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THE
WATCH
TOWER
ALLIGHIINY.
PA.
readers
understood
very
well
that
they
came
in
under
the
Sarah
Covenant.
But
certain
Judaizing
teachers
insisted
that
they
must
be
under
the
Hagar
Covenant,
as
well
as
under
the
Sarah
Covenant.
And
this
is
what
the
Apostle
is
disputing.
He
is
making
clear
that
the
(Hagar)
Law
Covenant
would
not
con·
tinue,
but
perish,
and
that,
in
God's
due
time,
he
would
pro·
vide
a
New
Covenant
to
take
its
place
with
Israel.
(5)
It
was
necessary
that
Jews
be
redeemed
from
the
"dead
works"
of
the
old
Law
Covenant
and
that
a
New
one
be
made
for
them
by
Christ-Head
and
members.
The
old
one
was
sealed
by
the
blood
of
bulls
and
goats,
but
the
New
one
by
"better
sacrifices."
Antitypically
the
blood
of
the
bullock
has
been
offered,
and
soon
that
of
the
goat
will
be
presented.
Heb.
9:
14-23.
(6)
"This
is
the
covenant
that
I
will
make
with
them
after
those
days,
saith
the
Lord,
I
will
put
my
laws
into
their
hearts
and
in
their
minds
will
I
write
them;
and
their
sins
and
iniqUIties
will
I
remember
no
more.
Now,
where
remission
of
sins
is,
there
is
no
more
offering
for
sin."
(Heb.
10:16-18)
The
Apostle
is
arguing
along
general
lines.
He
would
have
his
hearers
understand
that
when
an
acceptable
sacrifice
has
been
offered
to
God
for
sins,
the
transaction
is
a
closed
one,
and
the
sacrifice
needs
no
repetition.
He
shows
that
this
will
be
so
in
the
future
for
the
world.
When
the
"better
sacri·
fices,"
sealing
the
New
Covenant,
shall
have
been
offered
to
God
by
our
Redeemer,
and
accepted
by
him,
it
will
mean
the
cancellation
of
all
condemnation.
On
the
strength
of
this
work
for
the
future
the
Apostle
urges
that
we,
the
body
of
Christ,
whose
sins
have
been
atoned
for
by
our
Lord,
the
first
sacrifice
of
the
Day
of
Atonement
(in
the
type
the
bullock),
may
count
that
our
sins
are
completely
cancelled,
and
will
be
remembered
against
us
no
more.
"For
by
one
offering
he
(Christ)
hath
perfected
forever
them
that
are
sanctified";
all
justified
by
faith,
who
proceed
to
full
consecration
and
sanctification.
If
numbered
amongst
the
sanctified,
we
may
know
that
our
sins
are
completely
obliterated
from
the
divine
record,
so
far
as
justice
is
concerned,
and
that
we
have
entered
upon
a
new
record
as
New
Creatures
and
will
be
held
accountable
only
for
trespasscs
against
our
covenant
to
the
Lord,
our
vow-by
which
we
became
members
of
the
Christ,
the
Seed
of
Abraham,
and
heirs
of
the
great
(Sarah)
Covenant
of
Grace.
(7)
"For
this
is
my
Covenant
to
them,
when
I
shall
take
away
their
sins.
As
concerning
the
Gospel
they
are
enemies
for
your
sakes;
but
as
touching
the
elect,
they
are
beloved
for
the
fathers'
sake."
(Rom.
11
:27,
28)
There
is
no
room
to
doubt
that
the
Apostle
here
is
referring
to
Israel's
covenant,
the
New
Covenant,
which
God
will
make
with
them
after
this
Gospel
Day.
The
Apostle
says
the
covenant
will
be
made
when,
or
at
the
time
that
the
Lord
will
"take
away
their
sins."
That
time
has
not
yet
come.
Israel
is
still
under
divine
condemnation,
though
we
are
now
privileged
to
speak
comfortably
unto
them
and
to
assure
them
that
the
time
for
their
deliverance
is
nigh,
the
time
when
the
Mediator
of
the
New
Covenant
will
have
taken
on
the
last
members
of
the
spirit
body,
the
Gospel
church,
"changed"
by
the
power
of
the
first
resurrection;
the
time
when
he
will
mediate
that
New
Covenant,
satisfy
the
de
mands
of
divine
justice
on
behalf
of
the
world,
as
he
already
has
satisfied
it
on
behalf
of
the
church.
Then
he
will
become,
as
previously
intended
and
declared,
the
great
Mediator
of
the
New
Covenant
between
God
and
mankind
in
general-the
church
being
the
exception,
under
the
Covenant
of
Grace.
Then
will
he
begin
his
Millennial
kingdom:
"For
he
must
reign
until
he
shall
have
put
all
enemies
under
his
feet,
and
the
last
enemy
that
shall
be
destroyed
is
death."
