River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-09-15
THREE TEMPTING QUESTIONS

for all of their complimentary re-
marks stood to his credit in the
minds of the common people.
Next, the Sadducees, the agnostics
tried to entrap the Great Teacher by
asking one of their stock questions.
Seven different brothers in turn
married the same woman and all
died before she did. To which of
them will she be wife in the resur-
rection? They did not ask, To
which will she be wife in heaven or
Purgatory or eternal torture, for
neither Jesus nor the Jews held any
such teaching The Pharisees and
Jesus taught the resurrection of the
dead, and it was against this teach
ing that the Sadducees aimed their
sarcastic question.
Note the majesty of the Masters
answer: Eye do err, not knowing
the Scriptures, neither the power of
God!" You do not understand the
Scripture teaching respecting such
questions, and you are ignoring in
your question the great Divine
power which, at that resurrection
time, will be exercised and will
straighten out all the difficulties of
the situation. Then the Great
Teacher proceeded to inform them
that such as would (gradually) at
tain to the resurrection, such as
would get complete raising up out
of sin and death conditions, would
neither marry nor be given in mar
rage" but would be sexless, as are
the angels. Thus the supposed
great and unanswerable question Of
the Sadducees fell fiat and their ig-
norance was exposed.
Next, one of the Doctors of the
Law endeavored to entrap the Lord
on question of the relative impor-
lance of the Divine commandments,
asking which Jesus considered the
great one of all. The Great Teacher
promptly divided the ten command
ments into two, according to the
Law (Deut. 6:5), and answered,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind" This
is the first and great (chief) COM
mandment. And the second is like
unto it-"Thou shalt love thy neigh
Dor as myself. On these two COM
mandments hang all the Law and
the Prophets. What could the
Lawyer say to such a SUMMARIZE
ton of the Law? He had nothing
left to say. He was answered as
never before.
The Great Teacher asked the
Pharisees, What think We of the
Messiah? Whose Son is her" They
answered, 1.-THE Son of David :"
The Teacher then queried, How
then doth David in spirit (prophet-
ically) call him Lord, saying, The
Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou
on my right hand till l make thine
enemies thy footstool? If David
then calleth him Lord, how is he
his SOM"
Of course the question was too
deep for the Pharisees. The Great
Teacher could answer all of their
questions, but they could not an
swer his. How beautifully clear
we see it to be that the Messiah,
according to the flesh, was born
of the lineage of David, but that
Gods purposes were not fully &C.
complished in Messiah of the flesh
that he lay down his flesh, sacri-
fcially, and was raised from the
dead to the plane of glory, honor
and immortality, far above angels,
principalities and powers" We
perceive that in the days of his flesh
he was the Son of David, but that
in his Qualification he is David's
Lord in that David will receive
through him, in due time, not only
resurrection from the dead, but also
the blessings of participation in the
Messianic Kingdom. The father of
Messiah in the flesh will thus be-
come the son of the Messiah of
glory, whose earthly life is TO be the
restitution price for the whole
world, including David. Thus it is
written, Instead of thy fathers
shall be thy children, whom thou
mayest make princes (rulers) in all