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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
October 1926
In the 64th verse ot 6th ot John, we read: 'For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not. and who should betray Him.’ . And knowing everything, he said of the betrayer, ‘I have chosen— he is a demon.’ If our Lord had said ‘one of you has a demon,’ the whole statement would have been different, for many In Christ s days, we find, were possessed by demons, and He by His divine power cast out the demons. But in Judas we have something different; not a human man in whom a demon has taken up his abode, but a demon who has had a body given him in which to pass among men as a man. "Christ’s statement that he was a ‘Son of Perdition,’ is equally damnipg as to the real nature oij Judas Iscariot. He is called the ‘son of Simon,’ as regards the human side of his life, as Jesus was called ‘Joseph’s son,’— more especially Mary’s son. "But though nominally ‘Simon’s son,’ Judas Iscariot was ever ‘a Son of Perdition.’ And because he was this— ‘a demon,’ a Son of Perdition,— Peter, at Pentecost time, speaking in the Holy Ghost, was able to say that he, Judas, •went to his own place.’ We need spend no time in any detailed arguments as to whether this ‘place’ to which he went in the under world, was Tartarus or elsewhere; it was •his own place,’ the place of imprisoned demons, the place where other demons ‘who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, are reserved in chains.’ Neither Tar tarus or Hell were ever ‘prepared’ for lost human souls, ‘ but for demons, and, as a demon, Judas went to his own place. He paused a moment. His tall, thin form -(became rigid in the intensity of his service. In the silence, that deepened, the ticking of the clock in the front of the gallery could be heard plainly in every part of the building. Slowly he bent his lithe form forward until he leaned far over the reading desk. Then stretching out his arm, the long index finger pointing forward, he said: "Listen, friends! Receive this next part of the message, if you will, if you can. I believe that ‘The Man of Sin, •The Antichrist,’ when he shall be revealed, will be Judge re-incarnated. “ There can be no doubt. I think, but that any one study ing Daniel’s description of the Anti-christ will realize that, in his human personation, he will necessarily be a Jew, for otherwise the Jews (who will have largely returned to their own land, and will have built their Temple, and resumed their Mosaic service) would not accept him as their leader, and make their seven years’ covenant with him. "Now, beloved, my last word is a very solemn one. It is this: Our Lord’s Return for His Bride, the Church, is very near,— ‘He is even at our doors.’ Any day, any hour He may return. We, here, may never reach the point of the ‘Benediction’ at the arranged close of this service, for Jesus may come and call up to Himself everyone of His own in this place. Then what of you here who are not His? For you, there will remain nothing but the horrore of the Tribulation (should you seek and find God after the Trans lation of the church). "Will you be among the martyrs of the Tribulation, or of the final impenitent, rebels who shall be cast into the Hell reserved for the Deyil, for Anti-christ, for the demons; or, blessed thought, will you here and now yield to Christ, and become the saved of the Lord?" Amid the most intense hush, he added: “ Somewhere, even as I have preached of him, and as you have listened, there is, I believe, a young man, of noble stature, exceed ingly attractive, wealthy, fascinating,— bewitching, in fact, since ‘all the world will wonder after him'— yes, somewhere in the world, perhaps in this very city where we are now
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