Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-23
Golden Text: Nations shall come
to the light and kings to the bright
ness of thy rising" lisa. 60:3.

ness OF tiny rising. lisa. oU:J'
Several years ago, when I first
began to study the Bible, l marked
all the missionary passages l read
with a blue pencil so that they
would attract my attention at once
when | should read on those pages
subsequently. [ have been reading
thepu again more carefully in view
o. the subject today, and discover
several things of interest about
them But before noting what these
discoveries are, let us see some OF
the things that the prophets say.
Isaiah is the one who has most
to say. In chapter two he tells us
that sit shall come to pass in the
last days that the mountain of the
Lords house shall be established In
the top of the mountains and shall
be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it," In chap
ter IL he says, 1.-THE earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea. In
chapter az, he says of the servant
of Jehovah, 81 will keep thee and
give thee for a covenant or the PEG.
nile and for a light of the Gentlles.
(Or heather, for so the word means.
In chapter As he says, Il am Je-
hovah, and there is none else, there
is no God beside me: I girded thee,
though thou hast not known me,
that thew may know from the r1s-
ing of the sun and from the west
that there is none beside me-" And
later in the same chapter, LOOK
unto me, and be we saved, all the
ends of the earth, for I am God,
and there is none else. have sworn
nv myself, the word is gone out or
INV mouth in righteousness, ana
shall not return, that unto me every
knee shall bow, and every tongue
swear" Again in chapter AZ,
also will give thee for light unto
the Gentiles, that thou mayest pc
nv salvation unto the end OF the
earth" And, "All flesh shall know
that 7, the Lord, am thy saviour
and thy Redeemer, the Mighty one
of Jacob" In chapter 81, All the
ends of the earth shall see the sal
walton of our God" and, so shall
he sprinkled many nations" In
chapter SO, $50 shall they fear the
name of Jehovah from the west.
and His glory from the rising OF
; the SUM-" In chapter so, the WORDS
of our golden text. In chapter o.
"For as the earth bringeth fortn
her bud, and as the garden causeth
the things that are 'sown In II TO
hiring forth, so the Lord GOD shall
cause righteousness and praise TO
snring forth before all nations.
And in the last chapter, L WIN
gather all nations and tongues, ana
they shall come, and see my glory
they shall declare my glory among
the Gentiles.'
Jeremiah continues the fortelllng
in on. 81 after these, days-they
shall teach no more his neighpor
saving. know the Lord, for they snail
All know me from the least OF them
unto the greatest Of them.
Ezekiel is a captive in a foreign
land. but he hsa no message Tor an
ueople. But his contemporary Danlel
tolls of the establishment or
kingdom, that all peoples, nations
and languages should serve Him
Hosea utters a prophecy which Faul
quotes in his letter to the Romans
'I will say to them which were not y,
my people, thou art my people
Joel says, "It shall come TO pass
that whosoever shall call upon the
name Of the Lord shall be delivered
Micah says, "Now shall he be great
unto the ends of the earth" ana
Habakkuk, For the earth snal! oo
full of the knowledge of the LORD as
tha waters that cover the sea,
Zenhaniak adds, "Men shall worship
Him every one from his place, even
ali the isles of the heather" Hag-
gai saws. "The desire of all nations
shall come" And Zechariah tells
us that His dominion shall be from
sea TO sea, and from the river even
INTO the ends of the earth. And the
Lord shall be King over all the
earth; in that day there shall be one
Lord and His name one. WINE
Malachi closes the revelation with
s'For from the rising of the sun even
unto the going don of the same
nv name shall be great among the
heathen."
!, Undoubtedly from these quota
lions, God revealed to the prophets
His plan for a universal Kingdom,
ruled over b one king who should
be lord of the whole earth, and one
religion, one worship of the one Co..
The Prophets
But who were the prophets to
whom God made this revelation!
They were revivalists, patriots, men
who stood for God in a period Oh
spiritual declinsion; therefore their
messages were largely and primarily
to their own people Israel. Ihey
were the interpreters OF the times
to their people trying to arouse them
to a sense of what is right that they
might 90 it.
They were more than this now
l. Low n
and their fellowship with Him-and
this was as much Gods sovereign
mower as their own choice-God
could and Aid use them as His mouth
n,eces. Tl.sy were the recipients OF
revelations. of visions, of dreams, OF
the voice of God, by means of which
thew became the spokesman for GOD,
declaring things which it was utter
Iv impossible for the natural man to
have been able to know; and these
were not mere guesses, for many OF
their predictions came true to the
very letter at the very time and way
that they had spoken that could be
accounted for in no other way than
that one of higher authority and
knowledge had spoken through them.
The law of chance happenings could
not possibly have brought about so
large a proportion of fulfillments.
But their predictions still had to
do primarily with Israel and with
the future complete fulfillment of
the covenants God had made with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The
prophets of the old testament knew
nothing of the church, and never
spoke once of the church. That was
a mystery Ghe word means "a
hidden secretly, known to God, part
of His plan, but not revealed to any
of them. The first reference to the
church in the Bible is in Matt. 1918.
The revelation of this mystery"
was made to Paul Eph. 3:1-1U, the
fact that Jews and Gentiles were to
: be made one body by the baptism Of