The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

vile affections: for even their women did
change the natural use into that which is
against nature.
And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseenly, and receiv-
ing in themselves that recompense of their
error which was meet
And even as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to reprobate mind, to do those things
which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness
tornication, wickedness, covetousness, NAL
1clousness; full. of envy, murder debate, de-
celt, malignity; whisperers,
"Backbiters, haters of God despiteful.
proud, boosters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenant break
ers, without natural affection inplacab1e
unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that
they which commit such things are worthy
OF death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them" Romans
1862.
No wonder a Delmge of fundamental
Waters swept the ancient Cainite civilization
into perdition.
No wonder Gas it is now rapidly becoming
as it was in the days of Noah and of Lott
another Delnge of Abocalybtic Seven Year
Judgment of fire, trouble, turmoil. tribu-
lat1on, under Antichrist, the False Prophet.
and the King of the North, is soon to sweep
the present accursed Cainite civilization (its
cities and alb into complete, Bolshevistic,
wrath of God, and overthrow.
Does the reader wish the City of Zion to
be that kind of a city, and to meet that
doom? God forbid
Then it is up to you and me to take DOS
session of it, entirely redeem it. purify if.
cleanse it, and rededicate it to God and His
Christ.
Ii. JEHovAH's CITY a CITY OF,
AND FOR HIM ONLY.
God has proposed to establish tzvo pot
tern, model, cities on this serpent-trailed
sln-polluted, and Devil-possessed earth.
L. The first of these cities He called Salem.
meaning The Place of Peace.
In Judah is God known: His name is
great in Israel.
I'm Salem also is His tabernacle and His
dwelling place in Zion.
| here brake He the arrows of the bow.
the shield, and the sword, and the battle. -
Psalm 76:1-3
There He placed Melchisedek (whom
some Bible authorities think was Shem) as
His first Great Priest (the Priest of the
Most High God-Jehovah's title in relation
to the Gentiles) among the Gentiles-a rova1
type of the Son of God, made Priest for
ever after the order of Melchisedek.
Z. How long this continued we do not
knoW-1t has not been recorded in Gods
Book. The next we know of Salem is that
1t like the City of Zion) had been overrun
and polluted by the enemies of God, and they
mad changed its name from Salem to Ha-
lebusl, the City of the Jebusite"- Joshua
- g; 1910 28) no longer the Civ of the
Great King Matthew 5:35 Psalm 48:l, p,
the City of God
Behold what the enemies of our God and
His Zion will do to, and with place, when
Gods people are content with their abomin-
able presence and their polluting customs
and mannerlsns.
s. Next the enemies of God, the wicked
Jebusltes, shortened the name of Gods CITY
to )ebus the city of the Jebusites'
Judges 1910, ~.
4 The time came when Jehovah said. "It
is enough these accursed Jebusites must 90
with all that they have"
He raised up David because He could
not trust Saul with the lob. and especially
commissioned him to expel the Tebusites. re-
deem purify funigate, and cleanse the CITY.
Now watch David proceed with his work
And David and all Israel went to Jeru-
salem, which is Jebus where the Tebusites
were, the inhabitants of the land.
And the inhabitants of Tebus said to
David, Thou shalt not come hither. Never
theless David took the castle of Zion, which
is the city of David.
And David said, Whosoever smiteth the
Iebusites first shall be chief and captain. So
Joab the son of Zeruiah went first I'D. and
was chief.
"And David dwelt in the castle: therefore
they called it the city of David.
"And he built the city round about even
from Milo round about: and Toab repaired
the rest of the city
so David waxed greater and greater: for
the Lord of hosts was with him. Chron-
icles II 40
Having thus taken and consecrated the
city, he again for God made it
The City of the Great King
and established his royal residence there.
Then he brought UP the Ark of the Cove
maat, which always typifed
The Lord Jesus the Christ
as the only possible Savior and the One and
Only meeting place of Jehovah with any