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Price $5 per 100— or 20 copies $1. 'Q >.■■■'■• :•) 60 3.6" THE COMING PRINCE now WILL YOU RECEIVE ELM ? f ': f Ol- From the shores of the Atlantic, to her boundaries in the west, the people of Canada are looking forward to the contem- plated visit of England's Prince. At this moment, all, whoso hearts beat loyally, are considering how they can best testify their attachment to our beloved Queen, iii their reception of her royal Son ; and devising the most acceptable public demon- strations of loyalty to the heir apparent of the British Throne; and they do well, they yield homage to one who reigns in the. affections of her subjects, and commands the respect of the Na- tions, to a Sovereign inferior to no earthly power since the wisest and greatest of the children of men was anointed the Vice- gerent of God over the only People called by His name. May the rendering due allegiance to an earthly Prince, suggest to each one the question. How shall I receive a Heavenly Prince? — even Jesus Christ tlie Prince of the Kings of the earth ;(1) King of Kings and Lord of Lords,(2) whose kingdom is everlast- ing. (3) He upholdeth all things by the word of His power, and shall be revealed to us from heaven in the glory of that power, (4; as a Redeemer or a Judge, in the resurrection of life, 1— Rev. i. f) — xix. 16. xvii. 14. 4— Heb. i. 3. 2—1 Tim. vi. 15. 3— 2 Peter i. 11. 1— Luke xxi. 27. 28. 3— Heb- L 8. 4—2 Thess. i. 9. or tlie resurrection of judgement. (5) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First Resurrection. (6) Meet Him we must!(7)— It may he by the arrest of Death in the midst of this life, or, if He will that we tarry until He come,; 8) we sh?,U behold the King in His beauty,(9) the Prince of Life Eter^ nal,(10) and unto all them that love His appearing He will give a crown of righteousness,! 11) for the End of Faith is Salva- tion,(12) and they shall live with Him for ever.(13) When a nation welcomes the First-born of a royal line, the acclamations of the multitude may be as the voice of one man, while individual motives are diverse and unknown,— the effect is with the mass; the silent are unnoticed, the absent unheeded. But when the Lord Himself shall dcscend(14) to claim His pur- chased possePsion,(15) we must appear before Him in singleness of heart.(16) He will require individual faithfulness ;C17) all things are open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do ;(18) and He searcheth and trieth the reins,(19) and knoweth the inner man. Blessed alone are they that watch, (20) for upon them that watch not. He will come in an hour that they know not of ;(21) to them His kingdom is still without obser- vation,(22) for it is not now revealed to this world.(23) The Children of the kingdom are the few who defile not their gar- jnents,(24) for they are washed in the blood of the Lamb which is precious in their sight; who keep His word and deny not His name, and are faithful unto death; 25) they follow Him 4 > 5— John V. 29. 8-J()hn xxi. 22. 23, 10— John X. 28. ll_Rev. ii. 10. 13— i I'hess. iv. 17. 14—1 Thess. iv. IG. 17— Rev. iii. 4. 20— Rev. xvi. 15. 22— Rev. xvii. 20, 25— Rev. ii. 10.. 6_Rev. XX. 6. t)— Is. xxxiii. 17. 11—2 Tim. iv. 8. 11— Rev. iii. 11. 33— iThess. V. 10. 15— Eph. i. 14. 18— Heb. iv. 13. 20— Luke xii. 37. 23— John xviii. 3.6^ 7_Rev. 1. 7. in— Acts iii. 15. U— 1 Pc'terv. 4. 12—1 Peter i. 9. 13_john xiv. 3. lO—Plph. vi. 6. 19— Rev. ii. 23. 21— Rev. iii. 3. 24— Rev. iii. 4. 8. f I 'f ♦. •• I »f ♦ ^ 8 whithersoever He goeth,(26) for they know His voice,r27) and they have confidence in His assurance, ''Behold I come quickly! \ 28) ^. Are we prepared to receive this coming Prince? Are we waiting for Him, desiring Him as our chief good ? Can we Bit down under His shadow with great delight,(29) and soy, '.' This is my beloved, and this is my Friend "?,30) or, are we callino- ourselves by His name when He is not our espoused ? 