Question Corner by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 23.

Question Corner

By Editor

[From time to time we will reply under this head, if deemed advisable, to such candid inquiries as may be sent us. Correspondents wishing a reply to their questions must give their full name and address, not for publication unless they wish, but as an evidence of good faith on their part, and to give us opportunity to reply by letter if deemed best. It is always well to inclose stamp. Let the questions be short and pointed, and such as may be answered in limited space. The questions will be numbered continuously.]

1244.—The Resurrection of the Body.

If when a person dies his body is scattered, as is so often the case, to various parts of the earth, where will the body be raised? One is drowned and eaten by fishes, another is dissected, and flesh and skeleton scattered.

The resurrection is not a matter of knowledge, but of the power of God. It is not a mere bringing back of the same particles, but a new creation. The body goes back to dust. God calls it again from the dust. See Gen. 3: 19; Isa. 26: 19, and many others. Read especially 1 Cor. 15: 35-38. There the Lord answers the question, “How are the dead raised?” We can never understand all God’s ways of working; but we may know and apprehend His power. He can call back from earth anywhere the dead ones, stamped each with his own character, “to every seed his own body.”

1245.—First and Seventh and Eighth Days of What?

Please explain Lev. 23: 1-39. What is meant by these days and sabbaths? S. D. C.

Read the entire chapter carefully. Most of its instruction pertains to several feasts. In these feasts certain days were pre-eminent. But these days, called “the first day,” the seventh day, “the eighth day,” were not the first, the seventh, the eighth days of the week, but of the feast concerned. These sabbath days of these feasts came but once a year, the same as New Year’s day, Thanksgiving, etc. They were yearly feasts, fasts, and sabbaths of the Jews, and were “beside the Sabbaths of the Lord,” which were weekly. Verse 38.