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Especially for the sake of the young reader, also for any readers who may never have had the benefit of instruction in this doctrine, proof that it is entirely scriptural is in order. This series, we hope, may come into the hands of some who know very little about this truth, but who are willing to learn. What they have heard of this doctrine has, for the most part, been in the way of misrepresentation and perversion.

17. Its Value. Conclusion 

4. It’s Scripture Proof (concluded) 

9. Its Supralapsarian Character (concluded) Election takes us back to the beginning of things, to the beginning of God’s counsel, since it has to do with what has priority in the divine mind. We have been dealing with the divine order of God’s eternal purpose as that order is revealed in and may be deduced from Scripture. This, of course, means that we have been setting forth Supralapsarianism, for that, we believe, is the predestinarian view to be found in Scripture.

In the last three installments of this series we have endeavored to present that view of the decree of election which is not only the most acceptable, but which is the correct view, the one most in harmony with Scripture. We showed that divine election is that act of God according to which He chose to everlasting life, not a group of individuals, merely, but a whole church. Also we must maintain that all the members of this elect church without exception, from the beginning to the end of the world, God regards as His own children.

Introduction  It was Lowth (d. 1787) who said, “Isaiah is certainly one of the most difficult of all the prophets, though perhaps few are sensible of it but they who try to explain him . . . He that will undertake to fathom the depths of this prophecy is in great danger of going out of his own” depth. With this warning in mind, one would certainly hesitate before plunging into the bottomless sea of Isaiah’s sixty-six chapters. Yet as you scan the whole of the sixty-six books of the Bible, you see before you nothing less than a limitless...

Any real study of the doctrine of election will mean a study of plain Scripture, the whole Scripture throughout, from beginning to end. The holy Scripture alone is our standard of doctrine and practice. Faith and life have their rule in the doctrine of Scripture. There is really only one doctrine—the doctrine of Scripture. It is called the doctrine of the Lord, the doctrine of Christ or the doctrine of God, the latter receiving the main emphasis, for Scripture is God-centered.

In our previous article we considered life in the world into which you graduated as it is evaluated by God through the inspired preacher in Ecclesiastes 1:2: “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” That is life in our Twentieth Century world. From every point of view, in every sphere, life is vain. It’s empty, void of any spiritual good; it’s useless, futile, and perishing.

According to Hebrews 9:10 (Gk), the Old Testament dispensation and its worship in connection with the first tabernacle stood in exterordinances and “various baptisms.” These baptisms were plain types of the New Testament’s “one baptism.” The Old Testament, we saw previously, reveals that these baptisms werewashings, as the King James Version correctly translates in Hebrews

The previous article showed that angels are in God’s decree of reprobation. They have been ordained to condemnation and to eternal judgment, a certain definite number of them. Since the elect angels had never fallen, all the angels were, in the decree of God, viewed neither as yet created, nor as yet fallen. It ought to be readily understood that not first with respect to the decree of the angels was their creation. This is not true, even with respect to the plan of a man. He first plans to have a house before he determines to build a house.