are brought unto the city, and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it in the midst of sword and famine and pestilence, and what thou hast said has come to pass, and Thou beholdest!—yet, O LORD God, thou hast said to me, Buy thee a field for money, and take witnesses, although the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans. Then came the Word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying, Behold I am the LORD, the God of all flesh : Is there anything too hard for Me?

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"Behold I will gather them out of all countries whither I have driven them in mine anger and in mine indignation: and I will bring them again unto THIS PLACE, and will cause them to dwell securely; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God; and I will give them one heart and one WAY, that they may reverence ME constantly for the good of them, and of their children after them, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them in stability, to endure for their good; and I will put My fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from Me; yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this LAND of a truth with My whole heart and with My whole soul. For thus saith the LORD, Even as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them; and fields shall be bought in this LAND (whereof ye say it is desolate without man and beast, it is given unto the hands of the Chaldeans) men shall buy fields for money and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witness in all the places around Jerusalem, for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD." Jeremiah xxii.

In like manner it was said to Daniel, 'Go thy way and repose till the end, for thou shalt stand up in thy lot at the end of the days. The call again is to the land of wings. Ho!

Ho! fly from the land of the north, for, saith the LORD, I have spread you abroad as the four winds of Heaven, saith the LORD. Save yourselves from the daughter of Babel, for thus saith the LORD of Hosts, after the glory, He sendeth me to the nations which spoiled you, for they that injure you, touch the apple of His eyes.. For behold, I will shake Mine hand upon them, and they shall be for a spoil to their servants, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent Me. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for behold I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD, and many nations shall become united to YEHOVAH in that day, and shall be My people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent Me unto thee. And the LORD shall inherit JUDAH His portion in the Holy Land, and shall again choose JERUSALEM. Be still, O all flesh before the LORD, for He is roused from His Habitation of Holiness.

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout O daughter of Jerusalem, behold thy King cometh unto thee, just and gracious, humbly carried upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will take away the war chariot from Ephraim, and the war-horse from Jerusalem, and the battlebow shall be unstrung, and he shall speak peace to the nations, and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, from the river (Euphrates) to the ends of the earth :-as for thee also, whose covenant is by blood, I have released thy prisoners from the abyss wherein is no water. Turn you to the strong hold, ye captives of Hope, even in this day do I declare that I will render precious gifts double unto thee. When I have bent Judah for Me, and filled My Bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the warriors' sword, and the LORD shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth

as lightning, and the LORD God shall sound the trumpet (of Jubilee,) and shall go amid whirlwinds of the south. And the LORD God shall save thee in that Day, even the flock of His people, for they shall be as the gems of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon His Land. I will strengthen the House of Judah, and I will redeem the House of Joseph, and I will bring them to establish them, for I have mercy upon them, and they shall be as though I had not banished them; for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them. And they of Ephraim shall be conquerors, their heart shall rejoice as with wine; yea, their children shall see it and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. I will hiss to them and gather them, for I have redeemed them, and they shall increase as they have increased, and I will sow them in peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries, and they shall live, and with their children, return again. And I will bring them a second time out of the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them unto the country of Gilead and Lebanon, and place shall not be found for them. And he shall pass through the waters with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river (Euphrates) shall be dried up; and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the dominion of Egypt shall cease, and I will strengthen them in the LORD, they shall walk hither and thither in His Name, saith Yehovah."

The preceding considerations teach us to expect that the sons of Joseph have become in their seclusion as the countless stars, a multitude of nations,' not only on the earth, but expecting (in the place of separate spirits,) the voice which shall restore to them at once their redeemed bodies and inheritance. They who are alive and remain at the coming of the LORD, (whose voice shall call forth the prisoners of

hope from their concealment,) shall not prevent those who are asleep. Such as (like the Sadducees of old,) have explained away to a shadowy abstraction the resurrection of the body can form a very inadequate idea of the substance and locality which this most heart-cheering truth afforded to Abraham, and the heirs of those promises which in their redeemed bodies should be fulfilled to them. They did not view the age or world to come, as invisible in the sense of being immaterial and impalpable; to their mind it was invisible only in the manner that the celestial luminaries are so, when for a season hid by the intervention of dense clouds and smoke. Their faith supplied the place of vision, for they knew that in reality and substance, a KINGDOM and KING were in reserve, and should visibly appear when the Roman Empire (the last of the four interposing Monarchies) shall have, like those which it supplanted, in turn become the subject of that dissolution to which all that is in opposition to the Law of God is destined.

Again, to Jacob the promised Land was confirmed, when the LORD appeared as the Head of that mystic ladder, which resting upon earth should, (as a type of the Messiah,) become the medium of restored communion between Heaven and earth, "I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and of Isaac-the Land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed, and thine offspring shall be as the dust of the ground, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee, and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold I am with thee, and will preserve thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again to this Land, for I will not forsake thee until I have accomplished that which I have declared." A series of ages having elapsed, the house of Israel is described as tacitly saying,

behold, our bones are dead, and our hope is gone, for we are cut off from our parts." "Thus saith the LORD God, Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and bring you unto the LAND of Israel; and ye shall know that I am YEHOVAH, When I have opened your graves, O My poople, and have redeemed you out of your graves; and shall put My Spirit within you, and ye shall live, and I shall restore you to your own Land then ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken and performed, saith the LORD."

David beautifully compares this resurrection-Day to the dew of the morning: "From the womb of the morning shall appear the dew of thy bringing-forth."

It should be determined what is the nature of redeemed existence of incorruptible and glorious bodies, before it is asked how the limits of the promised Land can contain the myriads who shall make good the promises there for a Thousand years, before a still progressive state is entered upon. Upon Mount Zion alone were prospectively seen, 144,000 of the Twelve Tribes, and with them a great multitude of those from among the Gentiles who had chosen the better portion-thus having been made meet for the inheritance of the holy ones in Light. Revelation vii.

The Prophet Isaiah testifies to this comforting Truth which the Apostle characterizes as "The Hope" of Israel. Acts xxvi. 6. "Thou hast increased the nation O LORD, thou art glorified! LORD, in trouble they have besought thee, they poured out a secret prayer when Thy chastening was upon them." Thy dead shall revive-with My dead body shall they arise. Awake, rejoicing, ye that dwell in the dust; for as the dew to the light, so is thy dew, for the earth shall yield up the preserved (praying). And it shall come to pass in that Day, the LORD shall smite off from the channel of the river (Euphrates) unto the river of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one