The daily gazette., 1881-01-05
For the Gazette. -l3
THE FULFILLMENT OF THE
PROPHECIES.

unto me, behold have put my words
in thy mouth. See, have this day
set thee over the nations and over the
Kingdoms, to root out, and to pull
down, and to destroy, and to throw
down, to build, and to plant"
Now let any one read the 28th, Goth &
Both chapter Of Deuteronomy and then
search the history of the Jews from
the time Of Christ and see IL th, Sc
prophecies uttered more than three
thousand years ago have not been lit
orally fulfilled.
The Jews have been plundered,
murdered, prosecuted and trampled
upon, till the wonder Is that any of
Them are left.
s'See, have set before thee this day
~ aud good, and death and evil; in
that l comm and thee this day to love
the Lord thy God, to walk in his way,
and to keep his commandments, and
his statutes, and his judgments, that
thou mayest live and multiply; aud
the Lord thy God shall bless thee in
the land WHITTIER thou goest to possess
It. But II thine heart turn away, so
that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
be drawn.away, and worship other
gods, and serve them; denounce un-
to you this day, that ye shall surely
perish, and that ye shall not prolonR
your days upon the land, whittier thou
passest over Jordan to go to possess
it."
$50 that the generation to come, of
your children that shall rise up after
you, and the stranger that shall come
from far land, shall say, when they
shall see the plaques of that land, aud
the sicknesses which the Lord hath
lain upon it; and that the whole land
thereof is Drimstone, and salt, and
burning, and that it is not sown, nor
beareth, nor any grass groweth there
in, like the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah, Admah, and Teboim,
which the Lord overthrow in his an
ger, and in his wrath; even all the ma
tions shall say, wherefore hath the
Lord done thus unto this land. What
meaneth the heat Of this great an
ger?
These men shall say, because they
have forsaken the covenant of the
Lord God of their fathers, which he
made with them when he brought
them forth out Of the land of Egypt
for they went and served other gods,
and worshipped them, gods whom
they know not, and whom he had not
given unto them"
SO ten of the tribes were carried
away bodily out Of their land by the
Assyrians, and until Of late years il
was not known What had became OF
, them. Their land has been desola ted
by many conquerors, and is now in the
,, possessions OF the savage Turk.
And 30 it 10 fulfilled as spoken, 81
will overturn, Overturn, overturn II,
and it shall be no more, until he come
whose right 1t is; and l will give 1t
him.-Ezek. 21-27.
"Also Edom (the children of Esau)
shall be desolation /; every one that
goeth by 1t shall be astonished and
shall hiss at all the plaques thereof"
-Jer. Alt. Aud 80 it is at this
day. "For GAIA shall be forsaken,
and Ashkelon u desolation they shall
drive out Ashdod at MONDAY, and
Ekron shall be rooted up" "And he
will stretch out his hand against the
north, and destroy Assyria and will
make Ninevah desolation, and dry
like a wilderness. ."-Zeph. Q, 4-18.
might multiply these extracts by
the hundred, and they have all been
fulfilled TO the date and the letter.
"And said unto them, if ye think
good, give me my price and If not,
iorbrar. 30 they weighed for my
price thirty pieces of silver. And the
Lord said unto one, cast It unto the
potter; agoodly price hat was priced
1T of them. Aud l took the thirty
pieces of silver, and cast them to the
potter in the house of the Lord d:-Zech.
o--12. "rhen one of .he twelve, call
ed Judas lscariot, went unto the chief
priests, and said unto them what will
We give me, and will deliver him unto
your And they covenanted with him
for thirty pieces of silver. Mat. So
IA.
"Then Judas, who had betrayed
him, when he saw that he was con-
demned, repented himself, and brought
again the thirty pieces Of silver to the
chief priest and elders. And he cast
down the pieces of silver in the tenn
pie. Aud they took counsel, and
bought with them the potter's field to
bury strangers in."-Mat. 81, 81.
This shows how minutely the prophe-
cies are fulfilled.
Jesus himself made number OF pre-
dictions, to which we may well apply
his own test 'By their fruits shall they
be known"
"And his disciples came to him for
to shuw him the buildings of the tenn
pie.
And Jesus said unto them, See We
not all these thingsf Verify Isay un-
to you, There shall not be left here one
stone upon another that shall not be
thrown down. Mat. "a, Ia.
Surely here Is n crucial Test. IL 10 COR
rect? II 10 SO accurately correct that up
on the smooth face Of the rock OF Mount
NJ oriah 1t In not known where that tenn
pie stood.
"Or those eighteen, upon whom the
to Ser In Sloan fell and slew them,
think We that they were sinners above ali
men that dwelt In Jerusalem?I tell you
nay; but except you repent ye shall all
lIkowIse perisb.-LuKe 13-4, o.
They did not repent, and within the
liteume of those that heard those words
Jerusalem was destroyed to It's fonnda-
lions.
"Aud when be was come near he be-
held the city tJerusalem) and wep: over
10.
For the days shall come upon thee
that thine on0 MES shall cast strench
about tnee and compass the KouUd aud