The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-08-28
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nllN OF torture by fire proof devils.
They have been teaching the people
| that the Lord has said i'm so many
words You poor dcpraved sinners.
Notwithstanding the fact that voG
| have inherited tendencies 10 sin and
| that YOU were born and reared I'M
der a moral condition over which
YOU had no control and notwith-
standing the fact that the devil and
! his host of demons have YOU chain
! ed down i'm superstition. ignorance
and sin, YOU had better get sense
! enough to join some church. pay
up your dues and be preached into
Heaven when YOU die or do other
wise and 90 TO Hell to burn forever
Dear friends, The character of Jc-
hovah God is so far superior to that
of fallen humanity that we cannot
even conceive of the length, breadth,
| height and depth of Gods Justice.
| power, love and wisdom toward
! his human creatures. He has not
and will not permit the billions of
humanity mot including the little
! llocR to come TO trial for life or
death everlasting until the arrange
menlS are complete for giving them
the most favorable trial
The resurrection of the dead will
take place on the Judgment Day.
Good hath appointed day in
which ne will Judge the world in
riphlcouSncsS.' (Aci II: 81. The
Judges of the world will be Christ
and the faithful ovcr-comerS of This
/ GcSpcl Age "Thc Father iudgeth
no man but hath committed all
| judgments unto the Son" Oohn
,: 22). The length of the Judgment
Day will be thousand years. THE
Day of Judgment and predilion of
ungodly men"-wilh the Lord is a
thousand years. Peter 3: rs. There
is sure to be resurrection of the
dead. "lf there be no resurrection
of the dead, then if Christ is not
risen your faith is vain, We are still
in your sins" (lSt Cor. Is: 13-1O;
AS all in Adam die. even so all in
Christ shall be made alive" 0st
Cor 10: 22).
There are to be two reSurrections
| IT III 81 anu Il AttOUU. llt tltNlbl>'
'hot is, The little flock or the fai!'
ful ones of The Gospel Age, are to
have part i'm the first resurrection
in order to be with the Lord and
help Judge the world in righteous
ness during The Judgment Day.
There is blessed portion. "Bess
cd and Holy is he that hath part in
n.
81. The Church, the little flock,
shall be pariakerS of the Divine Ma
iure. (2nd Peter I ~. After the
first resurrection is completed and
the judges, Christ and his bride,
take their seats, then, at their com
mand the door TO the prison house
Of Death must fly wide open and
let the billions of Satan'S captiveS
come forth to judgment. "The hour
is coming in the which all that are
in their graves shall hear his voice
and shall come forth unto resur-
recton of life and " judgment"
CJohn ,: 2S-20). "They that hear
( (obey) in that day shall live" Ono.
! ;: 25).
! i'm these closing days of the Gospel
/ Aae when the light of Gods plan
Of salvation is shining as never be-
! fore We are glad that the Judg-
ment Day is time for blessing
and uplifting all the willing and
Cbcdient and not a time when the
literal heavens and the literal earth
shall be literally burned up. Dur
inc that day "Times of refreshing
shall come from the presence Of the
ord" (Act .: 1920; "The earth
shall Weld her increase" (PSa 67:
g., "The inhabitants Of the earth
shall not say am sick" Elsa 33:
81: "The ewes of the blind shall
be open and deaf ears unStopped."
Gsa, 35: -.
I'm conclusion, beg to remind
an unfaithfu servants and those
who know not the truth and who
Srcrd most of their time advancing
/ thcir own selfish plans that the
! millions YOU have preached into
error and into having heaven and
/ into a burnina He'll will soon con
denim YOU in the resurrection dav
when they return and have no story
/ to tell of being i'm heaven of bliss
or . he'll of fire etalkinq with fire
proof devils. There is positively
no Scripmral grounds for the false
! idea. that during this Gospel Age
~ good neople, at death 90 to a
/ Heaven Of bliss and the bad ones
TO a He'll Of fire to burn forever,
As matter of scriptural fact both
the lust and unjust 90 to the great
prison house of death to wait the
resurrection at which time the Just
will be rewarded with everlasting
Ico orJ tho mn inst oiVpD most