Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. With His stripes we are healed. Laying aside His Royal Robe and Kingly Crown, Christ clothed His Divinity with humanity, that human beings might be raised from their degradation and placed on vantage-ground. Christ could not have come to this earth with the glory that He had in the heavenly courts. Sinful human beings could not have borne the sight. He veiled His Divinity with the garb of humanity, but He did not part with His Divinity. A Divine-human Saviour, He came to stand at the head of the fallen race, to share in their experience from childhood to manhood. That human beings might be partakers of the Divine nature, He came to this earth, and lived a life of perfect obedience. In Christ, Divinity and humanity were combined. Divinity was not degraded to humanity; Divinity held its place, but humanity by being united to Divinity, withstood the fiercest test of temptation in the wilderness. The prince of this world came to Christ after His long fast, when He was an hungered, and suggested to Him to command the stones to become bread. But the plan of God, devised for the salvation of man, provided that Christ should know hunger, and poverty, and every phase of man’s experience. No one, looking upon the childlike countenance, shining with animation, could say that Christ was just like other children. He was God in human flesh. When urged by His companions to do wrong, Divinity flashed through humanity, and He refused decidedly. In a moment He distinguished between right and wrong, and placed sin in the light of God’s commands, holding up the law as a mirror which reflected light upon wrong. Was the human nature of the Son of Mary changed into the divine nature of the Son of God? No; the two natures were mysteriously blended in one person—the man Christ Jesus. In Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. When Christ was Crucified, it was His human nature that died. Deity did not sink and die; that would have been impossible. A Power from beneath is working to bring about the last Great scenes of the Drama- Satan coming as Christ!!! and working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are binding themselves in secret societies; those who are yielding to the passion for confederation working out the plans of the Enemy- the cause will be followed by the effect. The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. Abomination of Desolation~ when you therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the Holy Place (whoso reads let him understand) Matt24:15~16/Luke21:20~21 then let them which be in Judea flee to the mountains... when the Idolatrous Standards of the Romans should be set in the Holy Ground which extended some furlongs outside the City walls then the followers of Christ were to find safety in flight when the warning sign should be seen those who would escape must make no delay throughout the land of Judea as well as in Jerusalem itself the signal for flight must be immediately obeyed he who chanced to be upon his housetop must not go down into his house even to save his most valued treasures those who were working in the fields or vineyards must not take time to return for the outer garment laid aside while they should be toiling in the heat of the day they must not hesitate a moment lest they be involved in the general destruction... The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. is but a faint shadow of what will occur with the second or antitype fulfillment of the abomination of desolation immediately prior to the second coming and the end of the world. Once again Christians will be warned to flee the cities for the mountains, and that sign will be the decree of a Sunday law, which John the Revelator calls the mark of the beast. Like Jerusalem, the cities of the world will suffer terrible destruction, as the seven last plagues fall on the wicked with the close of probation. So the symbolic eagle of the Roman ensigns, a sign of Romes power and authority, gathered together around Jerusalem at the fall and desolation of apostate Israel in 70 A.D., is symbolic imagery that repeats at the end of time with the fall of the apostate Church: The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation [the United States] in the decree enforcing the papal sabbath {the ensign of papal Romes power and authority} will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains. By the decree enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. The mark of the Beast is the abomination that will bring about the desolation of apostate Mystery Babylon: The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine...
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:00:58 +0000
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