The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-11

the last member 0f that mystical body
of Christ is, called out and accepts
Him by faith as their Savior and
King, just then shall the fourth chap
ter OF First Thessalontans be fulfilled
and we shall see Him who once was
crucified on Calvary coming in the
clouds of heaven to call to Himself
His ransomed, redeemed people and
Ike ID y 10 rs Waiting arms, no
onger His pcrsocu.Cd body on earth
but His redeemed bride in the Glory
World--the True Church; the True
Church of whatever name or nation
will be called out of this world to b.
with Him ycnder in the Glory World,
and then-and then!-che final Gull
mination yoner in Palestine. The an
ti-Christ will rear his. head then as
never before, his awful head. and the
armies of God headed by the trium-
phant General Jesus Christ Himself,
shall bring to pass the greatest bat
lie Of all the ages, the battle for
which all, the years have waited, the
Battle of Armageddon, fought yonder
On the plains of Ezdraelon, and can
only issue in one Way. The final tri-
nmph of the Son of God at the head
If the armies of God over all . the
forces of Bolshevism, infidenity I'M
relief, the world, The flesh and the
levil himself at their head. Then,
hen comes the great elimination for
the Jew.
The Jew who enters Palestine today
as a nation in unhelief will then ac-
cept Jesus Christ. their crucified broth
ar, as their personal and national Sd
vior. and lie will be ,rowned not only
heir individual personal King but the
King of kings ard the Lord of lords.
Why? Because the mouth of the un-
hanging Gcd has spoken it; that il
Why
Ard then will come TO pass that
e / alluded 10 a moment 0go. of
which We see today partial fulfill
nent The Jew and the 1sraelite. the
| descendants Of Judah and the dcs-
,andants of Israel. the Southern king
| 1om and tho Northern kingdom, re-
United in their own land under one
ling and that King. as we just read
moment ago. shall be none other
Van great Dayid's greater Son. Jesus
Christ. once the cruciiied carpenter OF
Nazareth. now our Priest yonder i"
| ilory, and then the Universal Soy
reign of oil the worlds of God.
New. beloved. let us not make d
| mistake here Many rcachers with far
| ;reater reputation than ! have or can
yer hope TO have. occupying post ons
ar above me in the ecclesiastical
| 10rld. have made the hGrrib:e mis-
| ake--and do rot hesitate to say it..
that because all these wonderful
| hincH are true. that tho English peo-
'le are being saved because they arc
| descendants from Isaac and are the
| 'eirs of the children Ct Israel. and
hey are saying that tho Anglo-SaX0n
| hacause he is the heir TO the prom
| 7es Of God, that we are-WE. | SAL
| he people Of england. Canada and
| hn United States the descendants of
| isaac. are being peculiarly blessed
| oday and are being hCnored of God
| oday because we are descended from
| he Sons of Isaac and because we are
| play such an important part in the
/ program of tomorrow. | want to tell
! you on the authority of that Book,
hat is not so. We are not saved
because we are Israelites any more
| han the sons of Judah can be saved
because they are Jews. There is only
| 1ne way of salvation and there is one
| llan by which we may become the
children of God. We may be histori-
| ALLY the children of Isaac but that
is not the important question. The
| !Il-important question for you and
or me for today and for tomorrow
| IS, Am ! a child of God? Am I a
brother TO Jesus Christ? Not by be-
| 'ng descended from Isaac but by hav-
'ng received Him as my personal
Savior and King into my own per-
sonal heart and life-that is the i'm
| pcrtant part, and SO every one who
has done that becomes not merely the
| sons of Isaac or merely the heirs to
| he promises to Abraham, Isaac and
| Jacob. hut becomes today at once, no
'onger rebels against God but heirs
| # God and joint heirs with Jesus
'hrist to all this marvellous inheri-
ance of Glory here and to the UNI
| ;peakable glory of the Coming Day
| If Christ Himself
Now We may stop and ask, What
ign has God given us tha'. He will
carry out all these wonderful prom
| iSeS W Tic Cuul CH. VIZ nave SSCu llC
gave to Abraham the Covenant of
Circumcision as a sign that His COW
cnan, would be kept. To Jacob he
gave the sign of the Stone, the Wis
BILE stone that His covenant with him
would be kept, and to David He gave
the long line of ancestry that exists
in England today as visible sig.
hat His promise to him would be
kept. But what sign mas He given to
he Church? What sign has He given
o us as Christians that all His Won
derful promises to us will be fulfilled
t.as He given us a sign? Yes, be-
loved. Praise His Holy Name today.
he has given us a sign.
Let us go back to the two sticks
once more and take the stick OF judah
and ihe stick of Joseph, and instead
ii putting them as we did just now
end to end and uniting them, let Us
lake one Of them an put it. across the
other one and we have the sign that