The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-04-22

out Gods purpose of a resurrection all
those asleep In death would have per-
ished as brute beasts. He pointed out
the Apostles assurances that Christ
arose from the dead and became the
First-fruits of those in the death sleep.
Others. indeed. were temporarily awak-
ened. but soon relapsed into death.
They did not have a full raising up to
life-a resurection-such as Christ's
redemptive work guarantees to Adam
and all Of his race who willingly ac-
cept that work under the terms Of the
New Covenant
Then he demonstrated conclusively
from Scripture that the soul. not the
body. is promised a resurrection. that
1t was our Lords soul that went to
Sheol to Hades-the tomb: and that
the Father raised Him out Of death on
the third day He pointed out the
difficulties into which all Christendom
is plunged by the unscriptural theory
that the body is to be resurrected. and
showed the reasonabeness of the
Bible presentation of the subject.
The ordinary thought respecting our
s
when Jesus seemed to die. He did not
actually die; that He the Soul. could
not die; that on the third day He re-
turned to get the body which had been
crucified: that forty days later He took
it to Heaven. where He will retain it
TO all eternity. married with the nail
prints, the thorn-marks, and the spear
~, old
gloss the matter by suggesting that
our Lords flesh shines-the shining
presumably making the scars and
wounds all the more conspicuous.
All this. the speaker declared. COM
ports with the theory that at death
the saints go to Heaven. but return
on the Judgment Day to get their bod
es-inconveniences of which they had
been rid for centuries. in some in
stances. He pointed out the absurdi-
ties of this theory handed down from
the Dark Ages. and presented the Bible
teaching on this important theme
What Say the Scriptures?
The Bible presentation is reasonable
and consistent st. Paul explains that
..there is a natural body and there is
q spiritual body" and that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of
God" A human being is so different
from q spirit being that, as st. John
says, 1T doth not yet appear what
we 1.-THE Church, shall be- In the
resurrection change; and the Bible
does not attempt an explanation. nut
merely declares that as we now bear
the image of the earthly. so the Church
shall. by the resurrection change. share
our Lords nature and likeness.
To be like our Lord and 10 see Him
as He is. the Church must be changed
from flesh and blood conditions to
spirit conditions by resurrection pow
err, This fact proves that our LORD is
no longer flesh and blood-a human
being.
st. Paul calls attention to the diff
ference between celestial and earthly
bodies. He tells us that the first Adam
was made living soul. Il man; but
that our Redeemer who took the earth
ly nature for the suffering of death.
thereby became the Second Adam-the
Heavenly Lord. The wide distinction
is thus clearly SET forth. One was
earthly. and the other Heavenly
The Scriptures teach that our Re-
deemer. before becoming Il man. was
Spirit Being. His leaving the spirit
plane to become man Is described as
a great humiliation on His part: for
man Is slower than angels" Adam.
the perfect man. had sinned; and ac-
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must be on the same plane-a CORE
spending price. Hence the death of an
angel or OF our Lord in His prehuman
condition would not have paid mans
penalty and released the condemned
race. So we read of our Lord. "A body
hast Thou prepared Me"-"for the suf-
fering of death"
The very Apostle who tells of our
Lords humiliation unto death. even
the death of the cross" assures us that
the Father did not leave His Son on
the lower plane. Wherefore says
ST. Paul. God hath highly exalted
Him. and hath given Him a name
above every name" This Is in har-
mony with our Lords prayer. "Glorify
Me with the glory that ! had with
Thee before the world was" He was
quite content to serve the Fathers
Plan and then to return to His former
glorious estate BUT the Heavenly Fs
theirs response was. Il have gIori1ed
Thee. and | will glorify Thee again"
or further-implyin n still higher
glory than that which our Lori enjoy
ed before He was made flesh