The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-02-07

thing else if we deny the resurrec
ton of the dead. If we took any
other position we woull be false
witnesses, and so says the apostle
"leG and we are found false wit
nesSeS of God because we have teS-
titled OF God that He raised up
Christ; whom He raised not up. if
so be that the dead rise not. For if
The dead rise not then is Christ not
raised? And if Christ be not raised
your faith is vain, ye are yet in
Your sins. Then they also which
arc fallen asleep in Christ are per
iShed." Verse 1879 Is it not
strange that st. Paul did not say here
that even those fallen asleep in
Christ are alive in Purgatory, wait
ing to be prayed out by some priest
Why not take the Apostle Paul, the
Lord Jesus Christ and all the faith.
ful writer's of the Bible words con.
cerning the condition of the dead
and Jehovah'S stated plan of result
rcCting the dead? Why should not
Tie people cast out all and refuse tC
listen to those whose principal OBJ.
iect is TO get in all the filthy luCre
and undeserved honorS they can. 1t
is no wonder the people are so far
in the dark concerning the plan of
salvation. They have already per
mitted these false shepherds, wolves
in sleeps clothing (the false cler-
gy( to lead them too far in dark
ness The time has come when ev.
cry honest hearted individual should
demand the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth on mat.
terS pertaining to Gods great plan of
salvation.
In the Apostles argument con
cerning the resurrection of the dead
in ! Cor. 10Th chapter, after argu
ing the negative side of the question
he assumes the positive side and
says, But now is Christ risen from
the dead and become the first fruit
of them that slept" Verse 20.) In
other words, for 1000 years man
had been dying and in that time
none had been reSurrected. Now
Jesus, the perfect one had come. He
had suffered death and God had rails.
eded Him up from the dead and He
was the first that ever was raised
uD. Continuing his argument Saint
Paul says, For since by man
(Adam) came death, by man UeSuS)
came also the resurrection of the
dead. For as in Adam all die, even
so all in Christ shall be made alive
but every man in his own order
Christ the first fruits. afterward
(after the resurrection of the Christi
they that are ChriSt'S at His appear
ing" (VerSeS 21-23.) Thus He es-
tabliSheS the fact that until the sect
ond coming of Christ the dead must
remain dead, wholly unconscious
out of existence, and at the second
corning of Christ the resurrection
takes place. This same apostle con
tinuing his argument in his eDistlr
to the TheSSalonianS says, "But ]
would not have YOU ignorant, breth
rem, concerning them that are aSleer
(dead) that We sorrow not even as
others which have no hope for if
we believe that Jesus died and rosa
sleeping lin DEATH in Jesus will God
bring with him. (Otherwise stat.
ed. not until the coming of Jesus
will those asleep in death be awak
enedO For this we say unto YOU
by the word of the Lord, that VIC
which are alive and remain unit
the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep. For
the Lord Himself shall descend from
heaven with shout and the voice
Of the archangel. and The trump of
God, and the dead in Christ shall
rise first Then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up
together with Him in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air. And so
shall we ever be with the Lord
Il Thes. 4:l3-16) Here the apostle |