Telegram-herald., 1890-11-17
THE WICKED DEAD
Are They Now Undergoing Pun
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gwen ~ E.d. L. q. Moore, at Good
Iemplars Hall iass evening from scrip
lgTe leuad in jude i. Il Was listened
/ 10 With marked attention by All present.
I Mr. Moore spoke as follows:
my friends, this ID a question Of
awful solemniy, # true, when we con-
sider the fact that the vast majonly'
die without well grounded hope IA
God. Ia fact the greater part Of nan-
kind live M neglect Of the great duties
OF practical religion, if BOT la open con-
tempt 81 lis most solemn commands.
Such has ever been tho fact with our
fallen race, with bat lit.le prospect OF
"A change for the better Thousands
/ every year are ushered into eternity,
without God ana without preparation
10 meet Hum. What We ask i the
/ present condition OF thls innumerab.e
I multitude oil mpenltent dead2 Where
are theyg and what now is their real
condition. None have ever returned 10
tell as. Can We tel2
"The popular idea as held by many
/ Evangelical churches is that they are
even now suffering tie tOrments of the
lost IN hell-'whose biiiows glow with
an intensity Of heat that is iudescrib-
able and that our khd Heavenly
Father Is constantly worksng II miracle
10 prevent them from being consumed,
and that Our God whols full OF tender
ness, looks on IN cOmpiacency. Ii tins
were true, u would be terrible. Ii the
dead, both wicked and righteous, enter
4 a
OF q Judgment / ask? Is God go LOVING
that he Will condemn without . hear
ing?
"If this be true why does Christ need
10 come for hls people, II at the death
they 30 Immediately to hIm-see John
Il, l-3. DO the righteous enter heaven
at death?-we think not, for Peter tells
Us that IN his day-A. ID. 33-DaYid had
not ascended into heaven. Was David
righteous? we think sO--Acts 3-29-4.
Paul tells us that our life is hid with
/ Christ in God and that when Christ,
who 6 our lite shall appear. then shall
ye appear with him in glory. Cor. 3,
81. Now We ask, are the wicked at
death sent to hell, while the righteous
wait until the day OF Christ's appear
ings2
"If the wicked dead are now suffer
ing, are not the righteous dead now
rejoicing? No; If Peters testimony
Is correct. Ii the Impenitent dead are
now suffering the t0Iments 0itthe lost,
the Bible Is silent about it. The text
chosen As the foundation Of my dis
course Is supposed 10 teach the con-
scious suffering OF the lost in hell. But
! does i? Let us examine ID carefully.
Jude in tins text makes Il comparison
that, as the angels VINO have fallen
are reserved unto the Judgment of the
great day, even SO the cities of SOdOm
and GOmOfrah are set forth fGr al
example, suffering the vengeance
of eternal fire. In this scripture God
gives us an example Or specimen
Of what lie Will do IN the future with
the ImpcniteDt. How did he do n the
cases OF those corrupt cites2 See Gen.
XIX, 2l-2S, In brief, ne utterly con
sumed them with their inhabitants.
Are they now suffering in the fire?
We think not, for the place is now COW
cred by the waters of the Dead sea.
Peter, in speaking of this event, says,
in ii Peter j., 9, that God turned the
cities of SOdOm and GomOrTah into
ashes. Making them an en-
sample lexamplel unto those that after
should I've ungOdiy.' IS SAID before,
God in the destruction OF these wicked
cities has given Us an example of what
he Will finally DO with the impenitent.
That they are not now IN q conscious
state OF suffering, ! have but t. quote
Lam. iy, G, winch says that SOdOm was
ovcrthrOWn in moment; and no hand
STAYED on her. The language of Jude
concerning the SOdomtes has. there
fore, no relation 10 their present con
ditlon in death, and can not be made
TO furnish evidence that the wicked are
now IN a state of torment. The text
found in Matt. XIV. Al. j. pressed into
service as proof that the wicked dead
are now in "A state Of conscious suffer
ing. Depart from me, ye cursed, INTO
everlasting fire prepared for The deyi
and his angels. We ask, For whom
and when prepared For the devil
and his angels so SAYS the tex.
"If prepared for toe devil, when was
il prepared not IN Jobs tuue, =. G.
1922 certainly, for the record says thst
satan was on the earth az that time aud
had much 90 do with lt. see Job 3, 6-s.
il it WAS then prepared, did satin leave
II at viii and return when he pleased.
In our Savlour's time. a. .. -, We iud
that satan was stli on the earth and
Christ was tempted by him. Matt. iv,
10. IN Luke v.il. $3.50, we have 81
account of his work ard Of TIE evil
angels. VINO ass stcd hm. on at least
s500 of them. The hevciator SAYS thai
the devil and his angels we're cast down
from Heaven t. the earth. Chapter p.
20. u. ON every hand there is evidence
that be and his angels have not vet left
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