Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-07-22

&C. death and uplift all Of Adams race
who viii accept His favor back to all
that was lost in Adam. and redeemed
nc Calvary. But the Second Death IL
a friend TO God and to all who love
righteousness, since IL will utterly and
forever destroy such as have love or
sympathy for sin and refuse TO be
obcdient to the Divine will after full
enlightenment.
The Antitypieai "Gehenna."
As the earthly Jerusalem was fig
ure of the Jerusalem from above. the
heavenly Jerusalem. the Kingdom of
God that Is TO be established in all
the earth. so gchcnna and its fire" and
worms prefigured the destruction of
the Second Death upon every wilful
sinner. during or shortly after the ter
mination of Christ's Mediatorial King
dom and reign and the delivery OF the
Kingdom back TO God. with righteous
ness fully established.
As the New Jerusalem will not be
literal city. with literal streets OF gold
and gates OF pearls and walls OF jew
els, neither the valley OF IIinnom nor
the lake of fire outside the city OF
Jerusalem will be literal-both are
symbolical. The one represents har-
mony with God, the Divine blessing and
everlasting life: the other represents
separation from God. everlasting de-
struction, the Second Death
Fire Is never used as symbol of
preservation, far from it. II is always
a symbol of destruction. The addi-
ton of birthstone intensifies the figure,
because burning birthstone Is one OF
the most deadly influences known in
the world. II Is not only deadly to
humanity and the larger animals but
also to insects and microbes and every
thing that has life.
An Old Testament Reference.
This same lesson of the destruction
Of wilful transgressors. as-represented
in the destructiveness of the valley OF
Hlnnom (Gehcnmal, Is furnished by the
Prophet Isaiah 1xvi, 22-2il. \ famil-
lar sight in Isaiah's day was the lit
eral valley of IIinnom, used as figure
by the Holy Spirit speaking through
him. pointing TO the antitype and tell
ing of the New Heavens and New
Earth--the new religious and secular
organizations of mankind which will
be accomplished by Messiahs reign
and that then evil doors shall not es-
cape but shall be completely, utterly
destroyed. "They shall go forth and
look upon the carcasses Of the men
who have transgressed against Me, for
their fire be quenched; and they shall
he an adherence unto all flesh" Moth
ing Is said about looking at living be-
ings suffering torture. nor is this the
thought. God never approved OF tor
ture. but always condemned it. A car
cass is a dead body.
How glad we should be to realize
that Gods great Plan will not include
n great torture chamber containing
countless myriads of His creatures but,
as the Scriptures declare, Every crea-
turc in heaven and in earth and under
the earth win be heard saying, Praise
and glory and honor and dominion and
might be unto Him that stitch upon
the throne and unto the Lamb forever"
Let Honesty and Truth Prevail.
Having demonstrated that neither
the Bible nor reason offers the slight
est support to the doctrine that eter-
nal torment is the penalty for sin, we
note the fact that the various church
creeds, and confessions, and hymn
books, and theological treatises, are its
only SUPPORTS and that under the in
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