Show II TWO OUT OF HELL NO Tl Th Till Bible Hll HII Not the tho Hell of at Jonah's onah Escape From Hell Hell Jesus Jesus Was WasS S Delivered From Hell Hell Hell- Everybody a Goes Go to the Bible Hell Hell Jesus Jesus Redeemed Re Re- d deemed dmd d All From It Hence It-Hence Hence All Are Areto s' s to Come Corn Out of It The It-The The Rich Man and L Lazarus Lazarus Lazarus-Is zarus Is II It a Parable or ora r a Narrative Narrative Narrative- Unreasonable Narrative Unreasonable as a Statement of Facts Very Facts Very Reasonable Reason Realon abl able as a Parable The Parable The Rich Man ManSoon Mani i Soon to Be Let Out of Hades 5 i Bo Boston ton SI M a s a s. s c. c L' L April 11 Pastor S It ell spoke lieu hen lt twice today ins IIi discourse on L Luke 1023 In S hell lIell he lie lifted UI up l his set eys eyes set forth fortha I-i I a II most mORt reasonable explanation of a 5 parable l which bich has long perplexed j He said PASTOR In lii T part art f. f Those who ho wrote F S the rUble did their duty we well l. l The Old r Testament covering the history of over i thousand tells us that all four tour years jears mankind at tit death go to the the t tomb mb The New Testament written In S Greek tells tell the same story using tb the S word Hades as the translation of the Hebrew It Is in modern translations trans p lations of ot the that flint is ls encountered en en- countered In Iii the English Nearly all these h e ire been made mad within the last he five hundred S For Tor 1300 1501 before the BI nt years ears years hip hIt hid had been little known because lecause not translated Into th the pe of th the I eople and tind he because a few could have rend read It if It St hud had been translated In the second e nt th the theory pro pro- railed that the bishops were as much Inspired as the Aj Apostles cud and Jesus for tor j. j they were vere called AP Apostolic bishops Bible study tudy was considered I tary ary because e th these e Apostolic bishops t were on the spot to give up date up-to-date date to-date information in formation and ami communications from 0 d.- d. Then followed thirteen centuries 9 of Qt co oo DO Bible study tudy during which time a 8 k h b Apostles had forewarned borle ous ou's ous wolves ame caine Into the flock fiock mak P Ing lag m of or the sheep for their tc own profit Acts 20 2026 Gradually the doctrines became BO so m mingled with errors that the false faise teachers enslaveS enslave S the people poop e with fear and then extorted mon money y for tor the relief reliCt of ot the tears fears i W When en Bible study revived In the Fifteenth S te Ui CeI Ce Century tury the errors were so In In- In trenched ched In mens men's minds that their th were colored respecting every f feature of ot faith Those who translated the Bible doubtless did their best to set forth Ita its meaning but unconsciously I fare gye little twists in their endeavor to hafe hine the Bible say what they thought it meant As Man an Illustration note John S There the translators have given 4 us UI the expression resurrection of ot c damnation when nothing In the Greek GreekS S justified the word damnation The rhe Version renders it properly r resurrection of ot judgment judgment trial N When the Hebrew word was being translated H Hell n was the nearest wo word woid to fit their Ideas Hence they translated It Hell as 88 many times as possible and aDd only when this was Impossible impossible im Im- Im p possible S did they give something ap ap- ap i. i S p preaching the pro proper er translation translation the the S riye There Is la another word for frare rrT a sepulchre a n mound a monument But do dG their best to make j Hell out of ot they could only so translate it less leis than one half t the whole S number of ot occurrences The Revised translation retains the Hebrew and the Greek Had Hades s. s saying Let the S reader find out what It means doubt- doubt leoe Ieee s he will wm think that Is Ia the hot bot place and BO so the common people will wUI not know what an egregious blunder was made by the theologians S Good men who know better permit their congregations to thInk think that they theyS S believe belleT In a burning H Hell HeIl ll- ll of t f 1 y when privately they confess to the contrary But they say lIay Let Us not do llo good lest evil toll follow let follow let ow-let let us not tell the people lest est fewer would then I S come conie to church and the power of su an- I which holds tso so many be beS S broken Poor men They seem blind to the fact tact that these devilish doc doe doctrines doctrines trines are re driving Intelligent people S way away from God from the Bible and churches t 1 torn from the i S Two E Escape ape From Hell t S The Bible tells of several of-several who were released from hut but of ot two the S very Terr word Is used The Pr p. p pt t Jonah s swallowed swallow ed by the great fish was in its S belly parts of ot three days He Be it his tomb-belly tomb a belly While S there entombed he cried unto the Lord la Sin prayer and the Lord d delivered him Jesus tells us that Jonah's experiences 5 typified 1 His Hia own that own that as Jonah was T buried In u the belly of ot the fish S Jesus would be Je e burled buried In the of Dearth As Jonah came ame forth on the forth St St. third day 80 so Jesus came Clime