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Peter hi, is. ~.
This text has been made thu basis for
some very peculiar presentations. Prom
ii some nave ded,rcd III intermediate
| state lasting bctwccn death and the res
direction. Others have claimed ii as an
authority for the doctrine If Purga,uty.
The difficulty in every case seems 10 he
the failure To remember that the bible Al
ways and everywhere teaches That the
dead are really dead. that they know
nothing. and that. therefore. it would ne
| impossible Ia do amy preaching TO The
dead.
Spirits Once Disobedient.
The spirits to whom the message was
| given had proven themselves disobedieni.
| says ST. Peter. he ever tells ny the time
OF their lisobcdicnce namely. that it was
| I'm the days of Noall. Willie the ark was
preparing
Turnin. 10 Genesis vi. Ia. we find there
the cause nf the .isobodicncc of those an
1 gels vino 10. u time had beer, permitted
to see what they could do for the aplift
of humanity. al. rather. permitted to DEM
Onstrate that the downward tendency OF
sin is i.curahlc except III the manner
which God has already arranged for
through Messiah and His glorious reign
of Il thousand years.
Instead of those angels helping man
kind out OF SIN. Fey hellcd themselves
into sin; and by 81 doing they increased
the dcprlvity amongst humanity until the
astounding record is that 'the w~ickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that
every Imagination of the Thought of his
heart was only evil continually" The
particular sin of those angels was that
when they were. granted the privileges OF
lnatcr,alizins-ol taking human bodies
for the sake nj helping and instructins
manklNd-thcy mislsed This power and
took to themselves the daughters Of men
Tor Wives.
We are particularly told that the Off
spring of this improper uniou between
the angels and The daughters of men We're
giants. both physically and mentally SUI
pelior to the Fallen human amilN-''nen
of The race thus in several
centuries became so corrupt that appaf
emily only Noah and his family were left
uncontaminatcu-al, others had more or
less come under the influence. directly or
indirectly. OF these fallen angels, or their
giant sons. Hence of Noah it was writ
ten mot that he was a perfect man).
mo- Noah WAS perfect in his genera
Observation-Disclosures his family APP
We're saved in che ark. while all the re-
mainder, more or less contaminated. We're
destroyed by the food.
In Chains Of Darkness.
1t was than and There that God inlpris-
oned those spirits (%"angclS who KEEP; not
their first estatc'D. and are therefore
called fallen angels. devils. demons. They
We're not imul'isoncti in sone far off world
called hell. nor are they engaged there N
stocking tires for the torture of poor hui
hanity. Following the leading of the
scriptures we lind when the Hood came
they We're not destroyed. because while
their iieshly bodies which they ASST med
did indeed perish. yet they merely de-
matcrialized. or assumed their spirit con-
ditiONs asa.u.
The record is that God east them down.
that they might not any longer associate
with the holy angels. but must be re-
served in tartarus-Our eartifS atlnOS-
phere. Here they were Imprisoned. not
in a special place. but in the sense of llav-
ing their liberties restrained. IN chains
of darkness They were no longer per-
mitted to mater..alize and thus to asso-
ciate with humanity. These things are
distinctly told us by ST. Jude and ST. Pc
ter.-Jude 6: IL Peter il, 4. ..
When imprisoned or cut off from the
privilege of naturalization. many OF the
fallen. spirits Eve know no; what pfopor-
tion) continued their active opposition to
God, after the manner of Satan. Hence
they are spoken OF rs his angels. his mes
sengeis. his servants; and he is spoken
of as Beelzebub, the Prince of Demons.
How Jesus Preached in Death.
e NlIsSS ditVtuet aucSlNiI. ~ JESUS
was really dead, as the scriptures declare:
II He poured out His soul unto death
and made His soul All Offering for sim
and His soul was not raised from the dead
until the third day after HIS crucifiXion.
how could He In the meantime preach to
spirits In prison. or to anybody else? We
reply that He could preach III the same
way that the Apostle refers to. saying.
Abel. being dead. yet speaketh,' Ole
brews ri. ~: and again. in the same way
that the blood OF Abel is said to have
cried to GOd-aguratively. OF one thing
we are sure. namely that Jesus gave no
| oral address while He was dead. He
preached IN the way we sometimes refer
to when We say. ACTIONS speak louder
han words
1t was the great objec; lesson which the
fallen angels saw that constituted to them
| the great sermon that gave them a ground
for hope. On several occasions the fallen
spirits, when commanded to come out of
human beings: declared that they knew
Jesus. In the long ago they had known
| Him. when. as the Only Begotten Of the
Father. and His Representative, He had
created them and all things that are
made. aud was also the m0uthpiecc for
all divine orders aud regulations. They
realized that He had come into the world
to be It's Retleemcr; they perceived the
great stoOp that He had made from His
lofty position on the heavenly plane to
the servant position OH the human plane.
Al the Royal horticultural hall yes
terday, though the hall Was full al
hpnNNf1Tbn1 Observation-Disclosures onI rnrv~,eao..