River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-16

Restitution, of which the Scriptures so
frequently speak, and which st. Pc
ter declares God has spoken by the
mouth of all His holy Prophets.
So then, the basis for thinking of the
end of the world. now or ever. is pure
ly a misunderstanding. due largely to
the fact that our English translation
uses the word world where it would
more properly have used the word Age,
Epoch, or order of things. In q word.
the present order of things. of which
the Scriptures declare Satan is the
prince, or ruler. is not to be perpetual;
it is to pass away. A new order of
things, under the control of Messiah.
the Prince of Light. is to take the place
Of the present reign of the Prince of
Darkness. A reign of righteousness
and life is to succeed the present reign
of sin and death. according to ST. Paul.
Romans 5:17. p.
Christ's Second Coming.
The Bible everywhere represents
that Christ left a Heavenly glory when
He came to earth nearly nineteen cen
turtles ago. THE Logos was made
flesh and dwelt among U.S." The Bible
explains that the necessity for this
humiliation. this leaving the glory and
taking a bondman's form. lay in the
fact that God had pronounced a death
sentence upon man, which mankind
were paying and from which they
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would become their redeemer and meet
the penalty for them-a death penalty.
not an eternal torment penalty, of
which the Scriptures know nothing.
The Bible nowhere tells that Jesus
took the human nature to keep it for
ever. and to return with it to Heaven,
where it would be completely out of
order and out Of place. The Bible
teaches, on the contrary, that flesh
and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom
of God" q Corinthians $500; and that
Jesus was made flesh merely that He
by the grace of God should taste death
for every man" (Hebrews 2:9); and
that after doing this work He would
ascend up where He was before"
John 6:62). st. Paul assures us that
this, the Divine Program, has been car
ried out. After telling of our Lords
obedience to the Fathers will in hum
bling Himself to death, even the death
of the cross, he adds, God hath high
ly exalted Him"-"far above angels.
principalities and powers."-Philippi-
ans 2:5-11; Ephesians 1903.
The Master declared plainly, "Yet a
little while, and the world shall see
Me no more; but He promised that
He should be seen by His followers.
st. John declares, 1--WE shall be like
Him; for we shall see Him as He u.s."
Il John 3:2.) We read: every eye
shall see HiEa"; but this, to be in har-
mOny with the other Scriptures, must
refer to the eyes of understanding.
The Bible declares that eyes of hu-
man understanding are blinded now
by error and sin. but that shortly all
the blind eyes shall be opened. Then
all will see Messiah and His Kingdom
with the eye of faith, as the Church
now see Jesus. the crown of life. and
the things which the natural eye hath
not seen.
Parousia-Presence; Epiphania-Mani-
festation.
Our English word coming is used to
translate several very different Greek
words. One of these is ParOusia,
which means presence, and is used in
referring to the first stage of the
Lords Second Advent. He will be
invisibly present. For a time none but
the sanity few whose eyes of under
standing are anointed through the
Word and the Spirit. will realize His
ParOusia, His presence. while all
things earthly will continue as they
have been-buying, selling, building,
marrying, etc. Then, later on, will
come the Epiphania; that is to say.
the revelation. or manifestation, of
the present One. This will not be a
manifestation in the flesh, but in a
great Time of Trouble, symbolically
represented as fire, as when we read,
HE shall be revealed in flaming fire.
taking vengeance.''-2 Thess. 1910.
To my understanding, the Bible
teaches that Jesus has been present
in the world since 1874. In other
words, His Second Advent then began.
The wonderful progress in the world
since then Bible students thus explain;
the wonderful blessing upon them and
their study of the Bible they interpret
in harmony with this. They under
stand the Bible to teach that this Pa
rousia will continue for a thousand
years; but that the Epiphania, or a
Hesitation to the world, will be due In
forty years from the time the Presence
began. For this reason they are look
ing very interestedly to see what the
present year may bring forth.
And do we not see everywhere signs
Of unrest. a time of trouble brewing?
1t looks as though this year would mark
the beginning of the s"1aming fire"
of judgments upon the world which
will mark the closing of this Age and
the Inauguration of the New Dispen-