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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Work Of Christ, by A. C. Gaebelein
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+Title: The Work Of Christ
+       Past, Present and Future
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+Author: A. C. Gaebelein
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+Release Date: September 17, 2008 [EBook #26643]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORK OF CHRIST ***
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+Produced by Carl D. DuBois
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+THE
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+WORK OF CHRIST
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+PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
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+BY
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+A. C. GAEBELEIN
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+CONTENTS
+
+The Work of Christ......
+
+His Past Work...........
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+His Present Work........
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+His Future Work.........
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+
+THE WORK OF CHRIST
+
+THE Word of God reveals, that all things were created by and for the Son
+of God. "All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything
+made that was made" (John i:3). "For by Him were all things created that
+are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether
+they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things
+were created by Him and for Him" (Col. i:16). When this perfect creation
+was ruined by the entrance of sin, when man fell and all creation on
+account of that fall was brought into the bondage of corruption, the
+work of redemption became a necessity. No creature of God was fitted or
+fit to do this. Only the Son of God, the Creator Himself, could
+undertake this mighty work and accomplish it to the Praise and Glory of
+God. To do this great work, He had to appear on this earth in the form
+of man.
+
+A Threefold Aspect.
+
+This work of the Son of God has a threefold aspect. It is a past work, a
+present work, and beyond the present, there is His future work. His work
+and service will terminate when He delivers up the kingdom, so that God
+will be all in all (1 Cor. xv:24-28). This threefold aspect of His work
+corresponds to His threefold office as Prophet, Priest and King. It has
+a special meaning for the church. In Ephesians v:25-27, we read of this.
+He loved the church and gave Himself for it; this is His past work.
+Since then He is sanctifying the church by the washing of water by the
+Word, and in the future He will present it to Himself, a glorious
+church. In virtue of this threefold work of our Lord, believers are
+saved, are being saved, and will be saved. This threefold work has also
+a significance for the people Israel. When He came and went to the
+cross, "He died for that nation" (John xi:42). During the present age
+His earthly people are not cast away; their miraculous preservation on
+earth, their continued, separate existence is due to Himself. In the
+future when He appears as their Redeemer and claims the purchased
+possession, He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. And to this we
+might also add the relation of His work to creation itself, the nations
+of the earth, and to Satan and his rule.
+
+These brief remarks show the importance of distinguishing between this
+threefold aspect of His work. A Christian who is ignorant of it must be
+confused in his conception of the truth. He is unable to understand the
+Word of God, and is unsettled, and even miserable in his Christian
+experience. Such, alas! is the present condition of a large number of
+professing Christians. Many are ignorant of what the finished work of
+Christ on the cross means. On account of this ignorance, they are ever
+trying to do what God has done for them. How many more are at sea about
+their position in Christ, and know next to nothing of the priestly work
+of Christ. The confusion is the greatest in respect to His future work
+as King. Our theme is therefore an important one. But even God's people,
+who in a measure have laid hold of these truths, need constantly to be
+reminded of it and need to have all this through the Spirit's power, as
+a greater reality in their lives.
+
+
+
+I.
+
+HIS PAST WORK.
+
+His past work was accomplished by Him when he became incarnate. It was
+finished when He died on Calvary's cross. We have therefore to consider
+first of all these fundamentals of our faith.
+
+I. The Work of the Son of God is foreshadowed and predicted in the Old
+Testament Scriptures.
+
+II. The incarnation of the Son of God.
+
+III. His Work on the cross and what has been accomplished by it.
+
+I.
+
+Through the Old Testament Scriptures, God announced beforehand the work
+of His Son. This is a great theme and one which needs to be emphasized.
+These foreshadowings and predictions were made in different ways. First
+we might mention the appearance from time to time on earth of a
+supernatural Being. This Being was the Son of God. As soon as sin had
+entered, He appeared on the scene seeking those who were lost. He
+Himself announced the promise, that the seed of the woman should bruise
+the serpent's head. He indicated in Genesis iii:15, His incarnation, His
+redemptive work on the cross and His final victory over the enemy of
+God. Then He covered the nakedness of His creatures by making them coats
+of skin. For the first time in the Word of God, it was made known by
+this act what the blessed fruit of His atoning work would be.
+
+Manifestations of Jehovah.
+
+And the same Jehovah appeared in visible form unto Abraham. He came as
+traveller accompanied by two angels. He ate in the presence of Abraham,
+who worshipped and addressed Him as Lord. This Being was none other than
+the Son of God, the same who after His resurrection appeared to the two
+disciples on their way to Emmaus as a traveller, and who, at another
+occasion, ate of a honeycomb and a piece of fish. In His presence
+Abraham interceded. This Lord, who visited Abraham later, made fire and
+brimstone fall from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah; He executed
+judgment. He appeared unto Jacob and was the mysterious man who wrestled
+with him at Peniel; later Jacob called Him "The Angel, the Redeemer."
+Repeatedly we hear of Him as "The Angel of the Lord," not a created
+angel, but an uncreated Being. Moses saw Him in the burning bush, and
+heard His voice. And while He is spoken of as the angel of the Lord, He
+revealed Himself as Jehovah and made this Name known to Moses. He was
+with Israel in the wilderness and dwelled with them in the Glory cloud.
+He guided them, supplied their need, protected them, judged them and
+overthrew their enemies. To Joshua He appeared and manifested Himself as
+"The captain over the Lord's hosts." Manoah and his wife saw Him, and
+witnessed His ascension into heaven, in the smoke and fire of the
+sacrifice. Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel gazed upon His Glory. All these
+were but foreshadowings and glimpses of the two great manifestations of
+the Son of God on earth, as they are necessitated by His work, His
+manifestation in humiliation and His manifestation in power and glory.
+
+Other Foreshadowings of His Work.
+
+But there are other foreshadowings of His work. All the divinely given
+institutions and many of the historical events recorded in the Old
+Testament foreshadow His work. History, as recorded in the Old
+Testament, is the preliminary history of the incarnation. The whole
+sacrificial system of the levitical priesthood told out beforehand, in
+many ways, what the great redemptive work of the Lamb of God was to be.
+Each offering and sacrifice revealed the different phases of His work on
+the cross, as well as His holy and spotless humanity. The sufferings of
+Christ and their meaning for lost sinners were thus made known. From
+Abel's lamb to the last lamb, which died before the true Lamb of God
+uttered the never to be forgotten words on the cross, "It is finished,"
+the thousands of lambs and bulls and goats, the innumerable herds of
+animals slain, were all types of the one great sacrifice, brought on
+Calvary's cross. The tabernacle in all its appointments, down to the
+minutest details, had I some meaning in connection with the Person of
+Him who is "Wonderful" and His wonderful work. And what else could we
+say of the historical events, such as the Passover, the passage through
+the Red Sea, the brazen serpent hung up in the wilderness. And to this
+we might add how men in their experiences, like Isaac, Joseph, David and
+others foreshadowed the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should
+follow.
+
+Direct Prophecies.
+
+Still more numerous are the direct prophecies announcing the different
+phases of the work of Christ. That He should appear as man, how and
+where He should be born, His life, His service, His miracles, all was
+repeatedly foretold by the Prophets. But the great mass of predictions
+concern His sufferings as the sin-bearer and His glories as the King.
+None of the details of His sufferings were omitted. Think, for instance,
+of the predictions contained in the xxii Psalm. Death by crucifixion was
+unknown among the Jewish people. No nation in touch with Israel, living
+at that time, put human beings to death in that way. It was reserved for
+cruel Rome to invent death; by crucifixion. Yet in this Psalm there is
+given by divine inspiration a complete picture of that unknown mode of
+death by crucifixion. We read of His hands and feet pierced, the bones
+out of joint, the excessive thirst, the tongue cleaving to the jaws. And
+so we find His resurrection, His presence with God, His coming again and
+His Kingdom of Righteousness and Glory foretold in the Prophets.
+
+The Inspiration of the Old Testament.
+
+We emphasize these facts of divine foreshadowing and prediction, because
+in these last days thousands of men have arisen throughout Christendom
+who boldly deny the inspiration of the Old Testament. They would have us
+believe that all these wonderful predictions are of human origin. They
+brand nearly everything as legend, and declare that there are no
+Messianic predictions in the Bible, that God did not speak to the
+Prophets concerning His Son and His work. Such a denial of the
+revelation of God in the Old Testament Scriptures is but the vanguard of
+the denial of the Son of God and His work. "Denying the Master that
+bought them" (2 Peter ii:1), is the leading phase of apostate
+Christendom in the last days. It is Anti-christianity. This denial is
+preceded by a denial of the written Word of God. The higher criticism,
+so called, is Satan's leaven which leavens the theological institutions
+of Christendom and is fully preparing an empty Christian profession for
+the reception of the Man of Sin. To believe that these marvelous,
+harmonious predictions and fore-shadowings contained in the Old
+Testament are the productions of clever men, legends put together by
+evil men, who claimed to have received them from God, is far more
+difficult than to believe that they are given by divine revelation.
+
+II.
+
+The Incarnation of the Son of God.
+
+And now let us turn to the great truth and fact of the Incarnation of
+the Son of God. When the fulness of time had come, that is the appointed
+time, the Son of God appeared on earth in the form of man. The Word
+which was in the beginning, the Word that was with the Father, the Word
+that was God, the Word by whom all things were made, that Word was made
+flesh and dwelt on earth. He who subsisted in the form of God, emptied
+Himself and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the
+likeness of men. The incarnation is a deep mystery, the depths of which
+human reason can never fathom. We must approach it in the spirit of deep
+reverence. "Take off thy shoes from thy feet for the ground whereon thou
+standest is holy ground!" In the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke, we
+have the record of the divine announcement of the incarnation as it was
+made to the virgin, who had found favor in the sight of God. As she sat
+in the house, perhaps engaged in holy meditation, the angel Gabriel
+appeared unto her with the message from the throne of God. Was there
+ever such a message given to Gabriel before? Great as the revelation was
+which he was commissioned to carry to praying Daniel, the communication
+to the Virgin Mary here is far greater.
