The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03


when all the land will be given to Abra--
ham. The Apostle Paul, in speaking of
the faith of Abraham and others of the
ancient WORTHLESS, says And these all
| having obtained good report through
faith received not the promise: God hav-
ing provided some better thing for us (the
Church of Christi that they without
should not be made perfect."-Hebrew
II :3S, 40.
GA writer in a recent issue of a daily
, paper declared that when Adam fell he
fell from a state of ignorance into state
| of knowledge" Will you kindly explain
| If this is correct, and if not, in what way
| he fell? (BingJ
Answer.-Various and innumerable have
! been the speculations to the fall of
father Adam. Some have even conject-
| ured that when he fell, he fell up and not
down, But why daily with speculations.
conjectures, and theories when the Bible
is before and the facts are in plain
view? The Scriptures declare that man
fell from a condition of perfection mental
ly, morally, and physically. From a con-
dition of harmony and favor with God to
one of disfavor, and condemnation to
death. CRomans 5;12 49, The sentence OF
death passed upon Adam involved all or
his posterity. The virus of sin tainted his
offspring, as we read Behold, was
righteous, no, not one. psalm 5l:o;
Romans 3:1O) Whether one believes in
the Bible or not, it cannot pc denied tnat
the race is a dying one Whence then,
came this condemnation to death? why
do all die, both innocent children and
those who have attained to maturity
There is but the one solution and that is
the Scriptural one-"As in Adam all die
1 Corinthians 1922. Well has 1T been for
the world of mankind that all were con-
demned to death in Adam. An individual
condemnation for each and all would nave
required separate redeemer TOT every ssas
for the purpose of redeeming mankind
from death; the second advent is for the
purpose of restoring mankind TO me-
9th AZ
O-FTom the Scriptural narrative as |
contained in the first few chapters of |
Genesis, we find that more than sixteen
centuries elapsed from the creation OF |
Adam, the first man, down to the time OF |
the deluge. Cities, palaces, and monu-
ments must certainly have been erected |
by the enlightened peoples of those tunes |
Were all of these destroyed by the flood. |
or would it be reasonable to suppose that
some of the ruins are still In ex1stenceE
Pharaoh)
existence some of the ruins of the cities
and palaces which were erected by the
antediluvians There are in Egypt at the
present time some mighty monuments ana
ruins of antiquity which give every eVl-
dence of having been built by superior
race of beings. These are on such a
gigantic scale, that BelZoni the famous
traveller, declares that the most sublime
ideas which be formed from the most
architecture, would give a very MADE
quate picture of these ruins. 1t appeared
to him that he was entering city oil de-
parted giants For some time, he seemed
unconscious whether he was on terrestrial
ground, or some other planet One
stone has been found to measure fourteen
feet square and to be seventy feet IN
length In view of the gigantic proper
lions of these ruins, we may well suppose
spring of the sons of Cod Gallen angels
and the daughters of men," See Genesis
6:1-4. Throughout Egypt there may be
found statues called sphinx. having the
head of man with the body of an ami
NAL. These were. doubtless, designed to
symbolic the union of the angelic stock
with that of the human.
OWN flesh and blood inherit the
earth during the reign of the Messiah for
the Thousand years following the second
advent? (Marolf)
Answer.-Flesh and blood the world of
mankind, will be restored to full and COM
plete perfection, mentally, morally, and
during the Times of Resttu-
ton (Acts 3:19:2D, when Christ will be
King over all the earth of that day. 1t
will require all of the thousand years to
accomplish this work of regeneration, and
the earth and to exercise earthly domin-
ion until perfection has been attained.
The perfect man, Adam, had been en-
dowed with all power and authority over
all the earthly realm and it is to this
same condition of perfection and domin-
ion that the entire race is to be restored.
Goats (Matthew % :31-46) the work of the
thousand years. following the second COM
the separation of the sheep and the goats,
the obedient and the disobedient, then the
Lord will say to those at His right hand,
Come, We blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world This king
DOM is the earthly dominion (and NOT the
heavenly, for flesh and blood cannot in
herit the kingdom of heaven'O and will |
be given to all the sheep after the sepa-
judgment day is completed. The Lord as
king will then step aside, His reign will
have ended, and then every man will be a
king in his own right and the lost domin-
ion will have been restored. See Psalm
s for prophecy of the restored dominion
This will be an everlasting dominion, as
the Prophet declared-'"The Kingdom and
the dominion shall be given to the people
of the saints of the Most High, whose
Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and
all dominions shall serve and obey him.
o-When the ark of the covenant was
contain? (Sheba.)
Answer.-''There was nothing in the
ark, save the two tables which Moses put
therein at Herob. when the Lord made a
with the children of Israel when
they came out of Egypt-"-Chronicles 10.
The declaration that there was nothing in
the Ark save the tables of stone on which
was inscribed the Law, seems at first TO
be in conflict with the Apostles statement
in Hebrews ga, where he mentions also
the golden pot of mamma and Aaron's rod
that budded We are to remember, how
ever, that this description related to the
Tabernacle and not the Temple The
golden bowl of mamma which did not cor
rupt was a type or illustration of the inn
or incorruptib1iity which the
Lord has provided for the Church of
Christ the Royal Priesthood, and the
budded rod was reminder that the bless
ing and fruitfulness and privilege of ser
vice belong to the antitypical Levite, but
as types both of these will end in the
present dispensation. They met with the
Tabernacle conditions; they will not be
needed in the future conditions of glory
honor, and immortality represented by the
Temple because there the glorious things
typified by these will have been fully en-
tered into by the overcomers of the
Church. But the Law will still be an in