Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-03-07
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ON RESURRECTION
OF THE DEAD
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sine with the avowed purpose or re-
building the nation OF Israel No one
acquainted with the facts Will dis
pute the testimony tina: this has al
ready occurred and that Palestine Is
now rapidly taking form as an indie
pendent state
When once we see that the wages
OF sin Is death and not eternal tor
meat: and that the Bible hell is the
tomb and mol fiery furnace: and
that all mankind go 10 sheoi; 10 hades.
as vas the Sayior A resurrection
salvation il thus The salvation Of the
church and OF the world.
What relief this gives us as re-
spacls parents, children. nejghhors,
friends and the heather who have
died out Of Christ. unsaintly What
comforts il brings 10 know that they
are sleeping In the great prison house
OF death, unconscious of the lapse of
time. waiting for the Redeemer, who
will as King set up His kingdom in
glory, associating the Church gi.h
Himself for the blessing OF ali the
families OF the earth The bringing
forth OF the prisoners out of the pris-
on house Of death will be to set be-
fore them under the glorious proyi
sions OF the New Dispensation an OPP
portunity for life everlasting, BY
obedience to the laws OF the Kingdom
under the assistance OF the Heavenly
0ne-the altcrnati.e being, not eter-
nal torment but death Second Deatl.l
Jubilee Every 30 Years
AS 1914 Is a date definitely fixed,
so 1925 is another date definitely Ak
ed. When the children Of Israel en-
tered the land OF Canaan. God re-
qpired them to keep every fiftieth year
as a jubilee year. and that they should
keep this jubilee seventy tines This
would require period of $500
years. During the jubilee year the
land must lie desolate The Jews
failed to keep this commandments, and
God permitted them TO be taken into
captivity for seventy years, that the
type might be fulfilled with reference
to the land lying idle. The time fea
ture. however must be carried out THE
period of $500 years began to count
b. c. 1875, the date of the Israelitos
entrance into Canaan. and would
necessarily end in A. D. 1926, when
latter time would mark the beginning
of the great antitype. or period OF re-
foretold by all the prop
bets Acts 3.1921
''The great Reconstruction viii be-
gin with the living. Jesus said:
whatsoever liyeth and helioveth in me.
shall never de tJohn II ,26} That
scripture must have its fulfllmant.
After the living are brought into har
mony with the laws OF the Kingdom,
then the resurrection of the dead be-
gins
With what body do they Gomez
st Paul held an imaginary discus
sion with the doubters OF the resur-
reetion m his day. He has them in
quire, With what body will the day
return2 He replies that, as each kind
CT seed that is planted raproducos It's
own kind. so it will be in the resur-
rection of the dead Whatever kind Of
seed is planted in death, OF the same
kind and nature will be the resurrec-
ton crop. The Apostle Celebrates.
showing that the whole world OF man
kind are OF one kind of seed human
stock. and that. therefore, in the res
direction time. they will come forth
the same--humans And they will
come forth in practically the same
condition in which they died
But, If we shall suppose rye to
represent the human stock and can
imagine a special treatment Of some
of that rye grain before sowing
changing it into wheat then we
should know that those changed
grains would sprout and develop. not
as rye. but as wheat.
The Apostles Iliustratiop
Thus the Apostle illustrates the
resurrection of the dead the Church
''Ail are of Adamic stosk, but some.
a few-the spirit-begotten Church
experience a change of nature from,
earthly to heavenly Hence they in
the resurrection, will come forth hea-
vcEly or spirit beings. He says. some,
the world at large will be members OF
the earthly Adam; others. few, a
little flock will be members OF the
second Adam-the heavenly lord.
The standard to which the world NAV
be expected TO be awakened and, later.
raised. will be the earthly standard
represented in The pefect Adam. like
the earthly one will be the earthly
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