Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-12-17

after the bondmaid, her substitute
had brought forth lshmael When
Isaac was born. Sarah repudiated Ish.
| mael and no longer acknowledged him
as her son, bHt. Instead claimed every
thing for Isaac. The antique Of this
| is that from the time that God began
the development Of the Spiritual Israel
| and set forth the TCoyenant by sacri-
fee" through which this Spiritual Is
rael would be deyeloped-from that
| time It began to be clearly manifest
| that the chief portion Of the promise
Of God to bless the world was not to
/ be fulfilled through the Ishmael Seed.
natural Israel but through the Isaac
! Seed Spiritual Israel.
! The Well Spring of Hope For the Jews.
! From the first there was manifested
| a competition for the Abrahamic bless
| ing. And as Isbmael Knocked mt the in
| FAINT Isaac. so the Jew. in his consider
| able development and strength, Knocked
| at the Anti pical Isaac--Jesus and his
comparatively ignorant and unlearned
! followers: and prosecuted them. In or
| der to continue the type, that Abraham
might typify God. he was commanded
| TO send forth Hagar and her son into
| the wilderness. That sending forth
| typiaed the Divine sdisfayor which
| came upon the Jews eighteen centuries
/ ago and which has made them outcasts
| from Gods favor. as Hagar and Ish-
mael were cut OF from Abraham's
presence and family and care. The
| bread and water which Hagar took
| with her, by which she and Ishmael
We're hourished in the wilderness for
a time, pictures and types the promises
| of God through the Law and the
prophets which still belong to the Jew
! and upon which. for eighteen centuries,
| he has been nourished, and without
which the hope Of the nation would
have persisted
Now we come to the dire moment
pictured in Genesis XXI. 1910. The
water provided by Abraham bad been
consumed No more was to be bad.
Ishmael was dying Hagar, his mother,
separated herself from him At the
opportune moment the angel Of the
Lore appeared TO her and pointed her to
a spring Of water, where she refreshed
herself and Ishmaci with new lie.
The antitype of this is new to he
seen before US The Jewish people.
separated more and, more from the
law and tHe Prophets, are becoming
weak and faint as respects hope They
are about 10 die But no the Lord
IF
the water Of life At this critical mo
ment AS Ishnael was rescued from
death by this water. SO the nation Of
Israel. whom he typihed. is now about
TO find in the providence Of God that
their portion Of The Abrahamic Cove.
nant is the earthly one. not the heav-
emily one. not the spiritual. They are
about 10 be refreshed and to enter
uuon new career. That career, how
ever. will not mark them as Ishmael-
ties. nor viii their New Covenant re-
lationship be symboizcd by Hagar,
the Old Law Covenant Thenceforth
they are represented under new type.
Isaac Was Heir of All.
If. at first, our Jewish friends might
! be inclined to feel disappointed that
! they were represented in Ishmael, and
not In Isaac. by the Hagar Covenant,
| the Covenant Of bondage to the Law,
| instead of being formed free from the
Law, there is consolation. Their
| consolation Is that Isaac typi6ed the
| Messiah and that Israel is pictured as
| the nation on whose behalf Messiah
will mediate the New Law Covenant,
The Messiah must be spiritual, in or
! der to be able to confer the great
| blessings indicated in the Covenant
made with Abraham The nation Of
Israel never expected to be spiritual
and had no such promise in the Bible
! To the Jews will come exactly what
| they have always been expecting
greatness as an earthly people honor
! as the elect nation through whom the
New Covenant blessings will be open
ed up to all the world of mankind-the
| Gentiles.
As already pointed out. Isaac, the
son of Abraham, typited the Messiah
of glory, the Son of God and heir of
all the promses-the one through
whom alone eternal life may be OBJ
tanned and restitution to that perfec-
zion which viii enable Israel and the
world TO keep the Divine Law perfect
ly and merit the gift Of God, eternal
life, according to their New Law Cove
nant 10y ami through its great Media
tor-Messiah
Eleazar Type Of the Holy Spirit.
In due time Abraham sent his trust
ed servant Eicazar typical of the holy
Spirit 10 select Bride for his sor
Isaac Eleazar might not go anywhere
He was directed to go only to those OF
Abraham's family, thus implying tina
none would be called to be the Bride
Of Messiah except such as were alread!
in relationship to God through faith
obedience and Justification. When th'
servant had found Rebecca he pm
upon her certain jewels, explained t
: her and her relatives the nature Of hi