Midnight Cry - Volume 01, Number 11

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BY JOSHUA V. HUES.
Written for the Midnight Cry.
RESTORATION of the KINGDOM to ISRAEL—
A Lecture, delivered by Josiah Lrtch, at the Second Advent
Camp- meeting at Salem, Massachusetts, and repeated at
Newark, 3T. /.
Acts 1: 6, 7 " When they, therefore, were come together, they
asked of him, saying, Loid,- wilt ihou at this time restore 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 put i » his own power."
PART- III.
fit. THE RESTORATION or THE KINGDOM ITS HEIRS
AMD SUBJECTS.
The identity of the kingdom is found, as under our
first head, in 1. The territorial dominion being the land
of promise. 2. The heirs and subjects being an chct people,
" of Abraham's family. 3. The royalty of the kingdom is in
the house of David and the government of Divine origin.
4. The capital, Jerusalem.
When it is restored, therefore, we must find all these
marks in the kingdom. .
1, Z% e territory will be the land of promise the land God
promised to " Abraham aud his seed" The territory of
David's dominion was from the river of Egypt to the
great river, the river Euphrates. But there is another
promise Abraham is the father of many nations and in
him and his seed, all the families of the earth are to be
blessed. " The promise that be should be the HEIR
of the WORLD was not to Abraham or his seed through
the law, but through the righteousness of faith." Rom iv
13, Thus, " THB WORM/' is the land of promise to
Abraham and his teed.-* not. in its present ruinous
condition. For he sought " a better country, that is, an
heavenly": The
li. 16.
heavens and new earth. Heb.
The promise 01 « the heirship of the world is given to
Cfecist the seed and heir of Abraham. " Yet have I set
my king upon my holy hill of Zlon. I will declare the
decree ; the LORD hath said unto me, THOU ART MY SON,
this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I shall
. give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the ut
termost parts of the earth for thy possession." Ps. 2 .-
6- 8.
But what will he do with the heathen, and the utter-
Bftost parts of the earth, when they are given to him 1
Just what God directed his people to do to the inhabi
tants of the land when he brought them out of Egypt to
put them in possession of the land of promise utterly
iiitroy them their iniquity is full. " Thou shalt break
them, with a rod of iron, and shalt dash them in pieces like
a potters vessel" *^ Those mine enemies that would not
that I should reign over them, bring them hither and
slay them before me." Luke 19. The land of promise,
is the new earth, " thk world to come." The . dominion of
it is promised to Christ, Ps. 8; Applied by Paul, Heb
: 5 8, A paradisical earth with all its creatures, ani
mate and inanimate. The stone which will dash in pieces
the great image ( Dan. 2) will fill the earth.
1. The heirs and subjects will be an elect people of Air a-
Jpnf* family.
, exercised his sovereignty, his elective franchise,
DAILY- NO- 36 PARK- ROW.
sons, Jacob was elected and Esau rejected. Thus God ,
reserved to himself the right of election, even in the holy |
family. Did he lose that right when the twelve sons of
Jacob were born 1 Not at all. He had the same right i
to make another election in the family of Jacob, that lie j
had in Abraham and Isaac. He has made another and j
final declion; and that " ike'" " in whom [ his] soul is I
well pleased," is Christ, lie is the seed promised to ;
Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth are J
blessed. And lie is the heir of all the promises. The i
election is still in the original family, the house of i
Abraham.
Who, then, is heir to the land of premise ? THE JEW 1 In j
no w'tqe. Let us listen to the apostle Paul while he ar- |
gues the case. First, he lays down a principle of law : j
that a covenant once made and confirmed, cannot be j
changed, * l though it be but a man's covenant." How I
much less God's covenant! To whom, then, does the !
original deed or covenant convey the land of promise 1 j
He answers, " Now to Abraham and his SEED were the j
promises made ; he saith not, and to SEEDS, as of many, |
but as of one; and to THY SEED, which is CHRIST." |
But the Jew comos up again, and claims it on the
ground of the law that under the law of Moses, God
gave it to his fathers. Paul answers, " This I say th at
the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, |
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none j
effect. For if the inheritance ba of the law, it is no j
more of promise : but God gave it to Abraham by pro- I
raise." That is, a law 433 years later than the promise I
to Christ, cannot take the inheritance from Christ and I
give it to the Jews. Who then owns the land 1 Christ.
But says the Jew, " Wherefore serveth ihe law ?" If it
does pot entitle us to the inheritance, why did God make
it, and under it bring in our fathers and put them in pos
session of the inheritance t Paul replies, '* It was added
because of transgression until the seed should come to
whom the promts.:, was mada." " Wherefore, the law was
our schoolmasterthat it might bring us to Christ, that we
might be justified by faith. But after faith is come, we
are no longer under a sehoolmaster. For ye are all the
children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. For as many
of you as have been baptized into . Christ have put on
Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free,
male nor female, but ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And
if YE be Christ's, then are YK Abraham's need, and heirs
according to promise." Gal. 3 : 15 22.