+
+The Incarnation Announced.
+
+We read in Luke i:35: "And the angel of the Lord said unto her, The Holy
+Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
+overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy Thing, which shall be born of
+thee, shall be called the Son of God." Let us notice the two great
+statements given about His incarnation. "The Holy Spirit shall come upon
+thee." From the Gospel of Matthew we learn the full meaning of this
+statement. "That which is begotten in her is of the Holy Ghost."
+Therefore His human nature was produced in the virgin by the creative
+action of the Holy Spirit. Because His human nature was thus produced,
+it was a nature without sin; not only did He not sin, but He could not
+sin. He was sinless, absolutely holy, because He was conceived by the
+Holy Spirit.
+
+The second statement is: "And the power of the Highest shall overshadow
+thee." This is not a repetition of the same truth as contained in the
+first statement. If this too would mean the Holy Spirit, we would have
+to conclude that the Holy Spirit is the Father of Him who became
+incarnate. We read at once after this second statement, "Therefore that
+Holy Thing, which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of
+God." The power of the Highest does not mean the power of the Holy
+Spirit. It is none other than the Son of God Himself. The eternal Son of
+God, He who is God, overshadowed her and this overshadowing meant the
+union of Himself with the human nature created by the Holy Spirit in the
+Virgin Mary. He is called "that Holy Thing." He is something entirely
+new, a Being which cannot be classified. And then we read again, "That
+Holy Thing shall be called the Son of God." It does not say "shall be
+the Son of God;" such He ever was. Incarnation did not make Him Son of
+God. He shall be called Son of God; God manifested in the flesh. Much
+time could be spent in adding to these remarks, or in reviewing the
+different attempts which have been made to explain the great mystery. We
+might also enumerate all the evil teachings and theories which are the
+results of attempted explanations. But all this would be but waste of
+time. No human mind can fathom the depths of the incarnation, nor fully
+grasp the wonderful personality of the God-Man, the Lord Jesus Christ.
+Far better it is to abide by these simple declarations of the Word of
+God, than to enter into speculations, which can never solve this great
+mystery.
+
+A certain American statesman was once asked, "Can you comprehend how
+Jesus Christ could be both God and Man?" The great thinker replied, "No,
+sir; I cannot. And I would be ashamed to acknowledge Him as my Saviour
+if I could, for then He would not be greater than myself."
+
+This is very true indeed. With joyful and grateful hearts we believe the
+great revelation given to us in God's holy Word, that God so loved the
+world that He gave His only begotten Son and that the Son of God left
+Heaven's Glory and came to this earth. He emptied Himself and appeared
+in the form of the creature. This, however, does not mean what an evil
+theory, by the name of "Kenosis," teaches, that He emptied Himself of
+His Godhead. He emptied Himself of His outward Glory. The child which
+rested on the bosom of Mary is the One, who ever was in the bosom of the
+Father. Listen once more to the language of the xxii Psalm. "I was cast
+upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God from my mother's belly. Thou
+didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts." What mere human
+child could have ever said this truthfully? Nor is this the language of
+a poet. The child born in Bethlehem alone could speak thus.
+
+The Foundation of the Gospel.
+
+The incarnation is the great foundation of the whole Gospel. No
+incarnation means no Gospel, no Hope and no God. The person who denies
+this truth has no right whatever to the name of Christian. At no time
+has the denial of this great foundation truth been so pronounced and
+widespread as in our times. Men believing themselves wise, in possession
+of greater knowledge than former generations, turn their backs upon
+revelation. The miracle, including the incarnation, is denied. And this
+denial is not from the side of outspoken infidels alone, but those who
+profess to be teachers of Christianity are the foremost leaders in it.
+We mention Reginald Campbell and his followers in the so-called "New
+Theology." And the hundreds of evangelical preachers, who wished this
+man Godspeed during his recent visit to America, who passed resolutions
+of thanks, after listening to his subtle infidelity, are, in the light
+of 2 John 10, partakers of his sin. And then there is that
+Anti-christian system, known by the name of Christian Science. In its
+so-called philosophical, in reality, satanic utterances, it opposes the
+revelation of God and denies that Jesus Christ is come into the flesh.
+That evil book, "Science and Health," to which we readily accord
+inspiration, not from above, but from below, teaches "The Virgin Mary
+conceived the idea of God and gave to her ideal the name of Jesus;" and
+again "Jesus was the offspring of Mary's self-communion with God."
+
+It is a comfort to believers in these evil days to remember, that such a
+rejection of the doctrine of Christ, His Person and His work, is
+predicted in the Bible to take place immediately before the Lord comes.
+The end of the age is upon us. These denials will not decrease, but
+become more numerous.
+
+The Purpose of the Incarnation. And what was the purpose of the
+incarnation? By incarnation the invisible God was made known to man. The
+Lord Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God. No man hath seen
+God at any time, the only Begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father,
+hath declared Him. As One with the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ could
+say, "Whosoever seeth Me, seeth the Father."
+
+The attributes of God were made known by Him in incarnation. We behold
+the holiness of God in that holy life, which was lived on earth to
+glorify the Father. He manifested omniscience. He knew what was in men
+and knew their thoughts. He manifested the power of God in controlling
+the forces of nature, commanding the wind and the waves, turning water
+into wine. He had power over disease, over the demons and over death. He
+revealed the Love and the compassion of God.
+
+By incarnation the Son of God brought likewise the Word of God to man.
+"God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
+the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by
+His Son" (Hebrews i:1). He confirmed the Law and the Prophets, therefore
+all criticism of the Old Testament attacks the authority and
+infallibility of the Son of God. He also revealed the will of God, made
+known the Father and the fact of eternal life, and the eternal and
+conscious punishment of the wicked. He predicted the great future events
+concerning Himself and His Kingdom, the end of the age and His visible
+Return.
+
+The incarnation was necessary in anticipation of His work as the Priest
+of His people. He was to be after His death on the cross and after
+resurrection, the merciful and faithful High Priest. Such He is now. He
+took part of flesh and blood, we read in the second chapter of Hebrews,
+that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest. He was tempted in
+all things as we are, with the exception of sin. He suffered in being
+tempted so that He might be touched with the feeling of our infirmities
+and succour them that are tempted. And all He was to be and is now, the
+Second Man, the last Adam, the head of the church, the head of the new
+creation, all and much else necessitated His incarnation.
+
+What Incarnation could not Accomplish.
+
+However, the great purpose of the incarnation of the Son of God was His
+work of redemption. For this great purpose He came into the world. He
+came that, after a life, which completely glorified the Father and
+upheld His holy law and vindicated God's rights as the lawgiver, He
+might accomplish the great work of atonement. John stated this great
+work the Son of God came to do in a brief sentence, "Behold the Lamb of
+God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Sin, that accursed thing,
+had to be taken out of the way. Propitiation for sins had to be made. A
+sacrifice had to be brought which would glorify a holy God and satisfy,
+as well as exalt, His righteousness. Peace had to be made. The sins of
+many had to be paid and the full penalty of them to be borne.
+
+Incarnation in itself, the marvelous and ever blessed humiliation of the
+Son of God by taking on the human form, His holy blessed life, His
+loving words, words of life and peace, yea, all He did in deeds of love
+and compassion could never accomplish this. Incarnation brought God to
+Man, but could never bring man back to a holy God. Incarnation could not
+make an end of sin, nor make it possible for a righteous God to show
+mercy to the fallen and the lost, in a righteous way. This great work of
+redemption could only be accomplished by His death on the cross. For
+this He had come. He came to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
+The Author and Prince of Life came that He might give His Life a ransom
+for many. The good Shepherd appeared to give His life for the sheep. By
+His death alone, the great work of redemption could be accomplished.
+
+III.
+
+His work on the Cross and What has been Accomplished by It.
+
+And now let us consider His work on the cross and what has been
+accomplished by it. But who is able to speak worthily of this theme of
+all themes? Who can fathom the solemn yet blessed fact, the death of the
+Son of God on the cross? What tongue or pen can describe the sad, yet
+glorious truth, that the Just One died for the unjust, that Christ died
+for the ungodly! He who knew no sin was made sin for us! And what human
+mind can estimate the wonderful results of His work on the cross!
+
+Some Christians speak as if the death on the cross, the work
+accomplished there, is so fully known to them, that they do not need any
+more instruction on it. They tell us that they search for deeper things.
+There can be nothing deeper than the death of God's Son on the cross.
+Depths are here which are unfathomable. We must ever turn back to the
+cross. Always we shall learn something new. With unspeakable Glory upon
+us and greater glory before us in eternal ages to come, the cross of
+Christ and the Lamb of God which has taken away the sin of the world can
+never be forgotten. But we shall never know what that death on the cross
+meant for Him and what it meant to God.
+
+Made Sin for Us.
+
+In Hebrews x we read of the sacrifices which were offered by the Jews
+year after year. These sacrifices could not take away sin. Then He, the
+Son of God, stepped forward and made His great declaration. Coming into
+the world He saith, "Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a
+body hast Thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sins
+Thou hadst no pleasure" (verses 4-5). The body prepared puts before us
+again the fact of incarnation. That body was a prepared body, a holy
+body, an undefiled body, a body in which sin could not dwell and on
+which death had no claim. But when He took on that body, He likewise
+said: "Lo? come to do Thy will, O God." In the tenth verse we read, "By
+the which will (the will of God, which dates back before the foundation
+of the world), we are sanctified through the offering of the body of
+Jesus Christ once for all." Through the eternal Spirit He offered
+Himself without spot to God. The holy Lamb of God, with no spot or
+blemish upon Him, shed His precious blood on the cross, to procure
+redemption. But what it all meant for Him who was as truly Man as He is
+God! Here was a Being perfectly holy, One who had always pleased God and
+did His will, yea, His meat and drink was to do the will of Him that
+sent Him. Sin was the horrible defiling thing to Him. He, too, like the
+holy God, hated and hates sin. And yet such a One was made sin for us.
