Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-01
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For March 4. Luke 20, Fl
BY DIR. MARION MICH. HULL

Whose image and superscriptior
is this?" He asked
'"Caesar's." they replied.
Render unto Caesar the thing:
that are Caesars and unto God the
things that are Gods" As long as
you are receiving the benefits {,
the government, give the govern
-ment its due If you had given Goo
His due you would not be under
Caesar now. Giving God His due
is the only means Of deliveranct
from Caesar. And rendering unto
God the things that are God;
means that you must accept Me as
His Son and your Messiah.
/ They marvelled at His words ans
went their way.
Then the Sadducees came with ar
Hypothetical question about the res
direction. A woman, according tC
the law, had been married to. sever
brothers. Whose wife should she
be in the resurrection? Jesus re
piled that their trouble wa in not
approaching the difference between
the resurrection life and this one
Here marriage is necessary to the
perpetuati0n and propagation of the
race. In the resurrection life this is
not necessary for life is perpetual
as the life of the angels. There ar
nc deaths, therefore no necessity
for births; therefore no necessit!
for marriage.
He assured them, however, from
their own Scriptures that there is i
resurrection life, for He reminded
them that the God of Abraham, of
Isaac, and of Jacob is a God OF the
living and not of the Iead-and
though they died many centuries
befoDe this, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob were now living.
Phariseas, Herodians, and Sad
ducees were now all put To- rout. nc
one dared tC ask Him a question
after this. The tables are turned
lie becomes the question now.
Claiming to be David's son, yet
Davids Lord, He asks them how
it can be There is only one an
sWer to that question, and they
were unwilling to give that. 1t re-
quired an acknowledgement of His
deity-that He was something more
than the son of Mary, more than
the carpenter-teacher of Nazareth
more than the highest type of man
that ever lived, more than the high
est expression of God in man; il
Required that they acknowledge
Him as what He claimed to be-God
manifested in human flesh.
The End Time
There were other incidents of that
busy Tuesday. Luke mentions only
three more. He had been finally
rejected by the Jewish nation
through their representatives. He
had finally rejected them-fOr the
time. He turned then and denounc-
ed the scribes in the most scathing
terms for their ostentation, their
seltishness, their greed, their cruel
ty. Over against them Luke sets
the story of the widow who cast in
to the treasury just one-seventeenth
of a cent, but which Jesus said was
the largest gift of all because it
was all that she had.
AS they went out of the city that
Tuesday afternoon, Jesus and His
disciples, they called His attention
to the magnificent stones that had
been used in the construction of the
is coming when no one of them will
be left standing on the other.
A little later as they sat on the
Mount of Olives to rest a bit, they
recalled His words and asked Him
three questions (sce Matt. 2D-"Mas-
ter, when shall these things be? and
of the end of the age?" The Mount
Olivet prophecy was the answer to
the three. questions. There had been
some confusion about this because
it has not been clearly understood
that He was answering the quea.
tons. Certain things happened
when Jerusalem was destroyed about
forty years later by Titus Tier
is a difference between verse 30 and
verse % however. In the first,
Jerusalem is to be isolated: in The
latter Jerusalem is to be delivered
Leaving out the consideration here,
for lack of space. that part which
referred to the destruction of JeruSu-
lem, and considering that which was
the answer to the last two questions
as being more potent to us. let us
notice the signs of His coming and
of the end of the Jewish age. about
which they were asking. We must
also just summarize them. as space
forbids any more detail now. What
were they to be? False Christs. wars.
connections, nations rising against
earthquakes. famines. pcsti-
IenccS, Jerusalem trodden down UNI
til the times of the Gentiles Gas fore
told by DanieD shall be fulfilled.
signs in the sun and in the heavens
These were the characteristics of
the whole period of His absence. but
they arc to be intensified just before
His return-thCreby constituting
sign Of His coming and of the end
of the age. How futile. therefore.
how foolish is an attempt to prevent
war by any means known to man.
whether it be by reduction of anna
mCnts, by peace treaty, by courts
of arbitration, by League of Nations.
or what not. War is to character
Ze this age and to be ended only
by the visible return of Jesus Christ.
the Prince of Peace. Just notice.
four years after the most disastrous
war in the history Of the world. when
it would seem that people would be
forever sick of war. seeing at least
that it settles nothing. and in spite
IF the League of Nations to settle
disputes, fourteen nations are today
right on the edge of war; only a
match will be necessary to start
another conflagration.
Luke tells US that Jesus said that
when we see these things-signs in (
he sun. moon and stars, upon the .
earth distress of the nations, with (
oerpleXity, mems hearts failing them
or fear Of what might happen /
hen look up. Lift up your heads! !
or your redemption draweth nigh. /
Another SIGN Of His coming and |