Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-11
His followers. "As he was SO are we

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der the Law Covenant made with Is
rael at Mt Sinai THE Rich Mans"
purple raiment pictured the rcyaity
which belonged to Israel as Gods typ
zeal xingdom in the world. Thus we
read. Solomon sat upon the throne of
the kingdom of the Lord. in the room
Tor stead) of bis father David" Jesus
recognized this kingdc n dignity as
still belonging 10 that nation wren He
said. THE Kingdom shall be taken
from you and shall be given to a ma
ton bringing forth the fruits thereon
(Matthew xxi. 43l.
The Rich Mans bountifnl 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 a snare and a recompense to
them" This was because they did
not rightly appreciate their glorious
promises and live up to the conditions
which they required. The death Of
ting 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
hn< SC
LETT unto you desoiate; henceforth We
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 1.-The Rich
Man." the nation, continued to be sick
and finally died in the year A. D. 70,
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. 70. 1t is in
hades, in the tomb. But this implies
It's resurrection in due time. for the
figure Of the tomb, hades, does not rep
resent a 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 tormenti How could this be,
seeing that the word hades signifies
the death state, the unconscious con-
dition? We answer that the Jewish
people have a 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. 1t Is as people that
they have been suffering the fortunes
centuries, while as a nation they have
been dead, buried. in hades. and are
awaiting a resurrection, of which the
present Zionism is an advance token.
Soon Israels prosecutions will end.
when Messiah's glorious Kingdom shall
take its 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 a very special sense. the 9th
er ten tribes, scattered amongst the
surrounding nations. would, at 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.
The Rich Man Tormented In Hades.
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 hGdeS
and that there is neither wisdom nor
knowledge nor device there; that the
dead know rot anything. Scholars.
therefore, have been perplexed greatly
at the statement Of this parable that
The Rich Man lifted up his eyes in
hddes, being in torments.
The difficulty dissolyes as soon as
we have the proper Interpretation to
the parable and see that the Jewish
people died as q nation and were
buried as a 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 nation, but alive as
people, has appealed to Father Abra-
ham to have Lazarus cool his tongue
with drop Of water. OF course. the
thought would not be that a spirit
finger would take a drop of literal wa
ter to cool literal tongue. A drop OF
| water on the up OF u nnger Woulu ho'
afford much relief anyway.
The Interpretation must be looked
for along the lines of the parable. The
! fulfllment came when the Jews OF this
country in a general petition request
| ed the President of the United States
20 cooperate with other christian ma
lions" and intercede on behalf of their
people In Russia that they might
have more liberty and less persecu
ton. that their torments might be
cooled.
Finding the Lazarus Class.
II we have found The Rich Man
| let us now seek for poor Lazarus. He
represented a God-fearing and God
seeking class outside the pale Of of
fetal Judaism-not ali the Gentiles. but
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