The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-02-18

we consider the DeiuSS ltOu uAhSA
ent standpoint. We will attempt to
show from the Bible why God permit
ted the Deluge at all, and that He was
fully justified in the arrangement which
blotted out the human family, except
eight persons-righteous Noah and his
family Peter 2:4-10.
To begin WITH we should remember
that Gods Covenant with Adam
granting him everlasting life, was
based upon the fact that he was per
feet ian image of his CREATOR, and on
condition that he would maintain TINS
image and likeness by continued obedi
ence to his Maker. When Satan OBJ
sessed the serpent and guided it to eat
the very fruit of which our first par
ents were forbidden to eat, he pro
duced thereby temptation.
Mother Eve saw that so far from the
serpent's being poisoned by that fruit,
it was the wisest of animals. She |
reasoned that humanity was so far su |
perior to the brute that the increased |
wisdom would make her husband and |
herself like gods. She thirsted for |
kuOWleQEG anu pOWCl- OAiJ lhC A(Af iAiN
command seemed to stand between her
and the highest ideals. She parteok OF
the fruit and recommended it to Adam
who was not so deceived, but who
knew that death would surely follow
disobedience. Nevertheless he dis
obeyed, thinking that he would rather
perish with his wife than spend eter
nifty without her.
The disobedience led to expulsion
from Eden and the beginning of the
gradual execution of the sentence, by
| ing. thou shalt die" Adam died with
In the thousand-year Day in which he
ate ''of the tree"-nine hundred thirty
years old His race inherited his dy-
| ing conditions and tendencies. Thus
\ all humanity are under the Divine
! curse, or sentence of death, and have
been going down to the tomb, Hades,
for six thousand years. Whatever,
therefore, may cut short human life is
no injustice to humanity, because
whatever life is enjoyed Is just so
much more than 1t has title to. Hence
the Deluge was merely a quick means
Of executing against the race the death
sentence already expressed sixteen cen
turtles before.
The DeIuge DeIiVerance.
When the Bible account of the cause
Of the Deluge is properly comprehend
ed, it is seen that it was indeed bless
ing in disguise. The human family
had gotten into slavery, and would
shortly have been wiped out by a new
race which most peculiarly had intrud-
ed upon humanity The Bible tells us
that this new race consisted exclusive
ly Of males, propagated through the
human female. We read, 1.-THE same
were mighty men men of re
nown"-" giants. Genesis ella
The fallen race of Adam was unable
to cope with the superior mental and
physical strength of the intruders
Robbed OF their wives and daughters
and compelled to do the drudgery OF
their new masters, their lives were a
burden. Not only so, but the new race
was vicious, brutal, violent, as well as
immoral The Bible account declares
"The earth was filed with violence
The general moral corruption went SC
far that we read, Every Imagination
Of the thoughts of mans heart was
only evil continually" What terri
BILE arraignment! What a mercy in the
sight of all intelligent beings that sucf
terribly immoral, strifeful, and en-
shaved condition should be brought
completely to an end This description
Is found graphically recorded in Gene
sis Gill, said Pastor Russell.
Whence the Race Of Giants7
In the past we have not studied thu
Bible with sufficient care, and there
fore have not appreciated properly iti
wonderful. harmonious story. The orr
gin of the invading race of giants |:
clearly told. said Pastor Russell. Sa
tan, a glorious angelic being Of higf
order, named Lucifer, the Morning
Star, DETECTED to sin. because of ambi
ton. He had said in his heart long be
fore, II will be as the Most High"-ar
independent sovereign. isaiah 14:12
14) Satan thought that he saw his op
portunity to establish a separate EN-
| pa III l1C CcI Ill 1lc luOuEuI ludI IL
he could become master of the frs
pair, all of their children would be his
subjects. Knowing of his own undyins
nature. and that man was created fol
everlasting existence, he counted no
on death as the Divine penalty for sin.
When Satan perceived his human
subjects growing gradually weaker un-
| 6oNs 10, ,.In Q1ux,
lated. To the angels who were given
permission to help and to instruct hui
mainly, a temptation was presented
They possessed the power of mate
rializat ton, and could appear as human
to help and instruct humanity. The
Satanic suggestion was that they could
help humanity best by begetting a new
race, using the human females as moth
ers for that race, to which they would
impart their own virility Although
this was recognized as being contrary
to Divine Law, it was perceived that
Satan had not been punished for his re-
bellion. The inference was that God
was unable to punish Satan for this re-
bellion. Thus by refraining from pun
ishing Satan, God left open the door
by which all the holy angels were ex-
posed to temptations to disobedienee
and disloyalty.
Thus we may know that all the an
gels of Heaven in harmony with God
are loyal to the core, because they
withstood emptation-permitted for
the very purpose of their testing That
this testing continued for centuries we
know from the context, because the
children of the Illicit union were not
babes, but men-giants-and renowned
at time when manhood was rarely
reached earlier than one century. The
simple record of Genesis is, 1.-THE sons
Of God saw the daughters of men that
they were fair; and they took them
wives of all which they chose. >
When the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare chill
dren unto them, the same became
mighty men which were Of old, men Of
renown. "-Genesis Ga.
1t was these bestial giants who filed
the earth with violence, depressing and
enslaving Adams posterity. As for
them, they never had right to exist
ence, since they were born contrary to
the Divine WILL or Law. Nor can we
suppose that in any sense of the word
they would be included in the redemp-
tive work of Jesus, who died only for
Adam and his pesterity. "As all In
| Adam die even so all In Christ shall be