LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

The course of Christ from the time he consented to step
out from his position of equality with God, his life on
earth of sorrow and suffering, and his vicarious death,
blasted and shattered all the misrepresentations and false
charges Satan had uttered against the government of God, to
the everlasting discomfiture of the rebel leader and all
his hosts. Here was a display of love and mercy, pity and
compassion, sacrifice and sorrow, long-suffering and forgiveness,
which had in it no element of selfishness. It was
not for the self-exaltation and self-aggrandizement of God
and Christ that this was done. The main factor in this wonderful
work was the rescue of man from ruin, and his everlasting
exaltation in glory. The lie of Satan is thus made
to recoil upon his own head with most ruinous results. p.
33, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
The salvation of men cannot but issue, of course, in the
greater honor and glory of those who could devise and carry
out so stupendous a display of infinite love; for the
throne of God must shine through all his realms with new
luster, when spanned by the rainbow of redeeming grace. But
chiefly is its object seen in the lifting of man from the
gates of death to honor, glory, and everlasting life in the
kingdom of heaven. p. 33, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
In the light of these facts, an expression used by Paul in
Col. 1:20, becomes beautifully clear: "And, having made
peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile
all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be
things in earth, or things in heaven." What can be meant by
the words "to reconcile things in heaven"? Are there things
there which need to be reconciled? The reconciling of
things in the earth can be easily understood; for here rebellion
is going on from the ranks of which men are to be
reclaimed and reconciled to him by the grace of God. No
such state of things exists in heaven, or, what is doubtless
referred to, the heavenly worlds; and yet there may be
a reconciliation to be effected there. p. 34, Para. 1,
[LOOKING].
Throughout the heavenly dominions, the rebellion of Satan
is, of course, known, and his complaints and charges well
understood. He had influence enough to draw a multitude of
the heavenly host with him in his disaffection. How far his
influence may have extended to other beings in other
worlds, -- not to create rebellion, but to excite some
query, or generate in some minds a feeling of uncertainty,