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THE KEY OF THE
KINGDOM.
true theology.
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EVIDENCES OF GOD'S POWER TO CONVERT.
Thomasville, Ga., March 3, 1905.
To the World:
I am glad to say that I am entirely willing to leave
off all family names and hold to nothing except the
name of Jesus the Son of God the Christ, since I
have heard the Word of God preached in its purity,
I have been a Methodist in sentiment or membership
every since I have known myself, but I find that I
had the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
I am sure there are other Methodists who are labor¬
ing under the same peculiar, strange misteachings
as I. May the day come that all may hear the
Kingdom Gospel (Matt. 24:14) and believe it. It
makes you a better person. Thank God that His apos¬
tle, Stanley P. Mitchell, brought the truth to Georgia
in time to save me, my family and many friends.
Search the Scriptures. I am,
R. C. McLendon,
Apostle of the Church of Christ,
Thomasville. Ga.
Osceola, Ark., Nov., 1904.
I want to witness the teachings of the Second Com¬
ing Christ, and the establishment of His kingdom
on earth. (See Matt. 5:5; 24:14). I was a rank sin-
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ner when God's Apostle, Stanley P. Mitchell, came to
this county in 1897. I was a crap-shooter, although
I had passed the age of 50. I was called the daddy of
all sorts of devilment. I never had any faith in the
Baptist and Methodist churches, as I saw their mem¬
bers do things so often that I wouldn't do; hence I
never worried about their whooping and hollerings
about hell and damnation. But when I heard the
Apostle of the Church of Christ preach the second
time, though the opposers of truth among the church
members were great, I come out on the Word of
God. I have long since burned my banjo up and lost
taste for craps. I am a disciple of Christ.
Will Johnson.
Memphis, Tenn., Zion Temple No. 1.
To the World:
I have long since passed the age of boyhood. I am
an aged man. I have heard all sorts of preaching
among the various denominations. I will further say
I have been a Baptist preacher among them. I
preached what I was taught to the best of my ability.
I held revivals, and was the instrument of many oth¬
ers receiving the zeal of God, but not according to
knowledge, I thought I knew something about the
Bible. If not, I thought my teachers knew. The rea¬
son why was because I failed to search the Script¬
ures for myself, but simpdy read what they told me,
and they seldom told me to read the right and essen¬
tial parts of the Bible to prevent confusion of un-
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derstanding. Such, I am led to believe, is the posi¬
tion of many others. I used to think just as soon as
I died I would go to heaven. I learned that a dead
man can't go anywhere after reading more. We will
be all judged together, and all will go into the king¬
dom together, but we will be alive and not dead. I
have quit preaching dead people to heaven since I
have been taught the Gospel by God's Apostle, Stan¬
ley P. Mitchell. Let the world come in Zion. I am
a disciple. John Douglas.
WILL BUILD UP A CITY OF REFUGE AND
FIELDS OF EDEN.
To the Disciples of Christ:
There are many good things yet to come to the peo¬
ple of the Most High God, as well as seeking the
Kingdom to Come. We want a visible Kingdom here
on earth. The General Assembly of the Church of
Christ and Soldiers of the Cross proposes to begin
work at an early date negotiating the building of
Cities of Refuge for our brethren and purchase
farms to establish Fields of Eden, that we may be
governed entirely by the King (Word of God).
Would you not like to live under the direct law of
God? The cities shall be incorporated; the farms
will be the property of all of the Saints; no rent will
be paid on any property; no one will be a servant of
the other, but all will be the servants of Christ; our
temples and cemeteries will be in our possession.
At points where we can't establish a City or Field of
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Eden we will send from the City of Refuge or rrom
some of the stronger possessions of the Lord such
agents, missionaries, ministers, evangelists or apos¬
tle as will work for the establishment of the Savior's
possessions, schools of reformation, factories and
such industries as will give to the city financial back¬
ing. We will educate any child, let them be of what¬
ever religious faith they may be. Ours shall be en¬
tirely a Christian education.
MINISTERS WHO WANT TO CAST THEIR LOT
WITH US TRAINED BY MAIL.
ZION TEMPLE NO. 1
Is the present Headquarters, with Bible Institute.
Completing Bible Harmony, 90 days. Send for terms.