+He had to stand in the place of guilty sinners and all the waves and
+billowy of divine judgment and wrath had to pass over Him. He drank the
+cup of wrath to the last drop. He suffered in a fourfold way.
+
+1. In Himself Before He ever approached the garden of Gethsemane, He was
+troubled in His spirit. We hear Him say, "Now my soul is
+troubled--Father, save me from this hour, but for this cause came I to
+this hour." He looked on towards the cross. And why that agony in the
+garden? Why was His sweat as it were great drops of blood? Why the
+repeated prayer, "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me?"
+How many dishonoring explanations have been written of the Gethsemane
+suffering, as if He was afraid to die or that the devil tried to kill
+Him there to prevent his death on the cross, and that He feared the
+devil. But what was it? He suffered in Himself. His holy soul shrank
+from that which a holy God must hate, that which He hated--SIN. He was
+about to be made sin and He knew no sin. What suffering this produced in
+the Holy One of God to take all upon Himself and to stand in the
+sinner's place before a holy sin-hating God, our poor finite minds
+cannot realize.
+
+2. He suffered from men. This he had foretold. When man, guilty man,
+cast Himself upon the willing victim, all the wickedness and vileness
+and cruelty man is capable of committing was brought out and spent upon
+the blessed Son of God. The scourging, the buffeting, the mocking, the
+spitting and the shame connected with it, the shame of the cross, He
+despised. How that sensitive body must have quivered under it all!
+
+3. He suffered from the devil. He had tempted him. Nothing was left
+undone, what this wonderful Being could do. All His cunning and powers
+were brought into use, with the one purpose to keep Him from going to
+the cross and dying in the sinner's place. And when at last he could not
+keep Him from going to the cross, then he cast himself upon the victim
+and heaped all his hatred and malice upon Him. He used man in all this
+awful work and no doubt the legions of demons. And in all this the Son
+of God was as a lamb, which is dumb before the shearers. He opened not
+His mouth.
+
+4. But the greatest of all, He suffered from God. With hushed breath, we
+must speak of this. It is the Holy of Holies of the great work on the
+cross, the impenetrable mystery of the atoning work of the Son of God.
+From the darkness which enshrouded the cross and the blessed sufferer on
+the accursed tree, there came the mournful cry: "My God, My God, why
+hast Thou forsaken me?" It made known the awful suffering, which the
+Lamb of God, the substitute of sinners, endured from the hand of a holy
+God. He was smitten and afflicted of God. Have you noticed that in the
+xxii Psalm this cry of the sufferer on the cross stands first? Man would
+have written the sufferings of Christ in a far different way. The
+descriptions of the sufferings not written by inspiration would have
+been in this wise: The physical sufferings, how they scourged Him, all
+the sickening details of that which even cruel Rome called the
+intermediate death, would have been pictured. Then would have followed a
+description of how the nails were driven into the blessed hands who had
+lovingly touched so many weary, sin-laden and disease-stricken bodies.
+All the agony of the cross and its shame would have been described first
+by man. Then how the multitude mocked and darkness came over the entire
+scene--then last of all, it would have been stated, He cried, My God, My
+God, why hast Thou forsaken me? But the Holy Spirit in this great
+Prophecy puts the cry of deepest agony first. Why? Because in that hour
+the great work of atonement, propitiation, sin-bearing, judgment and
+wrath enduring, was once and for all accomplished. In this same Psalm we
+read what men energized by Satan's power, did unto Him. But man could
+not put Him to death. It is written, "Thou (that is God) hast brought me
+into the dust of death." God's own hand rested upon Him. "God laid upon
+Him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah liii:6). "It pleased the Lord to
+bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief." And elsewhere we read, what
+refers to the same atoning work of our Lord when He stood in the
+sinner's place.
+
+"All Thy waves and billows go over me" (Ps. xlii:7).
+
+"Thine arrows stick fast in Me" (Ps. xxxviii:2).
+
+"Thine hand presses me sore" (Ps. xxxviii:2).
+
+"Thou hast laid me into the lowest pit" (Ps. lxxxviii:6).
+
+"Thy wrath lieth hard upon me" (Ps. lxxxviii:7).
+
+"Thy fierce wrath goeth over me" (Ps. lxxxviii:16).
+
+"I suffer Thy terrors" (Ps. lxxxviii:15).
+
+But what it all meant for the Son of God! Who can tell out His sorrow
+and deep affliction? Never shall we fully discover the greatness of the
+price which was paid. The death of the cross, it has been truly said,
+stands perfectly alone. It can never be repeated and because of its
+eternal efficacy, will never need to be repeated.
+
+_It is Finished._
+
+And this great work He came to do, is finished. "It is finished!" thus
+He spoke on the cross and the words assure us that all is done. The rent
+veil and the open tomb tell us "It is finished." But what has been
+accomplished in this blessed work? We cannot fully grasp it now as long
+as we look into a glass darkly. When at last we are brought into His
+Presence, transformed into His own image, when we shall have share with
+Him in His glorious inheritance, when at last sin and death are no more
+and a new heaven and new earth are called into existence, then shall we
+more fully know what that work has accomplished. All, ALL we have and
+are, all we shall have and shall be as His own, has its blessed source
+in the cross of Christ. He died for all. He gave Himself a ransom for
+all. He tasted death for every man. He is the propitiation for the whole
+world (not for the sins of the whole world, else the whole world would
+be saved). It means His work is available to all sinners. Upon that fact
+that He died for all, the Gospel is preached to lost and guilty sinners.
+Christ died for the ungodly. "Whosoever will"--"Whosoever believeth,"
+these are the precious conditions of the Gospel of Grace which sounds
+forth from the finished work of Christ on the cross. And all who believe
+on Him and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, for them He
+bore their sins on the cross. Each believing sinner can look back to the
+cross and can say, "He loved me, He gave Himself for me." He paid my
+debt. He bore my sins in His own body on the tree. He stood in my place.
+He was my substitute. He tasted death for me.
+
+Much of the evil teachings of the present day, such as universal
+salvation, larger hope, millennial dawnism, etc., emanate from the fact
+that propitiation and substitution are not correctly understood.
+Propitiation is the Godward side of the sacrifice of Christ, with this
+God is satisfied. The propitiation is for the whole world. This does
+not mean that the whole world is therefore to be saved. He bore the sins
+of many--not the sins of all. He was the substitute on the cross only
+for such who believe on Him.
+
+And what do we possess who have believed on Him, own Him as our Saviour
+and our Substitute? Many Scriptures might be read in answer to this
+question. We cannot do so, but shall mention briefly a few things which
+all believing sinners share on account of the finished work of Christ on
+the cross.
+
+We have a perfect justification. All our sins are forever put away,
+because they were borne and paid for by His death on the cross. The
+Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. All has been
+righteously and forever settled. "Who shall bring any accusation against
+God's elect? It is God who justifies, who is he that condemns? It is
+Christ who has died." "There is therefore now no condemnation to those
+in Christ Jesus." We have perfect Peace with God. Peace has been made in
+the blood of the cross. It can never be unmade. We have peace with God
+through our Lord Jesus Christ. He is our Peace. So many Christians think
+their peace with God depends on their walk and service. If they sin,
+they think they have lost their peace and their standing before God and
+unless they are restored, they will be lost forever. Not our walk and
+service, not anything we have done, we do or shall do, is the ground of
+peace with God, but what God has done for us in Christ's atoning on the
+cross.
+
+Then we have a perfect acceptance and standing before God; perfect
+nearness and access to God. We are made nigh by the blood. With no more
+conscience of sins, we can stand in God's own presence, purged and
+cleansed, complete in Him, as near to God as He is.
+
+His blessed work on the cross has made an end of the old man. We are
+dead to the world, to self, to sin, to the law. The old man was
+crucified with Christ. "Sin shall have no more dominion over you." This
+is the blessed message from the cross. We have deliverance from the
+power of darkness and a perfect title to an eternal inheritance. No
+uncertainty is attached to all this. We have salvation, are saved,
+forever secure, Sons of God, Heirs of God indwelt by the Holy Spirit,
+and much else, on account of the finished work of Christ on the cross.
+
+And to all this we add that on the cross He loved the church and gave
+Himself for it. There He died for Israel and as a result the remnant of
+that people will some day be delivered from iniquity and perverse-ness,
+as Balaam, beheld them, "no iniquity in Jacob and no perverseness in
+Israel" (Numbers xxiii:21). Groaning creation will ultimately be freed
+from the bondage of corruption and brought into the liberty of the sons
+of God, because He shed His blood on the cross. All things in heaven and
+on the earth (not things under the earth) will be reconciled in virtue
+of the death of Christ on the cross.
+
+Ye are not Your Own.
+
+Let us remember as such who have been reconciled and have redemption
+through His blood that we are bought with a price. "Ye are not your own
+for ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body, and
+in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor. vi:20). Through His death we
+are positionally dead; all who believe on Him have died. We are dead to
+the law, to the world, to sin. But are we truly living, walking and
+acting as such who have died, dead to sin and alive unto God? A child of
+God who walks after the flesh practically denies the power and value of
+the blessed finished work of Christ on the cross.
+
+Let us exalt in our lives, by our words and deeds, the cross of Christ.
+"But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world"
+(Gal. vi:14).
+
+
+
+II.
+
+THE WORK OF CHRIST.
+
+The great work which the Lord Jesus Christ, God's well beloved Son, came
+to do was to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. This finished
+work of the cross is the basis of His present work and His future work.
+What mind can estimate the value and preciousness of that work in which
+the Holy One offered Himself through the eternal Spirit without spot
+unto God! He procured redemption by His death on the cross. In His
+present work and much more in the future work, He works out this great
+redemption into result.
