THE SILENCE OF GOD HOW IT SHALL BE
BROKEN
" God, even God, the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth
from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
" Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
" Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : a fire shall
devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about
Him.
" He shall call to the heavens above, and to the eajlh, that He
may judge His people.
" Gather My saints unto Me ; those that have made a covenant
with Me by sacrifice.
" And the heavens shall declare His righteousness ; for God is
Judge Himself. Selah.
" Hear, O My people, and I will speak ; O Israel, and I will
testify unto thee : I am God, even thy God.
" I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices ; and thy burnt
offerings are continually before Me.
" I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of
thy folds.
" For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a
thousand hills.
" I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts
of the field are Mine.
" If I were hungry, I would not tell thee : for the world is
Mine and the fulness thereof.
" Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ?
" Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving ; and pay thy
vows to the Most High :
" And call upon Me in the day of trouble ; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.
" But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to
declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy
mouth ?
" Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind
thee.
" When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
" Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
" Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother ; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son.
" These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; thou
thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself :
" But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine
eyes.
" Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
pieces, and there be none to deliver :
" Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth Me ; and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God." PSA. 1. (R.V.).
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THE SILENCE OF GOD HOW IT SHALL BE BROKEN
The Second Advent in Relation to the Church, Israel, and Christendom
IT must be obvious, even to the most superficial
student of the Scriptures, that we have in the Old
Testament two distinct series of prophecies referring to
the coming and person of the Messiah ; the one de-
scribing Him as coming in humiliation, "lowly and
riding upon an ass " ; "a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief; led as a lamb to the slaughter, and pouring
out His soul unto death ;" while the other series speak
of Him as coming in visible power and great glory, and
receiving dominion and a kingdom, so that " all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him." " His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."