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Show 234 ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH, ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 238 Lord ; for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.” Tis verse perfectly accords with the numerous pre- earth,” and “isles afar off,’ and ** from the west ;”’ this dictions of the battle of the great day, nearly associated with the final restoration of the Jews. But it received not its fulfilment in the days of Zechariah. In chapter vill. are predictions of the same final restoration of that people. Alter predicting God’s great found 1m the wilds of America. jealousy and fury in behalf of his people, he says; surely “I Lord of hosts ; Behold, I willsave my people from tie | east country, and from the west country.” By the/ west country here, we must suppose it meant America. None were saved from of the restoration from any west country, at the Babylon. This shows time then, that the thing predicted was distinct from, and future of that event. In the original, and in the margin of the country of the great bible, the phrase is; “from the going down of the sun.” The going down of the sun from Palestineis over America. And as God had said in a passage just quoted from this prophet, “ sacle have spread you abroad us the four winds of heaven ; so America must probably be included tn this descrip‘l’o decide more tion of their being spread abroad. are still predicted here events clearly that the ultimate futare, the Most High says in this 8th chapter, verse 13; ‘ And it shail come to pass that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Here is the express restoration of the house of Israel, But the “house of Israel” were. with that of Judah. not restored with the “ house of Judah’? when the lat- _ ter returned from Babylon; nor have they at any time ~ since beew restored. The event then is clearly future, and was distinct and distant from any ancient resto- It was to take piace after a jong ane noted ration. people to the four winds : and ape? of that scattering being viewed as a “ curse’ there by the nations. : they were to be “spread abroad as the four winds,” ai fheace recovered, and recovered trom the “coasts of the 7 the idea of jisrael’s beiug ln Zech. x. 6—Y, ts the same event; aid Ephraim is ‘ by name saved from “far countries.’ * And | will i sirengthen the house of Judah, and will save the house | . oi Joseph, and | will bring them agai to piace them; tor yi lThave mercy uponthem; and they shail beas though I a 4 had not cast them off; for 1 am ihe Lord their God, and 2 —Willhear them. And tiey of Ephraim shall be like a mighiy man, and thew heart shail rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shail see it, and be glad; their heart shail rejoice in the Lord. I will Aiss tor —— » mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy moan- \ It then follows, verse 7; ‘ Thus saith the| to t am returned uato Zion, and will dweil in the midst of Jerusaicm ; and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the tain.” is not unfavorable them, and gather them; for | have redeemed will and they shall re- and they shall increase as they have increased. save them among the people; them ; And | /member me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.” * J will hiss for the...” _ God is represented as hissing for a people, ouly in two texts which beside this; dsail. v. 26, and passages, the hiss was vii. 18; to call distant God’s hissing, in this passage then, to gather in both of heathen. the clil- dren oi Ephraim in the last days, seems to indicate his providentiaily calling them from a distant heathen state! Aud it is a mode of calling which periectly symbolizes with the calls of American natives, a shrill significaut whistling. ~ Such promises of the restoration of Israel from far f eountries, from the west or the going down of the sun, from the coasts of the earth, {rom the ends of the earth, from isles afar, their being brought in ships from far, making their way in the sea, their path tm the mighty Waters; these expressions certainly well accordw ith the ten tribes being brouzht from America. passages unply an agency by which such And such a restoration agency be so Shali be etiected. Where shail such an ewelly found, as among a grea t Christian rovidentially planted 1e Very grouu people, theee outestinbes of Incl Sete | fu there , ong occup exilemeied by at; aud apPily remote from the bloody scenes of rope 10 the last days, as to have leisure for the unp og“aul . business assigned ? |
