The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-09-12

finger will 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 righteousnessi Now it doubts
the very existence Of God, and de-
clares that If He exists lie pays little
or no heed TO wrong-doers. Now the
wicked flourish: yea, they that tempt
God are even exalted" as the Scrip.
tures declare. But the New Day will
change all this. Messiah will lay
righteousness to the line and justice to
the plummet, and the hail [Truthl
shall sweep away the refuge of
lies. misrepresentation, ,misunderstand-
ines' Qsaiah xviii, H. 49, "The
blind shall see out of obscurity, and
"The knowledge of the glory of the
Lord shall fill the whole EARTH" until
"None shall need say to his neighbor,
Know the Lord for all shall know
Him"
Grevitation Reversed
The present tendency is to gravitate
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:
MANY people shall say, Let MS 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 to
their standard and begin to recognize
the fulflment of the prophecies of old.
Other nationaiities will begin slowly
to realize the import of the great, New
Jewish Dispensation. Their ideas and
ideals will be antagonistic for time.
Gradually they will see the Restitu-
ton blessings coming to Israeli 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 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 [Spiritual Zion,
the Messiah--Head and Body-Bride-
groom and Bride while the Word of
the Lord 1.-THE directing and instruct
ingl will go forth from Jerusalem 1.-THE
Patriarchal Princes, who will repre-.
sent the Kingdoml.
Judging Among the Genties
The context tells us that the new
King, Messiah, will Judge amongst the
nations-amongst all the peoples. 1t
will be 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 viii suffer most severely. All
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 that the mighty army of
the Lord, through Messiah's Kingdom.
will work havoc with present institu-
tions. 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-
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more" Even Boys Brigades,
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 description here given by the
Prorhet Isaiah Of the Day with which
this Gospel Age will end the great
Day when Messiah's Kingdom begins,
agrees very closely with 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, II. ''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
Day" 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. 1921.
The same picture is set before us in
! Revelation vi, 1917. Here the great
snes of earth are represented as call
! ing upon the mountains to fall on