Charles Julius Guiteau; The Truth; a Companion to the Bible, 1879.
"No one can understand the Bible without this view of the Second Coming, and herein is the great value of the discovery. " (Page 33)
No one can understand the Bible without thin view of the second coming. It is a living stream of water running through the New Testament. This doctrine is the missing link, uniting Primitive Christianity with modern Christianity, and, it is believed, Holy Ghost power will come to the church by a belief in this doctrine. (page 53) (HAHAHA)
"Christendom must have a new theology — a theology to fit the fact that Christ came A. D. 70. (Page 53)
Thousands have rejected the Bible, to their eternal death, on account of its apparent inconsistency, not knowing the truth concerning Christ's second coming. (page 53)
A correct knowledge of Christ's second coining is almost as important as a knowledge of his first coming. (page 54)
There were two classes in the Primitive Church — those that expected Christ's coming and those that did not. An individual's belief or disbelief in His coming decided his final destiny. He appeared at the siege of Jerusalem " with His mighty angels," to those who were looking for Him, and took them to glory. To those who looked not for Him He came not. They were left on earth, and their seed has represented Christianity all these ages. They were the unfaithful servants of whom Christ so often spake. (Page 60) (I can only assume Guiteau was of one who came from these seeds of unbelief who were left on earth after 70AD. LOL)
The very curse Paul says (II Thess. ii. 11) should come upon the church, has been upon it since Christ came, A. D. 70. " And for this curse," says Paul (thereby meaning the unbelief of the Antichrist part of the Primitive Church, concerning Christ's coming, then close at hand), " God shall send them" (meaning the Antichrist part of the Primitive Church, and which Christianity since has represented), "strong delusion," that they should "believes lie"; and Christendom, for eighteen centuries, has not known the truth touching Christ's second coming. The reason they have not known it, is because it was the Antichrist part of the Primitive Church which Christ left on earth when he judged the race at the siege of Jerusalem. It is this apostate Christianity that has assumed to represent Christ all these ages. As they forsook the coming of the Lord, so has the church, commonly called Christian, done in all ages. The Christianity of Paul's church was wonderfully different in spirituality and Hol (pages 61-62)
As the entire human race (i. e., the dead part of it), prior to the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, were detained in Hades, awaiting their resurrection and judgment, so the inhabitants of this earth, since A. D. 70, have been detained in Hades awaiting their resurrection and judgment, which will take place at the end of the world. Paul (he was executed A. D. 68) only waited two years in the Paradise of Hades after his death for his "crown," i. e., till Christ came, A. D. 70. Abraham,* however, was * In Luke 16: 19-31, wo, are told that a rich man interviewed Abraham, and thereby learn that Hades is composed of two wards, — the one for the righteous ; the other for the wicked. Abraham was in the righteous ward, »'. e., in the Paradise of Hades ; and the rich man in the wicked ward, i. e., in Hell. " And the rich man lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw father Abraham afar off," (page 81)
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Footnote "Guiteau's book "The Truth; a Companion to the Bible" was almost entirely plagiarized from the work of John Humphrey Noyes." "Charles Julius Guiteau was an American lawyer who assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881. He was executed by hanging." "Guiteau then decided that God had commanded him to kill the ungrateful President."
