God has permitted the world to take its own course, to do the best it could
for itself, to see how good would be the governments it could devise, what
arrangements it could make for its comfort, etc., knowing in His own mind that
their experiments would all end in calamity.
We saw that the effect of light and liberty is good if the heart is right. The difficulty is that the hearts of people are not right. The only class of people that
can safely be allowed to do as they please are those who are in full accord with
God and His principles of love, truth and righteousness. Men are not in this
attitude toward God, however. Men are selfish. The “prince ofthis world” is in
command, and therefore all the blessings of light and liberty will work out the wreck of present institutions. Thus man will learn the futiiify of his efforts just
as angels learned fhe firtility oftheirs; and then comes God’s remedy, “the
world to come. ” The Prince of that world (point), we found, will not be Satan,
but Christ. Christ will be “King over all the earth in that Day” (point)-not this
Day, though He has the power. Evil prevails now, because God permits it, until it shall accomplish its lessons, and then He will usher in “that Day” (point),
with its Reign of Righteousness, the Kingdom. For that Kingdom He has
taught us to pray, “Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is
done in Heaven.” God’s people have been waiting and praying for His Kingdom for over eighteen hundred years.
We also considered some things with reference to God’s dealings during this
Second Dispensation. We inquired, “Has God been doing anything?” and we
found the answer: Yes.
During the Patriarchal Age God selected and dealt with Abraham, and made a
Covenant with him, that in his Seed all the families of the earth should be
blessed. Then he called Isaac; and at Isaac’s death the Covenant was cou-
firmed to Jacob. Then when Jacob died a new Age was opened, called the Jewish Age, because all the children of Jacob were called to be heirs of the Promise made to Abraham and confirmed to Isaac and to Jacob. God called them
His “peculiar people,” and said, “You only have I known of all the families of
the earth;” while others were “without God and having no hope.”
At the conclusion of His dealing with the people of Israel, another Age began.
Christ came to His own people (the Jews), and they received Him not. That
(point) was the Servant Age; but this (point) is the Age of Sons. “Moses verily
was faithful over all his House [a House of Servants], but Christ as a Son over
His own House, whose House are we [the Church].” Moses was the head over
that House. Christ is the Head over all things to the Church which is His Body.
That House had typical sacrifices, this House has the red sacrifices. That
