Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-01-28

at tiLueS SOIue OF tBeSe eNll SplFltS
have made all manner Of vile sugges-
tions to him But he will tell also
that at first 1t was not so; instead he
was at first told that he should pray
more and read the Scriptures more.
Afterwards he was jeered at and
Knocked and told that the Scriptures
were nonsense and that although
there is God the inquirer is too rene
gade to hope for any blessing from
God.
We have neglected our Bibles too
much; we have trusted too much to
worldly wisdom. The Bible alone
gives the solution Of the matter. 1t
alone tells us respecting these spirits;
that they are not humans and never
were; that they are the fallen angels.
d. V. we will consider them a week
from now.
"A Mans a Man For A. That"
The Bible IS thoroughly consistent
with itself; from first to last 1t main
tains that man is an earthly being.
According to the Greek and the He
brew of the Bible he is an animal soul
or animal being in contradistinction to
a spirit soul or spirit being. Man
that is born Of woman is Of few
days and full Of trouble; Man dieth
and wasteth away, and where is he?
He shall not awake nor be raised out
of his sleep until the heavens be no
more"-until the present order of
things shall have passed away Job
xiv, 1-10l.
Again we read respecting the death
sentence and mans hope of recovery
out Of death by resurrection. Thou
turnedst man to destruction; thou say
est return We children of men; Cease
ye from man, whose spirit (breath OF
life is in his nostrils' psalm xc. 3;
Isaiah II. 22); IF man die, shall he
live again? All the days of mine ap-
pointed time will | await until my
resurrection change come. Thou shalt
call and will answer thee awakening
from the sleep of DEATH. for thou wilt
have desire unto the work of thy
hands; There shall be resurrec-
tion Of the dead. both of the Just and
Of the unjust" Dob xiv, IA: Acts xiv.
15.
They are dead. they are not alive as
spirit nor in any other sense. They
will be dead until Gods time for the
resurrection of the dead Resurrection
of the living would be unnecessary.
and If death brought TO man change
to higher plane of existence as a
spirit being. then the resurrection of
| the dead would not be set before hu-
manity as a blessed hope. for rather
1t would be a punishment even to the
holy.
Whence Came the Error2
1t seems probable that this serious
error which has had so much to do
with the worlds theological confu-
sion, came about through the misun-
derstanding of the Bible teachings re-
specting the Church-the application
Of things said concerning the Church
to the world. to whom they did not
apply. Bible students are coming
more and more to see, In the light
which one passage of Scripture throws
upon another. that the Church Is dis
tinctive class. separate from the angels
and the world of mankind in general.
The Divine Plan revealed in the
Scriptures sets forth one salvation for
the Church-on the spirit plane 1t re-
veals to US two classes who will be
blessed on that spirit plane. 1t shows
us that one of these classes was typi-
fed in the priesthood Of natural Is
rael and that the other class was typi-
fed in the Levites who assisted the
priests as servants. The remainder of
the tribes of Israel represented. typ
ically. the entire world Of mankind who
will ultimately be saved not to heav-
enly state or condition, but as men to
a restored earthly condition,
1t will be remembered that the Priests
and Levltes had no inheritance In the
land, thus typcally showing that they
represented that portion of humanity
which by Gods grace. will obtain a
heavenly inheritance and experience a
change frar' human to spirit nature.
As the I.evtes and Priests represent
ed the frst-bOrn of Israel saved at the
Passover, so those who will attain a
resurrection to the spirit plane are
Scrpturally designated the church of
the first-born." and again, "the first
fruits unto God Of his creatures The
elect of this Gospel Age are not. there
fore, all who are to be saved, but mere
ly all who are to he saved 10 the spirit
plane. With the completion Of the
elect Church and her glorificatlOn with
our Lord in his resurrection. the first
resurrection" philippians iii, 10; Rev
elations Xxx, G,, the Kingdom will be
established for which we pray.
The Kingdom, per Sc, will be spirit,
invisible to men. but it will have
earthly agents and representatives,
and it's dealings will be with mankind
to uplift Adam and his race from sin
and degradation--nO to spirit condi-
tons. not TO the heavenly plane. not
to make them like the angels. but, as
the Scriptures declare. to restore them
to humnn perfection--to perfection OF
the enrthlv nature in which Adam
was created and from which by sin
he fell and has been redeemed by the
grace of God in Christ Jesus.
Beeotten to a New Nature.
Vary Io,,o ,oo thn dietinctions betw weeu