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y ae 3 E54 iE THE a+! a CERTAIN OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. RESTORATION their gather them on every side, and bring them into be king to them all; ea ‘Twill go up to the 1 eave sey shi ill be no more two na- neither shall hud they shall unto Jacob, my sire e HN in the bed servant. wherein your thatr fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they yaud their children and their children’s children forever.’ Cana doubt here rest on the sub: ect, wheiher the Jews and the ten tribes shall be re- est: ‘BR ished in , Palestine? Faway? Can such divine testimony as this be done But similar testimonies ousin the prophets. to the point are numer- T his passage has never yet received a primary, or partial fulfilment. ‘The whole of it re- mains to be fulfilled. Some of the predicticas, which are to have an ultimate accomplishment in this final restoration had a primary one in the restoration from even the seventy years captivity in Babylon. But this cannot be said of the prophecy under consideration. None of cond stick, in the hand yet been recovered. those written of the prophet, on the have se- ever ‘The whole passage is intimately 3 soa x A connected with the battle of that gre at day, which in- ae to pass, that at the same time, shall things come into thy mind, and von any more atall. Pa it shallalso come own land. AndI will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall fens . the Lord God; 5h troduces the Miilennium; as appears 1n the two following chapters. Hors the house or Israel enter avain upon their everlasting possession of the land ot promise, which God engaged to Abraham. A reiteration of these predictions is intermingled with the predictions concerning Gog, or the pow~ ers of Antichrist, to be collected agvainst the Jews, after their restoration, In eo two chapters suc- ceeding. ‘In the latter years thou (Gog r) shalt con back from the ecm into the land that is and gathered out of many people, against C taiis of Israel, which have been have lain waste for so many persion of the Jews;) alwa Lys centuries but it (that Ste ord noun- (or duvtie the dis- nation) is brought back out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely ‘all Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm; ; of them. thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou and aii thy bands, and many people with thee. ‘Thus saitia shalt think aa evil thought; and thou la: id of ‘unwall ed shalt say, villazes, ( he state af the Jews in Palestine, after their restoration ;)f will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them, dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; to take a spoil. and to take a prey, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the peoplet that are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and os who dwell in the midst of the land.” “ Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy bands. Sowill l make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and the heathen shali know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. Be- hold, it is come, it is done, saith the Lord God. This is the day whereof I have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons—seven years. The whole account is thus divinely summed up.— ‘Therefore, thus saith the Lord God; now will |] bring again the captivity of Jacob, andh ane mercy upon the ‘hole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my Ps name; after that they have borne their shame, aida i their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt salely ia their land, and none made them afraid. When[have brought them a: gain from the people, and gathered them out of their ses mies’ lands, and am sanctified i in them in the sight of many dadidns: then shall they know that1 am the Lord their God, who caused them to be led into ca tivity among the heathen; but I have gathered ‘hae nto their own land, and left none of them there > (among the heathen) any more; neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of biker saith the Lord God.” It seems as though this were quoted “from were the enough, if nothing more prophets to prove our point. If this proof should be Pecinicd's insufiicient, one would be apt to say, nothing that inspiration can as ‘sert upOn the point, could be deemed sufficient! :