Then
all
who
drank
of
his
"cup,"
the
blood
[sacrifice]
of
the
New
Covenant,
as
members
of
the
spiritual
seed,
will
reign
with
him.-
Gal.
3:
29.
(8)
"But
ye
are
approached
unto
Mt.
Zion,
...
to
the
New
Jerusalem,
to
the
general
assembly
and
church
of
the
firstborns,
and
to
Jesus,
the
Mediator
of
the
New
Covenant
and
to
the
blood
of
sprinkling."
(Heb.
12:
24)
Here
spiritual
Israel
is
pictured
as
an
army
marching
and
the
things
at
the
farther
end
are
seen
and
to
be
reached.
Jesus
reached
the
end
of
the
way
long
ago,
but
the
church
of
firstborns
is
not
there
yet.
Jesus
is
the
Mediator,
but
he
has
accepted
the
church
as
his
bride,
his
body,
and
waits
for
her
arrival.
The
picture
shows
that
the
New
Law
Covenant
will
be
established
as
the
old
Law
Covenant
was,
only
on
a
higher
plane
and
through
a
greater
Mediator
and
by
better
sacrifices.-Acts
3:23.
Not
one
of
these
references
to
the
New
Covenant
makes
the
slightest
suggestion
that
it
is
applicable
to
the
church.
A
ref
erence
to
the
original
prophecy
from
which
the
Apostle
quotes
shows
that
it
could
not
apply
to
the
church,
for
we
there
read
that
the
Lord
"will
take
away
their
stony
hearts
out
of
the
flesh,
and
give
them
an
heart
of
flesh."
This
is
exactly
the
restitution
work
which
will
begin
with
Israel
and
extend
to
all
tbe
families
of
the
earth,
but
it
is
not
at
all
the
work
of
this
Gospel
age,
which
is
far
higher.
The
Lord
does
not
give
the
"little
flock"
hearts
of
flesh,
but,
justified
by
faith,
allows
them
to
sacrifice
the
flesh,
and
begets
them
to
a
new
nature,
the
glorious
Seed
of
Abraham,
throu~h
which
all
the
families
of
the
earth
shall
be
blessed,
by
the
mauguration
of
the
New
Covenant,
sealed,
made
operative
by
the
merit
of
the
blood
ot
Christ.
VOL.
XXX
ALLEGHENY,
P
A.,
FEBRUARY
1,
1909
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.3
When
our
friends
of
various
denominations
solicit
funds
binding
of
Satan
and
his
reign
with
his
elect
church
for
a
for
missionary
efforts
they
exhibit
a
chart
showing
the
heathen
thousand
years,
for
the
uplifting
of
Adam
and
his
race
out
of
world
in
black
and
the
Christian
nations
in
white
and
remind
mental,
moral
and
physical
degradation
and
death.
We
pomt
us
that
of
the
90,000
human
beings
dying
every
twenty-four
them
to
the
fact
that
this
fall,
this
degradation,
this
dying,
hours,
thrce-fourths
are
heathens
going
down
into
hopeless
was
the
result
of
Adam's
sin,
that
our
Lord
Jesug
was
rna
tie
despair,
eternal
torment
being
understood,
though
not
directly
flesh
that
he,
"by
the
grace
of
God,
should
taste
death
for
expressed.
We
concede
to
them
that
the
heathen
are
not
fit
every
man."
for
heaven
and
that
since
only
the
saintly,
perfected
in
inten-
We
assure
them
that
according
to
the
Scriptures,
the
redemp
tion
and
character,
however
imperfect
in
works,
will
enter
the
tion
of
all
accomplished
by
Jesus,
who
was
the
ransom
price,
heavenly
state,
these
heathen
certainly
will
not
be
received
there.
was
paid
at
Calvary,
and
that
an
opportunity
for
deliverance
But
we
remind
them
also
that
the
same
is
true
of
the
vast
rna-
from
the
power
of
sin
and
death
was
thus
guaranteed.
We
jority
of
people
in
Christian
lands.
If
readiness
for
heaven
sig-
assure
them
that
it
is
to
this
end
that
God,
during
this
Go&pel
nifies
saintliness
of
character
and
holiness
of
will,
surely
but
a
age,
has
been
selecting
a
"little
flock,"
the
church;
that
as
the
fragment
of
the
race,
a
"little
flock,"
is
ready
for
it.
If,
as
body
of
Christ
these
might
be
with
him
in
his
kingdom
and
claimed,
eternal
torment
is
the
only
alternative,
then
surely
the
share
his
glorious
work
of
uplifting
mankind.
creation
of
our
world,
the
creation
of
the
human
family,
was
a
Alas!
how
few
have
the
ear
to
hear
this
message.
