She WAICH LOWER AND HERALD OF CHRIST'S PRESENCE Vou, LIX OcroBEr 15, 1938 No. 20 “FILL THE EARTH” PART 1 “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.”’—Gen. 1: 28, Rotherham. righteous people. That is made certain by his re vealed Word. Before the time of man ‘‘God ereated the heaven and the earth’’. (Gen. 1:1) Later he created man to inhabit the earth. Says the Almighty God: ‘‘I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.’’ (Isa, 45: 12) He created the earth for a definite purpose: ‘‘For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created 1t not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited ; I am the Lord, and there is none else.’’ (Isa. 45:18) If he does not fill the earth with human creatures that there abide for ever, then the creat.on of man and the earth for man is in vain; and it is -rtain that Jehovah God does nothing in vain. His mandates must be and shall be fully performed in his due time. His name Jehovah clearly means his purpose toward his creation. Jehovah says: ‘‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. ...I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.’’ (Isa. 46:10, 11) Jehovah gives assurance that he will do what he says and will fulfill his announced purpose. (Isa. 55:11) His creatures that love and serve him take God at his word and are fully persuaded that he will perform completely every promise. 2 Having such full assurance, consider now Jehovah’s command given to his perfect creature man and his perfect helpmate Eve, to wit: ‘‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.’’ When God announced that purpose and gave command Adam and Eve were righteous, because sin had not then entered the world. Manifestly God’s purpose was and is that such mandate shall be fully performed and carried out under a righteous and invisible overlord and therefore performed in righteousness. Furthermore, the mandute to ‘‘be fruitful and multiply’’ was and is to be unto life of the ereature brought into the earth. 8 Jehovah appointed Lucifer the invisible overlord of the perfect Adam, and Lucifer was then righteous, and concerning Lucifer God says: ‘‘Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: J risitcous purpose is to fill the earth with a thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.’’ (Ezek. 28: 14, 15) Lucifer rebelled against Jehovah, became unrighteous and led Adam and Eve into unrighteousness, all of which took place before Adam and Eve had made any effort to carry out the command to multiply. As the result of that rebellion God’s mandate to “‘multiply and fill the earth’’ was never demonstrated under righteous conditions, and, not being carried out in righteousness, has not been carricd out at all according to God’s will and command. Today the earth is filled with an unrighteous people, almost all of whom are willfully wicked and act under the leadership of the Devil and continue to defame God’s holy name. The few exceptions are those who have believed on God and Christ Jesus and have made a covenant to do the will of God and who have received the benefit of the great ransom sacrifice. Aside from such consecrated ones ‘‘the earth is filled with violence’’, wickedness and gross darkness. (Gen. 6: 13) Has God’s purpose failed? God’s purpose never fails. ‘Will God’s command to ‘‘multiply and fill the earth’’ ever be fully performed and demonstrated under right and righteous conditions on earth? Will God prove that it is administrable in righteousness? and is it his purpose to prove and demonstrate it both to human creatures and to the holy angels? The mere act of bringing back to life the dead ones who receive the merit of Christ’s sacrifice would not demonstrate or fulfil! that mandate of Jehovah God. All of Adam’s offspring have been conceived in sin and almost all of them have died in sin. (Ps. 51:5; Rom. 5:12) Even if all such were raised from the dead, regenerated or restored, if the latter were possible, that would not mean the carrying out of the mandate of Jehovah, for the reason that it would be aceomplished by the power of God through Christ Jesus, and not by man acting in obedience to God’s commandment. We are certain that Jehovah’s mandate must be and shall be carried out in righteousness. But how? Do the Scriptures reveal how this mandate will be carried out?
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