The Intermediate State: An Essay upon the Relation of Prayer to a Conscious and Progressive Life in the Intermediate State - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... awakening from such troubled sleep dawn (Ps. xvii. 15), when men now dead shall live, and they that dwell in the dust shall arise and sing (Is. xxvi. 19). God will indeed "ransom His chosen from the power of the grave" and "redeem them from death "; but, more than this, He will swallow up death in victory, and destruction shall come upon the grave (Hos. xiii. 14. Is. xxv. 8). The change of name, from the ancient Sheol (Grsece, Hades) to that which would seem to have been in use in the time of our Blessed Lord, viz., "Abraham's Bosom," points to further progress in the conception of the abode of the Dead. It suggests.according to the interpretation of the Parable in which it occurs, the idea of a separation after death taking place between good and evil, or perhaps, even between Jew and Gentile. Sheol or Hades still exists, but the longed-for escape has been found, for the children of Abraham, into a separate home of bliss. Another development in the idea of this Intermediate State is found in the name, " Paradise," given by our Blessed Lord to the future resting-home of souls. This conveys a figurative description of the place, as an abode of surpassing beauty, and points to a condition of felicitous rest and enjoyment awaiting all who are privileged to enter upon it. The penitent thief, on hearing the mention of Paradise, would recognise the contrast it presented to all the woeful surroundings of his position, and would picture a scene of repose and tranquil beauty, to be exchanged on that same day for "the place of a skull." Twice in the Revelation of God we are allowed a glimpse of this newly-revealed Garden of Eden, That such an idea of separation of Jew and Gentile after death should have prevailed, would be the natural and logical conclusion of the...
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