The plan of redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ : carefully examined and argued ... / by I.C. Wellcome and Clarkson Goud.

  • Wellcome, I. C. (Isaac Cummings), 1818-1895.
Date:
1879
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    by the gospel, and especially the conversion and res- toration of the Jews, and the end of all war. But a careful examination of this text with its context discloses that the Lord’s prophet saw that a great delusion would arise in the last days,” which would give great popularity to the mass of the church, so that civil governments would fraternize with and legislate for them. These governments are symbolized by mountains ” and hills.” And the mountain [government] of the Lord’s house shall be established in [united with] the tops of the mountains [heads of civil governments], and exalted above the hills [lesser governments], and all nations shall flow unto it.” Not every person, but all nations ; ” and many peo- ple shall go and say, Come ye, let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob.” These many people propose to be in union with the popular movements of the church. They turn their at- tention especially towards the Jews and Jerusalem. They adopt Judaism — the idea that the Lord has a special regard for the Jews, and will yet restore them as a nation to Mount Zion, convert them, and send forth his law and word from old Jerusalem, and thereby convert the heathen nations, and cause them to beat their swords and spears into farming utensils, and enjoy universal peace together with the house of Jacob. But in the 6th verse, the same prophet declares that the house of Jacob wee, forsaken by the Lord, because they be siothsayers [false teachers], like the Philistines, and they olease themselves in the children of strangers.” He next speaks of their abounding idolatry and hypo-