Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-12-10

|, ment took the place OF hope. God was
! teaching them great lesson respect
ing the need Of better sacrifices than
those Of bulls and Of goats, and also
teaching them that there Is no other
means Of justification In his sight.
They got blessings under this Cove
ant-educauonal blessings, but not
the blessing hoped for, not Hfe eternal.
Hence they were not In position to
become. as they had hoped, a ma
tional Messiah, national Seed of
Abraham, for the blessing of all the
nations.
God gave them kihgs for time, but
these were unable to accomplish the
great things hoped for. But the prom
Use of a personal Messiah was made,
and that he should be of the lineage Of
| David, great King, far superior to
the great. wise and rich Solomon.
Messiah would be David's Son and yet
David's Lord psalm OK, i; Matthew
xxi, 4244l. Here. as God intended,
Israel began to get the thought OF q
personal Messiah, a King Of Glory.
who would use their nation as his In
strumentality for the conquering or
the world, when every knee should
bow and every tongue confess to the
glory Of God.
A Now Covenant and Better Mediator.
The next lesson for Israel to learn
was that a change Of Dispensaton
must come, that, as Moses had medi-
ated the Law Covenant, so an anti
| typical Moses, a greater than Moses,
would induct them into the blessings
and privileges of a still better Cove
nant, Covenant more favorable to
| them and under which they could
| gain eternal life. This New Covenant
was particularly set before them
through Jeremial's prophecy XXI.
B1-34). And this, combined with the
tatement OF Moses respecting great
er Mediator, helped their faith to take
fresh hold upon the OathBound
Abrahamic Promise-"In thy Seed
shall all the families Of the earth be
blessed
II a great enough Mediator should
come as the promised Messenger Of
God. and should establish a better
Covenant under which Israel could
have 1ternal life, and II he, as the
offspring OF David, should become
their King, then indeed Abraham's
Seed. the nation OF Israel under that
great Medlator-K King, would be fully
qualified to bless all the families Of
the earth The thought of this glory
to their nation became fresh inspira-
ton, and around II gathered the fifty
odd thousand of Jews, out OF all the
tribes Of Israel, who returned from
BabyIonlan 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, better Covenant. Speaking
Of the time when he would regather
them out OF all lands and would full
all TO them the promise made to Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob, and make them
great nation, and use them for the
blessing Of other nations, the Lord de-
clares, mot 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 Samarltans
and the Sodomites-peoples whom Is
rael detested as interiors and sinners.
God declares that neither OF these
peoples had ever committed as serious
alu M han
Israel, and that when he would again
bless Israel he would bless also these
other peoples I'm their midst. Let me
quote his words: "When thy sisters,
Sodoni 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 | win remem-
ber my Covenant with thee In the days
OF thy youth and ! will establish unto
thee an everlasting Cokenant, '"'
and 1 win give them (Sodomites and
Samaritans) unto thee for daughters.
but not by TN Covenant mot under |
the old Law Covenant; but under the
New claw Covenant OF the future)
and will establish my Covenant with
thee; : Din order that thou may
est remember and he confounded, and
never open thy mouth any more, be-
cause OF thy shame, when l am pact
led toward thee for all that thou hast
done. saith the Lord God" CEzeklel
xvi, 55-63l.
This New and better Covenant Is to
be mediated through personal Mes
siah-a stll more glorious Mediator |
than Moses, n still more glorious King |
than David-this one whom Israel be- |
gan to look for and TO long for. Can |
We wonder that they failed TO identify |
him I'm the lowly Nazarene who died at |
Calvary2 We cannot. Nothing but
special assistance Of the holy Spirit |
would enable any one to trace the con-
nection between the glorious pictures
Of the prophecies and the humble APP |
pearance Of him who came to fulfil |
those 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