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The other--The reconciling of the World to God or the bringing ofthem into full at-one-ment and harmony with God, will beaccomplished during the next age by the "Royal Priesthood" who,typified by Moses will be the Great Prophet whom the Lord willraise up to teach the people, to whom if they will not give heed,they shall be cut off from life--die the second death. Acts 3:23.Be it clearly seen that though the saints of Jesus' followers, bepermitted as represented in the Lord's goat to share in and bemembers of the Sin-offering on behalf of the World, it is notbecause of their being by nature purer or better than the World forthe entire race of Adam was condemned in him; and of them "Thereis none righteous, no not one" (Rom. 3:10) and none could giveransom for his brother. Psa. 4:97.They share in the sacrifice for sins as a favor in order that by sodoing they might share with Jesus the promised Divine nature andbe his companions and joint heirs. To permit and enable them tooffer themselves acceptable sacrifices the benefits of Jesus' deathwere applied to these first, justifying or cleansing them, and hisdeath blesses the World through his body the Church.====================SUBSEQUENT SACRIFICES.Those sacrifices which do not belong to the class we denominatethe "Day of Atonement sacrifices," illustrate offering and sacrificeswhich belong to the Millennial Age.As in the type, the Day of Atonement sacrifices preceded all others,and were a basis of general forgiveness and acceptance with Godfor all Israel, but were followed by other sacrifices after that day,for individual sins, termed "Sin offering," "Trespass offerings," etc.,so in the antitype. After the sacrifices of this Gospel Age shall havebrought the world in a justified condition, there will still be sins andtrespasses committed, which will require confession andreconciliation, making these after sacrifices necessary.The Atonement Day sacrifices represent the cancellation of Adamicsin by the sacrifice of the Christ, but during the Millennium errorswill be committed by the not yet perfected world, for which theywill be in some measure responsible. For such they must makesome amend, accompanied by repentance, before they can be againat harmony with God and Christ.And consecration will be in order in the next Age, though owing tothe changed condition of the world consecration will no longer, asnow, mean unto death, but on the contrary it will be unto life, forwith the close of Satan's reign comes the end of pain, sorrow anddeath, except upon evildoers. Consecration must always be avoluntary presentation of one's powers, and hence this isrepresented in some of the sacrifices after Atonement Day.