* 4 Baptized into Christ," by the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, the body of the Christian is as literally a temple
of the Holy Ghost, the seed and principle of eternal life,
as our natural bodies are temples of the blood of Adam
the principle of our mortal life. We shall be filled with,
and quickened by that spirit in the resurrection as we
are now filled with and quickened by the blood of Adam.
God has made of one blood all nations of men that now
dwell on the face of the earth. He will then make of
one spirit all who dwell on the new earth. " The first Adam
was made alivingsmil, the last Adam, a quickening spirit."'
tfes selection of Abraham from all other families, to be | u As we have born the ima » e of the earthly, we shall
the holy family, and progenitor of the Messiah, in whom
all the families of the ear^ th were to be blessed. This
. ejection was made when as yet Abraham ** had no child,"
iod before circumcision, " that the promise might be sure
tq all the seed." Of the two sons of Abraham, Ishmael
t^ fis rejected and Isaac elected; and the promise renewed
40, | Im and his seed, before he had any child. Of his two
bear the image of the heavenly." '' Flesh and blood can
not inherit the kingdom of God." It must be our mortal
BODY QUICKENED by the spirit which raised up Christ
from the dead A spiritual but not ethereal body. Spiritual
because quickened by spirit and not blood ; and because
spiritual, incorruptible, immortal and glorious. Thus, all
who have that spirit by which Christ was quickened
PRICBJ'WO CENTS,
from the dead, have put on Christ, are members of hia
body are Abraham's seed, and heirs to the inheritance,
*' according fo promise."'
Then not the Jews, all Abraham's seed through Jacob
but Christiana all Abraham's seed through faita in
Christ, the seed of Jacob, are heirs.
THE FALL AND RECOVERY OF THE JEW^.
I have a few words to say on this subject What is
the. FALL of the Jews 7 From what and how did they fall ?
This subject is fully discussed by Paul in the llth of
Romans, 12 vs '- Now if THE FALL of them be the riches
of the world, and the DIMINISHING of them the riches of
the Gentiles, how much more their fulness." *
The figure Paul has chosen to illustrate the subject is
an olive tree. We may as well follow it. The Jews are
its natural branches ; the bolieving Gentiles its engrafted
branches; Christ is the good olive tree, jje is so be?
cause he is ths pro nised seed of Abraham, in whom the
world was to be blessed. That blessing is salvation
eternal life. The Jews were the legal heirs and repre
sentatives of Abraham, through Isaac and Jacob, to
Christ, when the final election from Abraham's family took
effect! They were of the same blood of Abraham with
Christ, and were by the tie one common body ; the same
as the church is by the spirit of Christ. That was the
only relation the Jews sustained to him by their natural
birth a blood relation. Now let us suppose a case
Suppose Christ to be of the blood of Abraham, and to have
no other principle of life than that blood. He lives forever
by it. and is i lie source of life eternal to all who are to be
saved. He gives them life. Can he inherit .' more than
he possesses 1 that is, the blood or life of Abraham. Then
in the resurrection he must quicken with life those who
are saved by that blood; and none but those who are its
partakers could live by it. He would call forth the
natural branches and quicken them, but he could not
impart the blood of Abraham to the Gentile, and quicken
him by it, and thus engraft him into the good olive tree,
the Abrahamic family.
But Christ shed his blood and dissolved his natural re
lation to the Jews. The SHEDDING OP CHRIST'S
BLOQD Ai* death WAS THE FALL-^ OF THE
JEWS. Christ was no more their brother in his death,
than he was of the Hottentot. He was brother by natural
ties to neither the one or the other. He was'dead, and if
he overlived again it must be by some other principle of
vitality than blood. That principle was the quickening
Spirit of God. Abraham is dead, and if he ever lives
again, it will be by the same Spirit, and in Christ. He
can never benefit the natural seed by his natural life.
x\ braham the father of the faithful, and Christ the prom
ised seed, are both dependent on the Spirit of God for
eternal life.
The DEATH OF CHRIST was both the riches of Jhe world,
and the fall of the Jews. Let the reader pause here, and
settle this question. If THIS was not " the^ fall of them,' 1
what was! What else but the shedding of Christ^ blood
enriched the world 1 If nothing else did enrich the world,
that death must be the Jewish fall ! !
* The DIMINISHING OF THEM the riches of the Gentiles."
The Jews all fell from their natural relation to Chiist, but
all did not fall from their spiritual relation, an'J cease to
be branches :~~ fer some Jews were in Christ when he
died, arid remained in uim in his resurrection. Thus the
I natural branches of Christ were diminished, and the di
minishing was the riches of the Gentiles ; that is, the