processes of restitution and resurrection, to live in the nations of resurrected Christendom. Men of this highly exalted type shall possess Christendom, when Christ's Kingdom shall be inherited by the kingly men for whom it was prepared from the foundations of the earth. Never more shall the nations of Christendom bereave themselves of men, as they have done in centuries of oppression, misrule and persecution, and especially in the Time of Trouble. 36:13. Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations.-Because the infidel revolutionists will throw at Christendom the taunt, "Your social order, economic, political and religious, eats up, destroys men, in industry, persecution, war, and revolution, and bereaves the nations of their best men." 36:14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.-Never shall this be any more, says God. 36:15. Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.Neither will God permit men to hear the infidel peoples put Christendom to shame, nor to heap reproach upon her; for Christendom shall be no more a reproach among the heathen, nor shall she cause her nations to fall again. 36:16, 17. Moreover the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their do. Ings: their way was before Me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.-While ecclesiasticism and its adherents control Christendom, they defile it spiritually by their tra ditions, doctrines and actions. Their spiritual condition is before God as a church polluted, unclean spiritually, unfit to touch, which ought to be "cut off from social privileges and her citizenship among God's people put in abeyance," as long as the spiritually unclean condition lasts, an uncleanness which may be removed only by a liberal application of "the waters of separation" (Lev. 15:19-31)-the cleansing reformation of the pure, unadulterated, fearlessly preached and applied Word of God, "the water of the Word."-Eph. 5:26. 36:18. Wherefore I poured My fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it.-The penalty for wilful violation of the Hebraic precepts regarding uncleanness was the final cutting off of the culprit from the Lord's people. Wherefore God shall pour out upon ecclesiasticism His fury in war, revolution, and anarchy, for the livesphysical and religious-taken throughout the lengths and breadths of human society, and for the idolatrous worship of Molech, the eternal-torment God, and of Baal, the god of adulterous church-state union, wherewith she has pollu ted Christendom. 36:19. And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.God will scatter the church adherents among the revolu tionists, and disperse them throughout a variety of infidel, Socialistic, laborite and other like conditions, judging the ecclesiastics according to their apostasy. 36:20. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned My holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of His land. Wherever these fleshly-minded Chris tians shall be scattered, they will blaspheme God's holy name, with the reproach that though they had claimed to be Jehovah's people, God had been unable to safeguard them and they had abandoned all pretense of being Chris tians. WHY GOD WILL RESTORE CHRISTENDOM 36:21. But I had pity for Mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.-But God will have regard for the prestige of His reputation for justice, power, love and wisdom, which the apostate of Christendom shall impugn during the revo lutionary order of things. 36:22. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for Mine holy name's sake, which ye have pro faned among the heathen, whither ye went.-Therefore Jehovah says that what He is about to do, He will not do for their sakes, for they deserve nothing at His hand but the judgments justly visited upon them; but that He will do it for His holy name's reputation, which they have per sistently misrepresented and blasphemed. 36:23. And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.-God will make His name sacred, and forever hallowed, among the pagan peoples, the name which apostate Christians have profaned and defamed among them; and God will make the infidel peopies to know of a certainty that He is the all-wise, just, loving and almighty Jehovah, when He finally converts all such to true Christianity. 36:24. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. God will save His professed people from the faithless, unbelieving condition of the revolutionists and the professedly pagan peoples, and will gather them out of all the evil conditions into which they shall fall, into a condition of genuine conversion and consecration to Himself. How much like God! all will exclaim, who know Jehovah. What an example does the Father set to His children, the sons of God!-Eph. 5:1; Z.'92-63. 36:25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.-Then will Jehovah wash His apostate people with the pure, unpolluted water of the Word of Truth; and from all their filthiness of flesh and spirit, of life and of doctrine, and from their idolatry of Molech and of Baal, will He cleanse them; and they shall be clean.-A333; Z.'92-64. 36:26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.God judges the thoughts and intents of the heart, and He will give His professed people a pure heart to serve Him and to love Him with fullness of consecration. He will take away from them the stony heart (Jer. 31:33), wherewith for sake of earthly emoluments and honor of men, they have resisted Him and hardened their consciences against His Truth. He will put within them a new spirit which they have not known-the spirit of willing service and obe dience to Jehovah, the spirit of the truth, the spirit of wis dom, of courage, of a sound mind, and of Divine love.-2 Tim. 1:7; Z.'99-187; A310; Z.’03-171. 36:27. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judg ments, and do them.-God will give them His Holy Spirit and cause them to walk in His "royal law of love" (Jas. 2:8), so that they shall keep that law and do it.-Z.'99-188. 36:28. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. -And they shall abide in the condition of Divine favor that the fathers walked in, and truly be God's people; and Jehovah, the God of love-not Molech, nor Baal-shall be their God. 36:29. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.-God will save the people now constituting His professed, but apostate church, from all their spiritual and fleshly uncleanness. He will call for the wheat, the bread of life, the Word of God, and will give them to feed on this good Word, and will permit no more famine of the Word of God among them. 36:30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the Increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.-God will multiply the fruits of righteousness, and cause the new social order to increase its character fruitage, so that Christians shall receive no more from the heathen the reproach that there is among them a famine of God's Word, and that they fail to practise what they profess.—Amos. 8:11. 36:31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves In your own sight for your iniquities and for your abomina. tions. Then, in the abundance of the wonderful and undeserved goodness and love of God, God's professed people shall remember their former evil doctrines, that misrepresented His holy character, and their doings that were not good, especially their grasping for world power and their persecution of the sons of God. Then they shall loathe themselves for their iniquitous doctrines and for their sec tarian abominations. 26:32. Not for your own sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.-Be it known, in advance, that Jehovah will do these good things, not for their sakes in any sense; for they merit far different treatment at His hands. They shall be ashamed and utterly confounded at His goodness. Thus, with goodness and with love overflowing will God recompense the evil they have done Him and His true children. 36:33. Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. In the 1,000-year day, the Millennium, the "Times of Restitution of all things" (Acts 3:19-21), when God shall have cleansed those who are now His professed people from their iniquities, He will cause them to abide in new gov ernments of the nations and cities of Christendom (Lu. 19:17), whose wasted arts, manufactures, industries, transportation and commerce shall be built up again. 36:34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.-Christendom, utterly desolated in war, revolution and anarchy, and lying desolate in the sight of the whole world, shall be cul tivated in the arts, sciences, trades and professions, and especially with the true Gospel of the Kingdom. 36:35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate. is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. And the infidel peoples shall exclaim, "Christendom that was utterly desolated, has become like the Garden of Eden!" For governments, national, city, and local, which were wasted, desolated and ruined, have been replaced by better and permanent (fenced) arrangements brought about by the mighty power of Jehovah's Love. 36:36. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. Then the unbelieving peoples will come to the realization that the One that shall rebuild ruined Christendom and plant the desolate people with the seed of the glad gospel of the Kingdom is Jehovah. Jehovah has spoken it, and will bring it to pass. 36:37. Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.-God will yet be supplicated by desolated Christendom to do this for them. Then, in answer to their prayers, He will, by awakenings from the dead, increase their numbers with men in multitudes. 36:38. As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.-Like as vast flocks of sheep and cattle were gathered for sacrifice at the annual feasts at Jerusalem, so shall the devastated nations of Christendom be filled with great crowds of consecrated, holy men, each devoted as a willing thank offer ing forever to live for God. And they shall know, when God has brought them back from the dead, that He is Jehovah, a God of infinite Justice, Power, Love and Wisdom. Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning! See the dead risen from land and from ocean; |