The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-05

They got blessings under this Cove
nant-educationa blessings, but no
the blessing hoped for, not life etcrngl
Hence they were not in a position {,
become, as they had hoped, ma
tional Messiah, national Seed Of
Abraham, for the blessing of all the
nations.
| God gave them kings for a time, but
these were unable to accomplish the
great things hoped for. But the prom
lse Of a personal Messiah was made
and that he should be of the lineage Of
David, q great King, far superior tC
| the great, wise and rich Solomon
Messiah would be David's Son and yet
David's Lord psalm cx. Il Matthew
xii, 424D. Here. as God intended
Israel began to get the thought of q
personal Messiah n King of Glory
who would use their nation as his in
strumentality for the conquering OF
the world, when every knee should
bow and every tongue confess to the
glory OF God.
A New Covenant and Better Mediator
The next lesson for Israel to learn
was that a change of Dispensation
must come, that, as Moses had medl
ated the Law Covenant, so an anti.
typical Moses, greater than Moses
would induct them into the blessings
and privileges of q still better Cove.
nant, a Covenant more favorable to
them and under which they could
gain eternal life. This New Covenant
was particularly set before them
through Jeremiah's prophecy XXI,
31-3D. And this, combined with the
statement of Moses respecting a great
or Mediator, helped their faith to take
Abrahamic Promise-"In thy Seed
shall all the families of the earth be
blessed"
II great enough Mediator should
come as the promised Messenger Of
God, and should establish a better
Covenant, under which Israel could
have eternal life, and IL he, as the
offspring of David, should become
their King, then indeed Abraham's
Seed, the nation of Israel under that
great Mediator-King, would be fully
qualified to bless all the families Of
the earth. The thought of this glory
to their nation became q fresh inspira-
ton. and around It gathered the fifty
odd thousand of Jews, out of all the
tribes Of Israel. who returned from
BabylOnlan captivity under the edict of
Cyrus. offering them this privilege.
Through the Prophet Ezekiel the Lord
again made mention Of the fact that
their Law Covenant, made at Sinai
must before their great blessing Of
restitution, give place to New Gov
enant, a better Covenant. Speaking
Of the time when he would regather
them out Of all lands and would full
fill to them the promise made to Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob, and make them
a great nation. and use them for the
blessing of other nations, The Lord de-
clares, "Not for your sakes do | this,
o house of Israel. but for my names
sake" He then proceeds to tell them
that at the time he would receive
them back again into his love AMI
favor he would also humble their
pride by restoring the Samarltans
and the odomites-peoples whom Is
rael detested as interiors and sinners.
God declares that neither of these
peoples had ever committed as serious
sins against Divine goodness as bad
Israel, and that when he would again
bless Israel he would bless also these
other peoples In their midst. Let me
quote his words: "When thy sisters.
Sodom and her daughters, shall return
TO their former estate, and Samaria and
her daughters shall return to their
former estate, then thou and thy daugh-
ters shall return TO your former eS-
tate. Nevertheless | will remem.
ber my COUendnt with thee in the days
Of thy youth, and will establish unto
thee an everlasting Covenant,
and l will give them (Sodomites and
Samaritans) unto thee for daughters.
but not by tby Covenant mot under
the old Law Covenant; but under the
New Haw) Covenant of the futurel,
and will establish my Covenant with
thee; = On order thaO thou may
est remember and be confounded. ana
never open thy mouth any more, b.
cause Of thy shame. when am pacl.
fed toward thee for all that thou hast
done, saith the Lord God" Ezekiel
xvi. 55-63).
This New and better Covenant Is to
be medlated through personal Mes
'lah-a still more glorious Mediator
han Moses, n still more glorious King
han David-thls One whom Israel be-
gan to look for and to long for Can
we wonder that they failed to identify
him In the lowly Nazarene who died at
Calvary? We cannot! Nothing but n
special assistance of the holy Spirit |
would enable any one to trace the con.
nectlon between the glorious pictures
)f the prophecies and the humble ap-
pearance Of him who came TO fulfill |
hose prophecies. We do see, however. |
that the great Messiah OF Glory, Jesus, |
IN his Second Advent as King OF kings |
and Lord Of lords. fills absolutely every |
demand OF Jewish expectation and OF |
prophetic outline. Some can see. but |
others cannot as YETI that he who was
pierced Is the same One who, as the |
Son OF God, In great glory is shortly |
10 bless Israel-and all the families OF |
he earth through Israel