Each scholar, when completed, will be given title
of B. S.
The annual campmeeting of the Apostles and As¬
semblymen will be held each year by order of the
Diocese and the Elders. The Bible School will also
open each morning before the convening of the camp
meeting. Ministers should always attend the Bible
School, as it will be the fountain from whence the
knowledge of the Gospel of the Kingdom can be re¬
tained.
PREACHERS WHO WANT TO HELP US
Should let no weight or heresy beset you, but at once,
right now, come over to the Gospel Kingdom and
bring your congregations. We are restoring the
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Church. This is no new doctrine; the sex churches
have wandered from the Truth, not intentionally, but
philosophers and theory have lost them. Christianity
is cold because of self-instituted theory.
Come, all ye Scattered Race,
And see His loving face.
There is a land of Pure Delight,
"Over there."
This is a Mission Band,
Leading Christians by the hand
To the Kingdom of God,
Bright and fair.—R. T. M.
WHAT THE CHRISTIANS BELIEVE.
First—We believe in a Material God, Christ His
Son and Holy Spirit.
Second—We believe in a Material Man of the First
and Second Creation.
Third—We believe in the Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of Man.
Fourth—We believe when we save the man we
have saved the Soul.
Fifth—We believe all was lost until Christ died.
Sixth—We believe God's Word, through belief,
confession, baptism and right living, will save the
soul that so lives.
Seventh—We believe that men are made children
of God only by adoption and receipt of the Holy
Ghost.
Eighth—We believe in the everlasting destruction
of the wicked; eternal life for Christians, and none
other.
Ninth—We believe there is no Church except the
Church of Christ, since He has purchased the church
with His blood.
Tenth—We believe no one will be judged until the
day of judgment.
Eleventh—We believe all must wait, as Job said
the grave was his house.
Twelfth—We believe eternal glory will be in the
Kingdom of God, and that the earth and heaven shall
pass away, but the Word of God shall not pass away.
Persons, churches or communities wanting a camp
meeting or evangelist to hold meetings in their com¬
munity, write
STANLEY P. MITCHELL,
"God's Prize Fighter,"
Memphis, Tenn.
P. S.—Nearly all the songs are wrong for the Re¬
vised "Songs of the Kingdom"—send for "David's
Harps," a beautiful evangelical or camp meeting
hymnal; "Old Religious Ballads," 25 cents; "True
Theology," 25 cents.
To hear this doctrine, attend Zion Temple.
WANTED.
Fifty thousand new members, to join the Church of
Christ. Big inducements to young ministers; read
"True Theology." Write me what you think about
it. Denominations mean parts—are you willing to
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unite the people into one body, with one Lord,
Church and Baptism?
STANLEY P. MITCHELL,
Memphis, Tenn.
LAST DAY SIGNS.
CAPITAL VS. LABOR.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are
corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your
gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them
shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your
flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasures to¬
gether for the Last Days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped
down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud,
crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are
entered into by the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. Ye
have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wan¬
ton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter.—Jamesv:l-5.
CHURCHIANITY NOT CHRISTIANITY.
CHURCH MEMBERS HAVING A FORM OF
GODLINESS.
This know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their
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own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without
natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, in¬
continent, fierce, despisers -of those that are good,
traitors, - iilgh-minded, lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God; Having a Form of God¬
liness, but denying the power thereof; from such
turn away. For of this sort are they which creep
into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with
sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and
never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.
—2 Tim. i-vii.
LAST DAY OF SCOFFERS, ETC.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the
Last Days Scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming?"
for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as
they were from the beginning of creation.—1 Peter
3 :iii-iv.
HEAPED TEACHERS.
For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
and they shall turn away their ears from the truth
and shall be turned unto fables.—2 Tim. 4 :iii-iv.
HIRELINGS.
But he that is an hierling and not the shepherd,
whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming,
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and leaveth the sheep and fleeth; and the wolf catch-
eth them and scattreth the sheep. The hireling fleeth
because he is an hireling and careth not for the
sheep.—John 10 ;xii-xiii.
