The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-06-30


tution,. earthly prosperity. health,
strength. etc. begin TO be manifested |
amongst those living under that Cove
nant arrangement. other nations, the |
Bible tells us. will also desire to enter |
into its blessings ;land they will be per-
ihitted so to do. BY individually re-
Douncing sin and accepting the Cove
nant aud its Mediator they Will become
"proselytes Of the gate" Hearkenl
"Nfany nations shall come aud say, let
us 20 up to the Mountain of the Lords
House, for He will teach us OF His
ways and we will walk in His paths"
One King, But Two Kingdoms.
Il has escaped Christendom in gen
eral until recently that the Divine
| promise to Abraham is to be fulfilled
through two Seeds-one heavenly
class. the other an earthly class. with
| Messiah the Head over all tRomans
| iv, 1G). For eighteen centuries God
| favored the Seed of Abraham. the ma
ton of Israel
| That period of favor explain IL how
we may, began to wane about the time
of Jesus death. 1t was completely
removed from them In the desOlation
of their land by the Roman army A.
u. 20. Now parallel time has. been
reached. hence it is time for the re-
turn Of Gods favor, as shown on previ-
Gus occasions. The favor already Is
returning.
The jew has not been so comforta-
Bile. nor so favOrably fixed, as he is to-
day, in more than eighteen centuries
But his blessing is only beginning
Shortly Divine favor, in Gods due
time, will accomplish for His Chosen
People all the precious promises of the
Law and of the Prophets. Already
the jew is awakening to realization
of this great truth.
A voice Is sounding from the wilder.
ness. and the Jews everywhere are
hardening TO 1t. 1t does not call them
to become Christians, but to remain
Jews and to realize, as Jews, the idea Is
set before them by the Lord In the
: Law and In the Prophets. To all
those exercised thereby great bless
ing Is near, which will more than
|
, Neither by swords nor guns nor dread
noughts. neither by flying airshlps MOI
torpedoes win lsrael's great victory bC
gained: neither by money power ant
worshiplng OF the golden calf Of finance
nor by trusting In the arm of flesh. bu
: by looking to the Lord, from whom
will come their help.
Messiah's Spiritual Empire, about I,
, be established. will bind Satan. re
strain every. evil and lift up n stand
ard for the people. blessing Israel ant
! establishing with them the New Naw
Covenant instead of the Old Law
II Coyenant-under the better Mediator
3 still more capable than the grea
y Moses: under the greater King, stil
more wise than Solomon and still NOR
beloved OF God than Bavidy This gren
u Celestial Empire will be lestabliShe
with great authority in the world by
Il time OF trouble. time of earthly dis
tress, which the prophecies picture y
J! terrible.
y Israel's Hopes-Why So Delayed2
The perplexlng thought with on
n |
+ tlans, is: IL these thugs be so; II Me-
i slah's Kingdom is yet TO be establish
ed. as the Jews contemplated. only o
n spiritual plane instead of an earthl
one; and if Gods purpose Is to us
those anciently favored people MS Ii
channels of His blessing In the futur
why has there been so long delay?
We answer: This is what the Scri
lures term the Mystery-the matte
which God did not reveal directl
either to Abraham or through any {
the Prophets. Indirectly He limited I
It, saying to Abraham, THY Seed sha
be as the stars of heaven, and as Il
sand of the seashore Tor multitude"
But Abraham did not discern. II,
did others, that these two Illustration
belonged not TO the same people, b
to two different lsraels--the heaven
aud the earthly. the stars representa-
the heavenly Seed and the sand of Il
ID. seashore the earthly Seed.
ht The restitution privileges soon to
Of opened first to Israel, wilt later on.
~ thrown open TO all nations, people
lSlndreds and tongues-thai they mi
y. press In also under the same gloro
terms of lsrael's New Covenant. |
IS cause "lsraelites indeed witho
IA. guile and sharers In all the bessin
Al. Of God supplied through the gre
us Mediator OF the New Covenant a
-. Ills earthly lnstrumentalities
ie Zionism. amongst the Jews toda
cd we believe the Lord is stirring up
Ic preparation of natural Israel for I
OF great blessing which so soon win
a, at their door. AS they begin to rea
y. appreciate the Land OF Promise, I
ses rich promises in connection with III
land must become theirs, aud the
" splratlon of those promises will lc
Of their hearts back TO the Lord in pray
zen and supplication and will lead the (,
ad. of reverentlal. representative nu
Ak Der OF them back 10 the land Itself.
to. which the Lord declared iIo wOl
Fry bring them: aud that from thence IN
"'EI chnuI1 ,a nin.lya1 An nn tunpn