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

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rael: and there was under his feet as it were a paved
work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of
heaven in his cleamess. And upon the nobles of the
children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw
God, and did eat and drink." (Ex. xxiv. '10, 11.) The
prophet Isaiah wrote, "I saw also the Lord sitting upcn
a throne, high and lifted up." (vi. 1.) And so on thruout
the Scriptures until the promise is given in Revelation
to the Christ body
shall see His face."
that is to be gathered, "They
Bat the Christian people do not believe it possible that
one may see God's
face; and this in spite of the statement
of the Christ we have quoted that, "The pure in
heart shall see Gad." Perhaps the principal reason for
this unbelief on the part of the Christian people is because
of a lack of understanding of the plain teachings
of the Bible concerning God. Jesus said to the Samaritan
woman at the well of Samaria, "God is spirit."
True, God as Spirit fills heaven and earth, but dwelling
within the all-pervadinglight and life of the Infinite
Spirit, as man dwells in the light of the sun, are those
mighty Intelligences, the Elohim, who as a body consti-
_tute God the Father of mankind. It was they who at the
Creation as a body of intelligences taking counsel one
with another said, "Let Us make man in ous image after
OUR likeness." (Gen. i. 26 )
Thruout the ages man has been growing, developing,
becoming like his Creator, his Father, that body in the
heavens. When in the fulness of time, man has become
like unto his Father, and has taken the dominion over
all nature, then as "kings and priests unto God," they
"shall reign on the earth." This body of the redeemed
ones, who have overcome all the evils of their nature,
and have taken the dominion over all the earth, will constitute
God
the Son, ruling upon the earth in the image