Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-09-19
ENTERING JERUSALEM.
LESSON XII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. Fl.

81,
mission mission Of OH II q Hoffmanl p,Siisber. PisladeL
phial
a. "And aphen He aDds come n4gh. eyen
nom ot the descent of the Mount of O,ipesn
He was riding upon the ass colt, according
10 Zecb tx. q TINS literally fulfilling one
of fine last public SIGNS that He was the
long nredicted Messiah. the Son of David.
Isreei's king.
"The ,pbOle multitude of the djsctDlcs
bconn TO rejoice and praise God ,ptth a
lo1id ,Notce. for all the rptohtu ,porks Which
thea had SEEM They were convinced that
He was their Messiah. and. noty1thstand-
ino the parable of the last lesson. they
tbouobt He would now surely proclaim
Himself king. and therefore their ioy was
most exultant their praise most hearty.
3s. "SalIn1. Blessed be the Ktnq that
corneth n, The name of the Lord: Peace
IN Teo,en and olor1j In the ht1hest."
80. "And some of the Phartsees from
dno,,o the multitude said unto HIN,
Master. rebuke thu dtsctples." The re-
lipious rulers always against Him. The
people who ought to have welcomed Him
hating every word spoken in His favor. A
little later. as the children praise Him in
the temple Matt. xxi, Is. 16), they again
find fault. When there was occasion to
rebuke His discipIes He did not hesitate to
do II Matt. xvi. %; Mark x. 10, but there
was no occasion now. They were not
praisinp any too loud.
40 "1nd He onsDerpd and said unto
them, I ten uott, that, If these should hold
their poace, the stones 1po,tld Immediately
cru out" John the Baptist told those who
came to him not to pride themselves upon
being children of Abraham, for, said he,
God is able of these stones to raise up
children unto Abraham" Matt. iii, 3D. And
as to stones crying out, one of the prophets
had said that, because of their sin, "the
stone should cry out of the wall, and the
beam out of the timber should answer it"
Al. ".And lrhen He lc0s come near, He
behcld the cttu and arcpt over It," Steir
saws that so in some sense He weeps over
all cities. While this may be true, His
weeping over this city had a special signifi-
canoe, for this was the city of David, the
holy city. the city of the great King, the
city which He had chosen to put His name
there that He might he glorifled Matt iv,
5; v, IS; II Chron. vi, g.
42. "!Savt,lg, II thou hnt,st kno,pn, even
thou at least In this TN ddy, the things
qrhtch belOrlg unto TN pedcel but 1lOlU
they are hid from thine eyes" Thou
thy day-thy peace; this was Zion that He
had chosen. that He had desired for His
habitation, concerning which He had said:
"This is my rest forever; here will dwell;
for have desired it," etc (ps cxxxii, 49,
| 1s). But by her unbelief she was blinded
and knew not her day nor Him who was
| her peace To every sinner this same Jesus
is saying: Now is the day of thy saliva
ton" 81 am thy peace" But of how many
Is it so sadly true that "In them the god of
this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image
of God should shine unto them" Oh Cor vi,
3; iv, 4; Eph ii, 49, Blessed are all who can
say, thank God that whereas was blind,
now see.
43. "For the ddlis shan come upon thee,
that ht,te enemies shdu cast q trench
about thee, and compass thee round, and
keep thee In on cucry side" So it literally
came to pass in about forty years.
A. And shall Ian thee cuen Nth the
ground, and thy children sDtthtn thee; and
then shall not ledUe In thee one stone upon
another; because thou kne tDest not the
time of UlH UtsttdtiOn," So also did 1t
literally come to pass, as He said And as
the same Spirit had said through Micah zoo
years before: Zion shall for your sake be
plowed as a field and Jerusalem shall be-
come heaps" mic. iii, 12). When we see
how clearly events have been by the Spirit
foretold, and how literally they have been
fulfilled, how can any believer doubt that
the thoughts of the Lord shall come to
pass, that rs He has proposed so shall il
stand, and that every purpose of the Lord
shall be fulfilled? lisa xiv, "a; Jer Ii, 29)
As. AND He lccnt into the temple, ana
beam 10 cast out them that sold therctn
and them that botLJht" The Tabernacle
of Moses and the Temple of Solomon were
tn some respects the most remarkable
buildings this world ever saw: chiefly be
cause God alone was the architect of each
and each was made that God might dwell
ON earth in the midst of His people Jesu,
Himself was the true tabernacle and tenn
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were never Intended to be places OF mer
chandise, but rather places where Goo
might reveal Himself to His people, ant
where they might draw near and WORSHIP
Him The whole comnanv of believers !.
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