The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-07-19


the disciples might impetuously have
been willing to destroy the earthly life
of the Samaritans. the Heavenly Fa-
ther, of still more demoniacal dispo-
sition. would treat practically all man
kind ten million times worse than that
and use Divine Power to all eternity
to perpetuate the sufferings of His
earthly creatures, which His own Word
declares were born in sin, shapen in
iniquity, In sin did their mothers con.
ceive them - earthly creatures. too
whose environment was unfavorable
and whose Adversary. the Devil. God
neither destroyed nor bound?
"oe'hinnom"-"Gehenna"-HeIL
AS we have heretofore seen, the only
Hebrew word translated he'll. from
Genesis to Malachi, is sheol, which is
Unfortunately translated Craze. PIT
and hell In our Common Version Of
the English Rihle-the greater number
of times grGre-its proper translation.
Its Greek equivalent in the New Tesla
ment, we have seen. Is hddes. which
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grare and he'll, but should always be
rendered craze. We repeat again that
no scholar In the world will claim that
there is the slightest thought of life
or suffering or JOY connected with these
words.
The Scriptures distinctly declare that
there is neither wisdom, nor device.
nor knowledge In sheor'--to which all.
both good and bad, go at death, and
where they remain until the resurrec-
ton. In the New Testament the word
tarfnrNs occurs once only and is mis-
translated hell, whereas 1t should be
rendered our earth's atmosphere. 1t has
no reference to humanity in any way,
but to the fallen angels The Apostle
says that az punishment God cast
them down to tdrfarus" and they are
reserved In chains of darkness until
the Judgment of the great Day"
But today we will examine the fourth
and last word translated hell in our
common English Bible. This word in
the Greek is gehenna. 1t occurs bwt
twelve times, as follows: Matthew V,
%, 90 30: X, 2S xviii. 9; Nxiii IS, So;
Mark tx. 43, 45. Al: Luke xii, 3: James
iii, 6. One of the occurrences is In con-
nection with our text today. The Gues-
ton is, To what does this word gehenna
refer? Is it name for Purgatory
Or name for still worse place Of
unending torture, as our Protestant
creeds declare? We answer. No. 1t
is figure of speech used to symbolic
the Second Death--the death from
which there will be no resurrection,
no resuscita tion--the everlasting de-
struction mentioned by st Paul and
of which st. Peter says that they
which experience it perish like the
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ter Ii. 12), This is very plainly stated In
Revelation Xxx, IA. where OF this Take
Of fire" it is declared, this is the Sec
ond Death"
Tho Valley Of tIinnom--Tophet.
The Greek word geaenna is the syn
onym for the Hebrew word Gs-hinnoni,
which means THE valley Of Hin
nom" This valley is repeatedly men
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family named Hinnom. The first
reference to it Ia in Joshua Nv, 8.
Looking at any Bible map Of the city
Of Jerusa lem. the valley will be seen
to the southwest of the city wall. At
time when the Israelites became
sadly involved in idolatry. this valley
was used AZ a sacred place. An image
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brass, and hollow, was erected. 1t
was so constructed that the chair,
which was part of the image, con
stituted furnace fred from the rear,
and the head of the image was the
top of a fue
The image held out its arms as
though to receive something and,
heated red hot by the fire, was re-
ceptace in which deluded Israelites
placed their children as sacrifices,
while trumpets were blown. drums
beat and the people shouted. sitting
the cries of the tortured infants Oh
Kings xiii, To-. When the good King
Josiah came to the throne all this idol.
airy was abolished and the proper
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sumed. Then. lest the people should
ever again resort to such atrocious
customs. the valley was desecrated.
1t became valley of abomination.
1t was used as a dumping place for
the filth of Jerusalem. Dead dogs and
dead cats were thrown there, and 1t
is claimed that some of the vile GRIM
inals, after execution, were thrown
therein instead of being given burial
to typically illustrate that there Is no
future life for such obnoxious beings
that they will be refuse.
The valley Of Hinnom is now filed
up and an orchard grows there; but
originally 1t was quite deep. The car
casses of animals were thrown there
intended for destruction, the worms
feeding upon them. No one sought to
hinder the worms from making a COM
plete destruction. In the bottom OF
the valley fires were kindled for the
consumption of the waste debris. and
birthstone was added that the fumes
of 1t might destroy any germs Of dis
ease. No one thought Of Quenching
that fire; 1t was one that was desired.
This was the 0ehenna Of our Lord s
day. He uses 1t In fgurative or
pictorial sense as illustrating the Sec