THE JEWS.

SINCE God called Abraham, nearly four thousand years ago, his descendants through Isaac and Jacob have been God's chosen people. Their preservation to the present day has been a perpetual miracle. For nearly two thousand years before Christ came, they were the only people of God in the world. His visible church; chosen, delivered, guided, protected by Him; and possessing His word. All the messages of God to the human race; all the revelations of God; of Himself, of His law, of His plan of salvation, were made to the Jews. All the writers of the Bible, the Old Testament and the New, all the prophets, all the apostles, were Jews. And Christ Himself was a Jew. As Christ said to the woman of Samaria, "Salvation is of the Jews" (John 4: 22).

While the children of Israel were yet in the wilderness, before they entered into the promised land, Moses told them of the blessings which would come upon them if they obeyed the LORD, and of the curses which should come upon them, if they did not observe all His commandments and statutes. He said unto them: "Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit

of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out" (Deut. 28: 15). After specifying many other judgments that the Lord should send upon them, he says: "And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee." * "And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest" (Deut. 28: 37, 64). Six hundred years before Christ came, Jeremiah wrote, "And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them" (Jer. 24: 9). "And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, among all the nations whither I have driven them; because they have not hearkened to My words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the Lord" (Jer. 29: 18). The Lord then adds,

"I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations, whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished" (Jer. 30: 11; 46: 28). In accordance with His Word, God has been making a "full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee."

The nations that made captives of the Jews have passed away: and the prophecies concerning them have been literally fulfilled. "Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation" (Isa. 13: 19; 14: 22, 47). Nineveh described as much larger than Babylon, after suffering the judgments of God; the angel of the Lord having in one night destroyed "a hundred and four score and five thousand" (Isa. 37: 36). "Nineveh is laid waste" (Nahum 3: 7). The destruction of Babylon and Nineveh and the state in which their ruins have continued, according to prophecy, is more wonderful than their first growth and grandeur. For more than two thousand years, the prophecies in the Word of God concerning Egypt have been fulfilling. During all that time Egypt has been as she is now," without a native prince," and "the basest of kingdoms" (Ezek. 29: 15; 30: 13). The

prophecies also against the nations that hated the Jews, when they represented the Church of God, and who rejoiced in the destruction of Jerusalem, God, according to His Word, has made a full end of; they have disappeared from the earth. To the Ammonites: "Thus saith the Lord God; because thou has clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; behold, therefore, I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord" (Ezek. 25: 6). For the same reason God said: "I will execute judgments on Moab" (Ezek. 25: 14). "I will lay my vengeance upon Edom." "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever." There is none "remaining of the house of Esau "The things of Esau have been " So searched out, and his hidden things sought up," that not a relic can be found in their ancient dwellings. (Obad 18; Jer. 49: 17; Ezek. 25: 13). For the same cause, judgments were to be executed on the Philistines; and also upon Tyre; then one of the richest cities in the world. "They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of

nets in the midst of the sea (Ezek. 26: 2). These prophecies have been literally fulfilled. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith the LORD: but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD for they shall all know Me, from the least of them, unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD" (Jer. 31: 31). “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes." "Thus saith the Lord God: I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them" (Ezek. 36: 19, 24, 25, 26, 37). Two hundred years before Jeremiah, Amos prophesied : "Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not

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