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have formed the Nominal Church. The worldly and justified classes fall back into the world to which they belong; while of the two classes begotten to the spirit nature, one class will come through the trouble which the Lord will find it necessary to bring upon them in order that their ‘ robes” of righteousness which they allowed to become spotted by contact with the world, may be “ washed in the blood of the Lamb ”— Rev. 7: 9-17. But the faithful class will be counted worthy to escape all those things that shall come to pass—Luke 21: 36. The latter form the special class for the selection of which the Lord has set apart the whole Gospel Age—Acts 15:14. They are the “seed of Abraham,” the ‘chosen generation,” the “royal priesthood,” the “ holy nation,” the ‘‘ peculiar people,’ whom the Lord has elected in order that they may show forth his glory in the Ages to come—1 Pet. 2: 9. They will be sharers with the Lord in his, the first, resurrection, and of such it is written: “ Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: . . . they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years ’—Rev. 20: 6.

63 When the full number of this faithful class has been selected and gathered to the Lord in the “first resurrection” to become his Bride, and when the present kingdoms have been completely destroyed in the great time of trouble, then the Lord Jesus Christ and his Bride will commence that wonderful Millennial reign which is referred to as * Times of Restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began ’’—Acts 3: 21.

64 Itis during the Millennial Age that the Lord of heaven and earth will set up his great Antitypical Pyramid ; when he will “ gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth"—Eph. 1:10. In that « day of the Lord,” or ‘day of judgment,” which, as the Apostle Peter is careful to point out, is a “day” of a thousand years (2 Pet. 3: 7-10), Satan will be bound, and all the millions of earth's inhabitants who have died during the past six thousand years because of Adam's transgression, will be called forth from the tomb—John 5: 28, 29, R.v. As Christ's ‘purchased possession’? (Eph. 1:14; Micah 4: 8), they will be redeemed from the prison-house of death and will be given an accurate knowledge of the Lord and his great scheme of salvation, in order that they may progress along the * highway of holiness '’ which will be set up in that day; for ‘the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” “He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; . . . and it shall be said 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 ’’—Isa. 35: 8-10; 25: 8, 9.

65 No wonder Paul said: “I have hope toward God ... that there shall be a Acts 24:15. He knew that Jesus had come to “seek and to save that which was lost,” and that “he is the propitiation for our [the Church's] sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world” —Luke 19: 10; 1 John 2: 2. He knew that although only the few would find life by the ‘narrow way" of this Gospel Age, the many would yet have their opportunity ; and he had hope for them, because ‘‘ when the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world wé// learn righteousness’’—Rom. 5: 18, 19; Isa. 26: 9.

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