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The Judgment of Nations; Or, the Ending of Temporal Power
The Judgment of Nations Or the Ending of Temporal Power Author:William Parker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Mt. Lebanon Publishing Co., South Hills Branch, c1920. Subjects: Second Advent Religion / Biblical Studies / Prophecy Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology Religion / Eschatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original... more ». It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Society, to all appearances, is getting worse because it is getting better. We observe this especially in religious or church government. The formalism of creed and dogma is passing, and the real soul and spirit of Christianity is being revealed; or, in other words, we are corrupting the letter, and the spirit is being revealed. The death and disruption of the old is absolutely necessary to the birth of the new. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." The average Bible student has a very hazy conception of what this Scripture means. There are distinctly two aspects of knowledge as indicated by the two trees in this story of creation; the tree of knowledge, to know good from evil, and the tree of life. The one represents human knowledge, the other Divine knowledge. Divine knowledge comes directly from the revealed word of God and is not a speculative achievement of man. God's knowledge imbues man's knowledge, even as the soul quickens the body and gives it life. Human knowledge apart from Divine knowledge brings death and destruction to the individual, or to the nations. Human knowledge in itself is good; it is only when it separates and exalts itself against Divine knowledge that it becomes evil. In the light of present world events, w...« less