| OCR Text |
Show OF RESTORATION and thou shait drive 24“ shall Livery stand. Lebanon, unto Oe iat el ied ae ’ ee ee xi; the them place shall > from yours, ’ the . sea, the from ’ river, uttermost la tm . the vour an.) as far Red Sea. and Wei Kuphrates, coast even be.’? Here northward, on the shore of the said sea, as point ‘Thence easiward, iphrates. ne named running into the Mediterrane- Ol river. west of Mount over said mountain, Theace southward, Arabia. Lhe due ‘Thence whole of Lebanon. away to the as as the the first westward. far to this territory, the natu- ral seed of Abraham were to possess “for ever.” The inhabitants “should be driven out before them.” But this people anciently possessed but a smali part of thig territory. ‘There was iudeed a kind of typical possession of it in the reign of Solomon ;—which (See Psalm reign was a type of the Millennium. Ixxii.) David, in his. wars which were typical of the wars that will introduce the Millennium, subdued and Ammonites, pul under tribute the Syrians, Moabites, and most of the nations dwelling in the above named And they continued in subjection in the territories. reign of Solomon. (See 1 Kings iv. 21.) But those nations were not then driven out; nor was their land They afterpossessed by the children of Abraham. trouextremely were ward threw off their yoke, and blesome to the people of God. They were only made But God promtributary during a part of two reigns. ‘ced—Exod. xxilie 31—“{ will set . “for an cver- arid Thence the to Israel feet hen, are the boundaries of this ancient divine grant to Abraham and his naturalseed. Beginning at the river of Ecypt, (a river not far from the north-east corner of the land was given thy of ’ river shall promised wilderness sole the ture. The Surely this must lasting possession ;’ Gen. Xvil. 8. mean a longer time than they did in ages past possess before thee.”—Deut, whereon be ’ out } was Their literal possession of never possessed by Israel. that extent of territory must be an event still fu thy bounds from and the Red-Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, will I For from the desert unto the river (Euphrates.) hands, deliver the inhabitants of the laud into your It promise remains then to be yet fulfilled. es must mean an undisturbed possession of it, so long as the possession of it on earth may be desirable; or to We accordingly find that peothe end of the world. ple, at the time of the introduction of the Millennium, expostulating with God, and pleading that ancient grant; Isa. Ixui., 17,18; ‘“O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy way, and hardeved our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. ‘The people of thy holi- ness have while: possessed it (thine inheritance) but a little our adversarics have trodden down thy sanctu- ary. Wearethine. Thou never bearest rule over them; they are not called by thy name.” Here is a pica put into the mouths of the ancient people of the Lord, at the time of their restoration, not long before the battle of the great day, witha description of which battle this chapter begins. They expostulate relative to the sovereignty of God, in the resting of the veil of blindness aud hardness so long on their hearts, during rox long rejected state. They plead that they are od’s servants, according to the ancient entail of the covenant. They plead for a restoration s—and plead : on east of Canaan, and away to the river Kupbrates, papas and land that their nation had enjoyed, that their everlasting Te heritance, but a Little while; but that a people not Call- ed by God’s name, nor governed by troddea down the Sanctuary; fulfilled by the Turks. Shanahan his word. a description This fully implies the had canal = Philistines. The ee the thee.”? - of before ee sea from the desert unto the river (Huphrates ;) for I wi i deliver the inhabitants of the land into your ha ene ; out tak Jews upon their ancient inheritance. —_— ' : them orga tl i ie drive an unto shalt a Sea, even thou — Red and 3. I shall now adduce some of the numerous ai ae Sane “ umerous ex-ex poe eeel UOUE of this event. In the prophecy of uzexiel, their OWwh the restoration of the Jews and of re $] sa eines .: a: 4h wall ac as land, as well as their conversion in the last ce «“ Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the riyer of Egypt. unto the great river,the river Euphrates.” Exod. xxii. 31—* And | will set thy bounds fror the 54 ISRAEL. AND JUDAH ~ CERTAIN 4 ages Ate al Ws ae a tee “aan ee i a THE Le sO |
