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THE PROPHETIC REVELATIONS.

I. MEAD with attention the family history of Adamx
I- f.
Abraham, Isaac, and J acob, tailing especial note of the
owiisusi made to these fathers, such as :
a That the SEED of the Woman should bruke the Ser-
pent's head.
I That God would make of Abraham a great nation, and
that in him and his SEED all the nations of the
earth should be blessed.—Genesis ill* M \ xii. 2-8;
xvii. 4-7; xviii.18; xxii. 17-18; xxvL 4; xxviii. 14.
c That all the land of Canaan should be ghren to Abra-
ham and to his SBEB for ever, and that his seed
should be made as the dust of the earth for multi-
tude, and the same promises assured to Isaac and
Jacob.—Genesis xii, 7; xiiL 14-17 ; xvii. 8 ; xxvh
3 * xxviii. 1345 ; xxxv. 12.
d The confirmation of the gift of inheritance by a Cov-
enant for a hidden period, which ratified the prom-
ises to Abraham and his seed 480 years before his
descendants arrived at Mount Iloreb under Moses,
and the declaration of the seed as a Hitler and De-
liverer who should possess the gate of his enemies.—
Geucsisxv.7^21; sxii. 16-18.

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Whoso carcases fell in the wj> acrnc - ' — £ s w o r c i» his
and on account ot tUeir faitlilcsm.c- i ^
OBSERVE also that Isaac is the allegorical represen- wratli tliafc they should not cute ' believed
tative of the Shiloh. of Israel in the suhstitntto&tiry saerl-
lice, and figurative resurrcctiG&j do tailed m Genesis xxiL tMnga appeared JJ { ^ J ^ S - ™^ ^
Jacob- refers to Sliitofi^s sleuth l»y-icvi—(jlcii&sis xiix* 6j them were cstce.ncd by tuou toi ^ i CONCERNING
and In verse Wi% he foretells his dominion over the world. reproach. W* ***&**£* £ attacked the « « « -
HL*\CB THE VM'ni o-i? AUKAHAM I-UXSSSTKD IN* THESE rc r d a C
IMKTICIJLAttS I pcn se of the « , . ^ c s 0 n f Pharaoh's daughter, and
refused to, U= caltoi the Son rf U ^ ^ ^ ^
1. That his Seed, in lite descent of Isaac, Jacob, and
his twelve sonify would become a great and mighty nation.
2. That when this should ho accomplished, in the full
sense of the promts, they—Abraham, I&uie, and Jacob—-
would IM> living wHitc-je^ of it. {Thegift uf eU-rnal life.) tory of tlicir descendants. p^ypt—Exodus i to xis.
*k That at the time indicated in Ka. li they and their
nation would be In actual possession of the Land of Israel^
from the Euphrates to the Nile*
-1, That Abraham*.-; Heed (the Christ) would be a great
and powerful littler or King raised up t*f his descend ants
antl styled Bhilolt, or the Giver of Peace. i, to xxiv. Tu,l«-cs, to 1st Samuel X-
5> That he .shouM be;i Heir of all Thui^," of the na- 4. Under judges for l i f e - J « «,« . g jxi t 0
tion, the landj and the dominion of the world. 5, As a united nation under kmgs
iL That he would descend iu the Hue of Judah. 1st kings siL 15. a n d kingdoms—the one
7. That ho would Le slain, ]>ut cm the third day— 0. A-s two scpara e nat,oi, J(iroU.Mn, the
Genesis xxiL 4—froia the sentence parsed upon him, be the house oi Dav«l, ^
un der CLrouicles « « L
raised from the dead In the Land of Moriah, as prefigured
in the ease of Isaac: and bring life and Immortality to son of Nebat-lstKings
thr x».l^t o f the TfiN
7 . As to the ^ ^ c ! ; r s a f t ea? t h c i v revolt from
light through tlie tlospel to all believers ia the promises TRIBES by the Assyrians, «90>ca« it Kckhlk_
whose faith should he counted for i-i|?liteoiirfue.s<. the house of Pav.d and n g »*»J?J ^ ^ u n , j t c d
8. That he would ho slain l*y the descendants of Levi;
therefore, cxclainied Jacob, u O my soul, come not thou
into their secret; unto their assembly^ uuue honor be not turc glory remain to l e ™*™™\h of the Two
kimAom
tliou united."—Getu^is xlix. 0 ; and
9. TJiat Faithj or n full persua.siou that what God has
thus promised he would perform, would be counted for
Righteousness to all to whom Abraham became the father;
and that to realize the hope of llighteousncss, the Itiglit-
cons must rise front the dead, because under the Adaniic
curse all arc of tho dust and all return to dust again.
Such was the Faith and Hope of the Gospel believed
from Adam to Abraham, and to Moses, GaL iii. 8—but 4.
which that generation of the Israelites did not believe,

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understood, or great mistakcs will he made in the Inter*
I pretation of the Prophets. It >JuHild also be remarked
that Dm id's kingdom and throw Jawo nccer been restored since
the overthrow hy ike- Chaldeans, but numerous prophecies ifeehm
that they shall U m more than ik it fottaer Glory tvhm Solo-
mon occupied Ihsid. Tharfvrj thu rcntarkahle event rmuihm
to he fufjitlvil)
0. The History of Israel sltuu also be studied as to
the 70 jcaiv e»|»ttviiy.
a Front -fdnnuehih^ captivity i lie destruction of the
city,—Mzokiul i. to KXU.
b proitt tin: &ytm& to tin; DVt?rl!»r*rtV of Babylon. — Ihiuk-L
l(k As to the reslonitlfrti iV:im liabjIon, esjM&faily
coBCCratii|| Ihu decrees of the l\.r. ;;ru Kings-— Ezm, Xthe-
liiiali, a HI! father*
The eomttttiitvvca!th of Israel oiulimicd in vassalage to
Bnliylon, i\:r<l;i} and Greece,, till Injure Christ Ul^%ht*ing
4U0 jtitn'rf fr*»m tlie desolattou u( iho eity3 K. C. 5^5. tt
tlieii tic&Mttc iiidependcufc under the Asmoneaii dynasty
during 1'J.U years, when it becaim; -ubject to the Humans,
who sel \i\> the Idmuean or ICvriuHan race of Ktag$,
Under l!ic>,c the Shiloh was born. Afterwards Judoa was
converted tutt* a procuratorship. The sceptre had depart-
ed from *Fitd;th and been irausicrrod to the Itomans*.
The Levitleal authorities arraiu^cd the Christ before Pi-
late, for coiifcsding that he was the King of the Jews, and
extorted the K«"*nteiic<i of dualh a^;iiust him. He wad cru-
cified through the voice of the Jewish rulers and people,
and died according to the Scriptures, and in about 37
years afterwards the Romans look away the daily sacri-
fice, cast dtnvit the place of its sautiaary, destroyed the
city, ea^t dmvu the truth to the ground, destroyed the
mighty and the holy people^ aud carried them away cap-
tive into all nations, Avhere the:y still remain, waiting for
the "restitution of all tltitt«&$" biriongiug to their natioii.
—]>anic! viii. 11-22-24, and ix. 2ij; Luke xxi. 2L
In studying the records of L-ratl, the covenant made
with David recorded in 2nd Samuel vii. 12-17, is essential
to the ritjld iWifentamliiif/ of the iruilt. The promises emi-
taimd m it uvc glylei] " The sure Mercies of David,* in Isaiah
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Iv, B^ ikud Acts xiii. S4, These are iJw gracious proiui$£&
made £& JDtwid. These are offered to Shiloh and the Saints,
They are the nucleus of u the joy set before ICiia'1 and
tlieiiij on account of which a We endured the Cross and
despised the shanie.'J They promise
a A Seed to David win3 should be the sovereign of a
kingdom.
h That he should build a temple for Jehovah.—Zcch-
ariah vi. 12-1-]-15.
€ That his throne should be evcrlasttog,
d That he should be Bon of God as well as Son of
David.
€ That he should suOcr for the inii|uity of men, but
mercy should not forsake hinu
f That David's house, throne, and kingdom should be
established for ever before him—(that is)—David
himself should be a living urit-ness of its perpetuity
{the gift of eternal life.)
$ That therefore he should rise from his sleep with his
father^ and live forever. David styled this " The
law of the ascending Adam," which related to his
house for a great while to come.—2od Samuel vii.
19. In hk hut words—2nd Samuel xxiiL 3—he
informs ns that God spake to him about this per-
sonage laying down this general principle in rela-
tion to the kingdom he had promised, namely, tliat
" H E THAT lUILETit OVER MEN SHALL 15B A JUST ONE
KUL1NG m THE KIGflTEGUS PRECEPTS Ofc' E L O H I M . "
The members of David's house were not so with God;
yet God having made with him this covenant (of a hidden
period) ordered In all things ?nd sure, such a character
must arise out of \m family to u rule the world in right-
eousness." Therefore, said he, this Covenant a is all ray
salvation, all my desire/5 although appearances at present
do not indicate its accomplishment. Mead Fsalmslxxxix.
aad exxxii. 2-1S; and Acts ii. 25-31.
lt
THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD SHALL BECOME OUR
LORD'S AND Ilts Citmsife; THROUGH THE EXECUTION OF THE
W1UTTEN JU1M1MKNT3 AT THE O i n U S ' r s APPEARING AND KING-
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I*OM; AXU H E sn.w,r, KKIUX INTO THE Atv&s OF THE AGES/*
—Kev. xi, 15.
And the Lord shall hofcii*gover all the earth," in that
day shall there be **MO Lortl, a nil f f 13 its-tiie one—Eeeli,
xiv. 0. Then will fallow a rt%» ul" peace and righteous-
ness, and wkdosn a tut knowledge will he the stability of
the tfc*K&y utttl the nations of Ih*:*** that arc being saved
will KKJoirs hi their King, autl itt his e<*hcirrf? the glorifiedl
fcaluts who will |*ci,s<eh.s wilh hint the tlouiiiiiou of the
world,—]>an. vtl I f-18-27. Ken v, 94#.
III. TO ADVANCE stiJl further io the doctrine of
the Christ, wo iim.-?t proceed in the uij>yttihulieal proph-
CcicSj. bucli as the I'.Siiini^ J.saiah, -fcrcuiiah, f^zekiclj ifoseat
Joel, Aitios, Bflktifi, Zephaniitli, Ifa^srai, Zeeharia!^ and
Blalaehi. Their eutitcats may Le arra«iro«l as to generals
under the following heads, namely,
1. The eafautttk'3 pretleteminjeil upoit the two uai
of Israel.
2. The restoration of the ho&se of Judali from the
3. ! -loniiion from the present dispersion,
4. The Lri«jri«g Lack of the Ten Tribes, and re-uoioii
of all Israeltto into one Icingdoiu and imtiou 111 the laud
of Israel.
5. The gloryt petcer, nnd himmiatm of the Israelitish na-
t- tion during One Thousand Yeursf dwiuy uhich all other
nations will rejoice in Israel's covenant King,
G. The fjirift, life, sufferings—moral, gacrtfictul, and -
pontificial character, *fce., of the covenant King of Israel.
7. Ilia resurrection from t!*e dead, a^coiibion to the
Divine Nature, ami a^suniptwn to Heavou, there to remain
a limited time.
8. Ills return, and huh.sequent ^lorioits and triumphant
reign on the fftroiws of hk father fhtvid from the time of
the restoration of U-od's kingdom apfaiu to Israel, until
u
there shall he no inure death; ! a lie shall he a priest
upon II is throne," after the or<kr of Mclchizedec—Zech.
vi.; Tsaljii ex. 1; see also Ezekial xxxvii. 10-28.
HOW SEAKC1I Tflifi SC1UPTURKS.
THE APOSTOLIC TESTIMONIES.
IV. THESE THINGS being undcTstood, the personal
testimony of the Apostles, evidential of the rightful claims
of Jesus to the $f EssiAitsHiP, or reg&I3 imperial, aad pea-
tifical sovereigaitj over Israel and tfte world, may he next
proceeded with* This testimony is contained ia Matthewt
Mark, laikc, and John's writings. They were written
that nieii M intgltt believe that Je<us h the Christ, the Son
of God; and that believing, they might have life through
His MkJ*
They show
1. That Jesus in the hereditary descendant of David
and Aaron,. In whom is vested the sole right to 1 fis King-
dom and Crown, as well as to the High Priesthood of the
Kingdom, ntui that he will, therefore, be a King aad
Priest on IiU throne after the order of Meleluzcclee,
2. That Ite is the acknowledged Son of Goit by pa-
ternity of first birth, and hy being born agata ot His
Spirit after his resurrection from the tlcacL
o. TUut he possessed two natures: first, that of sinful
or Htortui iiesh ] secondly, that of his present one, which.
is holy or spiritual flcsh? ** the Lord, the Spirit/1
4, That without the slieddiug of blood there can be
no remission of sins.—Hebrews it* 22.
*K That the blood of aniuiats cannot take away sins.
—lick x. -I,
0» That for a Sin Offering to be an efficient ai&mimnt^
it must not only he slain, hut made alive again, which, con-
stitutes it a living sacrifice.
7. That Jesus was such a sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
God, aod without blemish, that is, without sin—-Hebrews
iv. 15—through a voluntary obedience in thought and
word and deed to the word of his Heavenly Father—and
a living faith in tho covenants of promise.
8. That the blood of Jesus is " the blood of the New
Institution, shed for many, for the remission of SIBS."—
Matthew xxvi. 26-28.
0. That He rose from the dead, and entered into the
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Holy place with his own blood, a«d was accepted and per-
fected by a spirit-birth in the fittlaess of the ilocllteatlj and
was taken «p to the right kutd tif ihe Majesty in the
Heavcits;, and that He will return in like tttauner as lie
departed;, and to the same place-—Acts i 11—without
blood unto Salvation.— Huh. ix. 28.
10. The attribute:* <*f Jwus cuiisiilaie If is name.
1 L That through thk n:u»tt:r repentance, remission of
sins, ami eternal life are uft'ered to ail intelligent believers
of ehitdfike. disposition*
11. That if men would receive the beneSt of the name,
they tntk*t believe in tfr3, and put it on.
!;>. That this name Is ttistipairaWy connected with the
institution of Immersion ; m that if a believer of the Gos-
pel wrtulit put ifc oiij ho must be immersed into the name
of ihe Falher? Son, and llnlj Spirit—the doctrinal name
of the Christ of God.—AeU ii. 118; x. 44-18.
14. That the (lospei Li tfio Glad Tidings of die King-
dom in the name of Je.sus the Chriifc. If therefore a man
would be saved, he must believe this Gospel anti obey it.—
Mark xvL 15, K>.
