New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-12

nations were angry, and my wrath Is
come" Revelation 11:1S.
After some Introductory comments
upon his text, the speaker read mum
Der of corroborative Scriptures-lsalah
3i:l-6; jeremiah 25:l5, is, 21-3o;
Isaiah 66:l5, 10; Luke 2l:24-26; Rev
citation 6:9-ll; 2 Thessslonians /:
$40. Commenting on these Scriptures
as he went, the Pastor claimed that
their united testimony referred TO the
present time, mistranslated the end OF
the world; properly interpreted, the
end of this Age, tapping upon and in,
auguratng the New Age-"the world
to come
Gods people Israel typifed Spiritual
Israel. All others were called the ma
tions. the people, the Gentiles, and
were outside covenant relationship
with God. Many Of the Scriptures
quoted had double application: in
smaller sense, to the affairs of Typical
Israel; in a large sense their fulfl-
ment belongs to the end of this Age.
OF Natural Israel it was written,
"They arc not all Israel who are of
Israeli; and similarly we might say to-
day, not all arc Christians who profess
to be. Jesus emphasized this same
thought when He referred to "lsraeltes
indeed" and speaking of His Church
He referred to some as "the very
Elect" thus Distinguishing them from
the numerous mass Of Christians, who
in formal manner say, Lord, Lord
and draw nigh with their lips, when
their hearts are far from Him.
Only Jews. Gentiles and Saints.
Applying the matter now. the Pastor
declared that the whole world arc Gen
tiles, except the true followers Of
Christ, His saints, and the loyal
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 unklndness; for
he declared that there are many noble
characters amongst the Gentlles-
amongst those who are not in covenant
relationship with God, who are neither
under the Law Covenant nor under the
Covenant Of Grace. God has an event
ual blessing for all VINO love righteous
ness and truth under the blessing Of
Restitution. Acts 3:19:23.
However, to understand Gods deal
ing in the present time, nominal Chris
tians. or mere professors, must not be
have responded to the Gospel Call,
Gather My saints together unto Nc,
saith the Lord; those who have made
a Covenant with Ne By sacritice"-self
sacrifice. Psalm sos; Romans l2:l)
If we shall recognize these sanity
Christians Of every nation and de-
nomination as being the one true
Church, "whose names are written in
Heaven" and if We shall recognize all
others as Gentiles. we shall be getting
the eye Of our understanding into true
alignment with the mind of God as eX-
pressed in the Bible. From this stand
point only can the prophecies of the
Bible be understood.
Thus seen. God is not merely calling
nations to war, to battle, as nations;
but in more particular sense the call
is 20 all Gentiles irres pective of ma
tonal boundaries. And it 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 cOntac.
with Gods Messages they arc not so
particularly included in the judgments,
Establishments. troubles, foretold to be
coming upon the earth at the close of
this Age In other words, unintcn
tionsl ignorance of God is not a crime
20 be punished, but defect TO be cor
rected in due time by the blessings Of
Messiah's Kingdom.
The blow of the Divine rod is there
fore to be expected upon the so-called
Christian Kingdoms upon nominal
Christian people. The responsibility
of those and their punishments will be
in proportion to their knowledge and
~ -. e, t. hn Enn L
edge possessed. Ignorance IS not
wickedness in Gods sight.
Wrong Thoughts Re Gods Wrath.
When thinking of the wrath Of God
coming upon the world, we are not to
think Of tho Almighty as having eNer-
cised great patience for centuries and
finally losing His temper and wrcaking
vengeance upon His creatures. Such
a thought might be gathered from some
Of the expressions of the Scriptures,
because Of adaptation Of language to
human comprehension, and because Of
more or less loss of the true sentiment
in translatirg and through the mental
gloss of the translators. In any even
let US remember that this wrath of God
and the judgments coming upon the
world arc wholly different from 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, that eternal torture nightmare
thrust upon US from childhood, incul
Gated by all the creeds of Christendom,
but wholly 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 lie will have to do
with their precipitation upon the
world, nevertheless elsewhere lie also
shows us that these troubles really
come from ourselves. that they are the
outgrowth Of human wrong doing, and
that these dire penalties Of sin would
have wrecked our social and religious
fabric long, long ago. had not Divine
Providence forfouded Us holding back
the storm Of human passion and avar-
ice. and permitting it to come only
now, in the end OF the Age, at the
time when Divine Providence has Mes
sish's Kingdom in full readiness to
take control. Just so soon as the
storm Of human passion shall have
taught humanity its needed lessons,
and shall have liduidated the long
standing accounts. Messiah's Kingdom,
with clean slate. will be inaugu-
rated.
We have reached the end Of this
world the end OF this Avr. tn. long
promised Day of BLESSING and Divine
favor is already dovning. God through