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Man with the Plumb Line.
Today, the man with the plumb line confronts the cross of Calvary, the pivotal center of a world now passing away, and refracts its light on a world to come. This is the circumferential man of the world that now is, and the central sun of the world that is to come. His heat is the love of Jehovah, that saves to the uttermost, and his light is the science of life and immortality. Those who walk in the light, see in him no darkness at all. Those who feel but the burnings of his wrath—the wrath of outraged love—see him as the blackness of darkness, at the mouth of the abyss. He brings the people face to face with facts, and reveals the operations of the laws which underlie them.
The peace of modern Israel is being disturbed by his SWORD of absolute truth. He is calling a halt, and is giving the priests of Baal a diet of facts, in return for the empty froth of their fictions. This must finally bring to them the new world's ridicule, and call to the standard of the prophet of God those who can honor his laws and glory in his cross.
Elijah is enunciating the principles which, applied, recreate from the chaos of one age the order of the next. He comes to lay the foundations of the new earth in righteousness, in the thoughts and lives of men. He restores again the knowledge of the firmament above and the firmament beneath, and sets again the sun, moon, and stars in their right places in human thought. He creates again the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He maketh the stars also, and sets them in their places, declaring them to be for signs and for seasons and for times and for days and for years, to give light unto them that are in the earth.
Elijah is the primary sun of wisdom's light. The last being first and the first last, therefore is his name Koresh, meaning sun and source. When the sun shines as Jehovah, he is the enthroned Fatherhood of his being, to whom the Son cries, saying, "Eloi, Eloi."
Every age produces its restorative Elijah or Fatherhood from whom ultimates the Wisdom or Motherhood of all future glory. Fatherlike, he brings his children face to face with the facts of their true conditions and forces upon them a realization of their absolute dependence on the God or mighty Spirit of his Fatherhood for quickening to the life of light, if they would be children of the light. He is the Father of lights.
We have reached the very closing hours of the Christian dispensation, and Elias stands at the door of the new age. It is the door of the tree of life, of the temple of His Holiness. His Flaming Sword will guard the way, and will rend the veil for all who would behold the Holy of Holies, and enter its temple by the new and living way.
By one class, Elias is seen as the one altogether lovely; by the other, as one possessing no beauty that they should desire him. He, the true cross of Christ, is dividing the world. On which side are you? This cross, this true cross, and this alone will turn the world upside down and inside out, and make all things new.
All within His kingdom will see their sun in the center, and a glad circumference rejoicing in his light. They will see the free inflow and outflow of all the energies of life from circumference to center, and from center to circumference. They will see the interdependence of God and man and their ultimate unity; then, O glorious consummation, devoutly to be wished, will be seen that holy city, the New Jerusalem, whose inhabitants need neither the light of the sun nor the light of the moon, for the Lord God is the light thereof. In His holy interblending with his humanity will be that light of his promised day of rest, neither dark nor light, but replete with the harmonies of that peace which passeth all understanding.
—Berthaldine S. Boomer.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 9, No. 8 · Aug 1895 · PDF pp. 5-6