1. The infinite cost at which it was purchased. 2. The greatness of the danger from which it rescues. 3. The simplicity of the method by which it is appropriated. 4. The present happiness of those by whom it is possessed. 5. The permanence of the blessedness to which it leads. The thread of the argument is now lifted again; and the writer proceeds to meet a difficulty which was a pecu liarly Jewish one; namely, that by His humiliation, our Lord became in ferior to angels. He shows that when the Son of God became the Son of Man, it was in order that the sons of man might become sons of God; and that the Old Testament disclosures of the dominion with which man was originally invested and which was temporarily lost through sin, will be given again in the Millennial age to the Man Christ Jesus. The purpose of God in man’s creation, the failure of men through sin, and the ultimate triumph of the Redeemer and of re deemed humanity in Him — these, then, are the things which are to engage us now. THE WORLD TO COME (chapter 2:5) It has been said (chapter 1 :6 R.V.) that “when he again bringeth in the First-born into the inhabited earth he saith : ‘And let all the angels of God worship him.’ ” He now says that “unto the angels hath he not put in subjection th e inhabited earth to BIOLA HOUR RADIO LOG ( Continued from inatte fron t cover) Newton, Kansas KJRG 950 Phoenix, Arizona KHEP 1280 Providence, Rhode Island WRIB 1220 Pueblo-Colorado Springs KFEL 970 Springfield, Ohio WEEC 100.7 (FM) Tuscon, Arizona KAIR 1490 KAIR 1490 Windermere, Florida W XIV 1480 Inchon, Korea __HLKX 1060 9:00 A.M. MTWTF 9:00 A.M. MTWTF 12:30 P.M. MTWTF 8:30 A.M. MWF 11:30 P.M. MTWTF 8:00 A.M. MTWTF 12:30 P.M. Sun. 10:00 A.M. Sat. 1:30 P.M. Sun.
Dr. Talbot's granddaughter, Miss Shirley Foster of Denver, gives her testimony over "The Biota Hour." come whereof we speak” (2 :5 R .V .). These scriptures clearly indicate that it is to the existing habitable earth that the writer •refers, but to that earth at a time still future —‘ “the world to come.” We shall see present ly that he is referring to the Millen nial age, when at His second coming to reign, the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ (Rev. 11 :15 ). EARTHLY DOMINION GIVEN TO MAN (1) Foretold in Holy Scripture of Man (verses 6-8) The writer shows that the sover eignty of the world was originally given to man, and proves this by a quotation from Psalm 8 which is a lyrical echo of Genesis 1. “But one in a certain place testified, saying: ‘What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son o f man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a lit tle lower than the angels; thou crown- est him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.’ ” From the beginning, God had a very glorious destiny for the human race. He placed the scepter of dominion in man’s hand, and the crown of sovereignty on his brow. He was also “mindful” of him; giving him, as Dr. Meyer eloquently says: “The sun to labour 24
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