15. That if an angel preach any other G«.spel than
this, he is accursed,—-Gakitiuus i. 8ji).
111. That all who obey nofc this Gospel shall be pun-
ishetl.—itud Thcsselouians L 7-10.
17, That it is the law (embodied in the Gospel faith
ami practice) by which umn sttall be judged.— Koiuaus ii.
12-Hi.
IB. That the unrighteous or the dcspiscrs under the
law ahull not inherit the kingdom of God—l^t Corinthi-
ans vi. 0-11—which i^ the Kingdom of Israel at the epoch
of its latter day restoration to its first dominion under its
Covenant King and princes.
This outline of the Apostles1 doctrine may be still
further condensed into these four propositions :—
1. That when the Oftifaf should make his first appear-
ance in the world he should appear as an afHicted man.
2. That having drunk the Cup of Bitterness to the
dregs, he should rise from the dead.
o. That Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, the Son of
God and of David, and
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4, That there Is no other name given among men
whereby they cim be saved.—Acts xviL o ; iv. 12.
V. ^ TO UN1>KRSYAND what genuine Christianity
Is, ia its Assoeiaitonal and Individual Relations, we must
make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with the Acts of
the Apostles* It cuntains an illnstration of the manner
and order In lylncti they executed the eutninauds of Jesus,
the Christ, to teach all *lte nations the Wi>rd of the truth
of the Gospel of I ho Kingdom of God in hia Maine.
VI. THE NHXT STEP, in the course, must be to
stithy the Apostolic Kpistles. From these and the Aets
may be learned the origin of the G rcafc Apostaey from
primitive Christianity, which constituted the superstition
of Europe and Asia; and styled by the Apostle "A Strong
Delusion,35 Its elements are termed by Paul a the mystery
of inii|iiity}'5 wltictt were secretly at work in his ti-me, but
opculy from that of Cuiistantinc, until they brougUt Eu-
rope to what we now find if-, in nit iis jiiiseliievoua and
debasing forms of iinpiety and spiritual absurdity. In
iy be \ g this mystery of iniquity was concocted out of
A. I. A combination of Judaism with Christianity—
Acts XY. 1-5—leaching that the imuier-ol r>clievers musl
also be Circumcised, thereby snowing that l i Inimersiou in
the Boom of Circumcision7> was not thought of in the
Apostolic age (the proper type being the washing or im-
mersion of Aaron awd his sons for the priesthood.)
3). 2. A further combination of Uentilism with this
Judaizcd Chrisiiauit3', from which resulted a compound
of the three—a fourth something unlike either of its con-
stituents, in the addition of the mysticisms of Pagan phi-
losophies and th<i Idolatrous fables of Pagan mythology,
adapted by the cunning craftiness of inen to corrupt the
simplicity of a the truth as It is in Jesus.31
VII. LASTLY3 we may proceed to the investigation
of the Symbolic Prophecies—such m those of Daniel, and
the Apocalypse, To master these, we must acquaint our-
selves with
1. The Scriptural aud Symbolic Speech.
2. The things revealed in it.
3. The History of Assyria, Persia, Macedon, Rome,
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and Modern Kurope, from the ex duet ton of the Western
Empire.
4, The rliiltt interprctaliuu of i!u:<c prophecies also
f d
# Upon our freedom from all dogmatic theological ;
h Upon our Laving our senses exercised by reason of
use,—Hebrews if* 15,
e Upon our skillful ness in lite wont of righteousness.
YllL {THE APOSTLES 1 FELLOWSHIP.) To
have fellowship with the Father, and his Son, Jesus the
Christ, we must have fellowship with the Apostles, by
believing ami doing the tmtU promulgated by them.*
This is styled ** walking in the light uf God"—in the light
by which wo have fellowship one with another.—1st Joltu
L 3-0-7.
"We might }«: in approved ft- ip with all Christen-
dom—Ihqad and .Protestant, Chun-h and Dissenters—and
yet have IH> fclluw.sliip with Ood* "iW if we say we have
fellowship with Htm, and walk tn ckrbiess(ignorance), we
lie3 and do not the truth; Ti—because Pupatism ami Prot-
estanism, ivlub thuiuing fellowship vatli God, are mantled
in the darknooj of human lradlti#al and pervert and per-
1
: secute tltfi trulfi, teaching for doctrine the commandments
of men. I t h tin. initff therefores of all who would embrace
the Christianity of tie Bille to lay faJd of the things we have
already •aidkidCii hy waifs faith and obulionce, and separating
ilteimdvu from M TapaZ and Proic&aut sects^ either to main-
tain their mm. individuality^ er7 -if mffidently numerous, a$$&»
date them&ehes together as a community of witnesses, " who
keep the commandments of God^ ami have the testimony of
Jesus the Ckrid.r—-llevelations xii. 11-17. Such an asso-
ciation would be entitled to the scriptural appellation of
- T H E LAMB'S BRIBE,"
which is called upon to prepare herself for the approach-
ing consummation—Ecv. xvi. 10; m%* 7, 8. She must be
* BellcCof llm tiiiu^-n concerning the l\ingthm\ of God, an«l the Name of
Je&UH The Cljn^t,ni»l Iminertjion into the N;nm-. of tlio Father- Son, ami
Holy BpU'itj the cocfnual name ofJt-dtKs ihn Chriet~-i*fA<: ob'tdleme of
Fuilh.
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a
sawlifie& mill demised in Be later of the water ly Hie wori"
—that she may l>e Holy and without Blemish" Such a lM>dy
must " edify itself in love w—Kplicstaiis iv. 16—-and meet
€\r«r^ first day of the week to commemorate His dentil
and resurrect tun; to show forth the praises of God, and
make their uuiicd requests lutowa io Him through Jesus
the Chri&t, the High IViest of their profession; and must
also proclaim to the children of men the word of the truth
of the Gospel of the kingdom of God in the name of Ills
C&ristj for grace of salvation; and iu doing this the duty
and privilege of such an association is—-
1. To observe all things whatsoever Jesus hatlt eoiu-
manded Ms Apostles to tcacb.—Matt, xxviii. 20.
% To advance from the principle of the doctrine of
the Christ, and go on unto perfection—Tick vi. I; pressing
toward the mark for the prize of the higli calling of God
in the Olirkfc Jesus—Phil III- i t ; and so making Itself
ready for the festival of its union with the Lord.—ilev,
xlx* 7, 8\
3. To "estrueatty contend for the fukh once for ail de-
livered to the saints3'—Judo 8; :md to 'J make known "
unto every man in every place - die liumiibkl \usdui>i f
God/*— Kphes. iii. 10.
SUCH AN ASSOCIATION " will be presented holy
and unblamable and unrq>rovable in His siglit if they
abide in the faitb groumled and settled; and U nd mmdt
away fmm the UOVE of the &m*fii* wbicb v/as preached (by
tlie Apostles) to every creature under beaven"—Col. 1.22>
20; and "patiently contimic in well doing," and so^seek
for glory and honor and incorruptibility"—Horn. iL 7.
FOlt " FAITH " is the sul^taiicc of things hoped for,
and the evidence of things unseen. The just shall live by
faith—Ilab. iL 4; Horn. i. 1G, 17, Without faith it is
impossible to please God—Ileb. xi. 6.
Faith eomes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of
God—Row. x. 17.
Faith works ly fo^,and purifies the heart—Acts xv. 7 ;
Gal.v..6,
And "TIIE FAITH" is "the things concerning the king-
dom of Gcd, and the name of Jeans Christ"—Acts viii 12,
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III. That the THINGS OF THE KINGDOM are

tm$od upon the Adamic, a«d Al>raliaiiHe} and Duvidie eov-
e&ants of promi^ as autpliOcd and detailed iii the Scrip-
turcs of the prophoU, and they eoiitain the promise of
eternal life ihro»|fli a resurrection front among the dead,
In llic day when tlod diall set up in the land of Canaan.
liu latter-day kitigdyni by the restoration lo the land of
ADDENDA. the the twelve trills of His inheritance, attd the building
up ©f the throne juid huu<£ of David l>y his Son Jesus the
Olu'ktj whose rljiht it ii, and slntU Hmiiitot by Itim, as the
THE PRINCIPLES OF DOCTRINE. Resurrect ion and thu Life, the UoyaUy of that hoi(scy the
resurrected Saiut^in the perfceito-ii of the Divine Nature,
Til!'] ilKSIM/l1 of search tug ilie Scriptures aa above ia live and reign with him i\s kings arid pnesis for Ood
in the light of the prophetic and apostolic ride for the on the earth, and ^*;.sat:ss with hhn as juint heirs, the
right understanding of the truth as It is in Jesus, viz.— kingdom, and the }»uvviir, and the glory hi" 1000 years, or
u
iltc Interpretation of >|»iriUial things by spiritual words" the Miiicmum:—ami iltat these ikio^ constitute the Oac
iij ii \si\\ establish the following definitions of the faith that has Hope of the catling uf God to Ills langdom and glory,
£Ohw, as the FIILST iuuwiru-is #/* fe (htlrind of the Christ, and tlte fruition of i%vm in the ideisseilai^.-; of the Divine
In then* fulness of final revelation for IiO|ie of life, In eoa- Mature in the |iitrittli,.-:e of (1 oil on tlio si to of the original
iradfcjthiciion to the dogmas and traditions of Pan-alism Eden, is the only 11 MAVKN or rccuiiij'*cnsc of reward
and Protest autism, wkieli drown men in destruction and revealed in the Scripturcs of truth, nud must he all the
I ; I? perdition*—and iiLso that lite exact knowledge of them, salvation and all the desire of "the wiac wlio understand-"
according to the Scriptures, with.the heart aiid the under-
standing also,is a prcrcqitisiie for the Qbediaicc ef a saving IV. That THE THINGS OF THE NAME have
faith—" the washing of water l>y the word,5" to obtain the relation to the development of Jesus ad the Christ of (iod\j
ONK uAPTiflM, without which no one can ^tand in God's kingdom, and therefore the Savior of hu people, and are
salvation, or become ;t partaker with all them who, through detailed in the Scriptures of the prophets and apostles,
faith and pnticnecz inherit the promises. and involve the tWrinc that GOD IS THE ONLY
SELF-EXISTENT DEITY, and in the fulness of time,
I, Tliat HAN is organized dust, himself the living incepted His Bon Jesus in the womb of a Virgin as a
EQUI, and under the law of his nature, which is the law of MORTAL MAN, made of a woman, under the law of works,
Bin and death, dies and perishes forever in the dissolution that lie might redeem them that were under the law3 as
of hi A body. well as under the law of faith; who perfected in suffering
a character pure and holy, and without transgression, and
I t That IMMORTALITY is the gracious gift of being anointed with Holy Spirit without measure for the
God through our Lord Jes«3 the Christ and is conditional work of his mission at his Immersion in the Jordan, spake
on fulth and obedienec3 or Belief of the things concerning the words and did the works of his FATHER according to
the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus the Christ, commandment, and became obedient to death, and was
and Immersion into the doctrinal Name of the Christ— accepted of God as the purification sacrifice, or atonement
the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—for for the sins of I lie world who should believe into him as
repentance and remission of sins.
 17
riUNCIM.ES OK

1G ta\

the cyveuaatcil C-hrisi, and ihuvIWc the Savior aatl Lamb

of God without Mumish and wif ii:«ut spofe, to bring hinncra
an one can iherefore neither 6 » , ^ g
imto Clod; who was raised un i'toui lUv iloat} of thciightaous-
nc^3 of (l»)d in the body of his iL\:lh, because he knew no f God, aud co»» * ^ i n - h i s perfected
gin, and was parft^ted in hh n-VA-AiAuti to the Divine Na- by .Pint of b l i ^
ture by a £pirit-birlfi In ihc ftihii.-j of the Godhead, that
' lie might ba uuiulLvii-d Loih Li*rd ;;:ul Christ, the FuJfiller
of the itViAtihii,% Iha Seed of i fiti W**iitu«, and of Abraham*
and of I W i J , tins 8t*n of flml, lm King of Isiacl 3 mul the
Auihor of eti-fiial salvation, to at! ulij should be eouutedl ofWi-^oni's J
to^f*inK\i, one Baptism, one
a3 the o;;i.t> !fiiV?u^h the fallfi v;!a;;!i h Ia him. the Jtbc. «f fa i X - above all, Lof the
God awl Father of all * » * ^
i Apos
««•
ndatious
That the IcKSIfftliKCTfOS hxi tfecl only, iii re-ard tluouuh all; and « t e » ^ s l t i m elf, the^ Chief (j orncr
a u d Prophets, Jesus tlm 01 ^ , e r to hf
to thosi> ii:i»ivi.lit;;Ij of the liiutiaa iai;e who IVAYQ beea
brought inici s-*ti-fc eoniieelluit wufi revealed iruth ? that Stone, be * ™ ^ ^ J g u & * of a deceived heart
they incur //?-> fi>pit;i4wdit}j &f Us tetgciivU or iis Hfitvo'tUnj
profession-; :unl thai judgment upon ihciu has been com-
mitted ti> th« otiiij as the Falht:r*.i nrpre^eiitative lit Ihc
work of Adariilc regeneration, :md the i'Czhlae of the d-ad
linoss-the light of cc l cs Ia S) for " THE
remit HI ia the du^i to ii<e lip ito tittle.
at the j i n *
VI. Tliafc Iliu IIESURKKCTHI) spring to li-hi3 il^ii
and bloody or mortal men and womtsn3 to report their for-
mer selves to fhu Judge, the Lord J^u.i the Christ, allus
• in appearing and kingdom; and sit eft #« them as shall be
counted the nghieous 8eed, will ha raided to a spiritiiai
nature by a t?|»irit birth In the fuliu.-s of the (Jhristltead,
that they tnuy hiherlt the LLigduiu; and the others, un-
worthy of denial life, will be thrust out of the kingdom
to suitor their many or few stripes, and then to utterly
perish ia their own corruption.

VII. That the terms SATA N mid ]>EVIL are simply

applicable to "SiS IN TKKILLSII" relgiung in the meiubcrs
of the body, iu Individual, soeialj and political manifesta-
tions; the U€AU:;AL MIND/7 whleh is eiiinity against God;
and that xo SUCH BEING AS AN lUhiourAh AGENT OF E\riL,
wielding the powers of omnipotence and onmiseieneej
exists in the whole creation of (hid. niiA is AN ABSOLUTE
l3H'Oi;;siinijj"i j.Jiicf*, aeeordlr.^ to thcH< rlptures, whosoerer
 18 WHAT IS VUOVltECY f
WHAT IS PROPHECY?