HAVE THEIR PASTURES SPOILED.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow your¬
selves ye principal of the flock; for the days of your
slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished:
and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men,
and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the
mighty men, and every bond man, and every free
man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of
the mountains: and said to the mountains and rocks,
"Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
lamb; for the great day of his wrath is come ; and
who shall be able to stand?"—Rev. 5:xv-xvii.
ADMONITION TO BLEIVERS.
Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunken¬
ness, and cares of this life, and so THAT DAY come
upon you unawares.
For as a Snare shall it come on all them
that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
WATCH ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye
may be accounted worthy to escape all these things
that shall come to pass, and to stand before the
Son of Man.—Luke 21 :xxxiv-xxxvi.
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Search the Scriptures * * * they are which
testify to me.—JESUS.
WHAT IS MAN, MATERIAL OR IMMATERIAL?
Gen. 1:26—And God said, Let lis make man in our
image, after our likeness.
Gen. 1:27—So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him; male and female
created he them.
Gen. 2:7—And the Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen. 3:19—In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of
it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.
Gen. 18:27—And Abraham answered and said,
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the
Lord, which am but dust and ashes.
Job 10:9—Remember, I beseech thee, that thou
hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me
into dust again ?
Psa. 103:14—For he knoweth our frame; he re-
membereth that we are dust.
Isa. 64:8—But now, 0 Lord, thou art our father:
we are the clay, thou our potter, and we all are the
work of thy hand.
1 Cor. 15:45—And so it is written, The first man
Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit.
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1 Cor. 15:47—The first man is of the earth,
earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
John 3:31—He that cometh from above is above
all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of
the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Eccl. 3:20—All go unto one place: all are of the
dust, and all turn to dust again.
Gen. 3:23—Therefore the Lord God sent him forth
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken.
Job 4:17—Shall mortal man be more just than
God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 33:6—Behold, I am according to thy wish in
God's stead; I also am formed out of the clay.
1 Cor. 15:53—For this corruptible must put on in-
corruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Cor. 15:24—So when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in vic¬
tory.
Rom. 6:12—Let not sin therefore reign in your
mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
thereof.
Rom. 8:11—But if the Spirit of him that raised
up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Psa. 78:39—For he remembered that they were
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but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not
again.
WHERE IS MAN IN DEATH?
Gen. 3:19—In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it
wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return*.
Job 10:9—Remember, I beseech thee, that thou
hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me
into dust again ?
Eccl. 3:20—All go unto one place; all are of the
dust, and all turn to dust again.
Eccl. 12:7—Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God
who gave it.
Psa. 146:4—His breath goeth forth, he returneth
to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Job 34:15—All flesh shall perish together, and
man shall turn again unto dust.
Psa. 104:29—Thou hidest thy face, they are
troubled; thou takest away their breath, they die,
and return to their dust.
Job 20:11—His bones are full of the sin of his
youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 21:26—They shall lie down alike in the dust,
and the worms shall cover them.
Psa. 22:29—All they that be fat upon earth shall
eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust
shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his
own soul.
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Psa. 143:3—For the enemy hath persecuted my
soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he
hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that
have been long dead.
Job 10:21—Before I go whence I shall not return,
even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.
Job 10:22—A land of darkness, as darkness it¬
self ; and of the shadow of death, without any order,
and where the light is as darkness.
Psa. 30:9—What profit is there in my blood, when
I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee?
shall it declare thy truth?
Psa. 88:3—My soul is full of troubles, and my life
draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psa. 88:4—I am counted with them that go down
into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
Psa. 88:5—Free among the dead, like the slain
that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no
more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Eccl. 3:19—That which befalleth the sons of men
befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as
the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all
one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence
above a beast: for all is vanity.
Job 7:21—Why dost thou not pardon my trans¬
gression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall
I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the
morning, but I shall not be.
Psa. 22:15—My strength is dried up like a post«
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herd: and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou
hast brought me into the dust of death.
IN DEATH IS MAN CONSCIOUS OR
UNCONSCIOUS?
Psa. 6:5—In death there is no remembrance of
thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks ?
Isa. 38:18—The grave cannot praise thee, death
cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the
pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Psa. 146:3—Put not your trust in princes, nor in
the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psa. 146:4—His breath goeth forth, he returneth
to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Eccl. 9:10—Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor de¬
vice, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
whither thou goest.
