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nal life. Yclr after year. century after
century. they failed. and discourage.
ment took the place Of hope God was
teaching them Il great lesson respect
ing the need of bciirr sacrifices than
those of bulls and Of goats. and also
teaching them that there is no other
means of Justification in lis sight.
They got Blessings under this Cove
pnnt-e educational blessings, but not
! the blessing hoped for. not life dcIndl
I-ence they were not in Il position TO
lecome. MS they hnd hcprd. IL ma
tlolal Messiah, II national SEED of
Abraham. for the blessing of all the
nations.
God gave them kings for a time. but
these were unable to accomplish tile
great things hoped for. But the prom
lse of personal Messiah was made,
and thlt he should be of the lineage of
David. II great King. far superior to
the great. wise and rich Soor 0n.-
Messiah would be Davlds Son and yet
Davld's Lord psalm cx, |; Matthew
Xxil, l24i,. Here. as God intended.
Israel begin to get the thought of u
personal Messiah. n King of Glory,
who would Use their nation AZ 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 change of Dispensation
must come. that. as Moses had medi'
atcd the Law Covenant. 80 an anti
lyrical Moses. greater than Moses,
would indurt them into the blessings
and privileges of still better Cove.
nant, q Covenant more favorable to
them and under whi"h they could
gain eternal life. This Sew Covenant
was pnrti' ul"rly SGT before them
through .Icrcmiah's prophecy XXI.
/ 31-aD And this. combined with the
/ statement Of MCs"s respecting II great
or Mediator, helped their faith to take
n fresh hold upcn the OnthBOund
! Ahrahami" PromiSP-"In thy Seed
shall al the families of the earth be
blessed"
II great ennu"h Mediator should
corp as the promised Messenger Of
God and should establish better
Covenant. unGcr which Israel could
have eternal life. and If he. rs the
offspring OF David. should become
their King then indeed Abraham's
Seed. the nntion Of Israel under that
great Mediator King, would he fully
Il ~ ..n a. o., 30
/ the earth The thought of this glory
to their nation became a fresh lnspira-
tion. and around 1t gathered the fifty
odd thousand Of Jews. out of all the
tribes of Israel. who returned from
Babylonlnn captivity under the Cdlct 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. 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
Eltul uuliull, NNt ttltlii iOi thV
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 and
favor he would also humble their
pride by restoring the Samaritans
nn1 tt,n Cp1nn,itps nnnnIng UhnYn 10
rael detCsted ns Interiors and sinners.
God declares that neither of these
peoples had over committed ns serious
sins against Divine goodness ns had
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 farmer estate, and Snmnrlu and
her daughters shall return to their
farmer cSiGtc. then thou and thy daugh-
ters shall return to your f0rmGr GS-
tate. y q Nevertheless | will rcmcm-
Der my COrcAGm with thee In the days
Of thy youth, and Will establish unto
thee an everlasting Covenant
and | win give them CSodomtcs and
SomarltanD unto thee for daughters
but not by mn Covenant mot under
the old Law Covenant; but under the
New G.awl Covenant OF the future)
> ANA ! viii establish my Covenant with
thee; lin order thaO thou may
est remember and be confounlcd. and
never open thy mouth any more be
cause OF thy elNme, when | am paci
nol toward thee for all that thou hns
done. saith the Lord God" (Ezelie
xvi, 5J-CN
This New and better Covenant Is tC
be medlnted through personal Mes
sinh-a still more glorious Mediator
than Moses. stjl more glorious Klnl
than Dayl1-thls ono whom Israel be
gan 10 look for and to long for Car
We wonder that they failed TO identify
/ him In the lowly Na2nrene who died n
. Calvary? We cunnot Nothing but {
epeCinl assistance of the holy Spirit