The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-30


PIE OF good. sound reasoning faculties
on ordinary subjects seem to be "hoo-
dooed" by this falschood of Satan. "ye
shall not surely de-" SO true is this
that 1t seems not Inconsistent to them
to say, that man hit over the head
with stick and knocked senseess,
knows nothing, but man, hit over
the head harder and killed, knows ev.
erything Ni
The Fallen Angels.
It was sometime after the fall Of
Satan and the fall of man that the
Lord permitted the great test to come
upon the angels of heaven, under
which test host of them fell into sin,
disobedience, etc, and since then are
known in the Scriptures as the fallen
angels and as devils-more properly
demons. Two weeks from today, ID.
", we will consider their temptation
and sin and penalty and whether or
not there be any hope. Suffice II to
say now that these fallen angels,
demons, are under Satan as their great
Prince and that they have been his
active agents in long centuries in de
celving mankind and opposing the hi.
vine Program.
1t would have been as easy as not
for God to have blotted out of exist
ence entirely both Satan and the fallen
angels. and man also. and to have com
pleted another creation. angelic and
human. But such was not the Divine
Program. Gods ways are not as mans
ways. but higher-as the heavens are
higher than the earth isaiah w, 81.
Satan the Great Murderer.
No less an authority than our great
Lord aud Redeemer tells us that Satan
was murderer and a liar. He de.
clares that he was murderer from
the beginning and abode not in the
truth; when he speaketh lie he speak.
eth Of his own. for he is the father OF
lies John viii. Az. It is well that we
keep this Divine testimony In our
minds. 1t is well that we note just
what the first great lie was. namely.
satan's Misrepresentation. saying, "Yc
shall not surely die" 1t Is important
that we notice this. because so thor
oughy has Satan accomplished his de
ccptivc work that practically every
body, heathen and civilized, accepts
Satan's version of the matter and dis
credits the Almighty's.
Let us note also that Satan Is mur
dcrer; that he murdered Father Adam
md Mother Eve. and that his lie Is still
numbering our race under the just
laws of hcredlty. The error of bc
licving Satan instead of God has got
ten many into the confused situation
Of disclaiming that God proposed that
man should live forever on earth In n
Paradise. and. MS his family would I'm
crease and continue in harmony with
his Divine regulations. the boundaries
of his Paradise would he enlarged and
be a Paradise filed with the knowl
rdge of God and the home Of perfect
humanity, in accord with God. privi
h.cd TO maintain everlasting life here
Sut, says this theory. by Satan's lie
md our first parents fall, we die and
1y dying become more alive and some
of us go to heaven and the mass 10
some eternal. fiery hell. OF which we
have no knowledge and for which
there Is no Scripture proof
But let God be true and let us see
how and wherein Satan lied when .e
COG,railctcd our Maker. and let W
see also how our race was not ant
To heaven or to he'll of torment, out
was murdered, killed, put to dcS III
"l'he wages of sin * death.
"The Gift Of God 10 Eternal Life"
(Romans vi, 23).
God, while permitting Satan and sin
and dcpravity and death TO take their
course. has not been idle. lie has had.
and still has. great plan for human
snlyation--a plan for recovering man
from sin and from death and from oil
of his fallen conditions, plan of res
t,tution to human upllft. plan by
which the Seed Of the woman shall
yet, fgurativcly. crush the SerpcntS
head. or undo Satan's great orlglna.
Ulsdeed-recOver man from his nIur.
drred condition and from his fallen
estate to all that he had AT first. plus
the knowledge and experiences OF the
present life and plus the experience
Incidental to his uplft, during the reign
of Messiah for which we pray. THY
Kingdom come"
The Scriptures clearly show us that
all Of this recovery Is to be accom-
plished through the merit OF Jesus
sacrifice-"the Just for the unjust" 3"
That the work has not yet begun Is
evident. We are still living under the
law of sin and death, The Messianic
Kingdom must come In power and
great glory and be established. the
Scriptures tell us. In great time Of
trouble, Then the earth will he made
TO blossom as the rose. and the wilder
ness and the solitary places will be
made glad, and all mankind will re
celve Divine blessing and opportunity
to return to Divine favor and eternal
life as human beings And the will
fully dlsobedient and negligent Of
those opportunities will die the Second
Death. from which there will be no
recovery, no resurrection, no hope.