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RESTORATION OF ISRAEL.            169

     the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall
     be king to them ALL; and they shall be NO MORE two nations,
     neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more
     at all."  Ezek. 37:15-22.
       At the first restoration they returned to be overthrown
     and driven out again.  But in the second, they shall return
     to remain, no more to go out.  They shall be exalted and
     dwell  safely, and the Gentile nations shall flow unto them.
                   Permanent Restoration.
       "I will plant them upon their land, and they SHALL NO
     MORE BE PULLED UP out of their land which I have given
     them, saith the Lord their God." Amos 9:15.
       "And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither
     shall the beasts of the land devour them: but they shall
     DWELL SAFELY, and none shall make them afraid."  Ezek.
     34:28.
       "And I will settle you after your old estates, and will do
     better unto you than at your beginnings:  yea, I will cause
     men to walk upon you, even my people Israel;  and thou
     Shalt NO MORE HENCEFORTH BEREAVE THEM OF MEN."  Ezek.
     36:11-12.
       "Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no
     man went through thee,  I will make thee an eternal excel-
     lency, a joy of many generations.  Thou  shalt  also suck
     the milk of the Gentiles, and shall suck the breast of kings;
     and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy
     Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob."  Isa, 60:15-16.
              All Nations Shall Tlow Unto Israel.
       "As I LIVE, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee
     with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee,
     as a bride doeth..  .  .  I will lift up my hand to the Gen-
     tiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall
     bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be
     carried upon their shoulders, and kings shall be thy nursing
     fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; they shall
     bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and
     lick up the dust of thy feet."  Isa. 49:18, 22, 23.
       "But  in the  last days  it  shall come to  pass,  that the
     mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in
     the top of the mountains, and  it shall be exalted above the
     hills; and  people  shall  flow  into  it.  And many  nations
     shall .come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the moun-
     tain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob;
     and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in His
     paths:  for the law  shall go forth of Zion, and the word
     of the Lord from Jerusalem."  Mic.  4:1-2.
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