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Mallcnnial Dawnism—The Blas
phemous Religion Which Teach
es the Annihilation cf Jesus
Christ.
By Rev. J. S. Settle.
Melletmial Dawnism is an ex
pr< ■ssion, just if c(l by a work pub
lished in six volumes entitled,
“Mellennial Dawn.” The origi
nal publishing center and head
quarters was Allegheny. Pennsyl
vania; now transferred to Brook
lyn, New' York. Tlie work is pu|)
lished and sent forth, hy Watch
'1 ower Bible and Tract Society.
The books are sold at a nominal
price. It claims to he an expo
sition of the Bible. It professes
to exalt i as the word of Cod. It
believes in Dispensatirnal dis
tinction. It holds that'the Scrip
tures cannot he rightly read un
til they arc d‘spensatjonally divid
ed. It, preaches Salvation thru
the death of Christ. It teaches
the election and calling of the
Church in this age. From Be
ginning to end it is one of the
m isf terrific, religious perils that
ever came forth in the name of
Christ. It is the peril of an au
dacious counterfeit and a conceal
ed poison. It blasphemes the
person of Christ. It denies that
the personality of our Lord Jesus
Christ has been from everlasting.
uncaused and self-existing. It
denies that. He is the uncaused,
sdf-existent second person of the
eternal and triune God-head. It
teaches that there was a time
when the personality of .Team
Ohrist our Lord did not exist. I 4
teaches that our Lord Jesus
Christ had a beginning. If al
s> teaches that the personality of
our Lord Jesus Christ was creat
ed. If teaches that our Lord Je
sus Christ was created as a Sp’r
it bong. It teaches that lie was
created Spirit being evep as an
gels are. It teaches that lie was
created by the fiat of God, even
as man was created. It teaches
that in order to become the re
deemer aind Savior of men lie
gave up his Spirit being. It
teaches that He was created a
•ccoud Adam, as Adam was be
fore he fell. It teaches that He
did not have two natures—human
divide. It teaches that He had
but one nature —Adams nature,
ft teaches that when our Lord
Jesus C'hr'st walked on the earth
He was nothingl more than a mor
tal iua*i. It teaches that he was
not God. It teaches that He nev
er was God before incarnation.
It teaches that he never was God
during incarnation. And thus
does Millennial Dawnism rob, dis
honor, deny, and blaspheme the
person, the life and character of
the Son of God.
Millennial Dawnism flings it
self against His sacred cross. It
blasphemes the cross of Christ. In
that hour the sinless Son of God
suffered in Ills body, hut in that
hour upon the cross lie suffered
not only in body hut in soul. Wilt
! ’.n convey the agony of 11 is soul
It Was not the smiting of man,
but the smiting of God 1 that agon
ized Him. It was not the suffer
ing of bod\ that tortured Him,
but the suffering of His soul. It
was not the nails that hurt H in.
but the hiding of Ills Father s
face. “My God. Mv God, Why
has thou forsaken me;" He
cries. Says tin* prophet. “ He
was strieken, smitten of God and
afflicted. Isa. 5.3:4. God
smote Him. He made Iliin to be
sin for us: 2nd Cor. 5 ch. 21 vr.
The agony of the cross was the
agony of both body and soul. The
value of the agony was infinite.
What is God the Father doing
Ills part? He is there revealing
His inexorable justice and His in
f.nite wisdom. On the same prin
ciple by which sin and damnation
came into the world, lie is find
ing a way by which to bring
righteousness and salvation into
the world.
Millennial Dawnism comes 4 o
.h • foot of the cross sublime with
this proposition:
Annihilation
Annihilation in the foundation
proposition. Millennial Dawnisn
teaches that death lies but cne
signification: that it means exelh
sively the cessation of being.
When sentence of death was
passed upon Adam, tha‘ sent nee
in -ant the extinction of Adam am
his posterity. Whne Adam died
h • ceased to be. He was extinct.
All the race of Adam who have
died since are ext net. Every hu
man being who dies today ceases
to he, becomes extinct, is annihil
ated.
Millennial Dawnism announces
that Jesus Christ is substitute pro
vided of God to take the place of
Adam and his posterity suffering
the penalty due to him. The log
ic of the proposition would) re
quire that Jesus Christ; who died
on the cross as a substitute for
sinners, should become extinct —
non-pxistent- annihilated. Thai
would lie the logic of the two
propositions which Milennial
Dawnism brings to the foot of
the cross. The annihilation of
Jesus Christ. Does Millennial
Dawnism hpsi.ate before the
logic of its own proposition? It
dies not. Millennial Dawnism
faces the inevitable conclusion;
coldly, calmly and deliberately,
it teaches that Jesus Christ was
annihilated on the cross. Asa
substitute he gave up liis human
life for the race. He ceased to
he. lie became extinct. He was
annihilated. If Jesus Christ had
hut one nature (as Millennial
Dawnism teaches), if that one
human nature was d,cstoryed on
the cross, as there can he no
personality without a nature of
s imo sort, then, when the one and
only Lature which he had when
he died was destroyed, the per
sonally inseparably united to it
was destroyed. (The horror, the
horror of it.) Then the Christ
wlho was born of the Virgin Mary
who died on Hie cross was anni
hilated. He doge not exist.
