The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-05-25

l!U'uiI ham WIS 1Ei.if CHuWttU 10 near
Pastor Russell The Discourse. on
THE Overthrow Of %atan's Empire"
WAS In She nature of religious lee
turr 1t was marked throughout by
deepest reverence Tor the Bible, many
Of the passages Of which Shouc out
with new meaning under the search.
ligh. of his message, Re assorted and
seemed 10 prove. the personality OF 81
tan But according to his showing il
is Il great mistake to suppose the Area
enemy OF mani.iEl to bo Hfdr Oft stoG
in- furnaces and torturiu- the dc9i
Instead, lie is the cunning Hcccjyer
who for centuries has been hnudNiut.
ing humanity. including III" ChurrH
putting darkness for ii%ht ana li@hl for
darkness. God did not create him Il
devil. He became such by Sclf-pcrvcr-
sion through ambition Originality bis
name was Lucifcr- Morning star. He
beheld our first parents in Eden. noted
their power to produce II race in their
own likeness and coveted an empire
with them as his subjects.
For six thousand years God has per
mitted Satan to exercise measure of
deceptive power over the race and to
display to both angels and men the ter
rible results of sin. as cNcmpiilicd in
what the Apostle terms the reign of
sin and death" and the mental, moral
and physical degradation resulting
Satan has not been alone. Not only
is he the Prince of this world or
age. lut additionally he is the prince
of dc} Ill" -demonS The speaker show
ed from the Scriptures Genesis vi;
Jude 81 how these subordinate de
mans had once been holy angels, too
ana when and where they sinned, and
how.
The Apostle Peter gives the key to
the real solution Of the matter whom,
in rccitiug the events connected with
the fiooG, he tells Us or tho fail OF the
ANGELS ut That time, who in the days
of Noah' Kept rot their first estate
q Teicr iii. 10 2N. Those angels who
wee permitted TO have Il measure Of
control Of the FALLEN race, with Il view
to helping them rs much as they
m.~ht be able, and who. for the pur-
pose Of rendering such assistance to
marhild. were permitted to appear in
huil&u form. becamc pnamorpd of the
hunau female. and preferred the hu-
man form to their own state as spirit
bciuyS They thus left their original
estate as jude also explains dude
Co. These ANGELS are the ones de-
nominated the sons Of God, none of
the human family being given that
name after the fan. The angels who
fell from their noble work and condi-
ton, and became .rovelium and sen.
sual. manifested clearly in their own
course the downward tendency Of all
trausgrc>Sious Of the divine law.
The Apostles Peter and Jude clear-
ly mark out the punishment visited
upon those sons of GoI' Who tn1s Ec-
trayed their trust and fell into sin.
leaving their own babilatiOn.' tbcir
own nature. and aGiliatiD" with the
human nature. Their punishment has
been their deprivation of all snch lib
critics, and their separation from God
ana from the holy angels: and this re
straint is called. by the APOSTLE.
chains Of darkness. while the re-
strained ones themselves. instead of
being recognized as sons of God or
angels OF light. were thenceforth
known as angels of darkness de
mons wicked spirits incidentally
we remark that these are the spirits
in prison mentioned by Peter Il Peter
iii. 100. and that although restricted as
respects their powers of fellowship
with the holy angels, and with man
kind. being no longer privileged to APP
pear as men. they still seek human
fellowship, endeavOring to gain posses
sion of human beings who yield up
their wills. and who are then said to
be possessed of devils or 'obScssed.' 1t
is but preliminary step toward thus
getting possession OF the individual
that these wicked spirits appeal to hu-
mainly to become their mediums tspir
II neullmSl through whom they TO
some extent communicate. And they
perSoaate d"ad human BEINGS. because
4 'heN KNOW NeH that humanity would
q Shuh them "hH FEAR them ii their real
< identity were discovered.