PROPHKCV IS a revelation of GotTs will and designs iii
relation to man,, and the government of the world.
Prophetic truths aro presented iu various forms, suited
to the varied eirctmiataaccs and conditions of those ad-
dressed.
Prophecy may include doctrine, instruction, warning,
entreaty, expostulation, or whatever Jehovah has been
pleased to repeal to man.
But specially and principally, Propheey is the fore-
telling of future events. It is a delineation of the fate of
eities, nations, kingdoms, and empires* sometimes with
all the iniimienqss of historic record.
To reveal future events is solely the prerogative of Him
who "sees the end from the beginning;" with whom all
things are present—nothing past, nothing future.
God accomplishes his purposes through various media.
Sometimes he " makes the winds his messengers, and the
lightnings his ministers;" the sea hears his voice, and ex-
ecutes his high behests; the earthquake heaves the solid
earth, and cities fall ~ valcanoes belch forth their flames
and fiery floods, and consternation and devastation are
spread around.
But man is the medium through whom God has been
pleased to reveal the purposes of his will; and those
through whom he thus communicates are called Prophets,
CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRUE PROPHET.
A TRUE prophet is one who is under the directions of
lie Spirit of God, Without this Spirit he could as
WHAT IS PROPHECY?
easily invade heaven and scale the throne of the Eternal,
as to lift the thick veil of futurity a«d unravel its dark
Mysteries. Yet, aided by that Divine afflatus, he records
with unerring precision the destinies of nations and king*
doms, even before they exist.
la his revealings he uses no mummeries—-no- Incantations
-—no cabalistic signs—no mysterious knoekings* He
Invokes imi the aid of familiar spirits—neither does he
pretend to read the destinies of men and nations by the
configurations &f the heavenly orbs. He makes no preten-
sions to superior sagacity or foresight, nor to greater holi-
ness. Neither docs he boast of the possession of intellectual
powers and literary attainments higher than, other men.
When God makes choice of men to fill the Prophetic
and Apostolic offices, he passes by tlie reputed wise, learned
and honorable among men, and chooses u the footi^li
things of the world to confound the wise; and the
weak things of the world to confound the things that are
mighty/1 &&» and this he does "that iio flesh should glory
in his presence."—1 Cor. i, 27—29.
A true Prophet faithfully reports or records what Cxadi
has revealed to him while under the Devine influence, Ef
the things come to pass which he has spoken in the name
of the Lordj then we know assuredly that the Lord lias
spoken by him.
Sometimes, when under the afflatus, the Prophet heard,
as It were? the voice of God speaking to him, directing
him what to do and what to say—as, "Thus saith the
Lord*" "The word of the Lord came unto me, saying.11
Sometimes In dreams and visions of the nignt, tilings
and events were portrayed before them with all the
minuteness and vividness of reality—a daguerreotype
likeness of things before they transpire; as, for Instance,
the prophecies of Isaiah are represented as "visions of
things which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem f%
also the vision which Peter, James and John saw on the
mount of transfiguration, representative of the Glory
which Jesus and the saints will have in the future age;
and also, the vision of things beyond the power of utter-
ance, which Paul saw and heard In Paradise, &c.
 WHAT IS PROPHECY?
A<?ain> symbols arc sometimes employed to represent
nations, kingdoms, empires, peoples, goveriiU3<mi33 powers
ffeatmgfc heraldic signs of tilings to come, represented
by the sun, moon^ stars3 heaven.?, earth, seas, &c.
PEGPHETIC SYMBOLS.
jUb&uf
M
tioMeg, of kings, prloces, and
The Heavens—Symbolic of the Political Constitution of a
nation or kingdom. As the constitution of a nation is
tlie basis of law and government, so the heavens are
said to rule,
Th& MuHh—Symbolic of the People upon whom these
Ije&reoly €onstclia( touched their glory.
The Sen—The People in a state of agitation.
J£&rihqttak&^-A. Revolution—a change of Government—
& turning of things upside down,
Mali— I u v asioo.
Wild ft'ads—A roving warlike power of a character and
disposition akin to the representative beast
Wimj$—Speed. When attached to a beast, irresistible
and rapid conquest, Sometimes they denote shelter
mid protection. *•
Harm— Po wer—S tr e ng t Ii.
Darkening of Sun and Moon, and falling of Stan—The over-
throw of thrones antl prineet]oms} and the^extinction
of nobility, by reducing them to the ie^cl of the
people.
The Moiling up the Heavens as a Scroll—The roll log ap and
laying aside of a parchment, upon which the constitution
of % nation 13 engrossed, when no longer In use.
Tlwf tuning away of ike Heavens and the Earth with a great
noise-*-Great debate^ clamor, aud uproar among the
people, consequent upon the extinction of their consti-
tution and the loss of their nationality.
New Heavens and New Marih—A new constitution and
arrangement of thiogs3 which will effect a complete
change In the character of the people.—Millennial A&-
vocaie.
THE KINGDOM OF OOD- 21
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
UNDER THE
MOSAIC AND ABEAIIAMIC COVENANTS
Of CONSTITUTION.
AND DAVID SAID—"Blessed be thou/ the Lord
God of Israel our Father, for ever and ever. Thine, 0
Lord, shall be the greatness, and the power^and the glory,
and the victory^ aac! the majesty; for all ia the heaven
and ia the earth shall be thine. Thine shall be the kingdom,
0 Lord, and thou. shaft be exalted as Head al>o\re all."
Aud David* said to the congregation, u Now bless the
Lord your God? aad they did so and bowed down their
heads and worshipped the LORD AND TUB KING." "And
they made Solomon,t the son of Davki3kiog the second limey
and anointed him unto the Lord to be the chief governor^
and Zadoc to be the priest. Then Solomon sat on tho
throne of the Lord as King, and all Israel obeyed him j
and the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight
of all Israel, and bestowed npon him such royal majesty
as had not been on any kiog before him in Israel"—1 Oh,
xxix. 10-25. Hence, THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
IS GOD'S KINGDOM.
TERRITORY OF THE KINGDOM.
The land from the river of Egypt (the Nile) unto the
great river—the Rivfiff Euphrates—Gen. xv, 18. The con-
tents of the land between these two rivers promised to
• David—the type of the Christ at the Dedication of tbeEzekiel temple.
t Bolomon and Zadoc—Ilia iyp8,as King and Pneai.
 2'2 TfIR KINGDOM OF UQU.
Abraham and the Olirisl—-CaL tiL 16; for the kingdoms
are indicated fey the names of the tribes inhabiting it at
the lime the promise was made. Its frontiers are given
in Kzckiel and Dent.-—Ezefc. xlvii. K ^ I : J>euL L 73 8;
xL 21- The luftd is mine, sah-h the Lord—Lev* xxv* 2S.
I for^ in national affairs, because iHe .mediatorial testator
THE OT SUBJECTS OF THE KINGDOM,
Audi God called Jacob's name Israel, and sakt uotaltim,
nations, even & eottirpany of nations, shall be of thee, and
kings shall come out of thy loins, ami the land which I
gave Abraham and fdtiac, to thec will I give it, and to thy
seed after thec (seed, singular) will I give the laud—Geo.
MHXV, llj 12. This "company of iiaUmta*' is the nation
of the Twelve T r i t e to whom God said at lloreb, " Yd
shall be unto me. a Ituly nation;" therefore lit styles them
in the Scripturen, :i lib nation," saying ;* Hear, then, and
give ear to iticjj 0 itiy nation."—Isa. IL -I.
ri
Remember we, O Lord," says the l^almist,. " that I
may rejoice in the gladness of thy uuitv».**~i*s. mt 5.
CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM,
A nation requires religion, laws, ami government for Its
well being. Israel being God's nation, he only could of
right confer sovereignty upon It. H&g$?e the tribes their
religion, their civil institutions, and their governors, which
lie constituted by a covenant styled the Old Covenant,
because he intended to supersede it by an amended cove-
nant called the New. The New Covenant* grows out of
promises made to Abraham concerning the everlasting
possession of the laod by the nation under the Christ,
The things of this covenant are matters of faith and hope
to Israel, and " the called " from Abraham, till the Christ
shall reign over the Twelve Tribes iu the land for the
Olahm, when they will become mailers &ffmL The things
of the Abrahamic covenant were peculiarly, and in a few
years after him, exclusively the hope of the descendants
* Called Hie 'New Covenant, because, ihousjli macto previous to the
Mosaic, kept in abeyance in the letter of the Word, until the seed should
CQIBC to whom tttc proHjftit*a were made.
TUB EIK^BOM OF GOD.
of Jacob, among whom, when In Egypt, transgressions be-
!; gan to prevail. They served the gods of Hgf pfcj &&A did
evil—jfosli. «ti^-14. Because of these tran-sgressioas tlte
Mosaic law was added-—Gal. ill. 19—to " the hope of ttie
covenant}1 and aaenfice} which covenant was of no praetkal
had mi cow and had not died-—tleb. ix* 16-17. The Mosaic
law or covesatst was designed for the instruction of the
nation m the tliings pertaiaing to its liope, as welt as for
the organisation amd regulation of its affairs as the king-.
ciom of God, The law was their schoolmaster until the
Christy the promised Seed of the covenant came—-Gat iii.
24; and contained withio it u the form or representation
of the ¥mowledgeyatid of the trath "—Rom. iL 20, When
the time eomes to place the nation of Israel under the
new eo-re&aBt of the kingdoiu, the Tepreseatative things,
will have been remove,!, tnt-d *f the knowledge and the
truth n will alone remain.
"COVENANT" DEFiMED.
A Covenant is a systoni of government indicative of
God's chosen, selected, and determined pkn or purpose,
Hxed by his absolute and sovereign will, and imj m&ik on
the people without the sligliteat consultation between them
as to its expediency> fttnes^ or propriety. JEIIOTAK is the
testator, and the people or tribes of Israel are the legatees.
Hence his covenants, testaments, or wills to the nation,
require the death of the TESTATOR because they are of no
force while he lives. But Jehovah is a dcatkhss being.
He never died, nor can lie die—1 Tim. "vL 15, His eove-
nantSj therefore, are ordained in the bands of Mediators
subject* to death—Gal. iii. 19,
A MEDIATOR is Jehovah^ substitute t ^ho represents
Him in all his dealings with his nation.
MOSES was the MEDIATOR of the Old Will, which was
dedicated by sacrifice, consumed by fire from heaven, and
V r only partially carried out for forty years in the wilderness,
toe© tho necessity of the mortal nature of the Christ of 0od..
^ ya—vttuCs substitute. Hence the direrge&e© 1$ as far'aa
the east is from tho vest.
 lii TIIE KINGDOM OF GOB.
but came into full force after Iiia death, when Joshua gave
tlie nation a rest, representative of a future Sabbatlsni for
it in the same land utider tlie €biis£ for 1000 years.
*fgs& is the MEDIAYOU of the New Will, which was eon-
firmed la the consuming1 of Abraham's sacrifices by foe—
•Gen. 3tv, 17; 6aL lit. 15-IS- It cannot, therefore, be dis-
n»nit!le4 For forty generations between Abraham and
Jesus the Clirisi, thta confirmed Will was of BO force at
nit But when Jesus, tlie Mediatorial testator of the Will
died, it acquired force, arid became partially effective to
tfct importation of tlio remission of sis$j and a title to
etema! life in the kingdom ; to all who believed in ike things
mmmmled or bequeathed, and hi Jesus m the Christ, both
's :iiid GKNTELKS. It has not yet come into full force.
It M destined, however, to become fully developed in all
its efficiency, when Jems shall come again and save the
Twelve Tribes from itidr enemies, and from ih& power of
alt ihat hate tlicin^ and to perform the mercy promised to
their fathers, cveu the h<Ay covenantj. tlie OATH wlilclt God
swore to- their father Abcahaiu, &c.—Luke L €9-75,
THE ICif£€DOM UMDEH THE MOSAIC COVENANT.
The Blosaic code was the Covenant cf the kingdom of
God for 1017 year^ exclusive of the seventy j-ears In
Babylon. The Twelve Tribes received it under the Levit-
leal priesthood—Hek viL 1 1 ; wliicli was Iiitperfect, and
therefore destined to be changed at some future period.
Hence this change would necessitate also a ebaoge of cov-
enant,—Verse 12.
THE LEVfTICAL PRIESTHOOD.
TMs was constituted after the law of a earnal com-
laandxacat. Aaron was called of God to be the first high
priest of the nation, and the office was perpetuated in his
family ^o long as the Mosaic Covenant should continue
the eonsuioition of the kingdom. The office was held for
life; but the service of tbe ordinary priests only for a
term of years. The Leviitcal priesthood was changeable,
• :
• - • • - . - , • * -
f H £ KINGDOM OF GOD, 25
being left of oae to another. Henee ifc is said to be} with
fattier, with mother, mid with pedigree, baviog both be-
gliiiji»g of days a&ct ei>d of life,
THE SERVICE, '
The High Priest* was at the head of all religious affair^
aiad eyen of the general justice and judgment of the aation.
He only had the privilege of entering the MOST HOLY
apartment of the Temple, once a year, on the day of
solemn expiation, to make atonement for the sins of the
whole nation,
Tite priest of flic house of Aaron served immediately
at the altar—killed, skinnedj and offered the sacrifices,
They kept up a perpetual fire on the Altar of burnt saeri-
icesj and in the lamps of the GoMen liglit stand in the
lioly apartment of tlie Temple. They kneaded the loaves
of shew-bread, baked them, offered them oa the golden
table, and changed them every Sabbath day, Every day3
night and morning, a priest appointed 1 v casting of lots
at the beginning of a week, brought into lite holy place a
smoking Censer of iacease, and set it on the golden altar5
called H The Altar of Incense."
A principal em ploy men t of the priestSj eexfc to "attend-
ing to the sacrifices and the Temple service, was the in-
struction of the people and the deciding of controversies/
—Matt. ii. 7. ,
* In time of war, their duty was to carry the ark of the
covenant, to consult the Lord, to sound the holy trumpets;
and to encourage the army.
- The priestsf who officiated at the altar and in the Holy,-
and Most Holy, were Aaron and his sons, or their descend-
ants.; The rest of the Levites were employed in the
lower services in tlie Temple, by which they were distin-
guished from the priests. They obeyed the Aaronites in
*The type of the Cl*rl*?t In liis roillcnial glory, as the High Triest ofTIis
kingdom—as well ae of IItin ivow in tbo glory ot Mm Father, us **.. |%!i
Priest over His own bouse, to make intercession ibr the saints a^ording
lo the will of GodL : . - .
it The type of tlie < d Hia Tbrethren m rc^tirrccliotinl manifefitn-
tlon iu the'age to r« iating in the holy |ihic« in theiv gnrirents of:
glory and Leant',- nf inconuptkm.