(Acts
serious
error,
for
the
entering
into
heaven
of
only
one
in
10,000
3:19-21)
Instead
they
seem
to
be
angry
with
us
that
we
point
would
be
far
too
expensive
a
proposition
to
be
approved
by
out
to
them
the
futility
of
their
hopes
and
the
more
rational,
either
justice
or
wisdom
or
love.
the
more
Scriptural
hope
set
before
us
in
the
Gospel.
The
rea·
When
0111'
friends
eBlll'avor
to
stimulate
their
flag~ing
zeal
son
for
this
seems
to
be
a
reverence
for
churchianity
and
wor·
and
to
hope
for
the
speedy
conversion
of
the
world,
they
point
ship
of
the
creeds
and
hopes
which
have
come
down
to
us
from
to
the
figurl'8
400,000,000
as
representing
Christians
and
tell
us
the
dark
ages.
that
they
are
about
to
"storm
the
heathen
world
for
Jesus."
They
tell
us
that
the
accumulated
experiences
of
the
past
We
admire
their
zeal;
we
appreciate
their
earnestness.
We
will
now
enable
them
to
almost
work
miracles
upon
the
heathen
love
them
for
their
love
of
the
Lord
and
humanity;
but
we
and
that
if
they
can
but
collect
money
enough,
the
thing
shall
point
out
to
them
that
while
it
is
true
that
there
are
twice
as
be
promptly
done.
Missionary
movements
are
now
going
on
many
Christians
in
heathen
lands
as
there
were
centuries
ago,
throughout
the
United
States,
Canada
and
Great
Britain
it
is
also
true
that
there
are
twice
as
many
heathen
as
a
century
amongst
the
college
students,
laymen
and
others.
Great
things
ago.
There
were
600,000,000
heathen
in
1800
A.
D.
and
120,-
are
promised,
of
money
and
ambitious
hearts.
000.000
in
InOO
A.
D.
\Ve
ask
them
how
long
it
would
require
But
again
we
point
out
the
futility
of
all
this.
They
can
at
this
rate
to
convert
the
world
to
Christianity
and
point
them
never
convert
the
heathen.
We
are
not
opp08"ed
to
missions.
to
the
better
hope,
the
Bible
hope
of
the
f!1lcond
coming
of
our
God
forbid!
We
are
glad
that
noble
men
and
women
self
Lord
and
his
establishment
of
the
heavenly
kingdom,
his
sacrificingly
take
up
the
work
of
teaching
civilization
in
hea-
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(31-35) readers understood very well that they came in under the Sarah Covenant. But certain Judaizing teachers insisted that they must be under the Hagar Covenant, as well as under the Sarah Covenant. And this is what the Apostle is disputing. He is making clear that the (Hagar) Law Covenant would not continue, but perish, and that, in God’s due time, he would provide a New Covenant to take its place with Israel. (5) It was necessary that Jews be redeemed from the “dead works” of the old Law Covenant and that a New one be made for them by Christ—Head and members. The old one was sealed by the blood of bulls and goats, but the New one by “better sacrifices.” Antitypically the blood of the bullock has been offered, and soon that of the goat will be presented— Heb. 9:14-23, (6) “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now, where remission of sins is, there is no more offering for sin.” (Heb. 10:16-18) The Apostle is arguing along general lines. He would have his hearers understand that when an acceptable sacrifice has been offered to God for sins, the transaction is a closed one, and the sacrifice needs no repetition. He shows that this will be so in the future for the world. When the “better sacrifices,” sealing the New Covenant, shall have been offered to God by our Redeemer, and accepted by him, it will mean the cancellation of all condemnation. On the strength of this work for the future the Apostle urges that we, the body of Christ, whose sins have been atoned for by our Lord, the first sacrifice of the Day of Atonement (in the type the bullock), may count that our sins are completely cancelled, and will be remembered against us no more. “For by one offering he (Christ) hath perfected forever them that are sanctified’; all justified by faith, who proceed to full consecration and sanctification. If numbered amongst the sanctified, we may know that our sins are completely obliterated from the divine record, so far as justice is concerned, and that we have entered upon a new record as New Creatures and will be held accountable only for trespasses against our covenant to the Lord, our vow—by which we became members of the Christ, the Seed of Abraham, and heirs of the great (Sarah) Covenant of Grace. (7) “For this is my Covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the Gospel they are enemies for your sakes; but as touching the elect, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.” (Rom. 11:27, 28) There is no room to doubt that the Apostle here is referring to Israel’s covenant, the New Covenant, which God will make with them after this Gospel THE WATCH TOWER ALLecHENY, Pa. Day. The Apostle says the covenant will be made when, or at the time that the Lord will “take away their sins.” That time has not yet come. Israel is still under divine condemnation, though we are now privileged to speak comfortably unto them and to assure them that the time for their deliverance is nigh, the time when the Mediator of the New Covenant will have taken on the last members of the spirit body, the Gospel church, “changed” by the power of the first resurrection; the time when he will mediate that New Covenant, satisfy the demands of divine justice on behalf of the world, as he already has satisfied it on behalf of the church. Then he will become, as previously intended and declared, the great Mediator of the New Covenant between God and mankind in general—the church being the exception, under the Covenant of Grace. Then will he begin his Millennial kingdom: “For he must reign until he shall have put all enemies under his feet, and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” Then all who drank of his “cup,” the blood [sacrifice] of the New Covenant, as members of the spiritual] seed, will reign with him.