Millions Now Living Will Never Die - 1920

129 Pages·2008·5.56 MB·English

by  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

PREFATORY

Badge FF Rulberord,
Tiroklym, N.Y
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Dyed for, and T embrace ken ealy opportunity 2
supremo you mhy dncre appcistit of the woth,

"The sdiable way fn shiek you have mused
‘he eayingt of fh Tord Jom, of the apoatien, ao of
the prophe’s of old ane scoporied than by abundant
‘euler evidence all going to ebow that » time would
‘ome when talioas thea lve would wer fleand
at we are now Fs i Hat ti we apie Bape
‘nd condense ix the mind of every bones truths
feaking rede.

Af ie ou by Ud the neo pring of spmdl
cating Pirtor Baredl"s xin im ¢hosopits of Hee
papers in many lands, Twas novzlly eerie to baow
how you would eat the prophecise 2 ufen refered to
iy Pastor Basel sermons. Lam pled, indeed, to nao
‘hal yom tne the wjer po of your eideacefrna the
standpoint of rifled wroghncy. For oun, T sm glad
‘at you gutharod auch in remy ef evidenne to Rabe
‘eatine your ine adr stow ths poop, a5 2 8e
for anorthosite lope, Low they may lite for ev
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TABLE of CONTENTS

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die

TPE juppeie smsonerent iat sions
‘pow living oa eax will never die rons sua
pecsumiptuons 40 auny peoples iat when thee.
lence 12 envefllyeonvidired T Welieze that
mont every 3air mind wil cononde Shae Bho
conslusion fe a reazovable one.

For neatly nineteen ltusdred years Christiana
have Boon looking forward to 2 Limo coming
svhen life everlasting wil bo ofuced to all the
peoples of earth, Thr expectations and Lopos
Eave toon ered pox the combined IasLimnoy.
of Se inspired proplets of old—from Sfasen to
{Tohme—apon the nefiznony of Teoma of Nanazat,
‘he Son of the livieg God, and upon the tentic,
roy of his inspired apostice.

“About 4000 jars ago God made a promise
4o Abreham ia Which In end Gite sould bess
Apsalam uel Gurcueh ie wad all Uso Eales
af tue earth should be Ulead. Kal only did he
wake thie promise, bus be lund ie with bis
oath and Bt Paul plainly tells us that these
to things, God's word and osth, aro undhango-
alo, and Wiot his promises must be Palled,
Based npon that oathbound promive and sie
sequent like promises made 10-09 effspring of
‘Afshin, devout Jeve of ths world have ston
Tpokad forward ta the Gime coming wn eae

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ngs of fe and happiness eternal will be offered
to mankind,

‘Tantuy the eyes of arthodos Tews of earth are
Saed apon Palestine, They are looking up and
iftins up their heada gre ihe hope in springing
inlo muilhiona of hearts that the time iv at ard
for the regatkering of the Jews tm Palestine
sani the ostablishrent thove ata state or governs
ment of the Jews and for the Jews, aording
to the divine arrangement. Sinee the time of
Abrahara they have Jooked for the Bessiah,
but heve uot yet diseorned who eonatitates the
Messiah.

Life evarlasting in a stala of happiness in tha
greatest dasiro of all wen Whether men havo
faith or not im the divine promises, each one
‘weal br gla te know for a certainty that there
“waa before him Jife everdarting im a happy tate.
In view of this strong desire, und of the eumala-
tive evidence given by tho holy men of ofd eon
corning such coming blessings, it acoms strange
hat moro people have not tried to inform Hheat-
‘eelven upon fhe subject, The tendon as aged
bby the Apostlo Pal, is thet he’ pod uf thig
‘world [Batan, the invintMe ruler uf the present
social order of things] hath blinded the minds
‘of thoso who are perishing, lest the glorious
@lad tidings of Christ Jonoa, sha fa the image
(of God, should chine into thelr hearts".—2 Cor-
Swthiane 424.

‘Many meu of alility in the past pentorioe
bare entored the CBiisliun mizistey, The great
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adversary, knowing their volnerable points, has
‘weed others to fitter and eajalu thom and to
tum their minds (award worldly things, and
Dy far tho greater number of wnowo elorgymen,
yielding to the bauefal and aedurtive influence
Of the pdvoreny, have Ghemselves turzed away
from the Bible, and have blindly led the people
in the wrong direction, ‘They scam to have lost
sight entirely of the fact thar God haa a grost
plan which he is causing to work out in an
orderly, majestic memner, Bat the hour hee
struck ‘whea the pucple shall know the truth,
and they thot laow dhe trath shall be made free
from the bondage of ignerauee and superstition
and their minds shal) he toraed into the channels
Keading te mending, joy.

