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whole fabric Of society. ecclesiastical,
political, financial, will be ION FIRE." st.
Peter declares symbolically that '+the
elements will melt with fervent heat
the social elements. Concerning that
awful trouble, the Bible declares, "He
shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking
vengeance" All will know, all win
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 sever the trials
and disappointments and losses Of the
present life which are the real judg-
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 fre-only to the world:
when He shall appear, then shall go
also appear with Him in glory" Be-
fore the contamination 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
Church with poor humanity, interfere
to prevent the great catastrophe with
which this Age will end
The Kings, Emperors and Cars Of
the world would no more give yer to
Jesus their power and rule and gov
eminent than would the clergy give
yer 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 earthI Thank God that the Re
deemer, full Of sympathy, viii 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 a kind of shining Of the
skin. We overlooked entirely the great
change which came to u Master aft
er He had finished the sacri1cial work
given Him to do. His ascension signi-
fed a return not only to Heaven, but
also to the Heavenly condition which
He left when He BUNDLED Himself to
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 1 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 it not evident
that the presence Of the Lord viii not
be discerned except by the few? The
o will not know, sven rs the
masses knew not In the time OF Noah.
But as Noah and his family knew
about the coming Deiuge, 30 the saints
of God will knew 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 shoHld overtake
you as a thief" though 1t shall come
as a snare upon the whole world
Thessalonians 5:1-6.
The period Of Christs presence. cas-
q thief in the night" unknown to the
world, will be a time Of special
scrutiny and judgment in the Church
a 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 its 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
win 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,
down to the last member. Then the
Church having been glorifed, the next
step of the Divine Program win be in
order-the Epiphania, or shining forth
Of the Lord in glory.
When speaking OF Christ's Epiphania,
or revealing, we are not 10 understand
that His Parousia has ceased. Rather,
as at the First Advent, Christs pres
ence covered a number OF years, SO