Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-07-30


the last trump seventh trumpet); fol
the trumpet shall sound" 'and the
dead In Christ shall rise ilrst; then We
which are alive and remain shall be
caught away together to meeting OF
the Lord in the air" Il Corinthians
XIV, 81, 90; Thessaonlans iv, 10, IT.
How plain, how slmplel That will be
the first meeting Of the Church with
her Lord. All of her members dying
before that time will sleep" while
those dying since that time will moi
need to sleep aud walt for the glorious
change. But, says one, does not the
second coming Of Christ take place
whenever His holy ones die? Does He
not Immediately come to receive them
unto Himself2
Surely only very lame theory could
seek to bolster itself up by such per-
version Of the Scriptures. II Christ
were to come every time one Of His
sanity ones die. would It not mean
many cominOs instead of merely a SEQ
ond comin0R And even II His faithful
were very few indeed. would It not
seem that this would keep the Redeem
er busy coming and departing every
few minutesY
Only Grass ignorance Of the Bible
could excuse any such mlsappllcatlon
of It's teachings. Not merely one state
ment Of the Scriptures bears upon this
subject, but hundreds Of statements Of
Scripture, by Jesus and the Apostles;
and all contradict any such thought.
"No Man Hath Asoended to Heaven"
Hearken to jesus words. mo man
hath ascended up to Heaven" Only
the Son OF Man has ever been in heav-
en-. He has ascended up where He was
before, with additional glory and hon.
or. He is now preparing place for
His Bride class and preparing the
Bride class for the pace-the place Of
honor at His own right hand. He Is
overseeing her experiences and causing
all things to work together for her
good that she nt His Second Coming
may be prepared and he accepted as
His Bride and granted share In His
glory, honor and Immortality
II is In full harmony with this that
a little Inter ON the Great Teacher de.
clared that all the dead are In the
grave, and that at His second advent
He will first call forth His faithful
ones TO the perfection of life; and later
will call forth the remainder Of man
kind, not as yet found worthy Of life,
that they may have an opportunity, a
testing as respects their worthlness or
unworthness Of everlasting life on the
human plane,
Hear His assurance again respecting
His faithful ones-tlht they shall share
In His resurrection. the chief Resurrec-
ton, 10 glory. honor, Immortality. on
the spirit plane. He said. BLESSED and
holy are all they that have part In the
First Resurrection. they shall he
priests unto God and Christ, aud shall
reign with Him u thousand years"
BE It noted that In all these nsSur.
ances the Church IL spoken of as a
class, all Of whom will enter into glory
together NJ Chrlst's second coming,
and not separately, ns each may die,
True each has an individual trial or
testing TO determine whether or not he
or she will be accounted worthy, or
fitted for place In the glorious Body
Of Christ, In the glorious Bride COM
pany, but the statement Is repeatedly
made that we shall be Olorided together,
shall have part In the one resurrection,
David Not Assembled to Heaven"
In full accord with all the foregoing
Is St Peters statement on the Day of
Pentecosl: "I'or David is not ascend.
cd into the heavens; his sepulchre is
with us unto this day." St Peters
words imply that II King David had
assembled to Heaven he would have no
sepuchre on earth. Similarly, we
might say of all of the Prophets, and
of all other persons that, II once they
assembled to the heavenly plane. they
could not be said to have any sepul.
chre on earth, for the very thought
connected with the word sepulchre Is
that Of personality awaiting a resur-
rectlon, awaiting dellvemnce from the
state and condition OF death. So the
Scriptures always refer, not TO a resur.
reciion Of the living, which would be
an ubsnrllty. but to n resurrection OF
the dead
Note the connection In which the
Apostle Peter uses this expression:
David Is not ascended lnto the heav.
ems" He had just called attention to
the fact that David prophesled OF the
resurrection of Jesus In the prophecy
he pcrsonatcd Jesus, and said, Thou
wilt not sNve My soul In sheol hddesl,
nor suffer Thine Holy One to see cor.
WptiOn" 81 Peter argues that this
wns not true OF David, that he did see
corruption, that his soul iCds left In
sheol, Nnd is Stlll there and win not be
reclaimed untll Messiah, In the resur-
rcctIon mornlng, shall call him forth,
BE With Me In Paradise"
But says some one, did not the dy.
lng thief go with Jesus to Paradise
the very day In which they both died?
And Il So, does not this prove that all
in harmony with God 20 to heaven
when they die whatever may be the
condition OF others In death2
No, we have made stupid hlunder
aud mlslnternretatlon Of our Redeem.
er's DYING words to the thief. The
wrong thought helng In our minds we
mlslnternreted In harmony herewith,
And our INTERPRETATION has done an