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FAQB EIGHT. DAILY CAPITAL JOCRNAli, HAUCM. OBEGO.V, SATURDAY, MAY 27. 1011. ASCENDED UP ON HIGH How Ke Led a Multitude of Captives, What the Ascension of Jesus Im plied For Himself and For the World. Baltimore, Mi, May 2L Pastor Russell of the Brooklyn Taberna cle preached tier twice today to large and atten tive audiences. We report one of his discourses from the text, "When He ascended up on high He led a multitude of captives" (Ephesians Iv, 8-10). In this week occurs the anniversary of Jesus' ascension. In one sense of the word our Lord ascended (that la, from human. nature and the tomb, to the divine nature and Immortality) at the time of His resurrection from the dead. He tarried, however, for forty days, with the Apostles for their es tablishment and Instruction He on the spirit plane. Invisible to them, ex cept when he manifested Himself by appearing miraculously in various forms to convince them that He was no longer deceased, and also that He was no longer confined to human con ditionsthat His resurrection bad made Him again a spirit being on the higher plane, where He was before He took human nuture for the suffer ing of death, for the redemption of humanity. Not aloue by His words, but also by His conduct, our Lord taught His fol lowers. . They had not as yet been be gotten of the Holy Spirit, and hence could not understand or appreciate spiritual things. Tbey could there . fore receive Instruction only along nat ural lines. Jesus was raised from the dead a spirit being, far above angels, principalities and powers. Had He then gone directly to the Father with out manifesting Himself to His disci ples, tbey would never have been able to understand the truth of the matter. Hence their lesions were given them largely 1n pantomime, corroborated by the Master's words, explaining that It was necessary that Messiah should die In order that He might redeem the world, and that it was also necessary that He ascend up on high and re enter upon the spiritual plane of ex istence, which ne had before He came Into the world in order that from that higher plane of being He might be the more capable of filling the great Ofllce of Prophet. Priest, Medi ator and King of the world. "Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God." Not only, therefore, did Jesus mani fest Himself during the forty days, Mine seven times, for a few moments each time. In various forms, but final ly, at the conclusion of the forty days, He ascended In full view of His dis ciples. This wns one way of telling them of His ascension, that He had gone to the Father, that they need not expect to see Him again as formerly. We are not, however, to suppose for a moment that Jesus ascended a fleshly or human being; we remember, on the contrary, that "flesh nnd blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God," and that "He was put to death in the flesh but quickened in the spirit," and that thenceforth, as the Apostle declares, "The Lord Is thnt Spirit" (II Corin thians 111. 17). Soon by 8aul of Tanui. The Apostles were to bear witness to the resurrection of Jesus; but Judas having lost bis place, and It having 'been given to St. Paul, it was proper that the latter, as well as the rest of the Apostles, should be able to bear witness to Jesus' resurrection. Re counting those who had seen the Lord after His resurrection, In some of the various manifestations, St Paul says, "Last of all He was seen of me also, as one born before the time." Jesus appeared to St. Paul in the glorious brightness of His Spirit Be ing, "shining above the brightness of the sun at noonday." The Bight caused Injury to the eyes of the beholder. Such a manifestation would have been Inappropriate and unsatisfactory bad the Redeemer so appeared to the elev en during the forty days. How could they have Identified the glorious Per sonage, who shone above the bright ness of the sun at noonday, as the Lord Jesus, whom they had known for years. How could they have been en abled to fully Identify Illm, in His many different appearances, with Ills former self their Friend, their Teach er? But to Suul of Tarsus, the reveal ing In fiery light, above the noonday glare, was very appropriate. It con vinced him, In a manner thut ho human appearance In the flesh could have equalled, that Jesus was no longer Can and that He was no Impostor. 8t Paul's conversion wus Instantaneous. "Who art thou Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus Whom tbou persecutest" still represented In My followers, of whom St. 8tophen was one, whom you murdered, and others of whom you have been hailing to prison. It should not cause us to marvel that Jesus ascended as He declared, "up where He wns before" (John vl, 02). It should not surprise us that the Heav- I enly Father gave Him back all the glory and honor which He had before Weak Lungi ' f" .v) soothes. What does your doctor recommend? Tafceonlv the medicine he approves. Trust him every time. He came into the world with added glory. It should not surprise us there fore, that the Apostle declares that He ascended. In dignity and station, far above augela, principalities and pow ers, and every name that is named! (Ephesians L 21.) On the contrary. It would be both equitable and God-like that the