trans
spirit, making
man
a new
creature,
drop of water in a million miles. Read The 8 : verse Spirit breathes on whom he will, thou hearest his voice; but canst not tell whence he cometh or whither he goeth, even so is every one who is born of the Spirit." (Not as you have it, "wind" in the English Version.) N. B. The Bible was not divided into chapters and verses by the inspired writers, but the London printers with not
a
"
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did
it,
ill
1551,
matter for their
as a
own
convenience
;
therefore wink at the fourth chapter division, as it is not in the original. You run immediately into His next sermon, to the
mentions water once
woman
at Jacob's
well,
in which He
times, whereas He only gave it She naturally concluded that He
seven
to Nicodemus.
meant the water in the well.
He told her twice
over
mistaken, that He meant living water, other than God Himself, the water of life freely flowing for every soul who will receive Him. When Isaiah was preaching in Jerusalem, hear his stentorian proclamation: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. Why do you perish?" We all know he was not calling the people to get a that she
was
which is
none
drink
of literal water, but to
come
to
the
God of
Israel and get saved. It is a deplorable pity that the people have been deceived by many through the ages, and led off into dangerous idolatry.
Ephesians
2:1:
"You hath he
quickened
who
were
dead in trespasses and in sins." Every sinner is a spiritual corpse, till the Holy Ghost creates the divine
life in the dead
soul,
resurrecting him. This word and means to create "quicken" is "zooee poiesee, the divine life in the human soul, as "zooee" means life and "poiesee" means create. That is precisely the thing done in regeneration, the Holy Spirit creates the divine life in the human spirit. That life is the water and the Holy Ghost the Spirit, so you are born of water and Spirit, with not a drop of material water. Every baby is a real Christian till it willingly com mits known sin, thus becoming a backslider, as is true of every adult sinner; abundantly illustrated by the thus
"
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prodigal son. "While every child is born a Christian, it is equally true that it is born wth depravity in the heart, which is transmitted to every human being, from Adam the
first,
our
federal head.
When the Millennium comes, which is now glori ously dawning, Satan is dethroned and imprisoned in
Hell and all his
myrmidons driven
world,
out of the
the normal order of every home will be to get the children turned toward the Savior before they
responsibility, and forfeit the infantile justifica tion by personal transgression, and then sanctified be fore they backslide, and that is one great reason why the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters reach
cover
the
sea.
This wonderful
soul,
victory
of
our
Savior
lassoing
before it is born into the world should be
a
every
grand
incentive to all Christian parents and Sunday-school teachers.
specialty of all the Lord's peo ple, laboring night and day for the salvation of a lost world. It is pre-eminently important to begin with This should be the
the little Jesus
ones.
recognizes
all the infants
as
citizens of His
kingdom and pronounces a withering woe on all the people who cause them to backslide, i. e., lead them into Matthew 18:6:
sin.
the
of these little He
"Better
were
it that
around his neck and he
hanged depth of the
were
were
a
millstone
drowned in
sea, than that he should offend
ones
who believe in me."
recognizes all the little
ones
To "offend" in the Bible
as
Thus you believers.
means
to
cause
one
one see
to
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10
backslide.
"We have the awful
scene
constantly before
eyes of parents actually leading their own children into sin and thus incurring this woe pronounced by our
our
blessed Savior.
point we have an awful heresy preached popular pulpits. Recognizing and omitting all we have said in reference to prenatal citizenship, the preacher, accepting the situation, boldly certifies that our children are born Christians, which is true, but then he proceeds to preach that they do not need conversion, which would simply* send them all to Hell by wholesale. Hereditary depravity turns their faces away from God toward this wicked world full of sin, and would inevitably precipitate their damnation, if not turned round and introduced to God, so that they At this
from the
would start toward holiness and Heaven.
"I
shapen me," or
Psalm 51 :5
:
iniquity and in sin did my mother as the old Methodists sung it:
in
was
conceive
''Lord,
I Born
am vile, conceived in sin; unholy and unclean; Sprung from the man whose guilty fall Corrupts Ms race and ruins all."
This is the awful total
transmitted to every Total
depravity which Satan has human being.
depravity only applies
which is the
man
to the human
and demoralizes the mind and renders so
spirit, terribly racks the body mortal,
proper; meanwhile it
it is destined to return to the dust whence it
came.
The very fact that God pronounced the sinner dead shows irrefutably his total depravity, as total means
entirely,
and
depravity
means
deprived
of
something,
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which is the divine life. In
camp-meeting forty-five years ago, I heard a sermon by a preacher from Baltimore, denouncing the doctrine of total depravity. His Gibraltar argument was that in case of total depravity God would have nothing to build on and consequently could not do anything for us. When he got through, I took him around behind a tent, looked him in the face and said, Brother Pentz, if you or I wanted to build a house, we would need something to build it out of and something to build it on. When God Almighty got ready to build this great world in which we live. He made it out of nothing, and hung it upon nothing, and it has been whizzing along ever since." He looked me in the face and an swered, "Brother Godbey, I have preached foolishness; do not tell anybody." Campbellism is a fond delusion, hatched in the bot tomless pit and propagated by unsaved people, to the awful detriment of human hope. It is peculiar for its repudiation of human depravity. a
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CHAPTER 11.
Christ for
Everything.
preachers, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, say, that our Savior had depravity, having. inherited it from His mother, which, to unilluminated minds, looks plausible, and they unhesitatingly take the bait which really robs humanity of every hope, I have heard
as
is vitiates the Christhood of Jesus.
The great Catholic world got stranded and of
course
erything, but help than any
to the
Pope, appealed utterly in vain, as he
on
that
rock,
do for
they can give
as
no
ev
more
other sinner.
Pius IX immortalized himself
by the greatest coun cil ever held on the earth, in 1866, convened at Rome from all parts of the earth, 535 bishops, with all the hierarchies and priests, like the sands of the sea in numerable.
winding
in session four years, and immortalizing itself by two
That council
up in
1870,
was
great autocratic decrees, i.e., the Pope's infallibility
conception of the Virgin Mary. To enhance the former they had prepared concentric mirrors, to reflect the splendor of the Pope's person to all parts of St. Peter's cathedral, that wonderful building, 613 feet long, 446 feet wide, 448 feet hioh. accommodating an audience of 50,000, and built of the finest marble in the world at the cost of $200,000,000 and the immaculate
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ntid 200 years of labor.
Pope, dressed in scarlet from top to toe (ful filling the prophecy of "the great red dragon," and dressed as finely as possible in this world), had these mirrors to reflect the splendor of his person into all parts of the cathedral, for the enchantment of the people; but God defeated it all by sending an awful The
thunder-storm to wrap the firmament in clouds so dense that they had to bring in lamps (as the cathedral has chandeliers because
only used
in the
daytime). sign they infallibility, they had to get lamps to see to write, yet they pro ceeded audaciously, heedless of God's roaring storm, thunderbolts and lightning-shafts, moving on the wings of the tempest, flashing and flaming and shaking the no
As
the dogma of his
all had to
earth.
When ence was
they proceeded
to the immaculate
in his
to hear his
conception of
roj^al sedan, invested
A cardinal
came
to
answer
in
in refer
Virgin, he his gorgeous apparel. the
him and asked him if she
conceived free from sin. Then he had the whole
was
He said he did not know.
fifty thousand people sing "Sanctus Spiritus, Veni," (Holy Spirit, Come). They all sang it through. Then the cardinal went to him again and asked him if she was conceived free from sin, and he said yes, that God had answered that song prayer in the affirmative; then he started, in his own voice, their favorite song, "Ave Maria," (Hail Mary), all falling in and singing with the fifty thousand voices, augmented by fifteen to twenty brass bands, all roaring to their utmost intensity, while many horns and instru ments also augmented the swelling volume, mean-
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14 while
cannons were
fired off and
oh,
what
a
parade
!
Virgin Mary was free from sin, hut we know that they were all mistaken because they fiatly contradict the Scripture (Psa. 51:5), which you cannot evade by making her an exception, because II Peter, 1:20 certifies, "No scripture is of private interpretation." I doubt not but that the Pope got an answer, but not from God, because He made the Bible and never contradicts Himself. It is Satan's delight to play God on the people and give the Pope the answer. You say, "If Mary had depravity, did not Jesus in herit it from her?" We answer you in the negative, from the simple fact that heredity is not maternal, but paternal, as confirmed throughout the Bible, all the genealogies simply giving the father and not the mother; Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob, Ja cob begat the twelve patriarchs, etc. This paternal heredity is confirmed by zoologists who have in all the animal kingdom proved the fact that generation is by the male and not the female, the latter simply performing the office of gestation, i. e., carrying the same till it so develops as to be competent So the matter
was
settled that the
to exist in the open air.
recognize the fact that our Savior had no earthly father, the problem is forever solved. Hear His annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel to Mary, notifying her that she was to be the honored Now when
we
mother of the Lord's Christ and the Savior of the world.
