The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-07-19

ther, of still more demoniacal dispo-
sition. would treat practically all man.
kind ten million times worse than that
and use Divine Power to all eternity
to perpetuate the sufferings of His
earthly creatures, which His own Word
declares were born In sin. shapen in
iniQuity, in sin did their mothers con.
ceive them earthly creatures. too,
whose environment was unfavorable
and whose Adversary. the Devil, God
neither destroyed nor bound?
"Ge'hinnom"-"Geh enna"-H
As we have heretofore seen, the only
Hebrew word translated hell. from
Genesis to Malachi. is sheol, which is
Unfortunately translated craze. pit
and hell in our Common Version of
the English Rible--the greater number
of times grGre-its proper transla ton,
Its Greek equivalent in the New Tesla
ment, we have seen, Is hades. which
likewise Is unfortunately translated
grGre and he'll. but should always be
rendered orate. We repeat again that
no scholar In the world will claim that
there is the slightest thought Of life
or suffering or JOY connected with these
words.
The Scriptures distinctly declare that
"there is neither wisdom, nor device,
nor knowledge in sheoF'-to which all,
both good and bad, go at death, and
where they remain until the resurrec-
ton. In the New Testament the word
tarfn,Ws occurs once only and is mis-
translated hell, whereas It should be
no reference to humanity in any way,
but to the fallen angels, The Apostle
says that as punishment God cast
them down to tartarus' and they are
reserved In chains of darkness until
the Judgment Of the great Day"
But today we will examine the fourth
and last word translated hell in our
common English Bible. This word in
the Greek is 9ehenna, 1t occurs bwt
twelve times, as follows: Matthew V,
%, 20, 80; X, IS; xviii. 8; Nxiii IS, 80
Mark tx. 43, 45. Al: Luke xii, 3; James
iii, 8. One of the occurrences is in con
nection with our text today. The cues
ton Is, To what does this word gehennd
refer? Is it name for PurgatOry
Or a name for a still worse place of
amending torture, as our Protestant
creeds declare? We answer. No. II
is figure Of speech used to symbolic
the Second Death--the death from
which there will be no resurrection,
no resuscita tion-the everlasting de-
struction mentioned by st. Paul, and
of which st. Peter says that they
which experience it perish like the
brute beast QI Thessslonians |, Q: II Pc
ter ii, 12). This Is very plainly stated In
Revelation Xxx, IA. where OF this lake
of fire. it is declared, this is the Sec
ond Death"
Tho Valley Of Hnron--Tophet.
The Greek word geiienna is the syn
onym for the Hebrew word Gs-hinnOni
which means THE valley Of Hin
nom" This valley is repeatedly men
toned in the Bible. 1t was owned by
family named Hinnom. The first
reference to it is in Joshua Nv, 8.
Looking at any Bible map of the city
Of Jerusa lem. the valley will he seen
to the southwest of the city wall. At
a time when the Israelites became
sadly involved in idolatry, this valley
was used AZ sacred place. An image
of the heather god, Moloch. made of
brass, and hollow, was erected. 1t
was so constructed that the chair,
which was part Of the image, con
stituted furnace fred from the rear,
and the head of the image was the
top of fiue.
The image held out Its arms as
though to receive something and,
heated red hot by the fire, was a re-
ceptacle in which deluded Israeiites
placed their children as sacrifices,
while trumpets were blown. drums
beaten and the people shouted, sitting
the cries of the tortured infants Gil
Kings xiii, To-. When the good King
Josiah came to the throne all this idol
airy was abolished and the proper
worship of God In the temple was re,
l.
ever again resort to such atrocious
customs. the valley was desecrated.
1t became a valley Of abomination.
1t was used as a dumping place for
the filth of Jerusalem. Dead dogs and
dead cats were thrown there, and 1t
is claimed that some of the vile Grim
inals, after execution, were thrown
therein instead Of being given burial
to typically illustrate that there is no
future life for such obnoxious beings
that they will be refuse.
The valley Of Hinnom is now filed
up and an orchard grows there; but
originally 1t was quite deep. The car
cases Of animals were thrown there
intended for destruction. the worms
feeding upon them. No one sought to
hinder the worms from making a COM
plete destruction. In the bottom OF
the valley fires were kindled for the
consumption of the waste debris. and
birthstone was added that the fumes
of it might destroy any germs Of dis
ease. No one thought Of Quenching
that fire: 1t was one that was desired.
This was the 0ehenna Of our Lord
day. He uses 1t In a fgurative or
pictorial sense as illustrating the Sec
ond Death. which will be the portion
of all wilful sinners. He used it also
symbolically, In connection with other
symbols, in the book Of Revelation,