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There were three great objectives in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ in coning to earth, or in what we call the Incarnation, or assumption of the flesh and of out human nature.

The first great objective was to release mankind from his captivity to the hells; for mankind had become an almost complete slave to the hells, or to the collective power of evil beings associated in the underworld, depraved men and women who had gone from this earth in their insane and malignant evil.

The means He used was to assume a human nature and a fleshly body from Mary in order to be able to approach the denizens of the underworld. As God is in Himself He is a consuming fire, and, using a material analogy, had He come unveiled before men and devils they would have been consumed more surely than mortals would be consumed by the near approach of the sun of our solar system.

It was indispensable therefore that He should veil over His glory.

It would have been possible for the Lord to have destroyed the enemies of the human race by His Divine Word, the Divine Truth. If "by the word of the Lord were the heavens made," certainly the earth and the hells could have been as easily destroyed.

The illusions of hell are mere phantasies; the power of evil is a phantasy; but men were entangled in those phantasies, believing good to be evil and evil to be good. They were hypnotized by evil beings, and were almost completely in the power of these evil beings. The wickedness of the earth would have quickly destroyed the race under the influence of insane and malignant beings.

It became necessary for the Lord in His assumed humanity to become champion of the human race and fight against the hells as a man, thus to assume the limitations of humanity, but with the power