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Or is chaos, or annihilation, as some suppose, to Imj it- doom / ^lowever much men may diiTc-r in their rms.vtTs to these queries, all are a^rrcol in dissatisficiion \vitii earth m its [)resent condition, and in hope of soinethinj; better in tlio futurO; either bore or elsewhere. And, mo.-f. expect to enter the '• splieres above' or into a spirit Ian I, or, as tlie poet sings^ '■ EcyoTifl tlio bounds !»f tiinr and .-^p;! CO, Look forward to R li^'iivn;] J- i)lac^ — The t^iiintft' S!,'C'uro abtulo." . • But by the test wo liavo ind^'aied we siiall shn-A- that those who cherish such hopes are d^-'stincd to disap pointmfitnt. For we have the clearest testimony that ti 1; enjoyment of tlie future life is to bo not above bat undci' the whole heavens, when the earth is regenei-atod. Ar.d that this glorious ncv/ earth, with an immortal life to en- 8 THB COMING OF CHRIST. i ; ' ! joy it, is to bo given to all the people of God when tlie •Saviour comes to earth the second time. What a blessed hoi^e I Reailer, prepare for it j it is soon coming. «< In the beginning God createa the heavens and the earth." It belongs to him. ^ heirs; and (3) 3n oternal iiilieritanco by thom of tho earth. Vy'liether or not these are legitimate conclusion:-! will be seen in the progress of the argument. To the first and second propositions we shall only make a passing re- ference ; it is to tlie third point wa are to give special at- tention. But wo remark that Stephen testifies Ihat Abra- ham rev^eived of the promised lanvi, ''no, not so much a3 to set his foot on." Acts Vir., 5. And ns Abraham is dead ho must bavo a resurrection, and inherit the land, else the promise will fail, and, as tho possession w:is to be hi.s forever, he must not only rise, but rise to an immortal life. It cannot be claimed that this reasoning is either original or new. It orij^inated in tho 8cripturo (Luke XX., 37), and was well known to the fathers, albeit it has fallen into disuse since the introduction of the pre- sent popular system of interpretation. Says tienry JDunn Ward : <'I confirm this view of the premise made unto THE COMIXG OP OIIKiST. II in the n. The a curse onduct a best d said tn tho I east., est to mako UQiber bered. in tho ,14,17. ivoive 3f the (I hi;^ f tho LlsioD.H 3 first ig re- al at- A b ra- th a3 aham ihorit ssion to an >ning it lira Ibeit pre- )unn unto the fathers by certain opinions of learned Rabbis, going to show that they also received tho promise in the sense it 1« expounded here. The promise is of the inheritance of the land forever. Rabbi Eleazar, who lived just after the second temple was built, writes thus: < As I live, saith the Lord, I will awake you hereafter in the resurreclion ot the dead, and will gather you with all Israel into the land of Israel.' " Jonathan, the i'arahpraist, who lived before the Christian era, says on IIos. XIV., 8 : '. VI , 4) '• An-! I have also estabhshod my cov- enant Willi the;>i th:it 1 v/ill give to them the Ian 1 of Ca- naan," for it is said not to you bat to them. Again, tiie Sadducees asked Ribbi Gamaliel (Paul's teacher) v/lience ha couid prove that Godcojld raise the dead. Nor would they rest until ho had brought them this verse : (Deut. XL, 21) '* Which hind the Lord sware to your father.-:> tfiat fie r.-oidd give ikeni,'^ God covenanted with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give tliem the land in which they v/ere strangers for an inlieritance, and, not having received tho inheritance, they must needs live again; or, m respect to them the promise has or will fail, which is Impossible- Rabbi Kinchi, on Obadiah, says, <• When Rome shall be laid waste tliere shall he redemption for Israel." And on U. XXIV., 19, ''The holy blessed God will raifie tlie d-ad at the time of deliverance." And on Jer. XXill, 20, <' In that ho saiUi yo shall consider it;" and not they shall consider it, he intimateth the resurrection. Dr. Gill furnishes the following (I Cor., XV., 54) '' When the King Messiah comes, the holy blessed God will raiso upthose that sleep, as it is written, he shall swallow up r* ! •iff 12 TDE OOMIXO OF CHR13T. i1 ' ■ !! ' ■ i ) ; I death in victory/* On Matt. XXIf., 31, « The holy bios- sed God promised to our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Ja- oob, that he would give them the land of Israel. We learn from hence that they shall be raised and that God will hereafter give them the land of Israel/' It will greatly' increase our interest in the Prophets if we observe from Moses to Malachi, that the promises and threaten « ings are directly to you and to us, who read and hear, and not to them who may come after us, until they are inter- ested. In all the glorious prophecies of Israel's restora- tion, scattered up and down the sacred pages, the word is to you, and is not to them ♦ the word is spoken to you in the second, and not to them in the tiurd person ; and, in order to be fulfilled to the persons to whom it has ia past ages been spoken, they must revive and come out of the grave and live agam, which assuredly they will at the coming and Kingdom of Christ in the resurrection of the just d?ad. In the fifteenth chapter of Genesis we find the promise of tlie inheritance renewed and confirmed by nn oath, and a pledge is given whereby the fuliilmexit of tem- poral promises is made the assurance that the promii© of eternal things will be realized, also. In this chapter it is recorded, the Lord said unto Abram, ^' I am Jehovah,who brought thee out irom Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee thi4 land to possess it. And he said, Lord Jehovah, where- ly shall I know I shall possess it?