Anakephalaioo , signifies to bring or reduce back again under one head. That is, the different and sundered parts of the Kingdom, Capitol and King "in heaven," the subjects and territory "on the earth," are to be redeemed or gathered again into one kingdom under one "Head," of the Son of David, and the Dispensation of the fullness of times is the period in which it is to be done. This is the period of inheritance and follows that "of heirship," the dispensation of grace, ch. 3:2,6.
In it the promises of the covenants in their largest sense will be inherited. We think it has been shown that the atonement of the Gospel dispensation is the antitype of that made by the priests in their daily service, and that prepared for and made necessary the yearly atonement, and cleansed the Sanctuary and the people from all their sins. It appears like certainty that the antitypes of the daily ministration of the priests and the vernal types stretch through the Gospel Dispensation; as that composed but part of the atonement and antitypes, we have good reason to believe that the remaining antitype, the autumnal, and the remainder of the atonement, the yearly, will be fulfilled on the same principle as to time and occupy a period or dispensation of at least 1000 years. "That age" will be highly exalted above "this age," and form the stepping-stone to the unmingled fadeless and eternal glories of the earth redeemed and Edenized again.
Who can find fault, if the Lord has given us in the law the shadows of that angel Who will not rather seek the Spirit of Truth which shall "bring all things to your remembrance," even "the Law of Moses" and " show us things to come ." "the good things to come?" It will be literally an age of repairs, in which immortal saints will engage under the supervision of the King of kings - an age of restitution, of blotting out of sin with all its direful effects, the age for the redemption of the purchased possession, the grand anal Jubilee, in which all the captives of Zion in and out of the grave, being released and gathered from among the heathen and out of all countries, shall be cleansed from all their iniquities, posses their "own land," and the wastes shall be builded. They shall be "one nation," "And David my servant shall be king over them; and they shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgment, and observe my statutes, and do them. "And I will set my Sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. - My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my Sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." They shall know this when Satan shall gather them, Gog and Magog, from the four quarters of the earth about the "camp of the Saints and the beloved City," (Rev. 20:8,9) when they shall "come into the land that is brought back from the sword. "the land of unwalled villages," the desolate places that are now inhabited by "them that are at rest," "that are gathered out of the nations, which gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land." But every man's sword shall be against his brother, and " fi re from God out of heaven shall devour them" Ezek. 36, 37, 38 chs.
We have seen that the Dis. following the Gos. Dis. is a day of cleansing.