3
- \ - / « - . > • • • - * " . ;•-;;.«-,, > i : -
 26 THE KINGDOM OF OO0,
the ministration of the Temple, and sung and played oa
the insiruateats In the daily service. They studied the
laWj and were tfie ordinary judges of the country^ subor-
dinate to- the priests. It was contrary to the law, ami
punishable will* death^ for the priests to officiate without
•washing their hands and their feet in the layer of brass
between the altar and the Temple. These washings were
impoped a till the time of enicjuialiem."
SACRIFICES.
Sacrifices are properly victims whose blood has been
poured out unto death. The Hcljrews1 strictly speaking,
iiad but three kinds of sacrifices: 1. The burnt offcriog,
or holocaust. 2. The sacrifice for sin, or sacrifice for ex-
piation. 3. The pacific sacrifice, or sacrifice of thanks-
giving. Brides these were several kinds of offerings of
II corn, of meal, of cakes, of wine, of fruits; and one manner
of sacrificing which has no relation to any now mentioned,
that, ts, the setting at liberty one of the two sparrows
offered for lite purification of leprous persons; aho the
scapegoat which was taken to a, distant and steep place;
whence it was thrown. These animals thus left to them-
selves were esteemed victims of expiation, loaded with the
sins of those who offered them.
In the sacrifices that were offered annually there was a
remembrance of the nation's mm every year. On this
occasion the High Priest went into the Most Holy with
blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of
the people, This was transacted on the tenth day of the
seventh utontli every year, which was the great day of na-
tional atonement. The burnt offerings and sacrifice were
for the nation and individual to make reconciliation or
atonement for them, yet the reconciliation was as imper-
fect as the priesthood and the sacrifices; the former Being
changeable^ and the latter inefficient to the taking away
of sins.
THE ROYAL HOUSE OF THE KINGDOM.
Though the kingdom belonged to Jehovah, "the blessed
and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
0 TH£ KINO BOM OF GOD. 27
who only hath deathleesness dwelling in the light which
no man can approach unto, whom no man 'hath seen, or
can see"'—t Tim, vL 15; though He is Israel's ueternal,
Jncorruplibiej and invisible King "—1 Tim. i. 17; yet he
had predetermined that big kingdom should be ruled t>y a
visible representative of his majesty, He resolved, how-
ever , that the occasion of developing his purpose of choos-
ing a Vicegerent^ should be $, manifestation of their disaf-
fection to himself.—1 Sam. yiii. 7. He provided for the
exigenej in the Mosaic law, saying to Israel^ " When thou
art eome into possession of the laud, and shalt saj% I will
set a king over me, like all the nations that are about me; B
thou shalt In any wise set him king over thee tckom the
Lord thkfGod shall chmse-—on& from among thy brethren*
shall tlioa set king over thee : thou may'sfe not set a
stranger over thee who- is not thy brother—Dent. xvii. 14,
Hence the law contemplated the establishment of the
kingly office^ which was at aotae future period to be inher-
ited by the SEE& OF ASSAM A M, who is to possess the gates
of his enemies, and in whom all the nations of the earth
are to be blessed—Gen. xxii. 17-18. But neither the
Covenant confirmed to Abraham, nor the Covenant pro-
mulgated through Moses defined the tribe aad family
whence the person should be manifested as the progenitor
or father of the Seed j though it was understood in Israel
from the prophecy of Jacob that He should eome of the
tribe of Judahf and that there should be " unto him the
obedience of peoples/5
To determine, then, the things which were undefined in -
the Covenant with Abraham, and the superadded Cove-
nant with Moses, Jehovah availed himself of the rejection
of himself by the Nation3 to choose for it a kiog from
whom Shiloh should descend to rule the Tribes when
established under the new Covenant of the kingdom. He
gave them a king in his anger and took him away in his
* Type of Jesus, Hence, of necessity, A mortal man, and of the seed of
Abraham, according to the flesh Jesus was chosen of God, irho raised
Him up from the earth to sit on David's throne—the earth here being
typical of the low condition in wfeich- He was born, though of the royal
house; and this again is typical of the saints who are of the lowly and"
despiecil^ though of the royal house also, by induction into the*name.
fThe Christ being of Judah, the saints by adoption are of the tribe of
Judah and the house of David, because included in the name.
:
':
 T « « KINGDOM OF GOB,
wrath: Saul—IFos, siii. 11. lie then chose & better
man—-David, the S0a of Jesse, of the tribe of JudaL
He was born la tfces twenty-ninth year of 1511*3 Judgeshipj
. and was eleven years anil three months old at th§ capture
of the Ark by the Philistines at the battle of Ebe&ezer.
l a the eighteen years aod seven montlis which succeeded, he
hillcAthe lion anilh&hmr* miote Goliak, was anointed^ Jeko-
va&& Mig elect to rule hlspeonle Israel, and passed through
naaefc tribulation, that he miglit inherit the kingdom if ap-
proved. Saul was killed in battlejand David succeeded him,
first as King of Judah, and two years afterwards as sole
King of Israel Ifef had long wars with the surrounding
nations, which at length ended in their conquest and an
enduring peace. In. his career as a king, raised up to
execute Jehovah's vengeance upon the heathen, lie acquitted
himself as a man u after God's own heart," and with all
Ills faults, as one pi wham the world was not worthy,
because he honored Gud by devout and earnest faith la
Iiis " Word/3 whi«h lla has magnified above all his Name
—Hcb. xL E2-38; Psa. exxxviii. 2; Acts %nl 22.
David being approved as a suitable progenitor of the
a
s£ED," Jehovah made an everlasting covenant with himf
which he confirmed by an OATH. By this he established
the sovereignty of his family over Israel forever.
Henceforth the House of David teas Ike Royal House of
the Kingdom of Gad} and to rebel against David, or a
descendant of iiis lawfully occupying his throne, was to
rebel against Jehovah himself, to whom the throne and
kingdom as certainly belonged as if he had no visible
representative in Jerusalem. Hear what the Strength
of Israel proclaims :—
" I have made a covenant with my chosen; I have
sworn unto David, my servant, saying. Thy Seed (sing.)
will I establish forever (ad olam, or for a hidden period),
and build up thy throne for all generations- I have laid
*David th« type of tlie Christ at his appearing and kiogdom.
I David the typo also of Use Christ in his h • rM who was anointed
as king, in the auoluihig of tl*e lloly Spirit without measure, but not
crowned.
IPavid the tjfm of the Chrial manifested with his saints in the pourinf
out of the wrilluit judijra*«is. Solomon, of the Christ in peace, after the
execution of the written judgments.
KINGDOM 0 ? 0 0 0 .
lielp upon one that is mighty"3 I have exalted one
out of the people. I have found David aiy servant, 'with.
my holy oil have I anointed him * with whom my hand
(power) shall be established? mine arm also shall strengthen
him. l a my Name* shall his horn be exalted. I will set
his power (who bears Jehovah's name) also ia the se% aod
his right hand in the rivers, He shall cry unto Me tliott
art my Father, ray Grod? and the Rock of my salvation.
Also I will make him my Fnist-i!9R:s%f higher than the
kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for
evermore^ and my covenant slraH stand with him. Ilia
seed also (zaro, David's seed? sing.) will I make to enduto
for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven, My cov-
enant will T not break, nor alter the thing that has gone
out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that
I will not lie unto David. His Seed shall endure for
ever, and Ma throne as the sun before me. It shall b&
established as the moon, and as a faithful witness ia
heaven,n—Paa. Isxxix.
Hear again this word Jehovah sent to David by Nath&Bj
concerning Ins Seed, who was to bear Jehovah^s name:—«
" I t shall coino to pass when thy days be expired3 that
thou must go to be with thy fathers? that I will raise up
thy SEEB after thee who shall be of thy sons, and I m i l
establish his kingdom. He shall build me a temple and
I will establish his throne for ever. I WILL BE HIS FATHER
AND HE SHALL BE MY SON. I will settle him in mj house
(temple), and in my kingdom for ever; and his throne
shall be established for evermore.1*—1 Ghron, xviL 11-14.
From this covenant it is clear as a sunbeam that David
was to have a Seed who should be both son of David and
Son of God ; that this Seed should be a king and heir to
all David's prerogatives; that the throne and kingdom -
of Israel should be everlasting in David's family* that
bis Seed should be raised up from the dead to sit upon
- rhis throne; that he should then build a temple, and that
he should be settled in that temple for ever, i, e.f be a
priest there continually.
t" My First born;1 tho Chriat—tho first fruits, "by a Bpirit-birtli m Oie
Godhead, and " the kings"— the ktnd of first fruits, tho redeemed from
amongst men by a Spirit-birth in the Chrisi-hcad.
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THE KINGDOM OF CIOD.
, makes it absolutely certain that " the Seed after
David of his sons,71 is the Lord Jesti$, aad not Solomon,
by applying the saying in the covenant, " I will be his
Father and he shall be my Soa n —lleb. i. 5—TO TIIK
CHHIST. And lliai David himmU m understood ib3 is
obvious from innumerable passages in his writings. David.
believed the San here spoken of wan to be raised from the
dead to sit upon it * he was to Le an immortal king, and
an undying priest after the Order of Melehisedek, Peter
declares thLs, for in reasoning upon what David wrote in
the IG-tU t*^liiij he said : tt David being a prophet, and
knowing that Hoi had sworn with an oath to him, that
of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh ice waur*!)-
RAISE UP THBGHKIST to sit upon Iik throne; he foreseeing
this spake of the resurrection of tl*e Christy that his dead
body was nut left in the tomb* neither did his §cdb see
corruption, This JESUS bath God RAISED UP n— Acts iL
30. Being raised from the dead, and therefore Son of
God according to a holy spiritual nature, which he should
possess in common with the auge-L*, than whom was then
no longer u lower,n he saw him in possession of his domin-
ion as Jehovah's king in Zion, with the nations for his
inheritaneej and the uttermost parts of the earth for la-is
possession—Psia. ii. 6-8. lie discerned also what would
be his owa character and that of his CrGYernmeiit, for,
says he concerning him,u Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever; the Sceptre of thy kingdom is a righteous
sceptre; tlioit lovest rigliteoustiess and hatest ieif|«ity;
therefore God, even thy God, hatti anointed thee with the oil
of gladness (holy spirit) above thy fellows "—Psa, xlv. 6.
And when thus sitting upon his throne in Zion, he beheld
him with the eye of faith, as one who had subdued his
enemies, and become the Itoyal High Priest of his king-
dom. Speaking of his Son and Lord, he says, a Jehovah
shall send the rod of thy strength from Zion !1—*a Rule
thou in tha midst of thine enemies."* " Jehovah hath
sworn and will not repent, thou. art a priest for ever after
*llciice the fooliahitcsa of popular theology. If the Christ3* kingdom
to, as tin , in heaven, he is ruli: in the midst of hit} enemies
—and yet. ihc piuee vf the Blessed. W. iiderataud or receive such
evident coatratlictioiis ?
OF SI
the order of Melehisedek "—Psa. ex. tf ehovah swore
this when He swore to J)avid, that he wonld settle Mm in
his house and Jn his kingdom for eyer.
T
£huBi by sl TfiE WOMB or? tiie OATH " was David's &m-
3y eoastitated the Itoyai House of the kingdoiB? under
both eosBiitntioDS or covensiB-ts, old and oew j aad the
transfer of the priesthood declared from xiaron and his
sous to David's Son for ever, Hence the carrying oat of
this purpose necessitated ike future abolition of the Oov-
euatit ii Sinai, and the introduction of a constitution
belter suited to the case.
ROYAL C1T¥ OF THE KINGDOM.
Biases said to Israel—Pent xiL 15-1G—u When ye go
over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lard your
God givcth you to inherit, and when He givetli you rest
from all your enemies round aboutj so that ye shall dwell
in safety, then there sirill be a PLACE ~ -\\Q Lord
shall choose to cause MB JS'ame to dwell there", thither shall
ye bring all that I command you'"
The time for making eltoiee of this city arrived^ when
the Lord had gtvea the kingdom to David3 and rest from
alt his wars. Da- . the place, and Jehovah,
approved it. He u found it in the fields of the wood."
lie found it in a manner lie did not expect. The Ark of
the Covenant had been removed from Obed-edom's house
to the Oity of David on Mount Zion, while the Altar of
birrat sacrifice continued at Gibeon. Now, David having
%em moved to number the people, who had sinned,
70,000 of them fell by pestilence in the country parts in
three days. At length an angel* of the Lord arrived at
Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was destroying, JEHO-
VAH said unto him. It is enough ] stay thy hands. A t
this crisis David discovered the angel standing near the
thresliing-floor of Oman or Araunah, the Jebusite, be-
tween the earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his
baud, extended over Jerusalem. David having confessed
his sin in numbering the people, and prayed that the plague
* Angel Ministry in tliia courae of things, but cot sola the world to
eome. Jesus and tlie saints filial! rulo and reign there
I turn KINGDOM
might be stayed^ tlte angel commanded Gad, Bavid's seerf
to tell David to go tip and set up aa altar to Jehovah ia
the threshing-Hod? of J^raanah, the Jcbusite. When Da-
vid saw the angel he would have gone to GIbeon, where
the Mosaic Taberoacla was, to inquire of God before the
altar there, bat lie wm afraid because of the a&gel'a sword
winch crossed the way. David inust have been greatly
relieved therefore when Gad delivered the message to him
in the name of Jehovah. Without delay he went into
u
the fields of the wood," or district of the forest, where
the threshing-Boor was situate, and purchased It for sis
iiiiudred shekels of gftltl by weight, and Imllt there an al-
tar to Jehovah, Whea it was fidbtej be offered burnt
and peace offerings upon it, and called upon the Name of
the Lord, who suisw' Im by fire consuming tbe sacri-
fiees, and in coiwiaauditi-g t!ie angel to sheath his sword,—•
1 Oiiron, xxL
Oman's thret" . »ov was on Mount Moriah, where
Abraham bad offered up fsaac^ and through the substitute
provided, received Mm from tbe dead in a figure. This
appears from the testimony,—2 Oiiron- ill. 1- The Ark
of the Covenant*—which is a New Testament name for *Je-
suSj the Ho a of David—was placet! In the City of
David, on Mount Zion, where It remained FORTY YEAKsf
preceding the building of the Temple b j Solomon. This
long residence distinguished Zion as the place of the
throne of the kingdom, as the building of the altar on
Moriah designated it as the place of the Temple. Moriah
and Zion are not to be confounded as ose elty. They are
two distinct mountains, and the sides of two cities^ though
in after times they came to be surrounded by one and the
same wall, and to be vernacularly styled Jerusalem. The
Temple was in Jerusalem, and the Throne in Zion, the
city of David's house. They are the subjects of distinct
' prophecies, though oftentimes associated together, and
these prophecies relate to Zion, " the hill of God " (hor-
Elohim, the hill kJJ the royal city of David's king-
*Typc of tho Cltrlst,
iType of the peri riscd in tho latter day settlement of Israel
Preceding tbe mitleir-
ers vii. 15.)
