against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught [23, 24, margin]. For I, The Lord Thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee," Fear not! I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob and ye few men of Israel! I will help thee, saith The Lord, and thy Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel. Behold! I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and Thou shalt rejoice in The Lord, and shalt glory in The Holy One of Israel.

Luke i. 68-75. Blessed be The Lord God of Israel! for He hath visited and redeemed His people,

And hath raised up a Horn of Salvation for us in the house of His servant David [Acts iii. 19-21];

As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, who have been since the world began.

That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy Covenant;

The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

That He would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear,

In holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life.

THE MANIFESTED SAVIOUR:

AND HIS JUDGMENT.

(Ps. liii. 1-6.)

[Ezek. xxxvii. 1-14. The Hand of The Lord was upon me, and carried me out in The Spirit of The Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold! there were very many in the

unto me,

open valley [country]; and, lo! they were very dry. And He said "Son of man! can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God! Thou knowest." Again He said unto me, "Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, 'O ye dry bones, hear the word of The Lord!' Thus saith The Lord God unto these bones; 'Behold! I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am The Lord.""

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And when I beheld, lo! the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then said He unto me, "Prophesy unto the wind [breath], prophesy, son of man! and say to the wind, 'Thus saith The Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath! and breathe upon these slain that they may live."

So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

Then He said unto me, "Son of man! the bones are the whole house of Israel [Rom. xi. 26]: behold! they say, 'Our bones are dried, and our Hope [Acts xxvi. 6-8, 13-23] is lost: we are cut off for our parts.' Therefore, prophesy ! and say unto them, 'Thus saith The Lord God; Behold! O My people! I will open your graves, and bring you into the Land of Israel. And ye shall know 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 shall place you in your own Land: then shall ye know that I, The Lord, have spoken, and performed,' saith The Lord."

Isa. xxvi. 19. Thy dead shall live [the Jewish Church, also, Ezek. xxvii. 11, 12; Rom. xi. 26; Dan xii. 2 (Eph. i. 23; 2 Thes. i. 10)], My dead Body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell

in dust! for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.]

Isa. xlii. [1-7] 8-xliii. 1-3. I am The Lord: that is My Name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images. Behold! the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto The Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the Isles, and the inhabitants thereof! Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit! let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains! Let them give glory unto The Lord, and declare His praise in the Islands !

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: He shall cry, yea, roar; He shall behave Himself mightily against His enemies. "I have long time holden My peace; I have been still, and refrained Myself: now will I cry I will destroy and swallow up at once, I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight [into straightness]. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, "Ye are our gods."

Who is

Hear, ye deaf and look, ye blind! that ye may see. blind but My servant? or deaf as My messenger that I sent ? [the Children of Abraham, who were called and appointed to be the "Witnesses" of The One True God: Isa. xliii. 8-10; Ezek. xii. 2; John ix. 39, 41]. Who is blind as he that is perfect [Gen. xvii. 1, 4, 6, upright, sincere; Matt. v. 45-48; Rom. iii. 1, 2; ix. 4, 5], and blind as The Lord's servant? seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify The Law, and make it honourable. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; in snaring all the young men of them, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil [treading], and none saith "Restore!"

Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come [the after time]? Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not The Lord, He against Whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in His ways, neither were they obedient unto His Law. Therefore He hath poured upon him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

xliii. 1-3. But now, thus saith The Lord Who created thee, O Jacob! and He Who formed thee, O Israel! "Fear not! for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee [Dan. iii. 20-27 (4-6); Rev. vii. 14; xiv. 15]. For I am The Lord thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.

Isa. xxx. 29-31. Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart; as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the Mountain of The Lord, to the Mighty One [Rock] of Israel. And The Lord shall cause His glorious Voice [the glory of His Voice] to be heard,

[John v. 25: first heard by the "Firstfruits." When the "Harvest" also shall be gathered, the martyrs of the Great Tribulation, will any Jews be raised up who are to be brought into the Land of Israel? or is the recovery of the Lost Ten Tribes alone signified? Ezek. xxxvii. 12.]

and shall show the lighting down of His Arm, with the indignation of His anger, and with The Flame of a devouring Fire [lxvi. 15; Heb. xii. 29], with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. For through The Voice of The Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, who smote with a rod. [2 Thes. ii. 8.]

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RESTORATION OF THE JEWISH NATION,

THE WHOLE TWELVE TRIBES,

CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM, THE FRIEND OF GOD (Isa. xli. 8).

Hos. v. 6, 15; John vii. 33, 34; Matt. xxiii. 37, 39.

[Hos. iii. 4, 5; ii. 14-23. For the Children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim afterward shall the Children of Israel return, and seek The Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear The Lord and His goodness in the latter days (v. 15).

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Therefore, behold! I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak friendly [to her heart] unto her [the Nation of The Lord's people]. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be at that Day, saith The Lord, that thou shalt call Me "Ishi" [my Husband] and shalt call Me no more "Baali" [my lord]! For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

And in that Day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field:

And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know The Lord.

And it shall come to pass in that Day, I will hear, saith The Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow her unto Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy [Rom. xi. 7,