When she
this be, as I know not a man?" he answered (Luke 1:35) : "The Holy Ghost will come upon thee, the power of the Highest will
responded,
"How
can
Al,h
overshadow
thee,
THINGS.
and that
holy thing that
shall be called the Son of God." our
Savior had
no
His
earthly father,
Father, holy, just as He did
15
who created His
is
begotten
Hence yon see that but the Holy Ghost
humanity pure and beginning. This is the reason why our Savior always called Himself the "Son of man," because He was really the only unfallen son Adam ever had, verifying the real meaning of a son, which is a repetition of the ancestor. Therefore He is the only son and successor of unfallen Adam, as he lived to an unknown length of time in Eden (linknown to us), antecedently* to the Satanic invasion, when he and Eve were not only perfectly free from sin, but had not the vaguest idea what it was. Adam had no posterity until after he sinned and had imbibed depravity from the devil. As God had actually made Adam, so He made the humanity of Adam the Second. Therefore they are cor relatively, contrastively and antithetically denomi nated "Adam the First," in whom we all die (1 Cor. 15:22), and "Adam the Second," in whom we are all was
Adam in the
made alive.
This
spiritual
soul the moment
revivification
personality,
actually reaches
every
normal to the union of
body, supervenes. Hebrew 2:9: "By the of God, Christ tasted death for every one," i.e., grace every human being who has ever come into existence, Man is a sinner by choice, at his own or ever will. awful risk, every fleeting moment liable to drop into soul and
Hell. Wlhile all
depravity
are
bom
Christians,
in the heart, which will
we
are
born with
certainly
make
us
i6
ALL THINGS.
during our infantile justification, like the prophet Samuel, under the min istry of his sainted mother Hannah ; John the Baptist, sinners if
we
do not get converted
parental culture of Zacharias and Elizabeth ; the apostle Timothy, under the loving tutelage of his mother, Eunice, and grandmother, Lois ; and your hum ble servant, under the faithful ministry of a shouting Methodist mother and a preaching father.
under the
Jesus, who of God was us wisdom and righteousness, and sanctifi redemption," i.e., thus filling the entire of the restitutionary economy, ensuring
"Of him made unto cation and
curriculum
are
ye in Christ
complete and eternal reclamation from all the mal adies in which Satan, through the fall, ever did entan gle us, and our perfect restitution and final glorification. in the similitude of our blessed Heavenly Father, who created us in His own image and likeness (Ephesians 4:24), for the "righteousness and holiness" of the our
earth. In the above beautiful see
you
that in
our
verse
in I Corinthians 1
wonderful Christ
everything.
we
actually
:30,
have
"righteousness" means justification, which freely gives every humble penitent who flees from
Here God
the devil and,
falling
at the mercy seat, lifts up his
repentant anthem: nry soul, the mercy seat Where Jesus answers prayer, There humble fall before His feet,
''Approacli, For
none
can
perish
there.
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my only plea, With this I venture nigh, Thou callest a burdened soul to Thee And such. Oh Lord, am I.
"Thy promise is
"Bowed down beneath a load of guilt, By Satan sorely pressed; Fightings without and fears within, I come to Thee for rest.''
panic-stricken, desponding soul, in the lit eral realization of his meetness only for hell-fire, God never casts away, but freely and lovingly forgives, for Jesus' sake alone^ who has bled and died and paid all Such
a
the debt he
owes.
loving Father cancels the con demnation from Heaven's chancery, the Holy Spirit creates the divine life in that soul, thus raising it from the dead, and giving it the witness of adoption into The moment the
the
family
of God.
Satan eounterfeits every thing God does, and fills up the whole country with self-righteous people, really hypocrites, because the real meaning of a hypocrite is
one
that
the actors
plays religion,
on
character.
as
the
the theatrical stage,
original word
playing
an
means
assumed
filthy Self-righteousness obnoxious, stenchy, pesti is denominated
rags in the sight of God, lential and abominable.
only righteousness judgment ordeals is that of The
that will
Christ
ever
Himself,
stand the as
all the
world is under condemnaton. Will Christ give us His. We have a Savior, who is en own righteousness? dued with three
perfect humanity never
impart
righteousnesses,
one
and essential to
to you
or
peculiar
to His
it, which He will peculiar to His
me; another
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impart arising to anyone; but He has a third righteousness, from His perfect obedience to the divine law, both
divinity
and essential to
active and
it,
passive ; active
suffered in
our
never
in the fact that He
perfectly
sinned in thought, word in the fact that He took our place, the room, thus perfectly satisfying
it all His life and
kept or deed; passive
which He will
never
procuring a -righteousness Avhich is neither essential to His humanity nor His divinity; that righteousness He has procured for every human violated law and thus
being,
and it is
When
we
our
only hope.