31) profesl ing to believe in Him whilst we are not trusting in the fulfilment of His promise, " I will come again vntojcu \l2i If any arc daily uttering with their lips, the solemn entreaty to God, " Thy Kingdom come, Thy will he done on Earth as it is in Heaven,"(33y while their hearts are far from Him; if any are crying. Peace, Peace, while they are strangers to the Prince of Peace ;(34) contented to mind earthly things,(35) while Satan is the Prince of this world ;(3G) resting at ease in the pleasures, or comforts, or beauties, or affections of Time, with- out possessing treasure for Eternity ; (37) let them be warned by the words of God Himself, " Because thousayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and know- est not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ; I counsel thee to buy of Me geld tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear ; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see. As inany as I love, I rebuke and chasten ; be zealous therefore and repent.'\38) ^ 2t)— Rev. xiv. 4. 29— (Ja. ii. 3. 31—2 Cor. xi. 2. 33- Milt. vi. 10. 35— Phil. iii. 19. 38— Rev. iii. 17. 18. 19. 27— John X. 4. 30— c;a. V. 16. 32— J(jhn X V. 3. 34— Jer. vi 14. 36— Joiiu Siv, SO, yfj_i;tv. iii. 11. 31_l.ev. iii. 1. 3-»-Ji.hnx.v. 28. 34— Is. ix. U. 37~Mat vi. 20. Oh, seek Him wHIe He may be fcmnd ;(39) make your call- ing and election sure;(40) buy the tried gold, divine righteous- ness, without money, and without price ;' array yourselves in gar- ments undefiled by sin, unspotted by the worid.(41) Hearken to His voice who calleth you ; He standeth at the lattice ;(42) open thedoor(43) before He with-draweth Himself, and is gone, Ifest thou seek Him and find Him not, call Him and receive no anffwer.(44) Let no man take your crown ;(45 ) the night is far spent, the day is at hand,(46) and only they who watch through the darkness, who love not the night, being Children of the Day ,(47) discern the bright and Morning Star.(48) That Star is their hope of glory(49) until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away,(50) and the Sun of Righteousness arises with heal- ing on His wings.(51) The anticipation of natural things ever characterises man naturally, and the man who has spiritual life looks onward in bright anticipation of the glory which God reveals to him by Bis Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep thiBga of God.(52) The Holy Scriptures are the only guide God has given to vs. Tradition may treat of the past, and add its tinsel to the fine gold of the pure Word; (53) and Reason may cavil at " the things which arc,"(54^ and bring the wisdom of this world, which knows not 6od,(55) to dispute the hidden know- ledge of God; (56) but Revelation is the only testimony of the Future. The Future baflBes Infidelity, — all is chaos until the 39— John viii. 21. 42— Ca. ii. 9. 45— Rev. iii. 11. 48-2. Peter i. 19. 49— Col. i. M. 62— 1 coEaiaa, 56— 1 Cor. xix. 20. 2'L 40—2 Peter i, 10. 43— Rev. iii. 20. 46 — Rom. xiii. 12. 4M— Rev. ii. 28. 60— Ca. iv. e. 63— Prov..xxx»6. 66— CoL ii. 3. 41— James i. 27. 44— Ca. v. 6. 47—1 Thess. v. 5. 48— Rev. xxii. 16* 61— Mai. iv. 2. 64,— Bev. i. la. > ■; y^W A A < > y >/ ^PT v^ Spirit of Ood opens the ^yes of the understanding, by the divine command, -Let there be Light."(57) This is iiie Light whksh the natural man cannot comprehend,(58 ) and there- fore, he does not seek to know *' the things which shall be here- after,' X^^) The Heavenward-bound hope and wait for thft unseen realities which God has prepared for them that k)vriJ unto the Father ;(81) and this was the most difficult of human distinctions to reconcile, a separation Origin ited by God Himself ;{82) and the Jew in his unbelief is still apirt b:)th from tne Gentile Unbeliever, and the GhurCh of God. How comparatively unimportant are the difiFjrei(533 th it hinder the union of the Professing Church; Does she value the FinUhnd f'V^../-/. (83) of her' First Love?' (84) In the midst of her varic-is outward observances, is her spirit One with the Father and the Son ?