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teaches clearly the doctrine of the resurrec-
ton: ''Thy dead shall live, my dead body
they shall arise" The plain teaching Of
this passage is that the bodies of those who
die in the Lord, are the body of the Lord OF
life, and that at the proper, or appointed
time, they shall arise to everlasting life.
Hencei tits addedin the same verse: "AWake
and sing, We that dwell in the dust; for thy
dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth
shall cast out the dead" The word that is
in this place translated dust, is the same
word that in Job 1922 is translated earth.
The same word is used in Job Xxx: II; Xi: 26 !;
in Psalms xxi 80, and in several other pas
sages, to denote the human body reduced to
dust. Hence, to call upon those who dwell
in the dust to awake and sing is, in the Ian
guage of the Scriptures, to call upon bodies
long since reduced to dust to awake and
sing. Many other passages might he quoted
from the Old Testament. 1t will be Sutfi-
cient to point some of these out. The reSur-
rection of the body is taught in Dan. xii: =,
3 and 10; in Hos, xiii ii, and Ps. xvii :: ID.
1t would be an arduous task to quote all of
the New Testament which teaches the reSur-
rection of the body. This, we suppose no
reader of the New Testament will require.
Every one vino has read the 18th chapter of
Paul's lst Epistle to the Church at Corinth
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tie attached to the resurrection of Christ.
The argument runs thus. If the dead rise
not, then is Christ not risen, and if Christ is
not risen, faith in Christ as Saviour is vain.
In connection with the general doctrine OF
the resurrection, three things deserve our
attention. 1st. What shall be raised or re-
surrected. md BY whom will this raising
up or resurrecting be conducted, and 3rd.
When will the resurrection take place:
To the first inquiry, "What shall be raised
up?" it may be replied, the bodies of the
dead will be raised up. call that are in
their graves shall come FORTH" The union
which will take place after the resurrection
will be strictly a reunion, or union again
of the same body and the same soul which
were separated by or at death. This is in
ferred from the fact that the resurrection is
the raising up of something, not creation.
note the change, which shall, at the set time,
take place with respect to the body is ou'ds-
tasis. This word is derived from dnisttn1i.
This latter word means II set up" The
noun means "a setting up" This setting
up' or resurrection must be of an object that
previously existed, otherwise it would be
properly called a creation, and not q resur-
rection.
In the New Testament, three verbs are
used to express the act of resurrecting. They
are egeiro, zoopoieo and daistemi. The first
means to awake out of sleep, the second to
make alive and the third to raise up. An
example of the use of the first and second
will be found in John v:2l. "The father
awakes (egeirei) the dead and makes alive
(zo-opoiei) them" In John vi 81, we have
an example of the use of the third: "Who-
so eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
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him up at the last day." TO awaken, to
make alive, and to set up, each denote an
action performed upon some object which
has an existence. If the body which was
separated from the soul is not the body
which shall, at the last day, be united to the
soul, but one prepared for the occasion, then
the words, "aWaking, making alive" and
"setting up" are calculated to mislead. If
the body that was once united to the soul is
not raised up and again reunited to the soul
it will not be resurrection-an d71stdsis-
but creation. Neither will it be reunion,
but simply union. 1t is further manifest
that it will be the same body that was once
united to the soul, but which was separated
from it by death, that will be raised up, from
the fact that the soul and body during This
life never act separately, or independent of
each other. When the soul sins the body
sins, and when the body sins the soul sins.
If the body serves God the soul serves God,
and if the soul serves God the body serves
God. 1t may be said that the body is only
the instrument through which the soul gives
expression to it's acts. This is true, still
whatever eliminates the soul eliminates the
body, and whatever eXculpates the soul eX-
culpates the body. They sin against God or
serve God together, consequently, together
they will be rewarded or punished. While
the bodies which have turned to dust in the
grave will be resurrected, they will still be
greatly changed. The bodies of believers
will be purified. This Paul teaches in the
18th chapter of I. Corinthians. The change
is thus described by the Apostle. 1st, 1t is
bility; 2nd, from vileness to honor; ;Ird,
from weakness to strength, and 18th, from q
natural body to spiritual body. Such will
be the change which will take place in the
bodies of the righteous. A change will also
take place in the bodies of the wicked, but
it will be, in every respect, for the worse.
The second inquiry is, "By whom will the
dead be raised ?" It will be found on exam
ination that the resurrection is ascribed to
each one of the three persons in the Trinity
as the following passages of Scriptures will
show: The Father raiseth the dead, and
quickeneth them." John 5: 81. "Who shall
change our vile bodies, that they may be
fashioned like unto his (the sons glorious
Jesus from the dead shall quicken your
mortal bodies by his spirit dwelling in
YOU" Rom. 8: II.
the resurrection take place ?" The precise
year, month and day of this grand event no
mortal knows. For wise and holy purposes
God has seen fit to keep the time concealed.
1t will take place however, we reinforn1ed,
at the end of the world. The second advent
of our Saviour, the general resurrection and
the final judgment will all occur at the same
time. In other words they will be contem-
poraneOus events. Such certainly is the
plain teaching of the Scripture. Some have
hastily concluded that there will be Two
resurrections, an indefinite period elapsing
between them. At the first resurrection,
according to this theory, the righteous will
be raised up, and at the second the wicked.
This we think is a gratuitous assumption.
There is only one single passage in the
whole Scriptures which seems to favor the
conclusion that there will be two resurrec-
tions. That passage will be found in Rev.
% 4-G. The passage is obscure and the in
depreciation admitted to be difficult, conse-
quently it would be unwise to base any the
Ory upon it, which is not corroborated by
other passages. The order in which the
final consummation of all things connected
with this world will take place is, Christ
will appear, the dead will be raised, the liv-
ing changed in the twinkling of an eye, then
will follow the final judgment. The resur-
rection of the dead will be of all the dead.
1t will be Il general resurrection of the
righteous and of the wicked. After the
final Judgment will follow the PROSTITUTION
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