The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-27
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cross al Calvary in the person OF our
Lord Jesus Christ, then for three Gays
how could He resurrect Himself If that
were true? CIV. p. M
Answer.-Your difficulty lies in that you
have taken the statement of some creed
in place of the Bible teachings. The
Scriptures teach that our Lord was -@Vt
to the Father in every sense OF the word,
and that the Heavenly Father uses Him
as His honored instrument in connection
with every feature of His work. Thus
we read: In the beginning was the
Logos, and the IogoS was with the God,
and the Logos was God. All things were
made by him, and without Him was not
anything made that was made.''-Correct-
ed Translation. John !, 1-3) ST. Paul de-
clares that all things are of the Father
and all things are by the Son. q Corin-
thians viii, g. In harmony with the
Fathers Plan, the Logos, the Son OF GOD,
who was rich, became poor; exchanging
His spirit nature for the human nature,
that He might die ''the Just for the I'M
just to reconcile US to God. This hum
bling to human nature was necessary be-
cause it was a man who had Sinned and
only a could redeem man. Thus.
THE man Christ Jesus gave Himself
ransom for all, to be testified in due
time" Il Timothy ii, g. Jesus death was
not the death of the Heavenly Father,
but the death of the Heavenly Son.
Q.-Does the soul of man sleep when
the body is dead? Ct. H. L.
Answer.-In the experiences of those
rendered unconscious by blows, by drown
ing almost to the point of death, or by
various other means, the universal test1-
mony is that they have been in condi-
ton void of knowledge or realization
Their minds became blank exactly sim
liar to the conditions relating to sleep
Throughout the Scriptures, the condition
of death is hkened to that of sleep. psalm
xiii, 8; Daniel xii, 2; Acts vii, 60; Corin-
thians XIV, 49, The old Pagan idea of
a condition of consciousness after death,
is absolutely contrary to the teachings
of the Bible, which declare in unequivocal
terms that 1.-The dead know not anything.
(Ecclesiastes tx, 5, 100 The condition q
death would mean humiliation if it were
not for the fact that Christ died to re-
deem the race. q Corinthians XIV, 49,
As the result of Christ's redemptve
work, all are to be awakened from their
graves and come forth (not from heaven,
hell, or purgatory)- 1t is the soul the
body that is coming forth from the tomb,
the sleep of death, for it was the SOUL
that died, fell asleep.-Ezekiel Xviii, T. ~;
Acts iii, %; Psalm cxlvi, 4.
Q.-What are we to understand by the
thousand year period of time as spoken
of in Revelation 10th chapter? CIV. 81
the dead lived not again until the thou-
sand years were finished" are not found
in the Oldest Greek manuscripts, and
evidently are spurious. With these words
eliminated from the fifth verse, the mean
ing of the following words become clear.
Christ and His Bride, the Church, the
saints gathered out from the world during
the nineteen centuries of the Gospel Age,
are to be seated upon thrones ana TO
reign during that thousand years CVerse
A. They surely would not reign over each
other, and the Scriptures declare that
they will reign on the earth (ReVela1on
" IO1 over the world of mankind. Daniel
vii, %. The object of this great reign
of The Christ is to give to the entire
race of mankind a full, complete oppor-
tunfty of salvation; and all who VIII ac-
cept of the Lords grace and kindness
upon the conditions of loyalty and obed-
fence shall be blessed and restored to
eternal life CRevelation xii, I'D. This
will not constitute a second Chance, as
only the Church class is now trial, and
the world in general knows little or MOTH
ing about the way of salvation.