"The Path of the Just is as the Shining Light,
That Shineth More and More
Unto the Perfect Day." SERIES V
SERIES V
"There is One God, and One Mediator Between God and Men, the Man Christ Jesus; Who Gave Himself a Ransom for All, to be Testified in Due Time." "We Also Joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom We Have Now Received the Atonement."—1 Tim. 2:5, 6; Rom. 5:11.
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PAUL S. L. JOHNSON
PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A.
1937
IN THE INTEREST OF
HIS CONSECRATED SAINTS,
WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION,
— AND OF —
"ALL THAT IN EVERY PLACE CALL UPON THE LORD,"
"THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH,"
— AND OF —
THE GROANING CREATION, TRAVAILING AND WAITING FOR
THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD,
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"To make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the
beginning of the world hath been hid in God," "Wherein He hath
abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having
made known unto us the mystery of His will, accord-
ing to His good pleasure which He hath pur-
posed in Himself; that in the dispensation
of the fulness of the times He
might gather together in one
all things, under
Christ."
Eph. 3:4, 5, 9; 1:8–10.
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COPYRIGHT 1937
BY PAUL S. L. JOHNSON
EDITOR'S PREFACE.
IT IS WITH much joy that the Editor and Publisher finds himself providentially enabled to restore to the Church this, the fifth volume of THE STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES. By many this volume is considered our Pastor's Masterpiece. Certainly its subjects are among the finest, yea are the finest, among the doctrinal subjects of the Bible; for are not the subjects of God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Man and the Ransom the leading doctrinal matters of the Divine Revelation? The author was by God's grace favored with the ability to present these sublime and deep subjects in their sublimity and depths, and at the same time in such a clear and simple style as makes the subjects lucid to the learned and unlearned alike, the only condition of their understanding them being that their hearts be humble, meek, hungry, honest and holy; for to such only is the Lord pleased to reveal His Truth, especially its deeper features. Hence by the lover of God's doctrinal Truth this volume is well appreciated. This fact and the contents of the book give us much joy at the privilege of bringing it again into existence and giving it to the Lord's people, after it has for so many years been deliberately withheld from publication by those whom fidelity to a stewardship would have seen to its continued publication.
As in the case of the former volumes, we were in this compelled to delete less important, or substitute shorter synonymous words in order to keep the paging the same as that of the former editions, which were printed in hand-set monotype, while this edition of THE STUDIES is set up in machine-set linotype, which requires more space than hand-set monotype. Considerations of economy required us to use machine-set linotype, while the numerous references in Truth literature to the volumes as paged in former editions and the hope of printing a pocket edition of these volumes required their paging to be kept in this edition. Often we suffered pain at the thought that we had to make such deletions and substitutions; for our appreciation of the Author would have made it decidedly more to our pleasing, if it had been possible to reproduce the Author's
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text exactly as he left it, barring such changes as we felt sure he would make, were he arranging for new plates to be made. These changes are slight and are confined almost exclusively to those passages in which the author says the ransom was paid at Calvary, instead, as he later came to see, that it was there only laid down in death, and deposited with the Father, as the Greek word translated commend in the A. V. of Luke 23:46 should be rendered.
So fully due were the presentations of this volume when written that our notes, but two in number, are inserted only to give further proof, and that along linguistic lines, for the correctness of the thoughts of the paragraphs on which the notes were made. One of the considerations that strongly confirmed to our mind the thought that Jesus was using the Author as His eye and mouth by which to give the Parousia Truth to the Church was the fact that though the Author was not a Greek or Hebrew scholar, the correction of mistranslations that he suggested were correct, especially was this remarkable in those cases, which were usually the ones where the corrections were made, in which the pertinent words had two or more meanings. That he, not a Greek or Hebrew scholar, always selected the right one can be explained only on the ground that Jesus, the only Interpreter of the Bible, gave him, as His eye and mouth to His Church, the right thought of the pertinent words. Hence it is with pleasure that we restore this book to the brethren with the request that all join us in prayer for the divine blessing on it.
