Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-07-20

(lGAs!QR RyssEDO said: This text
has stood In the
way Of Gods people for centuries.
It, by Gods grace. this sermon shall
help even one here present out Of this
horrible nightmare of the Dark Ages, l
shall feel fully repaid And the publ
cation OF this sermon in more than
thousand newspapers, may hope, will
clarity the vision of many. To what
ever extent it shall sweep away the
cobwebs Of error and bring enlighten-
ment of mind, it will surely bring an
Increase of rest and of love to the Gre
ator and corresponding blessing and
comfort to the believers heart As
for the worldly. we cannot expect
them to understand much Of the Di-
vine program now. They must wait
for the dawn of the New Dispensation
OF Messiah's Kingdom, when all the
blind eyes shall be opened and all the
deaf ears unstopped
-"Gehenna"-Hell.
AS we have heretofore seen. the only
Hebrew word translated he'll, from
Genesis to Malachi. is sheet, which is
fndiscriminately translated grace, pit
and he'll in our common version of the
Bible-and the greater number Of times
grGve-its proper translation. Its Greek
equivalent in the New Testament Is
h0des, which likewise is indiscriminate
" translated Craze and he'll, but always
should be rendered grace. No scholar
in the world will claim that there is
the slightest thought Of life or suffer
ing connected with these words.
The Scriptures declare that there is
neither wisdom, nor device, nor knowl-
edge in sheoLto which all, good and
bad, go at death, and remain until the
resurrection. In the New Testament
the word turturus occurs once only and
is mistranslated he'll, whereas it should
be rendered our eartFs atmosphere. It
has no reference whatever to human
ity, but to the fallen angels. The
Apostle says that as a punishment
"God cast them down to tGrtarus, re-
Judgment of the great Day" OIL Peter
Ii, q.
Today we will examine the fourth
and last word translated he'll in our
common English Bible. This word in
the Greek is geheuna. 1t occurs but
twelve times. as follows-Matthew v,
%, 20. 80; K. %; xviii, 8; xiii, Is, 33;
Mark ix, 43, 45. II; Luke xii, 5; James
Iii, 6. To what does this word gehenaa0
refer? Is it name for Purgatory?
Or is it name for still worse place
of unending torture as our Protestant
creeds declare? We answer, no. 1t is
a figure Of speech used to symbolic
the Second Death-the death from
the everlasting destruction mentioned
by st. Paul
The Greek word gehenn0 is the syno-
nym for the Hebrew word Ge-hialnon1,
which means, THE valley of Hinnom.'
This valley is repeatedly mentioned in
the Bible. The first reference to it is
in Joshua xv, s. At a time when the
Israelites became sadly involved in
idolatry. this valley was used as
sacred place. An image of the hea
then god. Moloch, was erected and Is
raelites offered their children as sac
rifces to the idol
Later. lest the people should again
revert to such atrocious customs, the
do fo6 =.
dumping place for the filth of Jerusa-
lem. Dead animals and it is claimed
some of the vilest criminals, after ex-
ecution. were thrown therein. the
worms feeding upon them.
No one sought to hinder the worms
from making a complete destruction.
In the bottom of the valley fires were
kindled for the consumption Of the
waste debris, and birthstone was add
ed that the fumes might destroy any
germs of disease This was the gehen-
no of our Lords day. He uses it as
illustrating the Second Death. which
will be the portion of all wilful sin
ners. He used it also in connection
with other symbols, in the book Of
Revelation. where He explains it to
mean the Second Death.
This expression. Where their worm
dieth not and the fire is not quench-
ed" signifies that the destruction Of
the class represented would be COM
plete, that nothing would interfere to
save them from destruction. Adamic
death will be destroyed. as the Scrip
lures declare Christ died that He
might have the rightful authority to
destroy Adamic death and uplift all
OF Adams race who will accept Els
favor back to all that was lost in
Adam. and redeemed at Calvary. But
the Second Death is friend to all
who love righteousness. since it will
utterly destroy such as have love or
sympathy for sin and refuse to be
obedient to the Divine win after full
enlightenment