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counts are false and misleading.
desire here TO prove parentheti
the devil and SATAN told Adam and
Us back to Eden's garden. The SER
pent was the first preacher who as
serted the no death theory. The SER
pent twho according to Revelation Il
the devil and aStanl told Adam and
Eve that they would not die. That
their eyes would be opened, that they
would know good nom evil: that they
would be ~ Gods and % forth. when
u was too late they found out that the
devil was . liar. Altho he mixed some
truth with his falsehood. Jesus came
to destroy not the belief in the devil
for he the second Adam. met him ara
conquered him by the word Of God,
Dut he came to destroy the works OF
the devil and everything connected
with him Adam. the first. had Gods
word but didn't use It. so he failed,
FELL died. Jesus had Gods word, sue
ceeded, and tho he died rose again.
These accounts by the New Tesla
ment writer's tell US how he succeed
ed. It was necessary that he succeed,
else we are still In our sins and our
dear ones who have fallen asleep in
Christ are persisted. There is now
rec
ords the words OF the angel to the
women. Fear not We: for know that
We seek Jesus, who was cruciffed. He
is not here; he is risen as he said
Come see the place where the Lord ,
lay. xxx And as they went to tell
his disciples behold Jesus met them,
saying, All hail! And they came and
held him by the feet and worshipped
him.
There is nothing .Ghostly' about
this transaction. The story as told by
Mark (chapter 16) is essentially the
same, the angel the empty sepulchre,
the amazed and troubled women. Lux.
ch. 2D is also in agreement The ac-
count of Luke was much fuller than
those of Matthew and Mark and
abounds in details that the latter omit.
There is the extremely suggestive
asked by the angel Of the
Why seek We the living
among the dead? Then the account Of
the incredulity of Peter and the other
apostles. then the rising of Peter and
his running to the sepulchre and his
finding the linen clothes (the~ grave
clothes OF Jesus) laid by themselves.
II this incident of the grave clothes
does not indicate a bodily resurrection
what does it indicate or what purpose
does it serve in the narrative OF Luke |
Luke was proving the bodily resGrrec-
ton Of Jesus and had the body been
the case was not proven He /!
has risen,' as the angel said. And as
they thus spake Jesus Himself stood !
in the midst OF them and saith unto |
them, Peace be unto you.
And this is by no means all the !
scriptural testimony. But the Easter |
is stated in the best possible !
way by Paul.
But now is Christ risen from the !
dead and become the first fruits of !
them that slept, for since by man came |
death by man also came the resur- |
rection of the dead. For as in Adam !
all die. so in Christ shall all be made /
alive. but every man in his own order: |
Christ, the first fruits, afterward they |
that are his at his coming. Then |;
the end when he shall have |!
put down all rule. and all authority |
and power for he must reign until he |
hath put all enemies under his feet; |
The last enemy that shall be destroyed
IS death.
And in PauTs first letter to the |
church at Thessalonica he writes.
OUT i WOulQ not nave you ignorant
brethren. concerning them which are |
asleep. that We sorrow not even as
others who have no hope, for il We
believe that Jesus died and rose again
even SO them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him. For this
We say unto you, by the word OF the
Lord. that we which are alive and re- /
main unto the coming of the Lord
shal1 not precede them which are
asleep. For the Lord himself shall
descend from Heaven with a shout.
With the voice Of the archangel, and
With the trump Of God and the dead |,
n Christ shall rise first. then we who
ire alive and remain shall be caught !,
ID together with them in the clouds
o meet the Lord in the air: and so I
,1.on ~ Nth ho Lord ii