Your brother and servant,
PAUL S. L. JOHNSON.
Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.
March 28, 1936.
THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
THE FIRST EDITION of this Volume was published in 1899. It is now in the hands of large numbers of God's people in various languages throughout the civilized world. Numerous letters tell us of great help received from its pages in the elucidation of Divine Truth—in the explanation of the Bible. Some have found special help along one line, some along another; and some along all
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lines. The chapter entitled, "The Undefiled One," relating to our Lord's assuming earthly conditions when born the babe at Bethlehem, has attracted special attention, and has been declared by many to reflect a great light upon a variety of Scriptural and scientific subjects.
With a system of theology which acknowledges its own fallibility, and asks and expects Divine guidance and enlightenment to the end of the Church's journey, it seems remarkable that this Volume, written 19 years ago, requires little correction, in order to be in full line with the latest thought of Bible students respecting the teachings of the Divine Word.
The key-note of this Volume is the Ransom-price. Apparently this doctrine, from which radiate all other doctrines connected with our salvation, has been in a great measure lost sight of, obscured, from the time the Apostles fell asleep in death until now. Bible students have found the Ransom to be the key which unlocks the entire Bible—which decides at once what is Truth and what is error.
It is not surprising that, appreciating the subject and studying it so carefully, our views respecting it have become more and more clear. The Bible statements respecting the Ransom have not in any wise changed, nor has our confidence in them changed; but they are more luminous; we understand them better. We hold that the Bible statements on the subject are infallible, and that it is because we are not infallible that our views are capable of expansion as we search the Scriptures and are guided into the understanding of them as promised, by the Holy Spirit. We are not demurring against the Divine Plan of gradual enfoldment, but rejoicing in it. We have nothing to apologize for. The Ransom looms before us more grandly with every fresh ray of Divine Light.
Now we see that our Lord Jesus left the Heavenly glory that He might accomplish a ransoming work for Adam and his race. We see that His change of nature from a spirit to a human being was with a view to enabling Him to be the Ransom-price—a perfect man for a perfect man—Anti-lutron—corresponding price. We now see that Jesus gave Himself to be a Ransom-price for all at the time of His consecration at thirty years of age at Jordan. He continued in giving the Ransom-price, that is, in laying down His life, which in due time would constitute the Ransom-price for Father Adam and his race. He finished this work of laying
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down His life, surrendering it, sacrificing it, permitting it to be taken from Him, when He on the cross cried: "It is finished!" Nothing more could be laid down than was there laid down—a Ransom, a corresponding price, for Father Adam. But it was not paid over as a price in settlement of Adam's account, else Adam and the entire sinner race would then and there have been turned over to Jesus. The price was merely laid in the hands of Divine Justice as a deposit, to the credit of the One who had died, that He might apply it later in harmony with the Divine Plan. Our Lord Jesus was raised from the dead a spirit being of the Divine nature, as a reward for His faithfulness and loyalty to God in surrendering His earthly life sacrificially. "Him hath God highly exalted and given a name above every name."
Jesus could not make any use of the Ransom-price while still on earth. He could not even bring His disciples into fellowship with the Father. Hence He declared: "I ascend to My God and to your God, to My Father and to your Father." He also declared: "Except I go away, the Holy Spirit will not come." Ten days after our Lord ascended, His followers, having met according to His direction in the upper room, received the Pentecostal blessing—the evidence that they had been accepted of the Father through the merit of Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus had used as an imputation the Ransom merit which He had deposited in the Father's hands; but He did not give it to His disciples. It was not for them as a possession, but for the world—"a Ransom for all." All of Jesus' disciples renounced their share in the Ransom blessings that are coming to the world at the Second Advent of our Lord, that they might have a share with the Redeemer in a still greater blessing—honor and immortality. The Ransom-price is designed to bring to Adam and his race the earthly life and earthly rights and honors which were lost by Father Adam, when by disobedience he became a sinner, the loss being entailed upon all of his family, the entire human race. The time for giving the results of the Ransom, viz., Restitution, to Adam and his race, is after our Lord's Second Advent, when He shall set up His Kingdom, designed for the very purpose of bringing back the rebellious race into full fellowship with the Father and to eternal life—as many as will.