+
+There is much confusion in the minds of Christians about the present and
+future work of Christ. Many speak of the Lord being now the King of
+kings and Lord of lords, reigning over the earth. They speak of Him as
+occupying the throne of His father David in heaven. The church,
+according to this teaching, is His Kingdom, and that kingdom is
+gradually being enlarged under His spiritual reign until the whole world
+has been brought into this kingdom. All this is wrong. The Lord Jesus
+Christ will reign over the earth; He will have a kingdom of glory, of
+righteousness and peace on this earth; the nations of the earth will
+have to submit to His government, but all this is still to come. It will
+be accomplished with His visible Return to the earth, when He will claim
+as the second Man the dominion of the earth. His kingly rule is future.
+His present work is of another nature.
+
+I. The Bodily Presence of Christ in Glory.
+
+Our blessed Lord gave on the cross the body, which He had taken in
+incarnation. That body died. It was the only part of Him, which could
+die. But that body so dishonored by man, scourged and nailed to the
+cross, could not see corruption. He arose from the dead. The mighty
+power of God opened that grave and raised Him from the dead. This mighty
+power of God, which brought Him forth is the power which is towards us
+who believe. It is on our side (Eph. i:19). And God not alone raised Him
+from the dead, but He gave Him glory (1 Peter i:21).
+
+If I were to teach on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, I would
+demonstrate two things. First, that He actually arose; the indisputable
+fact, that He who had really died, who was dead bodily, arose bodily,
+and, in the second place, the all important meaning of His resurrection.
+
+The Apostle Paul writes in that great chapter in First Corinthians, "If
+Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then
+they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished" (1 Cor.
+xv:18). In other words, if the Lord Jesus Christ came not forth from the
+tomb, where His blessed body had been laid and where it rested for three
+days, if He did not leave that grave in a bodily form, His death on the
+cross would have no more meaning than the death of any other human
+being. Then that blood which was shed could never take away our sins and
+give the guilty conscience rest. Furthermore, the countless beings, who
+passed out of this life trusting in Christ, would have all perished. But
+Christ rose from the dead. There can be no doubt about it. The witnesses
+for it are simply unanswerable.
+
+His Physical Resurrection.
+
+His resurrection from the dead was God's answer to His prayers with
+strong crying and tears.
+
+"Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered prayers and
+supplication with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save
+him from death, and was heard in that he feared" (Heb. v:27).
+
+This took place in Gethsemane. The answer to His prayers and tears came
+from God on the morning of the first day. His resurrection from the dead
+was the "Amen" of God to His triumphant shout on the cross, "It is
+finished." By raising Him from the dead, God set His seal to the work of
+Christ on the cross. God gave His witness by it that the work, which was
+demanded by His holiness and righteousness, had been fully accomplished.
+Guilty man can now be righteously acquitted from His guilt because God's
+eternal righteousness was upheld and satisfied by His own Son in that He
+paid the penalty. before God rolled away the stone? He had shown that
+the work done was pleasing to Him. It seemed as if God could not wait
+for the third day. His hand took hold of the veil, which hid the Holy of
+Holies from the eyes of man. He rent that veil from top to bottom. He
+showed thereby that He, the Holy God, could now come forth in fullest
+blessing to man, and man bought by such a price, can approach into the
+presence of God and be at home with Him, a loving Father. Sinners saved
+by grace can enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by the new
+and living way.
+
+And how did He come forth from the grave? It has already been stated. He
+arose with the body He had taken on in incarnation, the body which could
+not see corruption. He left the grave in a corporeal form. It was not a
+phantom, but a tangible body. The nailprints were still seen in His
+hands and in His feet. The side showed the place where the spear had
+entered. He appeared in that body in the midst of His disciples and
+showed unto them His hands and His side. And when at another time they
+cried out for fear, He said, "Behold, my hands and my feet, that it is
+myself; handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as ye
+see me have" (Luke xxiv:39-40). And while they believed not for joy, He
+proved His corporeality by eating a piece of broiled fish and of a
+honeycomb. But while it was the same body it was also a glorified body.
+Such a body, like unto His own glorious body, we shall receive some
+blessed day in exchange for the body of humiliation; for this redemption
+of the body we still wait as well as those who have fallen asleep in
+Jesus.
+
+Passing through the Heavens.
+
+In this body He left the earth and passed through the heavens into
+heaven itself. What a scene that must have been! What must have taken
+place after He had been lifted up and disappeared out of sight from the
+gazing disciples! They saw Him as He was lifted up, the same Lord Jesus,
+until the glory cloud, the Shekinah, took Him up and in that cloud He
+was taken into the heavens, where the physical eye could not follow.
+What a triumphant entrance into the heavens it must have been! Perhaps
+the mighty Archangel accompanied Him, the victor over Sin, Death, the
+Grave and Satan; for the Archangel will accompany Him some day in His
+descent out of heaven. The Lord went up with a shout (Psalm xlvii:5). He
+will return with the victor's shout. When He comes back, He will be
+attended by the mighty angels. May not these heavenly hosts have been
+present as He ascended on high? And as the Man Christ Jesus passed
+upward through the territory, which is still the domain of Satan, the
+prince of the power in the air, the wicked tenants of the air fell back
+in fear and trembling. The glorified Man passed on, upward, higher and
+higher. Nothing could arrest His progress. The mighty power of God
+raised Him up. Through the second heaven He passed, where the wonderful
+stars, the creation of His own power, describe their great orbits around
+their fiery suns. He is still attended by angels, and the angelic hosts
+beheld Him, who were also the witnesses of His sufferings, His death and
+resurrection. At last a place was reached where every angel had to halt.
+Even the Archangel had to cover His face and cry, "Holy! Holy!" Yonder
+is the third heaven and there stands the glorious throne of God. The
+glorified Man advances alone; He ascended on high into the immediate
+presence of His God and our God, His Father and our Father. The
+welcoming voice of God Himself bade Him to take His seat on His own
+right hand until His enemies are made His footstool. What must it have
+been when the only begotten Son returned to His eternal dwelling place
+as the First begotten, and God as well as He himself beheld the host of
+redeemed sinners brought by Him into that Glory!
+
+The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all
+principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is
+named. There He is now the Man in the Glory. Once more let me state it,
+the Lord Jesus Christ is corporeally present in the highest heaven.
+Everything depends on this. If His physical resurrection and corporeal
+presence in the highest heaven is denied, His present work and future
+work are an impossibility, and we rob ourselves of every comfort, joy
+and peace. Then, too, His atoning work on the cross has no meaning for
+us.
+
+A Fundamental Truth Denied.
+
+And too often this great truth of the bodily presence of Christ in
+heaven is denied in these days of departure from the faith. They teach,
+His resurrection was a spiritual one, that He lives only by His words.
+The denial of the literal resurrection of our blessed Lord and His
+presence in heaven has become very widespread. Three evil systems
+especially deny it.
+
+1. Unitarianism. As a sect this denomination is small, but the leaven of
+Unitarianism is leavening Christendom. All this criticism of the Bible,
+the new theology, a more liberal religion, but all aiming at the
+essential Deity of our blessed Lord, His incarnation and resurrection
+from the dead, is the leaven of Unitarianism. At a recent annual service
+of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association the chairman observed
+that "earnest and thoughtful men, occupying pulpits once dedicated to
+the propagation of doctrines strictly orthodox, were now preaching a
+Gospel, which for liberality and broadmindedness even surpassed the
+Unitarianism of three or four generations ago."
+
+2. Christian Science. This new science is not new, but is the revival,
+through satanic powers, of ancient Gnosticism, a denial of every article
+of the faith once and for all delivered unto the saints. Prominent in
+this system is the denial of the physical resurrection, and the bodily
+presence of the Lord Jesus in Glory. It is the masterpiece of Satan. Its
+phenomenal growth attracts to its ranks such of the Christian
+profession, who were never saved or whose knowledge of the truth of God
+is insufficient. There will be no abatement of this great delusion. It
+will continue to grow and become more powerful as the Gospel is denied
+and God's Word rejected.
+
+3. Millennial Dawnism. This is another great and widespread system. In
+it Satan appears even more so than in Christian Science as an angel of
+light. It is offered throughout this land as "food for Christians" and
+goes by the name of "Bible Study." One meets it everywhere. What is it?
+It is an amalgamation of several of the evil theories concerning the
+Person of Christ, denying, like Unitarianism and Christian Science, the
+absolute Deity of our Lord. "Pastor" Russell in his books also denies
+the physical resurrection of Christ. According to this system the body
+of our Lord was either dissolved in its natural gases or is preserved as
+a memorial somewhere. This, of course, means the denial of His bodily
+presence in heaven. But think of it! To say that the body of our Lord
+was dissolved in its natural gases, when the Word so clearly states "He
+could not see corruption."
+
+II.
+
+The Present Work of Christ; What It Is.
+
+As Man in Glory, crowned with glory and honor, He is occupied in a
+present work.
+
+He is in the presence of God as the Heir of all things. He is the
+upholder of all and all things consist by Him. This great universe, with
+its innumerable stars and suns, is under His control; it belongs to Him.
+How man ever since the fall attempts to penetrate the mysterious depths
+of the universe! Scientists with their glasses scan the heavens and try
+to regain the knowledge of creation, which was lost by the fall of man,
+Their discoveries astonish us. How marvelous the heavens are! How they
+declare the glory of God and the firmament His handiwork! Often too has
+the search of fallen man into the depths of the universe demonstrated
+the truth of God given by revelation in His word. And yet the great
+questions we ask of astronomers concerning this great universe are
+answered with "we do not know." Some day in the twinkling of an eye we
+shall know more about this great universe than all the knowledge gained
+by fallen man. But this universe rests in the hands of the Man in Glory.
+He is the great central sun around which all revolves. We do not know if
+there is any work to be done in connection with the great bodies which
+we see in the great space about us. We do not know what changes go on
+there. But we do know that all is in His hands. All is under His
+control.
