Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-09-12

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Gods Holy Kingdom" thus established
How speedily the world will then
learn righteousnessI Now 1t doupts
the very existence Of God, and de-
clares that if He exists He pays ltle
or no heed to wrongdoers.- Now tne
wicked flourish; yea, they that tempo
God are even exalted" as the Scrip
lures declare. But the New Day Will
change all this. Messiah "wiu lay
righteousness to the line and justice 10
the plummet, and the hail lTruthJ
shall sweep away the refuge VI
lies, Misrepresentation misunderstand-
ings" isaiah xviii, II, 49,. "Ihe
blind shall see out of obscurity, and
the deaf ears shall be unstoppeo;
1.-THE knowledge of he glory or the
Lord shall fill the whole earth, untll
''None shall need say to his neighDor'
Know the Lord for all shall know
Him."
Gravitation Reversed
The present tendency is to gravltate
downward, but our text tells of re-
versal of this order All nations shall
then flow or gravitate upward-toward
the righteous Kingdom Of Messiah:
"ifany people shall say, Let US go
up" The Kingdom, In its original
establishment, will be Israelitish-
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the
Prophets will be made Princes In all
the earth psalm xiv, 16).
The Jews, naturally, will rally 10
their standard and begin to recognize
the fulfilment of the prophecies OF old
Other nationalities will begin slowly
to realize the import of the great, New
Jewish Dispensation. Their ideas ana
ideals will be antagonistic for time.
Gradually they will see the Restitu-
ton blessings coming to Israel, in har-
mony with the Divine arrangements
of the Kingdom. Then, as our context
declares, MANY people will say,
Come, let us go up to the Mountain
of the Lord, to the House of the God
of Jacob; He will teach us [as well as
the Jewsl His ways aud we Gas well
as theyl will learn to walk in His
paths.'"
Both Spiritual and Natural Israel
are In the picture. Mt Zion is the
higher, the Spiritual Jerusalem; the
lower, the earthly. The Law shall go
forth from Mt. Zion [Spiritual Zion,
the Messiah-Head and Body-Bride-
groom and Bride -while the Word of
the Lord [the directing and instruct
ingl will go forth from Jerusalem 1.-THE
Patriarchal Princes, who will repre-
sent the Kingdoml.
Judging Among the GentiIes
The context tells us that the new
King, Messiah, will judge amongst the
nations-amongst all the peoples. 1t
will be a general judgment first, an
individual one subsequently. The ma
tional judgments will mean calamities
upon the nations. The demonstra-
tons Of the great dreadnaughts and
great armies will prove that they are
not to be the peacemakers of earth.
On the contrary, those trusting In these
devices will suffer most severely. AL
must learn the lesson that Messiah's
Kingdom comes not by human might
nor power, but is the Lords institu-
ton, in His own appointed time.
The lesson will be so thoroughly
learned in that Day Of Trouble that
war will forever cease. The Prophet
David tells us lat the mighty army of
the Lord, through Messiah's Kingdom,
will work havoc with present institu-
tons. Then 'He will make wars to
cease unto the ends of the EARTH" Our
context tells us that thereafter "They
shall beat their swords into plow-
shares and their spears into pruning
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more" Even Boys Brigades,
ETC., thereafter will be at a discount.
Human energy and activity will find
better employment in conquering self,
sin-Sickness and death.
Hiding In the Rocks
The description here given by the
Prophet Isaiah Of the Day with which
this Gospel Age will end, the great
Day when Messiah's Kingdom begins,
agrees very closely with a description
Of the same given in the book Of Reve-
lation. Isaiah tells us that idolatry to
gold and silver shall be brought to an
end, and the great trouble of that Day
will cause many to hide themselves In
the rocks, for fear of the Lord and for
the glory of His Majesty isaiah II,
10, ID. "The lofty looks of man
shall be humbled, and their haughti-
ness shall be bowed down and the
Lord alone shall be exalted In that
DGy" Tvs. Old.
The idols He shall utterly abolish,
and those who worship them Shall go
into the rocks and into the caves of
the earth, for fear of the Lord and
for the glory Of His Majesty, when
He ariseth to shake terribly the
earth" Tvs. 1920.
The same picture is set before US In
Revelation vi, 1911. Here the great
ones Of earth are represented as call
ing upon the mountains to fall on
LueLu dlll W niue IuSIu IrOIU the pres
ence of the Lord. The thought is to
fall oUer us, hide us, protect us. The
Prophet Malachi asks, who shall
abide in the great Day Of the Lord ~
"WhO shall be able to standY'
Let us construct a picture before
our minds. Let us suppose the vast
oceans, constituting three-fourths of
the earth's surface, to represent the
masses of mankind unsettled, unat-
tached, without property, with little
hope or prospect, with illimitable
longings, but no power to satisfy
them-''without God and without hope
in the world" Let us consider the
land behind and before us to repre-
sent society, fixed. established, desir-
Gus of peace. having something which
1t does not wish to lose, which it does
not wish the "sea" class to wash
away.
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