great Jehovah should highly honor His faithful. Only Begotten Son. the First and the Last, the Beginning and the Ending of the creation of God (Revelation xxil. 13). Could we for one moment suppose that our great Creator would allow nis faithful Son, or any servant to lay down life In Di vine service, and to suffer loss as a consequence et Hts obedience? Is It not mnch more rational to believe, as the Scriptures declare. "Illm hath God highly exalted" (rhlllpplans II. 0). The Ascended One Detoended. Tastor Russell called attention to the Apostle's phrnReology in the context that tho Ascended One had previously descended, and that the ascending and descending were related as cause and effect The One who ascended np on high completely filled the highest po sition In the great. Divine Government of the Universe as Head of principali ties and powers, angels and men next to the Father. Yet. the Apostle warns ns that we must not Identify the glori fled One with tbe One Who, In obedl ence to tbe Father's will, bumbled Himself to come down from the bear enly nature and glory to tbe earthly station where He, as a man, humbled Himself unto death, even unto the Ig nominious death of the cross. Tbe Apostle calls our attention to these two extremes tbe extreme of humiliation nnd tbe extreme of exal tatlon. both accomplished In the Son of God, the Logos, The Christ If some of us at one time misunder stood tbe Scriptures and supposed that our Lord Jesus ascended to heaven in it physical condition, us u man, we en ilrely misunderstood the Scriptures He Who was rUh. an the Lvgo In glory, preserved His Identity when He was made ;mw for our sins, made flesh. thnt He lulclil be our Redeemer. Slinl lurly, that Uedoemvr preserves His identity now that lie has been made rich again now thut He bns been re ceived up to the Spirit I'lnne of glory, honor and Immortality, tbe divine na ture To suppose that Jesus went to heav en a man Is to mistake the significance of His title. The Sun of Man, which He maintains, as Identifying Him with His great redemptive work as one of His many titles. To suppose that Jesus Is a liuiuau 'tieiug lu heaven would be to suppose that lie Is still ns when In the flesh, "a little lower than tbe angels," whereas the Scriptures de clare that He has ascended far higher, so that all the angels of liuil. hs well as men. nip commanded to worship Him. To suppose Jesus in heaven a human being would be to suppose Him out of all harmony with heavenly, spiritual conditions and surroundings. Moreover, are we not told thnt the Church of Christ will be changed from tho human lo the spirit condition in the resurrection, and that this change will make the "elect of God" like their Re deemer, so thut they may see Him as lie . not as He tca$ that they may see Him In glory, honor and Immor tality, exaltation, and not as the hu miliated One. Who wns mnde fleh that He might sacrifice His flesh on man's behalf? When we so thought we for got the Scriptural declaration that "flesh nod blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God." hence that all those called to be partakers of the divine nuture and heavenly Kingdom with their Redeemer and Lord must be made like Illm by the power of the First Resurrection. Difficulties of Unbelievers, The Pastor declared that he had found worldly-wise people very skep tical respecting the descent of the Logos, the Son of God, to earthly con ditions; but that Christians seem to have more difficulty than tbe world In comprehending tbe return, the ascen sion of Jesus to the spirit plane and Its excellent glory. Both points, however, are important, necessary, as the Apos tle declares In the context Whoever is unable to see that the Logos, tbe glorious Son of tbe Highest, humbled Himself, divested Himself of the Spir it Nature rmi took Instead human na ture, caunoi see thut Jesus was sin less. Aud those who cannot recognize that He was holy, harmless, undeflled and separate from the sinner race (He brews vll, 20), cannot believe in tho sacrifice of Jesus as being a Ransom price for Adam, to effect his releaso and that of his race from condemna tion. Pustor Russell went Into considera ble detail respecting the manner by which the Logot was transferred from heavenly conditions to earthly condi tions, and how His purity. His perfec tion of Organism, His freedom from sin was preserved, notwithstanding the fact that he was born of an earthly mother who was not free - from tho blemishes of Adam's nice. He prof fered his hearers, free upon applica tion, a treatise entitled "The Undeflled One," which he believed showed scien tifically the process used of Ood by which the Logos was changed from the higher to the human nuture, yet pre served lm maculate. The error of supposing that Jesus Is still a' man signifies the denial of nis word, thnt He would ascend up where lie was before, and the denial of the Apostle's teaching that He has been highly exalted to glory and distinc tion, the divine nnture, as Instead of human nature. This error, the Pastor declared, had led to other errors, one of which he cited, namely, tbe error made by ninny Christian people of ex pecting the second coming of Jesus In the flesh vm n glorious man and not as a glorious Spirit. Partaker it :he di We strongly recommend Avert Cherry Pectoral. We