The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-11-04
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VI, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, NOV. 6.

Prov. xxx, 2-Commentary Prepar-
ed by Rev. ID. M. stearns.
Copyright. 1904. by American Press Association
Notwithstanding the slnfulness Of
man, God works out His purposes,
making even the wrath of man to
liah, daughter of Ahab. Israers most
wicked king, as wife for his son
Jehoram, and in the lesson Of today
we have some of the results Of that
ungodly alliance. Yet the Lord would
not destroy judah for David His serv-
ants sake, as He promised him TO give
him always a light I'll Kings will, 16-
49,. The Lord permitted the Philistines
and Arabians to break In upon judah
and carry away Jehoram's substance
and his sons and his wives, leaving
him only AhaZiah, the youngest, and
be himself died an awful death.
Ahaziah reigned only one year, dur
ing which his mother was his counsel
or to do wickedly. Then he was slain
by Jehu QI Chron. XXI, 16; xii. 4, s,
81. When this wicked Athaliah, of the
house of Ahab, saw that her son was
dead, she attempted to destroy all her
sons children and to exterminate ell
the seed royal of the house of Judah,
and she well nigh succeeded. But God
was watching over His word to per-
form it DER. /, ~ and inclined the
heart of Jehoshabeath, AhaZiahs sis
ter, the wife of Jehoiada, the priest, to
Ia
nurse and hide them in the house of
God six years while Athaliah reigned
over the land oversees Is; III Chron.
xxi, IL, ~.
From the day that the Lord God said
to the devil, Il will put enmity be-
tween thee and the woman, between
thy seed and her seed He shall bruise
thy head and thou shalt bruise His
heel" Gen. iii, 15), there had been n
persistent attempt on the part of the
devil TO destroy the seed royal, or, as
it is in the margin of verse of our les
son, 1.-THE seed of the kingdom" This
is one Of the main threads of truth run
ming all through the Bible. Cain, Il
child of the devil q John iii, 12), was
one Of the seed of the kingdom, but
God raised up Seth in his place
The attempt OF the king of Egypt
to kill all the male children in Israel
about the time that Moses was born
was another piece of the devils work
on that line, us was also the attempt
of Hcrod to kill the little babe in
Bethlehem who had just been born the
! king Of the Jews, by killing all the
male children there of a certain age.
These are but samples of the work OF
him who when he had caused the seed
of the woman TO be crucified on Cal
vary and had His body sealed up in
the tomb of Joseph and guarded by
Roman soldiers fancied perhaps that
he had frustrated the purpose of God.
But the Son Of Mary rose from the
dead and is seated ut the right hand
of God until the time shall come for
Him to reign, when Gen. iii, 10, and
every other purpose of God shall be
surely and literally fulfilled. One Of
the last things we read of the devil in
Scripture is that he went to make war
with the remnant Of the seed of the
woman which keep the command
ments of God, and have the testimony
of Jesus Christ (Rev. xii, 10. | do not
wonder that the devil hates and tries
to get rid of many parts Of Scripture,
and especially the opening and the
closing chapters, for they do so show
him up and tell his doom.
In the seventh year Jehoiada the
priest gathered the rulers and the cap
tains and brought them to the house
Of the Lord and made a covenant with
them and took an oath Of them and
showed them the kings son (verse A.,
and he said unto them, Behold, the
kings son shall reign, as the Lord hath
said of the sons of David" Oh, the
comfort that there Is In the glorious
truth that "every purpose of the Lord
shall be performed" both against His
enemies and for His people Ger. II,
29), no matter what people think or
say nor how much the devil may re-
sist So every promise to Abraham
and to David shall be literally full
filled. The people shall be righteous
nation in their own land, and the Son
Of Mary shall sit on Davids throne at
Jerusalem Qsa tx, 6, Z; TX, 1-3, 21; Jer.
iii, II, IS; xxi, Al; Luke t. 30-33).
This manifestation and browning of
Joash were in the seventh year, and
there is at least a suggestion here
that as our Lord Jesus, the true seed
royal, the true and only seed of the
woman, has been hidden about COCO
years, except when He came in hui
initiation only to be rejected and cru
cited, the time of His manifestation
may be the beginning of the seventh
thousand years since the Gen. iii, 10)
word was given to the great adversary.
Let those laugh and scott who dare to.
but blessed are all who believe, for
there shall be fulfllment of all things
spoken by the Lord duke |, 45). Rath-
err let us rejoice and be glad and give
honor to Him, for the kingdom shall
tome. and we shall reign with Him.
See verse u of our lesson. And let