Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-09-09

loss OF naJlonhl pOlcy, ana VINO as
people are buried" nationally and
scattered among the gentiles where
they have been since our Lord
wept over jerusalem and declared
''your house is left unto you desc
late ;" We reason that actual dead
men do not "lift up their eye" but
we note the Jewish activity, lifting
up of their eyes to the promises that
await them, the promises of royalty
and national favor. The great gulf,
the law that separates them from
Christ will soon bo spanned by the Me-
diator, greater than Moses, and the
blindness that happened to Israel
will be turned away and ungodliness
from Jacob.
Our Lords words to the penitent
thief are easy to dispose of. Using
our reason we see that our Lord him.
self was not in paradise that day, and
therefore he did not mean that the
thief would be there that day. Jesus
was in the tomb three days and he
never ascended for forty days after
his resurrection. "Touch me not for |
have not yet assembled to my Father. 3"
How do we harmonize this2 The
thief had asked, Lord, remember me
when thou cometh into thy king
dom. Our Lord replied, "Verily,
l say unto thee today, (this dark
DAY when am dying as felon to
pay your ransom price, this day of my
dissolution as q man when all seems
hopeless; Notwithstanding all this |
tell you today thou shalt be with me
in paradise. This reasonable inter
probation is made by changing the
comma from before to-day to after
it. This is reasonable and no object
ions can be made as punctuation is
not inspired. The word paradise"
as used above is full of meaning. 1t
evidently refers not to heaven but to
the new earth condition when the
Garden of Eden will be worldwide.
The Diaglot says: THE word para
disc is not Greek but is of Asiatic Or
igin. In Arabic and Persian it signi-
fed garden. The Septuagent rem.
dars Gen. 2:8, thus; "God planted
garden eastward in Eden. The word
occurs only in two other places in the
New Testament, 2 Cor. 1874, Rev.2:7.
The first of these is referred to by my
opponent where Paul was caught up
into paradise. We reason from this
that Paul got glimpse of the new
earth condition as it will be when the
Kingdom comes. and the thief brought
back with all mankind and instructed
in righteousness and character build
ing, without which they cannot live
eternally. The gentleman treatment
of Cor. 4:15, ETC., does not prove
his point, even though Paul was spir.
it-begotten to the "Divine nature,
glory, honor and immortality. Paul
did not expect to enter his reward at
death. He did not consider himself to
have attained, but he says; 81 press
toward the (character) mark of per-
feet love without which l would be
| NOTHING) for the prize of (immor-
tality) the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus. He expected his re-
ward ''at that day, lat his appear
ing and Kingdom. As Peter says,
when the chief shepherd shall appear
lat his second advent) ye shall receive
crown of glory that fadeth not a
way" (See Tim. 4:1,8; Pet. 5:4,
also Titus 2:13. Those who persist
that Paul has received his crown Of
life must admit that the End Advent
has already taken place.
John, the Revelator, saw and tolG
in symbol what perhaps Paul saw and
was not permitted to utter. They
both got a glimpse of the Great Arch
, itect's plans as they will appear wher
completed. They saw what is to BE.
} And in considering Scriptures such al
those at issue the future standpoint
of Prophets must be considered Goo
, speaks of Things which be not al
, though they were. -" Rom. 4:17.
This certainly is true of those passages
! which relate to the dead and the fu
ture life. God has even chosen some
things which be not, to bring to no
thing some things that are. (1Cor. ;2s,
J My worthy critic attaches much i'm
pOrtance to education. He says nOn'
! but scholars versed ia the original cal
/ discuss the question at issue with th'
} intelligence it demands, and asserts
/ that in the absence of education hav'
} nothing but Ignorance and brass tC
) qualify me for the position / take.
We all know that education, if pro
, .perly used is good thing, and yer,
] dangerous thing if improperly used
t But with modern text books, dag
lots, and Hebrew and Greek -Englisl
/ ConcOrdances, ETC., man who car
: make himself understood and has
: consecrated heart. can do more gOoI
] than one who has all the education
a but lacks the proper spirit to use it
{ As for my ignorance and brass. TAX
= courage from Peter and John. VIII
= were unlearned and ignorant. bu
2 they had the qualification that the
= had been with Jesus. and learned @
y Him. lActs Ana
/. He also takes exceptions to my lac
n of claims 10 character. he saws -.