Page 10 - The Divine Unfolding of God's Plan of Redemption

promissory note on that possession which Christ has already purchased and will share
with us but which awaits its full release until the settlement of certain matters of a
legal nature.

God‟s future purposes are summed up in verse ten. Let us examine this verse
carefully and note that God has purposed in Himself “that in the dispensation of the
fulness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in

heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him.”

We find here a statement to the effect that “in the dispensation of the fulness of
times,” which is the dispensation of the kingdom, the dispensation which succeeds the

present dispensation of the grace of God, the Father is going to assemble all the parts
of His vast creation and establish a centralized government, a universal unity under
the dominion of Christ. Every part will be in absolute accord with the eternal Son, the
directing Head, and every member will throb in unison with Him, Who will be the

heart.

Our God is not the God of confusion but of peace and order. The unspeakable
confusion and disorder that prevail in the world today, the welter of sounds and Babel

of voices, the orgy of lawlessness and wickedness, the apostasy and blasphemy
against the person and work of Christ that is rampant in so-called Christendom,
represents a state of affairs under the complete domination of that old dragon, the
devil. This state of things cannot possibly last. It contains within itself the seeds of its

own dissolution and, added to the appalling harvest that these seeds will bring forth,
will be poured out the vials of wrath of Almighty God. Indeed, we may go further and
assert that it would be a contradiction of His moral nature for the Sovereign Power of
all the universe to allow to continue indefinitely the kind of thing that is going on all

around us, as we come to this day of the very consummation of evil.

Certainly there is no unity here now! There is nothing but the rule of greed, rapacity,
and force. Robbery, rape, violence accompanied by a wild intoxication of speed and

pleasure that recks nothing but the momentary gratification of fleshly lusts, is the
order of the day the world over.

Every aspect of life in the present world has as its underlying basic theory the false,
anti-God, materialistic philosophy of organic evolution. In education, government,
and religion all the dominant trends have as their starting point the Darwinian lie. Of
course Darwin was not the originator of this preposterous absurdity. It was first
advanced in the days of the Grecian philosophers and was straightway laughed out of

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