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Show x fee _ = p< : q 7 > af : 7F : OF a) yz ¢ a4 "2 ee io . : ‘a ba 3 ' : - days, is clearly predicted. Re oP 5 s : Pe2 . % gs j Soe rs7 ee aa —when I[ shall be sanctified in you before their For I wiltake you from among the heathen, and er you out of all countmes, and will bring you your own land. And I will sprinkle clean water - . - as ae a} Pate saa % : aes m4 a . seed ¢ ¥ . F . F ‘ ; i Us rs es Mat gd ; / 7 734 ¥ LES F . ; | a BE : si 3 bs - in my f iy 3 F 3 ; = * alias COP reams, Cen a statutes, and ye snali keep to your fathers, and ye shall be Ei Fa ‘ = new heart my judgments and do them. — And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave 7 ~ A also will I give unto you, anda new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And 1 will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk ; : 7. xP eyes. gathinto upon you and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. a 1 é In chapter xxxvi. we have God says, ** And [ will sanctify and recovers them. my great name, which was profaned among the heathen; and the heathen shal! know that | am the Lord ; oe ae . my people, and I will be your God. ‘Ehen shall ye remember your own evil ways—and shall loathe yourselves.—Not for your sakes do | this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto rou. ‘Thus saith the Lord God; in the day thatI shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, [ will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all the heathen that passed by. And they shail say, this land that was so desolate is become JUDAH AND 53 ISRAEL. RESTORATION their long dispersion, and their guilty cause of it. But God, in the last days, works for his own name’s sake, “Z , , CERTAIN Ps <c Ph ae - THE sl like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited. Then the heathen whoare left round aboat you, shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that which was desolate. I the Lord have spoken it, and I will doit.” Here is their rezeneration; having a new heart; being cleansed fromali sin. And beside this, we find expressly promised. their being reinstated in the land of their fathers, which had iong lain waste. They rebuild thetr ancient That this isin the last days, connected with cities.’ the introduction of the Millennium, the connexion ol the whole passage, and the following chapters, fully decide. Both houses of the descendants of Abraham, (viz. Isracl and. Judah,) are recovered, as will be seen. Those predictions cannot be fulfilled merely by the For over ai d above their conversion of that people. express conversion, they are established im the land of , 7 their fathers. The prophet proceeds further to predict and illus- trate the wonderful event, by the resurrection of a val- ley of dry bones, chap. xxxvil. explains: “Son of man, these which figure God thus are bones the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are dried, and our hopeis lost; we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophecy, and say unto them; thus saith the Lord God; behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and And ye shall know bring you into the land of Israel. that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I ‘Then shall ye shall place youin your own land. know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.”’ The re-union of the two branches of that follows, by the figure of the two sticks people taken by the prophet. On the one he writes, “ For Judah, and for | the children of Israel his companions.’? Upon the) other; ‘ For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companiens.” Lest any should say, the prediction seems to foretel the restoration of the which here ten tribes, as well as that of the Jews, were accomplished in the res- toration of that few of the !sraelites, who clave to the Jews under the house of David, and the ten tribes are irrecoverably lost ; it is here expressed that the Jews and those Israelites, their companions, were symbol- stick. These ized by one stick ; and Ephraim, all the house of Israe! (the whole ten tribes,) by the other sticks miraculously become one in the prophet’s hand ‘ which is thus explained. ‘* Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel (their general ancient name, including the twelve tribes) from among the pee eet they be gone; and 1 will’ |
