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*GOD'S*EVERLASTING*LAW*COVENANT*
PERFECTION AND OBEDIENCE REWARDED WITH EVERLASTING LIFE.
[3 horizontal lines on the chart are labeled and described as follows:]
A. Plane of spirit perfection and covenant relationship.
B. Plane of human perfection and covenant relationship to God,
actual and reckoned; but ineffectual even for sacrificial purposes
until Christ appeared as their Advocate.—Heb. 11:38-40 .
C. Adam and his race fallen from covenant relationship in sin and death."
[The vertical areas of the chart are labeled and described as follows:]
Adam, created perfect, was in covenant relationship to God, under
Divine Law—obey and live everlastingly; disobey and die.
Sin broke this covenant relationship and brought Adam and
his race under death-sentence.
Their only hope lies in a restoration
of perfection and then a renewal of the covenant conditions by Messiah.
*PATRIARCHAL*AGE*
*FROM*
ADAM TO MOSES
*JEWISH*AGE*
*OF*
TYPICAL COVENANT
FROM MOSES TO CHRIST
[The following sentences span both vertical areas entitled PATRIARCHAL and JEWISH AGES:]
The Abrahamic Oath-bound Covenant Barren
Until The Christ Came.
Ancient Worthies justified by faith to reckoned covenant relationship with
God.
[The following sentences span only the area under JEWISH AGE:]
TYPICAL ISRAEL BROUGHT
INTO COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
WITH GOD BY MOSES, but
unable to maintain it.
Renewals "year by year"
brought life everlasting to
none.
"Salvation is of the
Jews."
Amos 3:2; Jno. 4:22 .
*THE*GOSPEL*AGE*
*UNTIL*
FULNESS OF GENTILES COME IN
COMPLETING BODY OF CHRIST
JESUS CHRIST BY HIS PERFECT
sacrifice and the Church, his
"members," by their faith-justified
sacrifice exalted to covenant relationship
on the spirit plane—Heirs of
the Oath-bound Covenant—"THE SEED."
Gal. 3:29 .
To retain covenant relationship
these are required to be obedient to
the spirit of God's Law in Christ.
"Ye are not under the Law, but under
Grace".—Rom. 6:14 .
The "Great Company" spirit-begotten,
attain this plane through the
"destruction of the flesh."
THE PRIZE WON BY THE
CHRIST AND SACRIFICED.—
Rom. 11:7.
THE JEWISH NATION
BLINDED AND REJECTED UNTIL
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL'S SELECTION.
Rom. 11:25-32 .
Believers tentatively justified by
faith, giving them opportunity
for sacrificing earthly interests:
failing of this their justification
lapses and they pass with the
world to the actual justification
of the Millennium.
"The whole world lieth in the wicked one."
*MILLENNIAL*AGE*
*OF*
*MEDIATORIAL*REIGN*
THE CHRIST IN GLORY,
MEDIATOR, PROPHET,
PRIEST, KING, JUDGE OF
ISRAEL, reconciling and perfecting
fallen men, as
Abraham's Earthly Seed—
getting them ready to turn
over to God under his Law
Covenant renewed.
"I have constituted thee
(Abraham) a father of many
nations."
The "blood" of Christ applied
secures opportunity for the
return of all men to Covenant
relationship with God. Rom. 4:17
ANCIENT WORTHIES,
ABRAHAM'S EARTHLY SEED,
IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP—
"PRINCES IN ALL THE EARTH."
THE EARTHLY PHASE OF THE
MEDIATORIAL KINGDOM.
ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH
UNDER MEDIATOR'S KINGDOM IN
PROCESS OF RESTITUTION.
THE DISOBEDIENT DESTROYED IN
SECOND DEATH AS GOD'S ENEMIES.
"AGES
TO COME"
EVERLASTING
BLISS.
CHRIST
ON THE THRONE
—OF—
UNIVERSE
*WITH*
THE FATHER
Mankind anew
in covenant
relationship
with God.
The Mediatorial
Kingdom at an end.
I Cor. 15:24-28.
And
the restored ones
tried by justice and
the unworthy "Goats"
destroyed. Rev. 20:9,10;
Matt. 25:41-46 .
Satan and all
evildoers destroyed,
there will
be a clear universe—
"Every creature...
praising God." Rev. 5:13 .
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There is but one Divine Law, whatever be the form of its statement—Supreme love for God and the same love for a neighbor as for self. To this Law angels and men must conform to be in Covenant Relationship with God, enjoying eternal life. The Law Covenant attempted this for Israel during the Jewish Age, by its mediatorial work of one Atonement Day renewed "year by year."
The Antitypical Moses (the Christ Head and Body, the "Royal Priesthood"), by his "better sacrifices," will succeed in bringing antitypical Israel into Covenant Relationship and life everlasting. The Gospel Age is "the acceptable time" for consecrating the priests through sacrificing (Psalm 50:5), and paying to Justice the ransom-price laid down at Calvary. The Millennial Age will be the time for reconciling the world, symbolized by Moses sprinkling "the people" with the blood of the sacrifices of atonement. The at-one-ment will not be complete between God and men until the end of the Millennium, when Christ shall deliver over the Kingdom to the Father.
The world through Israel's renewed Covenant and better Mediator will begin to receive New Covenant blessings at once under the Mediatorial Kingdom, but not until the Millennium is ended will perfected, restored men, be admitted to covenant relationship with God.
The Church, accepted through Christ by faith and consecration, as members of the antitypical Seed of Abraham, are now at one with God through their Bridegroom-Advocate, in Covenant relationship and blessing.—Gal. 3:29.