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Show TWO OUT OF HELL; NO TORMENT THERE The Bible Hell Not the Hell of Theology. Jonah'n Escape From Hell Jesui Win Delivered From Hell Everybody Qos to the Bible Hell Jesut Redeemed Re-deemed All From It Hence All Are to Come Out of It Th Rich Man and Lazarus A Parable or a Narrative? Narra-tive? Unreasonable aa a Statement of Facte KeoconabU ae a Parable. mmB) Bche-n, April 11. : Hpjs"iBB - Paer Russell I Bw - fi spoke here today. J i '5 Vf 11l",1'r his clls- h BpBe"K tf' 3 conrae on Luke 1H:23, "In Hell be Hrc JB lifted u his eye " rJeT.B Bv Tray of Intro- jjfcg'i.-IijH Auction the P.istor ML J iX('1.i ineil th.it tho j,: f&' flB Old Testament j mmjt . iBwi ' r"';c : . 1 1 at 75 5trd5 death hII mankind (T9g gUSSEUj) go to Sheol-the tomb, and that the New Testament telll the snme tory, I using the fJreek Trnrrl Hades nn the! equivalent of the Hebretv Shed; but thnt In morlern translationj of the Bi- A iff 11 It p ici nnnnnl,fv.H r. ; r . r 1 I , modern trans la tiona have been made I 1 Within the last fire centuries. For thlr teen oentusiea before, the Bible had I been little liDo-rrn. When Bible study revived, the error which had crept In were 60 entrenched' in mcn'i mind that the tranplatorn of: ( the iti- uncohscldusly Kavp little 1 thiols to their end-8vor to have it say ! ' what they thou-ht It meant. Ottlj when it was impossible to translate the word, Shepl ri Hell did they srive Its true meaning! the ti.mh. But do thetr best. they could so translate only less than half the wholp number of it occur- ; rences. The ItevLed Version retains the words Sheol and Hadofi, leaving the reader to discover their meaning. Two Escape From Hell. The Pastor then told of several who j escaped from Hell. The lophet Jonah 1 was in toe flsh s belly for pnrts of1 three day. He calls It his tomb-belly. 8 sbeo! bolly. Jesus tells us that Jonah's Jo-nah's experiences typified His OWB I that as Jonah was in ihe shoo! belly f the fish SO Jesus would be in tho! sheol of earth St Peter shows that, this was prophesied of Jesus, saying, "Thoci wilt not leave My soul in Hades" the tomb. He declare that Jod fulfilled this by raising Jesus from the dead Acts 2:27. Whopper get the proper focus will see that all, good and bad, go down to; the tomb to Sheol, Hades, called In onr Bibles Hell. The Scriptures distinctly dis-tinctly tell that "the dead know not an thing"; that "there Is neither wisdom, wis-dom, uor knowledge, nor device, in Sheol. whither thou goest" whither all go; that "the wages of sin is death"; and that "the soul that sinneth shall die." There s nothfnc In the Bihl fur the commonly accepted thought that thopo who die go to Heaven or Purgatory or eternal torraenL In this connection the speaker carefully explained ex-plained that the term Gehenna, also 'translated Hell, is a Scripture symbol of the Second Death. The Rich Man In Hell. The remainder of the discourse was a very reasonable interpretation of the pnrahle of The Bleb Man and Lazarus. ! The Pastor holds that the story la a ( parable, not n literal statement. He considers it unreasonable to suppose I that, without a word being said as to , his character, a man should be rousted roust-ed eternally simply becou be was I well-fed and well-dressed; or, on tbe other hand, that 6ore.; and destitution Inre ounlttications for Heaven Ho tbrai suggested that tbe Rich Man represents the Jewi6h nation, rich in Divine promises ThMr spiritual table was bountifully suiplted To them belonged be-longed tbe promises of tbe Kingdom, represented by the purple of royalty. (Theirs was the "fine linen" of typical I justification, accomplished on their an-I an-I noal Aiooement Day. In A. D 70, tbe I Jewish nation died, and ever since has been In Hades, all hough tbe Jews have been very much alive and have (rafTer-id (rafTer-id many things, especial! amongst rof eased Christians of the Tare etas. Lazarus represent Gentiles who desired de-sired God's favor, but were "nHens from the commonwealth of Israel." They hud no table ot Divine blessing, no promise of royalty, no white linen of typical Justification- These thlnrs bckmOPit to tho Tptt eTch ii r 1 v 11 nl I bis national rejection and the subsequent subse-quent receiving of the Gentiles. As the Jpw died to His favor, so the ; Gentile died to His disfavor As angels carried Lazarug to Abraham's bosom, no the earlv Jewish Church. Cod's mes sengers received believing Gentiles tnro full fellowship ns brethren. Thn I flgurativelT La7-ann was taken Into Abraham's bixsom treated as his child -rlatlaiis 8 8. 16. 20. The llfceh Man represented two rribea Judah and Benjamin. Id the suuae proportion the five brethren would represent rep-resent tbe other ten tribe That only Israelites ccnild be meant Is shown In tbe statement, "They have Moses and ; the Prophets." The Gentiles bad them BOt! Tbe name "dogs" Jews common- ly ssrve to Gentiles See Mark 7:1T5 20 Who ?annot see in this beautiful parable par-able a teaching in full bsrmony with God' 'Wisdom. Justice, Love and Pow-trl Pow-trl May our understanding open ide to a true knowledge of God's Word! Send me a post-card for a free booklet IS) Hell Brooklyn. N. T. |