Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-04-07

ltion Of hell handed down to US
through our creeds formulated IN the
dark ages. and since misinterpre-
ltatiOn of sheOl and hades has been
given TO the public mind-the inn
preston that these words signify a
place of torture All this is wholly
false, as every Greek and Hebrew
scholar knows. and, If cross-Qies-
| toned, will admit. 1t is an important
question to the public because this
| misconception of the meaning OF the
word hell is driving hundreds, yea
Thousands, away from God and away
from, the Bible. They correctly rea-
son that the teaching that our Great
or foreknew and intended hell of
torture for his creatures is beyond
conception, beyond belief, and mani
testify untrue, as no holy being could
be SO unjust, unkind. unlOving. 1t
is time that all such should see that
the fault lies with the creeds and not
with the Bible that the Bible teaches
a hell, sheOl, hades, into which all
go, both good and bad, and from
(which all will be called forth in the
resurrection morning by the great
Redeemer.
Leading Captivity Captive"
| A better translation reads, "Ou1
Lord assembled on high leading a mul
| titude of captives'' These words are
| a pen picture representing great
King as Conqueror returning from
4 victory over an opponent. The VIC
Il nh ,.;a ut hn T1f
the procession, surrounded by trump
cts and acclaimers. and behind him
followed the evidences, the proofs OF
his victory-either those whom he
had captured and enslaved or, as in
this case. those who had been cap
tured and enslaved and whom the
ConQueror had set free.
The picture is graphic and wonder
full, Notwithstanding the fact that a
considerable space has interviewed be-
tween our Lords triumphant resur-
rection and ascension and the evil
dences of his victory. which are fol-
flowing after him. OF the great King
of Glory himself. let US remember
that after he had suffered by the will
OF God, 1.-The Just for the unjust
that he might set mankind free from.
sin and death, he was highly ex.
llted and given name above every
name" He was made ~partaker OF
the divine nature" He was no longer
a man, for Flesh and blood cannot
inherit the Kingdom 4fof Cod, q
| Corinthians XIV, SOY. True, he still has
as one of his many titles, The Son OF
man, which Identifies him with our
race an dthe work which he is in the
process of accomplishing for it and
which he will finish during his Mil
lennial reign. We are reminded by
the Apostle that he was put to death
iii the flesh and made alive in spirit
J. spirit being. He died as a man this
side of the veil. He arose New
Creature the other side the veil-a
spirit being. He was "sown in cor
ruption, raised in Interruption; sown
in dishonor, raised in glory; soWn a
natural body, raised a spiritual body"
AS the Church's Head and Fore-run-
ner he passed beyond the veil; and
now shortly, as participants with him
and as the second battalion of the
glorious triumphal procession, will
follow "the Church which is his
Body" sharers with him in the First
Resurrection, his Bride.
Next in professional order follow
i ing the Bride class, the very select, u
will come the great company from
every nation, people, kindred and
tongue, the honored servants of the
heavenly Bridegroom and Bride.
1.-THE virgins her companions. z"
| psalm xiv: 14), will follow after the
Bride into the presence of the great
King Jehovah. Next in professional
order will come the Ancient Worthless
from faithful Abel down to John
the Baptist, the greatest of the pro-
phets. But these WI come forth
from the tomb in human perfection
and not in the spirit perfection of
those preceding (Hebrews xi, 38-4O;
| Matthew xi:11). In their human
perfection similar to that of Adam
before his transgression, plus their
| development in faith and obedience,
these will constitute a f1rst-fruits of
Israel and of the world of mankinds
Under their ministration, supervised
by the glorified ones beyond the veil,
| the work of restitution and uplifting
| the captives of sin and death will
| progress until, at the close of that
thousand years of the reign Of right
eousenss, every human being of loyal
character will be completely freed
from the bondage of sin and death
and imperfection and, with the An
cient Worthless, will march in the
grand procession into the presence Of
J Jehovah God.
Thus the great Redeemer and De-
liverer will not only present the saint
| ly church blameless and irreproach-
able before the Father in love, but
likewise will liberate all who will of
Adams race, now asleep and de-
graded. No wonder the Scriptures
declare of the end Of his triumphal