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RESTORATION OF ISRAEL. 175
"And I will bring the THIRD PART through the fire, and
will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as
gold is tried; they shall call on my name and I will hear
them; I will say, it is my people; and they shall say, the
Lord is my God." Zech. 13:9.
All this is connected with the coming of
intimately
Christ, not at the Rapture, but at the Revelation. (See
diagram page 72.)
For we read, "When the Lord shall build up Zion, HE
SHALL APPEAR IN HlS GLORY." Psa. 102:16.
It is when He appears with His saints (the Church) in
flaming fire to execute judgment (2 Thes. 1:7-10; Jude 14)
upon the nations and upon Israel, who are the third party
24
in Mat. 25 :36, etc., and who are not to be reckoned among
the nations. Nu. 23 :9. It is when He sits as a refiner and
purifier.
"Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare
the way before me; and the Lord whom ye seek, shall sud-
denly come to His temple, even the messenger of the cove-
nant, whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the
Lord of hosts.
"But who may abide the day of His coming? and who
shall stand when He appeareth? for He is like a refiner's
fire, and like fuller's soap.
"And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and
He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold
and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness.
"Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in
former years.
"And I will come near you to judgment; and I will be
a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the
adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those
that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the
fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right,
and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts." Mai. 3:1-5.
"He shall indeed refine Israel in the furnace of af-
thee for all thine abominations'. (24) Mat. 25 :40. And the
9. And mine eye shall not King shall answer and say unto
spare, neither will I have pity : them. Verily I say unto you,
I will recompense thee accord- Inasmuch as ye have done it un-
ing to thy ways and thine abom- to one of the least of these my
inations that are in the midst of brethren, ye have done it unto
thee ; and ye shall know that I me.
am the Lord that smiteth.