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and SO all Israel shall be saved Then
all Israel shall be recovered from their
blindness "As it is written, There
shall come out of Zion [spiritual Is
rael] the Deliverer 1.-THE Christi; and
he shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob; for this is the covenant unto
them, when l shall take away their
sins. AS concerning the Gospel, they
are Created as) enemies for your
sakes; but as touching the election,
they are beloved for the fathers sakes.
For the gifts and calling of God he
will not repent Of For as we in times
past have not believed God yet have
now obtained mercy through their I'M
belief; even so have these also now
not believed, that through your mercy.
they also may obtain mercy."-Rom.
11:25-31
The New Covenant which God will
seal with Israel after these Gospel
days will be ''of your 1.-THE Church'sl
mercy" in that it will be sealed with
the blood of The Christ-Head and
Body. This is the meaning of our
Lords words to us spiritual lsraelites,
"This is my blood of the New Cove
nant-drink We all of it"-all who par
ticipate in it. 1t is great privilege
to suffer with Christ, to be dead with
him, to drink of his cup, to be priv
legged with him to seal the New Cove
nant of Israel. All who thus join with
him will be permitted to share with
him the glories of his Kingdom, his
spiritual Kingdom, through which Is.
rael will be blessed, restored to prom.
inence, made the channel of Divine
blessings to every nation under heaven.
Two AntitypcaI FulfiIments.
We have noticed that our Lords
riding on the ass to Jerusalem was
fulfilment of prophecy and type.
We note now that there are secondary
fulfilments of the same on still high
er plane, % The proclaiming of Je-
sus by the multitude shouting "Ho
sanna,'' was a proclamation of faith
in him as the Messiah; so we today,
and all of the Lords followers down
through the Gospel Age. have first
hailed him Messiah and proclaimed
ourselves believers in him-and this
to us was Justification by Faith. Hence,
Palm Sunday may be considered as
symbOlizing the attainment of justif-
cation by those who recognize Jesus
and are willing to acknowledge him.
(2) Subsequently at the Memorial
Supper Jesus passed the cup to all of
his followers, saying, Drink ye all of
it." This signifies full conservation,
even unto death, on the part of all who
accept the Lords invitation to thus
share his cup, the sufferings of Christ.
In this sense of the word, dear friends.
l trust that all of us have thus de-
clared our faith in the Messiah, the
Redeemer. | trust that we have all
taken the Lamb into our hearts, into
our homes.
A second antitypical fulfilment of
tOday's lesson is brought to our atten-
tion by the fact that everything per-
tanning to the Jewish people was typ
ical of that nations connection with
spiritual Israel's experiences. AS Jesus
offered himself in the flesh to f1eshly
! Israel at the proper time as their King,
so in the parallel of time he must of
| fer himself to spiritual Israel at the
appointed time as their King of Glory.
As the time of natural Israels vista
| ton was at the First Advent, so the
time of spiritual ISraels visitation is
at the Second Advent. AS nominal Is
rael stumbled and was blinded and
failed to receive the King and lost
the blessing, so will it be with nominal
spiritual Israel Thus it is written,
"He shall be for stone of stumbling
and rock of offence to both houses OF
Israel" AS with the Jews every is
raelite indeed" in whom was no guile,
was specially blessed and kept and
assisted, so it will be here All 9th
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"a thousand shall fall at thy side"
That which to the one class will be
the stepping-stone to higher favorS and
the Kingdom blessings, will to the
other class be stumbling-stone. As
amongst the Jews it was necessary
that the proclamation of the presence
of Messiah be made, so here the Sec
ond Presence of Messiah must be
made known. Nevertheless the par
able will be complete, Behold, We de-
spisers, and wonder, and perish; for |
work work in your days. work
which We shall in no wise believe.
though a man declare it unto you
(Acts 13:41.) We see here the force
of the Scriptural declaration that it
is given or granted to some to under
stand the deep things of God and not
given or permitted to others. ITO you
it is given to know the mysteries OF
the Kingdom of heaven, but to all out
siders Ito all not members of the in
ner circle of "Israelites indeed') these
things are spoken in parallels and dark
sayings. that hearing they might hear
and not understand"
Few see that, as the Lord declared.
to the Jews. "Your house is left unto
you desolate;" so now he declares to
nominal spiritual Israel the same
thing. Addressing them under the
name of the Church of Laodicea he
says: Behold, stand at the door and
knock. Every man who hears my
knock. let him open the door and
will come in and sup with him" It
must be an individual matter. Neither
sects nor parties will be acknowledged
in this testing time-only the Israel
ties indeed" in whom is no guile, who
get ready for and receive the blessing
promised. To Laodicea, the nominal
system as whole, the Lord says.
"Thou sayest, / am rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing:
and knowest not that thou are wretch
ed and miserable anG poor and blind
and naked; counsel thee to buy of