The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-29
The SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON TX. SECOND QUARTER. INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 81.

go. "Ye shall see Jerusalem comprised
with armies" One day as He was leaving
the temple they sought TO call His atten.
ton to the great stones and gifts, but He
said that the time would come when not
one stone would be left on another. They
afterward asked Him about this, and He
then told them Of the approaching destruc-
ton of Jerusalem and OF this whole age
till He shall come again.
81. "Then let them which are In Judea
Zee TO the mountains" Sometimes we are
to stand and endure and die, and some
times we are TO flee He will tell us when
to stand still and when TO go forward II
we have ears TO hear Let us ever watch
the way" and watch to see what He will
say (Nah II, 1; Hab. Il, ~. Eek. xii,
1879, has had fulfllment but like many
another prediction, the great fill-full-men
Is yet to come.
22 "For these be the days of venge-
ance." Such passages as Deut. xviii, 90,
As; Dan. TX, 26, were then fulfilled, but
we read elsewhere that the days OF venge-
ance will be associated with Israel's re-
demption, not with the destruction OF Je-
rusalem. When the Lord shall appear In
His glory. He shall build up Zion FPS. eli,
t6).
23. "There shall be great distress In the
land. and wrath upon this people," 1t Is
written concerning their being carried TO
Babylon that they Knocked the messengers
Of God, and despised His words, and mis-
used His prophets, until the wrath of the
Lord arose against His people, till there
was no remedy Oh Ghron. xxxvi, 16).
"a Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the gentiles until the times of the gen
tiles be fulfiiled.p She is still trodden
down. Therefore we are still in the times
of the gentiles but she Is arising from her
desolations. Therefore the times OF the
gentiies are nearly fulfilled. Read with
this Rom. xi, 25, and consider that In
some little measure the blindness Is pass
ing from Israel, and therefore the fullness
| OF the gentiles (the church or body OF
| Christ gathered from the gentiles) must
be approaching completion. Notice an
other until in Acts Ill, 81.
25, 60 1.-THE powers OF heaven shall be
shaken" This is the time of the great
| tribulation at the end of this age to which
| we have already referred. tits mentioned
| In Hag. ii, 9, z, as follows: Yet once 1t is
| q little while, and will shake the heav-
| ems, and the earth, and the sea, and the
| dry land, and will shake all nations, and
| the desire of all nations shall come" In
| Heb. xii, 81, we read that the aim OF all
this is "that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain" Resting on the
| firm foundation OF the Rock of Ages we
| can say, Therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed, and though
| the mountains be carried into the midst
of the sea- FPS. XVII, ~.
| 81. And then shall they see the Son Of
Man coming in cloud with power and
great glory" In Math. xiv, 80. 80, we
read that this shall be Immediately after
the tribulation of those days. lisa. xxxv, 4,
| saws: Behold your God will come with
vengeance, even God with recompense.
2S. Your redemption draweth nigh"
That Is, the redemption Of Israel as a
nation, for while individual Jews are
now converted as individual gentiles by
looking to Jesus by faith the nation will
be converted as a nation only when they
look upon Him as Ho shall COME In His
glory This is fully described in Zech xii,
10, to Kill, !.
90. 80. ''Behold the fig tree and all the
trees" He now called their attention to
nature and tn the way that they knew that
summer was nigh. Israel Is Gods fig tree
as well as His vine. Hear Joel |, 2, "He
hath laid my vine waste and barked my
flo tree" The fig tree that Jesus cursed
i
full of leaves, but had no fruit, was a
symbol of Israel full of profession, but
without righteousness. Tho fig leaf aprons
of Adam and Eve were very suggestive OF
their efforts to regain that which they had
lost, but they had to lay them aside and
accept the coats of skins, Gods provision
by sacrifice for without shedding of blood
| is no remission Heb. TX, 90; Lev. xviii
~.
81. know We that the kingdom Of God
Is nigh at hand" We may not know the
day or hour, but we may know from signs
| as plain as tho leaves upon the trees thai
the event is approaching. Our Lord asso
cistes the redemption OF Israel and thu
kingdom of God. Why should we eve
separate them and talk of the kingdom ri
being now here, when there cannot be I
Kingdom of God on earth apart from Israe
| as a centerr So long as the throne o
David Is vacant the kingdom has not come
32. "Verily l say unto you, This gener
alton shall not pass away till all be full
filled" Generation means race or PEG
ple, and the continued existence and mar
yelous preservation of the Jews as q peo
ple is evident proof of the fulfllment II
due time of every word OF God. The pro
noun this may be and Is elsewher
translated that, so that there Is posi-
bility that the saying means that gener
alton" tho generation that shall witnes
the beginning of those things shall ais
see the end of them.
83. Heaven and earth shall pass away
. | but my words shall not pass away" 9TH
word of our God shall stand forever" lisa
xl, 81. "Tho word of the Lord enduretl
forever Il Pet 4, 25). 1.-THE heavens, be
ing on fire, shall be dissolved Tor loose'
from bondage) and the elements shall mel
with fervent heat. Nevertheless we, nc
}. cording to His promise, look for new heay
. ems and a new earth wherein dwellet
, righteousness Oh Pet Ill, 10, 49,.
81. Take heed to yourselves lest tina
day come upon you unawares. We ar
: to avoid oil acknowledgements Of earth lest W
be overcome and taken unawarcs. Thi
' life is a warfare with the powers OF dari
Z ness, and we need to have on the Who'll
q armor of God (Eph. vi, IL, l2).
Bb. "For as a snare shall 1t come on a
> them that dwell on the face of the who
= earth" The believer in Christ does M
7 dwell on the earth; he Is only n sojourns
i here day by day. He is n citizen of hea'
z en- and his thoughts and affections al
r there, on things above, not on things o
2 the earth.
4 &c. watch ye, therefore, and pray a
!, ways that ye may be accounted worthy
escape all these things" IL some ma
escape the great tribulation, then surel
the church which Is His body shall escaI
It, because thou hast kept the word I
my patience, also will keep thee from Il
hour Of temptation, which shall come nj
{ on all the world to try them that DIVE
upon the earth" (Rev. Ill, 10). II jest
slx.-< q hat II t,la IN,
1 then His body shall. but otherwise not