THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S thing that it evidently was never intended to mean, i.e., the one who uses Shailer Matthews’ method of interpretation, whereby not merely the Greek words and idioms are translated into exactly cor responding English words and idioms, but also the conceptions of the inspired writers are translated (or rather, dis torted) into his own foolish notions. Let me read another passage, Acts 3:19, 20: “Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of re freshing from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you.” Peter is the speaker here. His words are as plain as words can be and their meaning is as plain as language can make it. We have heard Jesus and we have heard Paul and we have heard Peter, now let us listen to John, thé Beloved Disciple. This is what he says in Rev. 1:7: “Behold, HE COMETH with the clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, and they which pierced Him; and the tribes of the earth shall mourn over Him.” These words need no comment. It is plain as day that the Bible teaches that Jesus is some day coming back to this earth. If the Bible doesn’t teach that, it doesn’t teach anything; and we may as well throw it onto the scrap heap or use it for a joke book. But He is coming! I am as sure of that as I am that I stand here, and woe be to Shailer Matthews and the whole brood who have dishon ored our Lord Jesus Christ by juggling with His words. Yes, woe be to them when He comes; for He Himself has said of those who juggle with His words: “He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My sayings hath one that judgeth him, THE WORD THAT I SPEAK, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY. For I speak not from my self; but the Father which sent me, He hath given me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.” . (Jno. 12:48,49).
746 ate fraud nor a sadly deluded fanatic.. He was a Teacher sent from God who spoke the very words of God. God sealed Him as such by raising Him from the dead. He is my Divine Lord and Saviour, God seal ed Him as such by raising Him from the dead; and, therefore, I know He is com ing back again personally because He said He was, and I am not going to give up my faith in Him for all the vaporings and subtleties of all the Shailer Matthews and Professor Cases and the whole brood of American dispensors of a system of criticism and exegesis made in Germany, the land of systematic, university-bred and fostered falsehood, violence, rape and general deviltry. The poison gas Ger man university professors are belching out upon our sons and brothers on the battle front -of Picardy today is not one tithe so dangerous and damnable as the poison gas that German university pro fessors have been belching into the uni versities and theological seminaries of America, England and Scotland, and pre eminently intov Chicago University and Union Theological Seminary of New York. Let me read you another passage, Phil. 3:20, 21: “ For our citizenship is in heaven; FROM WHENCE also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory; according to the working whereby He is able even to sub ject all things unto Himself." And let me put alongside of this still another pass age—I Thess. 4:16, 17: “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive that are left, shall, together with them be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” It is Paul who wrote these two statements. Their meaning is as plain as day to anyone who goes to the Bible to find out what it really teaches and not to make it mean some-
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