The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-01-25

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them have lied to him time and again;
and IL he be an advanced and expe-
rienced Spiritualist he will tell that
at times some Of these evil spirits
have made all manner of vile sugges-
tons to him. But he will tell also
that at first 1t was not so; instead he
was at first told that he should pray
more and read the Scriptures more
Afterwards he was jeered at and
Knocked and told that the Scriptures
were nonsense and that although
there is a God the inquirer is too rene
gade to hope Tor any blessing from
God.
We have neglected our Bibles too
much; we have trusted too much to
worldly wisdom. II he Bible alone
gives the solution of the matter. Ii
alone tells us respecting these spirits;
that they are not humans and never
were; that they are the fallen angels
d. v. we will consider them a week
from now.
"A Mans q Man For A. That"
The Bible IL thoroughly consistent
with itself; from first to last it main
tains that man Is an earthly being.
According to the Greek and the He.
brew Of the Bible he is an animal soul
or animal being In contradistinction to
Z spirit soul or spirit being. Man
that IL born of woman is of few
days and full Of trouble; MAN dieth
and wasteth away, and where is he?
He shall not awake nor be raised out
Of his sleep until the heavens be no
more"-until the present order of
things shall have passed away tJob
xiv, 1-10).
Again we read respecting the death
sentence and mans hope of recovery
out Of death by resurrection, "Thou
turnedst man to destruction: thou say
est return We children of men,; cease
We from man, whose spirit (breath of
life is in his nostrils" psalm &c. 3;
Isaiah ii, 22): IF man die. shall he
live again? All the days of mine ap
pointed time will await until my
(resurrection) change come Thou shall
call and will answer thee awakening
have desire unto the work of thy
hands,; "There shall be resurrec-
ton of the dead. both of the just and
Of the unjust" Dob xiv. IA; Acts xiv
15.
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 If death brought to man a change
to higher plane of existence as
spirit being then the resurrection cf
the dead would not be set before III
mainly as blessed hope. for rather
1t would be punishment, even to the
holy.
Whence Came the Error?
1t seems probable that this serious
error. which has had so much to do
with the worlds theological confu
sion, came about through the misun-
derstanding of the Bible teachings re-
specting the Church-the application
of things said concerning the Church
to the world. to whom they did not
apply Bible students are coming
more and more to see, In the light
which one passage of Scripture throws
upon another, that the Church is dis
tinctive class, separate from the angels
and the world Of mankind in general.
The Divine Plan revealed in the
Scriptures sets forth one salvation for
the Church-on the spirit plane. 1t re-
veals to us two classes who will be
blessed on that spirit plane. It shows
us that one Of these classes was typi-
fed in the priesthood Of natural Is
rael and that the other class was typi-
fed in the Levites who assisted the
priests as servants. The remainder Of
the tribes of Israel represented, typ
ically, the entire world of mankind who
will ultimately be saved, not to a heav-
emily state or condition, but as men to
a restored earthly condition.
1t will be remembered that the Priests
and Levites had no inheritance In the
land, thus typically showing that they
represented that portion of humanity
which. by Gods grace, will obtain a
heavenly Inheritance and experience a
change from human to spirit nature.
AS the Levites and Priests represent
ed the f1rst-born Of Israel saved at the
Passover, SO those who will attain a
resurrection to the spirit plane are
Scripturally designated "the church Of
the f1rst-born," and again, "the first
fruits unto God Of his creatures" The
elect Of this Gospel Age are not, there
fore, all who are to be saved, but mere
ly all who are to be saved to the spirit
plane. With the completion Of the
elect Church and her glorifcation with
our Lord in his resurrection, the FIRST
resurrection" philippians lii, 10; Rev
Citations Xxx, g., the Kingdom will be
established for which we pray.
The Kingdom, per Sc, will be spirit.
invisible to men, but it will have
earthly agents and representatives,
and its dealings will be with mankind
to uplift Adam and his race from sin
and degradation-not to spirit condi-
lions, not to the heavenly plane, not
to make them like the angels. but. as
the Scriptures declare, to restore them
to human perfection-to perfection of
the earthly nature, in which Adam
was created and from which by sin
he fell and has been redeemed by the
grace of God in Christ Jesus.
Begotten to New Nature.
Very long ago the distinctions between