The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-06-22
OF the
Resurrection
By Pastor Russell
OF Brooklyn Tabernacle

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duced to our attention In the Bible as
the penalty for sin, with the distinct
understanding that had Adam not
transgressed the Divine commands he
need not have died, nor even have
been cast out OF his Eden home St
Paul emphasizes the fact th.t death
Is the penalty Of sin and that the res.
direction of the dead will come 10
mankind as the result of the redempr
tive work OF Christ He says: since
by man comes death, by man also
comes the resurrection of the dead
For as all in Adam die, even so all
in Christ shall be made alive: but
every man in his own order" band or
cohort Il. Corinthians l5;21.23).
In the poetic language OF Scripture
death is symbolically represented as a
great monster which has been swal.
lowing up the human family, never
satisfied. Millions on millions have
already been devoured Mankind in
vain has looked for a deliverer-for
one able to vanquish death and to de-
liver the prisoners from the great
prison house of sheol hades, the
grave. This monster was granted per
mission to devour the race by him who
created US, because we were unworthy
of eternal life. Death, therefore, is
backed by the mandate of the Al
mighty. and he cannot overthrow his
own decision.
The Scriptures assure us that the
sacrifice that Jesus offered (himselD
was satisfaction, "ransom-price.'
for the sins of the whole world. They
tell us that the heavenly father mani
tested his approval of the sacrifice
when he granted the Pentecostal bless.
ing, and that Jesus is even now at the
fathers right hand waiting (Hebrews
1912, l3) until the time shall come
when the heather and the uttermost
parts of the earth shall be given to
him, that he may establish his reign
of righteousness, blessing the world
and releasing all the prisoners of sin
and death
The delay is not In any sense an In.
dication of weakness, nor of any
change in the divine program. It
merely indicates that there is another
feature of the Almighty's purpose
which We did not for time discern
The work is to be a great one. Twen
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cred from deaths prison house And
all Of them will need instruction. up
lifting. chastening schooling, to pre-
pare them for the divine blessing OF
life everlasting The time for instruc'
tion and uplifting is declared to be
thousand years. The power for the
instruction is the Messianic Kingdom
the Rulers of which will be Messiah
and His Bride-jolnt heir with him in
his kingdom. During the past nine.
teen centuries God, by his word and
proyidences, has been calling and
drawing a little flock" to Christ to
be his bride
St. Paul points us to the great de
liverer, the gloritied Messiah, at the
time when he shall take the kingdom
under the whole heavens and begin |
the fulfillment Of the prayer he taught
us, THY kingdom come; thy will be
done on earth as in heaven" He tells |
us he must reign until he shall have |
put all enemies under his feet-"the |
last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death Il. Corinthians 1926. The |
meaning Is clear. Messlah's kingdom |
will address itself promptly to the rec. |
tiflcation OF every form of unright. |
eousness, financial, political social, re.
ligious He will rule the world with |
rod of iron and every nation and |
every system or element contrary to
the divine standards of righteousness |
will be broken to shivers with his |
Iron rod" Thus will righteousness
be established In the earth in the |
midst of "a time of trouble such as
never was since there was a nation" |
BY the close of the thousand years |
of Messiah's reign. his victory over
Sin and Death will be complete. Every
member of Adams race will have been
lifted from the prison house of death.
II will be a prison house no longer
for there will be no prisoners in It;
mankind will have been lifted out of
the clutches of Sin and Death, weak
ness and depravity by the processes
Of restitution, resurrection, uplifting
(Acts iii: 1929. The victory over sin
will be complete.
Then will be brought TO pass the
Divine prophecy, 70, death, where is
thy sting? o. grave, where is thy
victory?" Il. Corinthians XIV: 55).
Every member of Adams race is to
be delivered to him who redeems all
A key is a symbol OF authority and
symbollzes legal power to open the
prison house and to release the pris.
,ners Adamic death has been legal
penalty upon our race-a just penalty.
But, although all shared the condem-
nation and weakness, God foresaw that
some of the race If granted the OPP
would gladly return to 10y.
llty to his laws. He has, therefore,
made provision through Jesus for
very member of the race, great and
small, rich and poor. Worldwide re.
lemptlon will be provided and world.
vide opportunity for the coming to a
of the Truth and for being
lplifted or resurrected will be afford.
ID. The right or power to release
mankind from the power of death and
rom the prison house of the tomb,
heol hades, the grave, is represented
" the ke" IN the hands of Messiah.