The Mission of the Church Four Lectures Delivered in June 1892 in the Cathed
The Mission of the Church Four Lectures Delivered in June 1892 in the Cathed
Charles Gore
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Under symbolical forms we have set before us the great drama and the dramatis personce. On one side, the forces of God God, Who sitteth upon His throne, the sovereign ; and the Lamb, crucified and triumphant, God's revelation to men of the victory of meekness and self-sacrifice ; and the seven Spirits before the throne, repre- senting the universal, secret workings of God ; and the Bride, the New Jerusalem, repre- senting the true humanity, the true society, which God has been gathering, and wh...ich will be at last supreme. And, on the other side, symbolical forms of evil : ' The old ser- pent, called the Devil and Satan, ' Satan setting himself up in opposition to God; and 1 Rev. Xi. 7-12. go The Mission of the Church. the great Beast, the beast of violence and per- secution, the counterpart of the meek Lamb who yields Himself to sacrifice, and through sacrifice triumphs; and over against the seven Spirits the second Beast, the beast who re- presents the deceitfulness of sin, the spirit of worldliness and false philosophy; and over against the Bride, the New Jerusalem, the woman, the harlot, representing false human society, whose characteristics are gathered from all corrupt forms of civilization with which the Bible presents us, Sodom, Babylon, Egypt, Rome the persecuting empire of Rome and^ Jerusalem, the apostate Church, rejecting and crucifying Christ.
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