JAbrahamic KioMm.
; in its righteouuncfis ami peace. (See Num-
tUE KINGDOM OF aOD.
doni, ihn hill which Mohim desireth to dwell in "— u
H
in which Jeftovab will dwell forever,"—Psa. Ixviil 15
Of this cHj u glorious things are spoken,1* for " all
springs are in her.11—Psa. IXKVIL
God lias dwelt in Zion is ages past.—Psa. Ixariv, 2*
He dwelt there when the Ark rested there, for He dwelt
between ike mldrdcfwd wings of $M Ch&ruKmt * represe&ta-*
lively by the glory which they sustained*—Psa. Ixxx. 1-
And in speaking to Moses and the High Pri. .used
His voice to be heard, as if proe; from the lid of the
Ark? called ** the Mercy Seat,11 which was overshadowed
l>y the glory.—-Numb, vii, 89. The Ark, the Mercy
Seat, and the Cherubim of Glory, were representative of
the C&rtst; who is3 therefore., termed " the Ark of God's
strength," il the Ark of his Testament," " &e Mercy Seat,11
and " the Bearer of the Glory," iti the Scriptures, Old and
New. When Fie comes in u the glory of the Eather," tie
will a build the Temple of Jehovah, and bear the glory,
and sit and rele upon his throse, and be a priest upon bis
throae."—Keeh. vi. 13. Whea tliis comes to pass Jeho*.
vah will dwelt in Zion again, and shine forth through Je^
sns there, m the Lion of the Cherubim^ of his glory, and
in speaking to men will cause his voice to proceed from
Him, as the blood-sprinkled* seat of his _mercy, divinely-
overshadowed with the brightness of His majesty,
u
When the Lord shall build up Zion He shall appear]
in his glory." He hath chosen it—He hath desired it for.
his habitation. This, saith he, is my rest forever; here
will I dwell, for I have desired it. I will bless abun-
dantly her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread. \
I wi jlothe her priests with salvation,^; and her saints
ehall shout aloud for joy- THER& will I make the horn
(power) of David to bud. I have ordained a light for
mine anointed. His enemies will I clothe with shamej
but "upon Himself shall his crown flourish,"—Fsa.
" The Redeemer shall come to Zion and make ihee
rious f " the nation and kingdom that will not &e?ws thee
•Type of th* Christ in bia c " - "ounded and maoifcated ia
'' : " < r brethren. ;
tBread— Bread of Life in the a of tbe heavens.
.-odics of life.—Dan. xtl.
bodiei of death.—Daa, xll.
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shall perish," " I will mate tltee, tbe PLACE of my
feet, glorious. The s&&$ of tfiine oppressors shall bow
d n at the soles of thy feel, and they shall call thee THE
r OF JSMOVAU, Zios tim H&&Y OF ISIUHL. Whereas
t&oii hast been forsaken and hated, so that BO t»an went
through thee, I will oiakc ihce au eternal excellency—a
joy of many generattoiKSL1*-*—Isa» Ix.
1'fefi* testimony is sufficient to prove that t?ie Royal City
#f the Kingdom under the Old and New Covenants is
Mount 5^ioDf " the joy of the whole earth,7* when il Jeho-
vah shall reign over Israel there from hi <h forever.
ARISTOCRACY OF THE KfNGOOJ^
By the aristocracy Is meant the PRINCES OF THE STATE. In
the commencement of Jdhov&h'g kingdom these were Mo-
acSj Aaron of the Tribe of hmrl% and eleven others, one for
each tribe. The sons of Aaron were also sacerdotal
prittces, to whom may be added the Levites of the houses
of Kofiath, Gcrshom, and Merari. .Besides these Moses
sclcetg-i tlie chief of the tribes, wise men and koow&, and
made them captains over thousands, etc., to hear and
causes, etc. These were they who possessed the
: jgdom, flesh and iiood3 mortal and emrfufiihh men;
so that Jehovah's kingdom under Its first coos il tut Ion
may be defined a dlvloelj organized system of government
in Israel, administered by sinful men under sentence of death.
INTERREGNUM.
This Is a long period of time, extending from the
destruction of the libjal City and Temple by the Romans,
A, i>. 745 to the return of Jesus to Mount Oli¥efc, to fight
against the nations under Gog, which shall then have
assembled against Jerusalem to battle, and having defeated
them with a terrible overthrow, to restore the kingdom-
again to Israel, and to become the king over tlia whole
earfch-^JSech. xiv. 1-9 j l£zck, xxxviii. xxxix.
It is an Interregnum, because it ig an interval of time
TOE KIKGDOtf OF COB-
between the Mogck&ift in its past existence, under the Mo*
mm Covenaot, nu4 its future existence uader the Christian
Covenant, called the Mew. During this i&iarva! of time
the kingdom does aot exist, u It shall be ao more until
He come whose right it Is, and I will give U him"—Hzek,
xxi. 27. Tk&%.i®g$®m and Throne are m rains, and the
Hojal City ant! Temple are trodden under foot of the
GentileSj even the worst of them. But &atth the Lord,
u
I WIL£ SETtJitH md build again the dwelling of David^
(that is ZioBj the city where he dwelt), a^ in the BAYS OF
OLD 31—Amos Is, 11; Acts xv. 15, All tilings are HOW
tend log to tills crisis. When the saints see the Russian
power possessing itself of Jerusalem, u the City of the
Great King/5 let them greatly rejoice, for the Interreg-
num will be about to close in the deliverance of the Holy
City, which shall hecome thenceforward u the throne of
the Lord "—Jcr. Sk 17.
The Christian or Messiah's age, or economy, is the age
to come, The Interregnum is a part of the TIMES OP THE
a
QEXTII«ES, ike Court which is without the Temple of
God, cast out away and unmeasured51—who u tread under
foot the Ifoly City/* or them who- worship in the Temple
—Rev, xi1-2, The Interregnv -o Anti-Christ-
it is the time of the ascendancy of tliat Satanic power
which is to pre?ail against the saints until the ANCIENT
OF DAYS shall come—Dan, viL 21-22; Hey. xiii. 7.
Duriog forty j^ears* preceding this interval, the Gospel
or glad tidings to Judah and Jerusalem were proelaiined?
announcing that David's Throne and Kingdom should be
re-established under a new and better constitution than
the MosAic?and inviting all Jews to become TIIE HEIRS WITH
THE CHRIST OF TUB GLORY, IIONOft, INCORRUPTIBILITY, LIFE,
PRIESTHOOB, POWJBftj AND MAJESTY OF TIIE KINGDOM, O M
CONDITION of believing the things of the New Cove-
nant,! recognizing Jesus as the u Seed1J of the Covenants
made with Abraham and David3 acknowledging his blood
as the blood of the New Covenant^ and of becoming tlie
subjects of repentance and remission of sins through h b
NAME, by being united to it by BAPTISM.
1
*Forly yean procteaation to Judah, the i$pe af that to Israel
latter (Java.
iThc :ich ha«l com© to alsoiiah Oi« law of ordinances.
 m tUB KfNOBOM OF 0OB-
Tills proclamation was made la procure nm&m and
iFfttsars for tlie kingdom, upon the principle of righteous-
ness Imputed on amount of faith ia the promises of Crod*
contained io"T«K eey&xANTs or rtzo&fsis." Those who
embraced the proclamation became kings elect and priests
elect, although descended neither from Aaron nor David;
and received a title to the blessings of* the Covenant^ to be
enjoyed b j them in & kiijher sense Uiau they will be pos-
sessed by the TWKLVJB T1UHKS, when it shall be
delivered to them as the coostittitwn of the kingdom
restored again to Israel, THE figtiis now elected have
asi^ tlie remission of their past rf»sj} and then possession
of the Kingdom, with everlasting life ; whereas the tribes
will then only attain to remission and *;reat temporal
blessings, and |fc@ Itopo of eternal life at the end of ijOOO
years. The e|et& arc now sanctified by Cite Wood of the
OOVENANT; tltey otiiy need eternal life* ami to be like tbe
king and pries! ©I iheir communion now at God's right
hand, and they will he perfect and effcle-^t for eyery duty
they may have to perform when promoted to the honor,
glory? and offices to he bestowed upon them when the
kingdom is restored.
But the "OFFICIAL NECESSITIES" of the kingdom are
greater than can be supplied by the faithful in Judah and
Jerusalem. JEHOVAH requires more kings and priests for
his Kingdom than he succeeded in obtaining from Israel
by the preaching of the Apostles. I t became necessary
to turn to the Gentiles., and to invite them to enter his
house or Kingdom upon the same terms as the Jews.
This invitation commenced at the house of Cornel ins^ and
has been sounding out ever since \ and it is now almost
unheededj probably because the number of the saints to
be counted as the kind of first fruits is nearly completed.
There is less faith in the gospel of the Jdngdom among
the Gentiles now than there was among the Jews when
they were "brofeen off because of unbelief." They hare
turned their back on Jehovah's goodness, and are about
to fall. ; •An er.
Jt-DAjfs LOSS is OUR GAIN. By their loss and temporary'
rejection the Gentile kosmos that believe are reconciled, -
•THE KINGDOM OF £ O » . 87
and Become heirs of the M&gdo&i, tlie gospel of which
Judan despised3 Iboeanse it was preached in tlie NAME of
Jesus. But they will not continue always in unbelief,
for blindness lias only in part happened to Israel until
the fullness* of the Gentiles fee come in. And then alt
the tribes of Israel will be saved. For God will graft
them into their own Olive again, and that too on ttie
principle of faith in Jesus, which will be life from the
dead to the world. The Interregnum will then close.
The 144,000, the representative number of the saved,
will then be complete, and nothing will be wanting but
the setting up ©f the kingdom under tbe Abrahamie Cov-
enant
THE KINGDOM WIDER THE ABHAHAMIO COVENANT.
To aecon :his, Jesus the Christ, the " Kepairer n
and " Restorer " imast return to Jerusalem; the land of
,Israel must be wrested from the Gentiles; the Twelve
Tribes must be settled in Jehovah's domain to be expo;.
no more; and the kings and priests elected for the king-
dom must be raised from the dead that they may eater
upon the administration of its allVurs. THE KIHGBOM can-
not be re-established before the resurrection of the saintd,f
-because from the nature of the priesthood and the ordi*
nances connected with it, none can discharge the functions
of it before God who are not constituted priests M after the
power of an endless life?- as the Lord Jesus was before
"them. The kingdom under the Mosaic, Covenant was
inherited by flesh and blood; its kings and priests were
all mortal men, men who died and saw corruption, I t
was " left to other people." Aaron and his sons3 and
David, and Solomon, and all who possessed the honor,
glory, and power of the kingdom, died, and left them to
successors. The flesh profited them nothing. For though
descended from Israel according to.the flesh, though eu>
• of prophetic time, testifying the certainty of the to**'
toration of n of Israel.
erection and judgment are incidental to tlie setting; op,
of God's kingdom—the means to an end—involving to the
that reniameth—iho paradise of God, spoken of by Jesus to t3:
the c Tosar,
4
•.:-'..J&".v_v
 sg TUJB KINGDOM OF OOD,
eiiHiciscd the eig&th clay, though priests and kings fey
hereditary descent, these advantages gave them no right
to tlie eternal Priesthood and Iloyaliy of the kingdom
tinder the New Covenant which lias been dedicated by the
precious blood of its tin-mortal High Priest and King.
llie Kingdom under this Covenant partakes of the nature
of its Kings whose Mood* has purified Its constitution,
/ I is m c o r r u p t i o n — a k i n g d o m w h i c h can " n e v
M them to build and to plant, saith the I*ord.n u If the
e c e the saying of the Apostle, Flesh and blood can-
not inherit the ilagdoni of God \ neither dofth corruption
inherit incormptton." It Is a physical impossibility,
Cm mortal man possess an everlasting kingdmn, ike priesthood
und royalty of which are nut to he left io successors f Now,
the offices of tlie kingdom under the New Covenant are
inheritable for not less than 13OOO yearst and some of
ihgia forever, and they who are promoted to them at the
" Regeneration }n or Restoration, will possess ibem always^
for the priesthood atid royalty are unchangeable, are non-
Irapsferable—caanot lie left to other people.
Thk being the nature of things, the immortality of the
heirs of ike kingdom is necessitated, The kingdom cannot
i exists the administration of its internal and foreign affairs
cannot be carried on, its* ecclesiastical and civil ordinaDces
will continue a. theory, an unaccomplished prediction, so
long as the Christ sits at the right hand of God, and his
** fellows," the ** jotiit heira " of His glory and power,
and the eo-partaers of a His joy/' are sleeping in the
sides of the pit, the unconscious and undreaming tenants
of the tomb. So long as they continue thus they cannot
possess the kingdom. u Corruption cannot inherit incorrupt
tion** and none but those alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them would declare it.
IMMORTALITY h life manifested through a corporeal
incorruptibility> for all those and those only7 who should dy
faith and practice he accounted worthy of an indestructible
kingdom in the land of Israel that should not he left to succes-
sors:—this h the DOOTEINE of the KINGDOM OP
GOD.
*The Christ's Wood cleanses from all iin,and ffltbanesa of flesh and
splrii ; beace it gives Jlfe.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD, 39
THE NEW OOVEMANT OF THE KINGDOM.
" Beliold the days* come, saith the Lord, tliat I will
sow tlie house of Israel and the Ii&use of tJudali witk the
seed of man and with the seed of beasts* The " house n
here signifies their country, or the territory of the king-
& d t d "
dom. " And it shall eome to pass thafc, like as I have
watched over them to pluck upj ete.} so will I watch over
ordinances of the suo? moon, and stars depart from mef
saifek the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease
from being a nation I before me for ever/* etc.—Jer. xxxi.