Eccl. 9:5—The living know that they shall die:
but the dead know not anything, neither have they
any more a reward; for the memory of them is for¬
gotten.
Eccl. 9:6—Also their love, and their hatred, and
their envy, is now perished; neither have they any
more a portion for ever in anything that is done un¬
der the sun.
Psa. 115:17—The dead praise not the Lord, neith¬
er any that go down into silence.
Psa. 30:9—What profit is there in my blood, when
I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee?
shall it declare thy truth?
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88:10—Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?
shal\ the dead arise and praise thee ?
Psl. 88:11—Shall thy loving kindness be declared
in thefgrave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
Psa.^88:12—Shall thy wonders be known in the
dark? a,nd thy righteousness in the land of forget-
fulness\
Psa. 49:15—God will redeem my soul from the
power or the grave: for he shall receive me.
Psa. 1^:15—As for me, I will behold thy face in
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake,
with thy likeness.
Isa. 26:14—They are dead, they shall not live;
they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast
thou visited ^nd destroyed them, and made all their
memory to perish.
Psa. 22:29—\A11 they that be fat upon earth shall
eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust
shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his
own soul.
Psa. 33:19—To deliver their soul from death, and
to keep them alive in famine.
Psa. 78:50—He made, a way to his anger; he
spared not their soul from death, but gave their life
over to the pestilence.
Psa. 89:48—What man is he that liveth, and shall
not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand
of the grave ?
WILL ALL MEN BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD ?
Job 14:14—If a man die, shall he live again? all
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the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my
change come.
Job 14:15—Thou shalt call, and I will aiswer
thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine
hands.
Job 19:26—Though after my skin worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
Psa. 17:15—As for me, I will behold th/ face in
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake,
with thy likeness.
Isa. 26:19—Thy dead men shall live, together with
my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Dan. 12:2—Many of them that sleep in the dust of
the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and
some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Jno. 5:28—Marvel not at this: for the hour is
coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear
his voice.
Jno. 11:23—Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother,
shall rise again.
3no. 11:24—Martha said unto him, I know that he
shall rise again in the resurrection of the last day.
Jno. 11:25—Jesus saith unto her, I am the resur¬
rection and the life: he that believeth me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live.
Acts 4:2—Being grieved that they taught the peo¬
ple, and preached through Jesus the resurrection
from the dead.
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Acts 24:15—And have hope toward God, which
they themselves also allow, that there shall be a res¬
urrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts 26:8—Why should it be thought a thing- in¬
credible with you, that God should raise the dead ?
1 Cor, 15:20—But now is Christ risen from the
dead, ancl become the first fruits of them that slept.
1 Cor. J.5:21—For since by man came death, by
man came also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Cor. 15:22—For as in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Cor. 15 i42—So also is the resurrection of the
dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incor-
ruption:
1 Cor. 15:43—It is sown in dishonor, it is raised
in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in
power :
1 Cor. 15:44—It is sown a natural body, it is
raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body.
Psa. 17:15—As for me, I will behold thy face in
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awa^e,
with thy likeness.
Psa. 49:15—God will redeem my soul from the
power of the grave: for he shall receive me.
Hos. 13:14—I will ransom them from the power
of the grave; I will redeem them from death: 0
death, I will be thy plagues, 0 grave, I will be thy
destruction.
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WHEN ARE THE RIGHTEOUS SEPARATED
FORM THE UNRIGHTEOUS?
Isa. 26:20—Come, my people, enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thy¬
self as it were for a little moment, -until the indigna¬
tion be overpast.
Isa. 26:21—For, behold, the Lord cometh out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for
their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood,
and shall no more cover her slain.
1 Thess. 4:15—This we say unto you by the word
of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them
which are asleep.
1 Thess. 4:16—For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch¬
angel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:
1 Thess. 4:1'7—Then we which are alive and re¬
main shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
1 Thess. 4:18—Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.
Matt. 25:31—When the Son of* man shall come
in his glory, and all the holy angf Is with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his ^lory:
Matt. 25:32—And before him-shall be gathered
all nations: and he shall separate them one from an-
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othex\ as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the
goat^:
Matt. 25:33—And he shall set the sheep on his
right hand, but the goats on the left.
