the Son of God will reign. He will not adopt the Con stitution of the United States, or that of England, or of any other earthly nation; but the Word of God will be authority, and He will govern the earth according to God’s laws. In our own day, when men of “ science falsely so called” are mutilating the Word of God, when they are telling us that the first three chapters of Genesis are naught but old wives’ fables, people are turning away from the Word of God, ignoring its divine commands; but when the Son of God shall come into His own, there will be a change. This Book will be the basis upon which His rules and statutes shall rest; and His laws will regu late living throughout His whole dominion—“ from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.” When the Lord Jesus reigns, He will be the court of last appeal for the nations of the earth. When the people we now know as the English nation have trouble with those in that territory which we call Germany, instead of springing at each other’s throat, as nations do now, they will get in touch with Jerusalem: and the matter over which they have a controversy will be submitted to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will speak, and they will listen. What a time in which to live that will be! Our Lord Jesus Christ shall be the King of the whole earth. 2. The Church W ill Share in Chrisfs Glory. She will be caught away before the tribulation; and when He returns as King of Kings, she will return with Him, as His Bride, to share in the glory of His Kingdom. Again and again we read that, as members of His Church, we have been made “unto our God kings and priests,” and that we “ shall reign on the earth.” Because we have shared in His sufferings, we shall also reign with Him. When you meet Jesus, my friend, if you have the scars of battle, if you have suffered for Him, if you have given up the things of earth for His sake, if you have been faithful, I tell you that you are going to be a very rich person in that day; for if you have been loyal, He will reward you. And when we come back to rule and reign with Him, we shall have our resurrection bodies. The disfigurements, the blemishes, the limitations, will all be done away; and “ we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is!” Now our bodies are subject to the laws of gravitation. Then we shall be free. We shall be able to pass through walls, through doors that are shut; and yet, like our Lord after His resurrection, we shall have bodies of flesh and bone. As beings of another world, we shall return to this earth, where we have been vilified and persecuted and misunderstood. We shall have “packed our troubles iH our old kit bags,” but we shall also have left the bags behind us! We shall look around and see the place of business of some big concern to whom we once owed money, and we shall say, “My, how I used to worry over those things!” Oh, it will be wonderful to come back in that day! Once I heard of a man who, when a boy, wandered along a country lane until he came to a farmhouse. He was hungry and ragged and penniless. He had no home, nobody to whom to turn. He went to the door of the farmhouse and begged a meal; then he went away, crawled into a haystack, and went to sleep. Years later, when he was a successful businessman, he took his family and drove away into the country, out to the site of the farmhouse, which was still standing, old and weather beaten though it was. Pointing to it, he said to his family, “There is the place where I begged a meal, and there is the place where the haystack stood in which I slept one night many years ago. That poverty and misery, which once afflicted me, inspired me to do what I did; and I like to look at the place which reminds me of how (continued on next page)
throne will be located in the city of Jerusalem, which will be the metropolis of Christ’s Kingdom. The extent of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus is out lined in many Scriptures. For example, in Psalm 72:8, 9 we read: “ He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. In that day the Lord Jesus Christ shall rule over every government in the world. Gentile dominion shall pass away. Kings and
ANTICIPATING Confusion is around us, There is only noise and din. God's Word says it would be so In these closing days, with Him. The Bible says He's coming, too, Our dear Saviour, King, and Lord, But the world will not believe it, Thouqh 'tis plainly in His Word. Can we live, anticipating, With such certainty and joy, That all those who watch, Can know the Truth, without alloy? 'Tis our privilege and duty; Many will not read the Book. But believe me, they are watching To prove we live, the way we look. There can be only rejoicing, In our hearts, to know He's near; Nothing hard can overwhelm us, For we have no doubt nor fear. When our eyes are looking upward, They are focused on His face, Things eternal are tremen dous, As we're growing in His grace. Mrs. F. McOuat (Mother Mac)
rulers shall pass away, because He whose right it is to rule will be on the earth; and He will have all power and authority. As we have already seen, Jerusalem will be the metropolis of Christ’s kingdom. Concerning this fact, the Psalmist says: “ Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion” (Psa. 2:6). Again and again we read of Zion; and we are told that “ from Zion shall go forth the word of the Lord.” Zion is mentioned about one hundred and fifty times in the Old and New Testaments, and always this name refers to Jerusalem. We often sing: “We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion. We’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God.” That song, too, has a pleasing swing, but we are going to a better place, to the New Jerusalem; whereas Zion always means the earthly city of Jerusalem. There
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