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God’s Son from heaven. This point is very important. 3. The pamphlet further says: “The dawning age is one of Brotherhood. The great Teacher Himself comes to inaugurate this age.” The promise is that the teaching of this coming One will gradually commend itself to the acceptance of men; and that the Order of the Star in the East will, by constant expansion, eventually em brace the whole world. For it is declared that the Order is the begin ning of a “world-wide organization,” which will spread over every country, religion, race, and community, “find ing its. centre in a common Figure, and that Figure the mightiest of all Figures . . . the Supreme Teacher of God and men.” “Round that Figure,” we read, “the Order is already gath ering.” Here we have another ex pression of that great Idea which has possessed the Modem Mind, namely, the idea of a vast, all-embracing or ganization or Federation of Man. (See The Number of Man, by the Author.) THE JUDGE. Although the Order originated in the Theosophical Society, it is ex pressly stated that it is not exclusively a Theosophical Order, but is intended to include all who share the common hope for, and belief in, the near com ing of a mighty Teacher, no matter to what faith, creed or school of thought they may belong. Repent-, ance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are not necessary for membership in this Order, and for a share in “the common hope” which it confesses. By this it is cer tain that the Potentate they are ex pecting is not the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The Son of God is not coming to teach the world, but to judge the world. His mission will be, not to instruct the nations, but “to rule them with a rod of iron.” In
caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (1 Cor. 15; 1 Thess. 4). His people will not be in m y doubt whatever that they are in the very Presence of Him Who died for them. WILL KNOW HIM. Nor will those who have rejected Him need any schooling in order to be able to recognize Him; for to them He will be manifested in all His glory and majesty, accompanied by the angels of His power, in darning fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thess. 1 :7, 8). In that day the Lord of Glory will not plead with men for a cordial reception, nor will He hum bly crave “a fair hearing.” They will be - compelled to hear Him; “for the Lord shall cause His glorious Voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of His arm, with the indignation of His anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire (Isa. 30:30). “Our God shall come and shall not keep silence : a fire shall de vour before Him and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him. He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth, that He may judge His people” (Psa. 50:3). “Whose Voice then shook the earth; but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven” (Heb. 12:26). In that day those who have rejected Him will not be calmly sitting as judges of His “teaching,” but will be calling upon the rocks to fall upon them and to hide them “from the Face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb” (Rev. 6:14- 17). We see; then, that the description which the pamphlet gives of the com ing of the “Supreme Teacher” is as different as possible from that which the Bible gives of the Coming of
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