The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-07-20
First Lords Day Of the Feast Of
Tabernacles
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who will become joint rulers with Jesus the
Christ over this earth. Perhaps this procession
today did not mean anything to some people, but
it had significance and depth of meaning of
which you never dreamed.
Turn to First Thessalonians the Fourth Chap
ter, Verses Thirteen to Eighteen"
But would not have you to be ignorant, breth-
rem, concerning them which are asleep, that We
Il am reading now about the company which
shall have immortality.
Il want to state three things.
First God is Our Creator. If you want to
believe the evolutionary theory that man de-
Scended from monkey, you may do so, but YOU
are very foolish person.
1T is delight to me to acknowledge God as nv
Creator. How can an intelligent man believe
otherwise? On every hand we see the evidence
of an all-wise Being Who created the heavens
and the earth and all that in them is, and before
Whom the wisdom of so-called scientists is but
the merest foolishness.
Second, man has endless existence If any Of
you have been deceived into the belief that ami
h1atlon awaits you and that with death you will
sink into oblivion, disabuse your minds at once,
for you making fatal mistake. You cannot
end your existence by suicide. AS the offspring
of God you will never cease to exist.
Just write this down. that we get endless exist
ence from God our Creator.
Endless existence, however does not mean
eternal life You get eternal life not by creation
but through the new BIRTH"
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath
not the Son of God hath not life. q John 5:12)
"The definition of eternal life is given by Christ
Himself in John, the Seventh Chapter"
Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son that
Thy Son also may glOrify Thee
AS Thou hast given Him power all flesh, that
He should give eternal life to many Thou
hast given Him.
Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom
Thou hast sent.
'You get endless existence from God, but you
get eternal life from Christ
Except man be born of water and of the Shirt.
he cannot enter into the kingdom Of God
That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 500
when you are born again you become a new
man in Christ Jesus.
only those who have been born again have
eternal life
Nov | come to the third proposition you may
have endless existence and yet not be immortal
Immortality is taken III the resurrection of the
just when we will get new bodies that will never
die, that will never know pain nor sickness.
Nov the mark for the prize of the high call
ing of God in Christ Jesus toward which we press
is attained when the just receive immortality in
the first resurrection and we become Joint rulers
with Christ during the Millennal Reign
THE second death will take place when the
wicked are cast into the lake of fire.
AT the close of the one thousand years, Satan
will be loosed out of his prison for little season
and permitted to deceive the nations which will
fight the battle of Cog and Magog. He will then
be cast into the lake of fire and birthstone into
which the beast and the false prophet were cast
at the end of the Great Tribulation.
"Then the dead, small and great, shall stand
before God and be judged according to their
works; and whosoever is not found written in
the Book of Life is cast into this lake of fire. 1t
be cast into the lake of fire; and this is the second
DEATH"
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan
shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are
in the four quarters of the earth, Cog and Magog,
TO gather them together to battle: the number of
whom is as the sand of the sea-
And they went up on the breadth of the earth
and comprised the camp of the saints about, and
the beloved city, and fire down from God out
OF heaven, and devoured them
And the devil that deceived them cast into
the lake of fire and birthstone where the beast and
the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day
and night for and ever.
And saw great white throne, and him that sat
on 1t, from whose face the earth and the heaven
ned away; and there found place for them
And saw the dead, small and great, stand be-
fore God and the books opened: and another
DOCK was opened which is the book of life: and the
dead were judged out of those things which were
written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it;
ana death and hell delivered up the dead which