The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-07

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eartn an equape, temperate climate,
but which he intended should fall
upon the earth and cause the great
food in Noah's day Hence at the ap.
proprlate 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" 80 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
food. 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 n
separate empire and to have humanity
for his subjects. Although God had
full power to destroy Satan and the
other diSobcdient angels. he has not
exercised that power Instead he mere
ly Isolated them from himself and the
holy angels and imprisoned them. in
the sense that he no longer permitted
them to materiaiZe. either as ser
pent or as humanity for the tempting
ana injury of our race. In this sense
they are impriSoned-re restrained of lib
erty
Now let us hear st. Peters words re,
speeding these angels who Sinncd He
says 0l Peter ii. ~. God spared not
the angels that sinncd, but cast them
down to bell. and delivered them into
chains of darkness. to be reserved unto
judgment" The word taJtdruS here
rendered hell" in our Common Yer
sion. Is found nowhere else in the Bi-
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, "rhe Prince of the power of
the air" the Prince of demons They
are cast down" in the sense of being
treated ANONYMOUSLY. They are lin
chains of darkness" not in chains of
iron. They can still go 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 Messiah's thou
sand-year day of the reign of right
eousness.
Turn to st. Jude's Epistle. 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 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 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-
spects-one of these being that they
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 n very faint
light. They claim now that the spir
its are getting more and more power
of naturalization and that soon they
will be able to materialiZe In broad
day light and go about amongst hu.
mainly us 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
materiaizing 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 hi,
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 the Apostle that the chains OF
darkness were TO control them until
the Great Day-not necessarily into
that day-perhaps at 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
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