^8')) Is she recognising, as the basis of het union on earth, the blood of the New Covenant,(86) which is our only title to forgiveness here and to Glory hereafter. He who liveth and was dead and is alive forevermore, who walke.h amidst the golden candlesticks, (87) will bo her Judge.(88) May she have grace to strengthen the thin:;3 which rem iin,(89) and to overcome,(90) that her candle- sticks (which represent her as Light-bearers) may not be re- 74-Heb.xiii. 20. 21. Tr)— Rom. XV. 7. 77— Rev. vii 4. 80— Eph. ij. 13-17. 83— J 'hn xix. 30. 8«— Heb. xJi. 24. 8i?— ikVi I 13. ■ 74_Gal.iii.28. 7(5—1 Peter i. 19. 78— Rev. V. 9. 81— (inl. i'i. 28. 84~Rev. ii. 4. R7_R«v. i. 13. 20. 69— Ilev. iii. 2. 74-Eph. ii. 13. 7G— Heb. X. 12. 79— Rom. iii. 29. 82— Deut. xxxii. 8. 9. 85 — John xvii. 2i. 87— Re4. ii. 1. 5. 90— Rev. 3. 21. <^ V^k » • ? Wl •^ ft. T th tl] la •el <^ ^ n :S \< ./ n t^ «) • 4> * «\ f ^ when He said, " The Law and the Prophets were until Johni from that time the Kingdom of Heaven is preached." (1 1^1 The Disciples referred to " the End of the Age," knowing that that kingdom was at hand; from the time of Nehemiah's re- turn and from the signs foretold, they anticipated the end ot the Mosaic Dispensation ; the Hebrew had ceased to be the language of the people, and the sacred canon of Scripture was ""^The fulfilment of these predictions was acknowledged by the people of Israel, when, from Jerusalem, and all Judea, and the region of Jordan, they went out to meet the '' Prophet of the Highest,'' and were baptised confessing their sms.(118) Had they listened in Faith to the cry that heralded the Messiah they ^xpected,(119) they would have entered into His Rest; but, blinded by unbelief, they would not receive him who came lU the ^spirit of Elias,(120) to make straight in the Desert a highway for his God ;(121) and they rejected One mightier than he, who would have baptised them with the Holy Ghost : He came unto His own, but His own received Him not ! The vail was on their hearts, or they had yielded to their convictions, when the Truth constrained them to enquire, " Art thou^ the Christ ?"(122) Fervent in spirit, faithful in all things clothed with humility, the '' Friend of the Bjidyoom'' con- fessed a'.d denied not, but said, " I am not the Christ, (123) <' He must increase, but I must decrease." (124) Briet and sad is the record of this holy man, but he was great m the sight of God.(125) Surely we may imagine him the first en- raptured spirit in Paradise, to whom his crucified Lord pro- claimed the glad tidin gs of a finished Salvation^ lgg)^ ^ -n-T — ^^TTT^ TTs — \f.,rl i 5. 119— Luke l 7b. riZlln ili. 28. 29. 30- 123-J.,hn i. 20, 124-John m. 30. 125— Luke i. 15. I'iG— 1 Peter iii. 19. ^ 10 A threefold offei' of Rest was made by JehoYah to His ■^ple. The Ark of the Testimony had its place in the Tem- ^le,(127) when Solomon reigned, as the Type of Messiah in His Glory, but the heart of the King was not perfect with God, and Israel failed: (128)— again, the long suffering of God made trial of their allegiance ; seventy-nine years after the return of Judah from Babylon, Nehemiah was commis- sioned to rebuild Jerusalem, (129) but Israel agaiii Med, they profaned the Sabbaths of the Lord, and ceased to be His separ- ate and peculiar people.(130) The third offer of blessing was the gift of His beloved Son, the Heir of the Vineyard,il31) the true Hope of Israel. The Daughter of Zion was called upon to rejoice,(132) but she saw no beauty in Him, that she should desire Him !