The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-12-15
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
sESSoN XII, FOUR III QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, DEC. ~


Copyright. 1905. by American Press Association
We should be very grateful that the
committee Is led TO give us an occa.
sional opportunity TO study prophecy,
but some teachers would be moro
grateful for larger opportunity in this
direction, masmuch as prophecy is q
light in dark place, to which we do
well TO take heed in our hearts lest
our Lord count us foolish for neglect
ing so important part OF Ills word
I'll Pet. j, 10; Luke xiv, 25).
The greatest of all names in Scrip
ture is Jehovah, which Is used about
| 1000 times and reveals TO us God, the
Creator. in relation to man in right.
eousness and redemption. God in
! Christ, Jehovah-Jesus, who was and is
and is to come. The name may be rec
ognized in the words LORD and
GOD whenever so printed. e.. all in
capitals. In our authorized version It
| is only translated JEHOVAH in four
places-EX. vi, 3; rs. lxXXiil. rs; lisa.
! xii, 2; XVI. land the Revised Yer
sion does not improve upon this, but
! the American Revised, which all hol-
ars admit gives the meaning OF the
| original better than any other ans
| lation OF the Holy Scriptures, has
! given the name Jehovah its place in
the Scriptures to which Il has "a UNI
| questionable claim. See IL used .orty-
eight times in this one prophecy. When
we remember that God is love-" see
how, even in this name, love overtops
all other topics in the Bible and see
in chapter /, l, >, that the burden of
the word Of the LORD to Israel is, Il
have loved you" Compare Deut. vii.
0-S, and see in John iii, 10; John iv,
8, 16, and similar sayings new light
constraining you 10 praise God for
such amazing love.
Israel neither knew nor believed the
love which God had TO them, and SO
| they turned away from Him to wor-
ship Idols, the works of their own
hands, yet He sent them messenger
after messenger to convince them of
His love and, il possible, win them
back to Him, that lie might bless
them in the eyes of all nations and
bless all nations through them. In
this last prophecy He tells them of
their sin, warns them of coming
judgment and yet assures them OF
His unchanging love dii, " and sets
before them glorious future If they
will repent. The prophets all pointed
to greater prophet who should come,
who would be also Il priest and king
Deut. xviii, IS; Ps. Xxi, IL; lisa. TX,
@, Z; XXI, l, II; Jer. kill. 3, G; Zech.
vi, 13; rs. OK. a, but lie was to have
herald to prepare the way before him.
See lisa. Xl, 30, as well as our lesson.
We know from Matt Iii and Luke Iii
that John the Baptist was this herald,
and everything in the life of Jesus
proved that lie was the promised Mes
siah Of Israel, the Lamb slain from the
foundation OF the world.
On earth, in humiliation, He was
prophet. Now ut the right hand of God
He is our great High Priest, and at
His coming again il will be seen that
He is Il great King and His name
dreadful among the nations ii, 14).
John the Baptist was rejected, and
Israel rejected and crucifed her Mes.
siah and shall not see Him again till
they shall say. Blessed is He that COM
eth in the name of the Lord (Matt.
xvii, II; xiii, 80. 30). Then, acknowl
edging Him and receiving Him, verses
3, 4, II, etc, of our lesson shall have
literal fulfllment. Compare lisa. XIV,
8; XXXv, 10; Xxi, q, o, and the prophets
everywhere. 1t will be time of judg-
ment upon Israel's enemies and of
blessing upon Israel and upon all ma
tlons, but just before the great deliv-
erance it will be a time of trouble for
Israel such as they never passed
through before oversees ., y; Jer. xxx. q;
Dan. xii, 1-3; Matt. xiv, y, %. 20-31).
Then shall Nal. ill, IS, be understood,
and it shall be seen that Nal. iv, 8,
refers to the real Elijah, as our Lord
Jesus said in Matt. xvii, IL.
But all Scripture, including all proph-
ecy, is intensely practical and to be
received in our hearts and made mani
fest In our lives. The redeemed Of the
Lord are now to prepare the way for
His return by Offering themselves unto
Him TO be purified and made meet for
His use, ready for any manner Of serv-
ice. that through them He may be
mace known, His body completed and
His return FASTENED. When for time
we are in the furnace of trial we must
remember that lie Is The rehner and
is dednng with us that lie Himself
may be mc,c fully revealed in US, that
the world through Us may know Him
Rom viii. IS, 20; John xvii. y, 23l
We are apps 20 wander from Him into
our own ways, fJrsaliing Him, the
fountain. and seeking clsterns of our
own; then lie is gricycd and seeks
patiently aEG lovingly 10 win us back
TO Himself der. ii, 13: Iii, 12-1D.
He gives Us the privilege of return
ing 10 Him somewhat Of that which
He SO freely gives TO US, asking US to
yield to Him cheerfully n seventh OF
our time and tenth of all our in
crease. that thus lie may bless us still