+
+We must also think of the angels, the heavenly hosts. He has been made,
+after His passion, so much better than the angels, as He hath by
+inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they (Heb. i:4). What
+may go on in this great world above, the world of unseen spirits, who
+can tell? But they are all under His control. How He sends them forth
+and uses them in His providential dealings with His people on earth, and
+how He restrains through these unseen agencies the wrath of the enemy
+and the evil work of demons, we do not know fully. "Are they not all
+ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them, who shall be heirs
+of salvation" (Heb. i:14). This and much else, though not fully
+revealed, and hidden from us, belongs also to His present work. We
+mention this that we might have a higher estimate of our Lord and
+realize anew what a mighty and wonderful Lord we have.
+
+But there is a present work of our Lord in Glory, which is fully
+revealed in His Word.
+
+In the first place, He is the Mediator between God and Man, and being
+preached as such to the world, He exercises His office as the Mediator
+throughout this present age (1 Tim. ii:5-6). Besides this Mediatorship,
+He has a service which concerns those for whom He died and who, by
+personal faith, have accepted Him as their Saviour.
+
+The Lord Knoweth His Own.
+
+"The Lord knoweth them that are His." What a blessed thought of comfort
+and cheer it is, which should forever banish fear and unbelief! The
+Lord, the One seated there in the Holiest, knows us personally. He knew
+us before we ever were in existence. He saw us before the foundation of
+the world. He knew all our vileness and the depths of degradation. He
+knew us as we wandered in our sins. His loving eyes followed us then. He
+sought us in His love and brought us to Himself. He gave us His life and
+dwells in us. Each believing sinner, saved by grace, is one Spirit with
+the Lord. "I know my sheep." He calleth each by name, like a Shepherd
+calleth his own sheep. Again He said "I know them." What a comfort it
+should be to our hearts, that He knows each of us by name. He knows our
+circumstances, trials, difficulties and temptations. He knows our
+conflicts and our tears. "He knoweth the way which I take."
+
+It is very precious! In the xxxii Psalm we find the comforting word for
+one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, "I will guide
+thee with mine eye," or as it should read, "I will guide thee with mine
+eye upon thee." That eye up yonder, that eye which measures the depths
+of the universe, which follows every planet, that eye which neither
+sleeps nor slumbers, that all-seeing eye rests upon us. He is occupied
+with each. The millions of His people who have lived and died, who
+passed through life and are now at home with Him, were each individually
+the objects of His care. His loving eye was upon the multitudes of
+martyrs. He knew and watched that poor tortured saint, who was cast with
+broken bones into a dungeon to starve to death. His power and love
+rested upon those who were burned or cast before the wild animals. For
+each He served and worked. And so He does still. Oh, the preciousness
+that each believer is under the loving care of the Man in Glory, the
+object of His love. Let us turn to a few Scriptures which reveal this
+fact.
+
+Living for Us.
+
+In Romans v:10 we read:
+
+"For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of
+His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life."
+
+What life is meant by which we are saved? Some have applied it to the
+life of the Lord Jesus Christ before His death on the cross, as if that
+righteous life, that perfect life, had any saving power in it for us.
+Hence the teaching that the righteousness of His life is imputed unto
+us. This is wrong. The life, of which this verse speaks, is the life
+which He lives now in the Presence of God. When we were enemies we were
+reconciled to God by the death of His Son. And now being reconciled,
+much more are we saved by His life. By His life there, because He is
+there, we are saved and kept down here.
+
+Another passage in Romans may be linked with this. Romans viii:34:
+
+"Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is
+risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
+intercession for us."
+
+The risen Christ is at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for
+us. However, not in the Epistle to the Romans is this present work of
+Christ as the intercessor of His redeemed people revealed, but in the
+Epistle to the Hebrews. There we read in the ninth chapter, "For Christ
+is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the
+figures of the true: but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
+presence of God for us." (Heb. ix:24).
+
+And again in chapter vii:24, 25: "But this man, because he continueth
+forever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to
+save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever
+liveth to make intercession for them."
+
+But notice all this is not spoken of those who are unsaved and live in
+sin. The unsaved who are not yet Christ's have no share in all this. For
+the unsaved world the Lord is not the intercessor. He declared this
+truth first of all in His high-priestly prayer, when He said, "I pray
+for them, I pray not for the world" (John xvii:9).
+
+This was also foreshadowed in the Old Testament. The High Priest in His
+garments of Beauty and Glory had upon his shoulders two onyx stones, and
+upon his breast a breastplate with twelve stones. Upon both the onyx
+stones, upon the shoulder and the twelve stones on the breastplate there
+were names engraven. But these were not the names of the Egyptians, the
+Jebusites, the Amorites or the Hittites, but the names of the twelve
+tribes of Israel. Our high priest in the highest heaven carries His own
+upon His shoulders, which typify His power, and upon His bosom He
+carrieth them; the bosom tells of His love. We are the objects of the
+power and the love of Him who appears in the presence of God for us. The
+fact that the names of the Israelites were engraven upon these precious
+stones also has a meaning. If they had been written there, they might be
+blotted out. They were engraven and could never be erased. It tells out
+the blessed truth of our security.
+
+His Priesthood.
+
+Two other passages in Hebrews reveal some of the blessed details of the
+present priestly work of the Lord in our behalf. "Wherefore in all
+things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might
+be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to
+make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself
+hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them that are
+tempted" (Hebrews ii:17, 18). "Seeing then that we have a great High
+Priest, that is passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us
+hold fast our confession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be
+touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points
+tempted like we are, apart from sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto
+the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in
+time of need" (Hebrews iv:14-16).
+
+The first passage tells of the propitiation He made for the sins of the
+people. He suffered, being tempted, and this is the basis of His
+intercessory service. The passage from the fourth chapter tells us how
+He was fitted while on earth for this great office work. While down here
+He was tempted in all points as we are, apart from sin. From sin within
+He could never be tempted, for no sin was in Him. He has gone through
+the trials, the difficulties and sufferings a man who depends on God is
+subject to while in this world, with the exception of sin. He has known
+while on earth every possible difficulty. Now He can be a merciful and
+faithful high priest and as such enter into all our sorrows and trials.
+He sympathizes with us in all our conflicts and difficulties down here.
+However, He does not intercede for the flesh--He has no sympathy with
+sin. By His gracious and unbroken intercession in the sanctuary, He
+upholds us individually in the path down here. He gives strength to
+endure. If it were not for that intercession, we all would fall by the
+way. How often God's people fear troubles and difficulties, losses and
+bereavements, which might possibly come. What, if this favored child
+should be taken from me, how could I stand it? Or, if I should lose her
+whom I love? Or my health should fail? Perhaps my business and income
+stops, how could I ever stand it? Often that which we fear comes upon
+us. That loved one is taken and is put into a grave. Health fails and
+the income stops; instead of plenty there is want. But with the trial,
+with the loss, there comes such a strength to bear it all, and more than
+that, real joy and songs of praise. It is because the great High Priest
+lives and intercedes. He knows all about it and in the tenderness of His
+love and the might of His power, He takes us in His loving arms whenever
+trials and troubles come upon us. At all times under all circumstances
+He is our representative before God and thinks of us.
+
+And so it is with our temptations and our warfare with the wicked
+spirits. The enemy we have is most powerful and intelligent. He knows
+how to spread his nets. His wiles are most subtle. If Satan had his way
+he would overthrow and destroy completely the people of God on earth. If
+it depended on our strength, we would soon fall. But He knows. His eyes
+watch the enemy as they watch us. Peter's case illustrates this
+perfectly. He saw the old serpent as he moved on his way towards Peter.
+He knew the cunning plan Satan had conceived to ensnare Peter. In Judas
+he had entered and taken complete possession of the disciple, who was
+never born again. He planned to fell Peter completely and rush him
+afterwards into despair. But Satan did not reckon with Peter's Lord.
+Before the plan could ever be carried out, the Lord had prayed for Peter
+that His faith may not fail. And though Peter denied the Lord and fell,
+the Lord's gracious intercession kept him through it all. And this is
+still the case with us. He prays for us before that foe can ever
+approach us and thus we can be victorious in the conflict and should we
+stumble and fall, as it is so often the case, then He is the great
+shepherd "who restoreth my soul." How much we owe to this blessed,
+precious present work of our Lord in Glory no one knows. What blessed
+revelation there will come to us when we shall know as we are known,
+when we look back over our lives and behold what the intercession of the
+Lord Jesus accomplished for us and all the Saints of God! We have a
+great high priest who is passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of
+God.
+
+Another phase of His priestly present work is recorded in Heb. xiii:15.
+"By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
+continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."
+He presents our spiritual sacrifices to God. Our worship, our praise and
+our prayers we address to God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, are all imperfect, but as they are presented to God by Him, they
+are acceptable unto God and delight the heart of God for that reason.
+
+His Advocacy.
+
+But there is a second aspect of His work in Glory in the presence of God
+for His people. He is our advocate with the Father. Some Christians
+think that the Priesthood and Advocacy of Christ are one and the same.
+They are not. His advocacy is that which restores us. In the first
+Epistle of John we read of this phase of His present work. "My little
+children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man
+sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous"
+(John ii:1).
+
+In the preceding chapter our wonderful privilege as the children of God
+is made known. We are to be in fellowship with the Father and with His
+Son Jesus Christ. What does that mean? Fellowship with the Father is
+when we delight ourselves in His basket Son, who is His delight, when we
+share the Father's own thoughts about Him. The Son knoweth the Father
+and He has revealed Him and brought us into His own relationship with
+the Father. Fellowship with His Son is to enjoy this relationship with
+the Father. The condition for the enjoyment of this privilege in
+reality, fellowship with the Father and with His Son is, that we walk in
+the light as He is in the light. These blessed things were written that
+we sin not. Sin cannot rob us of our salvation, but it mars the
+enjoyment of that fellowship. The standard is that we sin not, and if we
+live in constant enjoyment of that blessed fellowship into which grace
+has brought us, we do not sin. But how often this is not the case. We
+fall into sin. Then the blessed revelation is given: "If any man sin we
+have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous." How
+grateful we ought to be that it does not say: If any man repent. The
+Lord's intercession as advocate is independent of our repentance or of
+our asking Him to do this for us. It is the exercise of grace in His own
+loving heart toward us to restore our souls, to put us back into the
+place where we can enjoy His fellowship. The moment the believer sins on
+earth, He acts as the Advocate above. The Holy Spirit then likewise acts
+in that He applies the Word to convict and cleanse. The cleansing is by
+the water, the Word, and not a second time by the blood. Then follows
+confession from our side and the restoration is effected. Also notice
+that it does not say "we have an Advocate with God," but "with the
+Father." It is a family matter, and the Father is a Father who can do
+nothing but love those whom He has brought to himself through His Son.
