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Show THE 48 RESTORATION CERTAIN 66 er A line of atry. The ten tribes thus went off to idol but none of them, to the kings succeeded Jeroboam ; of the This vears. had denounced; Moses ‘And this God fulfilled. Deut. riety of broken, circumstantial, Who, or where. then, are the before the twenty years after, About captivity Baby lonish of the Jews, l This final expulsion of Israe they was about 943 years after The king of Assyria placed 10 eame out of Egypt. le from Babylon, Cutha, their stead, in Samaria, peop was the origin 0! Here Ava. Hama, and Sapharvaim. : ns. rita Sama rel mong the tribes were never recov: From this captivity the ten to have been Jost And they have long seemed ered. been indeed from the earth. ‘They seem to have world, and ‘ puteast,”’ from the social the knowleage disper‘The Jews, long after, were Known . ; but have ever been ons nati the ng amo sed They have seeme But not so with Israel. Jews. world ; and for 2500 | the ppear — of civilized man. strangely pare to to disa have been beste ullerty | , the ten a to believe concerning vila ae know n ae to be restored and an * Are they ever again = Are they now In raham natura! seed of Ab ple ? as a distinct peo If so, where are also to be plainly predicted in the Let the following things be considered : f en and Habor, by the river Goz Media—2 Kings xvii. from the promised land, } prophets. o U ip Halah seems wiih them, and 725 er, ing impenitent, Snaimanez th took the remainder of ria, Sama Assyria. attacked carl, Israe of of _Hoshea, king ten tribes, in the reic:: them with their placed ried them to Ass) ria. and in brethren traditionary evide nce. who furnish people avon, will be inAn answer, relative to their restor wer to the other volved in this chapter; and an ans pter following. uestions may be expected in the cha to Palestine as ored That the Jews are to be rest siderations. Jews, seems evident froma variety of con e be united And that tbe ten tribes of Israel will ther xxvil. ten tribes continu. vears before Christ.) the rest of the the succeeding king : nations. civilized evidence’ the greatest degree of this kind of ed them in who lay east of Jordan, and plac the river Gozen.—1 Harah, and Habor, by (134 years Chro. v. 26. the If so, the ge state ? Must we look for them ‘na sava he derived from a Vaknowledge of their descent must the king of Assyria, captured Ticlah-Pilnezer, Maand the half tribe of tribes of Reuben and Gad. nassah. Halah, 4%) ISRAEE.. AND among found be now eannot worshippers true time of the expulsion, were folly, and idolatry, , By their apostacy God of Israel. themselves for a long the ten tribes were preparing thousands of ast state for and doleful rejection, an outc JUDAH ©F rs ea d are now thee fe All parts of the worl 15 Oo found? at a eive the commonwe that one would conc of the Jews, as a distinet peo- 1. The preservation ple. among whither nations the many they been have dispersed, now for nearly eighteen hundred years, affords great evidence, to say the least, that the many predictions which seem to foretel such a_ restoration This their preare to have a literal accomplishment. Noservation is a most signal event of providence. wn , n kno bee ®uce r inst othe , thing like it has ever in any es of trib ten on earth; except it be the case with the Israel. Other dispersed tribes of men mated with they the people where distinct have lost their the existence. have amailga- have dwelt, and And nothing but special hand of God could have prevented this in the case of the Jews. ‘The eveat then shows, that God has great things in store for them, as Jews. What can these things be, but the fulfilment *Hond of the which predict their of those resioration many to the' land of their fathers, as well as their conversion to the —— Christian faith? 2. That people have never, as yet, pessessed all the land promised to them; nor have they possessed any > >| 7 2% S 7? part of it so /ong as promised. Hence their restoration . that land is essential to the complete fulfilment of . “ ancient promises. They were to possess the land the river Kuphrates, and forever ; e word, God promised to Abraham, Gen. xy. 18— F 2 or to the end of y —<é : |
