The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-26

| means the place of destruction we
| should not quarrel with any one who may
destruction. The Word word .!tartaToo'' seems
to refer more to act than to a place
The fall of the angels who sinned was
from honor and dignity, into dishonor and
+, condemnation, and the thought seems to
sinned, but degraded them, and delivered
them into chains of darkness. Oblivion
and annihilatlon are terms that apply Ie
| these who enter into the destruction OF
gehenna,-the state, condition, or place of
| as though they had not been."-Oba-
diah 16.
Q.-What is meant by the term Para
disc; and where is it? If Paradise has
Answer.-Paradise signifies a garden or
park: and is applied in the Scriptures pri-
| marily to the Garden of Eden. The ideal
conditions prevailed in that favored spot,
a perfect home for the perfect man spe-
cially prepared by the Lord Beautiful
| birds and flowers with graceful animals
coursing about, and splendid fish in the
| crystal streams, with not single note of
| inharmony to mar the peace and happi-
nificent place for the glorious creature,
| man, whom God had formed in His own
| image and likeness, This heaven on
earth" condition was all forfeited through
d1sobedience, and not only this, but life
/ also. Driven out of the garden into the
! harsh and barren world where the thorns
and thistles were thriving under the curse,
man has groaned and struggled as he
| pursued his Borrowing course towards the
|
| when paradise would be restored, for the
| Lord had given him a faint ray of hope
| in the promise that the seed of the woman
should bruise the serpent's head. Genesis
3:15)- The Seed of the woman is the Lord
/ Jesus who will destroy the serpent, Satan.
and deliver mankind from the dominion of
sin and death. in ''the times of the resto-
ration of all things (Acts 3:19-2D when
| the whole earth shall bloom and blossom
| And they shall say, This land that was
desolate is become like the Garden of
! Eden: and the waste and desolate, and
ruined cities, are become fenced and are
| inhabited Ezekiel 1875; Isaiah IS $50.
| Q.-Are you in sympathy with the
| thought that the three days mentioned in
| Matthew 12:40s included the time from our
Lords betrayal in the Garden of Gethse-
name 10 s4e tnle or ms or
He was in the tomb? Or. NJ. j.
Answer,-The evidence is quite clear
and strong that the Savior died on Fri
! day afternoon at 3 o'clock, and was placed
| in the tomb shortly thereafter. (Matthew
27:46, 57-60; Mark Is :34,42; Luke 23:54) -.e
was raised the third day, Sunday, early
in the morning, possibly at about or 8
O'Clock. CMatthew 2S:1; John 2O:1.) Thus
| than forty hours. We would not think
that Jonah was in the interior of the
great sea monster any longer than this.
The Scribes and the Pharisees had asked
| for a Sign from the Master, and His
reply was that there shall no sign be
given, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.
fish, SO the Lord Jesus would be in 1.-The
| heart of the eartR-the tomb. 1t would
| lation of the Scriptures and the exercise
| of an abnormal imaginative faculty to
construe the statement of the Lord to
signify that the three days and nights in
cluded portion of the time that He was
not in the tomb. The three days in the
tomb would be striking sign to that
generation, whereas, the other construc
ton of the Masters statement would be
no sign at all. We are not in sympathy
| The less complex the Interpretation of the
| Bible: the more simple and plain we make
| its teachings; the more easily are the
people convinced of the truthfulness OF
! the sacred writer's, and therefore the more
firmly established in 1.-The true faith once
! delivered to the saints
! Q.-Where was the name "Christians'
first applied to the followers of Jesus?
| Priscilla.)
| Answer.-In Acts II 1895 we read Now
| they which were scattered abroad upon
the persecution which about
| Stephen, travelled far Phenice, and
| to none but unto the Jews only. And
some of them were men of Cyprus and
| Cyrene. which, when they were come to
Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preach
ing the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the
Lord was with them: and a great number
believed and turned unto the Lord. Then
tidings of these things came unto the ears
of the church which was in Jerusalem:
and they sent forth Barnabas, that he
he had come, and had seen the grace of
God, was glad and eXhorted them all
that with purpose of heart they would
cleave unto the Lord. For he was a
good man, and full of the Holy spirit and
of faith: and much people was added unto
the Lord. Then departed Barnabas to
Tarsus for to seek Saul. And when he
had found him. he brought him unto An
tioch. And it came to pass, that whole
year they assembled themselves with the
church, and taught much people. And
the disciples were called Christians first
in Antioch
GA prophet rebuking a wicked land,
dec \red if three men, whom he named,
noteS for their piety, were among the in
habitans they could deliver only their
own souls. What three men did he
Answer.-In Ezekiel 14-12-2o. we read
1.-THE word of the Lord came again to
sinneth against me by trespassing grieV-
ously, then will 1 stretch out mine hand
upon it, and will break the staff of the
bread thereof and Will send famine upon
it. and will cut off man and beast from it.
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel,
and Job, were in it, they should deliver
ness, saith the Lord God If cause noise
some beasts to pass through the land, and
they spoil it, SO that it be desolate, that
no man may pass through because or
the beasts: Though these three men were
in it, as 1 live, saith the Lord God, they
shall deliver neither sons nor daughters:
they only snail De OeilNSTeur Dol the ldiiu
shall lbe desolate." Noah, Daniel and Job
were the three men who were regarded as
being peculiarly righteous and worthy or
the special commentator of the Lord
O.-When was the place left vacant by
a traitors death filled by lot? ON. M.
NJ. NJ
Answer.-In. Acts 1926, read And
they apopinted two Joseph called Barsabas,
who was surnamed Justus. and Matthias
And they prayed. and said, Thou, Lord,
which knowest the hearts of men, show
whether of these two thou has chosen
1-hat he may take part of this ministry
and apostleship, from which Judas by
transmission fell, that he might go to
lots. and the lot fell upon Matthias; and