The daily gazette., 1881-01-01
For the Gazette.
THE FULFILLMENT OF THE
PROPHECIES.

NO mere human author would ven-
tnre to stake his reputation, on the
verify Of predictions, uttered hundreds
and In some cases thousands of years,
before the time OF fulfillment.
1t IL utterly out Of the power Of man
unaided to know for q certainty the
events that win occur even in the near
future.
Prophecy, then. Il kind Of evi-
dence peculiarly suited to book, pur-
porting to be the word Of God. And
on this evidence Il may safely stand,
and challenge the investig gator OF any
man on earth. The prophecies of
scIipture are no vague generalities.
They are clear, minute aud determi-
nate, and are as cap4 ;5le Of proofs or
disproof - gpr0bipHs of Euclid.
"fhe burden or Babylon, which
Isaiah, the SON Of Amor, did see."
There is no such city now on ear. b
as Babylon was then.
According to Herodotus, its walls
were sixty miles in circumference,
three hundred feet high and seventy.
1--WE feet thick. II vas the Queen
city. "Howl ye; for the day OF the
Lord Is At hand; IL shsll come as de-
struction from the Almighty: behold
che day of the Lord cometh, cruel with
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate; and he shall destroy the sim
ners thereof out OF It.. Behold | stir
up the Medes against them, which
shall not regard silver, and as for gold
they shall not delight in it.
will make it a possession for the
bittern, and pools Of water; and will
sweep it with the besoin of destruction
saith the Lord of hosts.
The Lord Of hosts hath sworn, say
ing, surely as have thoughl, SO shall
it come to pass; and as have purpos-
ed, SO 1t shall stand.
For the Lord OF hosts hath purposed
and who shall disannul it? and his
hand ia stretched out. and who shall
turn it back?-Isaiah IA.
Now that is the prophecy. Has II
bean fulfilled or noti
The Medes did take Babylon, aud
though they did not destroy the city,
eventually all these predictions were
fulfilled.
Babylon became mounds Of earth.
aud even its exact situation was un-
certain.
"The burden Of Egypt. Behold, the
Lord rideth upon q swift cloud, and
shall come into Egypt"
"And the Egyptians will l give over
into the hands OF cruel Lord; and
fierce king shall rule over them, saith
the Lord, the Lord OF hosts." ."--Is. 10
Il, 4.
Has not the so,sn fulfilled to the
letter.
"The burden Of Tyre. Howl We
ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste.
so that there is no house, no entering
in.
AS at the report concerning Egypt,
so shall they be sorely panied al the re-
port of Tyre"
Els this your joyous city, whose an
tiquity is OF ancient days? her own
feet shall carry her afar off to So
journ.
Who hath taken this counsel against
Tyre, tho crowning city, whose mer-
chants are princes, whose traffickers
are the honorable of the earth? The
Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to
stain the pride OF all glory, and to
bring into contempt all the honorable
of the earth. lis. 90, 10.
Tyre was first destroyed by the
King of Babylon.
end of seventy years, that the Lord
will visi. Tyre, and she shall turn to
her hire. This is true to history. AZ
ter seventy years of desolation Tyre
was rebuilt, but after many sieges and
captures, it is now but miserable viii
lage.
"Hear, o heaven, and give ear, o
earth for the Lord hath spoken l
haye nourished and brought up chill
dren, aud they have rebelled against
ne. The OK knoweth his owner, and
the ass his masters crib but Israel
doeth not know, my people doeth not
consider. All sinful nation, o people
laden with iniquiiy, a seed of evil
doers, children that are corrupters
they have forsaken the Lord, they
have provoked The Holy one of Israel
unto anger, they are gone away back
wards. us. /, IA. Therefore
the Lord will cut off from Israel head
and tail, branch and rush in one daJ'
Is. 9--14. Behold the Lord will carry
thee away with mighty captivity"
He will surely violently turn and
toss thee like ball into large coun-
try."-22, ILLS.
so surely enough the ten tribes of
Israel were carried away captive by |
5halmaneser, king of Assyria and
placed in the country Of Media. But |
| will say here that the largest body |
Of them did not remain there, but |
went off into far country, and so dis
appeared from ancient history.
After the captivity of the ten tribes
of Israel, Judah and Jerusalem still
remained safe under their own king.
"And will make Jerusalem heaps,
and q den of dragons and will
make the cities Of Judah desolate,
without an inhabitant.
"Who is the wise man that may un>
derstand this and Who is he to whom
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken,
that he may declare it, for what the
land perisheth and is burned up like a
wilderness, that none passeth through
"And tue Lord saith, because they
have forsaken my law which set be-
fore them, and have not obeyed my
voice, neither walkest therein but
hayo walked after the imagination of
their own heart, and after Baa-
Ian, which their forefathers taught
them :kTherefore thus saith the Lerd
-. noI of Iaraal xv.M sonl |