The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-07-12

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resented the Jewish nation. The nne
linen he wore represented the typical
Justification granted to that nation IN
der the Law Covenant made with L.
rael at Mt Sinai. The Rich Mans"
purple raiment pictured the royalty
which belonged to Israel as Gods typ
ical kingdom In the world. Thus we
read. Solomon sat upon the throne Of
the kingdom Of the Lord. in the room
Tor stead of his father David" Jesus
recognized this kingdom dignity as
still belonging to that nation when He
said. The Kingdom shall be taken
from you and shall be given to a ma
ton bringing forth the fruits thereon
Matthew XXI. 49,.
The Rich Mans bountiful table
represented the glorious promises Of
God which were theirs primarily, and
granted to no other people until after
they had rejected Jesus and crucifed
Him. st. Paul refers to this table in
this way and quotes David the Prophet
saying, Let their table become a trap
and snare and recompense to
them" This was because they did
not rightly appreciate their glorious
promises and live up to the cond Cons
which they required. The death Of
The Rich Man represented the cut
ding Off Of national Israel from all
those special privileges and advan-
tages every way which had been theirs
for centuries. THE Rich Man" (the
Jewish nation) began to sicken from
the time Of the crucifxion-from the
time that Jesus said. your house is
left unto you desolate; henceforth ye
shall see Me no more until that day
when We shall say, Blessed Is He that
cometh In the name of the Lord
The sanity few were gathered out
Of Judaism into relationship with
Christ at Pentecost. and Tho Rich
Man" the nation. continued to be sick
and finally died in the year A. D. 10,
when Titus. the Roman general. cap
tured Jerusalem. the entire land Of
Palestine being laid waste
The Jewish nation has been a dead
nation since the year A. D. 10. 1t is in
hodes, in the tomb. But this implies
It's resurrection in due time. for the
figure Of the tomb hades. does not rep
resent perpetual condition. but tenn
porary one. from which Messiah will
grant a release. and hodes, In every
| sense Of the word. will be destroyed.
Dives In Torment.
But the parable declares that Dives
was In torment! How could this be,
seeing that the word hades signifies
the death state. the unconscious con
dition? We answer that the Jewish
people have double aspect. in the
parable and out OF 1t. Nationally, they
are dead or asleep. but as people
they are very much alive--no other
people more 80. 1t is as a people that
they have been suffering the tortures
Of persecution during the past eighteen
centuries. while as a nation they have
been dead, buried. In hGdes. and are
| awaiting q resurrection. Of which the
present Zionism is an advance token.
Soon Israe's prosecutions will end
when Messiah's glorious Kingdom shall
take fits power: and then will come
their national resurrection. for they
are to be actively and specially identi-
fed with the Messianic Kingdom
shortly. as its earthly and visible rep
resentatives.
AS the two tribes of Judah and Ben
jamin were represented in 1.-The Rich
Man" In very special sense. the 9th
err ten tribes. scattered amongst the
surrounding nations, would. at a like
proportion represent his Ave brethren
Gods dealings with the Jews will be
the same wherever they are-no pref
erence will be shown-"They have
Moses and the Prophets. let them hear
them" This could not be applicable
to any except these two tribes and the
other ten tribes of Israel. for they
alone had Moses and the Prophets
The Rich Man Tormented In Hadss.
All scholars will concede that the
Greek word hades and the Hebrew
word sheol, rendered hell in our com
mon version, really signify the death
state, the tomb. Various Scriptures
tell us of the silence Of sheol and hades
and that there is neither wisdom nor
knowledge nor device there; that the
dead know not anything. Scholars.
therefore. have been perplexed greatly
at the statement Of this parable that
The Rich Man lifted up his eyes in
hades, being In torments.
The difficulty dissolves as soon as
we have the proper Interpretation to
the parable and see that the Jewish
people died as a nation and were
buried rs nation, but did not all die
individually. The people of Israel, out
cast from their own land among all
the nations OF earth, are very much
alive, socially and personally having
suffered for all these centuries.
Only very recently we have had an
exhibition of how this Rich Man Us
raeD dead as a nation. but alive as a
people. has appealed to Father Abra-
ham to have Lazarus cool his tongue
with a drop Of water. OF course. the
thought would not be that a spirit
finger would take drop Of literal wa,
ter to cool literal tongue. A drop Of
water on the tip Of a finger would not
afford much relief anyway.
The Interpretation must be looked
for along the lines of the parable. The
fulfllment came when the Jews Of this