“feet” of Christ-the last members of HIS Body. Moses said, “A Prophet shall
the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me: Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever He shall say unto you, and it shall come to
pass that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from
among the people.” (Deut. 18: 15-19; Acts 3:22, 23) During the Gospel Age
God has been raising up this great Prophet and Lawgiver like unto Moses; the
work of selecting the members of His Body is nearly accomplished; and the
last members are making ready to take their places with those previously selected and approved.
The selection of the Church has not been conducted in an arbitrary way, but
each member has been chastened, disciplined and tested in faith and character,
in order to prepare him for the great work of the future as a member of the
Royal Priesthood. Christ is the High Priest, just as Aaron was the head or high
priest of the typical priesthood. While on earth, after His anointing at His baptism in Jordan, Jesus was the Antitype of Aaron; He was also the Head of the
new order-“the order of Melchisedec,” who was both a priest and a King. In
the Millennia[ Age Jesus will be not only Priest, but King; and the Church will
be not only priest but kings: “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First
Resurrection …. They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with
Him a thousand years.” “Thou hast made us Kings and priests unto God.”-
Rev. 20:6; 5:10
Has this promise ever been fulfilled? Have the saints ever reigned as kings and
priests on the earth? No! The only class of people ever making such a claim
was the Papacy, that great counterfeit system which points to its Millennium of
a thousand years, during the Dark Ages, and which has more or less deceived
the whole world.
Now we come down to the Millennial Age. (Point.) We have seen that the
world has not been blessed in the past. What blessing will come to the world
during the Millennial Age-after the promised Seed has been completed? ALL
THE BLESSINGS THAT WERE PROMISED TO ABRAHAM ARE
SUMMED UP THUS, “IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF
THE EARTH BE BLESSED.”
What do the people need in order to be blessed? They need education, they
need enlightenment, they need good government, they need peace, they need
uplifting, they need many things that they are seeking now, but are unable to
obtain, because of the present unfavorable conditions. Now “the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together, waitingjor the manifestatio of the
Sons of God”-for the glad Millennial Reign, when they shall all be blessed.