repent of all
our
sins,
and cast ourselves
the mercy of God in Christ, God imparts to us that righteousness which will enable us to stand acquitted in His presence before the great white throne when .all the world will be judged. In the above Scripture it is certified that He is on
wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemp Justification saves us from condemnatory sin tion. our
on
us; whereas sanctification
saves^ us
natory sin in us, thus making
us
from condem
free from sin.
Gen
eral Booth said, "All sinners sin; converted people above sin," if they have the victory over it are
under
keep it down, so it cannot break out and commit Romans Sanctified people are free from sin. 6:22, having our "fruit unto sanctification." Glorification saves us from sins of ignorance, to which sanctified people are exposed so long as they are in this life, as they can only think and speak and work through these organs of clay, and are conse quently exposed to multitudinous infirmities. This phase of the sin problem is beautifully illusand
sin.
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by the cities of refuge, for the security of homicides, i. e., people who inadvertently took human life. As the Bible illustrates it, suppose a man chopping down a tree, and another standing behind him, and the ax flies off the handle and kills him, his only security is to fly to the city of refuge. The law of Moses had no judiciary to apologize and paliate and thus vindicate the innocent manslayer, but trated
accidental
it made the nearest relative the executioner in the case,
therefore the moment -any person accidentally refuge was his
killed another, flight to the city of
only security. Every Hebrew well diagnosed his situation and learned the quickest route to the nearest city of refuge. These cities of refuge beautifully emblematize our If you can only get to Him, you are safe Savior. from Satan's avenging missiles. Our infirmities are not removed in sanctification, though greatly modified, and actually sweetened. It is the province of glorification to sweep them all away. John Wesley refused to denominate them "sins of ignorance," which they really are, lest people might take advantage and make them an apology for actual, known sins. Therefore, in his writings, he denominates them "infirmities." While they are not sins, yet they The are the scars left by sin on the human spirit.
Greek poets, who were heathens and had no Bible nor acquaintance with the Savior, describe these scars on the souls of people after they die, thus marring and
deforming them through all eternity. They had the true idea, so far as the normal effect of sin is con cerned, as it certainly does disfigure, contort and de-
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form. If
we
should
receive the third work of grace, Spirit, removing all the scars left
never
wrought by the Holy by the heavy tread of Satan's cloven foot, crushing the
soul down in the filthy mud, cutting it to pieces and
breaking it on the cruel rocks, in that case, as the ancient poets described, we would carry our own em barrassing biography through all eternity. Then peo ple, angels and archangels, to our infinite embarrass ment, mortification and disgrace, could read the history of
our
lives.
infinite consolation to us, that not only in sanctification is the very sin principle and person What
an
ality eradicated, and the heart expurgated from all its contamination, but all the effects of sin are eliminated away and the restoration is so perfect and glorious as to beggar all the penetrating diagnosis of archangels and the keen and profound discrimination of the cheru bic and seraphic introspection. Such will be the transcendent efficiency of the om nipotent Spirit, the Custodian of the cleansing Blood and refining fire, that immortals will never be able to find a trace of Hell's judgment wheels, with which Satan and his myrmidons have so ruthlessly crashed and smashed
us
into smithereens.
Glorification takes place simultaneously with the evacuation of this mortal tenement by the immortal
spirit.
This
unearthly lingering on the countenances of the saints in their coffins, till eclipsed by the imposition of the lid, but leaving a souvenir on the mental canvas of the audience which we never can forget. I have often, radiance
we
see
demonstrated
by
the
ALL
in
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visiting the dying beds of the saints,
ance
come
seen
this radi
down from Heaven while soul and
parting. My oldest
body
were
son,
thirty-three
years ago, while in his
twentieth year, a student in college preparing for a mission in China, was complimented with a message from him
Heaven, doing
exchange
land of celestial
ing,
at 10 A.
him the infinite favor of
his
M.,
all the watchers
contemplated glory. It was
letting
China mission for the a
bright spring
morn
when he bade the world adieu and
unearthly radiance flash over with brilliant glory. face, Just so we have often seen the setting sun, as his fiery wheels rolled down the western horizon, dipping his fiaming chariot beneath the Pacific waves, simul taneously throw back his gorgeous glory, bespangling the Oriental heavens with ten thousand variegated tints and hues, the valedictory thrown back to earth by the retiring king of day. his
saw
and fill the
the
room
CHAPTER
Adam
III.
in the Federal
Superseded by Christ
Headship.
