The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-07-25

before that, time win asleep,. while
those dying since that time will not
need to sleep and wait for the glorious
change. But says one, does not The
second coming OF Christ take splece
whenever His holy ones diet Does He
not, Immediately Come to receive them
unto Himself? &%>{'@ VI TN,
+ Surely only, a 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 Ola would IT not mean
many cotxt,,1s instead Of merely SEQ
ond copin0i And even IL His faithful
were very few indeed, would it not
seem that this would keep the Redeem
ar busy coming and departing every
few minutes? .
Only Grass ignorance Of the Bible
could excuse any such misapplicattcn
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.
mo Man Hath Assembled to Heaven
Hearken to Jesus words, "No man
hath assembled up to Heaven" Only
the Son Of Man has ever been in heav-
en-. He has aseendad up where He was
before, with additional glory and hon
or. He is now preparing a place for
! Bis Bride class and preparing the
Bride class for the 4place-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 at His Second Coming
may be prepared and be accepted as
His Bride and granted share In His
glory, honor and Immortality.
1t Is in full harmony with this that
little later on the Great Teacher de-
clared that all the dead are I'm 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, q
testing as respects their worthiness or
unworthiness of everlasting life on the
human plane U.s..
Hear His assurance again respecting
His faithful ones-that they shall share
In HIS resurrection, the Chief Resurrec-
ton, to glory, honor, Immortality, on
the spirit plane. He said, blessed and
holy are all they that have part in the
First Resurrection; they shall be-
priests unto God and Christ, and shall
reign with Him a thousand years."
Be 1t noted that in all these assur-
ances the Church is spoken Of as a
class, all Of whom will enter into glory
together, at Christ's second coming,
and not separately, as 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 q place in the glorious Body
OF Christ, in the glorious Bride COM
pany. but. the statement, is repeatedly
made that we shall be 0lori1fed together,
shall have part In the one resurrection.
"David Not Assembled to Heaven"
In full accord with all the foregoing
is St. Peter statement on the Day Of
Pentecost: "For David Is not ascend.
ed into the heavens; his sepulchre Is
with us unto this day." st. Peters
words imply that If King David had
assembled to Heaven he would have no
sepulchre on earth. Similarly, we
might say of all Of the Prophets, and
or all other persons that, If 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 sepulcbre Is
that of personality awaiting resur-
rection, awaiting deliverance from the
state and condition Of death. So the
Scriptures always refer, not to resur.
rection Of the living. which would be
an absurdity, but to resurrection Of
the dead
Note the connection In which the
Apostle Peter uses this expression:
David is not assembled into the heav-
ems" He had just called attention to
the TACT that David prophesied Of ,the
resurrection Of Jesus. In the prophecy
he personated Jesus, and said, '"Thou
wilt not leave My soul in sheet hodes)
nor suffer Thine Holy One to see cor
rupton." ST. Peter argues that this
was not true Of David, that he did see
corruption, that his soul aoas left in
8heoI, and Is still there, and will not be
reclaimed until Messiah, in the resur-
rection morning, shall call him forth.
"Be With Mo In Paradise"
But, says some one, did not the >dy-
Ing thief go with Jesus to Paradise
the very day in which they both died7
And II 80, does not this prove that all
in harmony with God 60 to heaven
when they die, whatever may be the
condition Of others IN death?
NO, we have made q stupid hlunder
and misinterpretation Of our Redeem
er's dying words to the thief. The
wrong thought being in our minds we
misinterpreted in harmony Herewith.