The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-31

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ed on Revelation
xx, 8. 1t was announced that next
Sunday he will address a similar con-
vention in London. He said:-
The resurrection of the dead seems
to be the most difficult thing in the
Bible for the worldly-minded to grasp
by faith. This must be because the hui
man mind instinctvely realizes the
majesty of the Power and Wisdom
necessary to the reproduction Of the
same individuality which lived and
thought centuries ago, before passing
Into the silence of the tomb. The BIZ
BILE makes no denial Of the stupen-
dousness of the resurrection miracle
so far beyond the widest fights Of
human imaglnation-it confesses this
and calls upon us to exercise faith In
the great Creator. the Omnipotent One.
whose greatness we can but feebly
sense and surely cannot comprehend
Hence, the doctrine of the resurrec-
ton Of the dead. from its first an
nouncenent in the Scriptures, has call
ed for the strongest faith on the part
of believers and has excited the gen
eral resentment of unbelievers. who
seem to find 1t easier to believe any
thing else respecting the dead I'm
doubtedly this is the reason why SO
many who give evidence of general in
telligence accept the absurd theory that
when q dog dies he Is dead, but when
man dies he is more alive than ever
These properly claim to hope for
everlasting life. but not having faith
enough to believe in the Divine power
to perform the resurrection of the
dead. they are driven to the theory Of
Plato. Indeed. who has not heard
Plato quoted by ministers and other
learned men when discussing the fu-
ture life? They do not quote Jesus
and the Apostles. because the explana-
tons Of Jesus and the Apostles are all
to the contrary. proving that the dead
are dead, and that the only hope of q
future existence is by resurrection.
2 Jasus' Answer to the Ssdducess.
Note the answer of Jesus to the Sad
ducees Of His day, who. we are told.
specially denied the resurrection Of
the dead. Jesus answered. That the
dead are Ito bel raised was shown to
Moses at the burning BUSH" when
Gods message was. II ain the God Of
I thy fathers. the God of Abraham and
the God of Isaac and the God Of ia
cob.r Mark xii, 26; Acts vii. 81
Jesus commented that God would not
declare Himself to be their God if they
were dead in the absolute sense that
brutes die. Jesus argument was tina
the fact that God still recognized them
as persons while dead implied that
their souls merely slept and will be
granted resurrection of the dead. In
Gods die time and in better bodies
under more favorable conditions than
those under which they died
We remember that ST. Paul's letters
and sermons abound in references to
the dead We call to mind his great
resurrection chapter Il Corinthians
die in Adam. SO all shall be made alive
in. Christ-every man In his own or.
der" VERSES %. 23l He does not
gay that every man is diire. but that
they shall be made alive in the resur
fection. The intermediate state he de-
clares is a sleep from which. by Di
vine arrangement through Jesus. they
will all be awakened in the resurrec
ton morning, at and after the second
coming Of Christ.
We remind you afresh Of his positive
statement that II there be no resur
rection of the dead. then all whom WI
have supposed have fallen asleep have
persisted. VERSES l6-lS.) But thai
God Is able 10 raise all the dead hi
declares is demonstrated by the fac
that He raised up Jesus from the dead
on the third day: and so likewise on
the Third Day of a larger scale-ths
third thousand-year day from the time
Jesus was raised-God will raise up al
those who have died because of AID
ans sin.
That Third Great Day. the Millen
mum, will be the Great Seventh Day
or Sabbath. So TO speak. our Lore
gave Himself a Ransom-price In the
Fifth Day. from which the Seventh
would be the Third Day, the day o.
the worlds resurrectien-"the las
Days-the end of the present Weei
Of 1000-year days in which sin and dealt
have relgned. ushering in the gIoriOu
epoch when Gods will shall be don,
+ 81, earth as IL Is done In Heaven.
Ths Chisf Resurrection.
The tenor Of all tho Scriptures Is thn
ia Church alone VIII participate In tn