+The conception that the Father is angry with His sinning child on earth,
+and that the Son of God by His pleadings inclines the heart of God to be
+merciful, is an unscriptural one. Another reason why He acts thus as
+Advocate is Satan, the accuser of the brethren. He still has access into
+the presence of God. The day will come when He is cast out of heaven,
+but that day will not come until the church has been caught up to meet
+the Lord in the air.
+
+"And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent, called the Devil, and
+Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,
+and his angels were cast out with him.
+
+"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and
+strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ; for
+the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our
+God day and night" (Rev. xii:9-10).
+
+Because Satan accuses God's people before God day and night, the
+Advocate is there to rebuke him. Every attack by accusation of the
+sinning children of God, the Lord Jesus Christ meets with the fact that
+He made propitiation; He died for their sins.
+
+He Shall not Fail nor be Discouraged.
+
+And this work of Himself as our Priest, the merciful and faithful High
+Priest and our Advocate goes on up yonder uninterruptedly. In Isaiah we
+find a word which speaks of Him, "He shall not fail nor be discouraged."
+Well may we apply this to His present work as Priest and Advocate of His
+own. As Priest He will never fail. He will never fail in being about His
+own, in keeping them and sustaining them, in sending them help from the
+sanctuary in time of need. As Advocate He will not be discouraged. The
+same old failures in our lives, which humble us and break us down, but
+He continues in this service in behalf of His poor sinning people. Some
+Christians do not believe in the fundamental doctrine of the Gospel,
+that a child of God in possession of eternal life can never be lost.
+They think it depends on their walk and service. If one of His own could
+ever be lost again, if even the weakest, the most imperfect could be
+snatched out of His hands, His present work would be a failure as well
+as His finished work on the cross. But read the great high-priestly
+prayer He left for us in John xvii. There He prays the Father, who
+heareth Him always, that His own may be kept.
+
+His Work for the Church.
+
+Another aspect of His present work is what He does for His church. We
+can but briefly indicate what this means.
+
+He is in glory the Head of the church. The church is His body, the
+fullness of Him, that filleth all in all.
+
+Every believing sinner is a member in that body. The risen Lord Himself
+adds new members to that body. He puts each member into the body as it
+pleases Him. Each member is guided and directed by Himself. He supplies
+this body with gifts.
+
+"And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;
+and some, pastors and teachers;
+
+"For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
+edifying of the body of Christ.
+
+"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the
+Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
+fullness of Christ" (Eph. iv:11-13).
+
+Thus He builds up from the Glory His own body. Some day that body will
+be complete. Then we all come unto the measure of the stature of the
+fullness of Christ. That will be when we see Him as He is. Then His
+present work in behalf of His own, His coheirs, will be finished.
+Brought home from this wilderness to the Father's house--safe
+home--there will be no need any longer for His power and love to sustain
+us. No more tears will then be shed, no more wounds of pain and sorrow
+to be soothed, no more help is needed for the time of need; all that is
+passed. Nor does He then need to exercise His office as Advocate, for we
+are delivered forever from the presence of sin and sanctified wholly
+body, soul and spirit. Sinning is then an impossibility. What a happy,
+glorious day that will be!
+
+III.
+
+The Practical Results of His Present Work in the Christian's Life.
+
+The fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is in Glory occupied with us should
+lead us into a holy life which glorifies Him. That loving eye is never
+withdrawn from us. If we were to remember this constantly, what a power
+this would be in our lives! How many things would remain undone, how
+many words unspoken, and how many other things done, if we were
+constantly conscious of that eye which is upon us individually. He
+represents us before God, and we are to represent Him before men. A
+Christian is called to manifest Christ to be His representative. And
+such a life, which is unto His praise and Glory, is made possible
+through His blessed intercessory work and His presence in heaven. A true
+Christian life depends much on this heart occupation with the Person and
+work of Christ. As His presence up yonder and His service for us is a
+reality to our hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit, we shall
+walk worthy of the Lord, and His blessed work for us will constantly be
+felt in our lives here on earth. What a joy it is then, as we reckon
+only with Him, who knows us, to serve Him, to depend on Him. And how we
+should shun anything which grieves Him.
+
+Encouragement for Prayer.
+
+These blessed facts of the Lord's loving interest in us and our life in
+this present evil age, surrounded by dangers and evils of all kinds,
+will be a great encouragement to us in our prayer life. We can go and
+tell Him all about that which troubles us. If He is interested in
+everything which happens to us, down to the smallest matter, then we can
+go to him in prayer and tell Him about it. Some Christians teach that we
+should not do this, but leave it all in His hands without praying for
+it, satisfied that His will be done. But this is contrary to Scripture,
+for it says that in everything by prayer and supplication with
+thanksgiving we are to make our requests known (Phil. iv:6). He delights
+to have us tell Him, and like John's disciples we can go to Him and tell
+Him. His ear is always open. If in His service we become tired and
+weary, we can tell Him, for He was tired on account of the way. If
+hungry or without a resting place, He knows what that means, for He
+passed through this. If lonely and our best services are misunderstood,
+or the fiery darts of the enemy are aimed against us, we can speak to
+Him about it. All this can be so very real to us if we but go on led by
+His spirit.
+
+Deliverance from Worry.
+
+It should make an end of all worry and anxiety. We may possess a divine
+carelessness. Be careful for nothing. Have no anxiety. Why should we
+worry or be anxious? Worry is the child of unbelief. Anxiety can never
+stay if the eyes of the heart behold the man in Glory and faith realizes
+that all is in the hands of One "who doeth all things well." Worry and
+anxiety accuse Him. Martha did that when she was encumbered with much
+service and then said to Him, "Dost Thou not care?" Each time we give
+way to anxiety, we act as if He did not care. But He does; and He would
+have us rest in faith and commit all to Himself.
+
+Sharing His Work.
+
+In conclusion we must not forget that He permits us to have some share
+in this blessed work of His. While He prays for us, we can pray one for
+another, and for all the saints. He intercedes; we can intercede. He
+washes our feet, typical of the cleansing by the Word. We are to wash
+one another's feet. He carries our burdens, but the exhortation also is
+that we carry one another's burden. He forgives and restores. We are to
+forbear one another, and forgive one another, "even as Christ forgave
+us" (Col. iii:13).
+
+
+
+III.
+
+HIS FUTURE WORK
+
+The Lord Jesus Christ, who finished the work on earth the Father gave
+Him to do, who is now bodily present in the highest heaven, occupying
+the Father's throne and exercising His priesthood in behalf of His
+people, is also King. To Him belongeth a Kingdom and a kingly Glory. He
+has therefore a kingly work to do. While His past work was foretold by
+the Spirit of God and His priestly work foreshadowed in the Old
+Testament, His work as King and His glorious Kingdom to come are
+likewise the subjects of the Word of God.
+
+Predicted by the Prophets.
+
+His kingly work was announced by Gabriel to the Virgin. "The Lord God
+shall give unto Him the throne of His father David and He shall reign
+over the house of David forever; and of His Kingdom there shall be no
+end" (Luke i:32, 33). According to this message He must occupy the
+throne of His father David, He must reign and possess a Kingdom. This is
+but heaven's confirmation of what God's prophets for many centuries had
+uttered in announcing the coming of the Messiah. The entire prophetic
+Word has its climax in the visions of the King and the Kingdom, He will
+receive on this earth. These visions of glory to come, for Him who was
+despised and rejected of men, are the glittering stars shining
+throughout the dark night of the past and present age. They dazzle the
+eyes of faith. They inspire hope and courage. We quote a few Scriptures
+which relate to the Christ as King.
+
+"Yet I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the
+decree: the Lord has said unto Me, Thou art my Son, this day have I
+begotten Thee. Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the nations for Thine
+inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession"
+(Ps. ii:6-8). "It is He that will judge the world in righteousness" (Ps.
+xi:7). "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord,
+and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee. For the
+Kingdom is the Lord's and He is the governor among the nations" (Ps.
+xxii:27-28). "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye
+everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King
+of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory" (Ps. xxiv:9-10).
+"All ye peoples clap your hands, shout unto God with the voice of
+triumph! For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great King over all
+the earth" (Ps. xlvii:2). "He shall judge thy people with righteousness,
+and the poor with judgment." "Yea, all Kings shall fall down before Him;
+all nations shall serve Him." "His name shall endure forever--all
+nations shall call Him blessed" (Ps. lxxii:1, 11, 17). "Also, I will
+make Him my Firstborn, higher than the Kings of the earth" (Ps.
+lxxxix:27). "Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness" (Is. xxxii:1).
+"Behold the days come, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch,
+and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and
+justice in the earth" (Jer. xxiii:5). "I saw in the night visions, and
+behold there came with the clouds of heaven one like a Son of Man--and
+there was given Him dominion and glory, and a Kingdom, that all peoples,
+nations and languages should serve Him; His dominion is an everlasting
+dominion which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom which shall not be
+destroyed" (Dan. vii:13-14). "Behold the man, whose name is the Branch,
+and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of
+the Lord. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear
+the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a
+priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them
+both" (Zech. vi:12, 13). "And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth"
+(Zech. xiii:9).
+
+All these prophecies and many more speak of the Lord Jesus as King and
+bear witness of His Kingdom. The glories of His Kingdom are likewise
+described by the holy men of God, the mouthpieces of the Spirit of God.
+
+Not Yet Fulfilled.
+
+Were these predictions fulfilled since the Lord Jesus Christ suffered on
+the Cross? Have they been fulfilled since He entered the Father's
+presence in Glory? Is He now exercising His kingly rule and authority?
