CAN WE CAMP ON THE ANGEL PLANE AND THE CARNAL PLANE AT THE SAME TIME?
By David Paulson
“As is the mother, so is her daughter,” Eze. 16:44. Many parents are almost in agony over the course their children are pursuing, when if they would carefully examine their own characters, they would find a defective link at the very place where, in the children, there is one altogether missing. If parents have attempted in their previous experience to walk on the angel plane spiritually and on the carnal plane physically, more than likely they will have the bitter disappointment of seeing their children walking on the carnal plane entirely, without even a desire to walk on the angel plane spiritually. There is no more unerring law in all the divine order than the law of heredity, and we can escape its apparently cruel application only by getting a new heredity,—being born again, from above; then we secure a heredity of which we may well be proud. Genuine, whole-souled conversion is the only thing that will save the children of the present from the miserable legacy left them from their parents; and if they wish to be candidates for translation, the same thorough work must be done on their characters as was done for Enoch and Elijah. Worldly education will not furnish this preparation for the mind, nor will it even furnish the right foundation for the divine work that must be done. Worldly customs in eating and drinking will not put such a vital resistance into the physical man as to enable him to withstand the terrific inroads of disease that are just before us. “Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”