Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-24

them have lied to him time and again;
and If he be an advanced aid expe-
rienced Spiritualist he will lell that
at times some of these evil spirits
have made all manner Of vile slgges-
| tons to him. But he will tell also
that at first it was not so; instead he
was at first told that he should pray
more and read the Scriptures more.
Afterwards be 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 10
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
we're; that they are the fallen angels.
D. V. we will consider them a week
from now.
"A Mans Man For A. That"
The Bible is thoroughly consistent
tains that man is an earthly being.
AccordiIy TO the Greek and the He
brew of the Bible he is an animal soul
or animal being in contradistinction to
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, 1-10}.
Again we read respecting the death
| sentence and mans hope Of recovery
| out of death by a resurrection. Thou
| turnedst man to destruction: thou say
! est return We children of men; Cease
i We from man. whose spirit (breath Of
| life) is in his nostrils' psalm xc, 8;
T, Isaiah Ii. 22); "If man die, shall he
live again? All the days of mine APP
| 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-
| ton 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 a change
to higher plane of existence as a
spirit being then the resurrection of
the dead would not be set before hu-
mainly as a blessed hope. for rather
| 1t would be a punishment. even to the
| holy.
Whence Came the Error?
| 1t seems probable that this serious
error, which has had so much to do
with tie worlds theological confu-
| sion, came about through the misun-
Outstanding 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 a heav-
| emily state or condition, but as men to
a restored earthly condition.
1t will be remembered that the Priests
and Levites had no Inheritance in the
land, thus typically showing that they
represented that portion Of humanity
which, by Gods grace, will obtain
heavenly inheritance and experience
change from human to spirit nature.
AS the Levites and Priests represent
ed the firsc-born Of Israel saved at the
Passover, so those who will attain q
resurrection to the spirit plane are
Scripturally 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 be saved to the spirit
plane. With the completion OF the
elect Church and her glori6cation with
our Lord in his resurrection, the first
resurrection" philippians iii, 10; Rev
Citations Xxx, g., the Kingdom will be
esta blished for which we pray.
The Kingdom, per Sc, will be spirit
invisible to men, but it will have
earthly agents and representatives,
and its dealings will be with mankind
to uplift Adam and his race from sin
and degradation-not 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 human perfection-to perfection of
the earthly 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.
Begottei to a New Nature. "
Very long ago the distinctions between
these two salvaticns was lost sight
of-the heavenly calling for the Church
and the Restitution for the World
Hebrews Ill. 1: Acts iii, 1920. The
old Testament refers exclusively to
the earthly and the fact that the New
Testament tells almost exclusively of
the heavenly and its promises was over
looked Thencetorth no difference was
recognized betw zen the consecrated