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Acts 15:13-16, very important, as it is the apostle's sum-
mary of the prophets.is
Psa. 51:18; 102:16.
studied these
And now, reader, if you have faithfully
or if you have even read them, do you wonder
passages,
that the great mass of Jews, at the present time, have an
abiding faith that they are to be returned to Canaan?
All the orthodox Jews tenaciously cling to this hope;
and shall we, who have accepted so much greater light, re-
of the Word?
fuse this overwhelming testimony God for-
bid.
It may be that you say, "These prophesies were fulfilled
in the return from Babylon."
Not so, that was the FIRST TIME. But there is to be
A Second Restoration.
"And It shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
eet His hand AGAIN the SECOND TIME to recover the remnant
of His people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Gush, and from Elam,
and from Shinar, and from, Hamath, and from the islands of
the sea." Isa. 11:11.
In the first restoration only those who were MINDED came
back from Babylon (Ezra 7:13), while many remained both

standest by faith. Be not high- they had held their peace, James
minded, but fear : answered, saying, Men and
21. For if God spared not the brethren, hearken unto me:
natural branches, take heed lest 14. Simeon hath declared how
he also spare not thee. God at the first did visit the Gen-
25. For I would not, brethren. tiles > to take out of them a peo-
that ye should be ignorant of P le for hi&1 aame.
this mystery, lest ye should be 15. And to this agree the
wise in your own conceits, that words of the prophets ; as it is
blindness in part is happened written,
to Israel, until the fulness of the 16. After this I will return,
Gentiles be come in. and will build again the taber-
26. And so all Israel shall be nacle of David, which is fallen
saved : as it la written, There down ; and I will build again the
shall come out of Sion the De- ruins thereof, and I will set it
liverer, and shall turn away un- up ;
godliness from Jacob: 17 That the residue of men
27. For this is my covenant might seek after the Lord, and
unto them, when I shall take all the Gentiles, upon whom my
away their sins. name is called, saith the Lord,
(16) Acts 15:13. And after who doeth all these things.