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(Jesus) loved the people; all his
saints are in thy hand; and they sat
down at thy feet; every one shall
receive thy words. And he was king
in Jeshurnn, when the heads of the
people and the tribes of Israel were |
gathered together"
More than hundred times is the |
Lord Jesus called the "King of Is
rael,' the liking of Zion" In the Old
Testament. After his incarnation his
kingdom, which had hitherto been
limited to Israel as custodians
of the "oracles of God" {Rom
3:2), and ''to whom pertained the
adoption, and the glory, and the
covenants, and the giving of the law,
and the service of God, and the
promises (Rom. 9:4), was to be ex-
tended to embrace all the Gentiles
(Math. 2S:19, 20), all the kingdoms
of the earth, that Jesus the Lord
might be King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. (1st Tim. 6:15.)
But to make it still more clear that
Christ had a kingdom established in
thessworld before his resurrection, turn
to Math. Sill, y, "And (the Lord)
say unto you, that many shall come
from the east and west and shall sit
down with Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
But the children of the kingdom shall
be cast out into outer darkness.
Here the 'children of the kingdom
are the same as the ''builders" above
mentioned, and refer to the Israelites
who were members of the visible
church of Jesus Christ, but who
failed to receive the Messiah when
he was manifested in the flesh.
Their being "cast out" is the same as
their "being broken off because of
unbelief. Rom. 11:20. But this
point is forever settled by Math.
I21 :33-45. Here the householder"
is God, the vineyard" is ''the church
of Christ or kingdom Of the Lord, y
the '.husbandmen" are the Israelites,
the ''servants sent for the fruits" are
the prophets of the Lord, the ''son
sent" and murdered is the Lord
Jesus himself Those "bu,lders, y
priests, scribes, Pharisees, ''who
killed the prophets and stoned them
that were sent unto Them (Math
,23:37) were the ones to whom The
Savior was speaking when he said,
"Therefore l say unto you, the king
dom of God shall be taken from you
y and given to nation bringing fortf
! the fruits thereof" How could tht
kingdom of God be taken from peo
pie who never had it? The unfaith
, fulness of these husbandmen IS heart
, of again in Acts 13:46, ''Then Pau
. and Barnabus waxed bold and said
n 1t was necessary that the word o
. God should first have been spoken t,
f you; but seeing ye put it from you
y and Judge yourselves unworthy o
!, everlasting life, 10, We turn to th
Gentiles." And in Acts 2S:2S, ''B
it known therefore to you (Jews
}, that the salvation of God (which yo
have reiected) is sent unto tue Gen
;. tiles and that they will hear it.
This was the taking of the kingdor
, of God from the Israelites as ns
tion-not from all the individuals
and giving it to the Gentiles-"hu
:, bandmen" who would "render th
fruits thereof"
Id There is no digging up of I'll
10 vines" nor building new "tower,
r. nor cutting away the "hedge" an
n planting a new one. only and simp
IN Ia change in the "tenants. .'--lettir
out the same vineyard, with the san
"a. vines, the same tower, the same wiz
z. presto ''othcr husbandmen." On
f. this and nothing more. Do the ow
of ers of real estate tear down the
2 houses and dig up the foundation
ne every time they change their tenant
he So Christ organized no new chur
Dr. after his Observation-Disclosures !
d. new kingdom. He took away f
Die kingdom from national Israel, W
he had been for fifteen hundred yea
he the only visible church of Christ
nd earth, and gave the same ''chur
to kingdom" to the Gentiles. Tens
list thousands of the individual Jews
of private members, tnot officers
er, leaders, accepted the Messiah VIII
of he came and we're never '.broken
.he from the good Give" but remain
set as the branches AMONG which I
ses s.Gentiles were grated in." I
,ad tree is the same, the s'root and t
'al- ness" the same. Only change
,ne some of tie branchesi The chul
,ng of Christ is one church, the law
membership is the same. The chu
the aupon the one foundation" is est
i'd lished and extended to reach
pms the Gentiles. Zion has .sstreng