3523 - The Word "Worlds"

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

3523 — The Word "Worlds"

Referring to a question in the "Signs" of May 23, 1911, I would like to ask, Does not Heb. 1:1, 2 show that there are other worlds? C. P. O.

The Greek word from which "worlds" comes in Heb. 1:1, 2 and 11:3 is aion, meaning "age," and ought so to be translated, to our mind, throughout the New Testament. If you will trace the word through a Greek concordance you will find it could be rendered that in every instance. Occurrences of it are found in Matt. 13:39, "The harvest is the end of the world," or "age," and Matt. 28:20, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world"—"age." Of course, we know that the end of the world or earth, does not come in either of these cases. It simply means that we come to that period of earth's history where a great change takes place. And so it was through Christ that God constituted the ages, and by faith we understand that those ages have been marked out, or designated, or constituted. There is other very strong inferential proof which amounts almost to a demonstration that there are other worlds in the universe, but that fact is not stated in so many words. There is a wonderful amount of truth which will come to those who study the plan of God in the light of the ages.