Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28
Pearson Gives Views.

| Editor Courier: .]h%.
Some time since Mr.. Lawson gave
us a short treatise on prophecy. I
could not help noting at the time that
his last effort is Confusion, worse
! COMPOUNDED"
1t scenes to me, that unless one is |
familiar with their creed, it would be
difficult from Mr.. LaWSOn'S scripture
! references and comments, to under-
| stand what he is trying to set. forth. #
1 understand him, it is this: that the
| present greatest preparation for war
| ever known" does not mean peace, as
! .neE are proclaiming, but awful war;
| That by that war all who are not
Christians will be slain; that, in con-
! nection with this, the. Lord will come
and "catch up all who are really
does not mention it in his letter, itis'I
! an essential part Of the creed) Satan |
| is to cast out into the uninhabited |
earth-and that, during the thousand
years, Satan is the only one earth. Let
! me ask Mr.. Lawson II l have stated his. |
position fairly? II SO, let me attempt to
point out some Of his errors. Near the
end Of his letter he says, please read
| Rev. 19:11-21. The full end is found in
| Rev. 20: o." If the reader will read the |
| verses between these references he
| will see that q thousand years is. re-
peatedly mentioned as occurring be-
| tween the incidents mentioned in
them. ,,, =, |
This is just, q sample of the way he |
has "wrested the scriptures G. Pet. !
3:16) throughout. Near the first of his
letter Mr.. Larson quotes lisa. 2:2-4
| where nations are said to beat their
| swords into plowshares and their
| spears into pruning hooks and refers
to the same prophecy in Micah. 4: 1-3.
Thar, avr1oin1 fhof It Htbo al
who say this and not God. Had he read |
the fourth verse in Micah 4 he would |
have seen For the mouth of the Lord |
Of hosts hath spoken it, He then at !
tempts to prove that the Quotation in !
lisa. and Micah, will not be fulfilled by
quoting Joel g.: 10, which says the very
| opposite from them.
Now, can readily agree with Mr..
Lawson that when, rightly divided" /
! G. Tim 2: 15) the word Of truth" con- |
tains no contradictions. Also, that the !
present perfecting of the implements of
war means the literal fulfil1ment Of |
Joel, $40, but to say that the other
reference will not be as literally fulfill
ed would be to contradict many, many
plain scriptures. -.
! In that great conference reported in
| Acts Is, we read beginning at verse 4,
! Simon hath declared how God at the
| first did not visit the Gentiles to take
| out of them a people for his name"
That is what he is doing in the world
| today. And every one who, by an in
! telligent acceptance of Jesus as hts
| savior, Is born again" becomes a part
Of the church. bride Of Christ, thus
| taking his name. r
Then James quotes from the prophet
Amos After this (after he has taken |
| out Of the Gentiles people for his 4
name) will return, and build again !
the tabernacle of David. which is fall
| len down" etc. If we read on down the
chapter we see when men will make
implements Of husbandry instead Of
| implements OF war. Amos 8: 13 Behold, |
the days come, saith the Lord, that the |
ploughman shall overtake the reaper, |
and the treader Of grapes, him that
soweth seed: and the mountains shall !
| drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall
tivity Of my people of Isreal, and they |
| shall build the waste cities. and in
| habit them, and they shall plant vine |
yards; andsdrink the wine thereof; they
shall also make gardens and eat the
| fruit of them
Then those scriptures in Isaiah and
Micah will be literally fulfilled; as will
! Ez. SO and 81. and scores Of others, |
which foretell the restoration of Israel
! to Palestine, and time of peace, !
righteousness and temporal blessing |
such as the world has never known.
But before this must come the |
great tribulation,'' Dan. 1921 Matt. I
24:21; the time Of Jacobs trouble; |
.Jer. 80: ITO. especially verse Z. In tn"
midst Of this time, Satan is cast out I
| into the EARTH" Rev. 1879; but does he
find it uninhabited? Verse IL, "woe TO |
the inhabiters Of the earth--for tho
devil Is come down unto you, having
greath wrath, because he knoweth that
he hath but a short time At the end
Of the tribulation, an angel comes
down from heaven, binds Satan, and
casts him into the bottomless pit, that
he should deceive the nation (here on
earth) no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled" Rev. 20:1-3. Then
the righteous, Give and reign with
Christ a thousand years." verse 4, ION
the EARTH Rev. 5:9-10; and the hun
dreds Of promises Of peace and tenn
poral blessing, first to the. Jew, and,
through them, to the Gentle will be
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