River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-10-29


taught humanity its needed lesson and
shall have liquidated the long standing
accounts, Messiah's Kingdom, with d
clean slate, will be inaugurated.
Accounts Yet to Be Squared.
In Jesus and in His sanity follow
ers throughout this Gospel Age, the
world has had Gods Cause, the Cause
of Righteousness and truth, more or
less clearly manifested. Every perse-
cution against these members of the
Body of Christ is a crime against God
and against righteousness. OF such
sufferings the Apostle says, "If any
suffer as a Christian, let him glorify
God on this behalf; for the spirit of
glory and of God resteth on such.''
AS blessing rested upon all the
Lords faithful people who have suf-
fered unjustly, SO CORRESPONDENCE a
Divine curse, or penalty, has rested
upon all prosecutors Of these, their re-
sponsibility being gagged by the degree
of their knowledge, and their punish
ment proportionate. On the books Of
Justice, however, God represents that
the lives of all Ills faithful ones cry
out for vengeance; and that while mer-
cy comes to all mankind through the
sacrifcial death of the Saviour, this
does not alter the fact that Justice
calls for punishments for crimes more
or less wilful and therefore not includ-
ed in the Saviour's atOnement.
Thus it was in the end of the Jew
ish Age, which may serve us as pat
tern, or Illustration Of the ending of
this Age st. Paul, writing Of that
time, says, Wrath is come upon this
people to the uttermost, that all things
written in the Law and the Prophets
concerning them should be fulfilled
Notice, however, the vast difference be-
tween these Bible judgments and the
eternal torment judgments falsely de-
clared by every one of our creeds,
which Indirectly tell us that every
Jew at death goes to eternal torment
because he is not Christian.
But the Scriptures declare that the
punishments upon the Jews which cul-
minated in the destruction of Jerusa-
n.
for sins committed long before. No
tice Jesus words, 1.-THE blood of all
the Prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, shall be re-
CURED of this generation; from the
blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacha-
rias, who persisted between the Altar
and the Temple Luke 1850, 81.
Wherein was the justice In exacting
all that of the people living in the close
of that Age? We reply that those peo-
pie had far more responsibility than all
who preceded them. They had great
Light amongst them, shining frcm Je-
sus and the early saints. In their
treatment Of these lightbearers, cruel
flying them and variously injuring
them, upon that last generation OF
the Jewish Age wrath came to the
uttermost.'
"The Recompenees of Zion."
The Bible intimates that similar ag-
gregations of punishment are to be
expected in the end Of this Gospel Age.
The great Time of Trouble, or Day OF
WRATH is the .'recompense Of the con-
troversy of Zion"-the saints, the true
Church. For eighteen hundred years
has Jesus prophetically declared that
the Kingdom class would suffer vio-
lence; and the violent have usurped
the place Of the true by force.
All the while, the violent have out
Wardly been posing as the True
Church Of Christ, while the saints of
God in every epoch and in every cen
fury have suffered-"as deceivers and
yet true; as poor, yet making many rich;
as having nothing. yet possessing all
things" e Corinthians 6:8-1O) "Heirs
of God and joint-heirs with Christ
Romans $40, they have been count
ed 1.-THE filth and offscouring of the
EARTH" "of whom the world was not
worthy"
But the sin Of their prosecutors must
be liquidated, even though the perse-
cutors themselves will all eventually
be forgiven. From this viewpoint, the
'sTime of Trouble such as was not
since there was a nation,' and which
is now beginning gradually to be con-
summated, will be the squaring of
Gods accounts with the world, prepar-
atory to handing the Kingdom over to
Messiah for the blessing of all.
AS illustrative of this principle, note
the lesson of Revelation 6:9-11: The
cry is, "How long, o Lord. holy and
true, dost Thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the
earth?' The message for all these
martyrs of Jesus was, Wait little
season, the vengeance will come, but
not until all Of this class shall have
experienced their share of ''the suffer
ings of Christ"
To these martyrs the suffering
brought polishings of character, test
ings Of faith, Divine approval and an
increased glory on the spirit plane as
members of the Bride of. Christine
blessings to be given to them In the