The Gospel of the Coming Seed
avowedly antagonistic, but by amusing and deluding men with the counterfeit. It is apparent further that in the doing of all this, in the substitution of the counterfeit for the real, the mystery of iniquity for the mystery of godliness, there has been taken out of the gospel message the very heart of “that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” In this false gospel there is no place nor need for the teaching that all the glorious promises and prophecies will find their consummation in the coming of our Lord in glory, and in this false church there is found no voice responding to the “Behold, I come quickly”, with the earnest petition, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” In the mystery of godliness, the true gospel, Christ is exalted as God manifest in the flesh, and the hope of mankind is shown to depend upon the coming of the Seed as the Lord of glory. In the mystery of iniquity, the counterfeit gospel, the pope is exalted as the vicar of Christ, and men are deluded with the claim that through the sacraments of the church they may secure heaven and everlasting bliss entirely independent of the coming of the Seed. To such an extent has the gospel of the original promise in Eden been perverted. There is certainly a demand for a message which shall proclaim the gospel of the coming of the Seed.