The Call of the Church is not to give an additional Ransom-price, nor to add to that which Jesus gave; for His
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is sufficient. The Church's invitation is to demonstrate that they have the same spirit, disposition, that Jesus had, to do the Father's will at any cost—even unto death; and those demonstrating this may be accepted of the Father as members of a Royal Priesthood, of which Jesus is the Head; as a Bride class, Jesus being the glorious Heavenly Bridegroom. It is required that these come back to God under a Covenant the same as Jesus made, "Gather My saints together unto Me, those that have made a Covenant with Me by sacrifice."—Psalm 50:5.
Not until these shall have been called and chosen and found faithful and been glorified, will the time come for Christ and His Bride class to take control of the world for their uplift; and not until then will it be proper for the Savior to transfer to Divine Justice the merit of His death, which He placed in the Father's hands as a deposit when dying, with the words: "Father, into Thy hands I commit [Greek, deposit] My Spirit"—My life and all of its rights. When this Ransom-price shall have been formally delivered over to Justice in the end of this Age, it will no longer be a deposit at the command of the Savior, but will have been exchanged for Adam and His race, all of whom will be immediately transferred by the Father to the Son, that His Millennial Kingdom may begin and all the families of the earth be subjected to the Redeemer, that He may uplift them out of sin and death conditions to all that was lost in Adam—to all for which Jesus died to regain for man.
But the Church class, in process of selection for nearly nineteen centuries, could not be acceptable sacrifices to God as was their Redeemer, Jesus, because He alone was holy, harmless, undefiled—we are imperfect, sinners, and God does not accept imperfect, blemished, sinful sacrifices. What, then, could be done to make us acceptable sacrifices and to permit us to be associated with Jesus on the spirit plane? The proper thing was done—an imputation of the merit of Jesus was granted by Divine Justice on behalf of all who would enter into a Covenant of Sacrifice, and for whom Jesus would become Advocate, or Surety. This imputation of the merit of His sacrifice to the Church by Jesus might be likened to a mortgage, or an encumbrance, upon the Ransom-sacrifice, which would hinder it from being applied to the world until its application to the Church shall be completed.
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The Church's Covenant is to sacrifice all their earthly life and rights, that they may become New Creatures in Christ and joint-heirs with Him on the spirit plane.
It was on the basis of this imputation of our coming Restitution blessings, and our own personal consecration to the Lord, that our Redeemer, acting as our great High Priest and Advocate, brought us into that relationship with the Father's Plan which permitted us to receive the begetting of the Holy Spirit, and to cease to be of the human family and become members of the spiritual family, of which Jesus is the Head. All of the Church, therefore, are sharers with Jesus in a work of self-sacrifice, in that we tender ourselves to the Lord and He, as God's High Priest, offers us up as a part of His own sacrifice. Thus we "fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ." Thus we suffer with Him that we may also reign with Him. Not until all of the spirit-begotten ones shall have passed into death will the merit of Christ, placed on deposit in the hands of Justice when He died, and mortgaged in the interest of the Church, be released from that mortgage and be ready for full application in the purchase of Adam and his race under the terms of the New Covenant.
If we were writing this Volume again, we would here and there make very minor differences of expression in harmony with what we have here presented. We ask our readers to have this in mind. The differences are not of a kind that will permit us to say that the expressions in the book are wrong—merely they are not so full and clear as they might have been if the writing were to be done now.
For some up-to-date comments on the New Covenant, we request the new readers to note the author's foreword to "STUDIES," Volume VI.
Your servant in the Lord,
CHARLES T. RUSSELL.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
October 1, 1916.
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CONTENTS.
STUDY I
THE FACT AND PHILOSOPHY.
