Show THE PURPOSE OF THE messiah KINGDOM earth creates created to Bs be mans everlasting giorno and NOW dominion parabolic description of tho the work of the millennium earths first judgment me it in eden decision unfavorable to man hian earths second judgment basis of judgment two lines of character development Everi everlasting asting fire of gods ati righteous leous indignation sept 13 pastor russell Il spoke today on the parable or of the sheep and the G goats 0 a t s his I 1 Is text test was these shall go a away w a y into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal 11 aa SI 1 I 1 a t thew 2540 the photo drama of creation depicts the subject of human destiny and greatly assists in the understanding of the biblical usage of the words sli nud and hades long misunderstood the discourse began with the state ment that gods great plan for mans mana salvation has set times and seasons for every feature each season ends with a finishing up of the work and a clearing away of rubbish preparatory to the work of the incoming age the jewish ago ended with a 11 harvest arTest a separation of wheat from charf chaff and a complete rejection of the chaff class from divine favor with the few judged worthy a new arrangement began g an the gospel age and now dow we find ourselves in its closing scenes the harvest during which wheat is being separated from tares with the wheat class with our lord as head a new age the millennium is about to begin at its close will also be a harvest in which sheep and go goats ats will be separated the sheep class ushered into endless glory and the g goats 0 ats 1 destroyed in the second death at one time the parable of the sheep and the goats was applied to the church we read our bibles so carelessly as not to notice that nothing whatever Is said in the parable respecting spec ting ln the church but that it is applied to the world the nations the heathen the jews were accustomed to think of themselves as gods people and to style all others heathen gentiles the nations the people and in the prophecies god treated the subject from this standpoint in line with this thought our lord in this parable tells what will befall the nations after the selection of the church to be the bride the lambs wife parable descriptive of the millennium the pastor then pointed out from the first verse of the parable what many tall fail to notice that the scene Is laid after the time of trouble when satan shall have been bound christs kingdom established and the overcoming church seated in the throne with her lord the following verses describe the of the millennial age when all mankind will be gathered before the great white throne of divine justice mercy and love first the living nations and then the dead of every nation will appear before christs judgment seat there to receive a fair trial as individuals under the most favorable conditions the outcome of this trial will be a final sentence of worthiness or unworthy riess of life everlasting six thousand years ago in eden adam and his race were on trial for everlasting life adam failed and was sentenced to death nis his posterity shared his penalty in due time god sent H ills son on into the world to die for adams sin so that as by a man came death of the entire racel race by a man jesus also will come the resurrection of the dead race of adam for as all in adam die even so all in christ shall be made alive every man in his own order general description of the judgment the gathering of the world before the throne will be the result of knowledge the time of trouble will lead to great enlightenment and the knowledge of gods glory will cover the earth ocean deep some will refuse to accept christ as their mediator and will not enter into this judgment after one hundred years of resistance these will be cut off in ill the second death since god Is no respecter of per persons sous ne he will forgive the world when they turn from bin and accept christ as their redeemer this does not mean that justice will be ignored however As in the church the sins of youth often leave their sting to the end of life so we may reasonably expect that stripes punishments will follow the world from these weaknesses and frailties humanity will gradually be raised up during christs millennial reign two classes will be developed one will conic come heartily into accord with the divine will but the other will merely assume an outward appearance of harmony in order to secure the desired blessings meantime each individual will be making character ultimately the great judge who will read the heart will manifest A to all the real heart difference between the two classes all of whom will hav heen on trial tor for a thousand vent vein thou th 04 chrep class will berle tin th elbl forced bi adam but the goats win will be cut off from irp lr |