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Some, overlooking the fact that God is just as well as loving, have arranged a theory for the ultimate eternal salvation of all men; and, anxious to hold their theory, they are in danger of neglecting the Scriptural doctrine of a second or everlasting death, for which there is no sacrifice and...

If there is to be a second, it implies that there has been a first. Not only so, but the second must be like or similar to the first, or it would not be a second. Neither an apple nor a pear would be a second peach; so, the second death, like the first, must be a cessation of life or being. The...

We continue with our subject: “The wages of sin is death” But the query comes – would not Adam have died anyhow, whether he had sinned or not? – if not, how could he ever go to heaven? We reply, no; if Adam had not sinned, he would not have died, but would have lived on, on the earth. God...

How clear and simple is this statement. And yet how strange it is that so many who profess to believe the Bible as the Word of God persist in contradicting this positive statement, and affirm that they believe, and that the Bible teaches, that the wages of sin is everlasting life in torment...

Let us next consider the… ORDER OF RESURRECTIONS. We have already seen that the best or chief perfecting – that of the Christ, comes first, and the bringing of mankind to human perfection follows during the Millennial age: But let us follow Paul’s argument on this point and note that this is...

Paul proceeds in the consideration of the anastasis – restoring, upbuilding, perfecting; he explains that there are two conditions of perfected ones. In answer to the question – With what body do they come to life again? – he explains (1 Corinthians Chapter 15 Verses 36-38) that as with the...

“For since through a man there is death, through a man also there is a resurrection (anastasis) of the dead; for as by Adam ALL die, so by the Anointed also, will ALL be restored to life.” 1 Cor 15:21,22 Diaglott. Recognizing death as a reality, we have long seen, and often pointed out, that a...

What was the great work which our Lord proposed to accomplish? “To save a world of sinners lost.” How did he begin that work? By laying aside the glory which he had with the Father. “Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor.” Humility, then, was the first blade that shot forth...

“Who then, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.” (Matt 24:45,46) We understand these words to have been spoken to the disciples originally...

Because seven was so intimately connected with all God’s works and plans, and because he intended all his works to culminate in perfection, therefore, when he selected Israel as a typical people, he gave them several Sabbaths or rests which shadowed certain blessings of rest in future, and as...

“An idea sometimes becomes so imbedded in our minds, so much a part of ourselves, as that we can scarcely part with it. Yet how many of our ideas we have found it necessary to modify, the reason doubtless being that presently we see as through looking through a smoked glass, dimly. To very many...

“God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 We learned this text so long ago, some of us in childhood, and have heard it so often, that we are now apt to read or hear it without noticing...

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years. (2 Pet 3:8). The seventh thousand (or Sabbath – “the seventh day is the Sabbath“) commenced in 1873, consequently we are now in the Sabbath day of our text: Pray (desire) that your flight (out of Babylon, nominal Zion) be not on the Sabbath. The...

The above subject (Luke 17:31) is found with other connections in Matt 24:17-21, viz: “Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house…and woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! But pray you that your flight be not in the...

Continuing the above discourse on the things due during the day of the revelation of his presence, Jesus says: “I tell you in that night (before the day has dawned yet a part of that day) there will be two in a bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two will be grinding together; the one...

Among Christians there is much which passes for “entire consecration,” but it is often a consecration to some self-imposed tasks, or work, instead of to God. Some are consecrated and are living sacrifices to business, some to their families, some to the temperance work, some to building up and...

The following request was sent to the Pastor, which he allowed his wife to answer. (We have edited it here a bit, but have not changed the questions or answers.) Are we to expect revivals and the conversion of sinners now? Are we to labor for this result? Is the church coming up higher...

“In the day that the Son of man is revealed; in that day, he which shall be on the housetop and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it...

Can the promises to Abraham be fulfilled? We think so – let us see. We read (Gen 12:1-3), “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country [Chaldea] and from thy kindred and from thy father’s house, unto a land which I will shew thee, and I will make of thee a great nation, (we...

THE NEW JERUSALEM is a figure of the coming kingdom of God. It represents, we believe, both spiritual and earthly beings. When first seen (Rev 21:2.) it contains only the bride, it has not reached earth yet – it is “coming down from God out of heaven,” (Coming into power and control). From the...