The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-21

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neve the good message. And even
six months in advance Of this John
the Baptist and his disciples had simi.
larly preached.
After those four years of faithful
preaching throughout the length and
breadth of Palestine. the nation was
apparently as unprepared for Jesus
as at the first. Hence our Lords fcl-
lowing words, "Therefore | say unto
YOU, Your house Is left unto you DESC
late! Ye shall see me no more until
that day when yd shall say-Blessed
Is he that cometh in the name OF the
Lord" That day has not yet come.
Meantime the Jewish nation was there
cast off from fellowship with God, as
the prophet declares, Because they
knew not the time of their visitation"
Israel has been outcast from ma
tional favor for more than eighteen
centuries. Thank God the day is near
at hand, when, at the second coming of
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 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 I'm Ro-
mans xi, 27-34.
Although God foreknew all that had
happened the offer of the Kingdom to
Israel was just as bona-fde, just as
genuine, as though he had not known
1t. 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 signifed as the climax Of the test Of
we are prepared TO go firther and to
note that in Gods providence there is
a similar test for us Christians.
Enemies 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 Qlomans
tx, 2I-33) there was a small, faithful
section or remnant" This remnant
accepted Christ and We're 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 mation) and his
own received him not (as n nation);
but TO as many as received him, to
them gave he liberty (privilege) to be-
come sons OF God. even 10 them that
believed on his name; which were be-
gotten not of blood, nor of the will OF
the flesh, nor OF the will of man, but
Of God"-at Pentecost Gohn I, 11-13).
Thus so far as the spiritual part Of
Gods great promise to Abraham Is
concerned 1t has passed from the Jew
ish nation; but there still remains for
them glorious earthly portion, to
which they will be 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 fea-
lures of the promise made to their
fathers. Then, through them, Gods
blessing will be extended to all ma
tions and peoples under Israel's New
Covenant, which will then become OPP
erative Mt 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 ard the Messiah in glory will
include Jesus the Head and the Church
his Body-joint-heirs with him IN his
Observation-Disclosures with him in the
spiritual features of the great Abra-
hanic promise Galatians iii, 20)
All this is clearly stated by the
Apostle in Romans xi, 25-32. But
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-
ratlve evidence that they are nigh mt
hand. Just so 1t was ut our Lords
first advent. Many things pertaining
to that time were completely hidden
until the time of their fulhllment
came. and then only the "Wlse Vir-
gins" were so blessed, so assisted,
that they trimmed their lamps elfec-
lively and were enabled to see these
beauties In the Divine Plan.
The Time of Our Visitation.
Apparently very few of Gods peo-
ple 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 u "a nominal and