+Is the promised Kingdom of righteousness, of peace, of power and glory
+now on this earth?
+
+These questions arise at once in reading these divine predictions. They
+must be answered in the negative. The Lord Jesus Christ has not even
+begun His work as King. The Kingdom promised unto Him, He has not yet
+received. There is now no such Kingdom of glory and power on earth.
+
+The New Testament Evidence.
+
+The New Testament furnishes the completest evidence that our Lord is not
+King over all the earth, and that His kingly rule is still in the
+future. The notion that the church is the Kingdom in which the Lord
+Jesus Christ rules as King, and that the Old Testament predictions of
+Kingdom glories are realized spiritually in the church, is a pure
+invention. Nowhere is the church called the Kingdom, nor do we find the
+Lord Jesus ever called "the King of the Church." He is the Head of the
+church, which is His body. The New Testament still looks forward to the
+Kingdom to come. The Lord has left the earth to receive a Kingdom and to
+return (Luke xix:11-28). He occupies the Father's throne, which is not
+His permanent place, for He is to have His own throne. "When the Son of
+Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then
+shall He sit upon the throne of His glory" (Matt. xxv:31). He waits in
+heaven for the time when all enemies will be made the footstool of His
+feet (Heb. x:13). "But now we see not yet all things put under Him"
+(Heb. ii:8). No nation serves Him and the Kingdoms of this world are not
+His Kingdoms during this age. They will become His and heaven will
+resound with many voices saying: "The kingdoms of this world are become
+the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and
+ever" (Rev. xi:15). But that is future. When the seventh angel sounds
+His trumpet, when heaven opens and He appears as King of kings, crowned
+with many crowns (Rev. xix:11-16), then He will receive the nations for
+His inheritance.
+
+How Christ Begins His Future Work.
+
+The beginning of Christ's future work is revealed in 1 Thessalonians
+iv:15-18. This Scripture contains a great and unique revelation, unknown
+in the Old Testament. The Lord had made the promise to His disciples, "I
+will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am ye may be
+also" (John xiv:3). He did not tell them in what manner He would keep
+this most precious promise. In the first Epistle to the Thessalonians
+the Lord gives the details of His coming for His own, and how He will
+fulfill the promise given to His disciples. He promises that He will
+descend from heaven with a shout. When He accomplished His work on the
+cross, He gave a shout, for he cried with a loud voice "Tetelestei"--"It
+is finished!" As the risen One, He met His beloved ones and said "All
+Hail!" The Greek gives only one word, "Chairete"--"Oh! the Joy!" This is
+His resurrection shout, the shout of joy and victory. And when He
+ascended He went up with a shout (Ps. xlvii:5). First Thessalonians
+iv:16 tells us He is going to descend with a shout. He passed through
+the heavens in His glorious ascension and entered into the presence of
+God, His Father. Some day He will arise from the place He occupies on
+the Throne of God. He will leave the place on the right hand of the
+Majesty on high and pass out of the third heaven. Once more He passeth
+through the heavens, not upward but downward. He comes to call His
+Saints to meet Him. The meeting-place is not the Mount of Olives,
+Jerusalem or any earthly place; the meeting-place will be in the air. We
+repeat, this is a revelation, which is not found in the Old Testament
+prophetic Word, nor did the Lord announce it fully in His earthly
+ministry. According to the passage containing this revelation, the shout
+of the Lord as He descends into the air will be followed by the
+resurrection of the dead in Christ. All the Saints of God will be raised
+physically from the graves. This includes the Old Testament and New
+Testament believers. When this shout is heard and the righteous dead are
+raised, all belonging to Christ and living in that day, will be caught
+up together with them in clouds to meet the Lord in the air. For the
+sake of some, we add, that all who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ
+as Saviour, who received eternal life and the Spirit of God, belong to
+Him and their blessed Hope and destiny is to be "caught up in clouds to
+meet the Lord in the air." Some teach that in order to share this
+rapture certain attainments are needed. Such, however, is not the case.
+No service, suffering, separation or any works we do, could ever fit us
+for such a marvelous event. Grace has accomplished it for us. In 1 Cor.
+xv:51 we read: "Behold I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but
+we shall all be changed in a moment, etc." The "all" means all that are
+Christ's at His coming, independent of their knowledge about
+dispensational truths, independent of their waiting for Him, or any
+other thing. That they belong to Him and are redeemed by His precious
+blood is a sufficient title to be caught up and to meet Him in the air.
+
+Of this double company, saints who died and who will be raised from the
+dead, and saints who live and will be changed in a moment and caught up
+to meet Him, we find a hint in His words in John xi:25-26. "I am the
+resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead,
+yet shall he live (Resurrection). And whosoever liveth (when He comes)
+and believeth in Me shall never die (The changing of living believers).
+Believest thou this?" May we answer Him, Yea, Lord, I believe. We may
+not understand all the details of this wonderful event, an event which
+will come suddenly, but we can believe His promise and wait daily for
+its glorious fulfillment. This is the blessed Hope of the Church. For
+this we are told to wait. Ere He begins His judgment work, before the
+last scenes of tribulation and wrath can be enacted upon this earth and
+He returns as the King of Glory to claim His blood-bought inheritance,
+He will come into the air to meet His redeemed host and co-heirs. This
+is the first event in connection with His future work.
+
+The Judgment Seat of Christ.
+
+All judgment is to be executed by the Lord Jesus Christ. "For the Father
+judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son" (John
+v:22). Up to the present time no judgment work has been done by Him. Nor
+have His people received their crowns and rewards for service and
+faithfulness. The meeting of the Saints in the presence of the Lord will
+be immediately followed by the judgment seat of Christ. "For we shall
+all stand before the judgment seat of Christ" (Rom. xiv:10). "For we
+must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may
+receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done,
+whether it be good or bad" (2 Cor. v:10). No unsaved person appears
+before this judgment for they were not raised from the dead, nor changed
+in the twinkling of an eye. This judgment concerns only believers. This
+judgment, however, does not decide their eternal salvation. That was
+settled when they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. The words of our
+Lord in John v:24 make this clear. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
+that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath
+everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
+from death unto life." "There is therefore now no condemnation to them
+which are in Christ" (Rom. viii:1). The works and the service of His
+people will be dealt with by the Lord in this first judgment act in His
+future work. Of this we read in 1 Cor. iv:5--"Therefore judge nothing
+before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the
+hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the hidden counsels of
+the hearts; and then shall have every man praise of God."
+
+Everything will be made manifest before that judgment seat. The
+unconfessed sins in the believer's life will be brought to light and all
+hidden things will be uncovered. Then the works of the believer will be
+made manifest. "Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day
+shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
+shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide
+which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's
+work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be
+saved, yet so as by fire" (1 Cor. iii:13-15). It will be the time when
+God's people will receive their rewards and crowns. Then the Apostles,
+the faithful martyrs, the self-sacrificing missionaries and servants of
+God will receive praise and reward for their labors. The judgment seat
+is the reward seat of Christ. In view of this the Apostle wrote to the
+faithful Thessalonians: "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of
+rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at
+His coming? For ye are our glory and joy" (1 Thess. ii:19-20). And the
+Apostle John exhorts: "And now little children, abide in Him; that when
+He shall appear, we (the apostles and teachers) may have confidence, and
+not be ashamed before Him at His Coming" (1 John ii:28). All believers
+in Christ are saved and have eternal life; but not all receive a reward.
+Their works will be consumed by the fire of that judgment, for they were
+nothing but wood, hay and stubble. They will go rewardless, while the
+faithful saints, who toiled and served, who spent and were spent,
+following closely in His steps, will receive rewards. What these will be
+no Saint does know at this time.
+
+When all is accomplished in connection with this judgment seat of
+Christ, He will lead His Saints into the Father's house, that they may
+behold His glory (John xvii:24). He will present the church to Himself,
+"a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but
+that it should be holy and without blemish" (Eph. v:27). He presents His
+church "faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy"
+(Jude 24).
+
+II.
+
+His Future Work in Connection with the Earth.
+
+When the Saints of God have left the earth and met the Lord in the air,
+when the events took place we have briefly outlined, then the Lord Jesus
+Christ will begin from heaven a work which will be severely felt on the
+earth. He begins to deal with the world in a series of judgments. From
+the Book of Revelation we learn that the "Lion of the tribe of Judah the
+Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and loose the seven
+seals thereof." (Rev. v:5). The book He receives contains the judgments
+decreed for this earth with its apostate masses. The Lamb is seen
+opening the seals of the book, and as He breaks the seals the events
+described under each seal happen. It is His work in judgment. In the
+eighth chapter of Revelation an Angel is seen before an altar with a
+golden censer. "And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire
+of the altar, and cast it into the earth, and there were voices, and
+thunderings, and lightnings and an earthquake. And the seven angels
+which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound" (Rev. viii:5,
+6). This Angel is the Lord Jesus Christ. He casts down the fire of
+divine displeasure and judgment upon the earth. The seven trumpeting
+angels with their judgments for the earth are sent forth by Him. Then
+come seven other angels, who pour out the bowls filled with the wrath of
+God. We cannot examine all those judgments separately. There is no human
+being who can realize what they all mean and what it will be when the
+Lord deals with this earth in righteousness.
+
+Israel and the Nations.
+
+Israel and the nations will pass through those judgments executed from
+above. Christendom apostate, God defying and Christ rejecting
+Christendom, will like Pharaoh, be hardened by them. They do not repent,
+but rather believe the strong delusion and accept the man of sin with
+his lying wonders. The Jewish people will in part be restored to their
+land. The great tribulation centers in their land and will be felt there
+in its severest form. The apostate portion of the Jews will worship the
+false Christ and will therefore be visited by these righteous judgments.
