Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-13

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I and we'll calcu-
6sIoa fsslsSeL lated TO make the
hearers sit up and take notice. We
report one OF these discourses from
a text we never before heard treated
and did not even know was in the BIZ
bic (Acts ii, 34): For David is not
assembled into the heavens"
The Old Testament Scriptures we ac-
cept as of equal authority with the
New Testament, said Pastor Russell,
because Jesus and the Apostles so ac-
copied them, and indeed based all of
their teachings upon them. The false
impression which has gone abroad
amongst Christian people, that the Old
Testament Scriptures are obsolete,
that their predictions have al! been
fulfilled, is very erroneous. This has
greatly hindered Bible study, and has
paved the way to grievous errors. 1t
should be remembered that the Old
Testament represents the only Divine
415S years from the creation to the
time when Jesus at His baptism was
proclaimed ''the Lamb of God which
taketh away the sin of the world"
In all the Old Testament, from Cen
esis to Malachi, not a single suggestion
is offered of a change of nature from
human to spiritual, nor of any other
heaven than that which God had orig
inally provided for man-the Garden
of Eden. The hopes inspired in Israel
by the Divine promises pointed them
forward to the time when Gods bless
ing would obliterate the curse of sin
and death and uplift mankind from
present degradation. back to the orig
inal perfection. The Seed of the wo-
man, it was promised, should ulti-
mately ''crush the Serpent's head" de-
stroying the evil that is in the world,
and establishing a reign of righteous
ness instead of the reign of sin and
death. Messiah, as Emmanuel, would
bring these great blessings to Israel;
and, through Israel, they would be
spread amongst all nations by Divine
power. Paradise, lost through disobe-
dience, will be restored through Mes
siah
Instead of expecting change of ma
ture from human to spiritual, the
teachings of the Old Testament led
the Israelites to expect that God
would make no change from His orig
inal purpose. He made not the earth
to be destroyed by fire nor to be per-
petuaIly under the cloud OF sin and
death Ecclesiastes j, -. He formed
it to be inhabited by human race, In
His own image and likeness, Adam In
his original purity being sample.
David's Soul In He'll.
AS the Old Testament tells nothing
about a heavenly condition, likewise it
tells nothing about a hell of fire or
torment Such devilish theories were
invented by the heather, from whom
many Christians have since absorbed
more or less of the false doctrines
The Law and the Prophets do refer to
hell some sixty-siX times, but the he'll
which they teach is the grave, the
somb, the state of death. From first
to last all mankind, both good and
bad, go to hell, SheOl, the tomb. Abra
ham, Isaac and Jacob and all the
Prophets died without giving the
slightest intimation of PurgatoriaI
suffering for anybody. or he'll OF
eternal torture.
The writer's of the New Testamen
were also Jews, and il might here b'
noted that nowhere did they describe
the Hell and Purgatory which We
Professionals and Catholics conjured III
during the Dark Ages. The New Ties
lament, written in Greek. is in full &C
cord with the Old Testament, writer
in Hebrew-the sheol of the latter i
the hades of the former. Unfortunatel,
our translators have, in the Englisl
Bible, mixed things up in a terribl'
fashion, giving us hell and pit ant
grave as Synonymous interpretations
of sheol and hadeS. Orthodoxy made
he'll fiery and thus our eyes of under
standing have been darkened through
tie Vaccinations of our great Adj
versary, "the Prince of darkness"
But all this demoniacal misrepresen
tatian of the Divine character ant
Plan is soon to be scattered Th'
morning is at hand; the Prince of light
the Savior, Messiah and His glorious
Church. viii soon shine forth as TIT
Sun in the Kingdom Of the Father
while Satan viii be bound for tina
thousand years mat he may deceive
the people no more. Then all TIT
blind eyes shall be opened and all tn
deaf ears shall be unstopped;' and "th
knowledge of the glory of the Lor'
shall fll the whole EARTH" and II