Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 HEL1oPoLls 211
property, nor lust of thefiesh, nor vanity of man.
Redemption signifies to buy back what was sold into
s`avery. That which was sold into slavery or subjected
to vanity is man's bodily structure. It became subject
to a base, local spirit; namely, sexual lust, and desire to
possess what has only a value as use. To redeem it,
therefore is possible only by ceasing from sexual lust in
thought, desire, and act; and at the same time to eliminate
the hallucination of the ownership of any thing on
earth; for whatever exists on earth, or what man's
hands
or mind are able to produce is for the USE of the MANY,
and not for the possession of the one.
Christ's purpose is to gather together in One, all things
in the LORD; things which are in heaven and which are
in earth.
This purpose the Lord accomplishes first by raising
men individually from the miasma of sensuous lust which
is the grave, and purifying his mind from the love of
mammon, and then binding all so raised together by the
spiritual bond of regeneration, consequently in the society
of heaven prevails one life and one mind, and the
body functions as One Man. This brotherhood, or greater
body of the Lord; so often written about, as soon as gathered
must begin the practical construction of every human
intercourse, save marrying and giving away into marriage;
every branch of social activity is a field of utility.
The regenerate people of all the peoples of earth, are not
only the called ones, but are also the elect and chosen
who are the redeeming power of the whole race of
man. Possessing therefore a spiritual foundation for
unity, the next step before them is to acquire a physical
basis for the demonstration of alarger organism than
individual man. They must acquire the use of soil, and
establish industrial enterprises, insuring them the material
means of existence independent of the outside world.