connection with it is given; but when Jerusalem ceases to exist nationally,

the history of the Gentiles in Scripture ceases too.

We are in the interval, the period of dispersion, now.  It will

terminate when Jerusalem is nationally reconstituted.  (Watching and Waiting.

March - April 1953).

Look at the words `no person, no place, no date is mentioned during the

present period of dispersion'.  These words cry aloud that Dispensational

Truth demands, during the period of Israel's blindness which commenced at

Acts 28:23 -31, that no Old Testament prophecy is being fulfilled.  Matthew

24 also must belong, not to the present calling of the Mystery, but to the

`third period' when the `historic detail of Daniel recommences'; that a new

revelation with a new sphere, constitution and hope must be given by God if

any Gentile is to be saved and blessed during the setting aside of the

hitherto exclusive channel of blessing -- Israel.  Accepting B. W. Newton's

view and taking it to its logical conclusion, we have the following threefold

division of Israel's history.

From Nebuchadnezzar

`There is a pause'.

Unbelieving history

to Dispersion by the

Here comes the

commences, historic

Romans, a.d. 70,

dispensation of

detail of Daniel

a few years after

the Mystery,

recommences.  Daniel

Acts 28.

a parenthesis,

9 is intimately linked

unconnected with

with Matthew 24

Israel, Prophecy

(Matt. 24:25) and so,

or Covenants.

completely disassociated

From Acts 28

from the Second

to the resumption

of prophecy.

To the making known of the unique calling of this `Second Division'

wherein Israel is `dispersed', the writer of this Analysis has devoted the

bulk of his life and energies, yet those who advocate the teaching of B. W.

Newton as set out in the above quotation, can, at the selfsame time see

nothing incongruous in seeing in Matthew 24 with its incisive reference to

Daniel 9, characteristics of the hope of the church today.  Is it too much to

believe that a few, after pondering these things may be led, Berean -like, to

`search and see'?

The May issue for 1952, Questions and Answers, edited by Dr. Harold P.

Morgan, Riverton, New Jersey, U.S.A. opens with the following headline:

`What  were  the  Teachings  of  Early

Brethren Regarding

church,  the  Body  of  Christ?'