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MANKIND’S SUFFERING: WHY PROLONGED
day God raised him out of death. (1 Cor. 15:4)
He had stated when on earth that God had given
to him the great privilege of attaining unto inherent
life, or immortality. (John 5:26) When he was raised
from the dead he was brought forth the express image
of Jchovah, possessing immortality, and alive for ever-
more, (Heb. 1:3; Rev. 1:18) The resurrection of
Christ Jesus as a divine creature is a guarantee that
all his body members must be raised with His resurree-
tion, to immortality, This is why the Christian is ad-
monished to seek glory, honor and immortality, eternal
life. (Rom. 2:7) Immortality is life in the highest
condition, and indestructible. It is written: ‘‘For as
in Adam all dic, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive, But every man in his own order; Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s, at his
coming.’’ (1 Cor. 15: 22, 28) Christ Jesus was the first
one resurrected ; and his body members, or the church,
are resurrected at his sceond coming; and they are
resurrected to immortality, to an inheritance incorrup-
tible,
The apostle Paul wrote: ‘For ye are dead, and your
life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is
cur life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with
him in glory.”’ (Col. 3:3,4) The argument here is
that the one who is begotten by God’s spirit and
brought forth as a spiritual son of God is dead as a
human ereature and that his rieht to life is hid with
Christ Jesus, and that when Christ appears at his
second coming then the resurreetion takes place. Again
it is written concerning the same ones: ‘Beloved, now
are we the sons of Ciod; and it doeth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall sce him as
he is.’’—1 John 3: 2.
This is proof that members of the new ercation while
on earth donot know what their resurrection glory will
be, but that they wil) be Jike Christ Jesus because they
will be with him and sce him as he is, and be members
of God’s royal family of heaven. This is further
corroborated by the statement of Revelation 20:6:
“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first res-
urréetion: on such the seeond death hath no power,
but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with him a thousand years.’’—Rev. 20:6.
Coneerning the time of the resurrection, it is writ-
ten: ‘‘For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voiee of the archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first.’’ (1 Thess. 4:16) This proves that the Christians
who have died throughout the Christian era have not
gone straight to heaven at death, but that they must
remain dead until the second coming of our Lord; and
then when he takes his power to reign, those faithful
ones in Christ shall be raised first. The word ‘‘shout’’,
as used in this text, means a command of authority,
which shows it has reference to the time when the Lord
Jiter CHRIST was put to death, and on the third
Jesus, as the great High Priest of Jehovah, takes au-
thority and begins his reign.—Ps. 110: 2.
God's new ercation complete will constitute the
great royal priesthood of God, which priesthood was
foreshadowed long ago by Melchizedck, who was both
the king of ancient Salem and also ‘‘priest of the Must
High Ged"’, and who also blessed the patriarch Abra-
ham after God had given him the victory over the
enemies. (Gen. 14: 18-20) Jesus the Head of the new
creation is alone the ‘‘seecd of Abraham’’, and his body
members of the new ercation are made a part of such
seed of Abraham by being adopted by Jehovah God,
the Greater Abraham. In Christ Jesus the ‘‘Seed’’ all
the families of the earth are to be blessed. (Gen. 12:3;
22:18) The new ereation constitutes the crowning
feature of all of God's creation. It is that ereation
which is granied life and immortality, and shall be
for ever to the glory of Jehovah God.
More than six thousand years have passed since Je-
hovah ereated the perfect man Adam, who failed. For
more than two thousand years God caused great living
pictures to be enaeted, foreshadowing the development
of his new ereation. For nearly two thousand years
more he has been selecting and developing this new
ereation. In all this period of time the human race has
suffered sickness, sorrow and death. Satan has taken
advantage of the time, to endeavor to turn the minds
of men away from Jchovah. Many professed Chris-
tians have asked, Why should there be so much suffer-
ing amongst the pcoples of carth?
“For we know,’’ says the apostle Paul, “that the
whole ereation groancth and travaileth in pain to-
gether until now.’’ (Rom, 8; 22) Not only is this state-
ment of the divine record true, but every man ean bear
witness to the fact of human suffering. There is no
human creature on the carth who is perfect, and none
who has lived without suffering. From the cradle to
the grave each one has experieneed pain, Many have
asked the reason why. ‘I'he time is due for man to learn
the reason why.
Death is a great enemy. That enemy has ravaged
every home. The Devil has made the people belicve
that God is responsible for the death amongst the hu-
man race. On the contrary, death resulfed by reason
of sin, and sin entered the world because of man’s dis-
obedience to God’s righteous law. The Devil himself is
the one who induced such disobedience. Man willingly
disobeyed God and heeded the enemy. When some
loved member of a family dies those mourning the
loss are often heard to say: ‘ How can a just and lov-
ing God take away our beloved one??? When the people
understand God’s purpose and the outworking there-
of, such a question will not be asked. Then the people
will not sorrow as those who have no hope. There can
be no hope without knowledge; hence the necessity of
knowing God’s truth that shows the way to life and
happiness,
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