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approach unto;' but to whom we can approachand whom we can see as He is, because we havebeen ‘changed.' (1 John 3:2; 6:16; 1 Tim. 1:17;Exod. 33:20.) Lest any should misunderstandhim, the Apostle guards the above language byadding, ‘As we [the Church] have borne theimage of the earthly [one], we shall also bear theimage of the Heavenly [One].' It is not theApostle's thought that all shall bear the image ofthe Heavenly One, in this sense, ever. SuchFM306was not the design of our Creator. When Hemade man He designed to have a fleshly, humanearthly being, in His own likeness [mentally,morally], to be the lord and ruler of the earth, asthe representative of His Heavenly Creator."(Gen. 1:26-28; Psa. 8:4-7; F722.) "If we knowhow to reproduce the human voice, it gives us alittle illustration of how God, with His unlimitedPower, can preserve everything recorded by theconvolutions of our brain, and of how thesecould be preserved in the future absolutely—everything by which we could know ourselves inthe future."— Z.'14-315.On such the Second Death hath no power.—Aside from the Father and the Son, these are theonly ones in the Universe that will forever bebeyond the possibility of death.— Rev. 2:11;Rom. 2:7; 1 Tim. 6:16.But they shall be priests.— "The antitypicalconsecrating of the antitypicl priests is confinedto the present Gospel Age. It has progressedsteadily since our Lord and Forerunner ‘offeredup Himself'— and will be complete before thisAge has fully ended. And if we fail to be amongthe priests now, during the time of consecration,we cannot be of them when they begin theirservice for the people in the Kingdom, whenthese same priests (now despised of men, but a‘sweet savor to God') will have the title of Kingadded, and will, with their Head, Jesus, rule andbless all nations."— T47; 1 Pet 2:9; Rev. 1:6;5:10.