seventeen hundred years of experience, they did not bless the world, and they
were not even ready to be blessed themselves; for though Christ came to them
to bless them, “His own received Him not.”
But God had all this in mind at the beginning. The Apostle says that these
things were an allegory. Sarah was representative of the Covenant made with
Abraham; and when Isaac was promised, God was speaking of a greater Seed
than Isaac- “which Seed is Christ. “
God meant Christ all the time. Isaac was a
type of Christ.
But did God mean that when Christ should come ALL the families of the earth
should be blessed? We look about us and ask, Have ALL nations been
blessed? And we are obliged to answer, No. It is eighteen hundred years since
Christ came, and yet millions have nor even heard of Him. Look over into Africa. Have they been blessed? Look over into China. Many of the Chinese in
the interior of the country are in perfect ignorance of what is taking place elsewhere in the world. Have they ever heard of Christ? Have they ever been
blessed? No! Where, then, is the mistake? What did the Promise mean? When
God said “Christ,” He meant not only the Lord Jesus, but The Christ complete -the Lord Jesus as Head and the Church as His Body. So the Apostle says, “He
is the Head over all things to the Church, which is His Body.” He says, “which
Seed is Christ “; and after reading down a little further, to verse 29 of the same
chapter (Gal. 3), we find it plainly stated, “If ye be Christ’s, then are YE Abraham’s Seed, and heirs according to the promise.” So then we see that “Christ”
means the entire Church, the Lord Jesus as the Head and the hue Church as
His Body. This is the reason the blessing has not yet reached the world. Until
the selection and perfecting of THE CHRIST is accomplished, the blessing
cannot come. All the “overcomers” will constitute
the true Israel of God, The
Christ, the Seed of Abraham, thc “little flock,” to whom it is said, “Fear not,
little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom -the
Kingdom for which we have been praying, “the Kingdom of God’s dear Son.”
The opportunity to bless all the families of the earth will be given these in the New Dispensation.
Let us endeavor, dear Christian friends, so to run the race set before us as to
make our calling and election sure. “If we suffer [with Him], we shall also
reign with Him. If we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him.” (2 Tim.
2:11, 12) “He that hath an ear [for spiritual things], let him hear.”-Rev. 3:22
Concerning the work of the Gospel Age, the manner in which the election has
been made, we may have more to say later. We will show wherein the doc-
trines of Election and Free Grace can be fully harmonized. The first one
elected was the Lord; secondly came
the Apostles; now (point to the end of
the Gospel Age) the work of election
has progressed down to the very
