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by E.W. Bullinger

The one great subject which runs through the whole Word of
God is Christ: the promised seed of the woman in Gen. 3:15.
This verse
marks the depth of the ruin into which man had descended in the Fall; and
it becomes the foundation of the rest of the Bible.
All hope of
restoration for man and for creation is centred in Christ; who in due time
should be born into the world, should suffer and die; and, in
resurrection, should become the Head of a new creation, and should finally
crush the head of the Old Serpent, who had brought in all the ruin.
Christ, therefore, the King, and the Kingdom which He should eventually
set up, become the one great subject which occupies the whole of the Word
of God.
Hence, He is the key to the Divine revelation in the Word; and
apart from Him it cannot be understood.

The contents of the Bible must therefore be seen and
arranged with reference to Him. The counsels and purposes of God are all
centered in Christ.

In the Old Testament we have the King and the
Kingdom in Promise and Prophecy, Illustration and Type.

In the Four Gospels we have the King and the
Kingdom presented and proclaimed by John the Baptizer, and by Christ
Himself. And we see the Kingdom rejected, and the King crucified.

In the Acts of the Apostles we have the
Transition from the Kingdom to the Church. The Kingdom is once again
offered to Israel by Peter; again it is rejected, Stephen is stoned, and
Peter imprisoned (ch. 12.).
Then Paul, who had been already chosen
and called (ch. 9.), is commissioned for His Ministry (ch. 13.), and on
the final rejection of his testimony concerning the Kingdom, he
pronounces for the third and last time the sentence of judicial
blindness in Isaiah 6, and declares that "the salvation of God is sent
to the Gentiles" (Acts 28:25-28).
In his final communication to
Hebrew believers it is written that while in God's counsels all things
had been put under Christ's feet, "we see NOT YET all things put under
Him " (Heb. 2:7-9).
The Kingdom thenceforth is in abeyance.

In the Epistles we have the King exalted, and
(while the Kingdom is in abeyance) made the Head over all things to the
Church, during this present Interval; the Dispensation of the grace of
God.

In the Apocalypse we have the Revelation of the
King in judgment; and we see the Kingdom set up, the King enthroned in
power and glory, the promise fulfilled, and prophecy ended.

We may exhibit the above to the eye in the following
Structure:

The one Subject of the Word as a Whole.

A. The King and the Kingdom in Promise and Prophecy. (The
Old Testament.)
B. The King presented, proclaimed,
and rejected. The Mysteries (or Secrets) of the Kingdom
revealed.
Matt. 13:11, 34,
35. (The Four Gospels.)
C.
Transitional (The Acts). The Kingdom again offered and rejected. The
Mystery of the Church made
known.
The
Kingdom in abeyance (Heb. 2:8).
B. The King
exalted and made Head over all things to the Church, "which is His body,
the fullness of Him
that
filleth all in all " (Eph. 1:22, 23). The Great Mystery completed (The
Epistles).
A. The King and the Kingdom unveiled. The King
enthroned, and the Kingdom set up with Divine judgment,
power,
and glory (Rev. 19, 20). Promise and prophecy
fulfilled (The Apocalypse).

Here the correspondence is seen between these five
members.
In A and A we have the King and
the Kingdom.
In B and B we have the King
and the mysteries (or secrets) of the Kingdom (Matt.
13).
In C, the central member, we have the
present Interval, while the King is absent, the Holy Spirit present, and
the Kingdom in abeyance, and the mystery of the Church revealed (Eph.
3).
From the Structure it will be seen that the great subject of the
whole Book is one. From Gen. 3:15 to Rev. 22., "THE COMING ONE" fills our
vision.
This teaches us that the Coming of Christ is no newly invented
subject of some modern faddists or fanatics, or cranks; but that Christ's
coming has always been the Hope of His people.
In "the fullness
of time" He came: but having been rejected and slain He rose from the
dead, and ascended to Heaven. There He is "seated" and "henceforth
expecting until His enemies shall be placed as a footstool for His feet "
(Heb. 10:13).
Hence, Christ, "the Coming One," is the one all-pervading
subject of the Word of God as a whole.
He is the pneuma or
life-giving spirit of the written Word, without which the latter is dead.
"As the body without the pneuma is dead" (Jas. 2:26), so the
written Word without the pneuma is dead also. Christ is that
pneuma or spirit. This is the whole argument of II Cor. 3.
This
is why the Lord Jesus could say of the Scriptures: "They testify of ME"
(John 1:45; 5:39; Luke 24:44, 45).
Their one great design is to tell of
the Coming One. All else is subordinated to this. This is why we see the
ordinary events in a household combining with the grandest visions of a
prophet to testify of Him who fills all Scripture. It may be said of the
written Word, as it is of the New Jerusalem, "The Lamb is the light
thereof " (Rev. 21:23).
Apart from Him, the natural eye of man sees
only outward historical details and circumstances; some in themselves
appearing to him trifling, others offensive, and pursued at a length which
seems disproportionate to the whole; while things which "angels desire to
look into" are passed over in a few words, or in silence.
But once let
"the spiritual mind" see Christ testified of "in Moses and all the
prophets," then all assumes a new aspect: trifles that seem hardly worth
recording fill the whole vision and light up the written Word and make it
to shine with the glory of the Divine presence.
Then we see why the
Inspired writer dwells on a matter which to the outward eye seems trivial
compared with other things which we may deem to be of world-wide
importance.
Then we observe in an event, seemingly casual and
unimportant, something which tells forth the plans and counsels of God, by
which He is shaping everything to His own ends. Nothing appears to us then
either great or small. All is seen to be Divine when the Coming One is
recognized as the one subject of the Word of God.
This is the
master-key of the Scriptures of truth.
"These are they that testify of
ME." Bearing this key in our hand we can unlock the precious treasures of
the Word; and understand words, and hints; apparently casual expressions,
circumstances, and events, which in themselves, and apart from Him, are
meaningless.
It is the use of this master-key and this first great
foundation principle which is to be observed in the study of the "Word"
and "words" of God. It is when we, in every part, have found "HIM of whom
Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write" (John 1:45), that we can
understand those parts of Scripture which are "a stone of stumbling and a
rock of offence" to many; that we can explain much that is otherwise
difficult; see clearly much that before was obscure; answer objections
that are brought against the Word; and "put to silence the ignorance of
foolish men."
The moment this master-key is used types will be seen
foreshadowing the Coming King, and showing forth His sufferings and His
Glory. Events and circumstances will show forth His wondrous deeds and
tell of the coming glory of His kingdom.

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