W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

streets by the feet till the angels descended and took him out of their hands. When you go to Egypt do not forget
to visit his tomb as well as that of Alexander the Great.
PETER is said to have received Rome, the world's metropolis, with all of Italy, the dominant country of the
globe, for his field of labor. His Epistles located him at Babylon, which was then a heap of ruins and
uninhabited and with no historic corroboration of any apostle ever traveling in that region. Babylon is not only
the current name of Rome in the prophecies, but is said to have been in common use at that time. After they had
beheaded Paul, the saints importuned Peter to leave the city lest they might be deprived of his ministry and
leadership, as well as that of his noble compeer, who had already sealed his faith with his blood. Therefore,
acquiescing in their earnest appeal, going out along the Appian Way beneath the twinkling stars, he suddenly
met Jesus going rapidly into the city.
Turning his face on him he says, “Domine, quo vadis?” (”Whither goest thou, Lord?”) Then Jesus answered,
“Peter, I am going to Rome to be crucified again,” and suddenly vanished out of his sight.
Peter understood the lesson, turned around, went back to Rome and told them that he was to be crucified there,
and so he was, on the Campus Martius, where the cathedral of St. Peter now stands, the most celebrated building
in the world, whose erection occupied two hundred years and cost two hundred million dollars. If you ever go to
Rome and travel out the Appian Way due south, you will come to a nice stone church on your left, superscribed,
“Domine, quo vadis?” marking the spot where Jesus met Peter, as history certifies.
PAUL, being the great apostle of the Gentiles, it seems that they mutually recognized in him a practical
episcopacy, including the whole Christian world and especially Asia and Europe, extending from Jerusalem to
Rome. He was brought to Rome the second time, in A. D. 68. His first imprisonment there had taken place in A.
D. 61 and occupied about three years, when having stood his trial and been acquitted for the want of evidence,
he was permitted to travel and preach till arrested at Nicapolis and carried again to Rome. This second time, he
was incarcerated in the Mamertine prison (which you will visit if you ever go thither) till Nero got ready to sit in
judgment against him. You will also be interested in visiting the old Judgment Hall on the Palatine mountain in
the ruins of Caesar's palace, where Paul was tried for his life and condemned to die, under the implication of the
general charge against the Christians for burning Rome. As he was a Roman citizen, they could not crucify him,
therefore, they led him out through the west gate, which this day bears his name, and decapitated him with a
sword.
Among all of the different books written on the life of our Lord, mine is the only one that gives a chapter on His
descension into Hades, His triumph over Satan and his myrmidons and the abolishment of the intermediate
Paradise, the emancipation of the Old Testament saints and their ascension with Him into Heaven. As the No-
Hellites, Millennial Dawners, and Seventh Day Adventists, as well as the Universalists, are now preaching that
He abolished Hell when He descended thither, while His body hung on the cross and lay in the sepulcher, it is
very important that you have this book in order to refute them, because it clearly shows up their cunning
falsifications.
You will see that there is not a word of truth in their hypothesis of His abolishment of Hell, which He certainly
did not; but He did abolish the intermediate Paradise, leading up with Him the Old Testament saints. (Eph. 4:8-
10) He left Hell there in Hades with all of its inmates, where they will remain until the final Judgment, when
they will all be called up to stand before the great white throne and receive their awful adjudication, (Rev.
20:14), antecedently to their final and eternal ejectment into the lake of fire, located in outer darkness (v.15).
These No-Hellites are so very adroit and cunning, pressing in everything that can possibly give the slightest
plausibility to their Hell-hatched falsification, that you need all the help you can get to panoply you against their
insidious sophistries with which they are now hallucinating millions of superficial Bible readers into the
diabolical delusion that Hell has already been bolis. This book, “The Life of Jesus Christ and His Apostles,” you
should not only carefully read but study, and so commit it to memory that you can readily appropriate in your
Biblical thesaurus the priceless truths appertaining to the wonderful life and ministry of our Lord and His
Apostles.