Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-11-18
LAZARUS And DIVES

i am not surprised 10 Hac 10 much
space taken up on the parable Of Di-
yes and Lazarus. This IN the main
stronghold Of the advocates Of the
false doctrine Of eternal torment.
And u Is fact worth repeating, that
outside Of the parallels and clark say
ing" Of our Lord. they have no basis
on which TO perpetuate the great
fraud, to slanier the Almighty, and to
nullify his oath and plan. Whoever
would know the truth Of this. let them
search and SIZE. The parable at issue,
and the parable of the "sheep and |
goats and the symbols of revelation |
which they say nobody knows any |
thing about, are all there are to sup |
port this most unreasonable dogma of
the darker ages. There is nothing in
the epistles TO support IL. Paul, the |
great converted pharisee. who wrote
much OF the New Testament. said
nothing about IL, but he did say
the wicked, including Satan, would be
destroyed. Heb. 2l:4. He speaks in
2 Cor. 10, Of the sentence of death
which we had in ourselves that we
should not trust in ourselves, las be-
| ing immortal, but in God (who only
hath immortality, and who raises the
dead. " so in all the epistles. John
says, whoever hateth his brother is
a murderer lat hearty and ye know
that no murderer hath eternal life
abiding in him." He cannot expert
ence eternal torment nor eternal bliss.
However as previously intimated, |
shall not devote much more space to
the discussion of the subject at issue,
but prefer to write of the '"good It'd
ings of great joy which shall be to all
people. But wish to point out that
there is no more in the parallels to
support the doctrine than there is in
SauPs experience with the witch at
Endor" as recorded in Sam. 28.
But none can appreciate the teach
ing of tire parable under consideration
unless they can see that Jesus dealing
was all with the Jews. He instructed
his chosen ones to Ego not into the
way of the gentiles. - They were not
permitted to 90 until the full end of
Jewish special favor had come, and
Peter took the 'key" and opened to
Cornelius, the first gentle convert
This and the typical character of the
entire Jewish economy should help us
to see that this parable does not repre-
sent conditions of life beyond the
tomb That Jesus was representing
the Jewish nation by the erich man, T"
is shown by the words, "they have
Moses and the prophets. " No other
nation had these. The trouble in I'M
are taken literally. This is shown by
sumptuously''. He thinks only of the
| 4 H.
eat and plenty to wear. The meaning
of this Is that the Jews ''fared sump-
tuously" as Gods chosen people to
whom he gave his oracles, and finally
sent his Son. Paul explains this, that
the Jews had much advantage every
way, because unto them were commit
ted the oracles of God" law and proph-
ecy. The purple and fine linen"
does not represent ARTICLES of official
dress as the natural man assumes,
but it represents the imputed typical
Righteousness and the royal promises.
The promises to the patriarchs, nota-
bly,, Abraham and David, invested the
( Jews with royalty as represented in
, the rich mans purple" The typical
sacrifices of the law constituted them
typically ''holy nation" as represen-
| ted by the rich mans fine linen
symbolic of Righteousness. REV. 19:8).
Lazarus represented the outcasts of Is.
rael, denominated ''publicans and sin.
, ners' and the God fearing people OF
other nations then debarred from the
blessings conferred upon Jews only.
; AS the fine linen" represented Isra.
Q els typical justification SO Lazarus
sores represented immortality in this
q class without God and without
hope" because no sin Offering hat
been made for their justification.
They had no share in the promises re-
presented by the rich mans purple
. See Eph. 2:1i-13. AS to how this clas
ate of the crumbs which fell from tn,
y rich mans table of divine bounties
), our Lords favor to the Syro- Phenicia1
woman who was one of them explains
See Math 1927. That the Lazaru
t class has been appealed to for dro)
of water to cool the rich man tongue
i is instanced by the Jews recent appea
to the President of the United State
} to intercede for the former rich man
the Jews in Russia. Other features O
y the parable are rich with concordan
h suggestion, but leave it for the pres
ent.
% The woman consulted by Saul was
. spirit medium such as now operate a
''seances" and who pretend to talk +
:, the dead, but who are simply the tool
v of the fallen angels who personate tn
dead. Spiritualism is one of Satan
=, old schemes to perpetuate his doctrin
of natural immortality and eternal tor
M ment. 1t is one of the ''strong delus
= ions' being permitted to 'try ther
that dwell upon the face of the earth.
g. Blessed is he that overcometh instea
n of being overcome by these delusions
y 2 Thess. All; Rev. 3:9-12. The lest
Id on of Sauls visit to the witch at Ell
dor is easy to those who ''try the spill
II it's to know their character. Th
a. familiar spirit obsessing the vito
Of personated Samuel, and it told SAT-
nothing which he did not anticipate
The kingdom had been taken frol
le Saul's family, and having no commit
y nicatiOn with God, he sought tn
Il witch through fear of the Philistint
# in battle array at his door. He e1
- pected no mercy because he had bee
io told that David would succeed hin
The demons who influenced the vito
as a medium knew all about Il
strength of the Philistine army an
Saul's weakness and alienation frol
ID God. The demons knew that Saul Wa