1021. Israel a World-Wide Blessing
Israel a World-Wide Blessing
"And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall he sanctified in you before their eyes" (Eze_36:23)
Finally Israel shall become a world-wide blessing. The Church will be caught up, and taken out; Israel will come back as God's witness to the uttermost parts of the earth. In Israel's day the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
"I have given thee for a light to the nations, That thou mayest be salvation unto the ends of the earth."
Kings shall see thee and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the Lord, that is faithful.
If Israel, nationally, is never to be forgiven; and if Israel, nationally, is never to be restored to the land, then the Holy Spirit might as well have left unwritten the marvelous and all-glorious prophecies concerning Israel as God's evangel of peace. We have before shown that the Church is to be "raptured," and that her mission is a "calling out" from among the nations a people for His name; that instead of converting the world she was herself to remain during her earth mission a suffering minority, while the world of evil men were to wax worse and worse, even to the day of the coming of the Lord. We now propose to show that after the "rapture" of the Church and the coming of the Lord, Israel, having been forgiven and washed from all her sins, and having been restored to her own land, is to become under the direction of her Heavenly-Leader the successful preacher of righteousness.
When her light is come, she will lighten the Gentiles. Just as Paul forgiven became a world-wide heralder of the Gospel, so will Israel forgiven become a world-wide heralder. Israel will become the Lord's salvation unto the end's of the earth. If any one who reads this has, heretofore, without personal study of the Word, joined in the cry of "The world for Christ, during this generation" as the church's motto, let him, we beg, fly to the Scriptures and find that the next anticipated step in God's program is the "rapture" of the Church, to be followed by the re-instating of Israel.
Israel is God's accommodation train. Israel has been sidetracked, and the Church is on the mainline gathering out a people (not all the people) for His name. She reaches her destination at the coming of the Lord. The accommodation train switches back onto the main line and has the right of way.
We beg the reader of these words never again to take as a missionary text: "Ask of Me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." Let him rightly divide the Word of Truth! Let him know that this inheritance will not be given unto the Lord by the Church at all. The inheritance is His as He sits on David's throne, and the restored and forgiven Israel will be His messenger of grace and of glory.
"And the nations shall know that I am the Lord**
When I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes And the nations shall know that I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel.
When My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore."
"Thus saith the Lord of Hosts:
It shall yet come to pass.
That there shall come peoples
And the inhabitants of many cities:
And the inhabitants of one city shall go to anther, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, And to seek the Lord of Hosts; I will go also.
Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to Seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem, And to pray before the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts:
In those days it shall come to pass, That ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, Even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you:
For we have heard that God is with you."
During those days "He shall speak peace unto the nations,
And His dominion shall be from sea even unto sea, And from the river even unto the ends of the earth, And it shall be that whoso will not come up Of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem To worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, Even unto them shall be no rain."
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR