The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-29
PREACHING
IMPRISONED
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d, continually" What a terYftqe picture
Of t. condition of things before the
6ooU But God wss not astonfshed,
for h had forekpovn everything
He0es be he'd great canapy Of water
In the sky which temporarily gave tho
earth On, cQuab,s. temperate climate,
but which be inteAdod should fail
upon the easth ana eauss the great
! food IN Nsaf,'s day. Hence at the ap-
propagate Nms God gave instructions
to Noah to prepare an ark for the saw
ing OF himself and his house Noah
and his family were the only members
Of Adams race IN ali the earth who
were not moro or less contaminated by
those angels. How wide must have
'bssn thsA fnffuencs whes we road 40
an eIeepdbaal matteA "Now Noah
land his family wxs perfect in his
generation" - the dksebediont angels
had nothing whatever to Do with gen
Grating them.
Fallen Angels Chsassd.
While the Angels preferred TO live as
men In human bodlea, they would not
be overwhelmed like humanity In the
food, but merely dissolve by demate-
! REALIZATION, their human bodies and be,
as originally. spirit beings. Satan was
the GSst sinner against the Divine gov
eminent. In his endeaver to set up a
separate empire and to Have humanity
for his subjects. Although God had
! full power to destroy Satan and the
other disobedient angels, he has not
exercised that power. Instead he mere
y isolated them from himself and tho
holy angels and impf4soned them, in
the sense that he no loagec permitted
them TO materiafixe. either as a ser
pent or a. humanity for tAs tempting
and injury Of our race. la this asnse
they are imprisoned re6Rrained of lib
J erty.
Now let us hear 81. Peters words re
speeding these angels who sinned He
says Gil Peter II. A., God spared not
the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to bell. and delivered them into
chains Of darkness, to be reserved Nnto
| Judgment" The word taytavus here
! rendered hell" In our Common Yer
sion, il found nowhere else In the BIZ
bic. II refers to our earthfs atmos-
phere and to the fact that those fallen
angels. called demons or devils. are
the power Of the air." And Satan,
who was originally an angel OF much
higher rank and nature, Is their
Prince. '"The Prince of the power of
the air." the Prince Of demons They
are least down" in tho sense OF being
treated ignominiously. They are "in
chains Of darkness not IN chains of
iron. They can still 60 and come and
be sources Of temptation to humanity
who are in a'sinful attitude of mind.
They are restrained in ctnins of dark
ness in the sense that Ahate~er they
do must be done in the dark-until
their judgment tin~ at the Great Day
at the beginning of Aessiahs thou
sandyear day Of the reign Of right
! eousness.
Turn to st. Jude's Epistla There
we read (verse g.. THE angels which
kept not their first estate. but left
their own habitation. he hath reserved
in age lasting chains. under darkness,
unto the Judgment of the Great BAY"
Their first estate in which they were
created was the spirit or angelic con-
dition. They left their own proper con-
dition Of living and nature, in viola
ton of the Divine will, that they might
live on lower plane|ive In sin; for
the angels are sexless, though always
referred to as masculine And our
Lord declares that those begotten Of
the holy Spirit. who during this age
shall attain to the resurrection Of the
dead. the First Resurrection" will be
like unto the angels" in several re-
spects-one Of these beipg that they
will neither marry nor be given in
marriage. but be without sexual dis
hnctiOn.
In harmony with this note how
spirftualists hold their seances, either
in absolute darkness or in a very faint
light. They claim now that the spfr-
Its are getting noSe and more power
Of naturalization and that soon they
will Ebe able to mater1alfne in broad
day light and 80 about amongst hu-
mainly as members Of the race We
do not question the power Of God to
restrain these fallen angels. these de-
mons-his power to restrain them from
materializing and thus doing great
harm in the world. Nevertheless, we
wonder If they will not be permitted
by God to find some greater powers
of naturalization, contrary to the Di-
vine decree, that their course in this
matter may more particularly mani
fest to what extent some of them
have changed and reformed and de-
sire to be obedient. for instance. while
others are still as opposed to God and
righteousness as ever There is room
for this understanding in the state
ment of tho Apostle that the chains of
darkness were to control them until
the Great Day-not necessarily into
that day-perhaps Mt its very begin
ming they may be permitted to gain
certain liberties and do certain
amount Of injury to humanity, to all
who are not attentive to the Word of
God. and who, therefore. will not
know who these spirits are-that they
are the fallen angels. the demons Of
the Bible.
wicked Spirits" Lying Spirits"
These are the terms used in the