Under the Mosaic Covenant the Twelve Tribes were
divided into two nations under two distinct kiogs? from
the 4th of llehoboaiu to the 6th of If ezekiah, being 258
years. But when they shall cease to be cast off? and
instead of being called (t Loammi," shall become a nation
before Jehovah/5 u they shall be no more two nations,
neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more
-afc ill**; "for thus saith the Lord God, I will take} the
children of Israel from among the nations whither they
be gone, and gatfeet them in on etery side? and bring
them into their own land? and I will make them one nation
in tlie land upoa tlte mountains of Israel, and ONE KING
shall be king U them all"—Ezek. xxxvll 21-2*2.
When the two houses of Israel, or the twelve tribe%
are brought into their own land again, the Law or New
Covenant is delivered to them from Mount Zion by their
Lord and King ; " for out of Zion is to- go forth the lawn
by which their organization as a kingdom is to be accom-
plished. Referring to this time, Jehovah saith, some 470
years after David's decease, " My servant David|j shall be
their prince for ever, and I will make a covenant of peace
with them3 and it shall be an everlasting covenant with
them, and I will place them and multiply them, and will
•"The latter days" »f Moses and tbe Prophets.
tThis affirms ike doctrine that "the earth shall never be moved," ia
opposition to the popular Christianity, which deeiarca its dissolution ia
the judgment fir«fe.
JBy means of the great proclamation and th« execution of the written
judgment upon tlie nations who hold them in captivity—the nations of th*
prophetic testimonies.
l£>avid II., or 4i tbe beloved One."
 40 THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
sei my *£BJIPI*E in the midst of them for evermore. My
dwelling also shall be with them; yea, I will be their God
and they shall be my people; and Ike NATIONS* akaUkmw
tliat I tlic Lord do sanctify ISRAEL when my tvmpU
shdil $& m 0i4 midst of them for merinori^—Kzelc xxxvii*
25-8. From this testimony it will he seen—
First —That the Covenant is not jet made with Israel
and •Fudah,
Second,—-That they are In the Loam mi state.
Thirdly.—That they arc not yet sanctified, because the
Temple of Jehovah is not yet in the midst of
titem, and cannot be there until they are restored,
and the Lord returns to fjuiltl it.
Israel and Judah cannot be sanctified until the temple
be rebuilt, for in carrying o-ut the mercy of the Mew Cov-
enant, whea ** the Lord will forgive their iniquity, mid
wilt remember their sin no more ;n a bullock for a sio
offering is to be prepared for the Prince, and for all llie
people of the land at the celuLration of the Passover,
when it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. This appears
from the testimony of Ezek. xlv., where it says that the
Prince shall give a meat offering and a burnt offering aod
peace ofibringa to make reconciliation for the House of -
Israeljf and these must be offered upon the altar, purged
and purified for the purpose^ when the temple should have
been reconciled, or expiated. The everlasting Covenant
of peace with the Twelve Tribes, which Jehovah promi-
ses to make, is termed a New Covenant in being an
improvement upon the old—" Behold the days come,
saith the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with x
the House of Israel and with Che House of Judah? not
according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of 3'jgypt, which my covenant they break, etc.,
but this shall be the Covenant^ etc—Ezek. xxxviL 21-22.
41
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
The New Covenant* Is to be made with the two Houses
of Israel sometime subsequently to the destruction of Je-
rusalem by the Chaldeea3 whea the promise was made. I t
cannot have been made with them yet3 for from the time
it Is made, their iniquity will be forgives a»d forgotten,
and they cannot be forgiven m long a& they continue In
unbelief. The grafting in of the Twelve Tribes is predi-
cated on their NOT continuing la unbelief-—Horn, si, 23.
TEe Mosaic Covenant was engraven on stones, but the
Mew Covenant is to be inscribed on their hearts by the
Spirits for saith Jehovah, " I will put my spirit wit-bin
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall
keep my judgincntSj ami do them, and ye shall dwell in
the land that I gave to jour fathers, and ye shall be my
people, and I will be your God."—Ezek, XXXFL *21. And,
ggai&j i4 I will hide my face no more from them, for I
have poured out my spirit upon the House of L*ratii, saitb.
the Lord31—Ezek, xxxlx, -!), No sophistry can make
this applicable to the past.
By the NEW and everlasting Covenant of Peace tlie
Twelve Tribes will be brought into legal possession of the
land of their inheritance. JERUSALEM will be safely
inhabited; it will become the Lord's throne, and the
nation will be constituted holy with an everlasting right-
eousness in the Lord their King^ for " in the Lord shall
all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory J)—Isa.
xlw* 25. They will be justified in the Lord by faith in
him, and BECAUSE they believe in him they glory in him*
But before they can be justified in kim} ikej must be ;
introduced into him • tlie nation must put htm on as u tlie ;
Lord its righteousness," During the interregnum, an
individual believer in Jesus and the things of the Cove- '
nant is introduced into Jesus as tlie Christ that he may
be justified in the Lord by baptism into Ms Name; so the
believing nation will be baptised in the Bed Sea into
tFemts as it was before into Moses, when all its sios will be
cast into the depths of the sea} and it will come to Zion
*The Mosaic Covenant was done away by the work and righteousness
of I ho Christ when he became the end of the law for righteousness to
every believer, and thus lie prepared the way for the ingiitution of tho
Hew Covenant yet to bo natiyaatiy latifiod as a law of life,
I)
 42
THE KINGDOM OF COD,
i& receive the law, or Covenant of Feme. In proof of
this second passage af Israel through the Bed Sea, see
Faau iKviii. 22; las, xl 15,10; Zcch. x. 10-12; Mic. viL
10. Thus fa. the itati&ct introduced in-to the Name of tha
Lord, In which a its new heart aod new spirit," and its
faith in Jesus are granted to it for repentance and remis-
sion of sifts* and they are accepted. Henceforth they
shall walk up ami dtown a IN ais KAHK." They shall be
settled after their old estate. " Their land that was dea~
olafc shall became as the Garden of I&lon, and the waste
aad tlesolafc and rained eities fenced anil inhabited." Ai
for JERUSALEM, it shall be called " a city of truth," aad
" its name from that day shall be Jeuuv&ii SIIAMMAU—
the Lord is there "•—Ezek. xxxvL SB* Acts r. 31 j £»zck.
By faith in the promises, belief In JFesos3 and baptism
into him as its t*t&iit High Priest, and King, the nation
fa " saved from its enemies and from the hand of all that
hate them."
Thus sayedf, II will have become great and powerful,
" serving God without fear in holiness and righteousness '
before Him all the lays of its life," or mortal career. im-
mortality is jefc before H, for it is destined to exist aad
flourish for ever. Immortality and glory3. honor and rank,
In the Kingdom, are now accessible, and have been for
ages past, to individuals of the nation; but they judge
themselves unworthy of it. When, therefore, the King- x
dom conies^ they can rejoice only in common with the
nation in its territorial, civil, spiritual, aad social blessed-
ness. If they would live forever, they must wait with
patience till death shall be abolished from the earth} and
<l
every curse shall cease n at the end of the inillenium—
Rev. xxi. 4 ; xxlL 3. Then all Israelites and Gentiles
accounted worthy of exaltation to the higher or angelic
nature will become immortal; and as om nation subject to
Jesus and the Saints, will constitute an everlasting king-
dom on the earth, when "all things shall be created new/1
and " the sea* shall be no more."
*Or aggregation of nations In separate orff&ntzstio&s, •&>*" each redeemed
one will he cu 'Ut i. e.r will be Daily in organic manifestation,
an Israelite indeed, is when* tliero is HO g«iilef »»4 mnn the Word sliaii
THE KmauoM m GOD* 4$
III
In the present interregnum, believers of the Gospel of
the Kingdom, when justified tatke Lord, and so made holy
. and saved from their past sins, are still required to offer
sacrifice^ m to do service to their Father who Is In hea-
ven; but if they were physically cleansed from the evil
principle which brings them into death and corruption!
such relk ;rvice would be unnecessary. After their
resurrection, they will be free from this evil; neverthe-
less they will perform rell^:. \$ service \ but it will be for
caiioas and Individuals subject to this evil, and not for
themselves.
How the same analogy obtains in regard to the Twelve
Tribes of Israel, Although justified in the Lord, and
constituted a holy nation, they are still a nation of gene-
rations subject to mortality, because of the evil in their
flesh, whivii nothing but the creative energy of omnipo-
tence can H7'\ iicate. So long, tlierefore3 as the nation l&
perpcUi;r.-A by a succession of generations, there must be
a national religious service connected with the memorials
of death, mul performed for them by a priesthood, suck
as the blood of the Covenant of their sanctiiication
demands. When death shall be destroyed, generations,
shall eease to- be born and pass away, and the life of the
nation will be sustained by a generation that shall consist
of individuals who shall hare all become immortal or
u
equal to the angels." The nation will then be free from
the death principle. I t will- be intellectnallyj morally,
and physically perfect. Its sto^ as well as the sin of the
world, will be thoroughly removed j there will, therefore, i -I
be no ground for a service in which gifts and sacrifices are
offered for the erring or ignorant, The " law of sin and
death " being extirpated from the nature of man, he will
not err, or be the sport of ignorance. " God will he all m
all;" as he now is in the Christ, so that His will will be
as loyally and acceptably performed as though he were to
execute it himself.* No service, therefore, will be needed
bo fulfilled, wMeb says, u TliougTi I make a full end of all nations, yet will X
Dot make d of thee [Israel].13
*As the Spirit moves they move : the electric chain of the Divine Ma-
ture vibrates from the Supreme Sourc . . |r being into the innermost
recesses of the heart, and causec a to say, u Speak, Lord, for thy -
servant hear©tl»,"
 44 TUB KfNG&OM 0 * OOD.
to remind men of the Impurity and mortality of their
nail 1 that their acccpteduess is predicated an the
perfect #Iic<ltence of another, even unto death, whom God
liath set ft>rtlt as a propitiatory through faith in His Wood.
But until this consummation be attained, a service will
be uccessarj, *f memorializingn thcso very things,, And
itik necessity urges us on to the brief consideration of the
PBrESTHGGO OF THE KINGDOM.
This is an order of men in the State who shall flare
become priests " after the power of an endless life,11 hav-
ing been during the inierrejriium washed* 10 baptism,
sanctified by the anointiu|f Spirit, and consecrated by the
Mood of the Covenant These are "priests to God n who
saltli the Lordj "shall enter into my temple, and they
shall come near to my table to minister unto me, and they
shall keep niy charge n—h'&efc x¥tv. 16,
They are then the priests of Zion clothed with right-
eousness and salvation—Psa. exxxii. 9> 16.
" The meek whom the Lord hath beautified r—Psalm
They are representatively styled " the Sons of Zadoc,"
and arc kings also, asw^lt as priests, and therefore priests
after the order of Meleliisedec. The priesthood of the
kingdom is consequently a Royal Priesthood, and as it is
M
for ever," its officials are immortal, and u equal to the
5 shall not come near to me to do the Office of a priest unto
angels* * They are perfect as their Father who is in
heayeo, having no evil in their fleshy nor impurity of
character*
The lioyal priesthood is an order under one Chief,
who is called High Priest lie is the ELDER BROTHER of
the Order3 all the rest being u his brethren." He was
once like them in the days of his flesh of sin, " a little
lower than the angels;" but being also made "after the
power of an endless life/5 he enjoys the spiritual^ angelic,
or higher nature, and tits as High Priest for ever on bis
Father David's Throne, and bears the glory. The Sons
of Zadoc, or Jesus and his brethren, are constituted
•According to the Aaronie types of consecration, for the ser ice to
God is the Holy and Most Holy place of the Temple.
THE &mGmu OF GOB, # 45
priests for ever by the word of the oath$ so that the Royal
priesthood of the kingdom is without predecessor or suc-
cessor* Its officials do not derive their inheritance from
Aaron and his Son3? nor from the Old Covenant of the
kingdom. They Inherit under the New? which gives' them
all the privileges and honors they possess. The word of
the Oath made their Chief, though a son of Judah and
of David, High Priest* contrary to the Mosaic Law
T?hick created Aaron; It makes them priests also of the
same Order by condduiimi^ when in the inlerregnnm they
were made u the righteousness of God in him." Being
In liimj they are complete in him, and ** joint heirs n with
him of all his titles and honors, and real and personal
estate.
Contemporary with this Order of priests^ there will be
in the kingdom a etas^ of priests not royat^ aor having the
power of an endless life. This Inferior elasa is Lemiieal^
mortal, and corruptible, degraded from their former rank
under the Old constitution to an inferior station In the
New, to minister before the people instead of before the •
Lord as In the days of old. The reason of this degrada-
tion Is the misconduct of their Order under the Mosaic
Covenant. When the people turned to the worship of
Idokj the Aaronie Levites became their ministers, instead
t of vindicating the honor and institutions of JEHOVAH :
therefore, says he^u they shall bear their iniquity," they
me, nor come near to any of my holy things in my most
holy place "—Ezek. xliF. 10-13.- > -
These Levitical priests under the old Coven ant offici-
ated at the Altar, entered the Holy Place, and burned
Incense, and ate the shew-bread at the Lord's Table, and
their Chief also passed into the Most Holy with the blood
of the Atonement* This was coining near to Jehovah,
and ministering unto Him; But their Order had caused-
*In the Christ are, noverthe'ess, concentered the lines of Aaronicaa
well as Davidic descent, to prevent the possibility of say Jew attempting
toclaim by such descent hia title to this priesthood or theToyalty under
the Mosaic Covenant, still hold in reverence by the Nation. .,.- ._.•
tThe vision of the Prophet Ezekiei must, therefore^ refer to a Temple
yet !o be erected and. a service yet to be instituted^ for the Levites liave
never yet suffered this degradation.- - .,
 THE Kwonou m
the people to serve idols, and had officiated as idol priests.
They had clone this while the Magdoin existed under the
Mosaic code, a»d the punishment of the offence is decreed
to fall upon the Order under the Mmf or amended conuih
tutkm. They may not approach the altar to offer the fat
and the blood of the saeriilee^ nor enter into the Holy
and Most Holy to stand before the Lord. There is a
vacancy here. The High priesthood h vacated, and the.
Altar and Holy places are devoid of ministers. There
are the Nations* aiid the Twelve Tribes, and the minister*
ing Leyitcs, wlto minister to- the woruhipperSj but cannot
approach to the Lord. There is a space to he occupied
hy an Order that may appear before the Lord, burn the
fat, and sprinkle the blood upon the Altar, and enter the
HolieSj stud minister for the world sm priests to God-, and
not to the people. The chain Is complete when the order
of the Sons of Zadok is introduced between the peopled
priests and 4ehovah. Com: .^ links from the remo--
test, there is—1st-, the nation; Und, Israel; 3rd, the
Iicvitieals \ 4th, the SOBS of S£:tt!ofc ; 5th, the High priest
or Prince of Israel - and Gth, Jehovah. This h the
chain that connects the ends of the earth to the throne of
the eternal, *rhea the KINGDOM &ha!l exist in the KUE TO
COME.
