Angels and Women (1924)

APPENDIX 259
Mankind has been redeemed from the curse of death
by the one ransom sacrifice for all which the great
Redeemer gave. Hence, the falling asleep in death
is not now to be considered death in the full, everlasting
sense of the word. In the Millennial morning
all humankind will be awakened, for the purpose of an
individual trial and judgment, with its reward of everlasting
life to the obedient, or punishment of everlasting
cutting-off from life to the incorrigibly wicked,
namely, extinction, second death. See STUDIES IN
THE SCRIPTURES, Vol. I, page 129; VoL V, page
345; and THE HARP OF GOD, pages 322, 323.
NOTE 20. (See page 150)
Isaac Vail, author and scientist, corroborates the
Biblical account of the Flood in his theory of creation,
which is briefly but thoroughly and convincingly reviewed
in STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES, Vol.
VI, chapter 1. The wise will not attempt to guess that
which God has not revealed respecting how he previously
gathered together earth’s atoms. The basic rocks
indicate clearly that they were once soft and fluid from
intense heat; and scientists generally agree that not a
great way below the crust, the earth is still hot and
molten.
The Vailian theory credits the rings of vapor surrounding
the earth to the fact that all combustible elements
were thrown off by the heat leaving basic rock
only as all else would be changed into gases, forming
an impenetrable canopy for miles around the earth in
every direction. The earth at this period must have
resembled Saturn with its "rings." The breaking down
of these rings, long periods apart, furnished numerous
deluges. The water, strongly mineralized, covered the
entire surface of the earth, just as described in Genesis.
"We assume from scientific reasons," says Mr. Vail,