River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-05-12

their error and becoming Jealous
for the Truth, Those who are on
the right side have also test of
humility that they be not pulled up
by their victory, but humble them
selves under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt them in due
time.
Satan, because created on high
er plane, is styled the Prince of de-
mons in his relationship to the fall
en- angels. Judge of the delusion in
the hearts of the Pharisees which
prompted them to charge the Master
with being Satan himself and, on
/ this score, accounted for his power
to cast out demons! The Master
took the time to philosophize with
them on this subject and to show
that if the time had come when
Satan would work against his own
associates and servants it would
imply the speedy fall of his empire.
He also pointed out that demons
had been cast out by some whom
they acknowledged and honored. If
he must be Bee1zebub to cast out
the demons, what would their logic
be in respect to their neighbors and
| friends who at times had exercised
this power? On the other hand, if
he, by Gods power, cast out de-
mons, it was an evidence that Gods
Kingdom was nigh, just as he had
proclaimed.
Having thus answered their OBJ
| lection, he showed that they were
against him and opposing his Word
and that this meant that if he were
Gods representative, they were op-
posing God. Then he called their
attention to the fact that their words
were blasphemous in that they at
tributed Gods spirit, Gods power
in him, to Satan's power. Since
they did this without any real prov
ocation and in opposition to every
evidence, it implied that they were
wicked at heart. Ordinary sins re-
sulting from the fall, ignorance,
superstition, etc., would all, in
Gods providence, be ultimately for
givable, but a wilful sin against
| light, against knowledge, would be
sin against Gods Spirit. And for
that sin there would be no forgive
ness, either in this Age, or in the
coming Age-neither during this
| Gospel Age nor in the Millennial
Age. If the sin were committed
against full light, it's merit or pun
ishment would be destruction, Sec
cnd Death. But very evidently 1t
would be such a sin to only a few.
With the majority there would be
mixture of wilfulness with igno-
rance, and, if so, the proportion of
wrong represented by the ignorance
could be forgiven; but the proper
ton represented by the wilfulness
would need the extreme penalty, be-
cause unforgivable.
The scribes and Pharisees, en-
vious of his popularity, asked for a
sign, a proof Of his Messiahship-
not recognizing his teachings and
his miracles as proofs sufficient.
He then told them of one sign which
would come to them too late-his
stay in the tomb would correspond
to Jonah's stay in the belly o. the
great fish. The people of heather
Nineveh in the Judgment Age, in
the Millennial Age, he assured
them, would rank higher than they,
for the Ninevites did repent at the
preaching of Jonah, while these re-
pented not at the preaching of a
greater than Jonah. The Queen of
Sheba had journeyed afar to hear
Solomon's wisdom; yet these were
in the presence of greater than
Solomon and realized it not and
needed not his message. Let US
not be thus blinded, but, with our
whole hearts, accept and follow the
Nazarene!