Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-03-31

that killest the prophets, and stonest
them which are sent unto thee, how
often would l have gathered thy
children together, even as hen
gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and we would not!" (Matthew
xiii, 37.) For tire and half years
he and his faithful apostles had been
declaring that the Kingdom of God
was at hand; that the people should
repent and believe the good message.
And even six months in advance of
this John the Baptist and his disci-
pies sad similarly preached.
After those your 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
following words. Therefore cay
unto you, Your house is left unto you
desolate! Ye shall see me no more
until that day when We shall say
Blessed is he that cometh in the name
Of the Lord!" That day has not yet
;ome. 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
centurieA Thank God the day is
near at hand. when. at the second
coming Of Messiah, his Kingdom shah
be turned over to them And then,
as he declares. they will. be glad to
say, Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord" The long
centuries of persecution and separa-
ton from Gods favor will have
brought that people to a 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 in Romans
d. 27-34,
I Although God foreknew all that
had happened the offer Of the King
dom to Israel was just as bona-fide,
| just as genuine as though he had not
known it. God always does his part!
Whatever failure there is in any mat
ter of contract belinps to humanity.
II thus we have before our minds
L
| it Eignfied as the climax of the test of
natural Israel in respect to Messiah,
we are prepared to go further 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 re-
lection of Messiah, did not apply to
all the individuals of that nation.
AS the Prophet Isaiah had foretold
(Romans tx, 1889 there was
small, faithful section or remnant"
This remnant accepted Christ and
were by him accepted and became
the mucous of foundation Of Spiritual
Israel on the Day Of PenticOst. Thus
we read. HE came unto his own
| (nation) and ais own received him
not Gas a nation); but to as many
as received him. to them he gave
| (privile. 81 to become sons of God,
even to them that believed on his
name; which were beeotten not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but Of God. :"
at Penticost John /, 11-13).
NUS 81 1dI DIS LuS spiritual pal
of Gods great promise to Abraham
| is concerned it has passed from the
Jewish nation; but there still re-
mains for them a glorious earthly
portion, to which they will be intro
duced at our Lords second coming.
Then their sins will be cancelled,
and as a people the Hebrews will
return to Divine favor and will in
herit the earthly features Of the
promise made to their fathers. Then.
through them, Gods blessing viii be
extended to all nations under Israel's
New ovenant, which will then be-
come operative at the hands of their
great MediatorGthe Christ, the Mes
siah Ia glory. But by that time the
election of the saints of this, Gospel
Age will be complete and the Messiah
in glory. will include Jesus the Head
of the Church his Body-1oint heirs
with him in his Kingdom joint heirs
with him in the spiritual features of
the great Abrahamic promise (Galla-
tians iii, 29}.
All this is clearly stated by the
Apostle in Romans II, 25-32. But
somehow our eyes of understanding
as Christians have been holden so
that, until of late. de have not seen
these lengths and breadths, these
heights and depths, of Divine Love
and Wisdom and arrangement. The