Peter eter points out that this was prophesied led sied of ot Jesus saying Thou wilt not 4 j 1 My leve leave My Yi soul in or Hade Hades Rades s 1 tomb ri as t tW I this hl b by raising Je iH from the Acts 2 27 Whoever gets etl the proper focus will see that all good and b b. b t go o down to called in th the tomb tomb tomb-to to our Bibles Hell The Scriptures ver very distinctly tell us ns that the dead know not anything that t their sons tome rome rometo om to honor and they Know It not liot and to dishonor and the they perceive it not of ot them Why hy i Because it ns liS again the Scriptures say There l I H neither wisdom wis wis- dow dom nor knowledge noi 1101 de device deIce Ice In lu She She- ol UI whither thou guest whIther all gol gorLis go l ILIs l exactly accords with the Divine Dh The wages of is 11 death The Tho soul that it s shall hall die There is not a word woid in the Bible for foi the common commonly accepted thought that those who die go to Ilea Heaven eu yen or or eternal torment torment All these teachings are found in the various various vari van ous Otis creeds the Bible alone tells the simple story reasonable harmonious Fire Second Fire Second Death It Is true that dint Jesus used the word Gt fire me flue and that our oui translators mixed up p t the English reader by trans trans- In kiting this word Hell the same as s Hades But as us all scholars will admit J Jesus SUl used the word tire lire here Lere symbolically sym sym- just as us we use it to represent destruction Thus our newt newspapers tell teli about the tile great conflagration in Europe not l literal Ire Ure but war causing great destruction J 5 t So Sd Jesus So-Jesus Jesus pointed o out that t although He lie had come owe to save men from death and awl e eventually by a 11 resurrection to lift Ift up all alJ who had gone down to Hades nevertheless the relief relle would be on 1 t temporary except to those who would conform to Divine Law All others under that Second Trial would be con condemned as unworthy of everlasting everl life and would die again This Se Second ond Death would be everlasting because Chi Christ 1st would not die again for those who would sin wilfully after artex being released re re- I leased from the first sentence Pointing to the valley outside of ot Jerusalem used as a garbage turn furnace cl and called in the Greek and andIn andIn andIn In Hebrew Valley of Hinnom and also Jesus declared that it Illustrated ed the fate tate of ot all wilful wUtul sinners shiners Dead cats eats and ond dogs etc were thrown Into the Va Valley Jer of Hinnom wh where rl tires fires res were kept burning and where brimstone was burned to kill the germs It is said that criminals of the worst type after atter execution were thrown into that valley as Intimating that they would not share in the re resurrection This thought Jesus emphasized the emphasized the utter utter ut ut- ter destruction In the Second Death I of any found incorrigible after ha having rec received ived I full tull opportunity of return to God through the merit of Christs Christ's fice The Bible everywhere holds out the 1 ought that the Church now and th world In Its trial Day future future will willbe willbe be In danger donger of ot destruction destruction- th the Second Death Speaking of wilful sinners against full tull light St St. Paul says i Who shall be punished with ID lug tag destruction 2 Thess I 1 7 St St. Peter says they shall half perish like Uke nat natural ural brute beasts 2 2 Peter Re Release ease From Hades Hides the Tomb Bible students know that and H Hades could not be places ot of eternal torture for the Scriptures say that they shall be lles destroyed oyed If It and Hades are to be destroyed how bow could anybody be tortured th there re everlastingly everlasting ly The clergy know these things ver very verj j i well but hide them from the people j I Hoset Hosea 4 1314 reads O iO O grave She l ll 1 I II I 1 will n be thy destruction 1 I ans 1115 15 1555 55 O 0 grave Hades where is thy victory 7 Revelation 2014 Death 1 I and Hell Hades shall be he cast cist into the Lake ke of ot Fire This is the Second Death I These Scriptures mean that the grave J I shall not always triumph over the huIan human hu hu- hu man Ian fa family mil that mankind will be de d- de- de by Messiahs Messiah's Kingdom from the power flower of ot the tomb that we can ref rely I upon Pu Gods God's promise that ultimately Hades the tomb will be destroyed ed inthe Inthe Inthe in the Second Death symbolic symbolically rented by the Lake of ot Fire Note that the is explained the explained the Lake of I II Ire Fire w i I is the Second Death I In other w words alt lr- lr fi t r in I I graves In the tomb the prison prison house house 1 of ot death shall t ultimately be set I t free b bj by bythe the great grent Deliverer the glorified Christ t I who vho already has hus laid down His Ufe life as a the Ransom price that sinners might not perish b but t have the opportunity of everlasting e life lite 1 8 o n ty has yet come only t to tb the Ch Church Chuich lc fi her d' d to b bi e Her covenant Is to follow tollow in her SIt ter's tens footsteps footstep unto death and the promise is that she shall have a SUPE resurrection because of ot greater trials of faith and obedience to seen seen- flee The