*' And the careful read- er will agree with us on reading the answer to this ques- tion, thnt this entire transaction was not for the benefit of Abram alone or his imm'^diate posterity, but that all who nhould live after might •< through patience and com- fort of the Scriptures, have hope.'* Rom. XV., 4. Thia view is confirmed by the fact that most of the items whereby Abram's inheritance is made aure, were to b« fu^ filled after bis death* Preparatory to giving tho dcsitred tntt co4it^ ov cti&iRT. 13 «< whdfdby/* the Lord commanded Abram to arrange; ac- tsordmg to an ancient custom, for a solemn covenant. Ac K3ordingIy be took a heifer three years old, a ram three years old, a she- goat three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon. The animals he divided in the midst, lay- ing the pieces the one over against the other, while the birds >rere placed opposite to each other without be. ing divided. " And it came to pase that when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces."— Thus did God make oath to Abram, that ho would fulfil his covenant, and give him all the land to possess it.'' For the force of this solemn ceremonial was this : the party taiaking the oath, passing between the pieces of the slaughtered and divided animals, said by this act, <' So let it be done to me if I keep not my covenant," and the vi- olation of such an oath was considered a most inexpiable sin. Jer. XXXlV., 18, 19. In connection with this oath there was a renewal of the promise to Abraham's natural seed, first found in Gen. XLI., 7 — '*Unto thy seed will 1 give this land," but in much more delinite language, as follows: *' In the same day God made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this lami, from the river of ICgypt unto the great river, the river Euph- rates, the Kenites and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmon ites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Reph. aims, and the Amorites, and the ^Canaaniteaf, and Qigash- ites, and Jebusites." Wq think even the casual reader inust observe that this is a distinct promise from that giv- en in Gen. XIII., 14, 15, and referred to in chap. XV., 7,8. In the one case the terms employed indicate an indefin- itely extended or boundless possession* '< Look north- ward, southward, eastward and westward— all that thou %QQsi4Gih:e will I g4veU, and to thy seed forever.'' But >'M 14 THE COMING OF CHRIST. ■'I m chap. XV. 18, 21, the land covenantetl is accurately bounddd, and iU limits dedned a^ being the territory then held by certain nations, which are named. Also, in the ^rst case, the promise includes Abram and hia seed j in the second, it is to his seed alone. Moreover, the latter covenant wa«i conditional in its na- ture, while That including both Abram and h;s seed is strictly unconditional, as will hereafter appear. It will not be disputed that the natural seed of Abram were a typical people, or that Canaan was a typical land, however much controversy there may be as to what are the antitypes prefigured by them. Nor will it be denied that the Jews typified the true Israel of God— all his peo- ple; or, that Cauaan shadowed the saints' eternal iaheri- tance, be it what or where it may. We are, therefore, naturally led to inquire, First— lias /Ae ^?/;;e been fullil led ? And, in answering this question, we will include an inquiry into the other items of the '' whereby " which Abram asked and received of the Lord. While the Patriarcli watched the animals he had pre- pared, according to the direction of Jehovah, keeping off the birds of prey, as the sun went down a deep sleep and a horror of great darkness fell upon him, signifying, doubtless, that he must pass int^ the state of death previous to real- izing the promises. Then God said, <' know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a strange land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years." There has been some dispute concerning the fulfilment of this passage. That his seed continued pilgrims and strangers till the time of Moses none dispute, but some have applied the period of four hundred years to the Egyptian bondage alone, while oth- ers have regarded it as a " round number/' covering all TUK COMlXa OF CHKIST. 