+But there is also a remnant of God-fearing Jews, who believe the Word of
+God, who expect the Kingdom and the King. While these believing Jews
+suffer, they also serve. They are the last messengers of the King. They
+herald once more the Gospel of the Kingdom and will bear witness of it
+to all the nations of the earth, before the end comes (Matt. xxiv:14).*
+
+* We refer the reader to our larger works, which deal more fully with
+these coming events. Daniel, Joel, Commentary on Matthew, Harmony of the
+Prophetic Word, Things to Come, etc., deal more fully with these truths.
+For catalogue, address "Our Hope," 456 Fourth Ave., New York City.
+
+Nations Learning Righteousness.
+
+"When Thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
+learn righteousness" (Isaiah xxvi:9). A work of salvation will go on
+during those seven years of judgment, tribulation and wrath. A great
+multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and
+people, and tongues, come out of the great tribulation and have washed
+their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb (Rev.
+vii:9-17). They heard and believed the final testimony as preached by
+the Jewish remnant. Heathen nations will accept the Gospel of the
+Kingdom, while apostate Christendom is excluded, for they received not
+the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thess.
+ii).
+
+His Glorious Appearing.
+
+"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
+darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
+fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And
+then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then shall
+all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man
+coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (Matthew
+xxiv:29-30). "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
+Him, and they also which pierced Him, and all kindreds of the earth
+shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen" (Rev. i:7). "And I saw heaven
+opened and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called
+Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His
+eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He
+had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself. And He was clothed
+in a vesture dipped with blood; and His name is called the Word of God.
+And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses,
+clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goeth a
+sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations; and He shall rule
+them with a rod of iron and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness
+and wrath of Almighty God. And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a
+name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords" (Rev. xix:11-16).
+
+The King in His Glory.
+
+Every eye shall see Him, when He appears in glorious majesty as the King
+of Kings. His glory will cover the heavens (Hab. iii:3). Every tongue
+which denied Him will be forever hushed. His second, personal, visible
+and glorious coming will be the crowning and unanswerable proof of His
+Deity. His incarnation and all the work He accomplished on earth and in
+glory, can then no longer be denied. His glorious appearing will silence
+all His enemies. His rejection ends and His glory as God's appointed
+King and ruler over this earth, He purchased with His blood, begins.
+Every knee must then bow before Him and every tongue confess that He is
+Lord.
+
+And when He appears in all His glory, He does not come alone. His Saints
+come with Him. When He appears, then shall we also appear with Him in
+glory (Col. iii:4). In that day of triumph and glory, He will be
+glorified in His Saints and admired in all them that believed (2 Thess.
+i:10). Wonderful spectacle it will be, when He brings His many sons with
+Him unto glory! All will be conformed into the same image.
+
+His Judgment-Work.
+
+His feet will stand once more upon the Mount of Olives (Zech. xiv:4).
+Before Him is Jerusalem and all nations are gathered against it to
+battle (Zech. xiv:2). The Beast will be their leader, while the Man of
+Sin, the Anti-christ, will do his dreadful work in the city itself. The
+remnant of Israel in great distress will then pray and look for
+deliverance. The coming of the King will bring that deliverance. They
+will shout then for joy and say in that day, "Lo, this is our God, we
+have waited for Him, and He will save us; this is the Lord; we have
+waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation" (Isaiah
+xxv:9). They will welcome the once rejected One. "Blessed is He that
+cometh in the name of the Lord" (Matt. xxiii:39). And He will fight
+against those nations. The great battle of Armageddon will then take
+place. "The beasts and the Kings of the earth, and their armies,
+gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and
+against his army" (Rev. xix:19). But their opposition will suddenly be
+broken to pieces. "And the beast was taken, and with him the false
+prophet (the Anti-christ) that wrought miracles before him, with which
+he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and them that
+worshipped the image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire
+burning with brimstone" (Rev. xix:20).
+
+On His Throne.
+
+When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels
+with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory" (Matt.
+xxv:31). The judgment which will then be executed by Him is not a
+universal judgment (the dead are not mentioned), but it will be a
+judgment of the living nations in the day when He appears the second
+time. Some nations are put on His right side and He calls them "the
+blessed of my Father;" they inherit the Kingdom which will then be
+established on the earth. That these righteous nations are not church
+saints is obvious, for the church, as we have seen, was caught up in the
+beginning of His future work to meet Him in the air and is associated
+with Him when He comes in power and glory. Then there are other nations
+which are put on His left hand and they shall go away from that judgment
+throne into everlasting punishment (Matt. xxv:46). But what is the
+standard of this judgment? What they did to the Lord's brethren or what
+they did not unto them. The Lord's brethren, according to the flesh are
+the Jews. During the tribulation period believing Jews will preach the
+Gospel of the Kingdom to all nations (Matt. xxiv:14). The nations who
+believed this last offer of mercy treated the messengers in kindness;
+those who did not believe the message did not treat them in that way.
+And when this great judgment is passed, His Kingdom of righteousness and
+peace will be established on this earth. Righteousness will begin to
+reign as grace reigns now through righteousness.
+
+III.
+
+The Glories of His Kingdom.
+
+"And in the days of those Kings shall the God of heaven set up a
+Kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, and the Kingdom shall not be
+left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these
+Kingdoms, and it shall stand forever" (Dan. ii:44). "I saw in the night
+visions, and, behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of
+heaven, and came to the Ancients of days, and they brought Him near
+before Him. And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
+that all people, nations and languages should serve Him; His dominion is
+an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that
+which shall not be destroyed" (Dan. vii:13-14). A closer study of these
+two fundamental passages from Daniel's great prophecies will establish
+the fact that this promised Kingdom comes with the second coming of
+Christ. It will be preceded by a judgment blow at the earth Kingdoms;
+Nebuchadnezzar beheld this in his prophetic dream.
+
+This Kingdom is an earthly Kingdom and all the nations will be gathered
+into that Kingdom. Jerusalem and a converted Israel will be the center
+of it. The Lord Jesus Christ and His Saints will reign with Him over the
+earth and over this Kingdom. And what will be His work then? But a few
+of the many things can be mentioned. "He shall speak peace to the
+nations" (Zech. ix:10). "With righteousness shall He judge the poor, and
+reprove with equity the meek of the earth." (Isaiah xi:4). "He shall
+bring forth judgment to the Gentiles" (Is. xlii:1). "And He shall judge
+among the nations, and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat
+their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruninghooks;
+nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
+war any more" (Isaiah ii:4). He shall also "set up an ensign for the
+nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together
+the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth" (Isaiah
+xi:12). "And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and
+shall be my people" (Zech. ii:11). "And the Lord shall be King over all
+the earth" (Zech. xiv:9). "Behold a King shall reign in righteousness"
+(Isaiah xxxii:1). "A King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute
+judgment and justice in the earth" (Jere. xxiii:5).
+
+Many more passages predicting and describing the Kingdom and its glories
+might be added. All these blessed words mean exactly what they say.
+Righteousness and peace will characterize that world-wide Kingdom of the
+Lord Jesus Christ. His glory will cover the earth as the waters cover
+the deep. Nations will worship Him. "Yea, all Kings shall fall down
+before Him; all nations shall serve Him." "He shall have dominion also
+from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth" (Ps.
+lxxii:8, 11). Every wrong will be righted on earth and present-day evils
+and oppression, crime and vice, poverty and sickness will be abolished.
+Only He has the power to do this. Oh! the glories of the Kingdom! May we
+pray, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Thy Kingdom come.
+
+Creation Delivered.
+
+"For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
+manifestation of the Sons of God. For the creature was made subject to
+vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same
+in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
+bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
+For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
+together until now" (Rom. viii:19-22). Sin has brought a curse upon
+creation. The thorns and thistles are the result of the fall of man as
+well as the blight and misery which rests upon a creation, which was
+pronounced good by the Creator. But this condition into which creation
+has been plunged will not continue forever. A better day is coming.
+Groaning creation is to be delivered. The curse will be removed. This
+cannot be the work of man. Scientists attempt to set things in order in
+this ruined creation; but they fail. The things which destroy, the heat
+and the drought, the storms and earthquakes, cannot be arrested by the
+arm of man.
+
+The Son of God wore the crown of thorns. The curse was put upon Him. And
+He who created all things and paid for redemption by His precious blood
+will, with omnipotent power, deliver groaning creation. It will take
+place when the sons of God are manifested. The sons of God (the
+redeemed) will be manifested with Him, as we have seen, in the day of
+His visible appearing. Then the great vision of Isaiah will find its
+fulfillment. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
+shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
+fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and
+the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the
+lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on
+the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
+cockatrice den" (Isaiah xi:6-8).
+
+All Under His Feet.
+
+The dispensation of the fulness of times has come (Eph. i:10). All
+things are put under Him. All His enemies are made His footstool. He is
+Lord of all. The glorious reign of Christ, in kingly glory, in
+fulfillment of the Prophet's visions, will be followed by another
+judgment.
+
+The Great White Throne.
+
+The second resurrection, that of the wicked dead, takes place at the end
+of the Kingdom reign of Christ. This great judgment and the final
+destiny of the wicked is revealed in Rev. xx:11-15. The Lord Jesus
+Christ will be the judge in that awful scene, for it is written that all
+judgment is committed unto the Son" (John v:22). Then Cometh the End.
+
+"Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to
+God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all
+authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies
+under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. . . .
+And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also
+Himself be subject unto Him, who put all things under Him, that God may
+be all in all" (1 Cor. xv:24-28).
+
+Then He will create a new heaven and a new earth, the eternal dwelling
+place of redeemed and glorified mankind. "And I saw a new heaven and a
+new earth" (Rev. xxi:1). "And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold,
+I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are
+true and faithful" (Rev. xxi:5). "And there shall be no more curse; but
+the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall
+serve Him. And they shall see His face; and His Name shall be in their
+foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
+neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and they
+shall reign forever and ever" (Rev. xxii:3-5).
+
+This will be the ultimate result of the blessed Work of Christ. His past
+work is finished. Soon His present Work may end and then His future,
+kingly work begins, when He comes the second time.
+
+"Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
+
+
+
+
+
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