the children of Israel; on the east three gates ;-on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles (witnesses) of the Lamb."

No one can enter in,

Unless pass'd by the Queen,

And trained by sceptre and rod;
Her height and breadth are one;
Her length and depth the same,

All equal with the word of God.
The sons of Isr'el twelve,
Each one twelve thousand hath,
One hundred and forty and four;

A cubit for a man

Is the measure and the span

That never shall enter the grave.

These twelve sons of Jacob were typical of the promised stones to be raised in the third and last watch of the last hour of the six thousand years, or during the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days of Daniel. These present witnesses are the promised stones with which the woman's seed shall lay the foundations of that great city holy Jerusalem, to build up the city of the living God. He that hath ears to hear let him now hear the voice of the Spirit.-Before the tribes of Israel were made known there were three descents, namely; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and two again, namely; Joseph,-Ephraim and Manasseh.-Ephraim's first ten sons were slain; and so to-day are the ten tribes hid in mixture of marriages but God gave him other ten, so the ten tribes which were scattered are gathered a gain; the Spirit is returning to gather them now from among the Gentiles;—and unto them is this Flying Roll sent, that hearing they may hear and understand. Unto whom the voice of the Spirit is saying: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."-To those who have not eyes to see, nor ears to hear,-all that we have said and have yet to say is as a bye-word or a fable. But we cannot impress too forcibly upon the minds of the lost tribes this great truth so essential to a clear understanding of all

things, and it is that: "Christ withdrew from Jesus, that Jesus might take upon Him the fall."-How could the Scriptures have been fulfilled had it not been so ? How could Jesus have tasted death in His own body for every man.-Jesus was left alone for a season to fulfil the decrees of the Father, and Israel was left alone for a season for the same purpose and to admit of the parenthesis of the Gentiles.-Three times Jesus prayed that this cup might pass from Him—now was His soul exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. This was the cup of agony which He drank for every man even to the dregs;- He prayed for each dispensation and drank the cup of each dispensation and cried :-"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" and this is the cup that Israel must drink to the last dreg—their cry has been to this hour "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken us"? But as Christ raised the body and soul of Jesus-so now also will Christ call forth: "Come forth from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain (tribes), that they may live. And the breath came into them and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. These bones are the whole house of Israel; "-they will no longer say our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off from our parts; -they will no longer cry in agony of spirit: "Why hast thou forsaken us?" We believe that the moment is at hand, that He will bring home thy seed and gather it into thy barn. -Salvation is come out of Zion to Israel-and the Lord will bring back the captivity of His people, Jacob rejoice! Israel be glad —The Shepherd knows His own sheep, and He will divide them, the world on the left hand, and Israel on the right hand; for the world not having the graft grafted into them, see but in part, and prophesy but in part.-Rejoice ye twelve fathers of the house of Israel, for your seed will now be brought home into thy barn. Jacob had twelve sons, and if we are branches of those twelve fathers, and our mortal house put on immortality, then we are of their seed according to the flesh. But concerning the Gentiles, James one of the disciples said: "My sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: but that

we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."-The Gentile is blind to anything else, being under the vail,—they know nothing but for the soul, they know nothing for the body; they are under these four commands; —but Israel is under the promise of the body, the other not. -If we be not descendants of the twelve fathers and the four heads, then our body must go to corruption-death is pronounced upon it, as it is upon the Gentiles. Of those who are natural Jews, one tribe is come into this visitation, which is the tribe of Benjamin. Having been brought up in the law.—In what nation soever a stranger shall be, he shall be appointed to his tribe. For thou Benjamin wast brought forth when the womb was weak, yet in the beginning he shall be stronger than all the ten tribes: his ending of the old world little, but the beginning of the new world, much.-Therefore in the morning he shall rise as the wolf; and in the evening he shall divide the spoil with the ten tribes. So let the house of Israel know assuredly, that Rachel and Leah's bond-servants, their children which shared a temporal inheritance with the children of Rachel and Leah, are the type of those who are taking hold of the visitation out of ten languages: ("Thus saith the Lord of hosts; in those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying we will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you") which are the ten tribes, being mixed by marriage, and being carried captive into many nations.-So were the seed of Jacob mixed with the bond.—“ The strangers," are the ten tribes, they being counted as strangers to the two tribes, being scattered among the Gentiles; and knew not their brethren. The ten tribes being carried away into the nations are called Gentiles, like a woman marrying a man and getting her name changed. But they must now be gathered out from amongst them, and gain their father's inheritance, by their name being changed back again.-God chose Judah and Joseph for the first house; Ephraim and Manasseh for the second time, makes one house,-these are