It Is evident that the BOKB OF 5*A»OK# are resurrected
men. Ezekiel is testifying to things which had not existed
previous to his day3 could not exist contemporarily with
him, and hare not existed since. They are at variance
with the Mosaic Law, and could not exist so long as it
continued la force. But they are things foretold while
the Temple was in smoking ruias, and affirmed of God as
certain to come to pass. The reason given why the Sons
of Zadoc shall barn the fat and sprinkle the blood on the
altar, and appear before Jehovah in the Holy place is,
because " they keep the charge of his sanctuary, when the
children of Israel went astray from him."
But these faithful men have been dead for ages. They
must therefore IUSB FROM THE DEAD MHQ BECJSIVE ETEKNAL
LIFE to perform the service to which they are appointed,
meaning of Zadoe—the Jnit One.
THE GOD. 47
THE TEMPtE.
I s the Cove&ant made with David, Jehovah declared
that he would raise up one of his sons, who should be also
Son. of God,. Itnd thai h# glicmlil build a temple for his
name. When the foundations only of a tens pig existed
in Jerusalem, Jehovah sent jSeetianah to Joshua, the son
of Jbscdcck, the High Priest, to say to him, that " the
maa whose name is the BRANCH/1 which he had said should
grow up tmfco Bavid? u should build the Temple of the
Lord/5 a Even he shall build the Temple of the Lord,"
and that the sons of strangers from afar should co-xae and
assist In its erection.; when the glory of Lebanon^ the fir
tree and the pine tree and the box together should be
brought to beautify the plaea of the temple—Zech. vL
12-15; Isa, Ix, 10-13. When the 'flocks of Kcdur and
the rams of Nebaioth? should also come up with accept-
ance on its altar, and the temple itself should be glorified
with If is glory; when this should come to pass, Zechariah
likewise testified that u THE BKAMCH" should bear the glory
and should sit and rule upon his throne, and be a priest
upon Ms throne." Zerubbabelj the goveroor of Judah
under the Persians, was at that time rebuilding the Tem-
4
ple, and finished it In the Oth year of Darius. But Ze-
rnbbabel, though a type of Messiah, who was then, so
to speak, in his loins, was not named " The Branch," nor
did he ever sit and rule upon a throne as king or priest;
THEREFOJIEJ the temple he finished was not the tmiph referred
to, The temple built by Keriibbabel was finally destroyed
by the Romans, since when no temple has existed in Je-
rusalem, The Lord *Fesus is admitted on all hands to be
u
the man whose name Is the Branch," but as yet he has
built GO temple to the Lord, It is true the Christ's mys-
tical body, the Church, is styled a holy temple in the
Lord, for a habitation of God through the Spirit. He
also called his natural body u the temple5J which he would
rebuild In three days, and in the Revelations it Is said
that *' the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the tern-,
pie of the New Jerusalem?1 But this is not the temple
described la the 40thf 41st, and 42nd chapters of Ezekiel.
 4# THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
The building is architectural there, for its courts and
Internal compartment, with its furniture ami ordinances,
are different from the tabernacle and temple built by Sol-
omon and ZerubbabeL I t is a structure^ thmf hereafter
to be erected in Jerusateui restored, not la Jerusalem the
Mhw.f and the builder of it is the Lord, for lie saith, " I
will set my temple in the midst of Israel for evermore,"
He will set ifc there by *Hlic Branch" whom He hath
appointed to builti it.
SOLOMON, ZSRUHUABEL, and " THE BRANCH," are the
great temple builders of the kingdom. The " third"
temple which Jesus shall erect on Moriah will be more
magnificent than any building that has yet adorned " the
City of the Great King." It will be renowned through-
out all the earth, and will be frequented as u the House of
prayer^ for all nations," who shall "flow is to it." And
many people shall go and say3 " Come ye, and let us go
up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Temple of the.
God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways and we
will walk in His path?, for out of Zion shall go forth the
law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."—Isa. ii,
Ik u Because of hm temple in Jerusalem, shall kings
bring presents unto God"—Psa. IXVITL 29, Sixjf things
are abolished from the future temple which were indis-
pensable to those under the Law, These are the Lavc^
the Branching Light Bearer, the Ark of the Covenant,
the Cherubinij the Veil, and the golden Altar of IneenBe.
These are all unnecessary to a service performed by Jesus
and his brethren, the sons of ZadoL Iiayiog been washed
in Baptism before their resurrection^ they hare no use for
the Laver like the SOBS of Aaron under the law. .The
Light Bearer of seyen^j branches is superseded by their own
anointing. They shine like the sun by the spirit glory
with which they are invested. They are the many light-
*Tius ia a moat important distinction.
tThc New Jerusalem U iha Body of the Cbrist in its perfection. [See
Hebrews xil.J
fCan these predictions lhava had an accomplishment, or i e spiritual*
t\zrni. away
y into heaven
n sasexexisting invisible realities, ad tiie theology of the
Churches of Christendom
s n o m a sumes.
ITypea and shadows of tiie law fulfilled in the antitype—the Christ
and Hi* brethren.
£Scven : the symbol of perfection.
THE KINGDOM OF G 49
bearing branches of the HOLY PLACJBS, which need no
artificial illumination in their presence, The MELC&I*S>>
BEE High Priest Is himself the Ark of the New Covenant,
and with his brethren, the Cherubim of glory. He is the
Mercy Seafc? sprinkled with the blood of the New Co^e-
uantj which Is his own, The law, the manna, and the
almond rod is he; the way, the truth, the bread of
heaven, the rcstirreetioB, and the life. What need has the
most Holy Place of a temple of the Mosaic Ark and its
contents, wiftt winged Cherubim, In the presence of a per-
sonage so august as He> the very substance of those shad-
owy things.
The Veil was rent* when his I^ody was broken on the
tree. The future temple Is neither historical nor typical-
It foreshadows no details; but by the building and the
u
separate place,11 both west of the Most Holy place} Indi-
cates that there is a state beyond the 1,000 years into
which they shall be received who may be accounted wor-
thy of eternal life, when sh^ and death, and every curse
&hall be abolished from the earth. Being no monument • • .
of the pasfc3 theriftl Veil repaired is seen only in the scarred
substance of the Prince of Israel, winch it prefigured.
He being the antitype of the Veil3 the type is excluded
from the future temple, which will be Illustrated by the
presence of His glorious body? which can be rent no more.
" In every place, from the rising to the setting sun? incense
shall be offered to the name of the Lord, even a pure
offering,"—MaL L 11, •m
The burning of incense, therefore^ will not be restricted
to the temple as in the days of old. Prayer is the voice
of supplication seeking assistance in times of need. I t
ascends as incense before the Lord5 burned by the neces-
sitous ; prayer will be made forlsraePs kings continually,
and will ascend as incense in every place.
- I
But the Christ and his saints will not be necessitous;
they will have no wants unsupplied, for they will possess
all things, Praise, not prayer, will ascend from the Holy
•Symbolic of the introduction of another priesthood made after th«
rovr«r of an endless life, the Mosaic system or means had then fulfilled
pov
its result, to briag to the Christ the elect of GQCL
5
 TIIM KIMGBOU OF GOD,
therefore there will he no golden altar there on
to burn incense before the LOUD*
THE SERVICE
to he performed wiiftm its courts and walls are by the
** priesfcj,* to God n and to the people, the immortal men,
SOBS of Zadok, and the mortat mea, sons of Aaron. So
long as sin and death aro in tho world, the Melchisedec
service of the Messiali-erectcci temple will continue ; and
the BQ®$ of Zadak, the prince, or JEJST ONE, members of
his immortal flesh nea, will also with him be sacer-
dotally regarded as identified with the sios and trespasses
of the people. Therefore it is that the priesthood under
the New Covenant of the kingdom is not purely Immortal
but of a mixed character, A priesthood composed entirely
of resurrection men of angelic or spiritual nature, ia
whoso Hash there was no sin or evil principle, would not
Be in harmony with th, a, and therefore unfit to
perform a service for the purification of the errlog and
ignorant; for priesthood mu<i be sympathetically related
to the ignorant who worship through It? having infirmity
in itself that ife may oiler for itself, as well as for the
people. The infirmity of Ifie Mew Covenant priesthood
of the fv kigdom resides not ia Zadok and his sofis? but
in the priests, the Lcvites, who minister to the people
and perform the humble s of the Order. Neverthe-
less, the Jt/sr ONE and his BOBS are represented In the ser-
vice as offering their burnt offerings and peace offerings;
selves, but only in their priestly capacity, as
part of % priesthood of mixed character, which partakes
of the Christ's mortal flesh as well as his immortal nature,
in reckoning the mortal descendants of Levi and Aaron
among its constituents.
The Kingdom and priesthood under the Mosaic Law
its . of*an
LS unmixed character^ the members of its cii **
jsiastical orders being all of them subject to
Not howeyer, with the kingdom and its orders
cotfi?- Tf« «mM~~*~ - 3 inheritors
_ ,, **«** jtiucxiiors a r e an Iinter-
•The necessity of a priesthood shows the continuance of thesis n
to man and the existence of death d a lriillenial reign.
TKJg EIHQDOM OF €OD, 51
mingling of flesh and spirit, until the Kingdom shall be
surrendered to the father afc the end, when the people and
all their superiors worthy of exaltation shall be all spirits
or Incorruptible men; and priesthood and priestly service,
but not the ROYALTY* will be done away.
Israel and the nail je-cted to them, will bring of
the Hocks and herds of ICedar, and of the rams of Nebai-
otb, and present them for sits offerings and burnt offering?,
and thank offerings, afc the NORTH gate of the inner court
of the tsraple, and present them to the JLevUes of Aaron's
seed. These, who are not permitted to approach the altar,
nor to minister before the Lord in the Temple^ will have
the charge at the gates of the house " for all the service
thereof and for all that sliall be done therein.)3 They
will3 therefore, take charge of the peopled gifts, and " they
shall .slay the burnt oi- nd the sacrifice for the peo-
ple, and they shall stand before them to minister unto
them, etc—See 2reeh, xiv, i&i.
While the Lcvitcs arc slaying the sacrifices and pass-
ing to and fro in the Fnuer Court? they are to wear linen
garments/* that perspirali^n may not be produced; but
they arc not to go forth mi ) the outer court with these,
but to put them off ar.i ::av them in the holy chambers,
putting on other garmeniU: and the reason given is "that
they shall not sanctify the people in their garments.33
It will he their duty, after washing the sacrifices^ to
transfer the fat and blood to the Sons of Zad'&fc, who, on
the EIGHTH day, which la oar first day of the week? and
the Sabbath of the age to come, instead of the seveitfhj as
under Moses' lawr shall burn the fat upon the altar, and
sprinkle the blood upon it. This is the duty of Zadok's
geecL They are privileged to approach the altar, and to
eater into the temple, and stand before the Lord ; but not
the Levites, the people's priests. They are ministers
of death to the sacrifices before the people ; but the SOBS of
•Verewi 15,16 of EzekM x\iv. apply *o the resarrected Saints alone,
•and are independently para . The 17th verse m«si l>« read to fol-
Verse, as applicable to the Lcvitical priesthood.
tTlio Mosaic ritual : constitution ,-will be the national and
imperial worship of the a^o to come, to manifest the rkr'.
in age* past to toe escaped of %h& nations, that his gift* no-i calling ar«
witaottl repentance,,

52 Ti££ KINGDOM OF QOD,
3 ever-living ministers, salva&ion-elothed, before ike
___ „. The format slay the unblemished yearling Lamb
for the daily mooting offering by EreP tho voluntary offer-
ings of the l*rmc&, and the things devoted of the people^
while the falter cause their rich odor to ascend in clouds
from Hah artail ft&frariaii, the altar or lion of the moun-
tain of Clod. Tlie service of the temple will be daily,
weekly, annual—see EzekieL Before the temple is opened
far public service, the altar* has to bo u purged and puri-
fied," the house reconciled, and the GLORY of the God
of Israel to make IIis august entry by the EASTERN gate.
The cleansing of the altar and reconciling the house, which
are synchronous, commences on the 1st day of Abih
(sometimes called Ni^an, the first month of the Jewish
ecclesiastical year, and answering to part of March and
April,) and eoutictucs for seven days, This is a grand and
important national event, for it is nothing less than rccon-
:ig the House of Israel itself, as appears from these
words; " And tlie priest shall take the Wood of the sin-
offering, and ptifc it tip&n the posts of the house, and upon
tlie four corners of the settle of the altar7 and upon the
posts of the gale of the Inner Court. And so thou.
shalt do the seventh (I tyof the month for every one that err-
eth; and for him that is simple, so shall yc reconcile tk$
house" This event will complete the reconciliation of the
House of Israel in form as well as in principle. The
reconciling of the temple, altar, and inner court will be
the formal MEMOIMAI* CELEBRATION* of the reconciling of
the tribes of Israel, when, having believed in Jesus, and
been baptized tuito him, Jehovah shall have cast all their
sins into the depths of the sea—Psalm- Isviii. 22; Micah
mi 19; Zech. x. 10,
Then will JESUS, who is the GLORY OF GOD, attended
by the 144,0G0f- redeemed from among men, as the FIRST
FRUITS to God and himself, with a voice like the noise of
many waters, and as the sound of a great thunder, ascend
* After tho type of the Mosaic Tabernacle and Temple. At their ded-
icatioa tho glory of the Lvrd illied I heir precinct^ and shined out from
between the cherubims.
andfAfullcertain
neat} offorth©anName.
uncertain number, but Indicative of the perfection
"-" =
THE KINGDOM Otf GOB. 5S
into tlie hill of the Lord, escorted thus into the holy
place. They will sieg the new song before the throne—
even the song of Moses and the Lamb, By the eye of
faith we see thorn, approaching " tiie temple by the way
of the gate, whose prospect is towards the East/ 1 Hou.ut
Olivet loog since la sunder cleft, and all the region round
shining with the glory \ we hear them exclaim, with loud
besannas, £i Blessed be He that comes in the name of the
Lord "—" Blessed be the kingdom of oar Father David
that cometli in the name of JEHOVAH ! Hosaana ia
the highest V We behold the glorious multitude demand
admission for " THE MIGIITIT GOD "*—the Conqueror of tlie
world—within the walls of the City wherein he iateads
to dwell, w in the midst of the children of Israel forever."
