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Show HOW, WHEN AND WHY A SECOND ADVENT Denver Divines on Right Track, Says Pastor Russell.. - No World-Burning Satan to Be Bound Sin, Sickness and Death to Bs Conquered Man to Be Delivered. The Power Vested In Meulah Hit Klnedom Near How It Will Appear. figmmmmgsmZi' Denver, Dec. 1. IfeffiSSlfi Tuls cly ,s Btlrredt HjM&jfeVvE Seventeen pastors jBJHifa' " aU denumlna-fitP$HR8v$J-J lions have been mtiSEh''jfk Jl9CU69lu Tbe Sec- Msffi':Mn Pa8tor RusscU tel1" iHpKjife Wtftt "Tbe EarUi a Old IfijgSg & etu forever" Ibut JhBBB& -frftsy it will never be de-(PA5T0H de-(PA5T0H RUS5ELL) alroyt-d by literal tire. According to him tbe great event of Christ's Coming Com-ing will bring blessings such as we all desire. lie seemB to have the Bible and logic on IiIh side too! Pastor RiiBaell declared that false concepts of the Second Coming of Christ had done great Injury The vlow set forth in all orthodox creeds is that Christ will come again In the flesh. The resurrection will take place within twenty-four hours. The salnth will rise ln tbe air to meet the L Then fire will como down from he. en, and consume the whole earth. Pre-millennlallsts Pre-millennlallsts claim that Christ will reign in fleshly glory a thousand years to bless the living. The majority of Christians disown this as ridiculous nonsense because they believe little of creed or Eible A minority perceive Its Inconsistency with the Bible What Biblo' Students Now See. The "fire of that day" is symbolical, already kindling in society, tbe elements ele-ments of which. Capital and Labor, are getting hotter Soon they will melt, the symbolical "earth" will be consumed with the "heavens" nlso, the ecclesiastical powers. Their passing nway will usher In a "new earth," or social order, and "new heavens," the Ouurch In glorj The Second Coming of Ohrlit Ib associated as-sociated with blessings. Messiah will abolish tbe curse and bring In wonderful wonder-ful blesslnga The Day of Christ will be "the last Day." the great Seventh Thousand-year Day. All humanity will be blessed, Including the dead who will then lx awakened. Christ Comes to Reign. As the redemption was necesearj' for man's salvation ?o Messiah's Kingdom King-dom Is necessary lo accomplish restitution. restitu-tion. The delay of more than elghteeu centuries Is Scrlpturally explained: (1) God designed Six Great One Thousand Thou-sand Ycut Days lo teath mankind the exceeding sinfulness of sin Jle purposed pur-posed that on the Seventh Day the blessing of Messiah should come. (2) An Important work has been done since Calvnry An Elect Church has been gathered out of all nations saints made perfect through suffering, n Little Floeb. tho "Church of the First-borns " These are to become the Bride of Christ at HI3 Second Advent The Second Coming of Jesus 16 to claim Ills Bride class, and to exalt them. As regards the world, He comes to bind Sutan to overthrow hIii, and to uplift fallen humanity St. Peter tells that Restitution work, not a literal burning of the world, awaits the Second Sec-ond Coming of Jesus- "Times of refreshing re-freshing shall rorae from tbe presence of tbe Lord." Acts III, 10-21 Christ'o Kingdom to Bo Spiritual. One great mlatake we have all made Is in not noticing that Jesus was human hu-man for only thirty-three and a half years. He wns a glorlony spirit being before lie was made flesh, and He was resurrected to n spirit condition-higher condition-higher than His orlglnnl one. How foolish wc were to think of Jesus as a man (a little lower than angels) in the midst of the Heavenly host' lie Is now partaker of the Divine nature; Ills Church Is to be "changed" and made "like Hlm " As His descent was from a higher to a lower, so Ills ascent was from a lower nature to a higher, "far above angels." His le the exceeding glory glo-ry which "no man hath sovmi nor can see" "which no man can npprooch unto." H Ik tills Klorlous Being whose Kingdom King-dom 1b about to be established He and Ills Church will be as invisible to men as are Sutan and the fallen angels. The .appearance'; of Jobus In the flesh after His resurrection were materializations, to prove (11 thnt Jesus wns no longer dead. (2) that lie was changed, born nf the Spirit, able to go and come like the wind Parousio, Epiphonia, Apokalupoio. Messiah's Kingdom will have earthly representatives the faithful saints of previous ages, raised to human perfection perfec-tion Instantly Through these the Invisible In-visible Mevslanlc Kingdom will op-ornte. op-ornte. Jesus said. "Ye shall see Abraham, Abra-ham, Isaac. Jncob and the prophets In tho Kingdom." Tho paroutiu nt .! s will come flrpt present hut lnvisib The world will continue with the tcdinary affairs of life (while He is gathering the Church), as In tho days of Nonh Arter the gathering of the Church, there will be an eptylianla and nn apo-kalupiis apo-kalupiis of Jesus, He win shine forth. He will be revealed not lu flesh, but "ln flaming Are." the trouble of that Day, in which the present order will be consumed ln annrcby, giving place to I he Kingdom Dispensation. |