Millennial Dawnism teaches
that the body of Jesus Christ
was never raised from the dead.
Oh page 129, volume 2 of Millen
nial Dawln it, is written concern
ing the body of our Lord Jesus
Christ after His death: “We
know nothing about what became
of it.” Mark you that. In face
of the fact that after He arose
from the dead Jesus Christ show-
Al his hands ami his feet and
bade the disciples to handle him
and see if it was not the same
body. Millennial Dawnism says
of our Lord’s body: “We know
nothing about what became of i\
Hu. listen further. They say not
whether '' was dissolved into
gases. Millennial Dawnism does
not know what became of the
body of our Lord Jesus. It teach
os that the body in which he ap
pt*nred to his d'sdphs w;> s not
lie body in which he died. They
s.iy the body in wieh He appear
ed to liis disciples was only a
materialization, created for the
moment, but dissolved again in
to tliin air. In volume 2, page
12S, Milennial Dawn says:
“Many Christians have the idea
that our laird's glor.ous Spiritual
! body is the very same body that
1 was crucified on the cross.' They
page 13! it is written: "DtiV LW
Jesus Chirst is no longer a man
hut a Spirit being. He is no lon
ger the man Christ Jesus.” Put
all tßis together and see what
Millennial Dawnism so far teach
' e*.
1. The humanity bf Christ was
annihilated on the cross.
2. TB- never rose from the
dead in the body in which he
died.
3. The body in which he died
may have been dissolved into
ga sjes.
4. Tin* body in which Ih> ap
peared was not a real body. It
was a materialization and final
ly vanished into nothing.
5. Resurrected, our Lord in
spite of his own denial about it
was changed into a Spirit being.
6. He is not now the man
Christ Jesus. 1
7 He lias no humanity. ,
8. He is not a man at all. (
9. Tie is nothing more than a
Spirit Being.
Millennial Dawnism carries
forward its terrific and blasphem
ous teachings to one end —that it
giVe to the Ch.ristless dead a
second chance. The word of God
knows nothing of a second 1 chance
The word says: "Xow is the ac
cepted time.” Now is the day
of Salvation. Through the lips
of the apostle Paul, the Spirit
ask,s the question: llow shall
we escape, if we neglect so great
a salvation. Heb. 2 eh. 3 vr.
Scriptures denies the doctrine of
tile second chance by the record
ed fact of two resurrections.
There is a resurrection unto
life and a resurrection unto dam
nation. John 5 eh, 28-29 vrs. The
resurrection unto damnation is a
second resurrection. Tile two
resurrections are set forth in the
book of Rev. 20 ch. One is call
ed the first resurrection. The
other is called the second. The
first resurrection takes place at
the beginning of the thousand
years-—the day of Christ’s. It
is the morning resurrection. The
second resurrection takes place
at the close of the thousand years
—The day of Christ. It is the
evening resurrection. One is the
resurrection to day, the other is
the resurrection to night. The
first resurrection is before the
millennium. The second resur
rection is after the millennium.
The fact of two resurrections
breaks the force of the Millennial
Daw ism doctrine tliat resurrec
tion is general and pell-mell. The
two resurrecions are facts. They
are suggestively distinct from
each other. The one is unto life.
T!ie other is unto damnation.
The one brings into the King
dom. All who are not in the
first resurrection are in the sec
ond. All wiio are in Christ are in
the first resurrection. The con
sequence of tilt* second resurrec
tion is the white throne judge
ment, and‘ —what a second
chance! Xay, Listen, and listen
well; the second death, do you
hear that? Not a second chance.
No, the second death. The flames
and fire that leap up from the
second death proclaim in lurid
letters that there is no second
| chance for those who are out of
Christ. He gives it in the story
jof the rich man and Lazarus. In
I that story he tells us that be
tween the righ'eous and the un
j righteous there was a great gulf
fixed. Death fix and the place and
tile state. Death fixed doom, as
death meets the soul. eternity
keeps it. lie who dies in Christ
is in Christ forever. lie who
dies out of Christ is out of Christ
forever. For Christ said in Math
ew 25 eh. last verse. “And these
shall go away into everlasting
punishment, hut the righteous in
ti life eternal.”
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