The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-03-24

Ut uulu, Wuen, at lHe SeCOUu COMING OI
Messiah, his Kingdom shall be turned
over to them. And then, as he de-
clares. they will be glad to say, Bless
ed Is he that cometh in the name of
the Lord" The long centuries OF per
secutiOn and separation from Gods
favor will have brought that people
to n humber condition Of heart, where
they will be glad to receive of Divine
grace upon Divine terms. To this
great event st. Paul refers us in Ro-
mans xi, 27-34.
Although God foreknew all that had
happened the offer of the Kingdom to
Israel was just us bona-fde. Just as
genuine. as though he had not known
It. God always does his part! What
ever failure there is in any matter of
contract belongs to humanity
If thus we have before our minds
the origin Of Palm Sunday and what
1t signitied as the climax of the test of
natural Israel In respect to Messiah.
we are prepared TO go further and to
note that In Gods providence there is
a similar test for us Christians.
"EneTies For Your Sakes."
St. John emphasized particularly the
fact that the rejection of the Jewish
nation. because OF their rejection of
Messiah. did not apply to all the In
dividuals Of that nation. AS the
Prophet Isaiah had foretold (Romans
tx. 27-33) there was small, faithful
section or remnant" This remnant
accepted Christ and were by him ac-
cepted and became the nucleus or
foundation of Spiritual Israel on the
Day Of Pentecost. Thus we read "He
came unto his own nation) and his
own received him not (as nation);
but TO as many as received him, to
them gave he liberty Wrivllege) to be-
come sons OF God, even to them that
believed on his name; which were be
gotten not of blood. nor of the will of
tie flesh. nor of the will Of man. but
of God"-at Pentecost (John |, 11-13D.
Thus so far as the spiritual part of
Gods great promise to Abraham Is
concerned II has passed from the Jew
ish nation: but there still remains for
them glorious earthly portion, to
which they will he introduced at our
Lords second coming. Then their
sins will be cancelled. and as people
the Hebrews will return to Divine
favor and will inherit the earthly fc;
lures of the promise made tn their
fathers. Then, through them. Gods
blessing will he extended to all ma
tiOns and peoples under Israel's New
Covenant. which will then become op.
erative at the hands of their great
Mediator-the Christ, the Messiah In
glory. But by that time the election
of the saints of this Gospel Age will be
complete and the Messiah in glory will
include Jesus the Head and the Church
his BOdy-joint-heirs with him I'm his
Observation-Disclosures with him in the
spiritual textures of the great Abra-
hamic promise Galatians i'll, 29).
All this is clearly stated by the
Apostle ia Romans Xi, 25-32. Bnt
somehow our eyes Of understanding as
Christians have been holden so that,
until of late. we have not seen these
lengths and breadths. these heights
and depths. of Divine Love and Wis
dom and arrangement The fact that
we now see these things is corrobo-
rative evidence that they are nigh at
hand Ju so II was at our Lords
first advent. Many things pertaining
to that time were completely hidden
until the time of their fulfllment
came. and then only the "Wise Vlr-
gins" were so blessed. so assisted,
that they trimmed their lamps effec-
lively and were enabled to see these
beauties in the Divine Plan.
The Time of Our Visitation.
Apparently very few Of Gods peo-
pie, until recently, have noted the fact
that Spiritual Israel has had parallel
history to that Of Natural Israel. Few
have seen that these are dealt with
all through the Scriptures as type and
antitype. Few have noticed that from
the death of Jacob to the death Of
Jesus finds its exact parallel OF 1,S45h
years between the death OF Jesus and
our day. Few have noticed that in
both cases there is nominal and a
real Israel The nominal Jewish sys-
IShh was AiiNu pul lnc
ties indeed" failed. Likewise will be
the experience OF Spiritual Israel The
nominal Christian systems will be
tried, and all will fail except the spir-
it-begotten and faithful. AS only a
remnant or small number were found
In the proper condition at the first
advent, so the Scriptures clearly init
mate that only a small number viii
be found sufficiently sanity and zeal
Gus and loyal to the Lord and the
principles of his Truth In the end of
this age, TO graduate with first honors.
AS there was a special period of
testing and trying at the close OF the
Jewish Age, lasting for forty years, so,
the Scriptures clearly indicate, there
Is a special sitting and testing due to
come to Chrlstendom during the clos
ing forty years OF this Gospel Age
before the Inauguration of the glorious
Mlllennial blessings. AS the trials and
tests came upon the Jews In a subtle
manner. to test their faith and obe-
dience, so even more subtlety must