the first and second Israel.—But Ephraim and Manasseh are now squandered among all the religions under heaven, and yet when they are called out they will be called by their name. When Jesus came at first they were squandered;they had lost the power of their sceptre,-the Gentiles ruled them before He came.-Joseph's brethren refused him, figurative of Jesus being refused and being put to death.Joseph said to his brothers: "to see the nakedness of the land ye are come."—And they said unto him," we are all one man's sons, we are not spies, and the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not."-Jesus was of that seed which Joseph was of. Jesus had been among the thorns two thousand years, and in Joseph He was bought and sold, and yet Joseph had the greatest blessing pronounced upon him by Moses, excepting our Lord; for the blessing of our Lord waters all the planet.-Jesus is the fruit of Joseph, because He was in the loins of that faith.-Jacob is set a figure of Jesus, and his wives of the two houses, but Laban gave him his eldest daughter, though she was not his lawful one, yet was she given first. And Jacob said to Laban, "what is this that thou hast done? did I not serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?"-And from the younger came Joseph and Benjamin, the two houses, and the families of the whole earth.-King David also sang of: "little Benjamin with their ruler"-which is the immortal Spirit; and by this Spirit He will graft Israel and Judah together, but if Judah and Israel acknowledge not Benjamin, neither shall they inherit the kingdom.-Joseph had two sons, the first had two sons and the other ten, making up the number twelve: being the twelve families of the whole earth. And from Judah came that earthly body, which is the lion of the tribe of Judah, being; "the destroyer of the Gentiles, is on his way." For Judah is the head of the twelve tribes, and he comes to make restitution. Now let the house of Judah and the house of Joseph be united in matrimony to take the covenant.—Jesus is compared to a lamb, or a turtle dove, yet He is the lion, which is the head of all beasts. Judah is a lion's whelp, they are the destroyers of the Gentiles, the evil which is in them.

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-There were eleven nations which the former Israel were commanded not to be coupled with, and there were twelve tribes of them, but of the latter house there is one tribe wanting. Now, this is figurative, as the eleven nations were of that seed which went astray, so did the former house of Israel. But of the latter, the one tribe wanting is figurative of Jesus, who draws the whole twelve tribes back again from going astray. For though Jehovah scattered the seed of Israel into all nations, yet will they be gathered now, at the appointed time. There are now three churches:-the church of the Gentiles, who say they are the Lord's ;-the church of the Jews, who call themselves the descendants of Jacob and claim the fulfilment of the promises made to him;—and the church of Israel, who are now to be gathered out from these two churches, they signing with their hands to have the seal-the seal of their hearts-broken open to them, that they may see the way the Lord has made known, by which their blood will be cleansed from the evil, received in the fall by their forefather Adam. Paul spake of these three churches saying: "give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God."-There are three prizes: the first is the church of the firstborn, being in the image of God.The second is men made perfect, having both soul and body immortal, after His image. And the third is the soul being raised from corruption to incorruption at the first or final resurrection, fulfilling Jesus' words: "In my Father's house are many mansions."-Adam lost the body through the transgression,-the woman's seed Jesus, has gained it, and has won the prize for all that will run for it.-All the churches run but only one receives the prize of immortality.-If a man run for the first prize, and does not get it, is there not a possibility of him getting the second?-Esau and Jacob have met. Did not the mother of Esau and Jacob send Jacob away,-she separated them that they might be saved: but when Jacob returned he divided his flocks into three, and Jacob offered Esau a present, and he received him with joy. So it is now in the houses of Parliament, the Jew and Gentile have met,— the Gentile receives the Jew now with joy, because they have