The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-04-29

ALL ! am sure uuNe Uhu sllnllhT ulUl-
cultles TO those which | experienced
difficulties In approaching how our
Heavenly Father could he a good ia
Their. good God loving Creator
and yet provide for his human cren.
lures such terrible destinies as all the
crceds of the dark ages" set forth.
There Is not thinking Christian In
the world who does not need the cor.
rect understanding of the Bible In
order to be able to stand in the evil
day that is upon us. All need to give
heed to st. paul's words. Take unto
you the whole armour of God, that
ye may be able to withstand In the
evil day, and. having done all. to
stand" (Epheslans vi. 49,. Our day
is a blessed one in respect to its won
derful opportunities and privileges.
but 1t Is an evil one In the sense Of
being u time of great trial and testing
OF faith to Christendom.
Thinking minds are rejecting the
doctrine of eternal torment and gener-
ally ut the same time rejecting the
Bible and denying that 1t Is the in.
spired Word Of God. These dear
friends are stumbling into inideIity
and think that Higher Criticism and
Darwins Evolution theory are new
light. What they need is to see that
the true light is I'm the Bible and that,
wearing our grandfathers' spectacles,
we inherited the Word of God and
a.. int, "a
the loss of our peace Of mind and fel.
lowship with the Father and with the
Son and with the holy Spirit.
The Key to tho Scriptures.
Whoever gets the proper understand
ing of our text has in his possession
| the Key to the Bible. If he will use
it, passage after passage will open for
him and the whole Word Of God be-
comes new and glorious revelation
Of Justice, Wisdom, Love and Power
| Divine. Jonah was in the tish's belly
he was buried alive. 1t is this that
Is referred to In our text. The words
heIl-belly signify grare-bclly or belly
grave. The context shows all this
telling us additionally that sea weeds
were wrapped about the Prophets
head and that God heard his prayer
and delivered him from the hell-beiiy
or beiiy-grdre, on the third day by
causing the fish to vomit him up. II
you have reference Bible note that
in the margin there Is reference &c
the words of our text. saying. He
brew, the grave" All, says one. The
translators merely made mistake
and translated it hell when they shouC
have translated 1t grave. Yes. | an
swer, and they made the same mis-
take in every case in which they useC
the same word sheol throughout the
Old Testament. AS 1t Is. sheet is trans
lated Craze more times than it is trans
lated he'll in our Common Version: bu
it should be translated grave every time
There we have the Key to the Bible
The hell Of the Bible, the penalty To-
} sin. Is death, the grave, the tomb. L
!, Is not an everlasting hell, for specia
Scriptures declare that sheOl (helh shall
be destroyed Il will ransom then
: from the power of the grave (sheOD
will redeem them from death; o death
l will be thy plaques; o grave (sheol
HE'LL | will be thy destruction" Hoses
xiii. 14. st. Paul quotes this prophec!
in conjunction with his great discourse
on the resurrection. 20 death, wher
is thy sting? o grave (hddes, where /
thy victory" q Corinthians XIV. 55,.
We see. dear friends. what our dea
Redeemer suffered on our behalf to re
lease us from the penalty for sin. II
did not go to eternal torment for on
sins He did go into sheol. into hdde
into the grave. Christ died for on
, sins. according to the Scriptures"
, Corinthians XIV. -. Thus God has pre-
vided for the resurrection Of the dea
all mankind. both Of the Just and q
the unjust" The lust are the Church
| the saints. The unjust include all ott
ers. The blood OF Jesus will avail fC
the release Of every member Of tn
race from the great penalty Of dealt
Now 1t operates under a special ca
t to the sanity few who are invited
) in his great Kingdom which shortly
to bless all the families of the earth
!. not only those then living. but also a
q who have gone down to the tomb Tt
a general resurrection will not be an IL
= Simultaneous one. as in the case Of til
Z, saints. 1t will be gradual one
q two senses.
> a. All will not come forth at ono
t but. as the Apostle declares, Ever
q man in his own order" company {
e band Il Corinthians XIV, 23).
4 (2) 1t will be gradual In the sens
a that the awakening from the tomb wi
@ be but the beginning of the resurre
n ton of the world. During the tho
3 sand years Of Christ's reign all wi
v will give heed to his Instructions an
q assistance may rise gradually-up. u
= up-and by the close Of the Millennium
8 they will reach the full perfection al
n Image of God lost by Father Ada
through disobedience. The unwilin
q those rebelious after the light has fu
4 ly come upon them, will be deStroye
in the Second Death. from which thel
- will be no recovery. They will periS
a as the brute beasts.
; So, then. let us learn a lesson fro
, Jonah's words. not forgetting the OF