Embrace the agony in your life within your embrace of God, and God will transmute it into a matchless pearl. Believing Christ’s resurrection and expecting our own, let us endure suffering and thus become perfect in all things, lacking nothing. [11/28/99]
God’s justice in the Old Testament Scriptures had demanded that the sinner/offender must repay or redress his own infractions himself, with interest. But the New Testament Scriptures—the Proclamation of God’s Kingdom—revealed that, because of human inability and deficiency, God Himself would repay Israel’s and the nations’ sin of crucifying His only-born Son. For this was an impossible burden for deceived mankind to carry, feeble and auctioned off to sin as we were.
However, what was impossible for us was possible for God. He therefore repaid His only Son for the loss that human injustice under Satanic inspiration had wrought. God raised Jesus from among the dead and exalted him to the highest post in the created universe, far above all his enemies on the earth, under the earth, or in the skies above! Not only so, but God gave Jesus the vast storehouse of Wholesome Spirit held in reserve until this very moment, even as God had exalted Joseph over all Egypt and gave him authority over all of Pharaoh’s kingdom and servants and subjects and treasuries of grain, food, cattle, and eventually even the very land of Egypt, to redistribute as seemed wise to Joseph. Jesus, son of Joseph (“according to law”) was exalted yet higher and has given us Wholesome Spirit beyond measure as a mere foretaste of an unimaginably wonderful future throughout the eons ahead! Similarly, we Christians are “lambs for the slaughter,” suffering with Christ…to share his ultimate glory. Lord, help our unbelief! [12/8/99]
The Premial Atonement 