Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 REDEMPTION 311
God is recognized as one of the parties.
According to
the old covenant the building of a body is thru the generative
process or reproduction. According to the new
covenant the building of a body is thru the regenerative
process, or the re-building or resvitalizing of the body;
but the third choice does not recognize God, for it is the
way of Onan who wasted his seed upon the ground, and
God slew him; it is the way of the adulterer and fornicator;
and to those who do not think. and who choose
this way God says, "I will send them strong delusions
thet they might believe alie."
could there be
What greater delusion
than in the wasting of the life-forces?
Tnose who waste their forces think they are getting life,
whereas in reality they are getting death; for are not the
hospitals, asylums, and graves filled with those who have
chosen this way? It does not take much thought to make
this choice of destruction, but it is the most expensive,
for it costs all that makes life dear, and even life itself.
It was because the people of Ninevah had chosen this
way that God sent Jonah to preach to them the wisdom
of choosing the way of the new covenant. It was then as
it is to-day, a hard task, and a delicate subject to handle;
and one can hardly blame him for trying to flee from
it; but he finally did as he was called, and the people repented.
Here is a strange thing that I found recorded in
Young's Concordance, and this is what lead me to know
what that message was that Jonah was to preach to the
Ninevites: "Ninevah
the Capital of Assyria had more
than 120,000 infants in it at one time," etc. Strange coincidence
that such a circumstance should be recorded
which has not been recorded of any other city.
The old covenant is the law of generation given first
to Abraham in Gen. xvii. 10, saying, "I will make my
covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee