The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
EVEnYBODY'S Bible BOX.

Q.Wnl some one please explain the
passage 4 make peace and create evil,
i the Lord do all these things" -Isaiah
45:7? In what sense does the Lord create
evil? Farmers Wife,
Answer.-Sin is always an evil, but an
evil is not always a sin. An earthquake,
a conflagration, a flood or a pestilence
would be a calamity, evil but none
of these would be sins. The word evil
in the text cited signifies calamities. The
same Hebrew word is translated afflicton
in Psalm 34:49; 10Y 80; jeremiah As 10;
Zechariah 1:15 In its translated calam-
tiles adversely, and distress in l Samuel
1913; Psalm 1880; 94:13; 141 Is; Ecclesiastes
ia; Nehemiah 2:17. And the same word
is in very many places rendered harm,
sorrow. In the text before us the Lord
would remind Israel of the covenant
made with them as nation-that if they
would obey His laws He would bless them
and protect them from the calamities com
mon to the world in general; but that if
they would forsake Him He would bring
ments. Hence God sent them word
through the prophets, reminding them of
their covenant and telling them that their
calamites We're from Him and by his will
this text to prove that God is the Author
of sin, for they do not at all refer to
sin.
Owe read in l Corinthians 12:s-10.
about the gifts of the spirit" and dis
corning of spirits Did Christian the
genuine? If so; why do they regard them
as false today? Did those gifts cease
with the death of the Apostles. and is
that the reason why they are not used
in the world now? (F. WI
Answer.-The gifts of the spirit were
conferred upon the Apostles. and these
alone We're endowed with the power of
transferring them upon others. When
the Apostles went down into death none
had the gifts excepting those who had
received them from the Apostles. When
these there
sessed the miraculous powers of the
gifts of the spirit The gifts" had
and the establishment of the Church of
Christ, and therefore, were no longer re-
quired. The Apostle Paul had foretold
that the time would come when the gifts
would cease, and when something better
would take their place Writing to the
Corinthians he said-"Whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail; whether there
shall be tongues, they shall cease; wheth-
er there be knowledge, it shall vanish
away" Il Corinthians 1889 In the first
three verses of this chapter he had point
ed out that the gifts were comparative
ly valueless. Without the quality of love
ccharity'o they were as nothing. The
son when He said to His followers by
their fruits We shall know them, and not
by their great and wonderful works.
Matthew 7:20-23.
Q.-In Acts 1871, we read that the
world is to be judged by that Man whom
He (God) hath ordained Is that great
Judge, Christ, a man? (B. 3D.
Answer--In the primary sense of the
teachings of this verse. the Lord Jesus
is to be the great judge of all. John 5-22)
But in the fuller and larger sense of the
teachings of the entire Scriptures, the
world is to be judged by the Christine
Anointed-Head and Body, the Lord Jesus
the Head and the Church which is His
Body The Apostle clearly points out this
great truth when he says Know we not
that the saints shall judge the world
q Corinthians SD The saints, the
sanctified members of the Church of
Christ are to have the high honor and
privilege of being associated with their
Lord in the judgment of the entire race
of mankind during the thousand years
of the reign of Christ over the nations
of the earth. Then will be the worlds
great judgment day or trial time in the
which, whatsoever wills to do right may
gain eternal life. The Church is now on
trial and being fitted and prepared for
that future work of judging the world.
The time for the beginning of the worlds
judgment and blessing will not be until
the last member of the Body OF Christ