Sickle of Truth

THEY KNEW NOT THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION. – LUKE 19:44. – Our Lord reproved the teachers of Israel because they did not discern the signs of the times; because they “knew not the TIME of their visitation.” His words imply that their ignorance was a mark of carelessness and unworthiness, and of divine disfavor. He said: “Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” There was a reason, and the realization of…

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Continuing our previous thought: The change of nature which our Lord experienced in his resurrection was no less a step upward from the earthly to the heavenly condition, than was the change of nature which he experienced at his birth a step downward from the heavenly to the earthly condition, called “humbling himself,” laying aside his glory. As he laid aside the glory of his spirit being to become a man, so he, in turn, laid aside his humanity in death in…

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