The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-01-23


AT times some II 4 these eytl spirits
haye made AL manner OF vile sugges.i
stions to him. But DE will Tell also;
that at first Il was NOT 50: instead he
was at FIRST told that he should pray;
more and read the Scriptures more.
Afterwards heg was. jeered at md
Knocked and told thar the Scriptures
were nonsense and 6 that although!
there IS a, God the Inquirer Is TOO rene
5gade to hope for any blessing from
God! .;i 81 h: .s@ Z
We have neglected our Bibles too.
much; we have trusted too much to-
worldly wisdom, The Bible alone
gives the solution Of the matter. 1t;
alone tells us respecting these spirits;
that they are mot humans and never
were; that they. are tho fallen angels
70. we viii consider them d week
from now. !; = ~ 8 3.
[S.L "a Mans a Man For s, .ThakE g
The Bible Is thoroughly conslstent
with Itself from arst to last Il, main
,tains that man - az, earthly being.
According to the Greek and the He::
brew Of the Bible he! Is an animal soul
or animal being Ia coptradlstinetion 70
a spirit soul Or spirit being. Man
that IS born Of woman Is Of few
days and full Of trouble; saIan dleth
and wasteth away. and where IS he?
he shall not awake nor be raised ont
of his sleep until the heavens be no;
more''-untll the present order Sof
things shall have passed away Dob
xiv, 100. IS ltssl
Again ne read resp ting the death
sentence md mans hope Of recovery
out Of death By d resurrection. .Thou
turnedst maj to destruction; thou say
est return sc children OF men" X. Cease
ye from man, whose spirit breath 81
life) Is in bis nostrils" (Psalm xc. 3;
Isaiah Il. EEL: y I a man die. shalt he
live again All the days Of mine, mp.
pointed time VIM Il await Until my
(resurrectlonl change come. 5 Thoushalt
call and ] NIL answer thee fawakening
from the sleep of'deathl, for thou wilt
have desire unto the work Of thy
hands,; "There shall be n resurrec.
ton Of the dead. both OF the Just md
of the UNJUST (Job. xiv, Il; Acts xiv,
80. 49, +,
They are dead, they are not alive as
spirit nor in any other sense. They
will be dead until Gods time for the
resurrection Of the dead. Resurrection
Of the living would be unnecessary,
and II death brought to man a change
to higher plane of5 existence as a
spirit being, then tho resurrection OF
the dead would not ibc set before hu.
manity US q! blessed hope. for rather
It would be q. punishment, even to the
holy.
Whence Game the ERROR Isl
It seems probable, that this serious
error. which has bad 50. much Il; do
With the worlds; Theological Sconfu,
sion, came about through tie misun,
Outstanding Of the Bible teachings re.
spectfngr the Church. 1.-THE application
Of things said concerning the Church
to the world, to whom they. did not
apply. Bible I students are, coming
more and more to see, in;I the light
which one passage. Of Scripture throws
upon another. that The Church Is a dis,
tlnctive class. separate from the angels
and the world Of mankind in general.
The Divine Plan revealed in the
Scriptures sets! forth ono salvation for
the Church-on the spirit plane. It re-
veals to u.s.. two. clpsses who will be
blessed on that spirit plane. It shows
us that one Of these. classes was, typl.
fed in the priesthood of natural Is,
rael and that the other class was typll:.,
=. fed In the Levltes WHO assisted the
priests as servants. The remainder OF
the tribes Of Istael! represented, typ-
ically, the entire, world Of mankind who
will ultimately be, sayed, not to a heav.
emily state os5condltlon, but as men to
restored earthly sconditlon, (, h
twill be remembered thatthe Priests
and Leyites, had no Inheritance In the
land, thus typleallyi showing TINT they!
represented 5thatiportion Of humanity
which. BY Gods grace. will obtain a
heavenly Inheritance aud experience q
change from human to spirit nature.
As the .I.eyites and Priests represent:
ed the flrst.hornt Of Israel saved at the
Passover, SO those who will attain q
resurrection tosthe spirit plane are
scrlpturally designated "the church Of,
the frst.born, V aud agaln, "the Arst-
fruits unto G % Of Ills creatnres.H The
elect Of this Gospel Age pre}not, there
fore, NIL who are to be saved shut mere
~ all who are lobe saved to the spirit
plane. With the completion Of the
elect Church aud her glori onSwith
our Lord inFhis resurrection, the first
resurrection" philippians III, 10: Rev
Citations XXI O.; the Kingdom viii be
established for WHICH we pray.
The Kingdom, per SO, will be spirit.
Invisible TO men. but 1t 3 Will have
earthly agents aid representatives.
AMI its dealings will be with mankind
TO uplift Adam and his race from sin
aud degradationA not to spirit 'coudi.
lions, not to the heavenly plane, not
3 to make them like the angels, but, as
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