Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

JEWESS RESTORED TO LIFE. Mark v, 21-24, 35-43—Aug. 18. And tie took the damsel by the hand and gaid unto he<\ Talithsi eumi. which ig, being inUryreted. Damsel, l gay unto thee, arise.'' -T«- V, 'fM ■ .HEX'. JESUS and the AposM ■ I ties returned to the. vicinitv of Capernaum, the people were lookout for them, especially Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue. He came and fell at Jesus’ feet in great distress. He besought Him to come and heal his little daughter who lay at the point of death. As they went to the house of Jairus the multitude followed and thronged and delayed the procession. Meantime a messenger arrived from Jairus’ house, teiliug that the child was dead. But Jesus said to the bereaved father, "P«e not afraid. Only believe/’ - v , „ The multitude was left, and only three of the Apostles, Peter. James and John, went on with Jesus and Jairus. When they arrived they t>eheld a great tumult connected with the customary weeping and wailing. Jesus astonished the mourners by telling them not to weep, that the child was not dead, but asleep. What did He mean? .Did the Great Ttlacher prevaricate? He spoke in the same manner ru respect to His friend Lazarus, saying. "Lazarus sleepeth.” and then later He explained that ht i was dead. How shall we understand these words? What were the facts? . “All Live Unto Him.” The key to the matter is given us in our Lord’s own words to the Sadducees, who denied that there would be any resurrection of the dead or any future life (Luke xx. 27-38.) Jesus

proceeded to give them a proof that the dead are not really dead in the sense that the brute beasts are dead, because God In His Plan has made an arrangement for tile resurrection of humanity from the dea tfa state, whereas He has

made no arrangement for the resurrection of the brute beasts. The provision for man’s resurrection was that God would provide a Redeemer to satisfy the claims of Divine Justice against Adam and all his race, and who tlius would become the Great Deliverer. and, establishing His Messianic Kingdom, would release all mankind'' from the power of death. From this standpoint, God’s standpoint. no human lieiug is dead. Their awakening will be accomplished by Messiah's Kingdom, and all will theu have fullest opportunity of coming to a knowledge of God’s character and His will respecting them; and all will be assisted back to harmony with God, if they so desire, that they may thus reach again the perfection of life lost by disolKslience. It is In view of this Divine intention, of the dead, that Jesus spoke of death as a “sleep.’’ a period of rest, of quiet, of unconsciousness. Looking into the Bible for an answer as to where they sleep we hear the inspired words, "They that sleep in the

dust of the earth shall awake.” (Dan. xii, 2.) Thus (iod has provided for Adam and his family a redemption from the i»ower of death and a deliverance from the tomb, by the power of the resurrection; and it is Jesus who declared. “I am the Resurrection and the

Life." The Church will l>e the first from humanity to receive eternal life, and they will l>e granted a share with Jesus in His resurrection to glory, honor and immortality, as His Bride, His Joint-heir under His Headship. Then, as said the Apostle, will come the world qf mankind, “every man in his qwn order.” Jesus put the statement about the maid’s being asleep in a forceful way. in order to impress the great lesson that death does not end all, even though it appears so to do. The awakening which He was about to perform was to be a lesson and illustration of Divine power, which will be exercised toward the entire race under the Messianic Kingdom. Thus, as He declared, “All that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man, and come forth.'* The World will ' ( come forth, Jesus said, that they may have a resurrection or raising up, up, up to perfection, to all that was lost in Eden, to all that was redeemed at Calvary. The awakening will be but a preparatory step. It will be accomplished instantaneously, but the further raising up, to mental, moral and physical perfection, will be a gradual Work, for which a thousand years has been apportioned, and in which the individual will be obliged to co-operate for his advancement and instruction in righteousness. This resurrection of mankind in general Jesus styled. “The resurrection of judgment”—by disciplines, by trials and testings. Only those who wilfully reject the Lord and His way will die the Second Death, from which there will be no resurrection.

"He fell at His feet.”

“Damsel, I say unto three, arise.”