Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-06-17
THE LORDS ! JEWELS.
eev DR.. COURT ON THE SUNDAY
scHooL LESSON FOR JUNE ls.


scHooL LESSON FOR JUNE 10.
The Coming Kinsiss sJsdss and Righte,
Of His Peoples wronss--rhs Reign o
Rishssousnoss--Isr.si' sinsai Nssices o
the Tribe OF ISvi.
Golden Texs They ahall be mine, saiti
the Lord Of AoG>ss In that dAy when max,
np my jewsis fAfnls NJ. 10.
Lesson; Nal III, i-i2.
'Minof peophctsr q q tftle that does no,
mean lesser prophets in point Of ilnpor
tance, but only snAller In size. There arr
10 miner prophets. and OF these Malachi
comes last in the canon of Sculpture. II
not contraction, the name MalsShi mean,
my angel or messenger, the longer form
Malachijah meaning the angel Of jehovah.
He lis the last of the inspired prophets.
About <0Oor 40 before Christ may be as.
signed as It's date. Usher gives II as about
8g7 B. G.
Concerning this prophet nothing person
al Is known. He describes time of moral
and social corruption, but the Sprophecy OF
a Deliverer brightens the scene s.He adopts
novel literary form. First he states brief
ly the truth which he desires to enforce:
then follows the contradiction or objection
which it is supposed to provoke; finally
there comes the prophets reply, reasserting
and substantiating his original position"
DRIVER. Our lesson exemplifles this FORM
See verses and8 Let the teacher read the
whole book. 1t is only about the size of a
column in newspaper
1.-THE COMING KING. VERSES 1-4.)
l. Preparation. (a) In chapter 1, II, there
IL hint Of universal religion. Here the
coming Of the promoter of that religion is
predicted as one that is coming to judge.
The Hebrews that had wearied Jehovah
with words, saying, %Where is the God OF
judgnentrfare here answered. See chap
ter II verse n. God Himself takes up their.
challenge. The God Of the Judgment is the
impartial judge TO whom 1t belongs by
nature to judge all men and things by an
exact Judgment, for His nature is equity
itself, justice itself, providence itself and
that most just, most wise. TO Him it be-
longs to be- the judge of all and to exercise
strict judgment upon all, and Hewill exer-
else 1t fully on that decisive and last day Of
the world, which shall be the horizon
between this life and the next, parting
off time from eternity, heaven from hell,
the blessed from the lost forever, through
Christ, whom He constituted judge Of all,
quick and dead" Cornelius a Lapide). God
here tells the complainers that Judgment
would come and would include them also.
No one convinced of being sinner would
call for Judgment. seeing that it would deal
with him too Augustine pictures one says
ing to God, Take away the ungodly man."
God answers, (which" To prepare men
for this coming God sends His messenger"
The Importance of this prediction is empha-
sized by the Hebrew word hinneh, trans
lated behold. The verb is participle-- |
is, II am sending (about |
to sendl my messenger" It Is the same !
word usually translated "angel." The |
speaker is Jehovah, who came in the person
of Jesus Christ. Here He promises to send
one before Him to prepare His way They
for His coming, but they were hot
to receive Him. Hence the mes
senger is sent to announce His coming.
Isaiah In. like manner speaks of ''the voice
Of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord; make straight in
the desert highway for our God" Qsa XII,
81. When John the Baptist was born, he
was thus addressed, H'Thou, child, shalt be
called the prophet of the Highest, for thou
shalt 60 before the face of the Lord to
prepare His way, to give knowledge Of sal
walton unto His people for the remission
Of their sins" Uuke 1, 76). Now, we are
sure that this refers to John the Baptist,
for Jesus says, This is he OF whom it is
written, Behold, I send my messenger be-
fore Thy face, which shall prepare the way
before Thee" (Math. ri, 10; Luke vii, ~.
Here the speaker Ia identified. with Him
before whom the messenger Is toNgo but
Jehovah Of Hosts Is the speaker, 80 that
Jehovah must have appeared in Jesus
Mark y l-5). (b) Suddenly appear'-
1.-THE Lord whom ye seek"-
In Hebrew, Haadon (master, sovereignty IA
title of Messiah, as the rabbis admit. There
seems to be a covert irony in the phrase,
Whom ye seek, delight In" They were not |
properly seeking Him, nor would they de- |
light in Him when He should appear He |
Is to come suddenly to His temple" Je- |
hovah's temple Is thus called Messiah's |
came to Gods house and |
claimed to be Master. He is identified |
with the Angel Of the Covenant"-the |
of the Lord to the covenant peo- |
ple-the angel Of the face Of Jehovah, the |
manifester of the living God, who speaks |
as II he were Jehovah. See Isa kill. o; |
Elk. xxxiii, IA, IS. Here the Lord Of all is |
CdiiCu tue McSScuBcF VI tuc SONcudu0--
Lord Of angels as of men. He is to come
suddenly" This does not mean quick |
ly," but unexpectedly-in very different |
way from that which the Jews imagined.
.c) Surely He will come, for Jehovah Of
Hosts, faithful. true and mighty, says.
Behold, He shall come" .sAts q
O. Messiah comes to purify his people,
,a) To judge Is to separate the good from
The bad. Who shall be able to bear such |
an Inspection Compare Joel ii, IL; Nah.
!, 8; Rev. vi. IL. Jesus appeared Tor judg-
ment CMath. iii, l0-l2). (b) The two fig |
1res imply securing of cloth and refining
of metal. A fuller is o scourer-"s "so6p OF
he washers''-the phrase has thus tbesn 1
rendered. This ACQUIRING or washing was |
lone by stamping on the clothes with bare |
leet or pounding them with billets of l
wood in water in which some alkaline sub |
stance was mixed. Christ SITS as pun.
fer or separating the evil from the |
good. (c) The priests were vile (chapter IL.
7-9). The sons of Levi represent the minis |
ters of religion. Purified, they lead the
people in holy worship. (d) In the Chris
Elan system the sacrifices are moral and
spiritual. See Zech. xiii, o; Isa- I. IS; Isa
", 4; Pet. Ii, s; Rom. xii. l.