The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-17


-20Ey day we discussed
tlHA2lSlk kgSSElllj the fact of the res
direction and show
ed from st. Paui's words that without
Gods purpose Of a resurrection those
who have fallen asleep in death would
have persisted as brutes. We followed
with the Apostle the assurances that
Christ did rise from the dead and be-
come the Ffrst-fruits Of all those who
have gone into the sleep OF death. 9th
ers, indeed, were awakened temporari-
ly-as, for instance, Jairus' daughter,
Lazarus the friend of Jesus, and the
son of the widow of Main.
Yet none of those instances is count
ed as a resurrection, for it Is said that
Christ is the First-fruits of those who
slept Their awakening was merely of
q temporary nature, and they soon re-
lapsed into the sleep of death. They
did not have a full resurrecti0n-an-
GStGsis-a raising up to perfection of
life, such as the redemptive work of
Jesus guarantees to Adam and to all
his race willing to accept the same I'M
der the terms of the New Covenant
You will recall that on last Lords
day we demonstrated from the Scrip
lures that it is not the body, but the soul
that is promised resurrection-that ii
was our Lords Soat that went to sJisOl,
to hades, to the death state, and that
God raised Him up from death ON the
third day. We noted a difficulty into
which all Christendom was plunged by
the unscriptural theory that It is the
body that is TO be resurrected. We now
continue to search and note well fur
ther difficulties inro which this error
plunged us as believers in the words of
Christ, particularly in connection with
our Redeemer's resurrection.
What Went to Heaven7
The ordinary thought in Christian
minds in respect to Jesus death and
resurrection is that when He seemed to
die He did not die: that He, the being,
the soul, could not die; that instead,
He went TO Heaven, and then, on the
third day, came back to get the body
which had been crucified; and that He
took it to heaven forty days later; that
He has had that body ever since; and
that He will have it to all eternity,
marred with the print of the nails In
His hands and feet, the thorns upon
His brow, and the spear mark in His
side. What CHASTITY thought! How
strange that we should ever have been
misled into so unscriptural and unrea-
sOnable a theory! Some endeavor to
gloss the matter by suggesting that our
Lords flesh Is glorifed-that 1t shines
the shining presumably making the
wounds all the more conspicuous.
Our Methodist friends have not vet
changed their statement of the ma tier,
namely, He assembled up on high, TAX
ing His tleshly body with Him, and all
that appertained thereto, and sat down
on the right hand OF God" This me-
dieval statement correctly admits that
the feshly body was not the Lords,
but that He, the soul, took 1t with Him
as luggage. The statement, land all
that appertained thereto" presumably
would refer to our Lords sandals,
walking stick and such clothing as the
soldiers did not divide amongst them
at the time of His cruciixion-f in
deed He had any others! But our dear
Methodist friends want to be sure that
nothing was left behind.
All this is Of piece with the theory
that the saints when they die go to
heaven, and then, later, come back and
get their bodies, land all things apper-
tanning thereto'-the Inconvenience
that they have been rid of for cen
turiesl How many trunkloads of
things appertaining thereto" may be
taken by some, and how mixed an as
sortment by others is not stated. Mel
Their are particulars given respecting
those whose clothing, etc, have mean
time worn out But we have had
enough of this, If 1t has helped us to
see the absurdity of our theories re-
ceived from the Dark Ages"-if 1t has
awakened us TO thought and to Bible
investigation on this important and In
leresting subject.
What Say the Soriptures7
The Bible presentation OF this sub
jeet is every way reasonable, consist
ent and harmonious. st, Paul points
out that "there is a natural body and
there is a spirit body" He does not
mean and he does not say that the
spirit body is a human body glorifed
Quite to the contrary. He declares
that "Flesh ana blood cannot Inherit
the Kingdom Of God"-no matter how
glorifed it might be. a human being
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