The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-01

God, even amongst His people who
truly love Him. and who truly desire
to believe the teachings Of His Word!
We have all been under a kind Of
''hoodoo." THE god of this world
[Satanl hath blinded our minds on
this subject. We are now coming to
see that death is the penalty for sin
and that the resurrection ls the saliva
ton which God has promised and will
provide.
Satan has had powerful allies and
servants in the fallen angels, and 1t Is
| through their persistence that his
| lie has triumphed over the Divine
Word of multiplying. thou shalt
die" These fallen spirits have made
various manifestations in every land
for centuries. and thereby have ap-
parently substantiated the theory that
a dead man is more alive than when
he was alive. Knowing that mankind
would have nothing to do with them
| II their real personality were known
| they hide their personality and repre-
sent themselves as our dead friends
| who desire to speak with us, either di-
rectly or through mediums.
| A further desire of these angels is
to obsess or to get possession of a hu-
| man being. Being chained or restrain
| ed from the privilege Of materializa-
ton, the next most desirable thing in
their estimation IS to gain control over
a human being and to use his body
| instead Of their own. This Is styled
obsession. and persons so afflicted to-
day are sent TO an insane asylum
where, 1t Is estimated. they constitute
at least one half of the entire number.
In the days of our Lord these were
not mistakenly supposed to be insane.
but rightly declared to he obsessed.
count that our Savior and His Apos-
ties cast out legons Of fallen spirits
from humanity.
"know Ys Not That the Saints Shall
Judge Ansels?"
We need not discuss this question
with Bible Students. for it is too well
recognized to be disputed. We sug-
gest a topical study of this subject by
all Of our hearers. See how many
times Jesus and the Apostles cast on
demons, and note the particulars. Al
though we still have with us spir
mediums and many obsessed. we can
not know whether the proportional
number IS greater or fewer than i
our Lords day. Since the worlds pop
ulation today is so much larger tn,
| same number OF evil spirits (Which d.
not increase) would show proportion
ately less. But. however that ma
be, we may assume that some frulta%
resulted from the great sermons
preached to these in connection with
the death and resurrection of our
Lord, respecting which 81. Peter
tells us in our text. Additionally.
St Paul remarks, Know We not
that the saints shall judge angels?"
q Corinthians VI. 81 We do know
| that the holy angels need no Judging,
no trial, hence the Apostle must in
| some way refer to trial or Judgment
or testing of these spirits In prison
days of Noah And if the judgment
| or testing Is a part of the Divine plan.
| it implies a hope for them. and in CON
! junction with St Peters statement
| in our text 1t gives the reasonable in
ference that the preaching which Je-
sus did to them was not wholly in vain
How Jesus Preached In Death.
| Here arises another question: IF Je-
sus was really dead, as the Scriptures
| declare if "He poured out His soul
unto DEATH" and made His soul an
offering for SIM" and His soul was not
raised from the dead until the third
| day after His crucifiYlon. how could
| He in the meantime preach to spirits
| in prison. or to anybody else? We
reply that He could preach in the
same way that the Apostle refers to,
saying, He. being dead. yet speak
eth" hebrews xi, A.; and again. in the
same way that the blood Of Abel Is
said TO have cried to od-fguratively
| or one thing we are sure, namely,
that Jesus gave no oral address while
| Lie W 40 htdu lie III lIc way
we sometimes refer to when we say,
factions speak louder than words"
It was the great object 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 com.
manded 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 Gre
ated them and oil things that are
made. and was also the mouthpieee for
| all Divine orders and regulations
| They realized that He had come into
| the world 10 be It's Redeemer; they Per
| ceived the great stoop that He had
made from His lofty position on the
| heavenly plane to the servant position
on the human plane. They admired
! His loyalty and faithfulness to God
| but doubtless believed Him to be fool
ish; they never expected Him to arise
from the dead But when they per
| ceived His resurrection on the third
| day to glory, honor and Immortality
far above angels, prncipalities ano
| powers and every name that Is nam