The Spirit World

by Clarence Larkin

Publisher:

Clarence Larkin

, 1921

Overview

Shortly after World War I, Larkin was disturbed to see a large number of people turning to the occult to try to contact lost loved ones. "It seems timely that a book should be written to show what the Holy Scriptures has revealed of the 'World of Spirits.' The Bible has much to say about this 'Spirit World,' and if we will carefully search its pages we shall know all there is to be known in this life of the 'World to Come.'" This volume, still pertinent in sentiment and content today, contains over forty of Larkin's beautiful drawings and charts. Contents include:

• The Spirit World
• The Tri-unity of God
• Satan
• The Fallen Angels
• Demonism
• The Underworld
• The Spirits in Prison
• Natural Law in the Spirit World
• Relation of the "Spirit World" to the "Natural World"
• Man's Relation to the Spirit World
• Soul Sleep
• The Intermediate State
• Recognition and Relationship in the Spirit World
• The Final State
• The Abolition of Death
• Spirit Transformation
• The Resurrections
• The Resurrection Body
• The Judgements

Contents

Top Highlights

“To tamper with ‘Spiritism’ is to put one’s-self on Satan’s ground, and to throw one’s-self open to invasion by a Demon, or to the ‘control’ of an ‘Evil Spirit’ from the ‘Dark Zone,’ whose power it may be impossible to break.” (Page 46)

“Satan seeing that he could not stamp out the Church by violence and persecution has changed his tactics and is now trying to seduce her into conformity to the world, and to try to better an ‘Age’ that God has doomed to destruction. His present purpose is to build up a ‘magnificent civilization,’ and he has deceived the Church into believing that it can bring in the ‘Millennium,’ without Christ, by the Betterment of Society. His hope is that the ‘Gospel of Social Service’ will take the place of the ‘Gospel of Grace,’ and by diverting the attention of Christian people to ‘secondary’ things, they will neglect the primary work of soul saving, and thus delay the evangelization of the world, and postpone the Return of the Lord, and his own confinement in the Bottomless Pit.” (Pages 18–20)

“The legitimate conclusion from this statement is, that the Angels do not marry, but it does not therefore follow that they are ‘sexless.’ It says they do not marry in Heaven, not that they do not have the power of procreation, but that it is not the nature of ‘Holy Angels’ to seek such a relationship. But it does not follow that if they have the power they will not exercise it in a fallen state. What these passages teach is that angels do not multiply by procreation. Angels as far as we know were created ‘en masse,’ and as they are immortal, and never die, there is no necessity for marriage among them. Marriage is a human institution to prevent the extinction of the race by death.” (Page 27)

Product Details

• Title: The Spirit World
• Author: Clarence Larkin
• Series: Clarence Larkin Collection
• Publisher: Clarence Larkin
• Publication Date: 1921
• Pages: 158

About Clarence Larkin

Rev. Clarence Larkin (1850–1924) was an American Baptist pastor, Bible teacher, and author whose writings on dispensationalism had a great impact on conservative Protestant visual culture in the 20th century. His intricate and influential charts provided readers with a visual strategy for mapping God's action in history and interpreting complex biblical prophecies. Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, Larkin experienced conversion at the age of nineteen. He received a college degree in mechanical engineering and had worked as a draftsman, a teacher of the blind, and a manufacturer, but felt called to ministry. After World War I broke out, God laid it on his heart to prepare a work on dispensational truth. Larkin spent three years of his life designing and drawing the charts and preparing the text. It was received to favorable acclaim both in the United States and abroad. During the last five years of his life, the demand for Larkin’s books made it necessary for him to give up his pastorate and devote his full time to writing. His other works include Rightly Dividing the Word; The Book of Daniel; Spirit World; Second Coming of Christ; and A Medicine Chest for Christian Practitioners, a Handbook on Evangelism.