gates of Hell shall not pie lire vail all against her Matthew 1618 18 That is as the Heavenly Hea Father raised up J Jesus j Chiist from the d dead d so th the gates of f death shall not ag tiis Ithe the Church l 1 1 Corinthians 15 1542 44 42 With Vitt the world it will wUl be different Everything under the New Dispense Dispensa tion will prove that the reign of ot Sin and Satan has terminated that the Reign Helgn of ot Righteousness has begun They will find themselves not only back from the tomb every nian manIn ln his own order but gradually raised of ot Impel ImperfectIon and weakness weakness weak weal ness back all n that was lost in A Adam Aam Adamand am amand and redeem Ct t Calv Calvary ry If they will follow instructions h The great prison house honse will give up t Jie- Jie e- e prisoners for tor forRe He Re who wh died on Calvary ry obtained th the th key kev of Hades its hs as He tells tell ns us Isaiah 4 R Revelation j 7 N r- r The Tha Rl Rich h Man In Hell The parable a 0 the Rich Man amiL and ami L Lazarus would seem stem very simple It if our minds had not been perverted with error but filled with the perversion many find this parable difficult to un understand and are inclined to throw throwaway throwaway away the entire Bible because of ot it We Wl hope to make malte the matter very plain To bo ho thorough we must note the t fact ct that lovers of the eternal torment doctrine doe doc trine Insist that this is 11 not not a parl parable ble but a ii literal description Let us see Does it seem reasonable hie t to say that with nothing said about his chani character ter as being either morn moral op or immoral but simply on n of ot his fine clothes his hill sumptuous food n and nd his riches a anUm flinT nUm should be eternally roasted Is that a n 10 logical interpret interpretatIon on 7 Similarly It is not said auld that Lazarus I was va moral or oz Immoral but merely that bo Ito was p poor or ate crumbs at the rich turns turn's gate af and d WI was I full tull of ot sores sore which dogs licked Is Js s it reasonable to suppose that sores sores sores' and destitution without character would be qualifications for tor Heaven Surely noti If all allrich allrich rich people go to eternal torment if It all nil pe people who wear fine linen and purple purple clothing clothing and I have ha e plenty to eat must suffer to ro all eternity what an an aristocratic place Hell lIeU would be and how full tuU it w would uld be On the oth other r hand if It only those who have sores arid and dogs to lick them who ho lie Ill at a rich richman's richman's richman's mans man's gate and eat crumbs tr from m his table go to Heaven how few tew of us will IU get th there re Moreover if It It t Is a a literal statement then Abraham here heres Is s a n literal person as well as Lazarus and when Lazarus would get into his bosom how many more could Abraham hold without ut letting some drop Surely this is not note nota a literal statement but a parable Let us treat It from this this viewpoint viewpoint- remembering remembering- that thae a apor a por parable b e never v r means means what it says F For r instance Instance in the parable of ot the Wheat and Tares the wheat does not mean wheat but children of ot the Kingdom King King- dom mm the tares children of the Wicked Wick Wick- Man Manoes ed One Accordingly According the Rich does docs oes not mean meana a rich man but stands standA for some class claM and Lazarus does not mean a poor man man but stands for tor some class Let us thus apply the matter Interpretation of the th Parable We suggest that the Rich Man of the parable represented the Jewish nation rich In In Gods God's favor tavor Their spiritual table was bountifully supplied supplied sup sup- plied piled with gracious promises from God They fared sumptuously as no other other oth oth- er people did To them belonged the promise of the Kingdom represented by the purple raiment of royalty Asa As Asa a people they had bad the purging of ot their sins typical justification accomplished ed edon on their annual Atonement Day This was then their fine linen representing that righteousness was thus Imp Imputed ted to them as a people In A. A D. D 70 the tho Rich Man the Jew JewIsh JewIsh Jewish Ish nation died when the last lost vestige of ot the govern government government- was wasP was destroyed by Titus the Roman general The nation has been asleep In hi Hadea lIades' ever since though the Jews have been very much alive and have suffered many mallY things especially amongst professed Christians Christians Chris Chris- of ot the tare class Zionism which has baa sprung up within the past thirty years Is is' the revival of ot hope that the Rich Man will be resurrected from fron flad Hades s and present indications point to this as a matter of speedy edy accomplishment as as as soon oon o n as the of t the Gentiles shall have come into SpirItual Spiritual Spir- Spir Israel Romans 32 Romans 1125 L Lazarus rus arus represented represent d outcasts who desired favor tavor with God but were aliens allens and stringers strIngers strangers from the commonwealth commonwealth com corn com of ot Israel Israel Gentiles They had no no table with Divine promise promises from from which h to fare s sumptuously every everyday everyday I Ida da day no share e h |