IT LIES AT THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE FROM THE BIBLE STANDPOINT. THREE VIEWS OF THE SUBJECT. THE "ORTHODOX VIEW"; THE "HETERODOX VIEW"; THE BIBLE VIEW, WHICH UNITES AND HARMONIZES BOTH. EVOLUTION THEORY ANTAGONISTIC TO THE TRUTH ON THIS SUBJECT. RECONCILIATION OF DIVINE JUSTICE ACCOMPLISHED. RECONCILIATION OF THE CHURCH IN PROGRESS. RECONCILIATION OF THE WORLD FUTURE. THE GRAND FINAL RESULTS WHEN THE MEDIATORIAL THRONE AND KINGDOM SHALL BE VACATED....15
STUDY II.
THE AUTHOR OF THE ATONEMENT.
THE ALMIGHTY, JEHOVAH. THE SAVIOR OF SINNERS, THROUGH CHRIST. "WORTHY IS THE LAMB." "THE SELF-EXISTING ONE." THE I AM. A FALSE TRADITION. BASED ON FORGERY. THE UNITY OF FATHER AND SON SCRIPTURALLY SHOWN. THE SCRIPTURAL USAGE OF THE WORD JEHOVAH AND THE TITLE LORD. THE WORD GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. THE HARMONIOUS BIBLE TESTIMONY. "HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER." HE THOUGHT IT NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL. "TO US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER, AND ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST."....33
STUDY III.
THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ATONEMENT. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN ONE.
"WHO IS HE?" THE LOGOS, A GOD. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF JEHOVAH. THE BIBLE'S TESTIMONY. "HE WHO WAS RICH." "BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM." "THE FIRST AND THE LAST." "JEHOVAH POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING." THE LOGOS MADE FLESH, NOT INCARNATED. HE HUMBLED HIMSELF. "HE WHO WAS RICH FOR OUR SAKES BECAME POOR." NO HYPOCRISY IN THIS TESTIMONY. OUR LORD'S CONDUCT NOT DECEPTIVE. THE HOLY, HARMLESS, UNDEFILED, SEPARATE FROM SINNERS....83
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STUDY IV.
THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ATONEMENT. THE UNDEFILED ONE.
SEEMINGLY CONFLICTING SCRIPTURES RECONCILED. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DOCTRINE OF MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION NOT SUSTAINED. THE BIRTH OF JESUS SEPARATE FROM SINNERS ESSENTIAL TO THE DIVINE ARRANGEMENT. OTHERWISE NO RANSOM POSSIBLE. THE LATEST DEDUCTIONS OF SCIENCE IN RE THE UNION OF LIFE AND PROTOPLASM. THE LOGOS MADE FLESH. BORN OF A WOMAN YET UNDEFILED. HOW THE IMPERFECT MOTHER COULD AND DID BRING FORTH THE UNDEFILED ONE. THIS SAME PRINCIPLE OPERATING IN OTHER FEATURES OF THE DIVINE PLAN, AS TESTIFIED BY THE SCRIPTURES....97
STUDY V.
THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ATONEMENT.
"MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN"
AND
"TOUCHED WITH A FEELING OF OUR INFIRMITIES."
WHO "HIS BRETHREN" ARE. IN WHAT THE LIKENESS CONSISTED. HOW HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS LIKE AS WE ARE TEMPTED YET WITHOUT SIN. THE WILDERNESS TEMPTATIONS. THEIR RESEMBLANCE TO OURS. SOME OF WHICH WOULD "DECEIVE IF IT WERE POSSIBLE THE VERY ELECT." IN WHAT SENSE OUR LORD WAS MADE PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS. THOUGH A SON, YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE. HOW HE WAS MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH YET WITHOUT SIN. "HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES." HOW HE WAS "TOUCHED."....107
STUDY VI.
THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ATONEMENT.
DAVID'S SON AND DAVID'S LORD.
