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THE KING In ZION.
LESSON II, SECOND QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 10.

Stcarns.
|. why do the heather rage, and the
people imagine vain thinu?" This has
been called the psalm of Messiah tho
Prince. 1t describes the tumult of the
people against the Lords anointcd. the
heterminate purpose of God to cxalt His
own Son, and the ultimate reign of that
Son over all His enemies AS we read of
the heather, or nations, raging, we may
think of Pharaoh and his hosts, Sennache.
rib and his army and all others who vainly
sought to overthrow Israel But in Acts
iv, %, %. these words are used in reference
to the rage of llerod PLATE the Gentilcs
and Israel against Christ, and truly that
was the contamination Of all the wrath of
of man. and the height OF all vain imauin
irgs
2. THE kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord and against Ills anont
ed" But hear the Lord In reference to all
SUCH Associate Yourselves. q We people
and yc shall be broken in pieces. Take
counsel together. and it Shall come to
nought: speak the word and it shall not
stand, for God is with u.s. Usa. viii o, lO)
1t is not so much to be wondered Mt that
nations which knew not God should think
to withstand Him, but to see his own peo
pie as we have seen them in some of the
lessons of last quarter, thinking to resist
His will. is strange indeed Yet in con
demning them we may condemn ourselves
Are we for Him or against IIim2 (Math
xii, 30).
3. Let us break their bands asunder
and cast away their cords from us" Read
of the pride and ArroJancy of Moab, the
rt.iI of I,
phemy Ct the Assyrians (lcr xviii, -.
Chad 3, /. II Chron. xXxii, ~. and see
the rebellion of the natural heart against
God Then listen to Israel replying to
jeremiah, speaking III the name of the
Lord. I'VE will not hcarkpn unto thee,
but we will certainly do what oever thiny
Eoeth forth out OF our own mouth" der
xiv. IL, ~, and see the enmity of a re.
igious heart. Surely the heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked
der. xvii, -
1. "ile that sitteth in the heavens shall!
laugh, the Lord shall have them in dcri-
SON" They do not consider that "our
God is in the heavens, He hath done what
soever He hath pleased" "He doeth accord
ing to His will in the army of heaven, and
among the inhabitants Of the earth. and
none can stay His hand or say unto Him.
What doest thou ops. CIV, 3 Dan. iv, 3jy
To those who set ut nought his counsel he
says, will laugh at your calamity, will
mock when your fear cometh prov i,
25-2O
g. Then shall espeak unto them in His
wrath, and veX them in His sore di5pleas-
ure' There is such thing as the wrath
OF God, even the wrath Of the Lamb, and n
time called 1.-THE great day Of His wrath"
lisa. Xiii, t. o. ID, Ieph, i, IA, Il; Rev. vi l6,
10. 1t may be delayed through the long
suffering of God, but it viii come as a thief
IN the night Oh Pet. ii. .. 40
Yet have | set my King upon my
holy hill of Zion The lord hath chosen
Ion. lie hath desired II for his habita
ton, and He hath sworn unto David
OF the fruit OF thy body will set upon
thy throne The angei Gabriel confirmed
this to Mary concerning her son, and the
spirit through Peter testified that the
promise to David referred to Christ risen
from the dead (PS. cXNNll, H. ID, Luke /,
~, 81 Acts II, 29-32l Christ never yet sat
on )avld's throne, and has not yet come to
his own throne, but still sits with the
the ather on HIS throne Qtev. lii, 2D.
i Will declare the decree the Lord
hath sad unto me, Thou art my Son, this
day have bcgotten thee" On two occa.
sions the Father testified from Heaven
that Jesus Christ was His beloved Son,
but that this verse refers to the rcsurrec-
tion OF Christ from the dead is as clear as
monday from the spirits testimony
through Paul in Acts Xiii, 83 BY that
event lie was with power declared to be Son
of God tRom. !, y, and not until the resur.
rectlon OF the saints shall the Sons of God
be manifest a John iii, p
5 Ask of me and | shall give thee the
heather for thine inheritance. and the ut
termoat parts OF the earth for thy posses
SION Here is the promise of all nations
TO the Son, confirmed elsewhere in these
words. "All kings shall fall down before
Him, all nations shall serve Him." "All
nations whom thou hast made shall come
and worship before Thee, o Lord, and shall
glorify Thy name" Ops. Xxi, II, lxxxyi.
o. However things may seem to 20 in
the church or in the world the time will
come when this earth will be filed with
the glory Of God Gum. xiv, 81; Rev ri, lj)
Thou shalt break them with a rod Of
iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a