Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-03
Pastor Russel's Sermon

putting down Of sin in It's every form
and the death, destruction OF all who
love or sympathize with sin-Satar
and all other wayward ones,
Jesus said to some in His day: "YC
are Of your father, the Devil, for his
work ye do" The goats will be Of Sa
tan's company, because, like him, they
choose the way of sin and opposition tC
God, Truth and righteousness. 0uI
text might be more literally rendeSed
These [Satan and his followers, includ
ing the goats" Of the parallel shall sc
away into everlasting cutting-otf from
lifel, but the righteous 1.-THE sheep" Of
the parallel, shall be ushered into life
everlasting.
The Lord does not say that either
Satan or the goats will be sent to ever
lasting torment, but into everlasting
punishment-everasting death-a death
from which there will be no resurrec
ton. They shall perish like natural
brute beasts,-2 Peter PIP.
The Greek word here rendered pun
ishment is kOlGsiH which means prun.
ing, us husbandman prunes the dead
wood from his orchard or vineyard
SO Satan and all his hosts will be cut
off finally from Gods blessings, and be
destroyed in the Second Death. An.
other use of the word kOlaSin In classic
Greek is to restrain; as, "The chariot
eers restrain LkOldStnl their fiery
steeds." SO God, through Christ, de-
clares that the Second Death shall ever.
lastingly restrain Satan and all who
have his goat-like, wayward disposition,
after having had full knowledge and
opportunity to develop opposite dispo'
sition.
In previous verse the same parable
puts the results Of the trial of the ma.
tlons for life or death, during the Mes.
siah's Kingdom, in different language,
1t declares that the reward to the sheer
will be, Come, We blessed Of My Fla.
ther, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation Of the world u
This is the kingdom which was origi.
nally given to Adam, but lost through
disObedience.
This is the kingdom which Jesus by
obedience to the Law had right to
claim for Himself, but which He sacrI.
feed for the benefit Of humanity. The
Father gave to Him and to the Church.
His Bride, Heavenly Kingdom, not
founded when the earth was founded,
but from before the foundation Of the
world" Messiah, during the Mlllen.
NAL Age, will prove who Of mankind
are worthy Of everlasting human life
at the end Of His thousand-year reign.
The Lord will deliver to God the do.
minlon, or the kingdom'of earth. Man.
kind will thenceforth be responsible d..
rectly to the Heavenly Father, as we
read in l Corinthians 1924.
The fate Of the goats is described in
these words: "Then shall He say to
them on His left hand 1.-THE goatsl, De-
part from Me, ye cursed [unitl, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil
and his angels" The fact that this ls
parable forces the conclusion that the
fire Is as symbollcal as are the sheep
and the goats Fire here, as every.
where In the Bible, is used as symbol
Of destruction. Everything evil and
unfit, including Satan and all who fol-
low his perverse ways, are to be de-
stroyed "In the lake Of fire, which is
[symbollzesl the Second Death."-
Revelation 20:14
Cutting of Right Hand or Foot.
On another occasion Jesus, describ.
Ing how much the future life should
be appreciated, declared that man
had better cut Off his right hand or his
right foot or pluck out his right eye,
rather than otherwise be cast into the
fire that shall never be quenched and
where the worm dieth not. Mark 9:45,
AZ, 4S.) The Master did not mean His
words to be taken literally, and no
Christian would be justified In MAIN
Ing himself.
What the Master meant, evidently,
was that the pleasures and appetites Of
the present, though precious to us as
are our most useful members, should
be sacrificed rather than that maintain.
ing present blessings we should fail
to attain the promised Kingdom.
SO, likewise, we must interpret His
words respecting the worm dying not
and the FIRE not being quenched, The
disciples knew Of only one place where
these words could be applicable That
place was "the valley of Hinnom"-
Gehenna-where the refuse OF Jerusa.
lem was thrown as into garbage fur.
mace for destruction Fires Of brim.
stone were kept burning in the bottom
to destroy tho germs Of disease, and
no one eXtlnguishcd those ores. Rath.
er, they We're perpetuated And II, per.
chance, some carcass fell outside the
fire line, the worms devoured It. No
one wished to destroy the worms and
preserve the carcass.
Gehcnna thus became a type, or hg.
ure, Of the utter destruction awaiting
the finally rebelllous, who must perish
"as natural brute beasts" that the
earth may be cleansed Our Lords
references to the worms and to the Ore
were doubtless appreciated by those
who heard 1t would algnlfy to them
that, as the offal wOs destroyed, so the
wicked would be clnssed aS the of'al OF
humanity and be finally destroyed In
the Second Death.