The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-06-12

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( Vl.Aa.IllokfSgeesks9 lated 10 make the
( hearers sit up and take notice. We
; report one Of these discourscs from
: n text we never before heard treated
( and did not even know was in the Ri
Z bic (Acts ii. 3D: "l'or David is not
ascended into the heavens"
: The Old Testament Scriptures we nc
: cept as of equal authority with the
= New Testament. said Pastor Russell,
;. because Jesus and the Apostles so ac-
: cepted them. and indeed based all OF
their teachings upon them Th, false
I. impression which has gone abroad
( amongst Christian people, that the Old
= Testament Scriptures are obsolete.
: that their predictions have nj! been
:. fulfilled, is very erroneous. This has
!, greatly hindered Bible study. and has
: paved the way TO grievous errors. It
i. should be remembered that the Old
: Testament represents the only Divine
: revelation made to man during the
( 415S years from the creation 70 the
= time when Jesus at His baptism was
Z proclaimed the Lamb OF God which
= taketh away the sin of the world"
: In all the Old Testament, from Gen
!. esis to Malachi, not II single suggestion
; Is offered of change of nature from
I. human to spiritual, nor of any other
: heaven than that which God had orig
: ina1y provided for man-the Garden
. of Eden. The hopes inspired in Israel
= by the Divine promises pointed them
= forward to the time when Gods bless
( Ing would oblterate the curse of sin
;, and death and uplift mankind from
Z present degradation. back TO the orig
2 inal perfection. The Seed Of the wo-
( man, 1t was promised, should utl-
= mutey crush the Serpent's head" de-
: stroylng the evil that is in the world,
. and establishing n reign of righteous
; ness instead of the reign Of sin and
: death Messiah. as Emmanuel. would
!, bring these great blessings TO Israeli;
!, and, through Israel, they would be
. spread amongst all nations by Divine
= power Paradise, lost through disobe-
: diencc, will he restored through Mes.
: siah
= Instead Of expecting change of ma
= ture from human to spiritual, the
. teachings of the Old Testament led
. the Israelites TO expect that God
. would make no change from His orig.
. inal purpose. lie made not the earth
to be destroyed by fire nor 10 be per-
, petually under the cloud Of sin and
: death (1cclcsinstes I, -. He formed
: Il TO he inhabited by n human race. I'm
I, His own image and likeness, Adam I'm
= his original purity being II sample
I, Davids Soul In Hell.
: As the Old Testament tells nothing
+, about heavenly condition. likewise Il
: tells nothing about he'll Of fire or
: Torment. Such bevlish theories were
: Invented by the heathen. from whom
: many Christians have since absorbed
: more or less Of tile false doctrines.
: The Law and the Prophets do refer TO
: he'll some sixty-slx times, but the hen
which they teach Is the grave, the
tomb. the state of death From first
;, TO last all mankind. both good and
:, bad. go to hcii. Sheoi. me tomb Abra-
ham. Isaac and Jacob and all the
Prophets died without giving the
: slightest intlmation of Purgatoral
: suffering for anybody, or n he'll Of
> eternal torture
Z The writers of the New Testament
Z were also Jews, and II might here be
= noted that nowhere did they describe
: the Hell aud purgatory which we
: Protcstants aud Catholics coniurcd up
;, during the Dark Ages. The New Tcs-
lament, written i'm Greek. is In full ac-
cord with the Old Testament, written
In Hebrew the shoot Of the latter is
I, he hades Of the former, Unfortunately
!, our translators have. in the English
. Bible. mixed things up In terrible
= fashion, giving us hell and pit and
= grave as Synonymous interpretations
( Of sheol and hadcs Orthodoxy made
: he'll fiery and thus our eyes of under
: standing have been darkened through
) the Vaccinations of our great Ad-
: versary, "the Prince Of darkness"
: But all this demoniaca mlsrepresen-
. iation of the Divine character aud
Z Plan Is soon TO be scattered The
Z uorning is at hand; the Prince of light
Z the Savior Messiah and His glorious
. Church, will soon shine forth as the
Sun In the Kingdom of the Father,
while Satan will be bound for that
thousand years that he may deceive
/. the people no more. Then all the
blind eyes shall be opened and all the
I deaf ears shall be unstopped;" and "the
knowledge of the glory Of the Lord
shall all the whole EARTH" and "to
Jesus every knee shall bow ana every
tongue confess. to the glory OF God"
"sIspt With His Fathers"
All through the Scriptures natural
sleep is used asa ignre for death. as