The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-04-18
THE DESTRUCTION FoRETolo.
international Sunday School Lesson "a
April 28, 1as0

Antcrnnuonsi sunday School Lesson for |
April sS, 1880.
Ispeciaiiy arranged from 8. 8. Quarterly.1
LESSON TEkT-Marls 13: 1.i8.
GOLDEN Tfxr-Btt say unto you, that
In this place ls one greater than the temple. |
CENTRAL fRurn- -Christ's coming is the
overthrow OF those who hate Him, hut the |
Joy Of those who love Him.
TIME-Latc Tuesday afternoon, Aoril 4,
A. y. 30.
PLACE--Q) The temple Mt Jerusalem. r., |
Mount of Olives.
INTERVENING EtENTs-Jesus asks the
Jews question Mark l2 :35.40). He teaches |
lesson from the Widows mite Mark 12: Al. |
~. Certain Greeks desire TO see Jesus |
(John 12:20pG). A voice from Heaven
(John 12;27i36). Jesus then leaves the |
temple, as noted in to-day's lesson, and |
never entered IL again.
CoRREspoSDlNa AccouNrs-Matt. "a :l-14;
Luke 81 :5-19
HELPS OVER HARD PLACES i. What stonesi
some OF them were 43 feet long, IA high,
ana II bread. What b.fldinUsi Herod's
templewas building of great magniticence,
covering, without. buildings. nineteen acres
It was Of white marble, with golden roofs
and pinnacles Q. Not one stone upon another:
fulfilled to the letter in A. ID. 20, when the
Romans, Under Titus, destroyed Jerusa-
lem. T. What shall be the sign, etc. Matthew
(24:0 glyes this question more fully, Us ap-
piled to His coming, and the end of the
world. 4a
THE SECOND COMING OF CnRlsT-This was
one coming, including the whole Christian
dispensatlon, but 1t was threefold. rl At
the destruction Of Jerusalem, when the old
dispensaton of Judaism ended, and Chris
tianity was firmly established. The COM
| ing was promised to take place during tho
lifetime of some Of the disciples Mark OIL;
Matt 16:27, 2S; Luke 9:26, 27). This was
real personal coming. (2) There will be
similar, more complete coming when the
| world shall be converted to Jesus, and His
kingdom come. This, too, is q real personal
coming to which all the ''sgns" given in
this lesson apply. (3 A coming at the day
| of Judgment Matt. 25; 1 Thess. 4:13.1Sl.
@. Mdnv tn my name: great numbers in the
next forty years pretended to be the Mes
siah. g. 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 Claudius and Nero, A. d. 40-6S;
five OF great severity. Fdmtics: there were
four under Claudius. (See Acts IL :2S)
| For a testimony, not against but unto, them.
BY these the Gospel would be made known.
| 10. Gospel among all nations: this was
| true before the destruction Of Jerusalem.
(See Rom. 1:S, written A. d. s.; Col. ! :6,
%, written A. ID. 62) 13. He that cndureh
tfn the end shall be SAVED must mean O) that
those Jewish Christians, who, despite all
seductions and prosecutions, should abide
steadfast, should be delivered from the ma
tional calamities; (2) that those who should
endure the greater tribulations of the last
DAYS 'unto the end" should ''escape all
those things that should come to pass"
(see Luke 2l:36); while it may be univer-
sally applied to mean (9 that every one, in
every age, who should endure to hs own
"end," 1. g., death, should be saved. Sd,ed:
every Christian, needing Chr,st's warning,
escaped from Jerus alem, and not one was
among the 1,100, 900 who persisted there.
CoMMENTs-C -Calamities Foretold. God al
ways gives warning before He strikes.
Noah was q preacher of righteousness to
his generation for one hundred and twenty
years before the flood 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 that 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
Olivet He mourned over the city, and de.
clared that often He would fain have gath.
cred her children as hen gathers her
brood under her wings, but they refused
His gentle offer. At last, all gentle offers
being scOrnfully or carelessly rejected,
there came the announcement of bitter ca
lamities. These were not, however, inflict-
ed for forty years more. Had the nation
repented, even at the eleventh hour, they
would have been saved.
These calamities of which the people
were forwarned, 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 tho future is revealed to us.
Heaven and hell, life and death, blessing
and cursing, are clearly made known.
Jesus foretold the calamities about to befall
Jerusalem no more clearly than He has
foretold the sorrows which await the impen.
itent.
Calamities Fulfilled. To drown the in.
habitants Of o 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 dreadful act. Yet
none the less was the city overthrown with
| terrible destruction. In fact, the inflic-
tion 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 lnflict the penalty comes.
But since Gods penalties are only just,
He never finches All nature teaches this.
God never hinches in nature from exacting
the last penalty Of q broken law. In the
kingdom Of grace, God has, indeed, shown
His mercy in bearing Himself the penalty
OF guilty race. II now they refuse HIS
mercy ~ thus manifested, there remains
no more hope.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
I. Spiritual things endure, temporal ones
perish.
Iad2. All that Jesus promises or threatens
| will be accomplished. m re- gioJ u
B. Take great care not to be deceived.
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