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nations whither I have scattered thee, but I will not make
a fuU end of thee." Jer, 30 :11, R. V.
Like Tennyson's brook they can sing, nations come and
nations go, but I go on forever. They are the generation
which pass not away.
Israel shall be restored to Palestine and no more be
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pulled up out of their land.
Hundreds of prophecies affirm this dispensational truth.
Like the red thread in the British rigging, it runs through
the whole Bible. Prophecies to the people like Ezek. 37,
and prophecies to the land like Ezek. 36.
The title deed to Palestine is recorded, not in the Mo-
hammedan Serai of Jerusalem nor- the Serglio of Constan-
tinople, but in hundreds of millions of Bibles now extant
in more than three hundred languages of the earth.
The restoration was summed up at the first council of
the apostles in Jerusalem, as their conclusion based upon
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the words of the prophets.
As the fig-tree which Jesus found bearing nothing but
leaves, Israel hath been set aside for a whole (aioh) dis-
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pensation.
(6) Amos 9:15. And I will ruins thereof, and I will set it
plant them upon their land, and uy :
they shall no more be pulled up 17. That the residue of men
out of their land which I have might seek after the Lord, and 1
given them, saith the Lord thy all the Gentiles, upon whom my
God. name Is called, saith the Lord,
(7) Acts 15:13. And after wno doeth a11 thes e things,
they had held their peace, James 18 - Known unto God are all
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answered, saying, Men and his works from tne beginning of
brethren, hearken unto me: the wo ' 1d - ,
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14. Simeon hath declared how
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Gentiles, to take out thereon: and when he
people for his name. came t<) lt> he fmmd nothing but
15. And to this agree the leaves ; for the time of figs was
as is
words of the prophets ; It
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written, 14. And Jesus answered and
16. After this I will return, said unto it, No man eat fruit
and will build again the taber- of thee hereafter for ever (an
nacle of David, which is fallen aion). And his disciples heard
down ; and I will build again the it.