The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-07-21

6"SSt tAAC AhVo Oo"ss !
help even n here present out Of this
horrible nightmare of the Dark Ages, !
shall feel fully repaid And the publ
cation Of this sermon In more than a
thousand newspapers, I may hope. will
clarity the vision of many. To what
ever extent It shall sweep away the
cobwebs Of error and bring enlighten-
ment Of mind. it will surely bring an
increase Of rest and Of love to the Gre
ator and a corresponding blessing and
comfort to the believers heart As
for the worldly. we cannot expect
them to understand much Of the d.
vine program now. They must wait
for the dawn Of the New Dispensation
Of Messiah's Kingdom. when all the
blind eyes shall be opened and all the
deaf ears unstopped.
0s.hlnnom-"oeksnna"-HsIl.
As we have heretofore seen. the only
Hebrew word translated hell. from
Genesis to Malachi. is sheot. which Is
Unfortunately translated grace. pit
and heu In our common version Of the
Bible-and the greater number Of times
%orare-its proper translation. lts Greek
equivalent in the New Testament IL
Aades. which likewise is indiscriminate-
~ translated grace and hell, but always
should be rendered grave. No scholar
In the world will claim that there is
the slightest thought Of life or suffer
ing connected with these words.
The Scriptures declare that there is
neither wisdom. nor device, nor knowl-
edge In shcol-to which all. good and
bad. 60 at death. and remain until the
resurrection. In the New Testament
the word tortarus occurs once only and
u mistranslated he'll. whereas It should
be rendered our cdrth's atmosphere. II
has no reference whatever to human
ity, but to the fallen angels. The
Apostle says that as a punishment
"0od cast them down to tort0rus. re
served in chains Of darkness until the
Judgment Of the great Day" III Pete1
H. A.
Today We will examine the fourth
and last word translated hell In OuI
common English Bible. This word In
the Greek II 0eAenaa. It occurs but
twelve times. as follOws-Matthew v
q. %. 80; Z. q; xviii. 8; xiii, IS. SO
Mark *. 4s, IS. A; Luke xii, 5; James
iii, 9. To what DOES this word 0ehennd
/, referY 10 a name for Purgatory
Or 10 It a name for a still worse place
, Of unending torture as q Protestant
!, creeds declare2 We answer, no. 1t II
q figure Of speech used to symbolic
! the Second Death-the death from
: which there will be no resurrection
the everlasting destruction mentioned
/ by At. Paul.
: The Greek word 0eAenxo IL the syno
nym for the Hebrew word Ge-hinnona
y which means, '~The valley Of Hinnom.
l This valley 10 repeatedly mentioned ii
the Bible. The first reference to 1t !
Q in Joshua xv, 8 At a time when tn
= Israelites became sadly involved II
holatry, this valley was used as
b sacred place. An image Of the hea
= then god. Moloch, wal erected and 1a
+ raelites offered their children as sac
9 rifces to the Idol.
!, Later. lest the people should agail
y revert to such ~atrocious customs, tn
= valley was desecrated. 1t became
3 dumping place for the hlth Of Jerusa
, lem. Dead animals and It Is elaine
some Of the vilest criminals, after ez
ecution. were thrown therein, tn
!. worms feeding upon them
No one sought to hinder the worm
!, from making q complete destruction
= In the bottom Of the valley fires wer
= kindled for the consumption OF tn
|" waste Debris, and birthstone was Id
y Cd that the fumes might destroy an
serup Of disease. This was the 0ehe'
! 10 Of our Lords day. he uses It a
= illustrating the Second Death. whic
Will be the portion Of all wtlful siI
= ners. He used It also in cOnnecdo
= With other symbols, In the book
Revelation. where He explains It I
: mean the Second Death.
This expression. where their worl
dieth not and the FIRE is not quencl
Cd" signifies that the destruction {
The class represented would be con
pleta, that nothing would interfere !
save them from destruction ADAM
- death Will b destroyed as the Scnl
~ tures declare Christ died that b
might have the rightful authority
- destroy Adamic death and uplift a
= Of Adams race who win accept IL
favor back to all that was LOST
Adam, and redeemed at Calvary. 81
"A the SECOND Death h a friend to Q
- who love rtghteousness, since It VI
~ uttefn destroy such a. have love {
4. sympathy for Mn and refuse TO !
obedient TO the Divine win after 10
enlightenment