Millennial Dawn 113 what He claimed to be, the Son of God; He was seen and served by angels; was preached unto the Gentiles as a Divine Saviour, and believed on as such; and finally was received up into glory. There we have the inspired history of the incarnation, the earthly life and ministry, and the exaltation of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God. One other Scripture must give its solemn warning against any and all who deny that Jesus Christ assumed our nature and was incarnated in human flesh: “Every spirit that con- fesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God ; and this is that spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh, and now it is in the world” (1 John 4:2, 3). 3. The atonement of Jesus Christ was that o f a mere man. (Study ix.) Millennial Dawnism reiterates to weari- ness that Christ during His sojourn on earth was only and solely a human being. Even the spirit nature He had before coming into the world was changed into a man and so ceased to be. His death, therefore, was a creature’s death; His sacrifice only human; His atonement a mere man’s. What a wretched caricature of Christ’s person and work! What an inadequate and puerile conception it denotes of Divine jus- tice and law, and of man’s guilt and ruin by sin! Scripture testifies that man, by his wealth, by his righteousness, by his self-sacrifice, can never redeem himself, much less his fellow man. (Psa. 49:6-12; Matt. 25:8, 9.) God claims this for Himself; He has found a ransom, He Himself is the Saviour of men, and He has laid help on His Fellow, His Equal, even Jesus our Lord. Everywhere in Scripture the sinner’s justifi- cation before God rests upon what Paul describes as “the righteousness of God” (Rom. 3:21-26; 4:1-8; 2 Cor. 5:21; Phil. 3:9, etc.). That is, it is a Divine righteousness, pro- vided in the Lord Jesus Christ and offered to all men who hear the Gospel. It is not a mere man’s righteousness at all
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