Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-09-14

when he lost his relationship to his
Creator and lost his right to eternal Hfe |
by his disobedience The sheep class
will represent all of Adams race
brought back to perfection by the proc
esses of Restitution during Messiah's
reign. (Acts iii, 1921 To them will
come the dominion which Adam lost
and which Jesus redeemed at Calvary |
and which He will OiUe to the worthy |
ones at the conclusion OF His thou
sand-year reign. Next, the fate Of the |
goat class is stated-not In literal lam
guage, but symbollcally. Indeed, the
Prophet and the Apostle declared OF
Jesus that HE opened His mouth In
parallels" and that without a para
BILE spake He not unto the people"
In other words, everything that Jesus
said to the people in general was hg-
uratiye, 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 viii be, Depart from Me-
We cursed, into everlasting fire pre-
pared for the Devil and his angels"
Matthew XIV, All 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 figurative-
" to represent destruction. Fire is
not used as 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, falling asleep" and resur-
rectlon 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"
''Ererlasting Destruction" We even
overlooked the plain explanation which
Jesus gave us when He said "the lake
of flre, which is the Second Death"
mevelation Xxx, AZ St. Peter, sum
ming up the fate Of the incorrigibly
wicked, says that they shall be destroy
ed like natural brute beasts ul Peter
a. 12) Only bugaboo Of eternal tor
ment, hundreds of years old, could have
so alarmed us that we failed to note
these matters long ago
Meanwhile, alas. while many Of the
! learned have abandoned the doctrine OF
I 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
inildellty and total rejection Of the In
splration Of Gods Word, but let US
i compare Scripture with Scripture anC
. use our God-giyen reason within the
u boundaries Of Gods Message. So doinl
! we are seeing more and more the glor
y ious perfection Of our Fathers charac
= ter and of His inspired Word.
!. Reasoning by Contrast.
n Some shallow thinkers have beei
h thrown off the track of religious inves
le tlgatlon. reasoning that If there is
,e heaven. there must Of necessity be.
D. hell of torment. But the contrdS
le which the Bible establishes in respec
10 to the sinner and the saint Is life an,
death-and not hearen and hell. AS
,s matter Of fact the Bible nowher
m promises heaven to any except tn
n. Church of the Flrst-borns, who ar
ne now being called out Of the world 70
70 association with Messiah in His Klnl
No dom. The world OF mankind neve
he lost heaven and Is nowhere promise
be heaven.
he Adams loss was an earthly Eden,
x. human perfection. Jesus declares tha
OF He "came to seek and to Sdpe tho
p which was lost" The work Of III
he Kingdom for thousand years will !
,e- the bringing Of earth to a Paradis
70. condition. And He will restore all tn
ID. willing and obedient Of mankind to a
he that ras lost, bringing them bac
in again to the image and likeness
Ie God In the flesh Adam possesse
these qualities when he was declare
,c. by his Creator Every good" and WI
10 given the dominion Of earth
m When Adam was placed on trial
of Eden he was endowed with perfectic
,ss OF life and organism as man. Go
m. said not one word to him about heayc
ct or hell, but did set before him NE AZ
ist death. II he would be obedient
mi should be privileged to maintain h
nv life and all his perfectons and bles
,ct ings everlastlngly II he would reb
nd against his Creators laws and be di
n obedient thereto he should die-be G.
ss Off from life He was disohedlent, al
no was expelled from Eden into the a
,rs cursed, or unfit earth, where he died
.he slow death. battling with thorns Al
nm thlstles. This has been the fate Of b
entire race-death-mental, moral al
m. physical decay to completion.
Till "Llfs or peSth--elossins or cursins
ito Addressing the people Of old throul
ain the Prophet God declares, 81 have s
at before you life and death, blessing Al
ats cursing-choose no that ye may live
ice deuteronomy XXX l9l The hope |
the fore the Israelites was Of resurr'
on tion--a better resurrection I
the faithful. Hebrews xl, 3Sl Not wo
tn was said to them In all the four the
the sand years down to Jesus day respe
vlll ING nternal torment. or any hope Of Y