The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-10-18
{" ZIONISM
IN PROPHECY
ADDRESS TO
A Jewish Mass Meeting-The
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ton of Israel as his Kingdom their
kings were his representatives.; but
when Zedekiah was rejected it was not
inconsistent on the Lords part to rec
ognize the Gentle governments, as
above suggested. OF King Zedekiah
we read. 20 thou profane and wicked
Prince, whose time has come that in
EQUITY should have an end. Remove
the diadem. Take off the crown. This
shall not be the same. l will overturn.
overturn, oyerturn 1t until he come
whose right it is (Messiah), and / will
give it unto him. ezekiel xxi, 20, 20.
1t was at this very time that God gave
the lease of earthly power to Nebu-
chadnezzar and his successors, as is re-
lated in Daniels prophecy. Nebuchad-
nezzar dreamed, but aforementioned
his vision. Daniel the Prophet, made
prisoner at an earlier date, was, by
Divine providence, introduced to the
king as the one person in all the world
able to rehearse the Kings dream and
to give its Interpretation, and his pow
err so to do is declared to have been
Of the Lord.
Nsbuehadnszzar's Vision of Gentle
Dominion.
The vision was Of a stupendous i'm
age. Its head Of gold represented Ne
buchadnezzar's Empire-Babylon. Its
breast and arms Of silver represented
the Medo- Persian Empire. Its belly and
thighs Of brass represented the Grecian
Empire. Its strong legs of iron repre-
sented the Roman Empire, East and
West Its feet of iron and clay repre-
scented Papal Rome. The iron contin
ues to represent civil governments, and
the miry clay, making them appear
like stone, represented ecclesiasticism
as it is now mixed up with the poll
tics of the ten kingdoms of Europe.
The whole period Of time In which
these various Gentle governments
would dominate the world would last
until Messiah's promised Kingdom.
And this period is symbolically stated
to have been ''seven tines; that is,
seven years-evidently not literal
years. but symbolical.
At their end the lease Of earthly
power Of Gentle governments will ter
inmate in the great time Of trouble
foretold by Daniel xii, u. Then Mes
siah shall stand up in the sense Of as
Stunning control of earth's affairs and
Gentle governments will cease, for all
,o+Ior. shall oorvo oDd ohov Messiah
And then Gods Chosen People, Is
rael, will come to the front in the
worlds affairs, because they will be-
come the representatives and instru-
ments amongst men of Messiah's King
dom, which will be spiritual and in
visible, as is that Of the Prince Of this
world, the Prince of darkness, whom
Messiah will bind or restrain during
the thousand years Of his reign of
righteousness and destroy at the con
clusiOn, when he shall deliver over
the Kingdom Of earth to the Fa@ er
Mankind will then be perfect, because
all wilful sinners will be destroyed in
the Second Death. Meantime, Mes
siahs reign will not only bless and
uplift Israel, but through Israel the
blessing will extend to every nation
people. kindred and tongue in full ac-
cord with the Divine promise and oath
made to Abraham more than thirty
centuries ago.
All this is briefly and beautifully rep
resented In Northumberland dream,
as explained by Daniel. He saw a
stone taken from the mountain with
out human aid. He watched and saw
the stone smite the image on its feet
and beheld, as the result complete de-
molisnment Of the Gentle systems.
This shifting Of the image In the feet
symbolically represents that it will be
by Divine power that present institu-
tons will all come to naught prepara-
tory to the establishment Of the King
dom of God in their stead.
Messiah's Kingdom In the Vision.
Then Messiah's Kingdom, symbolized
by the stone, will not only fill the
place where the image stood, but,
gradually increasing, will fill the whole
earth. From this standpoint, said the
speaker, 1t is not difficult for us to be-
lieve the words of the Psalmist that
there Is a time for Gods .regathering
Zion, yea, a set time-fxed and unal-
terable The speaker would not pre-
tend to say the day or month or year
In which these things would be accom-
pllshed-in which the Gentle lease Of
earth's dominion would expire and Mes
siah's Kingdom assume control. He did
however, offer a suggestion: So far as he
could discern. the time for these stupen-
dous events is very much closer than
many Of US had supposed. The seven
times, or years, of Gentle domination,
reckoned on the basis suggested in the
Scriptures themselves, should be inter-
preted a day for year, lunar time. Sew
en- years in lunar time would represent
$50 days and these. symboiically inter-
preted, would mean $50 years-from the
time Nebuchadnezzar, the head OF the i'm
age, was recognized down to the time OF
the expiration of the lease Of Gentle pow
err, when the stone shall smite the image
in the feet. So far as Pastor Russell has
been able to determine, the year of Zede-
kiah's dethronement was COS B. C. Thus
calculated the $50 years OF Gentle lease
Of power will expire in October, 1914
There are some who claim that Zede-
kiah's dethronement should be dated B. c.
6S8. If this be true it could make differ
ence Of but eighteen years and give the
date 1892 Pastor Russells convictions,
however. favor the 1914 date.
Zionisn,'s Future Aasured.
For more than thirty years 1 have been
presenting to Christian people the views /
am today presenting specially to Jews, at
the invitation of your Committee. Thirty
years ago I attempted to tell to Israel the
good tidings that Gods set time to re-
member Zion had come. But that SEEM
ingly was too early. Gods set time for
Israel to hear was still future. l waited
and am still waiting for Gods own time
and way for the fulfillment of Isaiah Il.
/, 2-"Comfort ye. comfort We, my people;
speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Cry
unto her that her appointed time Is ac-
complished, and her iniquity pardoned. for
she hath received Of the Lords hand dou-
BILE for all of her SINS
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform
About twenty years ago providence rails
ed up for your people great leader, DR..
Herzl, whose name Is now a household
word with your race. While your people
were unready for any message that /
could give them they were ready for what
God sent them through DIR. Herzl-a mes
sage of hope, a message of national aspi-
ration which quickened the pulse Of your
people into new hope respecting the fu-
ture OF the Jews. DR.. Herzrs endeavor
was to have all loyal sons OF Israel rise
from the dust and aspire to be a nation
amongst nations and to provide a home
for the prosecuted of their race In Russia
and Eastern Europe DIR. Herzl struck
the popular cord In the hearts of the peo-
pie. At first 1t was purely political. and
the name of Zion meant little OF anything
religious; but gradually DR.. Herzl and all
the leaders Of the counsels of your people
began to see that the religious element of