Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-01

soul. 1t was not Adams body merely
that was punished with death. but if
was his soul, which involved the BODY
and every power Adam possessed. All
of his children have shared with him
in his fall, in his death.
Gods provision for the salvation of
mankind is that Gas by man came
death mot eternal torment. by a man
1.-THE man Christ Jesusl comes also the
resurrection of the dead. For as all
in Adam die, so all in Christ shall be
made alive" q Corinthians XIV, 22).
The Redemption Price Given.
Not only do tie Scriptures clearly
set forth that the wages of sin is
death and that thus death passed upon
the entire human race [Romans Y. 121.
but they also set forth that the re-
demption price which Jesus gave was
death-"He poured out His soul unto
DEATH" He made His soul an Offering
for sin isaiah lii, 10, 12).
As a result, Gin due time" there will
come a resurrection of the dead. both
of the just and of the unjust. By the
just is meant those justified and
brought into harmony with God
through faith in Christ BY the unjust
is meant all others. Thus the Church
will share in the First Resurrection
with Christ; these are the Elect of the
Scriptures. Their resurrection and
complete change of nature has already
begun in them through the begetting
of the Holy Spirit.
They will be like the angels and like
Christ, who is the express image of
the Fathers person. Like God and the
angels they, as spirit beings, will be
invisible to mankind. These with
their Lord and Head will set up the
Kingdom of God-the Messianic King
dom. "They will live and reign with
Christ a thousand years." These are
the sanity ones, class recognized by
Catholics and Protestants, by Luther,
Calvin and Wesley. All are agreed re-
speeding such class. The entire point
of discrimination is respecting the
masses. of our race for whom Christ
died and for all of whom the various
creeds provide tOrments UNRELIABLE, I'M
thinkable.
The Non Elect to Be Blessed.
Brothers Luther, Calvin and others,
when they smashed purgatory as un-
scriptural, should have said. 1--WE do
not know where those poor creatures
are whom we so long supposed were
in purgatory." They should not have
felt it incumbent upon them to enlarge
hell and to put the thousands of mil
lions out of purgatory into it. But, as
matter of fact, they all are in hell;
the difference Is that it is the hell Of
the Bible-the grave, the unconscious
state Of death, and not a place Of suf-
fering and torture.
Do not the Scriptures repeatedly tell
you that the dead fan asleep? st.
Paul writes of those who fell asleep
in Christ; and again, of those who
''sleep in Jesus" and again that all
would sleep except those saints who
would be changed in a moment. at the
second coming of Messiah. Do not we
read that st. Stephen, stoned to death,
fell asleep? Did not Jesus say. Our
friend Lazarus sleepeth," and subse
quently explain his meaning saying,
Lazarus is dead!' Do we not read
that abraham slept with his ia
TIERS" and so of the kings and prOph-
cts and all, good and bad? Abra-
hams fathers. being heather, none
will claim that they sleep in heaven.
Our Catholic friends will not claim
that they sleep i'll purgatOry. and sure
ly nobody would claim that they could
sleep in eternal torture. Where, then.
do they sleep, and for how long? The
Bible answers, "They that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake" Daniel
xii, y. The Bible tells us that the
weeping, signing and dying of the
present time will give place to a glOrl-
Gus morning of better things. the resur-
rectiOn morning.
Not UniVersaIism, but Universal OPP
portunty.
Pastor Russell diSclaims Universal
| ism; he cannot find it in the Bible, else
he would preach it. He finds the Bible
| to teach universal opportunity for
salvation and everlasting life, but that
the gift of God, eternal life, will be
given only to those who will avail
themselves of the opportunity. Upon
all others will come the wages Of sin,
| namely, DEATH Those who sin wilful-
ly, preferring wrong to right, after be-
ing granted full opportunity for refor-
nation, will be destroyed in the Sec
ond Death, utterly, as st. Peter de-
clares. like natural brute beasts" Oh
Peter ii, 12l.
Heaven on Earth BY and BY.
1t was not in vain that the Redeemer
taught us to pray, Thy Kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth as it
is done in heaven" That glorious time
will come when, as the Prophet de-
clares. Every knee shall bow and ev-
cry tongue confess Messiah; and when
the knowledge Of the Lord shall fill the
whole earth, as the waters cover the
great deep; and when none shall need
longer to say to his neighbor and his
brother, Know thou the Lord, because
all shall know Him." Then they
shall build houses and inhabit them,
and plant vineyards and eat the fruit
Of them, and long enjoy the work of
their hands" Then "the wilderness
shall be glad and blossom as the rose;'
and the earth shall yield her in
crease" and the Lord will make His
earthly foOtstool glorious isaiah TX,
49,. This is the hereafter which God
has provided for the world of mankind
in general.
But this lOng-promised restitution
blessing to the world. lifting them up
out of sin and death conditions, cannot
come until first the Royal Priesthood
shall have been selected. The election
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