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We are further informed that when God gives the world thu individual trial, it will be under Christ as Judge, whom Jehovah will thus honor because of his obedience even, un- to death for our redemption. God has highly exalted him, even to the divine nature, that he may be a Prince and a Savior (Acts 5:31), that he may be able to recover from death and grant judgment to all ^hom he purchased with his own precious blood. God has committed all judgment unto the Son, and has given him all power in heaven and

It is, then, the highly exalted, glorified Christ, who so loved the world as to give his life as its ransom-price, who is to be the Judge of the world in its promised future trial. And it is Jehovah himself who has appointed him to that office, for that very purpose. Since such are the plain dec- larations of the Scriptures, there is nothing to dread, but on the contrary there is great cause for rejoicing on the part of all, in looking forward to the Judgment Day. The char- acter of the Judge is a sufficient guarantee that the judgment will be just and merciful, and with due consideration for the infirmities of all, until the willing and obedient axe brought back to the original perfection lost in Eden,

A judge, ia ancient times, was one who executed justice and relieved the oppressed. Note, for instance, how, when under oppression by their enemies because of transgression against the Lord, Israel was time and a^uiu released and blessed by the raising up of judges. Tims we read, "When the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, Jehovah raised up a deliverer > . Othmel. And the spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he judged Israel, and wentoutto war, and prevailed, and the land had rest forty years.' 1 (Judges 3 :p-i r.) So, though the world has long been under the power and oppres- sion of the adversary, Satan, yet shortly he who paid for the sins of all with his own precious blood will take his

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