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


friend to God and to all who love
righteousness, since it will utterly and
| forever destroy such as have love or
| sympathy for sin and refuse TO be
obedient to the Divine will after full
enlightenment.
The Antitypieal "oehsnna."
As the earthly Jerusalem was fg.
ure Of the Jerusalem from above. the
heavenly Jerusalem, the Kingdom Of
God that Ia to he established in oil
the earth. 50 oehenna and its "fire" and
worms" prefgured the destruction Of
the Second Death upon every wilful
sinner. during or shortly after the ter.
nina ton 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 n
literal city, with literal streets of gold
and gates Of pearls and walls Of jew
els. neither the valley of Hinnom 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
everla sting life: the other represents
separation from God. everlasting de
struction, the Second Death
Fire Is never used as a symbol OF
preservation. far from ii. 1t is always
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. 1t 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
Hinnom (Gehennd), is furnished by the
Prophet Isaiah Qxvi, 2o-24l. A famil-
lar sight in Isaiah's day was the lit
eral valley Of Hinnom. 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 Messiah's 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 worm shall not die. neither shall
their fire be quenched; and they shall
be an adherence unto all flesh" Moth
ing is said about looking at living be
ings suffering torture, nor Ia this the
thought. God never approved Of tor
ture, but always condemned it. A car
cass is dead body.
How glad we should he to realize
that Gods great Plan will not include
a great torture chamber containing
countless myriads of His creatures but
AZ the Scriptures declare, Every crea
the earth will be heard saying, Praise
and glory and honor and dominion and
J might be unts 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
creasing light Of our day, and the con-
seauent ema ncipation OF reason, belief
in this horrible, fendish doctrine Of the
Dark Ages is fast dying out. But alas.
this is not because Christian people
generally are jealous for the truth OF
Gods Word and for His character, and
willing to destroy their grim creed
idols. All no! they still bow before
their admitted falsities; they still
pledge themselves 10 their defense. and
spend time and money for their sup
and privately denying them.
The general influence Of all this IL
to cause the honest hearted Of the
world to despise Christianity and the
Bible; and to make hypocrites and
semi infidels of nominal Christians
Because the nominal church clings to
this old blasphemy. and falsely pre-
sents It's own error az the tea ching OF
the Bible, the Word Of God, though
still nominally reverenced Is being
practically repudiated Thus the Bible
the great anchor of truth and liberty
ia being cut loose from by the very
ones who. If not deceived regarding
its teachings. would be held and bless.
ed by 1t.
The general effect, not far distant
will be, first open infdelity, then an
archy. For much. very much of this
lukewarm Christians, both in pulpits
and pews, who know better, are re-
sponsible. Many such are willing to
compromise the truth, TO Islander God g
character, and TO stultify and deceive
themselves, for the sake OF peace, or
ease. or present earthly advantage.
And any minister. who, Ivy utteing a
word for an unpopular truth. will risk
the loss Of his stipend and his reputa'
ton for being Established" In the bog
Of error, "a considered bold man,
even though he ANONYMOUSLY with.
hold his name from his published pro-
tests.
| II professed Christians would be
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