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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
FEBRUARY IA.
Lesson Text: "The New Covenant"
jeremiah XXI, 27-3s-Golden
Text: jeremiah XXI,
S4-Commentary.

q. "Behold, the days come. saith the
Loro. that will SOW the house OF Israel, and
the house of Judah, with tho seed Of man,
and with the seed of beast" Jeremiah
prophesied during the last forty years of
Judah's history ere the two tribes were car
ried captive; during the last eighteen years
of Josiah's reign and the twenty-five years
of the four kings following. He was simply
Gods messenger speaking Gods message.
Chapter j., z. 8, IL, chapters Xxx. and XXI.
have been called "a book within book"
like Rom. ix. 1i., and any kind of q careful
reading shows its peculiar reference to
Israers future. Compare this verse with
chapter Xxx, 1-3, and take Israel and Judah
to mean only Israel and Judah the ten tribes
and the two Of all Israel. The Spirits own
commentary upon ehls verse Is found IN
%. And it shall come to pass, that like
as I have watched over them to pluck up 30
will I watch over them to build and to
plant, saith the Lord" No one can question
the piucking up and scattering, and no more
should any one question the gathering and
rebuilding. Put verse 10 with this and say
, how anything can be more clearly or em,
phaticalIy stated with Thus saith the
Lord" and His will" and SHALL"
The fathers have eaten sour grape and the
children's teeth are set on edge" They
considered themselves as suffering for their
fathers sins and therefore used this proverh.
See Lam. ", Z; Eek. xviii, q 3.
80. 'tBut every one shall die for his own
iniauity; every man that eateth the sour
grape, his teeth shall be set on edge" Com
pare Deut. xiv. 16; Gal. vi, 5, T. Per.
sonal responsibility is taught everywhere in
Scripture. Every one Of US shall give &C.
count of himself to God" (Rom. xiv, 12l
81. Behold the days come. saith the Lord,
that will make a new covenant with the
house OF Israel and with the house of Ju-
dah." Remember that He is speaking not
Of the church, nor Of the days In which we
live, but Of literal Judah and Israel in the
days Of the restoration, yet future, but now
SO. "Not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers, which My covenant
they brake He refers now to the Horeb
covenant Of Deut. ", 2, 8. to make them a
kingdom OF priests and peculiar people
above all people, upon conditions, of their
obedience (Ex. xix, 5, o.. This was differ
ent from the covenant with Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, which was unconditional and
shall yet be fulfilled to the letter; a covenant
made with an oath, and therefore eternal
and Interchangeable mic. VII. 2O.
33. "After those days, saith the Lord, I
will put Ny law in their inward parts, and
write it in their hearts; and will be their
God, and they shall be My people" "Those
ton which will precede Israels national con-
version lchapter Xxx, z; Dan. xii. l, Math.
xiv, 2I, for it is Immediately after the
tribrlation OF those days that He shall come
in power and glory for Israel's deliverance
tMath. xiv, 29-3l, Luke xxi, 1928. OBJ
serve how the work is entirely the Lords
from first to last: will put. I will write,
will be: and compare Jer. xiv, q, Z; Eek.
xxvi.. 24-3o.
least of them unto the greatest OF them, saith
the Lord; for will forgive their iniquity,
nad will remember their sins no more"
This verso is often quoted as If 1t referred to
al people on the whole earth, and would f,e
u result Of the Gospel Us now preached;
whereas it refers clearly to Israel and Judah,
the twelve tribes, which shall be all right
eous, and the central nation upon earth in
millennial days usa. X, 81; Xvi, 81, who
shall make known the name OF the Lord to
all the world that so the earth may he filled
with His glory (Num. xiv, 81; Iss. xi., 8;
Heb.ii.. IA. But until the new earth ell the
world shall not be righteous for even in
millennial days many shall yield only
feipned obedience (Ps. Xvi, S nlargin).
s., "Thus saith the Lord, which giveth
the sun for light by day. The Lord OF
Hosts is His name" However greata prom
ise NAV be, it is Of no weight unless the
promiser is able TO fulfill it. The Lord OF
Hosts is the creator OF all things and HE Is
able"
So. "If those ordinances depart from be-
fore Ne, saith the Lord, then the seed Oh
Israel also shall cease from being q nation
before Me forever" Read the parallel pas
saro in chapter xx1iii.. 1923. Israel is not
now and has not been FOR over 1909 years
nation iu the eyes Of other nations; but Is
rael has never ceased to 30 O nation before
Goo, for 1.-The Lord seeth not as roan sesth,
and soon she will be ratio before all ma
tions, admired, honvrod ami sought unto,
because o. jehovah. her King.
81. Thus saith tue Lord, I heaven above
can be measured, = vii also cast
OF nji the seed Of Israel, for all that they
hayc done. saith the Lord" It is often said
when we sreas of Israsi's future glory. 'But
consider all that they have done, thcy have
forfeited eyeryttdng.p Yes, truly, they have
forfeited all thar was conditioned upon their
obedience, b:t the unconditional promises OF
Abraham, Lsaac and Jacoo. God will keep and
fulfill for HIS own great nnGae's sake usa-
xiii, e5; Ezsn- xxxvi, e, So,. Note care
fully that when Jerrs,lem shall DO rebuilt
In zee tUBtOtuIO0 - sseu oeESA 10 ~AAA">"A'
down again oversees 3s-4c; -. cii., 49,. II
you would see and enjoy those days OF Is
raers glory you must now bs redeemed by
Israeps King Then being redeemed. re-
member that you are redeemed not simply
to 90 to heaven when you die, but to live
here as long as the LORD sees
At to do your part in making Christ
known In all the world, that so
the church, His body, may be gathered out
of the nations. Being ignorant OF the mys,
terv that Blindness in part is happened
unto Israel until the fullness OF the Gent,ies
be come i'm and that then all Israel shall be
saved lRom. xi, 25, 26l, the church has be-
come eonceited and vainly imagines that her
mission is to convert the whole world. Let
no preacher, pastor or missionary think that
he Is commissioned to convert all within bis
reach, but rather to be faithful witness In
the power of the Spirit, that he may by all
means save some" Il Cor tx, %; Rom. xl,
lA And let every preacher lay to heart
what the writer received through Or: A. l.
Pierson, that our parish is not our field, but
q portion Of the field, which is the world,
from which we are to gather and instruct 8
force with which we may do our part In
working the field 80 as to gather OUT tne
church and hasten the day OF Israel
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