The millennialization of the earth will be her regen eration, Matthew 19:28: "You who have followed me
shall also sit upon twelve regeneration thrones judging (i. e., ruling) the twelve tribes of Israel." This is not the regeneration of the apostles,
in the
.
.
.
who had received it under the
Baptist.
ministry
of John the
The Great Tribulation will consummate the regen eration of the earth, just as a wicked man in regen
eration gets rid of all his evil habits and is actually made new; though he is only the old man made new. The fall of Satan and all his
myrmidons in the
Armagedon wars, will so won break his power in the whole earth as to everybody that the final restitution has actu
consummation of the
derfully impress ally supervened. which shall
lennium,
but
come
Still
it
is
not
her
sanctification
fiery baptism after the mil regeneration, transitional to her
in her her
only glorious final renovation. Isaiah the 11th chapter
very
beautifully spreads
be
instructive panorama appertaining to the mil lennial age. We are told that the cow and the bear
fore
us an
will feed
together; the leopard lie down with the bear 22
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and the lion eat straw like the ox; the
baby
play delight itself at the den of the cockatrice; for nothing shall hurt in all the holy mountains ; as the glory of the Lord will
at the hole of the asp and the weaned child
shall fill the earth Here
we
as
the waters
cover
the
sea.
how the carnivorous animals will lose
see
their thirst for blood and become herbivorous when the millennium
comes.
all
You
see
in Noah's ark
they
together same Scripture you see that the snakes did not have their poison before the fall till Satan im parted it, as during the glorious millennial transition, they will lose their poison and become harmless, illus trated by the impunity with which the baby plays with the asp (moccasin, a terribly poisonous snake), and the weaned child is delighted with the rattlesnake as he were
and did not devour
one
another.
In this
runs
in and out of his den.
Scripture says that "nothing will hurt in all my holy mountain," whereas you know Daniel says the stone cut out of the mountain without hands, ex pands, rolling out like the ocean billows, till it en velops the whole earth and will stand forever; hence the conclusion that in the millennial state throughout This
the whole world the carnivorous animals will become herbiverous, while the snakes throughout the whole
poison, becoming harmless. Isaiah and other prophets boldly preach hereditary depravity: "The whole head is sick, and the whole
world lose their
heart
faint;
from the sole of the foot
head there is
bruises,
and
no
putrifying
sores ;
even
unto the
wounds, and they have not been closed,
soundness in
it,
but
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment."
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Psalms 51 :5
:
"I
was
shapen
in
iniquity,
and in sin
did my mother conceive me. Isaiah, speaking of the final ' '
restitution, assures us parents ate sour grapes and the childrens' teeth were set on edge. Men tell jokes, Satan tells lies, but God always tells the truth ; therefore we must accept it and adjust ourselves to it. We can change, but neither* God nor His Word can possibly change. In the eighth chapter of Romans, Paul describes all creation as sighing, crying and moaning to be de livered; actually using the very phraseology, for par turition, certifying that she is longing for the mani festation of the sons of God, i. e., the resurrection of the saints, of which Christendom is now in fond and immediate anticipation. While Jesus was a fugitive infant from Herod's cruelty, down in Egypt, the old monarch died at Jeri cho, leaving his throne to his oldest son, Archelaus. (Matthew, 2nd chapter.) At that time Augustus Caesar was at R,ome, his scepter sweeping the whole No king would then dare to wear civilized world. a crown unless it had been put on his head by the very hands of the Roman emperor. Consequently, Archelaus went all the way to Rome, a journey greater than around the world now, as they had neither mari ner's compass nor steam engine. On arrival, he pre that it will be
no
more
said that the
sents himself at the feet of the emperor to- receive his
father's crown, no rival
he had to a
put it Roman
when, to claimant, on his head, on province.
his unutterable
surprise,
as
the emperor utterly refused the spot turning Judea into
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This
was
have wandered among a
kingdom of the Jews, who all nations ever since, without
the last of the
king. These facts
were
patent before their eyes, and if
they had only seen them, instead of crucifying Jesus, they would all have received Him with open arms, so being the most fortunate generation that had ever lived He would actually have honored all on the earth. of them with a commission to preach the Gospel to the whole Gentile world, which, with the example and leadership of the Jews, dispersed through every na tion, would have evangelized it all in those early cen turies ; actually bringing on the millennium and flooding the world with the glorified presence of King Jesus to reign forever. Instead of receiving Him, they forced the Eomans to crucify Him, under the false charge of high treason
against Caesar.
