Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-01

that the strength OF these giants would
be used selfshly and the licentious ex-
ample Of the angels bad a demoral-
iZing effect upon the children of Adam.
as well as upon their own children
An this is stated and implied In the
words. ''And God saw that the wicked
ness of man was great in the earth.
and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually" What a terrible picture
of the condition of things before the
foOdi But God was not astonished,
for he had foreknown everything.
Hence he bad great canopy of water
in the sky which temporarily gave the
earth an equabIe. temperate climate,
but which he intended should fall
upon the earth and cause the great
food in Noahs day. Hence at the APP
propriate time 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 all the earth who
were not more or less contaminated by
those angels. How wide must have
been that influence when we read as
an exceptional matter, Now Noah
land his family was perfect in his
generation" - the disobedient angels
had nothing whatever to do with gen
Grating them.
Fallen Angels Changed.
While the angels preferred to live as
men in human bodies, they would not
be overwhelmed like humanity in the
flood. but merely dissolve. by Donate
REALIZATION. their human bodies and be-
as originally. spirit beings. Satan was
the first sinner against the Divine gov
eminent, in his endeavor to set up
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
ly isolated item from himself and the
holy angels and imprisoned them, in
the sense that he no longer permitted
them to materialize, either as ser
pent or as humanity for the tempting
and injury of our race. In this sense
they are prisoned-restrained of lib
erty.
Now let us hear St Peters words re
speeding these angels who sinned He
says QI Peter ii. A.. God spared not
the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell. and delivered them into
chains of darkness. to be reserved unto
judgment" The word tdrtGruS here
rendered hell" in our Common Yer
sion, is found nowhere else in the Ri
BILE. 1t refers to our earth's 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 east down" in the sense of being
treated ignominiously. They are lin
chains Of darkness" not in chains Of
iron. They can still 20 and come and
be sources of temptation to humanity
who are in sinful attitude of mind
They are restrained in chains of dark
ness in the sense that whatever they
do must be done in the dark-until
their Judgment time at the Great Day
at the beginning of Messiahs thou
sandyear day of the reign of right
eousness.
Turn to St Jude's Epistle. There
we read verse 81. "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 Day"
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 a lower plane-live 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-
will neither marry nor be given in
marriage, but be without sexual dis
| tinction.
In harmony with this note how
, spiritualists hold their seances. either
, in absolute darkness or in a very faint
light They claim now that the spir-
its are getting more and more power
Of naturalization and that soon they
win be able to materialize in broad
day light and go about amongst hu-
manity 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
Undertaking. 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 I'm this
matter may more particularly mani