questions and answers
Taken from the weekly panel discussions with Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland and Dr. Charles L. Feinberg.
the fallen angels that followed Satan when he sinned and rebelled against God as indicated in Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28, and mentioned by the Apostle Paul in his writings to Timothy. He men tioned the crime of Satan in sinning against God. In reading these refer ences you will see that the fallen angel is the type angel that is indicated. The second question is, when will this judgment take place? This is not ex plicitly stated in Scripture. If you will read the 2nd chapter of II Peter and its parallel passage in Jude, verse 6, “And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habi tation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judg ment of'the great day.” Some authors hold that these angels will be judged sometime close to the Great White Throne Judgment when all the wicked dead are judged. It will be a separate judgment, and we shall be accorded the privilege with the Lord Jesus Christ of judging these fallen angels. Q . A believer in Lancaster, California inquires, “when we pray for the resto ration of the health of a loved one, should we add the words ‘Thy will be done? or ‘if it be Thy wilV? 1 have been told that should we do this it might show a lack of faith.” A. If we pray “Thy will be done” does not show a lack of faith but rather a tremendous amount of faith — not in our prayers, but in the judgment of God. We are, by this, saying that we have absolute confidence in His judg- (Continued on next page)
Q . Watsonville, California. A letter from this listener states: “I heard a Sunday school teacher say that because we are not under Law but under Grace, we should not teach our children the Ten Commandments or tell them to try to keep them. What would you say to this?” A. Certain great moral laws are found in both ftie Old and New Testaments, and they transcend or supercede all particular dispensational laws arid reg ulations and stand through all the dispensations. As a matter of fact, nine of the Ten Commandments are quite explicitly expressed in the New Testa ment. The only one of the Ten Com mandments that is not repeated and enforced in the New Testament is “Re member the Sabbath dav to keen it holy.” That commandment was given explicitly and exclusively to the Jews and does not refer to us in this par ticular dispensation. We firmly believe that children should be taught the Ten Commandments, and at an early age; also, that they should be trained to apply them to their own lives. Q . From Vancouver, B.C. we have re ceived this question: “We read that the Christian shall judge angels. Now who are these angels and when will this judgment take place?” A. This passage in I Cor. 6:3 reads: “Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?” The first question is, who are these angels? There is no doubt that they are
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