The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-01

would not receive their King, meek and sitting upon an ass and colt the foal of an ass but crucified | Him.
 In Zech. 9:9, we read this pro- phecy: Behold, thy King cometh unto thee. He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon colt the foal of an ass." This prophecy was liter ally fulfilled in Matt 21:5, but the Jews rejected their King and His humiliation All the confusion on the part of the Jews ct Christs first coming, and the confusion now prevalent in so many churches of today in regard to Christ's second coming is caused by the failure to see that some of the prophecies pointed to the first coming of Christ and other prophecies point to the second coming. The Jews got their and glory to rule over all the na- tions, but failed to see that first He was coming as the suffering Messiah as ''the Lamb without blem- ish' to take away the sin of the world. This great mistake on their part caused them to reject their Messiah in His humiliation. But the majority of churches have made just as great a mistake, for they have fixed their gaze upon the first advent of Christ and considered that, His only coming, overlooking the many prophecies which speak of Christ's literal return to this earth a second time when He shall indeed rule the nations with a rod of iron," and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Loud, to the glory of God the Fathers'
 All through the Bible we find
 that prophecy points to the TWO ADVENTS of Christ which clears away any seeming contradiction in prophecy. Dr. Scofield says fur ther- "We must not conclude that i the wickedness of man has baffled the deliberate purpose of God, for | His counses include a second ad- vent of His Son, when the predic- tions concerning Messiah's earthly glory will receive the same precise and literal fulfIlment as did those which concerned His earthly suf
 ferings."
 If we read Hosea B. we realize how perfectly this prophecy has been fulfilled, which says: For the children of Israel shall abide
 many days without a king, and
 without a prince, and without d sacrifice, and without an image, and without ephod, and without ter aphim." We know that it has been
 many days since the Jews had king, or since they have been rec ognized as a separate nation, and during this time they have been without sacrifice, etc, like they
 had at the time when David and | Solomon reigned over the Jewish
 people But they shall yet have the most wonderful and powerful
 King that ever reigned on this J earth-Jesus Christ born of the princely line of David The pro- phecy in Hosea B.: is yet to be fulfilled It begins with the word.
 "afterward," indicating the church period of near two thousand years
 which is nearing it's close now: | "Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days" This verse says the Jews will return" and we know the Jews all over the world are becoming greatly inter- ested in what is called the Zionist movement and expect to return 10 Palestine in the near future, the present war having taken Pales- tine from the Turks. and now it is l in the hands of a Christian nation who has promised to give it back to the Jews. This verse says they will seek David their king" but as this prophecy was written long after David's death. we know this does not mean the David who wrote the Psalms, but it means the Christ who is of the line of David, and it says they shall seek Him "in the latter days that is, at the close of this dispensation. There are many prophecies given that we may know when we are living in "the latter days" or "the last times" as it is called in some places, and these signs are being fulfilled on all sides during the last few years. so