Christ recorded in Matt. 10: 32, 33, will
be fulfilled: *“ Whosoever therefore shall
confess me before men, him will I con-
fess also before my Father which is in
heaven. But whosoever shall deny me
before men, him will I also deny before
my Father which is in heaven.” (The
judgment, with its results, will form a
separate study so we will the more briefly
refer to it now.)
When Christ, our high priest, shall
have finished the cleansing of the sanc-
tuary, embracing all cases, either as
cleansed from all sin, or cut off, he will
then come from the sanctuary, and as in
the type the high priest, having finished
his work in the sanctuary, confessed over
the head of the scapegoat * all the ini-
quities of the children of Israel, and
all their transgressions in all their sins,
putting them upon the head of the goat,”
so Christ will confess over Satan, “all
the iniquities of the children of Israel,
and all their transgressions in all their
sins, putting them upon” his head. He,
the author and instigator of sin, will have
to reckon with the account he has made.
God says, “Behold, he travaileth with
iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood. He made a
pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the
ditch which he His mischief
shall return upon his own head, and his
violent dealing shall come down upon his
own pate.” Ps. 7:14-16% Christ
places it there as he closes the sanctuary
work in behalf of fallen man.
made.
This cleansing oi the sanctuary began
in 1844. No Bible date admits of more
definite proof than this. How long it
will continue, God alone knows. It must
be near its close. Then probation for
man will be forever ended. Quickly
following this, Christ will come. He
savs, when laying down his work as
priest, “He that is unjust, let him be
unjust still; and he which is filthy, let
him be filthy still; and he that is right-
eous, let him be righteous still; and he
that is holy, let him be holy still. And,
behold, I come quickly: and my reward
is with me, to give every man according
Rev. 22:11, 12.
In that solemn hearing every soul will
have an equal part. There will be no
respect of persons with God. Has pov-
as his work shall be.”
* By comparing verse 14 with John 8:44 it
will be seen that this text primarily applies
to Satan. It is also an additional proof that
Satan is represented by the scape-goat.
THE WATCHMAN
erty with a relentless hand held you
down, vou will be equal with the rich
Has fortune filled your cof-
fers here, and as a consequence, men
man then.
united in calling you great, it will be a
vain stay then. This has been beautifully
set forth in Ex. 30:14, 15: “ Every one
that passeth among them that are num-
bered, from twenty years old and above,
shall give an offering unto the Lord.
The rich shall not give more, and the
poor shall not give less than half a shekel,
when they give an offering unto the
Lord, to make an atonement for your
souls.”
As they stepped into the balances of
the Lord to make an atonement for their
souls, they were divested of all earthly
surroundings, and an equal amount rep-
resented the poor and the rich. In vain
might the millionaire offer his handfuls
of gold to distinguish him from the poor
661
beggar who perchance was just before,
the priest must turn him away, saying,
Your soul ranks with his; put in the halt
shekel the same as he, or depart with
no part in Israel. With bowed head
methinks I see this man of wealth, lay
away his bounties that he could so freely
give at any other time if he willed, and
with a truer view of life, he selects the
paltry half shekel, places it before the
Lord, and acknowledges his nothingness.
Thus the relation of soul to soul was kept
before all from year to year. In this
great day of atonement above, God can-
Will vou be cleansed
from all your sins now while the priest
not require less.
lingers, or, unwilling to make the sacri-
fice, will you be “cut off ’?
It meant a great deal to be cut off
from earthly Israel then, but it means
infinitely more to be cut off from the Is-
rael of God now.
T this period in the world’s
history we are warned to
look for deceptive doctrines,
backed up by lying signs
Spiritualism
and wonders.
comes into active operation
at the very time that such
a movement might be looked
Its teachings concerning Christ and
tor.
his second advent are just such as we
might expect from the forecast given of
Spiritualism by the Scriptures. A few
words regarding the history and char-
acter of modern Spiritualism will be ap-
propriate.
The date of its rise is significant. In
the vear 1844 the longest prophetic period
of the Bible, the 2300 days of Dan. 8: 14,
reached its termination, and there began
to go to every nation and people the
warning message that was to prepare
mankind for the Saviour’s return to this
earth. A few years later, in 1848, began
the proclamation of the spurious advent,
foretold by Matt. 24: 24.
the Fox family, living at Hydesville in
In that year
the state of New York, were visited by
a supernatural intelligence with which
entered
they into communication by
means of a code of raps. The wonder
was soon blazed abroad, and in many
places circles were formed for the pur-
SPIRITUALISM=
pose of inviting spirits and receiving their
communications,
In the course of time new methods of
communication were tried and proved
successful. The tedious mode of elicit-
ing messages by rapping was largely su-
perseded by spirit-writing, trance-speak-
ing, and other devices. Many remark-
able signs and wonders were given in
connection with the communications.
Men of science investigated the phenom-
ena, and although some refused to be
convinced, many others of high rank
were persuaded of the genuinely super-
natural character of the
wrought.
wonders
The effect of Spiritualism upon the
minds of scientific leaders is very evi-
dent. The old materialism has been
largely driven out by the new Spiritual-
ism. Among the churches it is granted
that Spiritualism affords the only scien-
tific demonstration of the immortality of
the soul, and inasmuch as this unscrip-
tural dogma is tenaciously held by the
bulk of professing Christianity, the
churches cannot but recognize their in-
debtedness to Spiritualism. Whether it
is to be explained by this obligation or
not would be hard to trace, but the fact
remains that the modern theology which
has displaced the old in the bulk of the
churches, is identical with the ideas