Matt. 13:40—As therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this
world.
Matt. 13:41—The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
Matt. 13:42—And shall cast them into a furnace
of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matt. 3:12—Whose fan is in his hand, and he will
thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat
into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.
Matt. 13:30—Let both grow together until the
harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat
into my barn.
Matt. 13:49—So shall it be at the end of the
world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the
wicked from among the just.
Rev. 6:15—And the kings of the earth, and the
great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains,
and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks
of the mountains:
Rev. 6:16—And said to the mountains and rocks,
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Pall on us, and hide lis from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb.
ARE THE WICKED TO BE DESTROYED?
2 Thess. 1:7—And to you who are troubled rest
with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
heaven with his mighty angels:
2 Thess. 1:8—In flaming fire taking vengeance on
them that know not God, and that obey not the gos¬
pel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Thess. 1:9—Who shall be punished with ever¬
lasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power.
Matt. 7:13—Enter ye in at the strait gate: for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth
to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat:
2 Pet. 2:1—But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teach¬
ers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Pet. 3:16—As also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are some things.hard
to be understood, which they that are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures,
unto their own destruction.
Psa. 37:10—For yet a little while and the wicked
shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his
place, and it shall not be.
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Psa. 37:20—But the wicked shall perish, and the
enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs:
they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume
away.
Psa. 37:35—I have seen the wicked in great pow¬
er, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psa. 37:36—Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was
not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psa. 37:37—Mark the perfect man, and behold
the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psa. 37:38—But the transgressors shall be de¬
stroyed together; the end of the wicked shall be
cut off.
Matt. 10:28—And fear not them which kill the
body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather
fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell.
Matt. 13:30—Let both grow together until the
harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat
into my barn.
Matt. 13:40—As therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of
this world.
Mai. 4:3—And ye shall tread down the wicked;
for they shall be ashes under the souls of your feet
in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
1 Cor. 3:17—If any man defile the temple of God,
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him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are.
Mai. 4:1—For, behold, the day cometh, that shall
burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that
do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that com¬
eth shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that
it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Job 4:8—Even as I have seen, they that plough
iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4:9—By the blast of God they perish, and by
the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Psa. 94:23—And he shall bring upon them their
own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own
wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.
Isa. 1:28—And the destruction of the transgres¬
sors and of the sinners shall be together, and they
that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
Psa. 104:35—Let the sinners be consumed out of
the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou
the Lord, 0 my soul. Praise ye the Lord.
Prov. 2:22—But the wicked shall be cut off from
the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out
of it.
Job 31:3—Is not destruction to the wicked? and a
strange punishment to the workers of iniquity ?
Job 21:30—That the wicked is reserved to the day
of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the
day of wrath.
Psa. 145:20—The Lord preserveth all them that
love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
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Psa. 92:7—When the wicked spring as the grass,
and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it
it is that they shall be destroyed forever:
Psa. 92:8—But thou, Lord, art most high for ever¬
more.
Psa. 92:9—For, lo, thine enemies, 0 Lord, for, lo,
thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of in¬
iquity shall be scattered.
Prov. 13:13—Whoso despiseth the word shall be
destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment
shall be rewarded.
Prov. 10:29—The way of the Lord is strength to
the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers
of iniquity.
Prov. 1:27—When your fear cometh as desola¬
tion, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind:
when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
1 Tim. 6:9—But they that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and
perdition.
Acts 3:23—And it shall come to pass, that every
soul, which will not hear that Prophet, shall be de¬
stroyed from among the people.
Psa. 49:14—Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
death shall feed on them, and the upright shall have
dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty
shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Rev. 11:18—And the nations were angry, and thy
wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they
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should be judged, and that thou shouldest give re¬
ward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and
great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy
the earth.
Matt. 3:12—Whose fan is in his hand, and he will
thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into
the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with un¬
quenchable fire.
Jude 7—Even as Sodom and Gomarrha, and the
cities about them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are
set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of
eternal fire.
Matt. 25:46—And these shall go away into ever¬
lasting punishment: but the righteous into life eter¬
nal.