Tris the purpose of the writer to try to tam
‘tha minds of the people to a earoful aud prayer.
fal eousideration of the divine paumives, IL is
ta be duoply regretted thot the dergemen would
oppose an alfurt Ww lauch the proc the Bible
Arathns neverthelans, we find rinch oppnsicion
everywhere,and many elergymen vill atbempt t
revent the poople from reading whit ir here
‘written, We, therefore, assure the rearer that
‘wo have no ulterior motiva in pniting oat dus
message. “Tt ie not propaganda, Thieew in no
dative nor effort to induer the reader tu jin
anything. The motive for this publication ty
‘wholly uneelich, ‘The wsin has but ane desire
and thet ia to indnce the people to read and rely
‘upon the divine promises and hus fix thelr
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hearts and minds in thin hoor of distrear npon
puankind jt comfort thase that mera and point
ther tha better dag wshich ie near at hand,

‘We shonld have in mind thet the great, all.
swite Crestor haa hen now for moro than 4,000
‘years dealing with certain penple, proparatary
{o bringing to every man an opportunity for
life everlasting. If he whose wislom is perfoot
‘would devote eo auch time and energy (0 the
ontworking of a great plaa, then surely it
‘worthy of the earefal ond palnstaking exam
ination and consideration of every mary, widhout
regard to bis caved, rljgionn training, or his
abltieal siew.

Since the days of Abraham many mon of
‘rail intllect not only have diligently utndiod
{hs divine plan, but have devoted thelr tives to
having a part in making it knows fo others.
‘There wars Lventy-four holy prophels, whaso
ameseages are recorded In the Bie. All of these
forctnid a coming tin of grast Blessings to the
naman race, ‘Their uttersncen were not thelr
‘ov, but they spake at the spirit of Jehovah
moved upon them, It was impossible for a
‘hum mind to look down through the corridors
of the ages and to foretell what the futare would
bring forth; but theen varions pruphele, quded
ty the all-viee Creator who knew the ene From
the beginning, wrote and spales merely an the
instinments of God. God never failed in one
‘af his promiaos, He enye. “Por am the Lord,
Tchause not” (Afatachi 6:4) “There hath not
ations Wow Hsing WH Never Dis °
failed one fall his good promnise:” (1
Wings 8:56) AN students of the sible que

fiat Lhe tine ret come when every promige af
Sehovah will be FulfHled. Iehovah does overs
‘hing ovdevly and on tse ave avaetly ie is avon
duc fimo, and.aot man's due tne. Oy dy with
hhimis o¢ 4 fhousuiud years wad w Qousand years
‘ae one day and what night sete fo soa a lung
Avlerred falfUlmene of a prumive would be to
Gd omly a questi a¥ vers hrief spar of Hime
‘All afugemts of the Bible alkn agree thar it haw
pleased detovah to divide the metal order of
‘hings existing Ztosn ihe beginning of tho ward
into epoehs, ‘hich upcelis we eall world, and
IWhieh uk Loed wpouls of as worlds--eneb & uee
oY the word “world” ameuliyg social ordar of
things weisting wilbi a givias pexiou of tues
Fur weary siuetven eantatien suuliste of divi
prophecy have expartnd az Jonked firth waelt
{Agend Revamse oroa tanght irwould evd, Many
Chufation men, however, falling 20. rocognise
tho distinction botwoen the aymbotic and literal
phrases of che Biblc, have been couftised con-
coming uve cea of the warld, Wer inslanee, che
great Joka Calvin taught thal upon the happen
ing of that event Jesus, souppoaciay near thu
wurth, wuld ems fire Ua be povuted from he
loa, setting the exrth aflame and tally
destroying it and everything on it’ TTo Reinga
dargyman of great renown was euppos| fo
ave based hla oonehisions upon prafer
interpretation of the Bible, aud great maimbe
» 2Mtnona ow Lieag Wt over Ble

Iblieved his toachings and for this reason, with
fear and tropidation, many have looker forward
tn the ending of tho ‘world,

‘Reasan ‘would Send us to tho conclusion that
cheval would not ercate a wonderful earth
Be ths, pevanit man lo bring it (0 high atate
of enltivation ia macy’ places, asd thon come
plotely destruy it, Buch le whlly out of hor
mony With his ckuruotes, Likewine such ia
‘wholly oul of hariuony with fhe plain teachings
of his Word, which anya: “The earth abideth
Hocever”. (Ieeasinnten 124) "Por thos saith
the Lord that erented the heavens; (ed himaalé
‘that formed the earth and trade its ho hath
established it, he ercated Htmot in vain, he forme
ditto he inkabited.” (Isaiah 45:78) When the
Bible sponks of tha ward eating it does nat
seas the Iteral early Unt it dovs efor to aa
‘epoch vr dispuuvation of time uring which a
certain arraugement of (ings or social onlee
fexivla. In prvol of this the Beripluree diselasa
‘ast There yas a “world” whieh existed [ruin tha
‘ime of Fiden util the gret deluge: “Whereby
ke world that then was, being overflowed with
‘water, perished. (2 Polor 3:6) At the wud of
the fod a new “world” began, and the prouains
ig made by tho ame Scriptntal ‘writer thal i
shall end. ‘The period of that worl is from tha
‘ood unit the coming of Mossiah’s kingdom,
and his Hugi is £0 mark the beginning of
annther new world or new order of things.

"The fest world, then, began with dhe creation