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have had the faith of Abraham have been reckoned righteous or just, although actually there is ‘none righteous, no, not one’’—Rom. 48=135 "3310:

52 In the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews a list is given of the “ Ancient Worthies,’ few in number, whose faith has been accounted unto them for righteousness. In the Ages prior to the ransom-sacrifice of Christ, they proved their faith toward God in the midst of severe trials. When the hour comes, in which all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man, and shall come forth (John 5: 28, 29), these saints will get their reward by rising actually perfect ; but their perfection will be on the human plane on which Adam stood before his fall. This was intimated by Jesus when he said, ‘‘ Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist [not even Abraham, Moses, David, or any of the holy prophets]: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he’’—Matt. 11:11. All, even the least, who will share the Kingdom with Christ will be raised to the plane of the Divine nature, but none who lived and died previous to the death and resurrection of Christ can attain to this exalted position. The reason is that it was necessary for Christ to be the “ fore-runner’’; and only his “followers” can possibly gain entrance to the Holy Sanctuary—See Heb. 6: 19, 20 ; 9: 24: 11: 39,40; Acts 2: 34. In the forty-fifth Psalm, verse 16, we are told that these fathers of Christ according to the flesh, will become his children and will be made by him princes in all the earth. Christ, as the Last Adam, will raise all men from the grave, and will give everlasting life to the obedient, thus becoming their ‘‘ Everlasting Father.” The faithful followers of Christ, the overcomers of this Age, will be associated with him as his Bride—Rev. 3: 21; 19: 7-9; 2 Cor. 11: 2.

53 The third little pyramid on the plane of human perfection represents Jesus Christ, who left the glory that he had with the Father before the world was, and became flesh in order that “by the grace of God he might taste death for every man” —Heb. 2:9. ‘He suffered the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh and quickened in the spirit'’—1 Pet. 3:18, R.V. Thus he laid down his perfect human life for ever as a substitute or ransom-price for the First Adam. This, as God had foreknown, none of the fallen race could do—Psa. 49: 7. It is because the death penalty passed upon the First Adam has been paid by the Last Adam, that the First Adam and all who have come under condemnation through his offence, will be liberated from the great prison-house of death. The law of perfect justice which demands a tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye, has been met by the payment of a perfect human life for a perfect human life—Deut. 19:21. ‘ There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified [to all] IN DUE TIME” —1 Tim. 2: 4-6.

54 When Jesus Christ was immersed in the Jordan by John the Baptist, he symbolized the sacrifice of his human nature unto death, and when he came out of the water and was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power (Acts 10: 37, 38), he was then begotten to a new nature on the spirit plane. Thenceforward till his death he is represented by the small pyramid on the plane of spirit-begetting, the line situated in the Gospel Age immediately above the plane of human perfection. At his death, having given his flesh for the life of the world (John 6: 51), he laid aside for ever his human nature, and on the third day was raised from the dead asa spirit being—1 Pet. 3: 18,

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