Men were not ushered into being for the purpose of being saved or lost. God-manifestation, not human salvation, was the grand purpose of the Eternal Spirit. The salvation of a multitude is incidental to the manifestation, but it was not the end proposed. The Eternal Spirit intended to enthrone himself on the earth, and, in so doing, to develop a Divine Family from among men, every one of whom shall be spirit because born of the Spirit, and that this family shall be large enough to fill the earth, when perfected, to the entire exclusion of flesh and blood. (Herald of the Kingdom – John Thomas, April 1858)
Brothers and sisters, when we come around the emblems on our Lord’s table we are challenged by the effort to which our Father in heaven has gone to complete this plan and provide for our salvation. For example, we have the reassuring words of Psalm 103 where we read, “He hath not dealt with …
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