OCR Text |
Show THE RESTORATION CERTAIN OF JUDAH 57 ISRAEL. AND phetic. writings But that it may appear that the pro of the Chris iann’s unite to exhibit this as a great object er predictions of it. belief, I shall note some of the oth the root ol Jesse is “Tn Isaiah xi. the stem from COW which certainly remains yet to be accomplished.””— Bishop Lowth says the same ; and adds, as quoted by Mr. Scott, “This part of the chapter foretels the er, and the wolf and the and the bear shall feed togeth more shall hurt or lamb unite in love; and nothing day that “ Andit shall come to pass in that offend. in by the restoration of the Jewish nation, when they shall embrace the gospel; and be restored to their own This remarkable scene of Providence ts country. ‘The romised. follows, when the Miflennium the second the Lord shall set his hand again, be leit, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush. and from who people, gather the remnant of his from Assyria time, to Elam, shall and from Shinar. and from And he shall Humah. and from the isles of the sea. l assembie set up an ensign for the nations, and shal the dispersthe outcasts of Israel, and gather together s of the earth.” edof Judah, from the. four coruer Jews and ten Here just before the Millennium, the persion, by the tribes are collected from their long dis for their recotime ond hand of Omnipotence, set a sec eral othAbodyof the Jews, and some of sev very. ylon. er tribes. were recovered from ancient Bab God ond, and more is going, in the last days, to make a sec n, and frou ylo effectual recovery from mystical Bab phet proceeas; the four quarters of the earth. The pro tongue of the © And the Lord shall utterly destroy the d shall he win Egyptian sea; and with his mighty l smite it in the shake his hand over the river, and shal make men go over dry shod. And seven streams, and nant of his peothere shall be an highway for the rem 5 like as 1t was to sle. which shall be left from Assyria Israel in the Ezypt.” day that he came Mr. Scott, upon this the Lord will then remove owerful interposition, up passage, says5 all obstacles by that he land_of out of the vouchsafed ‘For the same 1n ar the tongue, or bay o of Israel, when He separated hindrance to the dethe Red Sea, and destroyed that hty wind he o arture of Israel ; and with a mig Euphrates, me separate the waters of the river me shod. streams, that men may pass over dry return, as ot ei’s highway shall be made for Isra va ito m Egypt was for their ancestors to pass fro naan. This part of the chapter contains a prophecy, glorious times of the church, which shall be ushered plainly foretold by most of the prophets ; and by St. Paul.’? the We thus have testimony of those. great men, Lowth and Scott, in favour of a literal restoration of the Jews to their own land, being here predic- ted. And here isa drying up of a mighty river, to: prepare the way for the event. A river is the sym- bol of a nation. When Israel were to be redeemed from Egypt, the Red Sea was to be dried before them. When they were te be redeemed from Babylon, the Euphrates was by Cyrus to be dried or turned, to accomplish the event. And in their last-restoration to Palestine, (ere long to be accomplished,) another great mystical river is to be dried up. The sixth vial dries up the mystic Euphrates, that the way of the kings ae This Pika. o: the east may be prepared. ‘This isie to be fulfilled on the Turks. Perhaps the event is now transpiring. This river is to be smitten in its seven streams: a9 stated in this prophecy of Isaiah; perhaps indicating that the Turks, be they ever so powerful in provinces and resources, as seven is a number of perfection, the yet shall fall by the remarkable hand of God. to accommodate the return of his ancient people. These prophetic hints give an interest to the present strug- gles in the south-east of Europe, or in Greece. r : ‘syrah Medags xxl. 6, 8, is the restoration of Israel, inhis days, (1. e. under the millennial reign of the righteous branch raised up to David,) Fudab shall be saved. and remnant have Israel shall dwel] of my safely; | will vather flock out of al} countries “whith driven them, and will brine folds.’ Therefore elore, , belbehold See waves t th I he’ the Slavedays come, Cae’ aoe saith ¢] Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord hveth: who brought up the children of Israel out of the land | |