River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-20


Peter declares symbolically that 1.-The
the social elements. Concerning that
awful trouble the Bible declares. HE
shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking
vengeance" All will know, all will
see all the world will mourn and be in
terror, the more SO because of the false
doctrines which have represented that
beyond the present life is an eternity
of torture for all except the sanity
elect few Such wrong visions of the
future make doubly severe the trials
and disappOintments and losses of the
present life which are the real iudg-
ments of the Lord. the Bible knowing
nothing of an eternity of torture in the
future, but telling us everywhere that
the dead sleep, waiting for the glorious
Kingdom of Him who redeemed them
more than eighteen centuries ago by
the sacrifice of Himself.
Christ will not appear to His Church
in flaming fire-only to the world:
when He shall appear, then SHAH ge
also appear with Him in glory" Be.
fore the consummation Of that great
Time Of Trouble, every saint, every
member of the CHURCH of the First
born, whose names are written in
Heaven, will have been changed from
earthly nature to spirit nature, because
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom" Neither will the sympathy
of Christ, or the sympathy of the
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to prevent the great catastrophe with
which this Age will end.
The Kings, Emperors and Cars Of
the world would no more give over to
Jesus their power and rule and gov
eminent than would the clergy give
over the spiritual control. The Divine
Program seems to be to allow human
institutions to wreck themselves in
showing their own incompetency and
opposition to the Divine arrangement.
Thank God for the better Day be-
yond-when the Sun of Righteousness
shall arise with healing in His beams
for the blessing Of all the families of
the earth! Thank God that the Re
| deemer, full of sympathy, will be wise
to know how deeply the plowshare Of
sorrow and trouble may go to properly
prepare the hearts of men for the rich
blessings His Millennial Kingdom will
have to bestow! Thank God for the
assurance that Messiah's Kingdom will
prove to be ''the desire Of all nations"
How Christ Will Come.
How unreasonable, how unscriptural,
we now see were the theories respect
ing the Second Coming of Christ hand
ed down from a darker time! We were
Informed that the Redeemer would
come again in the flesh, whose only
glory would be kind of shining of the
skin. We overlooked entirely the great
change which came to our Master aft
er He had finished the sacrifcial work
given Him to do. His ascension signi-
fed return not only to Heaven. but
also to the Heavenly conasafSan 'sSa
He left when He humble& AfnseR 10
be made flesh for the purpose Of being
mans Redeemer.
We overlooked the statement that He
was put to death in flesh, but quick
ened in spirit" We overlooked the
fact that the Master declared. MY
flesh l give for the life of the world"
We overlooked the fact that the Scrip
lures assure us that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
and that consequently the elect Church.
before entering the Kingdom cOndi
ton, must be changed by the power
of the First Resurrection-made Heav
emily, or spirit beings, like our glorifed
Redeemer.
From the foregoing is 1t not evident
that the presence of the Lord will not
be discerned except by the few? The
masses will not know, even as the
masses knew not in the time of Noah.
But as Noah and his family knew
about the coming Deluge, SO the saints
of God will know approximately the
time of the great trouble with which
this Age will close and the Kingdom
Age be inaugurated. Thus the Apostle
says, "Ye, brethren, are not in dark
ness, that that Day should overtake
you as a thief" though 1t shall come
as a snare upon the whole world
TheSSalonians 6:1-6.
The period Of Christ's presence, 'tas
thief in the night" unknown to the
world, will be a time of special
scrutiny and judgment In the Church
time of giving reward to those found
faithful This dealing with the Church
includes, we believe, the Resurrection
reward that will be given to the
Apostles and all the faithful ones of
the Church who have fallen asleep and
have been waiting for this very hour
and it's blessings.
So the Apostle tells us that those of
the Church alive and remaining until
that time will not hinder, or prevent,
those who have gone before. THE
dead in Christ shall rise first" They
will enter into the joys of their Lord
first, and will experience the resurrec-
ton change first Later on. the breth-
rem then living will be dealt with,