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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 6, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 14.

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Reserved Unto Fire.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

ACCORDING to the apostle Peter, the atmospheric heavens and the earth “are kept in store, reserved unto fire, against the day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men;” and the unjust are reserved “unto the day of Judgment to be punished.” 2 Peter 3:7; 2:9.
They are not now being punished, but are “reserved unto the day of Judgment to be punished.” Job says that “the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction,” and that “they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.” And Christ has testified that they shall “come forth” from the graves “to the resurrection of damnation.”
The Judgment must come, and they that are in the graves must be raised before the wicked receive the punishment threatened them in the Scriptures. They are reserved in the grave to that day when the earth and elements shall melt with fervent heat. In that day of Judgment they shall be brought forth to destruction, to utter perdition. R. F. COTTRELL.