Midnight Cry - Volume 01, Number 10

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VOLUME .- 1. NEW- YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1842. _. __ . ,_ 7 ___ NUMBER 10.
( the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie ;
though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."
BY JOUflU I HUES.
Written for the Midnight Cry.
RESTORATION of the KINGDOM to ISRAEL-A
Lecture, delivered by Josiah Litcfi, at the Second Advent
Camp- meeting at Salem, Massachusetts, and repeated at
Newark, N. J.
Acts 1: 0, 7- " When they, therefore, were come together, thev
asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restoie again the
kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know
the times and seasons which the Father hath pat in his own power."
PART II.
If, THE SUBVERSION OP THE KINGDOM WHEN; AND FOR
WHAT CAUSE.
Although God promised unconditionally and by an
to perpetuate David's throne, kingdom, and seed
etitnally ; yet the temporal succession was conditional.
11 Yet so that thy children takfe heed to their way to walk-before
me as thou hast walked before me." Again, " If
thy children transgress my law," & c., " then will I visit
their transpessions with a rod, and their iniquities with
stripes ; nevertheless, rny loving kindness will I not ut
terly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to foil,"
The Lord also made the same covenant with Solomon,
1 HADES, 9:
DAILY- NO- 36 PARK- ROW.
house of David and given to Jeroboa'm it was with this
declaration on the part of Jehovah : " And I will afflict
the seed of David, but not forever." 1 Kings, 11 : 39.
After Solomon's death, Rehobcam his son reigned in
his stead in Jerusalem. He oppressed the house of Israel
and the ten tribes revolted from him, and left only Judah
and part of Benjamin to the house of David. Rehoboam
reigned over them in Jerusalem on the throne of David..
and Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria. Hoshea,
was the last king of the ten tribes, and was carried cap
tive by the king of Assyria, B. C 742, 2 Kings, 17 : 1-- 0,
j 13- 23. " In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah be-j
gan Hoshea the son of Elah, to reign in Samaria over
Israel nine years. And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were
before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of
Assyria, and Hosljea became his servant, and gave him
presents. And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in
Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt,
and brought no present to the king of Ass\ ria, as he had
done year by year, therefore the king of Assyria - shut him
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- 7, " The Lord appeared to Solomon « P, and bound himm prison. Then the king of Assyria
the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. came " P thron 6 l ">" t al! the Iand ' and went U P » Sama .
And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and
thy supplication that thou hast made before me. I have
this house, which thou hast built, to put thy
there forever ; and mine eyes and my heart shall
He there perpetually. And if thou wilt walk before me, as
.? Dayid thy father wal'- ed, in integrity of heart, and in up
rightness, to do according to all that I have commanded
thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments ; then
will I establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for
e? er, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
. ' a upon, the. throne of Israel, But
; if ye at ' all following me, ye or- yow cMl-
:' dren, and will not fS|>' my : com* mandnients" anB - my st't-tutes
which I have set before you, but go and serve other
and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea,
the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel
away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Ha-bor
by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Mecles.
Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah,
by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye
from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, and
my statutes, according to all the law which I command
ed your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants
the prophets. Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but
hardened their necks, like to the necks of their fathers,
that did not believe in the Lord their God. And they re
jected his statutes, and his covenant that he nmdo with
their Hithprs,* ar>. J his testimonies which he testified
against them ; and they followed vanity, and became tods, and worship them ; then will I cut off Israel out of,
tie land which I have given them ; and this house which vain ' and went after the heathen that were rouild about
| have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my them > concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that
kilt 5 and Israel shall be a proverb and a by- word among ] the? shoul( I not do Jlke them " And the ^ left a11 the com -
tt people." The conditions of this covenant are plain. I mandments of the Lord their God, and made them molt-
If Solomon and his children were obedient, his throne
thould continue, and the promise to David, " There shall
thce a man upon the throne of Israel." But if
iittor he, or his children, turned from God's command
ment, " :' Thmmll lent of Israel out of the land which
J Kave given, Israel shall be a promrb and a by- word
all people" Solomon violated that covenant, and
the kingdom was rent from his son. 1 Kings, 11 : 6, 9, 13,
I1 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and
Mint not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
the Lord wa? angry with Solomon, because his
I wait was tamed from the Loid God of Israel, which had i
I to him twice. And had commanded him con- j
thing, that he should not go after other gods; j
Jks$ t not that which the Lord commanded.!
Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as
is of thee, ar| d thou hast not kept my covenant
fend my which I have commanded thee, I will
prtly rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to
fly servant. Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it
I jjbr Da? M thy father's sake; but I will rend it out of the
' of thy son. " Howbeit, I will not rend away
I tli kingdom, but will give one tribe to thy son, for
t nay servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which
When the ten tribes were rent from the
en images, even to calves, and made a grove, and wor
shipped all the host of heaven, and served BaaL And
they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke
him to anger. Therefore the Lord was very angry with
Israel, and removed them out of his sight; there was
none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not
the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in
the statutes of Israel which they made. And the Lord
rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and de
livered them into the hands of spoilers, until he had cast
them out of his sight. For he rent Israel from the house
of David ; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat
king : and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the
Lord, and made them sin a great sin. For the children
of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did;
they departed not from them. Until the Lord remove^
Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants
the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their
own land to Assyria unto this day."
The supremacy of Judah was broken, B. C. 677, in the
days of Manasseh, king of Judah. 2 Chron. 33; 9 11.
" So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jeru
salem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom
the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people; but
they would not hearken. Wherefore the Lord brought
upon th, em the captains of the host of the king of Assyria,
which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him
with fetters, and carried him to Babylon." This was the
first time the whole house of Israel was entirely broken.
Judah had previously been afflicted, and Israel remained
independent Israel had been in bondage, and Judah re
mained independent. But at the time of Manasseh's cap
tivity, Israel had also been broken, that it was no more a
people ; and Judah also went into captivity. Manasseh
repented, and was reprieved and restored as a tributary to
his kingdom. From that time, the house of David never
r? gaincd its independence. Kings, however, of the house
of David, continued to reign on David's throne in Jeru
salem, as tributaries to Assyria and Babylon, until the
captivity of Zedekiah, king of Judah. SJ Kings 24: 18
20; and 25: 1 10. " Zedekiah was twenty and ona
years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamu-tal,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. And he did that
which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done. For through the anger of the
Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem arid Judah, until he
had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah re
belled against the king of Babylon. And it came to pass,
in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the
tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, ea? ne, he and all his host, against Jerusalem,
and pitched against it; and they built forts against it
round about. And the city was besieged unto theeleventh
year of king Zedekiah. And on the % ninth day of the
fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there
was no bread fm- the people of the land. And the city was
broken up, and all the men of'war fled by night, by the
way of the gate between two walls, which is hy the
king's garden : ( now the Chaldees were against the city
round about:) and the king went the way toward the
plain. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the
king, and overtook him in the plains of Jerich : and all
his army were scattered from him. So they took the
king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon, to Rib-iah
; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew
the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes
of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and
carried him to Babylon. And in the fifth month, on the
seventh day of the month, ( which is the nineteenth year
of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,) came Nebuzar-adan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king df Baby
lon, unto Jerusalem : And he burnt the house of the Lord,
and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and
every great man's house burnt he with fire. And all the
army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the
guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. "
This ended the temporal dynasty of David's house,
When Nebuchadnezzar came up and besieged Jerusalem,
and took it, God, by the mouth of Ezekiel, pronounced
its doom. Ezek. 21: 25 27.. " And thou, profane, wicked
prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall
have an end ; thus saith the Lord God, REMOVE THE
DIADEM, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN ; this shall
not be the same : exalt him that is low, abase him that is
high. I WILL OVERTURN, OVERTURN, OVERTURN IT ; AND
IT SHALL BE NO MORE UNTIL HE COME WHOSE
RIGHT IT IS; AND I WILL GIVE IT HIM."
It was under this doom Zedekiah was carried away to