The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-28

berg's attention to his scriptural de-
| hnquency in attribUting immortality
| to the soul Gnstead of to the spirit
| of man, reminding him that Christ,
in Matthew 1928, tells US the soul
! (Which the Hebrew text in Leviticus
17:11-14 says is simply the blood, or
animal life) can be destroyed. There
fore, being periShable it cannot be i'm
mortal.
AS for myself I found my faith In
Pastor Russelrs inspirations shrink
ing when 1 read the remarkable
method of computation by which he
| arrives at the year 1914 A. D., as the
"consummation of the age" and second
coming of Christ. In his recent SER
mon on the second coming, Pastor
Russell sets out initiatively to deter
mine the times of the gentiles" He
| takes as his beginning the fall of
Zedekfah (who was not king of Israel
but king of Judah in COS B. c.. and
quotes Ezekiel 21:25-26 as referring
to this last king of the Trio Tribes
known as the house of Judah since
Solomon's demise. Mr.. Russell over
| looks the fact that Ezekiel is telling of
a man who is to be both king and high
priest-which Zedekiah was not; and,
therefore, the words Remove the
mitre and take off the crown" could
not have applied to Judahs last king
Furthermore, EzekieTs words BE
| cause We have made your iniquity to
be remembered. in that your trans
gressions are uncovered so that in all
your doings your sins do appear. and
thou deadly wounded wicked one
thou exalted one Of Israel" ETC., plainly
| Il, II
one" is to be the last day anti Christ
referred to as ''the man of sim by
Paul Oh Thess, 2:3-4) and again in
| Revelation 1888, who is to play his
part in the times of the end"-the
last seven years of the Restoration,
according to Daniel 1869, and de
clare himself above all that is called
God" sitting in the temple of Jehovah
which is not yet built.
| But yet after assuming Zedekiah's
fall to be the beginning of the times
of the gentiles," Pastor Russell wholly
overlooks the fact that Luke 21:20-24
| compared with Matt. 24:15-18 and
Mark 13:14-14) shows the times of
the gentiIes' are to begin with the
setting up of the abomination of
desolation," which Gabriel told Daniel
before the Resurrection, or lend of the
world" Again, reading the eleventh
chapter of Revelation we find this pc
Rod of "treading down" by the gentiles
definitely fixed at AZ months, or 1860
days.
Familiar with Pastor RusseIrs Mil
lennial Dawn" theories, will say that
he has followed the erroneous con-
ri eli oE
most Of the old commentators, in be-
| lieving the Restoration of Israel (Which
Gabriel told Daniel, in Dan. 9:24-27,
would require 400 years. really took
place under Cyrus and Darius. But
| this cannot be so, because the Res
toration must embrace all the twelve
Tribes of Israel, and only two of thGse
Tribes were at Babylon when the PR
sian monarch marched his armies
through the arch of the Euphrates in
to that city. The other ten Tribes had
been lost" in northern Europe for
centuries.
Moreover, centuries afterward Christ
said: Elijah cometh first and shall
| restore; and after his crucifixion his
disciples asked him, wilt thou at this
time restore the kingdom to Israeli
and again, after the Ascension, Peter
said (Acts 3:19-21) Christ will remain
in heaven "untI the times of restora-
ton of al! QsraeD." So, up to the
year 80 A. D. the Restoration had not
taken place-and not even had a foun-
dation, and up to this time has not
been accomplished.
But Pastor Russell, who is looking
for the END of the world" without any
| previous restoration of Israel, set to
work to give US the date of the Resur-
| rection and the second coming of
| Christ. He was unable to turn the
1890 days of Gabriel's prophecy dan.
| 12:11)-nor the 1885 days, nor the 1860
| days of Revelation Hello, nor the
23OO days OF Daniel S.14-into years,
without obtaining a date that has pass
| ed by, so with amazing perversity he
tells us that in seven years there are
2520 days, and that we should con-
slider them as $500 years.
Proceeding, Pastor Russell deducts
from 1920 years the 606 years (the date
on which the house of Judah came to
an end) preceding the year of Christi
| birth, and arrives at 1914 A. D., as the
! termination of the times Of the gen.
tiles" and the year in which we should
| expect Christ and the dawn of the
| Millennium.
Now the Millennium is to be ushered
| in by the Resurrection, and accord
ing to Gabriel (Dan. 1919 the Resur-
rection comes at the close of the 400
years of Restoration, as outlined by
| Gabriel in Daniel 9:24 to 1913. And.
as 1 have shown, the Restoration is
yet to be accomplished.
! 1nasmuch as Christ said Elijah