(133) Through unbelief (134) the Day 'of the Lord was put off, — and His glory was not revealed. Three times Isr el failed. Three times the Lord of the Vine- yard sought Fruit, but He found it not : and the husband- men reverenced not His Son. (135) The first Hosannah that greeted Him was hv :.ed,(136) and the city he loved and wept over(137) " took up stones to stone Hiin" \ (138) Who can tell the sorrow of His sinless nature, for Sin ! Who can feel the anguish He felt when His Mission failed, and He re- treated beyond Jordan, to the spot where His own ministry began, and His murdered messenger baptised Him ! (139) Full well He knew the deed of blood that Avould follow, and it wrung from His wounded spirit the lamentation and judgement^ "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have 127—1 Kings ix. 3. I'is— I Kin^s xi. 4. 130— Neheraiahxiii 15 23.1 :U— Mitt. xxi. 38. 133— Is. liii. 2. 1 34— Roman xi. 'iO. 136— Matt. xxi. 15. 137— Luke xix. 41. IS'J— John X. 40. j2,)— JNclnaniah u. 4. 232— Matt. xxi. 5. i;{,5_Matt. xxi. 37. l3s— Jiilm X. 31. *v.,y^ '^^W "^If "/^ M *v.,y^ kt ''f^tt ^% M 1 \ » 11 eatl,e«^ % <^VU..n together, as a hen doth gatkr her hrood under her wings, and ye would not 1 Behold yonr ho"se - left unto you desolate; and verily I say unto you ye *f" "«t^«« Me, until the time eome when ye shall say, blessed is He that comoth in the name of the Lord.'\140) But H.s word d.d not return unto Hi,n void ; Israel was not gf «-d. .l^"' "^f"/ believed on Him in His retreat, and entered mtoHs glorious Best ri41.) Driven from the tents of Shem,(U2) He found His Bride in the Wilderness, and in Faith and adoration she leant upon her Beloved ;(143)-the first of His many crowns, she shall be His Glory in the eyes of the Lord.(U4.) The forming of the Church of God out of every kingdom, and people, and nation, and tongue, is the great work of the present Dispensation. The Church of Christ, unitedly e., m its individual members, may seek to restore Israel to the land of their Fathers ; but that restoration will be the work of their Messiah Himself; in His own time they shall be willing ;(145) His promises are sure.(146) Let us endeavour to lead them into the Heavenly Jerusalem,-to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.(147) Their Sabbath, the great sign between God and his ancient people,a48) was lost to them when the Lord of the Sabbath was slain.(l49) It was a high day"(150) on their lips, but their heart was far from ntm • the Prince of Life was entombed in their midst, but the Prince of Darkness ruled over them. The faithful few alone watched for the dawn(151) to visit His ^^;^ ^ bath, too, was gone, but the "First of the week '(152) restored to them their Lord, and He was their Sabbath. l40-Liikexiii...l.M. 14l-Juhnx.4i. H2-Cien. ix. 27. W''-l''V, ^""l- 5- 45_FS.CX.3. U.;-2 Cor. 1.20. M=t_Exn(lus xxxi. IS. 14.!49-Matt. xii. s. l.H-Matt. xxviii. 1. lS2-.)«lin x.v. 1!). 141— Is. xi. 10 — xHx. 6. Iv. U John iv. 23. 144— Rev. xix. 12. 147-Heb..xU. 22. 1,^0— John xix. 31. 1 . Ill 1 1 12 God has spoken of the Second Coming of His Son by the mouth of all His holy Prophets ; [153]— His return, at the end of this Dispensation or Age, is as fully declared in the Old Testament Scriptures, as His First Coming to offer Salvation to Israel, and persuade Japheth. From Genesis to Malachi, " the times [154] of refreshing" are foretold. The duty of Chris- tians to study Prophecy is evident from the exhortation of our Lord, '' Search the Scriptures, for they are they which testify of Me ,"[155] and the fact that the greater portion of Scrip- ture is' prophetic; from Isaiah to Malachi all is prophecy ; and the books proceeding them, contain many passages of the same character : in the Gospels the Great Prophet, the Messiah Him- self foretels His return to receive His Bride the Church, to restore His ancient peop'le the Jews, to save the remnant who shall own Him for their King, and to