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his followers. "As He was so are we
IN this world"
''The Rich Man" Of the parable rep
resented the Jewish nation. The fine
linen be wore represented the typical
justification granted to that nation un-
der the Law Covenant made with Is
rael at Mt Sinai The Rich Mans"
purple ralment pictured the royalty
which belonged TO Israel as Gods typ
Ical Kingdom IN the world. Thus we
read. solomon sat upon the throne Of
the kingdom OF the Lord, in the room
Tor steadl Of his father David" Jesus
recognized this kingdom dignity as
still belonging TO that nation when He
said. ''The Kingdom shall be taken
from you and shall be given to a ma
ton bringing forth the fruits thereof
(Matthew xxi. 49,.
The Rich Mans bountiful table
represented the glorious promises Of
Cod which were theirs primarily, and
granted TO no other people until after
they had rejected Jesus and cruci6ed
Him. St Paul refers to this table In
this way and quotes David the Prophet
saying. LET their table become trap
and a snare and a recompense to
them" This was because they did
not rightly appreciate their glorious
promises and live up to the cond hons
which they required. The death Of
The Rich Man represented the cut
ting of Of national Israel from all
those special privileges and advan-
tages every way which had been theirs
for centuries. THE Rich Man" the
Jewish nation began to sicken from
the time Of the crucihxion-from the
time that Jesus said. Your house is
left unto you desOlate; henceforth ye
shall see Me no more until that day
when ye shall say. Blessed Is He that
cometh in the name of the Lord"
The sanity few were gathered out
Of Judaism into relationship with
Christ at Pentecost. and THE Rich
Man." the nation. continued to be sick
and finally died In the year A. ID. 10,
when Titus. the Roman general, cap
tured Jerusalem. the entire land Of
Palestine being laid waste
The Jewish nation has been a dead
nation since the year A. D. 10. It is in
hddes. IN the tomb. But this implies
It's resurrection in due time. for the
figure Of the tomb. hades, does not rep
resent perpetual condition. but tenn
porary one. from which Messiah will
grant q release. and hddes. in every
sense of the word, will be destroyed.
Dives In Torment.
But the parable declares that Dives
was In torment! How could this be,
seeing that the word hddes signifies
the death state. the unconscious con-
dltlon2 We answer that the Jewish
people have a double aspect. In the
parable and out of It. Nationally, they
are dead or asleep, but as n people
they are very much nllve-no other
people more so. 1t is as a people that
they have been suffering the tortures
Of persecution during the past eighteen
centuries, while as nation they have
been dead, buried. In hddeS, and are
awaiting a resurrection. Of which the
present Zlonism is an advance token.
Soon Israel's prosecutions will end.
when Messlnhs glorious Kingdom shall
take Its power; and then will come
their national resurrection. for they
are to be actively and specially identi-
fed with the Messlanic Kingdom
shortly, ns Its earthly and visible rep
resentatives.
AS the two tribes Of Judah and Ben.
jamin were represented In THE Rich
Man" In very special sense. the 9th.
er ten tribes. scattered amongst the
surrounding nations. would, at a like
proportion, represent his fve brethren.
Gods dealings with the Jews will be
the same wherever they are-no pref
erence will be shown-"They have
Moses and the Prophets. let them hear
them" This could not be applicable
to any except these two tribes and the
other ten tribes Of Israel. for they
alone had Moses and the Prophets.
The Rich Man Tormsntsd In Hades.
All scholars will concede that the
Greek word hddes and the Hebrew
word sheol, rendered hell in our com.
mon version, really signify the death
state the tomb Various Scriptures
tell us OF the silence Of Sheol and hadcS
and that there Is neither wisdom nor
knowledge nor device there; that the
dead know not anything Scholars,
therefore, have been perplexed greatly
at the statement OF this parable that
The Rich Man lifted up his eyes in
hddes, being In torments,
The difficulty dlssolves as soon as
we have the proper Interpretation to
the parable and see that the Jewish
people died as nation and were
buried as a nation, but did not all die
individually The people OF Israel. out
cast from their own land among all
the nations OF earth. are very much
alive, socially and personally. having
suffered for all these centuries.
Only very recently we have had an
exhibition OF how this Rich Man Us.
raeD, dead as nation, but alive as a
people, has appealed to Father Abra.
ham TO have Lazarus cool his tongue
with o drop Of water or course. the
thought would not De that spirit
finger would take a drop Of literal wa.
ter to cool a literal tongue, \ drop OF
water on the tip OF q finger would not
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