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tnut was punished with death, Dut "
was his sou,. which involved the body
and every power Adam possessed. All
of his children have shared with him
In his fall, in his death.
Gods provision for the salvation of
mankind Is that "As by man came
death mot eternal torment, by man
1.-THE man Christ jesus comes also the
resurrection of the dead. For as all
in Adam die. so all in Christ shall be
made alive" q Corinthians XIV. 22).
The Redemption Price Given.
Not only do the Scriptures clearly
set forth that the wages of sin Is
death and that thus death passed upon
the entire human race Romans v, 12l,
but they also set forth that the re-
dempton price which Jesus gave was
leath-"He poured out His soul unto
death" He made His soul an Offering
for sin isaiah liii. 10, 12).
As result. "ln due time" there will
come resurrection of the dead both
of the just and of the unjust. By The
just is meant those justified and
DGDuEul luIO hlln oOb
through faith in Christ. BY the unjust
is meant all others. Thus the Church
will share in the First Resurrection
with Christ; these are the Elect of the
| Scriptures. Their resurrection and
complete change of nature has already
begun in them through the begetting
of the Holy Spirit.
They will be like the angels and like
Christ, who is the express image of
the Fathers person. Like God and the
angels they, as spirit beings, will be
invisible to mankind. These with
their Lord and Head will set up the
Kingdom of God--the Messianic King
dom. "They will five and reign with
Christ thousand years" These are
the sanity ones, class recognized by
Catholics and Protestants. by Luther.
Calvin and Wesley. All are agreed re-
specting such class. The entire point
of discrimination is respecting the
masses OF our race for whom Christ
died and for all of whom the various
creeds provide torments UNRELIABLE, un-
thinkable
Tho Non Elect to Be Blessed.
Brothers Luther, Calvin and others,
when they smashed purgatory as un-
scriptural, should have said. eve do
not know where those poor creatures
are whom we so long supposed were
In purgatory." They should not have
felt 1t incumbent upon them to enlarge
hell and to put the thousands of mil
lions out of purgatory into it. But, as
matter of fact they all are In hell;
the difference is that it Is the hell of
the Bible-the grave, the unconscious
state of death, and not a place of suf-
fering and torture.
DO not the Scriptures repeatedly tell
you that the dead fall aSIeepP st.
Paul writes of those who fell asleep
In Christ; and again, of those who
"sleep In Jesus" and again that all
would. sleep except those saints who
would be changed in n moment, at the
second coming of Messiah. Do not we
read that st. Stephen, stoned to death
feH dslcepp Did not Jesus say, "OuT
friend Lazarus sleepeth," and subse
quently explain his meaning saying
Lazarus is deadr' Do we not read
that abraham slept with his fa
thers," and so of the kings and proph
cts and all. good and bad? Abra
hams fathers, being heathen, non'
will claim that they sleep In heaven
Our Catholic friends will not claim
that they sleep in purgatory, and sure
: ly nobody would claim that they coult
sleep In eternal torture. Where, then
do they sleep. and for how long? The
Bible answers. "They that sleep IN IN
dust Of the earth shall awake (Danie
xii, 2) The Bible tells us that th
! weeping, signing and dying of TIN
present time will give place to glorl
ous morning of better things, the resul
y rectlon morning.
Not Universalism, but Universal op
portunity.
- Pastor Russell disclaims Uniyersa
= ism; he cannot find 1t in the Bible, els
=, he would preach 1t. He finds the Bib
/, to teach universal opportunity 10
salvation and everlasting life, but tina
the gift of God. eternal life, Will b
., given only 10 tnOSe WHO VIII ava
- themselves of the opportunity Upo
q all others will come the wages of sil
namely, death. Those who sin wifu
iy, preferring wrong to right, after b'
ing granted full opportunity for refol
Il nation, will be destroyed in the SCI
s. ond Death, utterly, as st. Peter d'
0. clares, like natural, brute beasts" q
Y Peter II, 12,.
" Heaven on Earth BY and BY.
VI 1t was not In vain that the RedeemG
" taught us to pray, THY Kingdol
" come, Thy will be done on earth MS
" is done In heaven" That glorious tin
V will come when. as the Prophet d
= clares. every knee shall bow and e.
y cry tongue confess Messiah; and whe
v the knowledge of the Lord shall fill Il
- whole earth as the waters cover Il
W great deep; and when none shall nee
80 longer to say to his neighbor and h
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