execute judgment upon all the ungodly,— the Jew hardened in unbelief, [15 6] and the Gentile nations who worship Him not. The Apostles also, as eye-witnesses of the majesty of their Lord, [157] and being taught of Him, add their testimony to the " sure word of pro- phecy," as a light given by the Holy Ghost, . whereunto we do well to take heed. [158] While they preached the sufferings of Christ they spoke of the glory that should follow, [159]— « God shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you, whom the Heavens must receive until the Restitution of all things." [160] His return was the consolation ministered by Angels to His Disciples when their beloved Master was lost to their sight in the clouds of Heaven,-" Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven ? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like 103— Acts iii. 21. 155_Jolin V. 39. 168—2 Peter i. 19. 154_Gen. ix. 27. 156— Romans xi. 7 169— Komaus viii. 18- 154— Acts iii. 19. 157—2 Peter i. 16. IGO—Acts iii. 20. 21. f «. /i 8 f #. ^ 1 'f 13 P manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven." [161] We are placed in the in%al between His humiliation and His ^lori- ous return, as t% Restorer of Paths to dwell in. [162.]— Blessed are those servants, whom their Lord, when He cometh, Bhall find watching, whether He cometh in the second watch, or in the third watch. [163] Be ye therefore ready also, for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not. [164] Do not imagine an intervening Christless Millenium; the Wheat and the Tares shall grow together until the Harvest ; [165] the worldly portion of the professing Church,— spots in the Feasts of Charity, [166]-will slumber until the Bride- groomis at hand and the ''midnight cry" is heard. [167] " Oc- cupy till I come," [168] was alike spoken to the Children of the Kingdom and the Children cf the Wicked One, but on the return of the Nobleman from the far country, having received the Kingdom, [169] all who refused to acknowledge Him were slain So shall it be when the Lord shall consume His adver- saries with the Spirit of His mouth, [170] and destroy with the brightness of His Coming. [171] The darkness of the reic'n of Sin shall be dispelled by the Sun of Righteousness shining in His strength, [172] terrible in the sight of all who believe a Lie,[173] and love not the Truth ; they shall call upon the rocks and mountains to cover them and hide them [174] from the face of Him whose voice will shake not the Earth only, but also Heaven. [175] He will shine forth as the lightning (176] to the rescue of His elect people from the per- secutions of the Prince[177] whose coming is after the working 161— Acts i. 11. 163— Luke xii. 37. 38. 166— Jude xii. 169— Luke xix. 15. 172— Rev. i. 16. 175— Heb. xii. 36. 162— Is. Iviii. 12. 164— Luke xii. 40. 167— Matt. XXV. 5. 6. 170— Lulie xix. 27. 173—2 These, ii. 11.12. 176— Matt. xxiv. 27. 162—18. i. 26. 165— Matt. xiii. 30. 168— Luke xix. 13. 171— 2Thess. ii.8. 174_Rev. vi. 16. 177—2 Tliess. ii. 9 ^ of Satan, who, \uth lying wonders will personate the Holy^ One, [178] who did no violence, neither yA deceit found in, his mouth, [179] and endeavour to deceive ^fe remnant of His Saints. But the Church the Bride shall be kept from this hour of temptation. [180] She shall rise to meet the " Morn- ing Star" before the " Day of Christ" appears to the World. Chosen in the Councils of Eternity, from Everlasting, [181] she is not subject to Times and Seasons with God's Earthly people the Jews. Taken out from the Gentiles, •' a people for His name," [182] from the Great Day of Pentecost, — "Pen- tecost fully come," [183] — no longer Israel's Feast! — when the Holy Ghost descended on the true "Wave Offering," the " First Fruits" to the Lord ; [184] the "Church of the First- born" [185] numbers all who serve the Living and True God, and wait for His Son from Heaven. [186] Free from the Law of Ordinances, [187] her Life is hid with Christ, [188] the Jlnd of the Law; [189] — one with her Maker, to whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day ; [190] and prefigured by Enoch who prophesied her des- tiny, her sojourn here is short ; she may at any moment, be translated to her Rest. 