Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-09-10

this subject of the destiny of human
ity. and greatly assists the public to
understand the Scriptural usage of the
words Sheol and Hades. so long mis-
understood and misrepresented. The
Pastor said:
Closing Scenes Of This Age.
God has stated times and seasons for
every feature of His great Plan for the
Salvation of Mankind from sin and
death conditions. In the end of each
Of these seasons there has been a fin
fishing up of its work and clearing
of of the rubbish, preparatory to the
beginning of the work of the incoming
Age. Thus in the end of the Jewish
Age there was a Harvest-a separa-
ton of the wheat class from the chaff
and complete rejection Of the latter
class from Gods favor. With the few
judged worthy in the end of that Age
a new arrangement began-the Gospel
Age-and now we find ourselves
amidst the closing scenes Of this Age
the Harvest-during which the wheat
class and the tare class are being sep
arated. With the wheat class. Of
which our Lord Jesus Christ is the
Head. new Age, the Millennium. is
about to be inaugurated. At the close
Of the NDlennial Age there will be
| still another Harvest, in which the
sheep class will be separated from the
goat class. and ushered into the glory
Of the ages to follow.
In the past many of Gods people
have read their Bibles very carelessly.
Our minds have been sluggish to spir-
itual things. For instance. the Para
Die Of the Sheep and the Goats was at
one time applied to the Church. We
failed altogether to notice that it does
not say even one word respecting the
Church, but is applied to the world. the
nations. the heather. For many cen
turtles the Jews had been accustomed
to think of themselves as Gods nation.
Gods people; all others they styled
heather. Gentiles. the nations, the peO-
pie; and in the Old Testament prophe-
cies God has treated the subject from
that standpoint.
In line with this usage. when Spirit
ual Israel was received into Divine ia
vor as the Royal Priesthood. the holy
| nation. the peculiar people, all the re-
mainder of mankind were properly
enough to be thought Of as the nations.
the Gentiles. Following this thought.
our Lord tells us in the Parable of the
Sheep and the Goats what will befall
the nations after His Kingdom shall
have been set up-after the selection Of
the true Church class to be the Bride.
the Lambs Wife.
The Parable Descriptive of the New
Age.
That this parable refers to the work
Of the incoming Age Is clearly indicat-
ed in the opening verse. There the
Master distinctly says. when the Son
Of Man shall come in His glory, and
| Ill the holy angels with Him, then
shall He sit upon the Throne of His
glory" The scene Of this parable evil
IDENTIFY is laid after the Time of Trou-
BILE. when the nations shall have been
up'iuCus SATAN poulu, OAd INC auGHOll
f sy of Christ's Kingdom established
Before that time shall have come, the
overcoming Church will have been
seated with her Lord as His Bride in
His Throne. AS the Apostle writes,
Know We not that the saints shall
Judge the world?"-I Corinthians Go.
Then follows description Of the
work of the Messianic Age: Before
Him shall be gathered all nations"
All the people in the world. except
Gods holy nation, His peculiar people.
the Church of Christ. will be gathered
before the great white Throne of Di
vine Justice, Mercy and Love. First
will come the living nations; and then
in their appointed time the dead of all
nations will be called to appear before
the Judgment Seat of Christ, there to
receive fair, impartial trial as indi
viduals under the most favorable cir
cumstances. the outcome of which will
be final sentence of worthiness or
unworthiness of life everlasting.
Six thousand years ago. in Eden,
Adam and his entire race We're on trial
for life. But Adam failed. and was
sentenced to death. His posterity, sin
ming in him. MORO -sc,..-.Snaad in L:,u.