The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-24

OOOts-e-s-s.e-s-.-..s-s- s-.-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s"s"sO
centuries. Thank God the day is near
Mt 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 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 Ro-
mans XII, 27-34.
Although God forekncw all that had
happened the offer of the Kingdom to
Israel was just as bona-hde, just as
genuine. as though he had not known
it. 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 signified 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 rejection of
Messiah, did not apply to all the In
dividuals of that nation. AS the
Prophet Isaiah had foretold Romans
tx. 2T-33) there was small, faithful
section or remnant" This remnant
accepted Christ and were by him ac-
cepted aud became the nucleus or
foundation of Spiritual Israel on the
Day of Pentecost. Thus we read. "He
came unto his own (nation) and his
/ own received him not (as a nation)
but TO as many as received him, to
them gave he liberty Orivilege) to be-
come sons Of God, even to 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 John |, lib.
Thus so far as the spiritual part OF
Gods great promise to Abraham is
concerned it 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 a 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. God S
blessing will be extended to all ma.
lions and peoples under Israel's New
Covenant. which will then become OPP,
erative at 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 and the Messiah in glory will
include Jesus the Head and the Church
his Body-ioint-heir with him in his
Kingdom-ioint heirs with him in the
spiritual features of the great Abra.
hamic promise Galatians iii. 29).
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
rative evidence that they are nigh al
hand. Just so it was at our Lords
first advent. Many things pertaining
to that time were completely hidden
until the time of their fulfillmeni
came. and then only the wise Vir
gins" were so blessed, so assisted
that they trimmed their lamps effec
lively and were enabled to see these
beauties in the Divine Plan.
The Time of Our Visitation.
Apparently very few of Gods PEG
pie, 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
antltype. Few have noticed that from
the death of Jacob to the death OF
Jesus finds its exact parallel of 1,S451:
years between the death Of Jesus anC
our day. Few have noticed that il
both cases there is nominal and 0
real Israel. The nominal Jewish sys
TEN was tried and all but the Israel
1tes indeed" failed. Likewise will bt
the experience Of Spiritual Israel. The
nominal Christian systems will bt
tried. and all will fail except the spir
it-begotten and faithful. AS only &
remnant or small number were found
in the proper condition at the frs
advent, so the Scriptures clearly init
mate that only small number will
be found sufficiently sanity and zeal
Gus and loyal TO the Lord and tn,
principles Of his Truth in the end Of
this age. TO graduate with first honors
AS there was special period o.
testing and trying at the close of thu
Jewish Age. lasting for forty years so
the Scriptures clearly indicate. there
Is special sitting and testing due t.
come to Christendom during the clos
ing forty years of this Gospel Ag'
before the Inauguration OF the glorious
Millennial blessings. AS the trials ant
tests came upon the Jews In subtl,
manner, to test their faith and ODE
dience. so even more subtlety mus
we expect will be connected with til,
trials and testings in the harvest TIM
OF this Gospel Age. OF this time thu
Lord through the prophet said. "Wh'
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