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QUESTION BOX The beloved President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles answers your Bible Questions.
denies the physical resurrection of Christ; and, of course, laughs at the doctrine of His second coming. Mod ernism is as anti-christian as are Christian Science and Theosophy. It is the worst blight on Christendom today. A modernist preacher is one who believes in modernism. QUE.: Are infants and young children who die saved? Yes, all infants, including stillborn babies, and young children who have not reached the age of accountability at death, go immediately into the presence of God. Christ died for “the world” ; and His atonement provides for these. “Of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Mk. 10:14). QUE .: Please explain Matt. 15 : 26 , where the Lord Jesus said to the Syrophenician woman, “ It is not meet to take the children’ s bread, and cast it to dogs.” Dr. Scofield gives an excellent ex planation of this entire incident in a few words: “For the first time the rejected Son of David ministers to a Gentile. It is a precursive fulfillment of Matt. 12:18. Addressed by a Gentile as Son of David, He makes no reply, for a Gentile has no claim upon Him in that character. . . Addressing Him as ‘Lord,’ she obtained an immediate answer. See Romans 10:12, 13.” QUE.: Was the wine the Lord made at the marriage in Cana of Galilee fermented? Luke 1:15 sheds light upon the question you ask. This verse concerns John the Baptist, and it reads: “For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink.” You have a difference here between "wine” and “strong drink.” The wine would be unfermented; the strong drink fermented. Some may take issue with this explanation; and I do not profess to know just what the wine at the marriage feast was like. This I do know, that our sinless Saviour,
who throughout His inspired Word warns against the use of intoxicating liquor, would have no part in creat ing a thing that would cause one of His creatures to sin! QUE .: Does the Bible tell us how Peter died? In John 21:18, 19 the risen Lord said to Peter: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands [this suggests crucifixion], and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what d e a t h he should glorify God.” This is all the Bible tells us of how Peter died. Tradition says that he was crucified with his head down, for he felt unworthy to be crucified as was his Lord. But that is only tradition. It may or may not have been so. QUE.: Please explain the words o f John the Baptist in John 3 :2 9 , “ He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly be cause of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.” In this statement we have the dif ference between the relationship of the Old and the New Testament saints to Christ. John the Baptist, who rep resents the Old Testament saints, said that he was glad just to know the Bridegroom. John was not a part of the bride, which is the Church. He died before the day of Pentecost, when the Church had its beginning. How ever, John said, in substance: “I am glad just to know the Bridegroom.” As for the bride, she has the Bride groom. In this John showed his great humility, even as he also said: “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). The identity of the bride and the Bridegroom is very clear from Rev. 21:2-9 and 22:17. These passages will shed additional light on this ques tion.
QUE .: Some say that the Church will be translated at the end of the first three and one-half years of the seventieth week o f Daniel, which is just before the tribula tion period. Others say that the Church will not be translated until after the tribulation, but will go through it. Please explain. The Church will be raptured be fore the seventieth week of Daniel begins. II Thess. 2:7, 8 is one of the clearest passages that proves this fact. The antichrist will not be revealed until the Holy Spirit’s restraining in fluence in the Church is taken “out of the way.” And, of course, the anti christ is to be the ruling personage of the seventieth week of Daniel’s pro phecy. The Church began on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2), and is now in the process of being formed. One day, per haps sooner than men realize, the last member will be added to the body of Christ, which is His Church. This is called by Paul in Rom. 11:25 “the ful ness of the Gentiles,” which expres sion may be freely translated, “the full number of the Gentiles.” When the Church is complete, then God will call it home to Heaven; and not until then will the seventieth week of Daniel begin to run its course. QUE .: What is modernism, and what is meant when a minister is declared to be a modernist? Modernism is the substitution of human philosophy for divine revela tion. Really, the word “modernism” is a misnomer. Its true title should be “ancientism” ; for it asks the old question raised by Satan in the Gar den of Eden, “Hath God said?” Modernism denies the inspiration of the Bible, the Virgin Birth and the deity of Christ, the fall of man, and the atonement of Jesus Christ. It also
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