--Isaiah 42:7.
[242]In this picture Charles represents Jesus. It was God's will that
the perfect man Jesus should redeem Adam and his offspring from the
prison-house of death. Jesus was willing to pay Adam's debt and redeem
him, but the perfect, righteous, human being Jesus could not accomplish
that purpose while living in the flesh, for the same reason that Charles
could not use his strength, time, and energy to pay the debt of his
brother John, but must first reduce those things to a purchasing value.
Jesus must reduce his perfect humanity to a purchasing value, which we
may call merit, and which merit or purchasing value would be sufficient
for the payment of Adam's debt and release Adam and his offspring from
that judgment. In order to provide this price it was necessary for Jesus
to die. In his death upon Calvary, then, he produced the price. But the
value of that price must be presented before Jehovah in heaven itself
before Jehovah could release Adam or his descendents from the effect of
death. And this, we shall see from the Scriptures, is what was done.
[243]The inspired writer in the divine Word tells us that it was the
will of God that all men should be saved from death by the ransom-price
and then brought to an accurate knowledge of the truth, in order that
they might accept the benefits of the ransom and live. In due time the
knowledge of these great truths will be given to every one of Adam's
race.
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