" Lift up your heads, O ye gates/' say they; " and be ye
lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of Glory shall
come in F1 Mi I now how stili the crowd ! How hushed
is every voice! "Who Is tUia tuftg of Glory?11 ia tlie
only sound echoing from Saleiu's walls that vibratea: oa
the ear. The answer to this bursts forth as the roar of
many waters, proclaiming him to be " The Lord, strong
and mighty—the Lord, mighty in battle P and fyllcnvcd
by a renewal of the demand for admission, saying,'**Lift-
up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye ever-
lasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come In.n
Who is this King of Glory, do ye ask ? JESUS, the Lord
of Armies. He is THE KING OF GLORY.
The dedication of the house, tlie reconciliation of Israel -,
and the return of the glory of God to the Temple for the
first time since its departure in the reign of Zedekiah
being accomplished, the next; thing is the celebration of-
the fulfilloienfe of the Passover^ nationally, in the kingdom
of God. The reader will remember what the High Priest
in the days of his flesh said to his brethren upon this sub-
ject: u I will not any more eat of this Passover," said he,
"until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
By the time the TEMPLH is opened as the House of .
prayer for all nations, it will have been fulfilled in their
worse than Egyptiau overthrow,* and in the deliverance
*By the execution of tho written judgmenti by tlie Lord Jesus and.
the Suiata5 after thoir resurrection and glcri^cation.
 54 TOE KING DOME 0 ? GOD.
and restoration of tlie tribes of Israel, The kingdom
being restored to them, the Passover is revive*}, and the
Lord Jfeus " eats and drinks at his table in his kingdom1*
—Luke K&il 2&-30—with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all the
prophets and the apostles, etc., according to ifec ore! usance
eontaiocii in Ezek* xlv. 21-12.4. " I n the first mo&thf etc.,
j e shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleav-
ened bread ishall be eaten. And upon that day shall the
Priecc prepare for himself and all the people of the land,
a buttock, for a sin-offering-"*
The feud of Pentecost, fifty days after the passovcr, is
HOT celebrated in the temple service of the kingdom.
It was primarily fulfilled hi the events of the fiftieth day
after the Crucifixion, and will be secondarily CM* nationally
m the latterf raiu of the Spirit on Israel when restored
previously fa the building ©f the Temple by u the man
who.se liutue is The Branch.*' The two wave loaves of
that . r. represented " the First Fruits
unto the Lord." The Sons of Zadok being the substance
of that representation, as Jesixs himself was of the wave
sheafj v -efore the Lord by the Aaronic priest on his
resurrection day, the shadow will cot be reproduced here-
.er In tlie sorvlce * Christ and his brethren the first froita
being there io person, the representation would cease io be
in place.
Neither will there be u a memorial of blowing of trum-
1
ppets ts1* on the 1st day y of the 7th month, as under the Mo-
saiciic law
l
law. representd bby th
The thing represented the " memorial"
i l " will
ill
have been altogether a • Lshed before the dedication
of the Temple to be built by Jesus. I t began to be ful-
filled by the proclamation of the Gospel of the kingdom
by Apostles; and will be wholly completed when the
" everlasting gospel" shall be preached by the " angelf
flying through the midst of heaven."—Her, aw. 6, 7.
There can be no type when Ihe thing typified has come to
pass in ML It has thea answered its purpose and is
abolished.
*A memorial of Himself as the sin-bearer of the world.
tThc rain was tlie pontecostal and individual.
; JTlic Spirit messengera to tUo people of tbo earth, ia their mission at
kinga uud priest* for God.
TQS &v$mt>yi OF CK>I>, 00
The Day of Atommmt on the 10th of the 7 th month
forms ao part of the amended service for the same reason.
I t was a type, and will be secondarily or nationally} and,
therefore, entirely fulfilled In the reconciliation of the
House of Israel. Tli© Mosaic atonement primarily pre-
igiireit tlte reconciliation of those who, believing the
u
word of reconciliationn minlsterec! by the Apostles,
should have their sins and iniquities borne away by Jesus
when resurrected, m represented by the bearing away of
the sins of Israel by the scapegoat. The Iniquity of all
believers was laid upon him when crucified—Rom. vliu 3.
He was then " the goat for the Lord/' but when raised
from the dead, he became u the scapegoat presented alive
before the Lord to wake an atonement." Being raised,
his relations were changed. He thea became the High
Priest, destined to enter alooe Into the m Most Holy " to
:ce an atonement u for his own household" with his own
blood. He Is there BOW ; and will remain there} until all
who shall constitute ikhia house51 shall have come In and
m reconciled. Till then, no man can be where he Is—
John xIIL 83. Whoa he shall have finished making
atonement for his household, a He will come out," and
4i
make an atonement for all the eo: . ion of Israel.**
" His house are we, If we hold fasfe the confidence, and
the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end "•—>Heb. iii. 8«
The household of the Lord Jesus appears In the Temple
of the Kingdom^ " holy, and unblamablej and unreprove-
aWe," as the Sons of Zadok performing service before the
Lord as his priests.
But when the household of the Lord Jesus shall all
be reconciled, their judgment or acceptance still remains
to be proncmueeclj and the secondary reconciliation for the
nation of Israel effected. These particulars* of the Mo-
saic typical atoaemeut are yet unaccomplished. Some of
us who believe the Crospel of the Kingdom are looking for
Mm. We are anxiously waiting for him to come out of ,
the Most Holy Place that we may be clothed with salva-
tion, and enter the kingdom with him, "After death, the
*The bidden wtadoia of the types and sliaSowi of tbe SlnaUio law
urn at be searched out to €a*I their antityptcal relation to the Christ and
His brethren—the Just One (Zadok) ana his soss,

5f> TUB KINGDOM OF GOD.
judgment." Judgment on the Members* of tbeKings
household and judgment, OB the Nations. Will the dead
Is the Christ—will we the living in liliti—- be accepted, or
shall we not? That remains to be seen. Who but God^a
High Priest can teli, far he only knows whose Names are
written In the Book of Life.
Until He eonie out of the Most IIoljj the consumma-
tion of the reconciliation of the faithful dead, the living
believers, and the Twelve Tribes will be in abeyance. Bat
when he appears In His Kingdom, the first will rise5 the
iiosfe be changed, and reconciliation made for the whole
House of Israel as above described in the purging and
purifying the Altar, and the reconciling of tiie house, in
the first seven days of the 1st month. When this is
accomplished, the Mosaic representative atonement will
be lost in the Kttfcstancc. TIIKRK WILL Iffi NO
MORE RKMKMBRANCH QV SIX3 ONCE A
¥i*]Alt—-Ifeb. ix. 28. Therefore Uie atonement of the
10th day of the Tilt month forms n& part of the annual
gcrvice of the Tetujiio In the age to come.
The Mosaic fcaxfc of tabernacles vmsu the greatest of
the Feasts." It was celebrated during seven days, begin-
iiifig on the Ibih of the 7 th moulti t#f the ecclesiasti-
cal year, which m tlie first of the civil year, which in its
Antitype is " the acceptable year of the Lord." This
year of civil or national acceptance, under the New
Covenant, begins with the 1st day of the month, when
the temple, altar* inner court, and nation, are reconciled
by Messiah, the Prince.
This year of civil or national acceptance being under
the New Covcaaut, the Feast of Tabernacles represents,
like the " Mosaic Feast3," the knowledge and the truth first
in relation to Christ^ household, and secondly, in relation
to his nation, the Twelve Tribes. The members of his
household are "strangers before the Lord and sojourners;
their days on earth are as a shadow, and there is none
*Gal. vi. 8. Ho that soweth to the flerfh shall of tbo flesh reap corrup-
tion ; he that sowctlt to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Therefore, weraust ri*« in our flesh and blood hodiiis out of tho crave for
judgment first, and then fur recompense, according to works in tnetrath,
fcSo I'etcr IK, in allusion to this Day of Judgment, aays of tho cursed chil-
dren, " They shall utterly perish in their own corruption." And Jude
mentions Kuoch to the liko cflect.
TEE KINGDOM OF OOP,
abiding,** Like Israel, as it were, during the Interregnum,
they'" sojourn in Mesheeh and dwell in the tents of Ke-
dah f* passing the time of their sojourning there, rejoie-
ing in fear and trembling. But when ttieir Elder Brother,
the High Priest of the Covenant3 shall come out
from the Royal presence to bless thaaij they will fee pil-
grims B® longer, but permanent dwellers in their Fathered
house, partakers of the joy—JBO. xlv. S. They will ha^e
passed tlirougk the signification or" the Feast} and hare
attained perfection*
The ffeasfc of Tabernacles was the celebration of the
Ingathering of the harvest. As a type, this had a two-
fold signification^ viz : the Ingathering of the Royal House-
hold of the Kingdom when the Christil shall gather Ins
wheat into h'm garner n afc their resurrection, and the
Ingathering of the Twelve Tribes, when at that crisis they
shall be gathered from the utmost part of heaven, atid
replanted in their own land. They now sojourn literally
In Mcsliecltj and dwell in the teata of Kedar, hut whea
tlie Kingdom, is restored to them under the New Coveaaatj
they wilt dwell In their owa habitations, and the nations
will come up to Jerusalem to worship their King, K i g , and
occupy theh booths.
bth But the Antitype of the feast, which:
which
is " a feast of fat things for all nations," is not fully com-
pleted until the wheat harYest of the Age to come shall
be entirely Ingathered afc its expiration, when u death,
! - " • , • - ;
shall be swallowed up in victory,53 and the earth shall be
under the curse no longer—Cor, xv, 23-28. The feast of
Tabernacles, therefore, continues to be celebrated in the
Temple Service, for this temple is *{ the holy of the Tab-
ernacles of the Most High;" wherefore its posts and walls
will be adorned with palm-trees, the branches of which
with those of other goodly trees, the Israelites carried on
the first day of the feast, as the emblem of the joy that
awaits the nation, when it shall have obtained the victory
over all its enemies on the establishment of the kingdom
of God, Therefore " in the 7th month, on the 15th day
of the month, shall the Prince do the like in the feast of
the seven days, according to the sin-offering, etc."—Ezek.
X\Y. 251 Lev. xxiii; Zeelh sslr.
 58 THE KINGDOM OF GOP,
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE KIH&QQM*
The members of the Royal Family are in the aggregate,
styled il The Ohrlsfc3s House," in the New Testament.
They are " the Sons of Zadok," the children of the promise,
"who, iu the Chrlst> are counted as the seed of Abra-
ham and i>nvld. I t will he a numerous faintly; though,
as compared with the totality of the Sous of Adam, from
among whom they will have been redeemed^ they will be
but a " Htfele flock f* the few who find eternal life amongst
the many wlio seek to enter tu. They are the " 144,000
redeemed from the earth," not that there are oalyso many
thousands. This is a representative number, a defioite
for an indefinite. They arc " the. meek n who "shall
inherit the earth;" " the poor in spirit " to whom per-
tains ** TIIJS KINGDOM OF GODJ1
JSom will be of this number WHO DO NOT BELIEVE m THIS
KiNduoM, for It Is he that believes "the GospelJJ and is bap-
tized, shall be saved; li he that believes not shall be
BAMNLii—- Mark xvi. 25-10; and the subject matter of the
Gospel consists of the things, of the Kingdom, and name
of Jesus, the Chrisl. u According to your fatik be It
unto you.n Hence, ho wlmm "faith n embraces what God
has not promised, gets nothing but confusion of face;
while lie who BELIEVES THE PROMISES will realize them if
he faint not. The poor In this world, " rich la faith/1 are
the heirs of the gospel kingdom, They become "inherit-
ors" when they rise from the dead and receive the blessing
—life for evermore—Luke xx. o5. Then u they possess
the kingdom nnder the whole heaven" and "rule on earth/*
as kings and priests to God, with the Christ for a thou-
sand years. This is the testimony of Daniel and John;
and lie that does not believe ifc has no right to be regarded
as a believer of the Gospel; he is faithless of " the testi-
mony of God." These, the Saints, are the aristocracy of
the kingdom under the New Covenant. Being immortal,
they possess it for ever, for it is " not to be left to other
people353 that is, to successors. There are Inferior civil
orders In the kingdom, as well as ecclesiastical, which :
stand between them and the people's. These Inferior offi-
KIKGDOM OF 59
ekls are styled " the PKINCB*S SERVANTS," while the
Immortals are styled u his SONS,1* When the Prince of
Israel bestows a gift upon the fornier? they can only pos-
sess It till " the year of liberty f3 but If he present a gift
to- any of the latter, it continues h\& for ever. Though
his Ci brethren n they become his u sons/* as the children
whom Sod shall have given hlm3 when he shall raise them
up from amongst dead ones, for being the suhsiiiutwnarg
icniator of the Will—-thus standing in the Father's plaee,
who has appointed aim to raise the First Fruits from the
dead—he can then say to them, " Ye are my Sons, this
day have I begotten you" from the dead. ** God," says
Paul, " will raise* us up by Jesus, so shall we be the
Prince's Sons^ of whom Ezekiel speaks.
THE EIWP1BE OF THE KINGDOM.
A kingdom and empire, though often connected, are not
the same. The dominion of a king O¥cr a particular
nation and country is a kingdom. Bui when, in addition
to this, his sovereignty extends o^er several nations, king-
doms, and countries, this secondary and extended dominion
constitutes the empire. The kingdom is the first domin-
ion; the empire the second and subordinate.
The same distinction obtains in tiie sovereignty of
Jesus the Christ M The FIRST DOMINION shall come to
Zion, and the KINGDOM to the daughter of Jerusalem m—
Isa, lxii. 6 j lif. 9 t 173 18: Jerem, III 17, 18 ; Micah,
iy. 7, 8. These are the same. The JSrst dominion is lim-
ited to the land promised to Abraham, lying between the
Euphrates and Mediterranean ; while the second dominion
or empire extends over all people, nations, and languagess
to the ends of the earth—(See the Abrahamic promises,
Genesis.)
" He shall have the heathen for his Inheritance, and the
uttermost part of the earth for his possession"—Psa. 11*
"All kings shall Ml down before Him ;"*" all nations shall
serve Him"—Fsa. ixxiL How many rival and independ-
ent #governments will there be over the nations then ?
•Quicken us into eternal life after the judgment.
 60 TUB KINGDOM OP G0Do

" Not one" for t{ the kingdoms of this world/1not kingdoms

heyond the skies, shall become the kingdoms of Jehovah
and of .his Christ, so that then " there shall be one king
over all the earth," and HE " the Son of God, the King
of Israel." Tins is THE TESTIMONY OF GOD, SUCH IS
THE KINGDOM, THE SUBJECT MATTER OF
THE GOSPEL, AND THE GltEAT FACT, OF THE
AGE TO COME. \

FINIS,