: has the life of a preacher of the gospel now become ;-what a comfortable living, with houses, land, carriages, horses and pack hounds for pastime and recreation,-what a picture.Can we marvel at the words of Jesus: "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?"—" We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. But wisdom is justified of her children.-I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight," and Jesus made a scourge of small cords and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves, take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandize. And Jesus said unto them see ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.-As Jerusalem fell in the days of Judaism and became the habitation of unclean birds-even so will this Babylon of Christendom fall, and the words of Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles will now be fulfilled: "Be not high-minded, but fear, for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written there shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall TAKE AWAY their sins. Mark, TAKE AWAY, not forgive their sins-but remove, take away the root, seed and branch of all evil,—by cleansing their blood. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentAnd this happy hour has now come, for which Israel has been waiting and groaning so long. The great day of their deliverance, restoration and ingathering is at hand.—Yes, ance. we do believe we will believe that He will now bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn.-Rejoice O Jacob and be glad O Israel, the Lord will bring salvation out of Zionand pluck thee as a brand out of the fire of captivity. The unicorn shall serve thee and abide by thy crib.-" He will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession." "For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills," being one hundred and forty-four on each hill, making 144,000. "The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, He hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil more."any "Because thine ointments smell so sweet, Thy name, thou heav'nly dove, Hence thee the Virgins love. And them into thy chamber bring, And make them there to rest." All Israel are called Israel through Jacob. The Jews are called Israel by being Jacob's children, but are they Israel ?— The house of Israel, who are the true Israel, will say unto those not Israel ye counted our lives foolishness, and us madmen. There is no man Israel, but Christ; and all the seed shall enter in as Jesus did at the river Jordan. "All power is given unto me, both in heaven and in earth."-Every one that is begotten has entered the kingdom of heaven. But, to become a true Israelite in whom there is no guile,-the thorn in the flesh must be removed,-for those whom Christ is grafted into there is no jury needed. If I be grafted into Christ with the thorn still in the flesh, I die; and if Christ be grafted into me, I bear life into immortal fruit.-All who die in the faith, their seed shall inherit the land. How can any among us say we are of Israel yet? None are Israelites without they dwell in the Spirit for the word "Israel" in the Scriptures means "God"; and you may say: will God dwell in blood? No! but blood will dwell in God, when it is purified-flesh and bone. The house of Israel are called: "trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord." And Israel will be as brands plucked out of the fire, which is the grave. Men are called trees of the field, whose substance is in them; the house of Israel is also called the oak, whose substance is in itself; but an oak tree may be cut down for generations, the branches will still shoot from its roots. The seed of the twelve disciples are alive, not a branch of them is wanting;-the Jews say the Messiah will come, and the Gentiles say He has come, but will not come again ;-but the house of Israel will abide in Him, and those who are of Israel will say rail not against them seeing they have eyes, but see not. Caiaphas the high priest said: "it is better that one man should die, than the whole nation should perish." The nation is the bones of the whole House of Israel. The spirit of man and the Spirit of Christ and the immortal bride, these three are one. The watchmen of the night shall become as the watchmen of the day, and when they see the morning stars, they see the figure of Him who suffered. The stars are a figure of the man and woman in the mortal life, and the moon is the figure of the immortal bride, Jerusalem above, and the sun is a figure of Christ, the Son of God;-the stars borrow their light from the moon, and the moon borrows its light from the sun: so it is with the house of Israel. The light of the moon shall become as the light of the sun, and the sun as the light of seven days-as recorded in Isaiah.-Then the Godhead is complete; the six spirits of the six churches being then united in the Godhead, making seven. As long as the evil is in the heart, man is liable to be overcome by it, and the evil is against the body;— it is not what another man does to us, but what we do ourselves, that makes us liable to the sin of the soul or body. "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." The evil tries to overcome the spirit by showing us the evil that is in another and letting our own evil be still." Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah." It is evident that He did not make this covenant at His first coming, for they refused Him; but at His second coming He gathers them to fulfil His covenant. "Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." He that hath received His testimony hath set to His seal that God is true. "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees (the nations of the world) till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." -This proves that a remnant of Israel is to be saved from among the Gentiles.-This shows who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption. The true Israelite will abide continually in Christ and He in them, He being the true vine, and they the branches; not being that vine which withereth, mentioned in Ezekiel: "He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; He planted it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards Him, and the roots thereof were under Him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs."-The seed of the land being the seed of the woman in its purity; and when the man of sin is separated from the son of Man, her seed then grows as: "Willows by the water-courses" and are true Israelites, in whom there is no guile, and to them pertain the adoption, the covenant and the fulness of the law, of which the fulfilling of the righteousness is the end. "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it (into immortality); but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools shall not err therein." The unclean being those whose bodies are not washed and salted, as every meat-offering that the children of Israel offered was with salt, after the inwards were washed,-figurative of the washing of man's body by the Word, salted with fire, the Spirit of God-the baptism of fire." If Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterwards have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." All who diligently seek the fulness of the Spirit will receive it, and it will gather them from all nations, and those who despised the law will turn to the law and gospel, and those who despised the gospel may receive it with the law, and dwell in the Spirit. The true Israelites are those who petition by a morning and evening sacrifice, to take away the root, branch and seed of evil from their bodies-God will avenge His own elect who cry day and night unto Him.-The taking away of the evil is necessary before we can receive the adoption, and the clothing of the body with the Spirit is the beginning of the redemption of the body; the partial redemption. The full redemption is the Spirit being put within them, with their spirits, their bodies then being the temple of the living God, causing them to inherit substance. The 144,000 of all the tribes of Israel, are two selected out of each of a hundred forty and four thousand families (the families of the new creation) of the descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel,fulfilling the words of Jeremiah: "I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion."-The one of a city being Jesus, the seed of the woman, purified by the refiner from that which her body was conceived of, and not being begotten of man He had no evil in Him; the two of a family is the man and the woman, separated from the man of sin and the mother of harlots; when the evil is removed from their bodies, they will be like unto His in their mortal lives, being then the sons and daughters of Jerusalem above.— Abraham took two wives: one bond, the other free, from whom came two sets of people. But the bondwoman's child was Abraham's seed, but not the heir, because she was not Abraham's lawful wife-and the one is a Jew, the other a Gentile; but the seed of Abraham seek to possess the land, which was given to the Jews as a possession, but the children of Abraham seek that which the land was a figure of i.e., the body. The language of this apostate Christendom is: "I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow"-but the house of Israel speaks very differently: she says, she is a widow, having lost her husband, the devil; and all her children are fatherless.-Zion below becomes a widow, when her land is forsaken of both her kings, which is Jew and Gentile. But yet the Lord saith He will seek her as a young man seeketh a virgin.-Her body shall be transparent, that |