'Tis true she knows not the day or the hour, but this she does know, when she ascends to meet her Lord she shall be like Him [191] for she shall see Him as He is. [192] And the voice of Heaven shall proclaim the Marriage of the Lamb is come and His Wife hath made her^ self ready ; [193] she shall put on her beautiful garments, [194] and when He shall appear, she too shall appear with Him [195] 178- -'2 Thess. ii 4. 179- -Is. liii. 9. 180— Rev. iii- 10. 181- -Eph.iii.10.il. 182- -Acts XV. 14. 183 - Acts ii. 1. 2.3. 4, 184- -Lev. xxiii. 17. 185- -Hebrcw.s xii. 23. ly()— 1 Thess. i, 9. 10, 187- -Col. ii. 20. 188- -Col. iii. 3. 189— Romans x. 4. 190- -2 Peter iii. 8. 141- -1 Coy. XV. 49. 192— IJohuiii. 2, 193- -Rev. xix. 6. 7. 8, 194- -la. Iii. 1. 195 Col. iii. 4. ^^. r> C P h i] ^; V. •»> ^* iu Glory ; for her, His eyes, which are as flames of fire, His. many Crowns, His vesture dipped in blood, [196] will have no terrors; her perfect love will cast out fear ; [197] she will call to her remembrance His words of love, " It is I, be not afraid" : [198] and He shall make all to know that He hath loved her. [199] In the days of anguish and tribulation many of the Faithful will be called to glorify God by a Martyr's death, and the cry of the suffering Saints for vengeance [200] on their persecutors and the Heathen, appears to signify that this Dis- pensation, of Grace, and forgivness '< until seventy times, seven," ['^01] will be ended ; and the distinction between Jew and Gentile revived. The two witnesses [202] for Christ shall convict the murderers of the Prince of Life ; [203] ac- cording to their own Law they will be condemned ; [204] the Law and the Prophets shall bear testimony to the righteousness, of God ; [205] Moses shall accuse them to the leather, for they kept not the Law given by him, and shed innocent blood; [206] they hearkened not to the word of the " Great Pro- phet," [207] of whom he was the acknowledged Type, and it shall be required of tlicm; even as Cain, they slew a man to their hurt, and as Lamoch, shall their children confess it. [208], Moses the servant of God was buried by the Lord, in the vulley of Moab, and no man knew the place of his sepulchre. [209] ' According to the secret purpose of the Almighty, his mortal body was kept from the power of Satan, [210 j and corruption ; and by the Word of God, he shall be called as a witness against the Regicides of Judah. ^ 11)6— Rev. xix. 1 2. 13. 14. 197-^1 John iv. 18- 11)8— Matt. xiv. 27. ]9;)-Uev. iii 9. 200— P.^. Ixxix.. 6. 7. 201— Matt, xviii. 22. 202— Kcv. xi. 3. 203— Acts iii. 15. 204-Num. xxxv. 30" 204— Dout. xvii. 6. 2().>— John vii. ID v. 45. 205— Romans iii. 21. 206— Heb. X. 28. 207— Roni. ii. 12. 207— Dent, xvili. 18, 208— Gen. iy. 23. - 20;)— Deut. xxxiv.6. 210— Judc ix. 'O 1« • Elias too shall come; [211] not as the " Voice in theWiMer- BCfis," [212] whom they would not receive, [213] but as the Prophet before the great and terrible Day of the Lord; [2 14] glo- rified in Heaven without being subjected to Death, [215J this holy Man of God was still regarded as a living miracle by the people, when the very emissaries of Satan, mocking the sufferirtgs of the Lamb of God, supposed that His dying appeal was made to the Prophet in Heaven. [21 G] Eye witnesses of the presence of the Messiah on Earth, whea they spake with Ran on the Mount, [217] concerning His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem, [218] they ©hall receive a command to testify again before Him ; they shall smite with plagues [219] the City, which is spiritually Sodom aaad Egypt, [220] and show to the ungodly the miracles they ^vrought before Pharoah and Ahab ; and after they have finish- ed their Testimony, they shall seal it with their blood, [221] in the place where their Lord was crucified. God shall again give them the Spirit of Life in the midst of their terrified enemies, and a voice from Heaven shall be heard saying,. ^' Come up hither.