The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

was boy and some times it was u
| girl that was placed naked in the arms
of the great image after it had been
fired to red heat with fuel piled un
derneath the image and passing
through it as a fiue The cries of these
infants so horribly sacrificed were
drowned by the cheers of the worship
pers and various musical instruments.
All of this, indeed everything akin
to suffering, was strictly forbidden
by the Divine Law given to Israel
And they had been specially warned
against this very form of idolatry
Neviticus xviii, 81; Deuteronomy
SANDER of the Divine character and
Law to suppose that it ever sanctioned
| torture And it is a still worse Sian
der upon God to suppose that he would
| himself do, and that for all eternity
what he condemned in his fallen crca
lures
The Lord declares all this through
the Prophet jeremiah vii. 31-34). Here
God particularly forewarned the Israel.
ties that their wrong course would
eventlate in the terrible time of trou-
BILE which came upon Jerusalem in the
year A. ID. 20, when it was estimated
that over a million died at the siege
of Jerusalem. In fulillment of this
prophecy the Jews cast the dead bodies
over the wall of Jerusalem into this
Nn How Tins mood
the day is come, saith the Lord that it
shall no more he called Topheth. nor,
The Valley of the son of Hinnom, but,
The Valley of Slaughter; for they shall
bury in Tophcth till there be no place
And the carcaSses of this people shall
be meat for the fowls of the heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth"
After the reformation made by King
Josiah the Valley of IIinnom was desc
Grated to the intent that it might never
afterward be considered fit for any
kind of religious worship, sacrifice or
ceremony. 1t became the valley of
defilement. 1t was used at certain
times for the burning of the offal and
rubbish of the city. 1t became the
dumping place of dead cats and dogs,
etc. If any of these fell upon the
lodges of the rock, no one thought
worth while to interfere, and the mag
gots and worms destroyed them. Fires
also We're lighted occasionally to burn
the combustible rubbish and birthstone
was added so that the fumes might
1pStrny In t.io1 tnD1nnny in, ho
interest of the health of the city.
The Lesson Jesus Taught.
We have before our minds now the
gehcnna fire which no one ever at
tempted to quench, but which was de-
signed to consume utterly everything
cast into it. We have in mind also the
worms Of which he spake-worms
which were permitted to feed on the
casses were consumed and the worms
themselves died. Another item here
should be noticed, namely, that a say
ing amongst the Jews was, WhoSoever
commits such a miSdemeanor will be
in danger of going from bad to worse
WILL lt Will Dt 4DClOIC lbC
tribunal of the Sanhedrin, a culprit.
Jesus took the same line of proverbs
and declared that anyone violating the
Golden Rule to the extent of calling
his brother fool would be in danger
eventually Of such depression from
as to bring him under
sentence Of the greater tribunal Of
Messiah's Kingdom, and, "Whosoever
shall say unto his brother, Thou art
a fool, shall be in danger Of gebenna
fire" (Matthew V, %.
What the Great Teacher meant was
that the earthly Jerusalem was pic
ture or type of the heavenly Jerusa
lem, which represents the Divine Gov
eminent or Kingdom-the New Jeru
salem which, by and by, will come
down to earth-when Gods will shall
be done on earth as it is done in
heaven.
AS gehenna lay outside of the wall
of Jerusalem, so our Lord intimated
there would be an antitypical gehenna
outside the New Jerusalem. AS the
trash and offal of the typical city were
consumed in the Valley of Hinnom, so
the offal and trash of humanity who
will refuse all of Gods favors, mercies,
blessings and opportunities, will be
treated as disgraceful wretches and be
consumed, destroyed, in the antityp-
tcal gehenna-which is the Second
Death. Concerning this antitypical ge
henna, the Second Death, we are def
will there be destroyed utterly, as Pc
ter says, ''as natural brute beasts"
We have description Of this sym
bolical New Jerusalem or Divine King
dom Revelation XXI, composed pri-
marily of the Church, and secondarily
of all from the world who, during
Messiah's reign, will enter in through
its gates and enjoy the blessings of
Divine favor and life eternal. And
then we read. verse 8, but the fear.
full, and unbelieving, and the abomina-
BILE. and murderers, and whoremong
crs, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
all liars, shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone. which is the Second Death"
Note that this lake of fire and brim-
stone into which all the offscouring of
humanity will be cast is a symbol and
the meaning of the symbol is plainly
stated in the words, (which is the Sec
ond Death" The first death passed
upon all mankind on account of father
Adams disobedience. Our Lord Jesus
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