ecently confessed as the Christ, the Son of the living God, he now
put into the same position and place with Moses and Elias. He lost
sight of the wonderful and glorious person of Christ. When he
uttered this human suggestion the Shekinah cloud appeared and its
glorious splendor covered them. Out of that cloud came the Father's
voice vindicating the honor of His Son. Who is Moses? Who is Elias?
Sinful men they were, man of failure and weakness. But here is
another. This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; hear Him.
And how that beloved Son is in our day dishonored!

He was in all eternity the beloved Son. When God created all things,
for Him and by Him, He was the delight of God. This is the
foundation of our faith. When he spoke of coming into the world, as
we read in Hebrews X, to do the Father's will, the Father's love and
delight was upon Him. In humiliation beginning there in Bethlehem He
was the beloved Son of God. In all He did, every step of the way,
the Holy One had above Himself the loving Father. And then He went
to the cross, putting away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. In the
awful suffering on the cross, in the hours of darkness, when as the
substitute of sinners He tasted death, God's holy hand rested upon
that beloved One in judgment, so that He uttered that never to be
forgotten cry "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And God
in His mighty power opened the grave and brought Him forth. He
raised Him from the dead. He was received up in the Glory, exalted
into the highest position. He is the heir of all things, the
upholder of all things, all things consist and exist by Him. God has
given Him the pre-eminence in all things.

And this blessed One, the beloved Son of God is denied, He is
rejected, dishonored and refused. God speaks in Him, by Him, and he
who has made known God, in whom redemption for man was procured is
dishonored. But how is He dishonored and robbed of His Glory? And
where is He dishonored? Not in the world as such so much but in
Christendom. The harvest of this destructive and evil criticism of
the Bible, rejecting the Bible as the inspired Word of God is being
reaped. After the written Word has been attacked and lowered the
enemy who stands behind "Higher Criticism" in a disguised form has
thrown off the mask and bluntly strikes at the Person of the beloved
Son of God. First the devil in the garb of "reverend criticism"
denied Isaiah vii:14, the promise of the virgin