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Show aoa 5 Pi cehae Nt " o eat. Poe hae ts ar COPE Die, +) dats ge a ae PO AAs. ote aaa akc : atk 3.4 ere . ; : ; s SE aN ; _ tae ic / CERTAIN THE 62 RESTORATION OF th ;) for great shall come up out of the land; (ear the ten tribes shall be the day of Jezreel.” | Here common In the sacred “ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. And the strangers shall be joined with them, and they ‘The stranger shall cleave to the house of Jacob.”? being joined unto Israel, restored to their own land, and what follows in the second and third verses, were wr'- this tings ;) yet by no means with a view to hint, that nt hme lis text is not to receive a more hieral accomp In numer‘1a future restoration of the ten tribes. e ous scriptures the sentiment is confirmed that ther the of in ‘The bringing shall be a literal restoration. Israel were exthis. to ude gentile church is a prel their place, take t communicated that the gentiles migh of the But it was to be thus, only “till the fulness events, which were not fulfilled when the Jews returned from ancient this prophecy. to This prophet proceeds in the following chapters . ters chap 3d and 2d a, predict thesame event. See Hose israel The account closes thus ; ‘* For the children ot and without a shall abide many days without a king, an image, rince. and withouta sacrifice, and without Alm. aphi and without an ephod, and without ater The event is then clearly future. ‘epistle to the Romans, again grafted event of the a notable yea, “life from the dead”? to them. oc oe with the a which eventis evidently the same last oe. of the mystical Babylon of the tains 0 shed upon the rsoun as itis to be accompli r€ / oat 5 _‘o prepare the way for this, we NR ° . ° + rael; verse “1 Fi, eu . e S- 25. |, as have the promised restoration of Israel, verse fore there ratory to to thete event ;: and prepar immediatelyy prepa Ss ; . - + ~ Wis > reorsPp as passage more te "had ee ai 6¢ kee sees the Lord thy y G God hath driven iv “in the latter days.” restoration But few of the predictions of this final . To recite them all, would be unwieidy are given. a of ion ruct the dest In Isdi. xiv. is a prediction of ; lon Baby king of ns Po power under the name of the: ila ev of The long and solcfel dike ve been predicted in the iegemtine al ; Israel; restoration, their being tree, as final -estieation feller: national Is- last days, which shall be the “ riches the gentiles ;’” res chap. xi.) notes into their-own olive and seck terward shall the children of Israei retura g; and shail the Lord their God, and David, their kin r days.*” latte fear the Lord and his goodness in the cted state of Here is a description of ihe present reje and a prediction of thely such events rael shall be again chosen and set in their own land. his restoration 1s a great event in the prophets ; and we find it inthe New Testament. Paul (in his | yished. ; but are just promised restoration is expressly applied to Israel. Judah and Israel had become two nations long before accom- be restoration their promised in again, and Babylon as are promised to take place after the final restoration of Israel, and the battle of the great day. The come in,”? and then Israel shall be grafted gentiles be 65 ISRAEL. it must in its ultimate accomplishment be still future. , together were to be dispersed, and again restored prosperity and with the Jews; and their numbers Rom. shall be immense. St. Paul quotes this passage, that note to n, atio mmod ix..25, merely by way of acco nog thin (a ; the gentiles were called into the church ted by expositors as very JUDAH.AND when | all these les thine:gs an « ome cena thee, upon | eee and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations wl soe thee, and shalt return ~ the Lord thy God ;—that then the Lord thy God shad “dea et ee have Compassion upon gather thee from ali the na- tions whither the Lord thy God hath scat tered thee And the Lord thy God will bring thee into — thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt the land ? poss ess it, and he will do ie fathers.” ‘This good, and multiply thee above thy as never yet been fulfilled. Jews, returned from Babylon, were very far ne be Ing multiplied in their land above remains still to be accomplished, their fathers Ph: eee |
