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for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of
Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. Ye
shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of
the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. And ye
shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for
you. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses
and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of
war, saith the Lord Jehovah.” (Vers. 17—20.)
If Jehovah invites to a great sacrifice for the crea­
tures of prey, will He not make good the word ? A
similar call is made in Revelation xix. 17, 18, but there
only to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven. It is in
view of the carnage which is to befal the armies of the
west at the end of this age; and I suppose only the
birds are named as in keeping with the judgment of the
apostates from the heavenly testimony of Christianity.
Here it is larger, as His dealings take effect on the
countless eastern hordes, who have not only despised
the gospel but seek to possess themselves of the land
when His earthly people are being settled there in
peace. No mistake can be more glaring than the denial
of these judgments on the quick before the reign of the
Lord as the true Solomon here below; no truth more
evident in the word of God than that the gospel is not
destined to put down all rule and all authority and
power, but Christ Himself when He comes in glory.
In title all things have been put under His feet as He
sits on the throne of God; but the process of putting all
His enemies under His feet is not yet begun. He is
occupied with another work now; He is calling out the