Angels and Women (1924)

260 ANGELS AND WOMEN
"that the last of these rings was pure water; that it had
not yet broken and come down in the day of Adam’s
creation, but that it completely overspread the earth
as a translucent veil above the atmosphere. It served
as does the whitened glass of a hothouse to equalize
the temperature ; so that the climate at the poles would
be little if any different from that at the equator."
Following the Deluge in Noah’s day came great
changes, accompanied by a great shortening in the
span of life. With the breaking of this canopy in the
Flood came a terrific change, almost instantaneous,
from a hothouse temperature to arctic coldness. See
Scenario of the PHOTO-DRAMA OF CREATION,
pages 2, 3, 19.
NoTE 21. (See page 151)
The Scriptures say of some that they "seek for glory,
honor and immortality." (Romans 2:6, 7) This is
contradiction to some who claim that all men have it,
without seeking it. Again, the apostle says of the saint
of God that "this mortal must put on immortality."
(1 Corinthians 15:53) Except it be granted as a reward
for faithfulness by him ’who only hath immortality,"
the Almighty, there could never result in the
entire universe of God an immortal being. See 1
Timothy 6:16; and STUDIES IN THE; SCRIP-
TURES, Vol. I, page 173, chapter 10.
NOTE 22. (See page 158)
Will those "spirits in prison," the angels which kept
not their first estate and became fallen ones, ever have
an opportunity to repent of their sin and return to the
service of God? St. Peter tells us that they are "reserved
unto judgment" (2 Peter 2:4), thus settling
the matter that they, as well as mankind, will have a
trial under the reign of Christ and the church. "Know