prophecies, delightful joyfully appreciation and jubilant enthusiasm preached Him to the whole world, instead of Satan's millennium, the Dark Ages, deluged with blood and heaped with the slain, they might have had the Lord's Millennium, for which we are watching and waiting, its glory and felicity filling the whole earth with Heaven long before our great-grandparents ever saw the light of day. We are living amid the wonderful fulfilments of the latter-day prophecies, when we have unprecedentedincentives not only to do our best to get the Bride ready, but especially that each one shall heed the If the Jews had understood their
received their
warning and be
sure
own
Christ,
own
and with
that he is invested with the Blood-
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robe, which is the only paladium against the embarrassment of being left on the earth when the
washed
Lord
comes
The
for His Bride.
sanctifying baptism of the
earth with fire shall
snrviving till that time, denominated "Gog and Magog" (Gog from the Greek "gagoo," to lead, and Magog meaning the king ly people). Along with Gog and Magog we must catalogue all the people in the world who are not in"The eluded in our Savior's beatitude (Matt. 5:5): meek shall inherit the earth." These meek people are actually the type of unfallen Adam and Eve, who were not only perfectly free from sin, but had no idea eliminate
what it
all
the
nnsavables
was.
When Satan is let out of Hell after the
Millennium,
that he may take his gleaning, surviving his magnitudinous harvest for the greatest of all the ages, he and
myrmidons, moving with angelic velocity (Luke 10 : 18), at lightning speed, will scour the world from pole to pole, Occident and Orient, appealing to the teeming millions who will throng the globe at that time, having so wonderfully multiplied during the Millennium, while the Lord Himself, the Healer of all diseases, will be here on the earth and no one will say, "I am sick," people living a thousand years. Isaiah saying that, "An infant will die a hundred years old." As infancy is one-tenth of human life, you see life will be a thousand years long, there being no wars on the earth, nor whisky, nor anything else that is calculated to kill off the people ; consequently the world will be flooded with such a population as bygone ages never knew. his
When the devil coils his great army around Jerusa-
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Alvlv THINGS.
wonderfully magnificent, having been the beautiful highlands of Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia, into magnitudes unheard of in all bygone ages, all determined to capture it, and get their kingdoms back; Satan recovering the throne of the world, which he had occupied six thousand years, lem, then
built out
you see
so
over
God rains down iirc and brimstone
as
in
of Sodom and
case
Gomorrah, and destroys theiii all (Re^ :9), Gog and Magog going down in the fire ; as the flood only destroyed the wicked, the righteous passing through in perfect security. So the Lord Jesus 20
none
.
but
Christ here
the earth
on
on
the throne of David in
Jerusalem, having reigned thousand years, will take care of the "meek," who will tide over the ocean flames wrapping this world and sanctifying out every thing the devil ever put on it, and still abide to verify a
Matthew 5 :5
:
Daniel says: and ever."
"
The meek ^shall inherit the
"They
earth,
' '
will possess it forever and
and ever
stupendous work of Christ, to destroy the works of the devil, and thus restore this world back to the Edenic state having been gloriously consummated, the world will go on shining and shouting from genera tion to generation; as Isaiah certifies, the children will be born free from satanic depravity, Christ having superseded fallen Adam in the federal headship of the The
whole world.
All this time the meek
people
possess this earth
through the boundless cycles of eternity. Ephesians 3:21 says, "Unto all the generations of the ages." There is
no
Therefore
thing as generations without births. have, as corroborated by many Scrip-
such
we
a
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tures, using the Gr^ek word "oikeoo," whicli
means
do now; children to live in families, houses, being born holy and brought up free from sin, in veri fication of the primitive economy; our glorious Christ, in
as we
the Creator of this world and millions more, having superseded fallen Adam in the federal headship, so
(God commanded Adam and Eve, while pure and holy, before the devil had ever entered Edeji, to multiply and fill the whole earth), i. e., brought back again. The meek people, going on forever, populating and filling the earth, in due time are translated so they can fly from world to world, doing God's will like the angels. So this world will be our inheritance forever. We will all be rich, as He is preparing a mansion for the poorest who does His will. We can invite the angels home with us. They will come with great de light to see the battlefield of God's empire, all brilliant with the victory of Christ. the
original
economy
THE
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