believe It nrevents. nrnfprte vine nttnre, and entirely dluiMO ated from human nature, Thinking of the Lord at His aecond advent as a glorified man, tbey asso ciate Him with a material throne and an earthly court. This. In torn. leads otter Christian people In an oppo site direction. Realizing that aucb an earthly kingdom would be step backward rather than a tep forward, tbey deny tbe second coming of Mes siah to establish the Kingdom eo long promised. The proper th' -:ht Is that Jesus, in the flesh, acv ouipll -lied tbe work which the Father had given nim to do, when He rairiflced Hts earthly life. The Father gloriously rewarded Him on the Spirit . to i.e. Now He Is waiting for the gathering of His Church. His P.rMe. His Elect These are to share in Ills resurrection to tbe divine nature uud to sit with Him In His throne. Theu the Kingdom of Messiah, so long promised, will begin to bless the world, uslug as its earth ly representatives, risible to men. Abru ham, Isaac and Jacob and all the Ancient Worthies, mentioned In He brews xl, 38-40; through whom the blessing will extend to Natural Israel and to all the families of tbe earth (Acts 111, 10-21). A Multitude of Captive. Our text, In a figurative way, repre sents the ascension of Jesus from the earthly plane to the heavenly as the triumph of a great Conqueror. Sin had gained ascendency over Adam and bis race, and had brought mankind low to tbe dust mentally, morally and physically. Moreover, this victory over man had been gained In a legal man nerthrough one man's disobedience (Romans v. 12). The Logot divested Himself of His glory on the spirit plane, was made flesh, fulfilled tbe de mands of the Law, proved Himself competent to pay the sinner's Ransom- price, and gave Himself a Ransom for all, "to be testified lu due time" (I Timothy II. 6). Having finished His sacrificial work He was received again to the spirit nature with exceeding glory and to the right hand of the Majesty on high. Thus the great Conqueror Is seen re turning to the heavenly state, acclaim ed by the neavenly Host; and follow ing Illm far down tbe centuries, tbe prophetic view saw, first the Church, the "Royal Priesthood," "His breth ren," "His Bride," delivered . from the power of sin and death, through the merit of His blood. And these were but the first corps of a following host; they were "a kind of first-fruits to God of His creatures," rescued from sin and from death (James 1, 18; Rev elation xlv, 4). Later on, stretching down for a thou sand years beyond tbe Church's deliv erance, the prophetic pen foretells countless hosts of every nation, peo ple, kindred and tongue, to be deliv ered from the power of sin and death through tho merit of Him Who died, "the Just for the unjust" Now the Savior of the Church, His Bride, He will shortly be the Savior of the world, Its Great King, Great Teacher, Great Priest, Great Mediator. Then will come the glorious consum mation, when all who will have re fused Divine grace shall have been de stroyed In the Second Death then shall be heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth saying, "Glory to God In the Highest." Thence forth there shall be no more crying nor dying, for all the former things of sin and death shall have passed away. "Times of Restitution, Which God Hath Spoken." At our Lord's First Advent the "ac ceptable time" began the time when God,' having accepted the sacrifice of Christ Jesus, became willing through Him to accept tbe sacrifices of all who desire to become His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him through evil report and good report even unto death. The entire Gospel Age anti types Israel's Day of Atonement, and the sacrifices of our Lord and the Church, His Body, are the "better sac rifices," foreshadowed by the bullock and the goat offered typically- by tbe Jews (Hebrews lx, 10-23). This is the acceptable year of the Lord which Jesus declared (Isaiah lxl, 2; Luke lv, 10). God's faithful people of this acceptable day are glad to be Invited to "present their bodies living sacrifices, holy and acceptable unto God" (Romans ill, 1). In the end of this acceptable day will come tbe end of all opportunity to thus sacrifice the human nature and become Joint-Mrs with Christ nnd partakers of tbe heav enly nature. Then Will be Introduced a new period styled, In the Scriptures, "Times (or years) of Restitution." The acceptable day for the Church's sacrifice has last ed for nearly nineteen centuries. And we know how long the "Times of Res titution" will last nearly a thousand years. St Peter tells us Just when these "Restitution Times" will begin. They did not begin In his day ftiy have not begun yet They will begin as a result of the Second Advent of Jesus, the Messiah, and the establishment of His Kingdom and righteousness, "Times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and He shall send Jesus Christ, as before was preached unto you, whom the heavens must retain until the Tlmva of Resti tution of all things which itod bath spoken by the mouth of all tt holy prophets since the world begv For Moses verily said unto the fa thers, A Prophet like unto dm (of whom I am but a type or figure) shall the Lord your God raise tip unto you from amongst Jour brethren. 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