Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-07

W. - were crowded ana
(2ASIoa HLs5ELL at both eager and
deep interest was
manifest The text of the after
noon service was. ''THENCEFORTH
THERE SHALL BE NO MORE
death OFT AN INFANT OF
HATH NOT FILLED HIS DAYS.
FOR THE DYING ONE SHALL BE
BUT THE CHILD AT AN HUN
DRIED YEARS OLD-A SINNER AT
A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. HE
SHALL BE ACCURSED"-COT OFF
FROM LIFE ISAIAH LXV, 20l. The
speaker said:-
Our text is part of the Divine
prophecy of the blessings which will
come to Israel and to the whole world
during Messiah's glorious reign of a
thousand years-5eginning with the
close of this Gospel Era. Succeeding
verses tell that in that glorious Epoch
landlordism will be a thing of the
past. They shall build houses and
inhabit them; they shall plant vine
yards and eat the fruit of them; they
shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat"
Additionally we read. They shall not
labor in vain nor bring forth for trou-
BILE" Further we read that then the
"Wolf and the lamb shall feed togeth-
er and the lion shall eat fodder like
the bullock"
No Spiritual Sheep, Oxen, Wolves, Etc.
No end Of confusion has been Gre
ated by the intent Of well-meaning
people to apply these prophecies as
the reward of the Church in heaven.
Nothing in the Scriptures warrants us
in thinking that there will be spirit
ual. heavenly sheep ard oxen. wolves
and lions. vines and houses, planting
and building. Those who reject the
clear Bible teaching respecting a Mes
sianic reign of righteousness cannot
understand the Bible at all. Not
single passage of the Old Testament
tells of heavenly hopes or promises.
Only a few of them teach heavenly
things at ALL and then indirectly.
AS. for instance, in the types of the
Old Testament the garments of the
High Priest, glorious and beautiful,
symbolic we believe, the heavenly
grandeur. honors and glories of Mes
siah during the period of His reign.
Similarly Gods promise to Abraham
declares that His Seed. His posterity,
shall be as the stars of heaven and
as the sands of the seashore. Moth
ing in this statement would necessa
rily teach a heavenly state or condi-
ton. Only by the aid of the New Tes-
lament and the Holy Scriptures illu-
mination can we see that two Seeds
of Abraham are distinctly referred to.
the stars indirectly implying the Spir-
itual Seed. while the sands Of the sea-
shore refer to Abraham's Natural
Seed AS it is written. 81 have con-
stituted Thee a father of many ma
tions"-like unto God.
So the Spiritual Seed of Abraham is
now being developed. With its COM
pletion this Age will end. and the Nat
ural Seed of Abraham will return to
special favor and become the leading
nation of the world under the guild
ance and direction of the spiritual and
invisible, yet All-Powerful. Kingdom
OF Messiah.
The blessing through natural Is
rael will gradually extend to every
nation. in that the door will be open
ed by which all nations may come
into and become a part of Abraham's
Seed and thus into harmony with
Messiah's Kingdom. Whosoever re-
fuses this great privilege and blessing
Of Messiah's Kingdom will be destroy
ed from amongst the people in the Sec
ond Death.
Hundred Year Old Children.
Centenarians of the present time are
few, and they by no means are like
children Usually they are wrinkled and
haggard. We are to remember. how
ever, the Bible record that several of
The earlier members of Adams race
lived nine hundred years, or rather,
they were more than nine hundred
years in coming fully under the sen
tence against sinners-"By one mans
disobedience sin entered into the
world, ard death as q result of sin;
and thus death passed upon ali men.
because all are sinners lRomans v. ~
Gradually. and especially since the
food. when a great change took place
in our cosmogony. human longevity
has decreased. while mental. mora!
and physical ailments have increased.
Several OF Adams children did not
have their first born child until after
they we're a century old In con1rma-
ton OF this. and correspondingly in
contradiction of the Evolution theory.
we find that the Ancients were strong.
er than we. mentally as well as phys
ically. for they intermarried brothers
with sisters and cousins without in.
jury. whereas today the mental weak
ness of tie race is such that cae out
OF every one hundred and ffty adults
is In an Insane aSylcm. I'D the mar
rage Of brothers and sisters is pro