[Songs in the Night - May 18]
He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25
THROUGHOUT the Gospel age, the Lord's people
by the eye of faith beheld the great High Priest as their
Advocate, who ever liveth to make intercession for us,
while he awaited the Father's time for his coming
forth a second time to make good his exceeding great
and precious spiritual promises and blessings upon his
church, and to grant the promised restitution blessings
to the world, foretold "by all the holy prophets since
the world began."
But in advance of the actual blessings,
by faith, all who are his brethren, his disciples,
walking in his footsteps, seeking to fulfil their sacrifice
as he fulfilled his, and under his assistance and direction,
may realize that they are not aliens and strangers
and foreigners from God, but that they are accepted
with the Father—not directly but indirectly, "accepted
in the Beloved," who is our Intercessor, our Advocate,
and in whom alone we have a standing before the Father
and may ask or expect any favors. Z'01-182 R2823:4 (Hymn 258)