The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
EVERYBODY'S BIBLE BOX.

Overly I say unto you, There be
some standing here which shall not taste
of death. till they see the Son of Man
coming in His Kingdom. Matthew xvi,
%. Does this mean that some living at
that time would continue to live on until
the Lords second advent? &C. W.
Answer.-The word Kingdom proper
ly rendered is royal majesty. Continuing
the narrative on down into the next chap
ter, it Is stated that six days afterwards,
the Lord took Peter James and John and
went apart from the rest of the disciples
up into a high mountain, and was there
TRANSPORTED before them. His face was
gloriously illumined and became as re-
splendent as the sun, while His raiment
was white as the light. The royal ma
jesty of the Lords appearance, together
with the vision of Moses and Elijah,
and the bright cloud overshadowins all.
formed an overwhelming arrang cement of
light and glory The Apostle Peter after
wards, in writing of this glorious scene
declared that they were eyewitnesses of
the majesty (royal majesty of the Lord
Jesus, and that they also heard the voice
of the Heavenly Father coming from the
excellent glory. II Peter i, 16-1S.) In this
way Matthew xvi, IS, was fulfilled None
were condemned to live until Christ's Sec
ond advent.
Is it put into the grave with the body or
does it fly away in a disembodied state,
and go soaring around through space
waiting and longing for the time to come
when it can get back into its body (put
on its clothes again. SO to speak,, at the
resurrection? q. A. CO
Answer.-There is much confusion of
thought regarding this matter. Many are
disposed to express the matter wrongly
by saying that they have a soul There
is considerable difference in having
COW and being COW! All living beings
are souls from the Scriptural standpoint.
Genesis !, 1890 Margin) When father
Adam disobeyed the Lord, it was not his
body, the dust of the ground that sinned.
Neither was it the energizing principle.
the breath of life that sinned. But it
was Adam himself, the living intelligent
being, the soul that sinned. Therefore 1t
was the soul that died, as the Scriptures
declare-'The soul that sinneth it shall
die" ezekiel xviii, ~ In the resurrec-
ton, it is the soul that is to be resusci-
tated. Thou wilt not leave my soul in
hades-the tomb''-was spoken of our
Lord Jesus.
Off the dead are asleep in the graves
awaiting the time of the resurrection at
ChrtstS second coming, when all who are
in their graves shall be awakened and
shall come forth, as the Scriptures affirm;
how shall we understand the experiences
of some who, at the time of their depart
ure from this life. see heavenly visions
of angels, and hear strains of celestial
music? CIV. E. ID
Answer.-As it is enphaticalIy set forth
throughout the entire Scriptures that the
dead are asleep Sin their graves and
there is neither wisdom, nor device, nor
knowledge in the grave whether thou
goest;" and that all will remain in this
sleep of death until the awakening time,
when AL who are in their graves shall
come forth at the voice of the Son of
Man" we must conclude that the dying
ones did not enter at once into Heaven; ;
and that what they saw was not an act
ual glimpse of celestial glorfes. but merely
phantaSmagoria induced by an excited
condition OF the imaginative powers of
the mind, with a CORRESPONDENCE dormant
state of the reasoning faculties. The Lord
Jesus declared at His first advent that
the Apostle says that the sleeping ones
will be awakened and changed at the
second advent:-See John iii, 10; I Corin-
thians XIV, 81, s.
Q.-Can you explain these two pas
sages Of Scripture: John i, IS, mo man
hath seen God at any time" and John
xiv, 9, Eye that have seen me, have seen
my Father a1so?" a. NJ
Answer--The first expression should
be understood in the concrete sense No
mortal being could see the Lord God and
See" The last expression, to be under
stood in harmony with the first, should
be considered in the abstract. AS it was
impossible for the Lords followers to act
ually see God, the Heavenly Father, the
only way then in which they could see
God was in the representative sense. Our
Lord Jesus, fully and perfectly represent
ed the Father. He was God manifested
in the flesh. The Fathers love, and
mercy, justice, and wisdom, were all man
ifest in the Life and teachings of the Lord
Jesus. Those then, who became aequaint-
ed with the Lord Jesus, were made ac-
quainted with the father. The Lord Jesus
never claimed to be the Heavenly Father
personally; but always taught that He
was the Son of God. The Scriptures de-
clare that God sent His only begotton Son
into the world. God was in Christ re-
conciling the world to Himself in the
same sense in which He will be "aI in
ALI when the Son shall have delivered
up the Kingdom to the Father at the
close of ChriSt'S Nillennia1 reign.-I