Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-04-15
WHERE ARE THE DEAD?

Many people that are now slcep-
ing i'll the dust of the earth died
.ninking but little Of the rcsurrcc-
ton, their only hope, but died hay
ing aii their hope based OH the i'm
morality Of tho soul, thinking TINT
tney We're immortal and would never
Tic, put when they seemed to die
would Just get more alive thnn they
'ver were before and would fly far
beyond the skies, there to live and
reign with Christ for all ares Tn
;ome. But they overlooked tho fuct
mat Paul, one of the greatest writ.
ers Of all the Bible, says, II is nm.
pointed upto man once to die. lIe-
brews 9:27. People that tencb thn
immortality of the soul teach n rc-
ward before II judgement. which IL
contradiction to both tho ln,vs nr
man and God. Proof. "For the Son
OF man shall come in tho glory Of
ms Father with his angels and then
&c shall reward every man nccor,l-
ing to his works." Matt. 1927. No
one has immortality or eternal life
IN TINS age of the world but will rct
That in the world to come. SEQ Mark
1880. We read that Abraham silent
with his fathers, that Solomon silent
with his fathers, and that mnrtyred
stephen fell asleep, so with all the
good worthless they all sleep some
, where. Where then do they aloop.
ihey could not sleep IN heaven where
all Is JOY and happiness; surely they
could not sleep in II hell of eternal
torment; Where then nro they sleep
ing !! they could only sleep in the
DUST OF the earth, the grave, the
tomb the great prisonhousc that
now holds something like twenty
pilion beings. They arc now in the
lunu OF iorgetfulness sleeping in the
silent tomb where all must sleep I'M
til the resurrection, when the ord
Jesus Christ will come to establish
his kingdom OH earth and To- sit om
the thone Of his glory. If IL be true
that the righteous 70 TO rlorv nj
death, then death is the gate to end
less life; then it is also true thnt
sin opened the gate, for death cnme
by sin, and so death passed upon
all mon. Rom. 6:12.
But tho righteous do not ro r.
glory Mt death; il they do thev ro
in an unjudgcd' state. Ms no ono will
be judged before the resurrection
The Lord Jesus Christ shall Judge
the quick and the dcnd Mt his m
pearing and his kingdom. No bcinp
OF this world hns eve died and gone
to heaven except Christ. Proof No
man hath assembled up to heaven.
but he that came down from heaven.
even the son of man which is in
heaven. John S:l3. If the righteous
60 TO Q place Of rest at denth and
tho wicked go to IL place of torment.
why judge the dead Mt the resurrec-
ton, after they hive como to their
reward?
Where Is good old Abraham? The
lord said to him, Thou shalt 20 to
thy fathers. Gen. 1916. What kind
OF men were Abraham's fathers?
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel.
your fathers dwclt on the other side
OF the flood (tho Euphrates river) in
Old time, even Terah the father of
Abraham, and the father Of Nachor.
and they served other gods. Joshua
24:2. Abzraham's fathers and others,
served other gods. Serving other
gods. made idolators of them, and
Paul says that idolators shall not
inherit the kingdom of God. Gal. 6:
1921. At death Abraham went TO
ms idolatrous fathers, and all are
together. Is Abraham in heaven? If
SO, he is there with his idolatrous
fathers for they all went to the same
place ogether. Did Abraham's faith
ers go to place of torment mt
death? If so. Abraham is with them.
the word says they all sleep togeth.
or. All. both good and bad. sleep
together in the dust OF the earth.
All are Of the dust, and all return
to dust again. Fec. 1920. David did
not expect to go to heaven Mt death
for he tells us of his hope. Az for
me, will behold thy face in right
eousncss; | shall be satisfied when |
awake with thy likeness. Pisa. 7I:15.
he certainly expected to sleep the
death until he should awake; be-
cause, in speaking Of man, he says:
His breath goeth forth, he rcturneth
to his earth; in that very day his
thoughts perish. Pisa. 1864. The
dead praise not the Lord neither
any that so into silence. Pisa. 115:
II. Job in speaking of man after
death, says. his sons como to hon.
or, and he knoweth it not; they are
brought low, but he perceiveth it
not of them. JOB 14:21. If the real
person is alive and conscious after
death, is it not strange they cannot
recollect their sons when they get to
glory. The fact is they are sleeping
: in the dust of the earth where their
sons will also sleep until Christ
shall come to judge the living and
the dead
Our modern thcologians of today
tell us that man does not die but on
I ~ the house or body that he lives in
dies, but in this day they depart
very far from the word of God. We
read in Acts 8:2 that devout men
buried Stephen. Did thoy actually
bury Stephen, as the word has it,
or did they pust bury the house that
Stephen lived in. If they just buried
the house that Stephen lived in as
our ministers of today have it, then
modern theology is correct and the
Bible statement is false. But if they
buried Stephen as the word has it,
then the Bible Is true, and modern
theology Is a false doctrine. Shall