Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-05-02

ren1ng, ScnOoilng, TO prepare them Tor
the Divine blessing of life everlasting.
The time for instruction and uplifting
Is declared to be thousand years. The
power for the instruction IS the Mes
sianic Kingdom. the Rulers Of which
win be Messiah and His Bride-joint-
heir with Him in His Kingdom. Dur
ing the past nineteen centuries God, by
His Word and providences. has been
calling and drawing a little fock' to
Christ 10 be His Bride
And not until all of these shall be call
ed. drawn, tested. proven faithful unto
death as followers in the. Masters foot
steps, will the elect Body be complete
and the Staying of the great monster.
Sin and Death. be begun and accom-
plished For that day the saints are
waiting and praying. Come, Lord
Jesus, come quickly" And fer that
day the whole creation is waiting, al
though not clearly informed respecting
the blessings in store for them Gomans
viii, 10. 2D
"The Last Enemy"-Death.
st. Paul points us to the great De-
liverer the glorifed Messiah, at the
time when He shall take the Kingdom
under the whole heavens and begin the
fulfilment IF the prayer He taught us.
Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done
on earth as IN heqUen." He tells us He
must reign until He shall have put all
enemies under His feet-"'The last en-
envy that shall be destroyed is death"
q Corinthians XIV. 26). The meaning
is clear Messiahs Kingdom viii ad-
dress itself promptly to the rectifica-
ton of every form of unrighteousness.
financial, political. social, religious
He will rule the world with a rod Of
iron and every nation and every sys-
TEN or element contrary to the Divine
standards of righteousness will be bro
ken to shivers with His iron rod"
in the earth in the midst of "a time
of trouble such as never was since
there was a nation"
But the putting down OF sin will be
but the beginning Of Messiahs work.
Satan being bound, and the reign Of
sin thus estopped. each transgression
viii receive a just recompense and
each good endeavor a just reward.
Gradually mankind will rise out of sin
and therefore propOrtionately come
from under the power of death. until
all the willing and obedient shall be
fully delivered from all danger as re-
spects the monster which has devour-
ed our race for sixty centuries. Not
only so, but those twenty thousand
millions who have gone into the pris-
on-house of death will be released
not all at once. but gradually, as the
Apostle declares. Every man in his
own order" or band
By the close of the thousand years
of Messiah's reign, His victory over
Sin and Death will be complete Every
member of Adams race will have been
lifted from the prison-house of death.
1t will be prison-house no longer, for
there will be no prisoners in it; man
kind will have been lifted out of the
clutches of Sin and Death, weakness
and depravity, by the processes of res
titution, resurrection, uplifting (Acts
iii, 1929. The victory over sin viii
be complete, because all who love sin
and are willingly its servants, after
being released from the condemnation
of the Adamic death, will be destroyed
in the Second Death. Thus Adamic
Sin and Death will finally be complete
ly routed and the prison-house of death
be broken up. And Adam and his
family, not willingly sinners, will all
be set at liberty-restored to human
perfection, as the earth will be brought
to Edenic perfection.
20 Death, Where Is Thy Sing?"
Thea ioiH be brought to pass the Divine
prophecy. 80, death. where is thy
sting? o, grave, where is thy victory? p
q Corinthians XIV, 55).
We must notice when this is to be
brought to pass. Ii is not now true.
The sting of death is in us all, for,
as the Apostle explains. Sin is the
sting of death. And because all have
been stung by sin, all are dying. 1t
will require the entire Messianic Age
to fully extract from humanity the
virus, the sting. of sin by bringing
mankind to perfection. Only as the
sting OF death is removed will the pow
err of death relax, because it is part
of the Divine Law that 1.-The soul that
sinneth, it shall die" Death now has
its sting But when that which is
perfect shall have come, the sting will
be gone, the imperfection and weak
ness win be gone, the cause for sin
will also be gone.
Not now, but then. will be brought to
pass the saying. 20. HadeS. where is
thy victoryT HddeS. She0l, the 0rGre,
has been having victory over Adam
race for over sixty centuries. And its
victory will not be entirely overthrown
until the Redeemer shall have deliv-
cred from the power of the grave the
last member of the human family-for
all of whom HE died. the Just for the
unjust, to bring US back to God"
Thus, as the Apostle says, with the
elimination of Christ's Kingdom, with
the deliverance of all mankind from
the power of Sin and Death. death viii
be swallowed up in victory. The Apos-
tie probably quoted from Hosea xiii.
IA, where we read. Il win ransom them
from the power of the grave (SheoD;
viii redeem them from death; o death,
viii be thy plaques gradual destruc'
tom; o grave (Shooh. l will be thy de-
struction; repentance shall be hid from
mine eyes The Almighty viii never
change or turn from this decision.
Death and the grave. Sheol, hadss (the
Bible heln. are to be destroyed Every
member of Adams race is TO be deliv-
| cred by Him Who redeems ALL
Keys of Death and Hades.
A key is a symbol of authority and