Arizona republican., 1920-11-29
MILLIONS WILL
NEVER DIE SAYS
LECTURER HERE
w. E. VanAmbergh Cites
Bible Quotations = Tells
Audience All Who Live
Until 1925 Will Have
Good Prospects Of Living
Forever

Forever
This earth is pretty good place to
live in, even if there are such things
as floods, droughts, earthquakes,
financial crises. strikes, lockouts,
pestilences and wars. and most people
admit they prefer living here to any
other known place. Now to be told
that God has started to clean up the
world abolish famine and disease,
hospitals and doctors, undertakers and
cemeteries. criminals. jails and judges,
armies and navies, kings and kaisers,
bacteria, parasites and other things is
interesting, to say the least. That is
exactly what w. e. Van Ambergh of
Brooklyn. noted lecturer, told nearly
500 people at the Arizona School of
Music yesterday.
Mr.. Van Ambergh is lecturing
throughout the country under the
auspices of the International Bible
Students association, and his talk here
yesterday proved interesting to the
large audience that heard it. Mr.. Van
Ambergh's lecture will be followed by
one next Sunday afternoon at the Odd
Fellows hall by r. II. Herscher of New
| York.
In his lecture Mr.. Van Ambergh de-
clared that many people now living
| literally win never die: that they will
never require the services of an I'M
dertaker. People who live until 1925,
said Mr.. Van Ambergh, will have good
prospects of never dying. Following is
resume of his lecture:
The Lecture
THE Bible, though secuted by many,
is rapidly forcing it's critics to cover
The first three chapters of Genesis
record that God formed the earth in
six creative epochs, or days. Other
statements give the length of these
days as 1000 years each, or $4,000
years in all. 1t still needed one day
1000 years. to reach perfection. How
ever, God perfected one spot, the Gar
den of Eden, furnished it with perfect
food. climateand conditions, that il
might sustain life for His Forthcoming
new creation. man. There he placed
the first pair. the man and his mate
with instructions to fill the entire
earth. The man was perfect. heauti-
full, lord of the earth, in full harmony
with his Creator, but human in ever,
respect, 'of the earth earthly" Befor,
him stretched the prospect of per
fected world filled with his own chill
dren, as perfect as Himself, and end
less life with which to enjoy His bless
ings. Genesis 1922 states positivel,
that IL man could have remained il
touch with the garden conditions h
would have lived forever as human
! being. But his disloyalty cost him hi
beautiful home. his dominion. his life
Today he is dead. and his children ar
dying, unable to save themselves.
Passing over the intervening part
Of the Bible which relate to mans ex
perience with sin and his struggles t
free himself from it's death tolls. not
the last three chapters of Revelation
They describe this same earth, the
? perfect, with millions and billions O
. people. still human beings, though per
: feet, in full harmony with God and /
possession of deed for eternal lif,
Strange to say. they are the very chill
: dren of Adam his family rescued frol
sin and death, resurrected by Chris
reunited and shappy. Only the vii
4 fully disobedient ones are MISSING
II their portion being the second dealt
: extinction. not eternal misery.
"a Revelation 81. Isaiah SO. 65:17-2
2:2-4; Micah SILT: Ezekiel 36:21-3!
Psalms 72 and AS, and many 9th,
Scriptures describe the glories of tn
3 world when Christ shall have brougl
i it to full perfection
"The Kingdom at the Door"
somewhere between the events r
corded in the first three chapters
I the Bible and the conditions foreto
in the last three chapters there mu
come time when God will take
personal hand in the affairs of m,
and nations. According to the Scri
lures. that time is now. and the pre-
ent turmoil throughout the world
incidental to the change. The Bill
divides this last day. 1000 years, in
three DIVISIONS or 'worlds'-'the wor
that was or the old world G. Pet
2:5, $3.50, from Adam to the flood 16
4 years; the second, or this present e.
world (John 1880. Galatians IL.
from the flood to the second advent
/ Christ. approximately 4400 years; Al
II the third. the world to come Oh
brews 2:5, S:5), about 1000 years
Revelation 20:4.
"The disciples asked Christ WI
would be the sign of His presen
(Mathew 24:3-coming in the XII
James version is a mistranslatiC
! See marginal rendering in revised w
sion). and of the end of this seco
world or age. His reply is recorded
Matthew "a. Mark IS. and Luke
Matthew 24:14 says, Then shall
end come. The end is to be preced
by world birth pangs or travail (Ms
1873, marginal rendering and revis
version).
I'VE are all witnesses of tn,
Il WOTiO DnIn pdnBS-tne war pdng,
pestilence pang. the famine pang, +
preceding the birth of the new wor
The whole world has been and s
is in the convulsion of the birth Of
new nation-the kingdom Of God
Isaiah $685.
Persecution ForetoId
Luke 21:12 adds another ST
namely, that some of the disciples
Christ would be prosecuted, fmpr
oned. and even put to death. In G
many consecrated Christians were ,
in the front ranks of battles that Il
might be killed first. In Austria HI
gary many were shot as traitors
other countries they were persecute
I'm Matthew 24:21-22. Christ S
this would be time of such disas
and distress that If He did not ex
else His power of restraint the re.
would be the extinction of the hun
race. but that he would shorten it {
thus permit some to live on into
kingdom. This permission may
clude many here today. and throu
out the world-millions.
1.-The New Testament is written
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