*' Then the " Mystery of Iniquity " [222] will be complete,. and the Times of I Miction shall be shortened for the sake of the residue of the Elect. [223] Then shall the judgements of God come upon all people, and kindreds, and tongues, and na- tions, who have hardened their hearts against the Law of Moses,. His servant whom He knew face to face, [224] and have refused to receive Elias His Holy Prophet. The " Lion of the Tribe, of Judah" shall overcome the Rulers of the darkness of this^ 211— Matt. xvii. 12. 214— Mai. iv. 5. 217— Matt, xxuii. 47. 220— Rev. xi. 8. 223— Matt. xxiv. 22. 212— John i. 23. 213— Matt. xi. 14. 215-2 Kings ii. 11. 216— Mark xv. 35. 30.. 218— Luke ix. 31. 21!)— Rev. xi. 6. 221— Rev. xi. 7.8.11.12. 222—2 Thess. ii. 7. 224— Mai. iv. 4. 224— Dent, xxxiv. 10». -T 4» WiMer- as the 14]glo. L5J this by the ifferiiigs as made h, wheiii ng His 3] they ley shall Sodom es they e finish- I, [221] 11 again terrified saying^ )mplete,. sake of aents of and na- P Moses,. refused e Tribe of this^ 4. 35. 3G.. '. 7. iv. 10.. 17 World. [225] The Powers of evil must be cast down before the kingdoms of the world can become the Kingdoms of Christ. [226] He can have no fellowship with the Throne of Iniquity. He is mighty to save, [227] but He must reign in Righteous^ ness. [228] The Father shall put all things in subjectiou under Him, and make His enemies His Footstool. [229] His People shall be willing in the Day of His Power. Convinced by the Spirit, Judah shall look upon Him whom they pierced. They shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son. [230] Not only the outcasts of Judah, but the dispersed of all Israel shall be gathered to the Land of their Fathers ; from the North Country and from the coasts of the Earth, and from all the lands whither they have been driven ; fVom every mountain, and from every hill, and from the holes of the rooks [231] they shall come, with weepings and with suppli- cations, [232] and the Lord shall declare Himself the God [233] of all the families of Israel, and His Rest shall be glorious, [234] AH His promises to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, were an earnest of future blessing to His chosen People ; and the Gen- tiles shall seek His Ensign and rejoice, [235] All the nations which came up against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and keep the feast of Tabernacles. [336] AU who have part in the First Resurrection, shall live and reign with Christ a thousand years. [237] At the expiration of that sinless period, Satan, we are told, shall again have power ; [238] his final overthrow will be followed by the Judgement of the Dead and the second 225— Rev. v. 5. 227—13. Ixiii. 1. 230~P8. ex. 3. 231— Jer. xvi. 15. 16. 234— Is. xi 10. 237— Bev. XX. 4. 226— Rev. xi. 15. 228— Heb. i. 8. 230— Rev. i. 7. 232— Jer. xxxi. 9. 235—13. X. 10. 238— Rev. xx- 7. 227— Ps. xciv. 20. 229— Hebyii. 8. 230— Zech^xii. 10. 233— Jer. xxxii. 38. 236— Zech :^iy.l6. 18 Death. [239] Then eometh the End ; when Christ shall deliver up the Kingdom to His Father, and God shall be all in all. [240] Heaven and Earth shall pass away, and there shall be no more sea. [241] A new Heaven and a new Earth shall be created, and there shall be no more curse. [242] The Tabernacle of God shall be with men, [243] and they shall see His Face. [244] 239— Rev. xx U. 242— liev. xxii. 3, 240—1 Cor. XV..24. 26. 23. 2* lev. xxi. 1. 5* 243~liev. xxi. 3. 244— Rev. xxii. 4. » I