The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23
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and delivered him from the hell belly,
or belly grave, on the third day by
causing the fish to vomit him up. II
you have a reference Bible note that
in the margin there is a reference to
the words of our text, saying, He
brew, the grave" Ali says one. The
translatorS merely made mistake
and translated it hell when they should
have translated it grave. Yes, 1 an
sWer, and they made the same mistake
in every case in which they used the
same word sneol throughout the Old
Testament. AS it is, shcol is trans
lated grave more times than II is trans
lated hell in our Common Version: but
it should be translated grave every
time. There we have the Key to the
Bible. The hell of the Bible, the pen
atty. for sin. is death the grave, the
tomb. 1t is not an everlasting hell,
for special scriptures declare that
sheol (hell) shall be destroyed. IT
will ransom them from the power OF
the grave (sheoD; will redeem them
from death; o death, will be thy
plaques; o grave. (sheol. held I will
be thy destruction" (Hosea xiii, 14).
st. Paul quotes this prophecy in con-
junction with his great discourse on
thy sting? o grave (hades), where is
the victory" Il Corinthians XIV. $50.
We see, dear friends, what our dear
Redeemer suffered on our behalf to re-
lease us from the penalty for sin. He
did not go TO eternal torment for our
sins. He did go into sheol, into hades.
into the grave. Christ died for our
sins. according to the scriptures Il
Corinthians w 81. Thus God has pro-
Vided for the resurrection of the dead
all mankind Doth Of the just and OF
the unjust" The just are the Church.
the saints. The unjust include all 9TH
ers. The blood of Jesus will avail for
the release of every member of the
race from the great PENALTY of DEATH
Now it operates under q special call
n hn fer xrrE n a N n
become joint '.eirs with the Redeemer
in his great Kingdom which shortly is
to bless all the families Of the earth
not only those then living. but also all
who have gone down to the tomb. The
general resurrection will not be an in
Simultaneous one, as in the case of the
saints. It will be a gradual one in
two senses.
(1) All will not come forth at once.
but as the apostle declares, Every
man in his own order" company or
band Il Corinthians XIV. 23).
CD 1t will be gradual in the sense
that the awakening from the tomb will
be but the beginning of the resurrec-
ton of the world. During the thou
sand years of Christ's reign all who
will give heel to his resurrections and
assistance will rise gradually m. up
by the close of the MiIlen-
NAL they will reach the full perfection
and image OF God lost by Father Adam
through disobedience. The unwilling,
those rebelIious after the light has full
ly come upon them, will be destroyed
in the Second Death. from which there
will be no recovery. They will perish
as the brute beasts.
So. then, let US learn a lesson from
Jonah's words. not forgetting the 9TH
err lesson mentioned by our Lord when
he declares that Jonah's experiences
In the grave--the belly OF the fish, and
his release Observation-Disclosures
his own experiences in the tomb and
his resurrection I'm power and great
ylorv on the third day.