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Show LY 232 ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ¥ ISAIAH. , verse follows the manner of it. “ Behold, I will send } for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them ; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every earth. is a rael. “But now, thus saith the Lord. that created thee, ~-O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel; Fear not, for | have redeemed thee, | have called thee by thy When thou passest through the name ; thou art mine. I have loved thee with an waters, | will be with thee. everlasting love; therefore will I give men for thee, Fear not, for | am with thee. and people for thy life. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west: I will say to the north, Give up; and to the dauvhters from south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my the ends of the earth.” ‘ Thus saith the Lord, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in _ the mighty waters; Behold, I will do a new thing; now \ it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even \make a way in the wilderness and rivers In the desert. Ephraim th Isai. xi. is this wonderful restoration. -_/ ‘*dispers his from one the ored, bothrest ure and Judah ed.’ the other from his ** outcast” state; and their mu- And the places from tual envies are forever healed. which they are recovered are noted ; among which are ISAIAH. 2338 Ofsuch a land away ovér sea, it is predicted, + eh a Fhe Mach, Shcis tk ntti tae , rusalem and the temple soon after the return from Babyion. As tins return was to exhibit a primary fulfil- sng In other prophets the same thipgs are found. In Isai. xliii. God promises this same restoration of Is- PROPHET In Zechariah’s prophecy is the same thing. This prophet was sent to encourage in the rebuilding of Je- etl from the plains of the continent. Afterward miseionary hunters are sent to rocky mountains and hills, more ‘This prediction accords probably remote and savage. with no other country and its inhabitants so well, as The coinciwith the wilds and natives of America. dence with these seems perfect. THE Isai. Ix. 9; ‘* Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, (or a power expert in navigation,) to bring my sons from far.” most striking description of Israei’s being recovered from a great wilderness like the sea; and-from the hills, mountaims, and rocks of the vast wilds of America. The description seems well to accord with their being sought ina savage state among such wilds, mountains aud rocks, as the wilds of our continent present; espe- cially the Rocky mountains, in the western regions of North America. The first missionaries fish them OF f * the isles of the sea;’’ or lands away over the sea, and “ the four corners of the earth.”? Certainly then, from America! This surely is one of the four corners of the mot gins _ hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.” "Tere ADDRESS ment of the many prophecies of the restoration of the Hebrews, which are clearly to have their ultimate ac- complishment in their restoration just anterior to the Millennium ; so Zechariah clearly predicted the latter event, and said various things peculiar to it. Chap. i. 6; * Ho, ho. come forth and flee from the land of the north. saith the Lord ; for I have spread you abroad .as the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.”? This must allude to the great dispersion of Judah, and out- cast state of Israel. which strewed them over the face of the earth ; and could not have been fulfilled in the Babylonish captivity, which did not disperse them to ail points of the compass. Verse 8; “For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me un- to the nations, which spoiled you.”” ‘This must be the same with the various predictions which speak of the battle of the great day asa display of God’s glory ; and which speak of a subsequent going forth of missionares (probably Jewish) to convert the nations where the —— Hebrews had resided. Aah ii See Isai. Ixvi. 18--21, &e, and rejoice, O daughters of Zion : r lo, » and | will dwell in the~midsf of thee saith the Lord. And many nations shall be joined * the Lord in that day, and shall be my people ; ar al ~ ? will dwell in the midst of thee.”-— Many outils ve not joined to the Jews upon their return fr Bab hs Nothing of this prediction then t *n took place. hel ee It predic- ted an event still future. to be accomplis] restoration of the Hebrews. ebrews to Palestine. ie. he The prophet then says, verse SS : Be sil ent, O all flesh, befure the 0 |
