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Lectures on the Second Coming and Kingdom of the Lord
Lectures on the Second Coming and Kingdom of the Lord Author:William Kelly General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE GENTILES IN RELATION TO THE COMING OF THE LOED. Deut. xxxii. 8. Hectare This remarkable Scripture establishes a truth of the highest importance, often forgotten now, but continually assumed throughout the great mass of the prophecies of God. The people of Israel are the necessary centre in God's plan for dealing with the nations of the earth. It is a thought not a little humbling and offensive to the Gentile mind; for men evince, even to this hour, in spite of many opposing tendencies in the days in which we live, the latent contempt and natural scorn which the Gentile has for the Jew. Nevertheless, God, in all that He regulated or permitted, kept before His own eye the great governing thought, that all other peoples must find their place according to this plan. To the tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, must come the first dominion. For Israel His choicest earthly blessing is reserved, though it will flow far and wide to the nations. Forthe time being, their grievous presumption, as well as insubjection to God, has frustrated all; but by and by mercy will triumph, when the day comes for God to prove what He is for Israel, spite of what Israel has been against Himself. This, however, is but one form in which God gives us His mind touching the nations. We find a change of immense import which came in at a subsequent date; and God has not left us without explaining the grounds and results of this great event. But the truth here revealed looks up to the earliest formation of nations, and peoples, and tongues after the flood. In Genesis x. we hear of their first fathers o...« less