Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-11
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! cause you % dwell IN the cities and the
wastes shall be builded." Compare Zech.
viii, z, s. Cleansing first and then restora-
I tion--this is always the order. If you have
lost fellowship with God through sin, the
sin must be confessed and forgiven before
the communion can be restored.
a. "And the desolate land shall be titled,
whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all
that passed by" Its desolateness was a
reproach to God, and constant advertise
ment of Israel's sin. We, as believers,
glorify God only when we bear much
fruit John XIV, s.. If our lives are selfish
and self indulgent we are then like Israel
In her rebellion aud sinfulness. (Hos. X, /,
Q; xi,7)
80. "And they shall say, This land that
was desolate is become like the garden of
Eden" That will cause people to praise
the God Of Israel, and thus other nations
will be drawn to God, even as the queen of
Sheba was drawn to Jerusalem by the
fame of Solomon.
SO. "Then the heather that are left
round about you shall know that /, the
Lord, build the ruined places. /, the Lord,
have spoken it, and | will do it," Multi
tudes out of the nations shall perish in the
judgments preceding Israel's national con-
version, or in connection Herewith, but
some shall be left, and these shall go up to
Jerusalem from year to year to worship
the King, the Lord of Hosts Czech. xiv, 16).
The hand of the Lord shall be SO manifest
that all shall see it.
81. "Thus saith the Lord God, l will yet
for this be inquired of by the house of
Israel to do it for them" He will prepare
their hearts to pray for the blessing He is
about to give This is His way. While He
is ever ready to give every good thing, He
will have us feel our need and ask Him.
When we are specially led therefore to pray
for any thing or for any one, we may safely
conclude that the spirit is leading us to ask
for that which He is ready to give us.
49, 'As the flock of Jerusalem in her
solemn feasts. so shall the waste cities be
filled with flocks Of men, and they shall
know that am the Lord" Or, according
to Zech. 1, II, my cities through prosperity
shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord
shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem" And Zech. ii, 4, Jerusalem
shall be inhabited as towns without walls
for the multitude of men and cattle there
In" These days are already dawning, and
the full accomplishment must be near
Oh, believer, make full surrender to and
have perfect trust in the Lord, that
He may make the most of you this
little while, and make Himself known
through you. One of the clearest evil
dences that Israel will soon be restored to
her own land is that the restoration has
already begun, and even now the popula-
ton Of Jerusalem has oyerfown the walls
of the city, and numerous buildings are
being erected on the very lines mentioned
in Jer. XXI, 1910. Jesus said that "Jeru-
salem shall be trodden down of the Gen
tiles until the times Of the Gentlles be full
filled" duke xxi, "a. When city is visit
bly, being built up and about to become
railroad center, 1t cannot we'll be said 70
be trodden down any longer. We there
fore know without doubt that the times
of the Gentiles are about fulfilled, Israel's
redemption Ia near (though the tribulation
must first GOMEZ, and the elect church
must be we'll nigh completed. Let us be
consumed with zeal to bring in the re-
naming few and hasten the kingdom.