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rection--come forth perfect, on the spirit plane;
like unto the angels and like unto their glOrffied
Redeemer. to be- His joint heirs in His millen-
NAL kingdom and Its great work OF resuscuat-
ing, instructing and ruling and uplifting "ail
| the grooming families of the earth" (Rom.
| s:22.) Thus will be fulfilled Gods promise 10
| shall all the families of the earth he blessed"
tGal.. S-2e.) Gradually after dealing with the
| living nations to some extent the sleeping world
will he awakened. every mun in his own or
DER Cor, 1928.
Our Lord assures that all except the
| sanity few will come forth from the tomb
! that they may have a resurrection-a raising
M sOut of sin and death conditions to right
eousness TO the image Of God that was lost by
Aoam. and that, eventually. If willing and obdei
ent, they viii receive Gods gift of eternal
life through Jesus Christ Lord. But the
! rehellious under those favorable conditions. we
are assured. will be cut off from life entirely
| In the second death.-Acts 3:19-23
In speaking of the worlds resurrection. our
Redeemer designatos it resurrection By judg-
ments. fRev.. Yer, John. 5:2S-29.D Messiah's
| righteous Judgments will then be abroad in the
world The light Of knowledge will be as clear
deavor will receive its reward and every wiIfuI
evil deed VIII receive Establishments corrections
10 the intent that they may learn the advant-
ages or the way Of holiness and 20 up thereon
to life eternal. which the willing and obedent
may reach at the close of the mIlenniaI age
Through the prophet Daniel the Lord declares
that many of the worldly who sleep in the
dust Of the earth shall come forth unto shame
and lasting contempt. We readily realize
light of full knowledge shall prevail and ali
OF their past shall stand revealed to them
seves and to others in its true colors. We
can well understand that this will bring con
, tempt TO many now highly esteemed amongst
men. But we can rejoice in the thought that
the millennial kingdom then to be i'm mower will
ishment will be tempered with mercy. and grad
ually by their change of character the con
temptible ones will cease to be contemplate. The
transforming power of grace and truth now oper-
ating in the church will be eqaully forceful
then operating upon the world of mankind As
perfection is gradually attained the shame of
the imperfection will gradually abate. while all
Of the shameless will be destroyed in the
ond death. Thus we see the divine purpose
of the resurrection of the dead and our glorious
hope, far different from all the fears that were
taught us by the musty traditions of men from
the apostles words that if there he no resur-
rection of the dead our hope is vain. faith
is vafn.-1 Cor. 15:1419.
but NOW Is CHRIST RISEN
The apostle argues. IF the dead rise not" II
that is impossibility, far as the world
in general is concerned then it is an impoSsi-
hility so far as Christ is concerned. And IF
Christ be not RISEN then all hope. all faith.
is vain. And all preaching is not only foolish.
hut worse. tSee Cor, 15:14b But now is
Christ risen from the dead and become the first
fruits Of them that slept" The mere awaken
ing from sleep. rs in the case of Lazarus. Dor
and others. is here left out of the Gues-
ton. Nothing is counted as resurrection except
the full, complete raising up out Of death. Our
Lord was the first that should rise from the
He first fruits. proof. that others still
sleeping will come forth by divine power to be
exercised by Him in the resurrection morning
the millennial morning. The church will lie the
next in order-she is to be the bride-cOnsort Of
the Great King and to participate with Hin in
His glorious work of uplifting the which
fell from the divine range into sin and death
through father Adam. The redemption price
has been provided in the death of Jesus and the
time for beginning .-e great work of restitu-
ton of all things merely waits until the COM
pletion of the election Of the sanity church,
Acts, 3le:H.
CHRIST AROSE FROM HADES
Preaching the Day of Pentccost, st. Peter
declares that God raised Christ from the dead
Then in proof that this the divine inten-
tion from the beginning he quotes from the
prophetic Psalm of David. Thou shalt not
leave my soul In hell" The apostles quota
tion (Acts, 2:27) is in the Greek. in which the
word bell is hcdes His quotation is from the
Hebrew I'm which the word hell Is sheol-the
only word rendered hell throughout the entire
Old Testament There is not shadow Of
doubt that the apostle used his language &C