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fliction." And they shall shine, for THEIB
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LIGHT SHALL COME.
Arise and shine in youth immortal,
Thy light is come, thy King appears!
Beyond the centuries' swinging portal,
Breaks a new dawn THE THOUSAND YEARS!
We might fill a book with comments upon how Israel
shall be restored, but all we have desired to do was to show
that it is an incontrovertible fact of prophecy, and that it is
intimately connected with our Lord's appearing, and this
we trust we have satisfactorily accomplished.
The detail of the manner of their restoration, and of
their repentance and acceptance of Christ, is not so im-
portant to us. For those who are of the Church are to
be taken away first, in the Rapture, and escape all these
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things through which Israel must pass.
True, many have found the scudy of this detail a rich
blessing, and we give the result which one has reached on
pages 187 to 195, and yet we believe that we cannot now
discern the order of these things so clearly as Israel will
in the great rush of events, after the Church is taken
away, and when the Book is more completely unsealed and
opened. Dan. 12:4.
It is enough for us to know that it will be in the LATTER
DAYS (Isa. 2:2) that Antichrist is to be revealed and
destroyed by Jesus the King of the Jews, who is coming
(2 Thes. 2:8), and that Israel, His people, "are at hand to
come." Ezk. 36 :8.
(25) Isa. 48:10. Behold, I 3. And the Gentiles shall come
have refined thee, but not with to thy light, and kings to the
silver ; I have chosen thee in brightness of thy rising.
the furnace of affliction. 4 L}ft tw roun!l
Psa. 66:10. For thou, O God .
about and see all tn ther
hast proved us : thou hast tried themselves they come
Ml VeP ed together, come
sons
,V J *r \ , t(> thee: thy shall
(26) Isa 60:1. Arise, shine; from far and th daughters shall
for thy light is come and the be nurged at th side
glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee. (27) Luke 21:36. Watch ye
2. For, behold, the darkness therefore, and pray always, that
shall cover the earth, and gross ye may be accounted worthy to
darkness the people : but the escape all these things that shall
Lord shall arise upon thee, and come to pass, and to Stand before
his glory shall be seen upon thee. the Son of man.