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<noinclude><pagequality level="1" user="" /></noinclude>AUGl"ST Ill. 1930 The WATCH TOWER 'IT 9. Account for the prominence of Nimrod. 'IT 10. How could Babylon be Ia cup in the Lord's hand to 'IT make the nations drunken" 1j 11·15. Apply the expressions (a) "after thee", (b) "an- 11' 'IT 'IT 'IT 'I[ other kingdom inferior," (c) "another third kingdom," of Daniel 2: 39. Show the harmony therewith of Ephe- sians 6: 12. 16·20. In this image, what was pictured (a) by the "legs of iron'" (b) By the "feet part of iron and part of clay'" 21, 22. How is this image related to the four beasts which Daniel saw in vision' 23. Identify Ithe stone that smote the image'. How is this " stone" related to the 'I seed" of God's woman, Zion' 24, 25. What is meant by the statement, 'The stone was cut out of the mountain without hands" 26·28. Describe the course wlli~h Jesus took by reason of 'IT 'IT 'IT 'IT 'I[ 249 which he was made "The Stone" which should destroy "the image". 20, 30. Point out the fulfilment of the prophetic statement, •IThou settest a crown of pure gold upon his head.' , Apply Psalm 21: 5·9. 31. How are others receh'ed as IIliving stones" and built up according to the pattern of "The Stone'" 32·34. How was The Stone 'laid in Zion" What is meant by the term "a tried stone'" Point out the fulfilment of Isaiah 28:11. 35, 36. Describe the fulfilment of Daniel 2: 35. 31, 38. How will the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air be affected by the setting up of Jehovah's kingdom' 39, 40. Just what is referred to in the statement, in Psalm 149: 9, I I This honor ha"e all his saints'" How will the fulfilment of Daniel 2: 44 result in the vindication of the name of J eho'ah f YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST ['Xhlrty·mlnute radio lecture] T HE name "Christ" means "anointed one". Few people would think of a "body of Christ" other than the body of Jesus which was nailed to the cross. And that body, so most people think, Jesus has now with him in heaven, with its wounds still gaping, raw, and unhealed, after all these cen- turies, as though it were a badge of distinction for Jesus to have to inhabit a human body bearin~ un- sightly holes and gashes. However, there is no scrip- ture in the Bible which says that Jesus took his fll'shly body to heaven to appear in the presence of God with it. According to the Scriptures such a thing would have been impossible. "Flesh and blood cannot in- herit the kingdom of God," so says First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, verse fifty. Jesus is the great high priest of God, and in his sacrificial work he was foreshadowed by Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews. (Heb. 5: 1-5) Aaron made atonement for the sins of the Jews once each year. On that occasion he slew a bullock as a sacri- fice j but he did not take the flesh or any part of the carcass of such bullock into the sanctuary and thus appear before the Lord. He took simply the blood of the animal in a vessel, brought it into the inner cham- ber or most holy of the sanctuary, and sprinkled the blood upon the mercy scat there, and so made pro- pitiation for sin. Having successfully done this, he e~me forth and next killed a goat, with no blemishes, and which had been chosen by lot to be II the Lord's geat". But neither did Aaron take the flesh and bones of this Lord's goat into the most holy of the sanctuary. He carried in merely the blood of the goat and sprinkled it on the mercy seat in like manner as he had done with the bullock's blood. As for the bodies of the bullock and goat, only specified portions were eut out to be burned on the altar in the court before the sanctuary, after which the carcasses were hauled out b('yond the borders of the camp of the Jews to be destroyed by fire. The value of all fleshly life is in the hlood stream. God's own law, as dictated in Leviticus, chapter seven· teen, verse eleven, states: I I The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to ~'ou upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." For this reason the Jews were forbidden to eat or drink blood. Hebrews, chapter nine, verse twenty-two, states: I I And almost all things are by the law purged with blood j and without shedding of blood is no reo mission. " Hence, the high priest's sprinkling the blood on the mercy seat was a prophetic picture show- ing that Christ Jesus, as high priest of God, would not take his fleshly body into heaven with him; but by his saerifieial death on the cross as the II just for the unjust" he would give up his flesh as bread for the life of the world (John 6: 51), this being pictured by killing the bullock and burning choiee parts of it on the altar and the rest of the carcass outside the camp. Thus Jesus gave up his human nature for ever. At his resurrection from the dead he was not raised with a fleshly body, but was raised a spirit being, a heav- enly ereature of the divine nature. The Apostle Peter plninly states in his first epistle, ehapter three, verse eighteen, that Jesus was "put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit". (A.R.V.) This ex- plains why during the forty days after his resurrec· tion Jesus was invisible to his disciples; and to appear to them on various occasions he had to materialize human bodies, and thus talked and ate with them. On at least two occasions he materialized in a fleshly body which resembled the one which had been cruci- fied, thereby to satisfy the doubts of his diseiples that it was he. But on all other occasions of materializing Jesus appeared in a body whieh the disciples did not recognize, and he had to make himself familiar to them by some manner of speech or some recognizable way of doing things. 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