Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-06

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
nant-educational blessings, but not
the blessing hoped for, not life eternal.
Hence they were not in a position to
become, as they had hoped, a ma
tional Messiah, a national Seed of
Abraham, for the blessing OF all the
nations.
God gave them kings 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
xxi, 4244. Here. as God intended,
Israel began to get the thought of
personal Messiah, King of Glory,
who would use their nation as 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 a change of. Dispensation
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
them and under which they could
gain eternal life This New Covenant
was particularly set before them
through Jeremiah's prophecy xxi,
31-3D. And this, combined with the
statement of Moses respecting a. great
er Mediator, helped their faith to take
a fresh hold upon the Oath-Bound
Abrahamic Promise-"In thy Seed
shall all the families of the earth be
blessed"
If a great enough Mediator should
come as the promised Messenger of
God, and should establish a better
Covenant, under which Israel could
have eternal life and if he, as the
offspring of David, should become
their King, then indeed Abrahams
Seed, the nation of Israel under that
great Mediator King, would be fully
qualified to bless all the families of
the earth. The thought of this glory
to their nation became a fresh inspira-
ton, and around it gathered the fifty
odd thousand of Jews. out of all the
tribes of Israel, who returned from
Babylonian 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 a New Gov
enant, a 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
a great nation, and use them for the
blessing of other nations, the Lord de-
clares, "Not for your sakes do l 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
and the acknowledgements whom Is
rael detested as interiors and sinners.
God declares that neither of these
peoples had ever committed as serious
sins against Divine goodness as 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 former estate, and Samaria and
her daughters shall return to their
former estate, then thou and thy daugh-
tiers shall return to your former es-
tate Nevertheless / will remem-
| Der my COUenant with thee in the days
of thy youth. and l will establish unto
/; thee an everlasting Covenant,
and | will give them (SOdomites and
Samaritans) unto thee for daughters,
| but not by thy Covenant mot under
the old Law Covenant; but under the
New Oaw) Covenant of the future),
and l will establish my Covenant with
| thee; tin order that thou may
| est remember and be COMPOUNDED, and
never open thy mouth any more, be-
cause of thy shame. when l am paci-
| fed toward thee for all that thou hast
done, saith the Lord Cod Ezekiel
xvi, 5000.
This New and better Covenant is to
be mediated through a personal Mes
siah-a still more glorious Mediator
than Moses. a 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 in the lowly NaZarene who died at
Calvary? We cannot! Nothing but a
special assistance of the holy Spirit
would enable any one to trace the con-
nection between the glorious PICTURES
| Ol luH DIOilleClCS anu the uNAlblt 1b
| pearance of him who came to fulfill
| 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
prophetic outline Some can see. but
others cannot as yet, that he who was
! pierced is The same One who, as the
Son of Gcd. in great glory is shortly
to bless Israel-and all the families Of
the earth through Israel.
"Abide She Day of His Coming"
Our text IS from another prophecy
speaking of this same great Messiah,
The Mediator of the Kew Covenant,
King of kings and Lord of lords, who,
as the representative of the great Je-
hovah his Father. is to reign until all
enemies shall be put down: until Satan
shall be bound and, ultimately. shall