The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-15

| lniSapprehenSiOnS OF the Divine WORD
and character. simultaneously He will
| let loose the blessed influences Of truth
and enlightenment and the whole
earth shall be filled with the light Of
the knowledge Of the glory of God"
Thenceforth the wrath of God will
no longer he revealed against any on
account of Adams transgression. 1t
will no longer be necessary to be sick
or in pain. or dying. On the contrary.
all may be making good. rapid prog
, ress up, up. up out of weakness and
dying conditions, back toward the full
perfection of human nature which
Adam had before he sinned. when he
was in the image of his Creator.
There will still be the marks Of the
wrath upon mankind. the weakness
and imperfections of the human flesh.
These marks will not be fully blotted
out until toward the close of the thou
sand years of Messiah's reign This
agrees fully with st. Peters words.
''That your sins may be blotted out
when times of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord" (Acts
ill., 1871 1t is therefore one thing to
have our sins forgiven and to realize
that God is no longer angry with us
but reconciled. and it is quite another
thing to know our sins are blOtted out
! The sins of the Church are forgiven
the moment we are accepted of God
through Christ and made partakers Of
the Holy Spirit and are styled chill
dren of God and heirs. But the
marks. the blemishes Of sin. continue
with us as long as we have our pres
ent. imperfect bodies. This to the
Church will mean that the plotting
out of their sins will be in death. be-
cause the Church will be awakened in
the resurrection perfect. ''spotless."
without blame" 'irreprovable" The
Apostle describes this resurrection as
the Chief Resurrection. saying. "It is
sown In weakness, it is raised in pow
er; it is sown an animal body. it is
raised spiritual body Corinthians
XIV, "A; Rev. Xxx. &.
"The Wrath to Come"
If we have seen what has constitut-
ed the Divine wrath as it has been re-
vealed for six thousand years, we will
be the better prepared to understand
what to look for in respect to any
future manifestations of Divine wrath
wrath to come" We are to clearly
distinguish between the wrath of
good man and the wrath of bad
man, and how these would manifest
themselves; and. similarly. we should
he able to discern between the wrath
Of God and the wrath Of the devil.
The wrath. of God, as exhibited to us
for six thousand, years on the pages
Of history. has been just dealing
the abandonment to destruction of
those who are not worthy of eyerlast-
ing life, by reason Of disobedience to
DIVINE Law. - - .-.,s.- -:
The redemption accomplished for
these through the death OF Jesus will
eventually be gloriously worked out.
and give to every man full oppor-
tunity of recovery, harmony with God
and everlasting life. The reason why
God makes this provision for redemp-
ton is because only one man sinned.
wilfully and intelligeptly. All the re-
mainderl of his children were ''born in
SIM and under the death sentence.
The redemption therefore is in order
that every individual may have an
opportunity for reaching decision as
to obedience or disobedience.
The lesson OF sin and death is taught
first. in the few years Of the present
life, and the marks Of sin will go
over till the next Age. Those marks
will be deepened in proportion as any
in the present life live below the
plane of their knowledge of the ,Df-
vine standard and in wiiful opposition
thereto. While being instructed re-
specting the other side of the lues
tion-the Divine requirements ana the
blessings attending them, mankind Will
be given an indiriduGl trial or test, 70
demonstrate whether the great lesson
has been rightly learned. The willing
and obedient will get the reward OF
eternal life, the unwilling and disobe-
dient will receive the final penalty, the
Second Death. 1t will be final in that
God will make no provision for rescue
from that Second Death. 1t will be
everlasting destruction I'll Thess. i,9.
AS the wrath of the present time is
the Divine death sentence upon the
race, so "the wrath to come" will be
the 'second death" sentence. which
will fall upon all who sin wilfully,
after they have come to a knowledge
of the truth, With this wrath to
GOMEZ in this complete sense. may
be included inferior manifestations of
Divine wrath; for instance. such as
came upon the Jews in the end OF
their Age-destroying them as ma
tion-and such as is to come upon
Christendom in the end of this Age.
Both of these are styled days of
wrath days of vengeance" The Di-
vine vengeance which overthrow the
Jewish polity took cognizance Of the
fact that as a nation they had en-
joyed great privileges for centuries.
1t took note Of the fact that they
had not lived up to their light and
privileges and were therefore deserv-
ing Of a corresponding national chas-
tisement, which was administered to
them. OF that time our Lord declares.
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