Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1912 — "In God’s Due Tims.” [ARTICLE]

"In God’s Due Tims.”

Long ago the Omnipotent One could have bound or have destroyed Satan and all rebellious to the Divine arrangements. On the contrary God has permitted evil as a great lesson, until He shall be ready to establish His Kingdom. The foundation of all the coming blessings rests upon the sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary. But the first direct result has been the gathering of the Church, the Elect from every nation and denomination. These perfected in the First Resurrection, will constitute the Kingdom class, associated with the Redeemer in His glorious work of the future. Many of us have not appreciated the work of Christ in full; we thought that He died merely to assist the Church. As the Apostle says. He Is indeed the Satisfaction for the Church’s sms. “and not for oUrs only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (I John ii, 2.) His Church will be His associates in His great work of blessing all nations, kindreds and peoples for whom He died, “the Just for the unjust.” The marvels of our day are merely the foregleams of this Thousand-Year-Day of Messiah’s Reign. But we must not expect all the good things that God has promised just yet. Human pride will first be brought low; Injustice will first have'h great punishment—“a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation.”—Daniel xii, l.^’ The lifting of the veil of Ignorance has been delayed until now because the effect of the knowledge in an unsanctified heart is to bring discontent. This is the meaning of the restless condition of the world today, which is leading on to anarchy. God graciously withheld the light until now. so that the time of trouble resulting majr be duly checked by His Kingdom, which is about to be set up. and for which we have so long prayed. “Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth.” &