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

1917 THE LAMB or con 301
burnt offering was not kindled by man, but descended
from heaven, conveying the idea that it was not a natural
fire. This was true regarding the fire both of the
Tabernacle and of the Temple.
The lamb of God, then, was not only the body of one
wholly surrendered to the Divine will, but also one whose
body was being consumed and transmuted into spiritual
substance by the descent into it of the fires of the Divine
life.
We read that, "Our God is a consuming fire." ln harmony
with this thought we are admonished, "Present
your boiies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service."
We read in the book of Job, "There is a spirit in man,
the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding."
That is, by inspiring, inbreathing the fire of the
Divine substance by the attitude of prayerful devotion it
"giveth them understanding." Not only does the inbreathing
of the Divine substance give understanding,
but it also stirs to activity the life-currents of the body
and particularly does it stir to activity the fires of creative
energy. Experience proves that in attempting to
control and to conserve the creative energies generated
in the body and thereby to attain to the regeneration and
eternal life, very devotional people find the greatest
difficulty. For by their devotions they draw in of the
fire of the Divine life, which, embodied in the reproductive
substance, becomes an energy they are unable to
control, and so they are apt to lose that pure gold of life
from God that is stored in the reproductive substance.
A careful consideration of the subject will show that
if man is the true temple of God, in harmony with the
the statement, "for ye are the temple of the living God;
as God hath said, I will dwell in them," then the temple
itself was symbolic of man's body wholly set apart for