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Show N THE CERTAIN RESTORATIO OF up, and sent» but. the Lord liveth, who brought try country, porth coun Ceeled athe house of Israel out of the » north who and from all countries and they shall dweil event is under the whither | land.” of Christ, soit has reign of the last It 1s an event fet been fulfilled. and plants the ancient As own in. their people of God Othe same comparison of the same them, eriven have this nevel days ; in their own event, we find JUDAH AND ISRAEL. 59 wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sens from far, their stiver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.” Here are ships conveying the Hebrews to Palestine, as clouds and as doves to their windows. Chap. Ixvi. 20: * And they shall bring of your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and m chariots, and in Jitters, and upon mules, and After denouncing ieee in Jeremiah xvi. 14, lo. “1 herelore, long dispersion for their sins; God says, it shall no that , Lord behold the days come, saith the upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israei bring an offering in a clean vessel unto the house of the Lord.” In the Lord dren of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but the great day, and the Millennium.) we read; “ From the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants (or worshippers) shall bring my offering, even the daughter of my dispersed ;”? ght up the chilmore be said, The Lord hveth that brou Israel from liveth that brought up the chudren ol whither | had land of the north, and from all the lands their land, driven them; and I will bring them into 2 Pe! b that I gave unto their fathers.” the at s wing In Isaiah xviii. a land shadowing with last days, is by the Most High add ressed, and called to ; 4 Go, ye aid this restoration of that people of God, peeled, to and swift messengers, to a nation scattered erto a pron a people terrible f-om the beginning hith e meted out, and trodden down 5 whos have spoiled. land the ris oh In that day shall the present be broug : scaitere d and peelunto the Lord of hosts, of a peopie the begining ed, and from a people terrible from under foot ; den hitherto; a nation meted outand trod the place of the whose land the rivers have spoiled, lo ‘The peopie here Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion.” addressed, as a described, (to be brought by that land or to [ aleatine:) resent to the Lord, to Mount Zion, Abraham,and an ne | are evidently the descendants of A further explanation of this chap of the last days. OER of 7 ter isto be ziven in the last chapter Ix. othe Je ~ n lsata in The same thing is noted for thy light ts gor church is called upon, “+ Arise,shine, .. j and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ane sie to kings and tiles shall come to thy light, Who are these that fly ei ness of thy rising. surely the isics > and as doves to their windows ¢ Zephaniah im. 10, as the passage should (connected with the battle of the be rendered. In Isaiah Ixv. we find the sin, the dispersion, and the gathering again, at the Millennium, of the ancient tribes of the Lord. In relation to their gathering after their banishment, and “ their works are measured into their bosom,” it follows; ‘ Thus saith the Lord ; As the new Wine 1s found in the cluster, and one saith, destroy my it not; servants’ fora blessing is in it; sakes that | may so will I do for not destroy And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, them all. and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.” Here, after the long rejected state of Jacob and Judah a blessed remnant at last shall be recovered :—a seed from Jacob, (the ten tribes) and from Judah (the Jews) an inheritor of Canaan shall come and dwell in that land. This has never yet been fulfilled. But it will be accomplished when God will (as in the following verses) “* create new heavens, and a new earth.”? in the millennial glory of the church. : BrAmos ix. 7 4) 15, is a prediction of this event. tnd 1 wi bring again the caplivity of my people srael, and they shall build the waste citres, and inhabit them and they shall plant v ineyards, and drink the wine thereof; and 1 will plant them upon their land > > |