Jesus the Christ: The Meridian of Time
Posted on January 10, 2008
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Unto Moses, with whom the Lord spake “face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend,”" the course of the human race, both as then past and future, was made known; and the coming of the Redeemer was recognized by him as the event of greatest import in all the happenings to which the earth and its inhabitants would be witness. The curse of God had aforetime fallen upon the wicked, and upon the earth because of them, “For they would not hearken unto his voice, nor believe on his Only Begotten Son, even him whom he declared should come in the meridian of time, who was prepared from before the foundation of the world.”* In this scripture appears the earliest mention of the expressive and profoundly significant designation of the period in which the Christ should appear—the meridian of time. If the expression
be regarded as figurative, be it remembered the figure is the Lord’s.