Psa. 90:3—Thou turnest man to destruction; and
sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Prov. 21:15—It is joy to the just to do judgment;
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Psa. 73:18—Surely thou didst set them in slippery
places: thou castdest them down into destruction.
Eom. 9:22—What if God, willing to shew his
wrath, and to make his power known, endured with
much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to de¬
struction.
1 Cor. 1:18—For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are
saved, it is the power of God.
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2 Thess. 2:10—And with all deceiveableness of un¬
righteousness in them that perish; because they re¬
ceived not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
Phil. 3:19—Whose end is destruction, whose God
is their" belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who
mind earthly things.
Psa. 88:11—Shall thy loving kindness be declared
in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
Psa. 88:12—Shall thy wonders be known in the
dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetful-
ness?
2 Pet. 3:9—The Lord is not slack concerning hia
promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-
suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Pet. 3:16—As also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are some things hard
to be understood, which they that are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures,
unto their own destruction.
2 Pet. 2:1—But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teach¬
ers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
WHEN DO MEN RECEIVE IMMORTALITY OR
ETERNAL LIFE?
2 Pet. 1:4—Whereby are given unto us exceeding
great and precious promises; that by these ye might.
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be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.
1 John 3:2—Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is.
Phil. 3:20—For our conversation is in heaven;
from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ:
Phil. 3:21—Who shall change our vile body, that
it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.
Luke 20:35—But they which shall be accounted
worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection
from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in mar¬
riage :
Luke 20:36—Neither can they die any more: for
they are equal unto the angels; and are the children
of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Rom. 2:6—Who will render to every man accord¬
ing to his deeds:
Rom. 2:7—To them who by patient continuance
in well doing seek for glory and honor and immor¬
tality, eternal life.
1 Cor. 15:51—Behold, I shew you a mystery; we
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed:
1 Cor. 15:52—In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye,, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.
1 Cor. 15:53—For this corruptible must put on in-
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corruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Cor. 15:54—So when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the say¬
ing that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
John 3:16—For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 2:25—And this is the promise that he hath
promised us, even eternal life.
Titus 1:2—In hope of eternal life, which God, that
cannot lie, promised before the world began.
Titus 3:7—That being justified by his grace, we
should be made heirs according to the hope of eter¬
nal life.
Col. 3:3—For ye are dead, and your life is hid
with Christ in God.
Col. 3:4—When Christ, who is our life, shall ap¬
pear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
2 Tim. 1:1—Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the will of God, according to the promise of life
which is in Christ Jesus.
Rom. 6:23—For the wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
WHERE IS THE INHERITANCE OF THE
SAINTS?
Gen. 13:14—And the Lord said unto Abraham,
after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now
thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art
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northward, and southward, and eastward, and west¬
ward:
Gen. 13:15—For all the land which thou seest, to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Gen. 13:17—Arise, walk through the land, in tht
length of it, and in the breadth of it; for I will give It
unto thee.
Exo. 32:13—Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Is¬
rael, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine
own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your
seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I
have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they
shall inherit it for ever.
Psa. 37:9—For evil doers shall be cut off: but
those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the
earth.
Psa. 37:11—But the meek shall inherit the earth;
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of
peace.
Psa. 37:22—For such as be blessed of him shall
inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him
shall be cut olf.
Psa. 37:29—The righteous shall inherit the land,
and dwell therein forever.
Psa. 37:34—Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,
and he shall exalt- thee to inherit the land: when
the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psa. 115:16—The heaven, even the heavens, are
„the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the chil¬
dren of men.
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Prov. 11:31—Behold, the righteous shall be rec¬
ompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and
the sinner.
Dan. 7:27—And the kingdom and dominion, and
the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heav¬
en, shall be given to the people of the saints of the
Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting king¬
dom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Matt. 5:5—Blessed are the meek, for they shall in¬
herit the earth.
Rev. 5:9—And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the
seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed
us to God by the blood of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, and nation:
Rev. 5:10—And hast made us unto our God kings
and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Isa. 60:21—Thy people also shall be all righteous:
they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my
planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glo¬
rified.
Isa. 65:9—And I will bring forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mount¬
ains : and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants
shall dwell there.
Gal. 3:29—And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abra¬
ham's seed, and heirs occording .to the promise.