The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-27
THE DESTRUCTION FoREToLo.
BIT ernAtional sunday School Lesson fsr
April Is. 1889.
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Matt. 1916.
CENTRAL TRUTH-Chrsrs coming is the
overthrow Of those who hate Him, but the
JOY Of those who love Him.
TIME-Late Tuesday afternoon, April {,
A, ID. 80.
PLAcE-Ul The temple at Jerusalem. C2)
Mount of Olives.
INTERVENING EvENTs-Jesus asks the
Jews question Mark II ;35-40). He teaches
q lesson from the widows mite Mark IL; Al
~, Certain Greeks desire TO see Jesus
John 10000. A voice from Heaven
(John IL 1886. Jesus then leaves the
temple, as noted in to-day's lesson, and
never entered it again.
CoRREspoNDING AcooUNTs-M "A LA !;
Luke 81 1919.
HELPS OVER HARD Places. What stonesl
some of them were AZ feet long, IA high,
and 81 broad. What byildin0S! Herod's
templclwas a building of great magniicence,
covering, with out-buildings, nineteen acres.
1t was of white marble, with golden roofs
and pinnacles. g Not one stone upon another:
fulfilled TO the letter in A. ID. 20, when tho
Romans, under Titus, destroyed Jerusa.
lem. T. What shall be the sign, etc: Matthew
CAB gives this question more fully, rs APP
piled TO His coming, aud the end of the
world
The SECOND COMING OF CWRsT-Ths was
one coming, including the whole Christian
dispensation, but II was threefold. % AT
the destruction Of Jerusalem, when the old
dispensation of Judaism ended. and Chris.
tianity was firmly established. The COM
ing was promised TO take place during the
lifetime Of some of the disciples Mark 9:l;
Matt 6:27, Is; Luke 9:26 "a. This was q
real personal coming. GU There will be a
similar, more complete coming when the
world shall be converted to Jesus, and His
kingdom come This, too, is real personal
coming to which all the "signsn given in
this lesson apply (3) A coming at the day
of judgment Matt. 25; Thess. 4;l3-lSl.
q. Many IN my name: great numbers in the
next forty years pretended TO be the Mes
slah. s. Nation against nation: Palestine
soon after this was full of wars. and the
Roman Empire was full of disturbances.
Earthquakes; there were several in the
reigns of Claudus and Nero, A, ID. 40-6S;
five Of great severity. FdmttcS' there were
four under Claudius. tSee Acts PSI
For q testimony, not against, but unto, them.
BY these the Gospel would be made known.
10 Gospel . among al ndtl04S' this was
true before the destruction of Jerusalem.
tSee Rom. LIS, written A. ID. s.; Col. | Is,
o. written A. d. 62. H. he that CldjWch
tn the ctd SHuB he SBgcj must mean ID that
those Jewish Christians, who, despite all
seductons and prosecutions, should abide
steadtast, should be delivered from tho ma
tioual caiamiies; % that those who should
endure the greater fluctuations OF the last
days "uuto the end" should escape ali
those things that should come to passn
(sco Luke q 1884, while it may be univer.
sally applied to me n (3) that every one, in
every age, who should endure to his olU1i
"end,n l. e., death, should be saved. Sdrcd;
every Christian, needing Chwsts warning,
escaped from Jerusalem, and not one was
among the /, 100000 who persisted there.
CoNMENTs-C alamties ForctoId God al
ways gives warning before He strikes.
Noah was a preacher of righteousness to
his generation for one hundred and twenty
years before the food came upon the earth.
The men OF his time could not plead that
they had received no warning. The Israel
ties had many years Of solemn warning be-
fore they were sent into bitter captivity
God says thai He sent them prophets, iris
ing up early and sending them' to warn
them Of the certain and sad end of their
idOlatry. As Jesus sat once on Mount
Olivct, He mOurmCd over the city, and de-
clared that often He would fain have gath
cred her children as a hen gathers her
brood under her wings, but they refused
His gentle offer. At last, all gentle offers
being scorufully or Careessly rejected,
there came the announcement of bitter ca
lamilles. These were not, however, iniiiCt-
cd for forty years more Had the nation
repcnted, even at the eleventh hour, they
would have been Cavcd.
These calanties of which the people
were forwarucd, remind US of other great
warning lights which are hung out in the
Word Of God. To all sinners God calls
through His Word, bidding them repent
The curtain is drawn aside by Jesus Him
self, and the future is revealed to us
Heaven and hell, life and death, blessing
and cursing, are clearly made known
Jesus foretold the calamitics about to befaIl
Jerusalem no more clearly than He has
foretold the sorrows which await the impen-
tent
Calamities Fulfilled. To drown the in.
habitants of a world was an awful thing
Yetwhen the time came judgment failed not
To send nation into captivity, with all
which that experience involved, was fear
full deed. Yet when the time of long suffer
ing came to an end, Gods threatenings were
carried out to the letter, To doom the city
OF Jerusalem to the horrors Of the siege by
the Roman army was a dreadful act. Yet
none the less was the city overthrOwn with
terrible destruction. In fact. the nilIc-
ton of any severe penalty is thing dread
full just in proportion to the magnitude Of
the suffering involved. Men may finch
when the time to Inflict the penalty comes.
But since Gods penalties are only just,
He never fiiuches. All nature teaches this.
God never fllnches in nature from exacting
the last penalty Of a broken law. In the
kingdom Of grace, God has, indeed, shown
His mercy in bearing Himself the penalty
of a guilty race. If now they refuse HIS
mercy as thus manifested, there remains
no more hope
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
/. Spiritual things endure, temporal ones
perish.
2. All that Jesus promises or threatens
will be accomplished
3. Take great care not to be deceived.
4 There must be great upheavals and
connections before the good can subdue the
evil
s. Prosecutions and opposition call atten-