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 | If you are wondering about our beliefs, several of them are listed below. Founded upon the Holy Scriptures, we stand and hold these ideals in our minds and hearts.[Continued] -First Church Staff |
Maltreatment In the time of persecution or ill treatment at the hands of the ememy, we should not avenge ourselves but rather give place to wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12-19; Deuteronomy 32:35). Neither shall we take up any weapon of destruction to slay another in our own defense or in the defense of others. For it is written: "Do violence to no man." We should rather suffer wrong than to do wrong. Marriage and Divorce Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery" St. Luke 16: 18; Romans 7:1-3; I Corinthians 7:39; St. Mark 10:11-12. We have no right to add any thought or our own to such plain statements in order to justify those who have taken their second companion while the first one still lives. Civil Government All Civil Magistrates are ordained of God for peace, safety, and the general welfare of all people: Romans 13:1-10. Therefore, it is our duty to be in obedience to all requirements of the laws of the land that do not contradict biblical principles. They must not conflict as to force one into violation of the Sixth Commandment of Bearing of Arms and going to war. It is our duty to honor them, and show respect in all lawful requirements of the Civil Government. Resurrection and Translation of the Saints We believe that the time draweth near for the coming of the Lord to make a change in the present order of things. The dead in Christ shall rise first and those that remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. The unrighteous and the wicked dead shall not rise, until the thousand years have expired, which shall be the White Throne of Judgement. "And whosoever is not found in the Book of Life shall be cast into the lake of fire." Revelation-Chapter 20; St. Matthew 24:36-42; St. Luke 17: 20-21; I Thessalonians 4:13-17.
After Christ has come for his saints in the translation and after the tribulation period, He shall return with them and reign on earth for a thousand years (I Thessalonians 4:17). There shall be peace on earth and good-will toward men, afterwhich, the Second Resurrection and the White Throne Judgement shall take place. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First Resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years" (Revelation 20:6). The Millennium
Moreover, we believe that the distress upon the earth is the "beginning of sorrows" and will become more intense until there "shall be a time of trouble, such as there never was since there was a nation even to this present time (St. Matthew 24:3-8; Daniel 12:1); and that period of tribulation will be followed by the dawn of a better day on earth" and that for one thousand years. There shall be 'peace on earth and good will toward men'-Revelation 20:3; Isaiah 65: 7-25; St. Matthew 5:5. Final Judgment When the thousand years are finished, there shall be a resurrection of the wicked dead, who shall be survived before the Great White Throne for their final judgment, and all whose names are not found written in the Book of Life, shall be cast into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone, which is the second death that God hath prepared for the devil and his angels and all the wicked who serve him. Satan will be cast in first: Revelation 20:7-15; St. Matthew 25: 41-46; Revelation 21:8. [MORE>>] | 
