The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-10
ZIONlSM
IN PROPHECY
ADDRESS TO
A Jewish Mass Mee,ins--The
Hinnodrome J.mmeJ
Hippodrome Jsmmed


Book. lie now has absolute conf
/ dencc in 1t. He now realizes. not only
that there Is a great Creator. nut that
lie Is definite, orderly in his dealings
with humanity. in his shaping OF
carth's affairs. For instance the first
Psalm quoted mentions the time, yea
the set time, for the return of Divine
favor to Zion. SO he finds matters all
through the Scriptures. In due time
| David, solomon and others represent.
ed Jehovah in the Kingdom of Israel
and "sat upon the throne OF the King.
dom of the Lord" Later the King
dom was taken from Zedekiah. the
last of the line of David to sit upon
the throne of Gods typical Kingdom.
! When the dominion was taken from
him the Gentle governments were rec
ognizcd. but not in the same manner
MS was Israel. None of them was des-
| ignatcd the Kingdom of God None
Of them was given pcrpetuity OF rule
But Gentle governments were prom
ised lease of power during the pc
riod when Israel would be cast of
from Gods favor Then at the end
OF the appointed time the Gentle lease
of earthly power In turn, and Gods
original provision for Israel TO repre-
sent his Kingdom In the world, would
return. These are the set times re-
ferred to by the Psalniist Gods
promise 10 Davld--"The sure mercies
Of Davld"-werc that OF the fruit Of
his loins one should sit on the throne
Of the Lord forever. The real purport
of this promise was that Messiah, the
Compromised King OF Israel. would
be the root and off.shoot OF the David.
ic line and blessed OF the Lord; bis
Kingdom should be an everlasting one
and fully competent 10 fulfill oil OF the
Divine promises made 10 Abraham
"In thy Seed shall all the families OF
the earth be blessed"
Zedekiah Rejected - Nsbueha adnezxsr
Acknowledge.
So long as God Acknowledged the ma.
tlon of Israel as his Kingdom their
kings were his representatives; but
when Zedekiah was rejected It was not
ognize the Gentle governments, rs
above suggested. or King Zedekiah
we read. 20 thou profane and wicked
Prince. whose tirne has come that in-
iquity should have an end. Remove
the dladem. Take on the crown. This
shall not be the same. will overturp.
overturn. overturn II until he come
whose right it is (slesslahJ, and viii
give It unto him. Ezekiel xxi. 26. 2T).
1t was at this very time that God gave
the lease Of earthly power to Nebu-
chadnezzar and his successors, as is re-
lated in Danlel's prophecy. Nebuchad-
nezzar droa med, but disremembered
his vision. Daniel the Prophet. made
prisoner at an earlier date. was, by
Divine providence. introduced TO the
king as the one person In oil the world
able TO rehearse the Kings dream and
to give its Interpretation, and his pow
er so to do is declared 10 have been
OF the Lord.
Nebucha dnezzar's Vision Of Gentle
Dominion.
The vision was of stupendous i'm
age. Its head Of gold represented Ne
buchadnezzar's Empirc-Babylon. is
breast and arms Of silver represented
the Medo-Persian Empire. It's belly and
thighs OF brass represented the Grecinn
Empire. Its strong legs of Iron repre-
scented the Roman Empire, East and
West. It's feet Of iron aud clay repre-
seuted Papal Rome. The iron conlin.
ues TO represent civil governments, ard
the miry clay. making them appear
| like stone, represented eccleslasticism
as 1t is now mixed up with The posi-
tics of the ten kingdoms Of Europe.
The whole period Of time IN which
these various Gentle governments
| would dominate the world would last
until Messinh's promised Kingdom.
And this period is symDolically stated
to have been seven tines; that IL,
seven years-evidently not literal
years. but symbolical.
| At their end the lease Of earthly
power OF Gentle governments will ter-
minate In the great time OF trouble
foretold by Daniel (Sli. II. Then Mes
slah shall stand up iu the sense Of as
suming control OF earth's affairs and
Gentle governments will cease, for all
nations shall serve aud obey Messiah.
And then Gods Chosen People, Is.
rael. will come 10 the front In The
worlds affairs, because they Will be-
come the representatives and instru'
ments amongst men Of Messiah's King
dom, which will be spiritunl and In
visible. as is that OF the Prince OF this
world, the Prince OF darkness, whom
Messiah will bind or restrain during
the thousand years OF his reign OF
righteousness and destroy at the con
cluslon. when he shall deliver over
the Kingdom Of earth to the Father.
Mankind will then be perfect because
all wilful sinners will be destroyed iu
the Second Death Meantime, Mes
siah's reign will not only bless and
uplift Israel but through Israel the
blessing win extend to every nation
people. kindred and tongue 10 full ac'
cord with the Divine promise and oath
made to Abraham more than thirty
centuries ago.
All this n briefly and beautifully rep