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[The majority of this page is a chart entitled:]

*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:]

*EDEN*

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.

I Jno. 5:19.

“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.

[This is the end of the chart.]

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.

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— December 15, 1909 —