Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-11-29
THE PROPHECY OF ST PAUL'S
IN REGARD OF THE JEWS

In the 18th chapter Of St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans, he has prop
hesied that the Jews when God
broke from olive tree and cast away
because Of their unbelief, shall be
grated back into that tree IF they
abide not still - unbelief."
st Paul t1ilg rs in this chapter
chat we Gen1llies are branches Of
Wild olive grated among the be-
lieving Jews into the good olive tree
Of which the Jews are both the root
and the natural branches.
He says: blindness in part is hap
pened to Israel until the fulness Of
the Gentle be come i'm And he
comments upon the Jews and the
Gentiles in these words: "As We in
times past have not believed God, yet
have now obtained mercy through
their unbelief even so have these al
50 now not believed that through
mercy they also may obtain mercy.
For God concluded all in unbelief,
that he might have mercy upon all.'
Furthermore, st. Paul teaches
that the grating Of the party blind
ed Jews back into the good olive tree
will be Of great benefit to the world
when he says, in the above mentioned
chapter Of Romans IF the casting
away Of them be the reconciling Of
the world, what shall the receiving
of them be, but life from the dead
The Old Testament teaches that
Jehovah is the King Of the Jews. For
instance where Jehovah says to the
Jews in Isaiah 43, 15-"I am the Lord
your Holy One the Creator Of Israel,
your King" And where the prophet
says to the Jews in Isaiah a., g.
AThus saith the Lord, the King Of Is
rael, and the Redeemer the Lord of
hosts; ! am the first, and / am the
last, and beside me there Is no God"
Now since the Old Testament
xteaches that jehovah is the King Of
the Jews, it is evident that if Christ
was their King, he was Jehovah man
Tested in the form of man, in the
time of the Apostles.
Just as the Bible tells us in Cen
esis IS, that Jehovah was manifest
ed in the form of man, in the time
of Abraham and Sarah, when he ate
some food, told Sarah she should give
birth to a Son, and talked to Abra-
ham about his destruction Of Sedan
and Gomorrah.
And / think if we Gentiles enable
the partly blinded Jews to perceive
that the Bible teaches that Christ
was Jehovah manifested in the from
of a man they will believe that Christ
was their King, as he claimed in the
New Testament that he was, and he
grated back into the good olive tree.
So / hope that you will publish
this letter, and do every other thing
you can to enable these Jews to know
that Moses teaches in Deuteronomy
80 that the name of Jehovah is the
Rock, and that st. Paul, there
fore teaches that Christ was Jehov-
ali when he says in 1st Corinthians
10, that Christ was the Rock that fol
lowed the Israelites when they pass
through the Sea.
st Paul says this in these words:
Brethren / wohld not that we should
be ignorant how that all our fathers
were under the cloud; and all passed
through the sea; and were all baptiz-
ed unto Moses in the cloud and in
the sea; and did all eat same spirit
ual meat; and did all drink the same
spiritual dring; for they drank
of that Spiritual Rock that followed
them, and that Rock was Christ"
The New Testament does not tell
US, as some people may think, that
Christ was in the form of Son Of
God, and thought he was inferior
to God, before he took upon himself
the form of man.
On the contrary, it tells US in
Philippians 2 that Christ was in the
"from of God" and Thought it not
robbery to be equal with God" before
he took upon himself the from of a
man.
The New Testament tells us that
after Christ had taken upon him
self the form Of a man, he said that
he was "the Son of God" and that
his Father was greater" than he.
But since Christ was previously in
the form of God" and thought it
not robbery to be equal with Cod"
it is evident that it was in the char
acters Of Son of God, which he had
assumed by taking upon himself the
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