Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-09-16

nnger viii be the means employed TO
stop the crime. Certain It IS that
Nothing shall hurt or destroy in all
Gods Holy Kingdom" thus established
How speedily the world will then
learn righteousness. Now 1t doubts
the very existence Of Gcd, and de-
elares that If He exists He pays little
or no heed to wrOng-d0ers. NOW the
wicked flourish; yea, they that tempt
God are even exalted" as the Scrip
lures declare. But the New Day will
change all this. Messiah will lay
righteousness to the line and justice to
the plummet, and the hail TRUTH
shall sweep away the refuge Of
lies, Misrepresentation, ,misunderstand-
ings" isaiah xviii II, 1Sl. "The
blind shall see out of Obscurity, and
the deaf ears shall be unstOppeI: -
"The knowledge of the glory Of the
Lord shall fill the whole earth," until
''None shall need say to his nelghbor,
Know the Lord for all shall know
Him"
GraVitation Reversed
The present tendency IS to gravitate
downward, but our text tells Of a re-
versal Of this order All nations shall
then flow or gravltate pward-toward
the righteous Kingdom Of Messiah:
MANY people shall say, Let us go
up" The Kingdom, in its original
establishment. will be IsraeIltlsh-
Abraham. Isaac and Jacob and all the
Prophets will be made Princes in all
the earth psalm xiv, 1G).
The Jews, naturally will rally to
their standard and begin to recognize
the fulnlment Of the prophecies of old.
Other natlonalltles will begin slowly
to realize the import Of the great, New
Jewish Dispensatlon. Their ideas and
Ideals will be antagonlstic 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 las well as
the Jewsl His ways and we las 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 [Splritual Zion,
the Messlah-Head and Body-Bride.
groom and Bridel-whlle the Word OF
the Lord 1.-THE directing and instruct.
ingl will go forth from Jerusalem 1.-THE
Patrlarchdl Princes, who will repre-.
sent the Kingdoml.
Judging Among the Gentilss
The context tells us that the neN
King, Messiah, will Judge amongst the
natlons-amongst all the peoples. II
Will be general Judgment first, an
individual one subsequently. The ma
tlonal judgments will mean calamitles
upon the nations. The demOnstra.
tions Of the great dreadnaughts and
great armies viii prove that they are
not to be the peacemakers of earth.
On the contrary. those trusting in these
devices viii suffer lost severely. All
must learn the lesson that Messlah's
Kingdom comes not by human might
nor power, b., Is lie L.rd's instltu.
tion, 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 that the mighty army OF
the Lord, through MCssiahs Kingdom,
will work. havoc with present institu.
tlons. Then He will make wars to
cease unto the ends Of the earth" Om
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 Brlgades,
etc, thereafter will be at discount.
Human energy and activity will find
better employment in conquerIng self.
sin.sickness and death.
Hiding In the Rocks
The dcscrirt'"a here given by the
Prophet Isaiah Of the Day with which
this Gospel Age will end, the great
Day when Messinh's Kingdom begins,
agrees very closely with description
of the same given In the book Of Reve.
latlon. Isaiah tells us that ldolatry to
gold and silver shall be brought to an
end, and the great trouble of that Day
VIII cause many to hide themselves in
the rocks, for rcar of the Lord and for
the glo.T cr His Majesty isaiah II,
TO- -, "The lofty locks Of man
sha'l hc huuhlcd, and their haughtl.
ness aMll he bowed down and the
Lord .'ec shall b. excited In that
Day" Tvs 10.
The idols He shall utterly abolish, |
and those who worship them "shan 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 arlseth to shake terribly the
earth" Tvs. lS.2D,
The same picture is set before us in
Revelation Vi, tJ-17. Here the great
ones Of earth are represented as call. |
Ing upon tAe mountains to fa}l on
them and to hide them from the pres
cnce Of the Lord, The thought is TO
fan orcr as, hide us, protect us. The /
Prophet Malachi asks, who shall |
abide in the great nav NJ tho Tordg"