—Gal. 3:29. (8) “But ye are approached unto Mt. Zion, ... to the New Jerusalem, ... to the general assembly and church of the firstborns,...and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling.” (Heb. 12:24) Here spiritual Israel is pictured as an army marching and the things at the farther end are seen and to be reached. Jesus reached the end of the way long ago, but the church of firstborns is not there yet. Jesus is the Mediator, but he has accepted the church as his bride, his body, and waits for her arrival. The picture shows that the New Law Covenant will be established as the old Law Covenant was, only on a higher plane and through a greater Mediator and by better sacrifices——Acts 223, Not one of these references to the New Covenant makes the slightest suggestion that it is applicable to the church. A reference to the original prophecy from which the Apostle quotes shows that it could not apply to the church, for we there read that the Lord “will take away their stony hearts out of the flesh, and give them an heart of flesh.” This is exactly the restitution work which will begin with Israel and extend to all the families of the earth, but it is not at all the work of this Gospel age, which is far higher. The Lord does not give the “little flock” hearts of flesh, but, justified by faith, allows them to sacrifice the flesh, and begets them to a new nature, the glorious Seed of Abraham, through which all the families of the earth shall be blessed, by the inauguration of the New Covenant, sealed, made operative by the merit of the blood of Christ. VoL, XXX ALLEGHENY, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1909 No. 3 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER When our friends of various denominations solicit funds for missionary efforts they exhibit a chart showing the heathen world in black and the Christian nations in white and remind us that of the 90,000 human beings dying every twenty-four hours, three-fourths are heathens going down into hopeless despair, eternal torment being understood, though not directly expressed. We concede to them that the heathen are not fit for heaven and that since only the saintly, perfected in intention and character, however imperfect in works, will enter the heavenly state, these heathen certainly will not be received there. But we remind them also that the same is true of the vast majority of people in Christian lands. If readiness for heaven signifies saintliness of character and holiness of will, surely but a fragment of the race, a “little flock,” is ready for it. If, as claimed, etcrnal torment is the only alternative, then surely the creation of our world, the creation of the human family, was a serious error, for the entering into heaven of only one in 10,000 would be far too expensive a proposition to be approved by either justice or wisdom or love. When our friends endeavor to stimulate their flagging zeal and to hope for the speedy conversion of the world, they point to the figures 400,000,000 as representing Christians and tell us that they are about to “storm the heathen world for Jesus.” We admire their zeal; we appreciate their earnestness. We love them for their love of the Lord and humanity; but we point out to them that while it is true that there are twice as many Christians in heathen lands as there were centuries ago, it is also true that there are twice as many heathen as a century ago. There were 600,000,000 heathen in 1800 A. D. and 120,000.000 in 1900 A. D. We ask them how long it would require at this rate to convert the world to Christianity and point them to the better hope, the Bible hope of the eecond coming of our Lord and hig establishment of the heavenly kingdom, his binding of Satan and his reign with his elect church for a thousand years, for the uplifting of Adam and his race out of mental, moral and physical degradation and death. We point them to the fact that this fall, this degradation, this dying, was the result of Adam’s sin, that our Lord Jesus was made flesh that he, “by the grace of God, should taste death for every man.” We assure them that according to the Scriptures, the redemption of all accomplished by Jesus, who was the ransom price, was paid at Calvary, and that an opportunity for deliverance from the power of sin and death was thus guaranteed. We assure them that it is to this end that God, during this Gospel age, has been selecting a “little flock,” the church; that as the body of Christ these might be with him in his kingdom and share his glorious work of uplifting mankind. Alas! how few have the ear to hear this message. (Acts 3:19-21) Instead they seem to be angry with us that we point out to them the futility of their hopes and the more rational, the more Scriptural hope set before us in the Gospel. The reason for this seems to be a reverence for churchianity and worship of the creeds and hopes which have come down to us from the dark ages. They tell us that the accumulated experiences of the past will now enable them to almost work miracles upon the heathen and that if they can but collect money enough, the thing shall be promptly done. Missionary movements are now going on throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain amongst the college students, laymen and others. Great things are promised, of money and ambitious hearts. But again we point out the futility of all this. never convert the heathen. We are not opposed to missions. God forbid! We are glad that noble men and women selfsacrificingly take up the work of teaching civilization in hea They can [4322]
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