The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-07-10

resented me Jewish nailon me ing
linen be wore repfes e1ted The typical
5Justid cation granted 70 tliatnatlon I'M
der tie Inv ofenant made With IS
rael at 81, sinai. The Rlsh Mania
purple rdlment pictured the royalty
which belonged 70 Israel as Gods TYP
zeal kingdom IN the world. Thus We
read; Solomon sat upon the throne %
the kingdom Of the Lord. 10 the room
Tor stead Of his father DAVID Jesus
recognized this kingdom dignity as
stiil belonging to that nation when lie
said. ..The Kingdom shall be taken
from you and shah be given to a ma
ton bringing forth the fruits thereof
(Aiatthew ri, 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 ndquotes David the Prophet
Saying. "1et their table become a trap
and a snare and recompense to
them This was beca1se they did
not rightly appreciate their glorious
promises and live up to the conditions
which they required. The death OF
The Rich Man represented the cut
ting OF Of national Israel from all
those special privileges and adyan-
tages every way which had been theirs
for centuries. "The Rich Man" (the
Jewish hatIonl began to sicken from
the time Of the cruciHxion-from the
time that Jesus said, "Your house is
left unto you desolate; hencetorth ye
shall see Me no more until that day
when ye shall say, Blessed is He that
cometh In the name Of the Lord"
s'Tae sanity few were gathered opt
OF Judaism into relationship with
Christ ct Pentecost, and 1.-THE Rich
Man" g., nation. continued to be sick
and. finally died In the year A. D. 70,
when Titus. the Roman general. cap
tufed Z Jerusalem. the entire land OF
Palestine being laid waste s
The Jewish nation has been dead
nation, since the year A. D. 20, 1t is in
hddts, In tte'tornb. But this implies
its 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 hadeS. 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 d double aspect, in the
parable and out of it. Nationally, they
are dead or ,asleep, but as a people
they are very much alive-no other
people more SO. It is as q people that
they have been suffering the tortufes
Of persecution during the past eighteen
centuries, while as a nation they have
been dead, buried. in hadcs. and are
awaiting a resurrection. of which the
present Zlonlsm is an advance token.
Soon Israelf prosecutions will end.
when Messlah's glorious Kingdom shall
take Its power; and then will come
their national resurrection, for they
are to be actively and specially identl-
fed with the Messianic Kingdom
shortly. us its earthly and visible rep
resentattves.
AS the two tribes Of Judah and Ben
jamin were represented in ''The Rich
Man" in very special sense. the 9th
er ten tribes. scattered amongst the
surrounding nations, would. at q like
proportion, represent his five 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.
Tho Rich Man Tormentsd la Hades,
All scholars will concede that the
Greek word RadeS and the Hebrew
word sheot, rendered hell in our COM
mon version, really signify the death
state, the tomb. Various Scriptures
tell US Of the silence Of sheol and hqdeS
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
hatcS, being in torments.
The difficulty dissolves as soon as
we hive the proper Interpretation to
the parable and see that the Jewish
people died as nation and were
buried us a nation, but did not MI die
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 U.s.
rueD, dead US nation. but alive us
people, has appealed to Father Abra'
ham to have Lazarus cool his tongue
with drop of water. OF course, the