HOW DAVID'S SON. JOSEPH'S GENEALOGY THROUGH SOLOMON. MARY'S GENEALOGY THROUGH NATHAN. ABASE THE HIGH, EXALT THE LOW. WHENCE CHRIST'S TITLE TO BE DAVID'S LORD. HOW HE WAS BOTH ROOT AND BRANCH OF DAVID. MEANING OF HIS TITLE, "THE EVERLASTING FATHER." HOW SECURED AND HOW TO BE APPLICABLE. WHO ARE CHILDREN OF CHRIST. THE CHURCH HIS "BRETHREN." CHILDREN OF THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST....129
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STUDY VII.
THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ATONEMENT.
"THE SON OF MAN."
WHAT THIS TITLE DOES NOT MEAN. WHAT IT DOES MEAN. ITS HONORS INDISPUTABLE. CAN BE CLAIMED BY NONE OTHER. THE SON OF MAN AS SEEN BY THE WORLD. PILATE'S VIEW, ROUSSEAU'S VIEW, NAPOLEON'S VIEW. SIGNIFICANCE OF STATEMENTS, "NO BEAUTY IN HIM THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM"; AND "HIS VISAGE WAS SO MARRED." "THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND." "YEA, HE IS ALTOGETHER LOVELY."....149
STUDY VIII.
THE CHANNEL OF THE ATONEMENT.
THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD.
THE OPERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. NOW AND IN THE MILLENNIUM. VARIOUS DESCRIPTIVE NAMES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, "SPIRIT OF LOVE," "SPIRIT OF TRUTH," ETC. IN CONTRAST, THE UNHOLY SPIRIT, "SPIRIT OF ERROR," "SPIRIT OF FEAR," ETC. PERSONAL PRONOUNS APPLIED. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORD SPIRIT. "GOD IS A SPIRIT." "THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS NOT YET GIVEN." GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT BY MEASURE AND WITHOUT MEASURE. "THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD," ANTICHRIST. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THIS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. SPIRIT FIGHTINGS WITHOUT AND WITHIN THE SAINTS. THE SPIRIT THAT LUSTETH TO ENVY. TAUGHT OF THE SPIRIT. THE PARAKLETOS, THE COMFORTER. HE SHALL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH AND INTO FULL ATONEMENT. THE SPIRIT'S SUPERVISION NONE THE LESS SINCE THE MIRACULOUS GIFTS WERE DISCONTINUED....163
STUDY IX.
THE BAPTISM, WITNESS AND SEAL
OF THE
SPIRIT OF AT-ONE-MENT.
SPIRIT BAPTISM, ONE ONLY—IN THREE PARTS. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS BAPTISM. "THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." ANOTHER BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT PROMISED "UPON ALL FLESH." ITS SIGNIFICANCE. PRAYER FOR THE SPIRIT. THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT. ITS IMPORTANCE. NO PEACE WITH GOD WITHOUT IT. FEW KNOW WHETHER THEY HAVE IT OR NOT. "'TIS A POINT I LONG TO KNOW." HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE SPIRIT'S WITNESS. DIFFERENCES OF ADMINISTRATION. THE SPIRIT'S TESTIMONY. "SANCTIFIED BY THE SPIRIT." "FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT." THE SEAL OF THE SPIRIT. "THE PROMISE" WHICH IT SEALS. UNTO THE DAY OF DELIVERANCE. THE HIGHEST ATTAINMENT TO BE SOUGHT AND RETAINED....209
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STUDY X.
THE SPIRIT OF A SOUND MIND.
THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN HIS PEOPLE CASTS OUT THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. MANKIND IN GENERAL UNSOUND MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY. THE SENSE IN WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF A SOUND MIND. THE OPERATIONS PRODUCING THIS RESULT. THE EVIDENCES OF THE SPIRIT OF A SOUND MIND....249
STUDY XI.
THE HOLY SPIRIT OF AT-ONE-MENT.
