War in Heaven. - James P. Simmons

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Résumé :
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. Tenth and Last General Proposition Stated--The World not Destroyed, but Renewed at the Judgment--The Precise Time Concealed, and Why--Devils and Men All Judged Together-- The Ungodly Prosper in the World--The Righteous are Punished Here -- Necessity for Future Retribution -- But Two Classes Formed After Judgment--Various Questions Asked--A Story and a Moral--Christ Able to Save All--Willing to Save the Penitent and Faithful-- Which the Most Wicked, Angels when They Fell, or Men? I Have now reached my tenth and last proposition, to-wit: That this arrangement will be continued until all who were embraced in that divine antemundane covenant have, or shall have had, a probationary term here. Then will come the final judgment; when all will be restored to their primeval favor with God, or doomed to that final punishment which is due for individual sin by each committed. This head admits of subdivision into three parts: 1. As to the duration of our race, under present circumstances, on earth. 2. That there will be a general judgment, before which all men and devils will be brought. 3. That a final separation will then be made between those who return to Christ and live, and those who reject his salvation and die. All of which have been, to some extent, anticipated in the preceding pages of this work, or follow as natural and necessary consequences of facts and arguments already presented. If it be true, That pursuant to that divine covenant, and for the purpose of carrying it into effect, this world was created or adapted to its present use, and God made man and placed him here for probation, as shown under the sixth general division, it follows, as a necessary sequence, that it must be preserved until the object for which it was made shall have been ...