News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16

A. Having now glanced at all the verses
in the lesson verses 3J-43 were touched upon
in connection with verse 34 let us look at the
feasts of the Lord in their reference TO Chrlst
and to u.s. and may the spirit that was IN
Moses declare them unto us. The same
spirit in Paul declares that "holy days TX. V.
feast days, new moons and Sabbath days
are q shadow of things to come" (Col. H.,
~, 10 That Christ our Passover has been
sacrificed for us; and that we are 20 keep the
feast with the unleavened bread Of sincerity
and truth, purging out all the old leaven OF
malico and wickedness. Il. Cor. ", z, 81
He also tells us that Christ risen from
the dead is the first fruits of them that
sleep. Il. Cor. xv., 20, 23l Here then is the
substance of the first three of the seven
teasts; Christ the true passover. Christ the
true unleavened bread, and Christ risen from
the dead the true first fruits. Now the
fourth of the seven feasts, in the third
month, called the feast OF weeks because 1t
was inst seven weeks or fifty days after the
last feast, calle1 also the feast of harvest
or first fruits of wheat harvest, clearly
points us to that which occurred fifty
days after the resurrection of Christ,
viz, the conversion of thousands Of
Jews when the spirit was poured out at
Pentecost. But all the first fruits are not in
yet, and the reaping at Pent9cost was only
beginning. In James l., IS, writing to the
twelve tribes of the dispersion, he speaks OF
the believers as "a kind of first fruits:n and
in Rev. II, 4, the III, ,00D of the sealed ones
of the seventh chapter are called "a first
fruits unto God and to the Lamb" then, in
Rev. xiv, -, we have the great harvest or
rlaping time, after the fan of Babylon,
which is opened up more fully in Rev. xvii,
xviii. then in Rev. xix, Xxx, the marriage Of
the Lamb, the judgment of the nations, the
binding of Satan, after which comes the
thousand years when Israel, in their own
land, shall, from the least to the greatest,
know the Lord for they shall as a nation
have been converted by the appearing of the
Son of Man in power and glory, accompanied
by His saints (Zech. xii, kill; and then
shall the true feast of tabernacles be kept,
when ''the Lord shall be King over all the
EARTH" and ''those that are left Of
the nations shall go up from year to
year to Jerusalem to worship the King,
the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast Of
tabernacles. Zech. xiv, 9, 16, IL, These feasts
of the Lord are Jewish feasts and carry us
forward to the redemption Of Israel as a ma
tion, and the restoration of all things OF
which the prophets have spoken. Would
you see that day and be one Of those who can
truly say, even now: "When Christ, who is
my life, shall appear then shall / appear
with Him in glory.n Then see TO it that you
are by faith in Christ, one of the righteous,
in whose body is seen day by day, salvation
and rejoicing, because your sins are for
given, because you are by His grace seeking
to have all leaven purged out of your life,
and because you are joyfully looking forward
to part in the first resurrection at His
coming. God grant to every reader a glo-
rous foretaste of the feast of tabernacles by
giving a heart to say: MY beloved is mine
and am His" HE is the chiefest among
ten thousand, and altogether lovely;" my
soul doth wait for Him, and in His word do
Ihope. Lesson Helper.