SUPPOSED OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
APPARENTLY CONTRADICTORY SCRIPTURES EXAMINED. QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT. GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. THE COMFORTER. FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. TEMPTING THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT. "FORBIDDEN OF THE HOLY GHOST." "THE HOLY GHOST WITNESSETH." "THE HOLY GHOST HATH MADE YOU OVERSEERS." THE HOLY SPIRIT A TEACHER. "AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE." THE SPIRIT MAKETH INTERCESSIONS WITH GROANINGS. HOW THE SPIRIT REPROVES THE WORLD. "HEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF GOD" FROM "THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST."....263
STUDY XII.
THE SUBJECT OF THE ATONEMENT-MAN.
WHAT IS MAN? THE "ORTHODOX" ANSWER. THE SCIENTIFIC ANSWER. THE BIBLE ANSWER. MAN'S BODY. THE SPIRIT OF MAN. THE HUMAN SOUL. CONFUSION THROUGH MISTRANSLATION. THE PROPAGATION OF SOULS.WHAT IS "SHEOL," "HADES," TO WHICH ALL SOULS GO, IN THE INTERIM BETWEEN DEATH AND RESURRECTION? THE SCRIPTURAL STATEMENTS SEVERALLY CONSIDERED....301
STUDY XIII.
HOPES FOR LIFE EVERLASTING AND IMMORTALITY SECURED BY THE ATONEMENT.
THE EARNEST EXPECTATIONS OR HOPES OF THE GROANING CREATION. ARE NOT PROOFS. THE PROMISES AND THE OUTWORKING OF ATONEMENT, AS PROOFS. A DISTINCTION AND A DIFFERENCE. IS THE HUMAN SOUL IMMORTAL, OR HAS IT A HOPE OF BECOMING IMMORTAL? ARE ANGELS IMMORTAL? IS SATAN IMMORTAL? THE LIFE AND IMMORTALITY BROUGHT TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL. THE GREEK WORDS RENDERED IMMORTAL AND IMMORTALITY IN THE SCRIPTURES.WHEREIN THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND THE HOPE FOR THE SAVED WORLD DIFFER. .......................................................... 383
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STUDY XIV.
THE NECESSITY FOR THE ATONEMENT—THE CURSE.
THE "CURSE" A PRESENT AND NOT A FUTURE EVIL. WHERE AND WHY THE BLIGHT CAME UPON ALL.WHEN THIS "WRATH" OF GOD AGAINST SIN WILL CEASE. "ESCAPE" NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. ATONEMENT NECESSARY, BECAUSE OF THE PLAN ADOPTED BY GOD. MAN AN EXAMPLE FOR ANGELS AND FOR FUTURE CREATIONS....405
STUDY XV.
"A RANSOM FOR ALL."
THE ONLY BASIS FOR AT-ONE-MENT.
AT-ONE-MENT IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A RANSOM. SECURED BUT NOT COMPELLED. TO BE THE RANSOMER BECAME A FAVOR. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RANSOM AND REDEEM. WHAT RANSOM WAS PAID FOR MAN. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH THUS SECURED. "YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE." BY WHOM? OF WHOM? FOR WHAT PURPOSE? HOW LOVE CO-OPERATED WITH JUSTICE. THE "RANSOM FOR ALL" WAS NOT TAKEN BACK. FATHERHOOD RIGHTS OF THE FIRST ADAM PURCHASED BY THE SECOND ADAM. RANSOM NOT PARDON. MAN'S DEATH NOT A RANSOM. FALSE REASONING OF UNIVERSALIST THEORIES. JUSTICE NOT OBLIGATED BY THE RANSOM. THE ONLY NAME. THE MEDIATOR'S METHOD TYPED IN MOSES. RANSOM, SUBSTITUTION.WAS A DIFFERENT PLAN POSSIBLE?....421
STUDY XVI.
THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION
OR AT-ONE-MENT.
THIS MINISTRY COMMITTED TO THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. ANOINTED TO PREACH OF THE AT-ONE-MENT. WHY THE JOYFUL NEWS IS NOT APPRECIATED. THE RESULTS OF THIS MINISTRY. PERSECUTION AND GLORY. HOW IT TESTS FIDELITY. ONLY THE FAITHFUL MAY SHARE THE ATONEMENT WORK FUTURE....487
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