The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-03

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was, "And the nations were angry, and
Thy wrath is come. Revelation 11:1S
After some Introductory comments
upon his text, the speaker read num-
Der of corroborative Scriptures-Isaiah
84:1-6; jeremiah 25:15, 16, 27-3S; Isaiah
66:15, 10; Luke 21:24, 20; Revelation
> 6:9-11; Thessalonians 1910. Com
menting on these Scriptures, the Pas
tor claimed that their united testimony
referred to the present, mistranslated
the end Of the world; properly inter
preted, the end of this Age, tapping
upon and inaugurating the New Age
"the world to come"
Only Jews, GentiIss and Saints.
!. The Pastor declared that the whole
world are Gentiles. according to the
Scriptural presentation, except the true
followers of Christ and the loyal-heart-
ed Jews, who are still Gods people
under their Law Covenant In class
ing the great mass of Jews and of pro-
fessed Christians as part of the world
the Pastor meant no unkindness; but
ing In the present time, nominal Chris
tians, or mere professors, must not lie
COMPOUNDED with the "little flock" who
have responded to the Gospel Call,
"Gather My saints together unto Me
saith the Lord those who have made
a Covenant with Ne by sacrifice
i. self-sacrifice. psalm 50:5; Romans
12:1.) If we shall recognize these
sanity Christians of every nation and
denomination as being the one true
Church, whose names are written in
Heaven" and If we shall recognize al
others as Gentiles, we shall be getting
the eyes of our understanding into true
alignment with the mind of God as ex-
pressed In the Bible.
Thus seen, God is not merely calling
nations to war, to battle, as nations:
but in a more particular sense the call
is to this Gentle class irrespective of
national boundaries. And 1t Is worthy
of note that throughout the Scriptures
the great masses Of India, China, etc,
are comparatively ignored. Because
they have not come into particular con-
tact with Gods Messages they are not
so particularly included in the judg
ments, Establishments, troubles, fore
told to be coming upon the earth at the
close of this Age. In other words, un
intentional ignorance of God is not
crime to be punished, but defect to
be corrected in due time by the bless
fngs of Messiah's Kingdom.
Wrong Thoughts of Gods Wrath.
When thinking of the wrath of God
coming upon the world, we are not to
think Of the Almighty as having exer-
cised great patience for centuries and
finally losing His temper and wreak-
ing vengeance upon His creatures.
Such thought might be gathered from
some of the expressions of the Scrip
lures, because of adaptation Of Ian
guage to human comprehension, and
more or less loss of the true sentiment
in translating and through the mental
gloss Of the translators.
In any event let us remember that
this wrath of God and the judgments
coming upon the world are wholly diff
ferent from the overwhelmingly, eter-
nal torture at the hands of demons,
taught US by our creeds Instinctively,
a part of the dread we have of death
in every form-by war, famine and
sickness-is the fear of that eternal tor
ture nightmare thrust upon US from
childhood, inculcated by all the creeds
of Christendom, but without Bible
foundation when the latter is properly
translated and rightly understood.
Furthermore, we should remember
that while God has foretold the trou-
bles Of the Day of Wrath for centuries
and indicates that He will have to do
with their precipitation upon the
world, nevertheless elsewhere He also
shows us that these troubles really
come from ourselves, that they are
the outgrOwth of human wrongdoing,
and that these dire penalties of sin
would have wrecked our social ami
religious fabric long. long ago, had
not Divine Providence forfended US
holding back the storm of human pas
sion and avarice, and permitting 1t to
come only now, in the end of the Age
at the time when Divine Providence
has Messiah's Kingdom In full readi
ness to take control Just so soon as
the storm Of human passion shall have
taught humanity its needed lesson and
shall have liquidated the long standing
accounts, Messiahs Kingdom, with
clean slate, will be inaugurated.
; Accounts Yet to Be Squared.
In Jesus and in His sanity follow
ers throughout this Gospel Age, the
world has had Gods Cause, the Cause
of Righteousness and truth, more or
less clearly manifested. Every perse-
cution against these members of the
Body of Christ is crime against God
and against righteousness. OF such
sufferings the Apostle says, IF any
suffer as Christian, let him glorify
God on this behalf; for the spirit of
glory and of God resteth on SUCH"
As blessing rested upon all the
Lords faithful people who have suf
fered unjustly, SO correspondingly a
Divine curse, or penalty, has rested
upon all prosecutors of these, their re-
sponsibility being gagged by the degree
of their knowledge. and their punish
ment proportionate. On the books of
Justice, however, God represents that
the lives of all His faithful ones cry
out for vengeance; and that while mer-
cy comes to all mankind through the
sacrificial death of the Saviour, this
does not alter the fact that Justice
calls for punishments for crimes more
or less wilful and therefore not includ-
ed In the Saviours atonement.
Thus it was in the end of the Jew
ish Age, which may serve us as pat
tern, or illustration of the ending of
this Age. st. Paul, writing of that
time. says, Wrath is come upon this
people to the uttermost, that all things
written In the Law and the Prophets
concerning them should be fulfilled"
Notice, however, the vast difference be-
tween these Bible judgments and the
eternal torment judgments falsely de-
clared by every one of our creeds,
which indirectly tell us that every
Jew at death goes to eternal torment
because he is not Christian.
But the Scriptures declare that the
punishments upon the Jews which cul-
minated In the destruction of Jerusa-
lem In A. d. 20 were, some of them,