1 uratelv m py then in the d J in ita na eed is A.bram .1 land, at are denied IS peo iatieri- wenng other oeived id pre- ng ofi ) and a ibtless, o real- surety hat is afflict isputo 3 seed Moses ►f four ©th- ing all r . . . *be fcimo of the sojoarn from the call of Abraui to the ex- >dui. The true application is to the seed of Abraham. .;ad the date of its commencement is the mocking of Ish- •nael at the weaning of Isaac, ending with the four hun~ (rod and thirty years of Gal III, 17. *' At tho exodus," i'lys Dr. Clark, on Exo. XII, 4, '< tho S.miaritan Penta- teuch in all its manuacrii^ts and printed copies, roads the place thus: ' Now the sojourning of the children of Israel and of their fathers, which they sojourned in the land oi" Canaan, and m th^ land of Egypt, was 430 years.' Tlio same sura is given by St. Paul, (Ga!. KI, 17,) who reckons from the promise made to Abraham, when Cod command- t*d him to go to Canaan, to the giving of ihe law, which ^oon followed the departure from Egypt 5 and this chron- 9logy of the Apostle is concordant with the Samaritan Pentateuch, wiiich, by preserving the two passages, they and iheirjcdhcrs, and iit the land of Canaan, which are lost ol tho present copies of the Hebrew text, has lescued this passage from all obscurity and contradiction. It may be necessary to observe that the Alexandrian Septuagint his the same reading as the Samaritan. The Samaritan Pentateuch is allowed by many learned men to exhibit the most correct copy of the five books of JMoses, and the Alexandrian coi)y of the Septuagint must also be allowed to be one of the most authentic as well as most ancient po to anti-type, wc nKpiire : (1) VV hat Wiis the territory molud^d in the promise <»l (ien. Xlil,, 14, 15? And we insw^i-, it was thj eartli — this globe renewed in the restitution ol' ull tilings 8pok(jn by the mouth of holy pro[>hets. Acts (II, 21. We liave alreatiy con ;luise will be fulhllod ; but Abraham will not be made perfect without ' us,'' savs Paul lo the church.— Heb. XI., 39-40 Who can doubt ? 2. We next inquire. Who are included in the expres- sion, •• To thee and thy seed ?" Can thia '♦ seed ' be -he same spoken ot as destined to crush the h ad of the serpent;' Gen. III., 15. Can it be the great •* seed'" of David, destined to reign without end on tite throne of Israel? Luke 1, 33. Let us again hear Paul : <* Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made (the promises involving eternal redemption). Ho saith not, and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seedj which is Christ " Gal. 3, J6. This is the key to open tne Abrahamic gospel. The bars of obscurity in prediction are turned aside by the key of inspired Interpretation. THE COMING OF OHRIST, 21 id to The the I.et us, thi^n, not interpret interpretations, hut receive and behevc them. ^Ve find, then, that thr^ part'es ti this covenant are Abr.iham anri (,'hrist. Abraham is included aa the chosen progenitor of the typical people, of vvhoui is salvation, for from them sprung the Messiah, anci of whom we real : ** I say the truth in Christ ; I lie not, my conscience al-^o bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that 1 have great h ^aviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were aocur8e) cImss called " the chilaien oT the promise. Who are they 1 Let Paul answer, * Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." Gal. IV, 28. Not * born after the flesh, but chih^^en hy faith.'' liut the scripture hath concludeci all under sin. that th« promise by iaith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. (Comp Rom XI, 32. There is neither Jew nor Greek ; there is neither bond nor free j there is neither male nor female ; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And it ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. ' The foregoing language shuts us up to the faith that neither sex, condition nor nationality have any weight in determining who shall be partakers in the pro- mises ot God in Chiist Jesus. To be Christ's, or to be the children of God through faith in Oim is the sole test of participation. '< The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God ; and if children, then heirs } heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we sutler with Him tSUt we may also be glorified together. ' — Rom. VIII, 16-17. It was '* afar off" in point of time, that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob beheld the fruition of the promises ; but each succeeding generation has brought the people of God nearer the time when, reigning over the redeemed earth, *' Christ shall sit upon the throne of His glory," Ills peo pie of every age and clime redeemed and glorified toge- ther with him. The Seer of Patmos caught a glimpse of this scene. He says, ** I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no mm could number, of all nations, and kindreds and peop'e, and THE COMINtJ OF CHRIST 33 to a ks, are 1 after I hath Jesus Z)omp ' bond we all are ye faith e any le pro- be the test of it that heirs ; hat we er. * — I, Isaac It each if God earth, [s peo- toge- |e. He m in tongues, stood ber)re tho throne and bo for • the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palnus in their hands; and cried with n loud voicp, saying. Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne an«l unio the Lamb. And all the angels -tood round about the throne, un(i about the Elders an