ep are struck with the owner's mark and as they take up their
journey Zionward all who are not of Israel will be purged from their
midst.
Those who are really of the covenant people will be quickened,
regenerated, and when they enter the land will be welcomed by Judah
and Benjamin.
They shall become one nation in the land upon the mountains of
Israel. One king shall be king to them all. They shall not be two
nations any more, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms at
all. The Lord will make a covenant of peace with them and multiply
them and set His sanctuary in the midst of them forever. His
tabernacle shall be with them. He will be their very God as He shall
be the God of the whole earth. They shall be His peculiar people.
All the Gentiles shall know that He has set them apart for Himself
when they behold His temple erected in their midst, the most
wonderful building in all the earth.
And thus will be fulfilled the prophecy concerning Israel quoted and
emphasized by the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul that the
Deliverer should come to Zion and turn away ungodliness from Jacob
and that all Israel--that is--Israel united and as twelve tribes,
should be saved.
It is at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, then and not till then
that the solemn and covenant promises of God made to Abraham, to
Isaac and to Jacob will be fulfilled and united, redeemed,
regenerated and saved Israel set in their own land as the center and
channel of blessing to the earth.
And because there can be no permanent peace in the world till Israel
has been restored; and because I wish to see, not only peace among
the nations and Israel reaping the blessings of the unconditional
covenant of God's grace and unchanged faithfulness, but because I
yearn to see the hour when the Lord shall enter upon His own
inheritance and justify Himself before heaven and earth as Judah's
Lord, as Israel's God and turn the accusation of His cross: "This is
Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews" into the pean of His
coronation as such, I preach the Second Coming.
VI
Only at the Second Coming of the Christ of God Will a Government of
Everlasting Righteousness and Peace be Established Upon the Earth
IT was the original purpose of God to make the people of Israel the
head of nations, place them in Palestine as the geographical center
of the earth, make them its political center, send His own Son to be
their incarnate king, use them
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