The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-09-11

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by his disobedience. The sheep elias:
will represent all of Adams rae,
brought back to perfection by the proc
esses Of Restitution during Messiah'i
reign. (Acts iii. 1921 To them will
come the dominion which Adam los
and which Jesus redeemed at Calvary
and which He will 0ire to the worth,
ones at the conclusion OF His thou
sand-year reign. Next, the fate Of tn,
goat class Is stated-not In literal Ian
guage, but symbolically. Indeed, the
Prophet and the Apostle declared Of
Jesus that HE opened His mouth IL
parallels" land that without para
BILE spa he not unto the people.
In or 6rds. everything that Jesus
said to ..ie people in general was fig
urative, in order that only those Of
right condition of heart might be able
to understand Him.
The message of the great King to the
goat class will be, Depart from Me
We cursed, into everlasting fire pre-
pared for the Devil and his angels
Matthew XIV, AL We might as well
insist that the parable applies to literal
goats as to claim that this penalty is
literal fire. All who have studied the
subject will freely admit that fire
throughout the Bible is used fgurative-
ly to represent destruction. Fire Is
not used as q symbol for Adamic death
the sentence upon all of the race, be-
cause God from the beginning purposed
the setting aside Of that sentence
through the redemptive work of Jesus;
hence Adamic death is not destruc-
ton, but in the Bible is styled, SYM
bolically, failing asleep" and resur-
rection is styled awakening from
Sleep"
But when picturing the Second
Death, the Bible uses strong terms,
representing destruction in the fullest
and most absolute sense. Mark the
words used: Perish" Second Death"
''.Evcrlasttng Destruction" We even
overlooked the plain explanation which
Jesus gave us when He said. 1.-The lake
Of IRE. which is the Second Death
Revelat1on XXX, 14) St Peter, sum-
ming up the fate Of the incorrigibly
wicked, says that they shall be destroy
cd like natural brute beasts. QI Peter
II, 12.) Only bugaboo Of eternal tor
ment, hundreds Of years old. could have
30 alarmed us that we failed to note
these matters long ago.
Meanwhile, alas, while many Of the
learned have abandoned the doctrine of
eternal torment, they have practically
abandoned everything else in the Bible,
because they supposed the Bible to
teach this inconsistency. Let us not
follow them into Higher Criticism"
infldelity and total rejection of the in
SEPARATION of Gods Word. but let us
compare Scripture with Scripture and
use our God-given reason within the
boundaries of Gods Message. So doing
we are seeing more and more the glor
ious perfection Of our Fathers charac
ter and of His inspired Word.
Reasoning by Contrast.
Some shallow thinkers have been
thrown off the track of religious inves-
tigation. reasoning that If there is
heaven, there must of necessity be
which the Bible establishes in respect
to the sinner and the saint Is life and
death-and not hearen and hell As a
matter of fact the Bible nowhere
promises heaven to any except the
Church of the First -borns. who are
now being called out of the world for
association with Messiah in His King
dom. The world of mankind never
lost heaven and is nowhere promised
heaven
Adams loss was an earthly Eden,
human perfection. Jesus declares that
He "came to seek and to SAGE that
which was lost" The work of His
Kingdom for a thousand years will be
the bringing of earth to a Paradise
condition. And He will restore all the
willing and obedient of mankind to all
that Was lost, bringing them back
again to the image and likeness of
God in the flesh Adam possessed
these qualities when he was declared
by his Creator Every good" and was
given the dominion of earth.
When Adam was placed on trial in
Eden he was endowed with perfection
of life and organism as man. God
said not one word to him about heaven
or hell, but did set before him life and
death. II he would be obedient he
should be privileged to maintain his
life and all his Projections and bless
ings everiastingly. If he would rebel
against his Creators laws and be dis
obedient thereto he should die-be cut
Off from life. He was disobedient, and
was expelled from Eden into the ac-
cursed, or unfit earth. where he died a
slow death, battling with thorns and
thistles. This has been the fate of his
entire oe-death-mental. moral and
physical decay to completion.
"life or peath-slessing or Cursina.n
Addressing the people OF old through
the Prophet God declares, 81 have set
before you life and death. blessing and
cursing-choose life that We may live"
deuteronomy Xxx, 1917 The hope be-
fore the Israelites was of q resurrec-
tion-a 'better resurrection"-to the
faithful. Hebrews xi. 35.) Not word
was said to them In all the four thou
sand years down to Jesus day respect
ing eternal torment, or any hope of life
In any condition except in harmony