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Man’s Sin and the “Fullness of the Time”
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saw how men had become victims of satanic cruelty. Bewildered
and deceived, they were moving on in gloomy procession to death in
which is no hope of life, toward night to which comes no morning.
The bodies of human beings had become the habitation of
demons. The senses, the nerves, the passions, the organs of men,
were worked by supernatural agencies in indulgence of the vilest
lust. The stamp of demons was impressed on human faces. What a
spectacle for the world’s Redeemer to behold!
Sin had become a science, and vice a part of religion. Rebellion
and hostility were violent against heaven. The unfallen worlds had
watched to see God sweep away the inhabitants of earth. And if He
should do this, Satan was ready to carry out his plan for securing the
allegiance of heavenly beings. He had declared that the principles
of God’s government make forgiveness impossible. Had the world
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been destroyed, he would have cast blame on God and spread his
rebellion to the worlds above.
But instead of destroying the world, God sent His Son to save
it. A way for its recovery was provided. “When the fullness of the
time” had come, the Deity poured upon the world a flood of healing
grace never to be obstructed or withdrawn till the plan of salvation
should be fulfilled. Jesus came to restore in man the image of his
Maker, to expel the demons that had controlled the will, to lift us up
from the dust, and to reshape the marred character after the pattern
of His divine character.
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