history commences, when they again have returned in unbelief to their

own land, then the historic detail of Daniel recommences, and is given

even with greater emphasis than before.  So entirely is Gentile history

made in the Scripture to revolve around Jerusalem as its centre.

Whilst Jerusalem nationally exists, the history of the nations that are

brought into 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:

First Division

Second division

Third Division

From Nebuchadnezzar

`There is a pause'.

Unbelieving history

to Dispersion by the

Here comes the

commences, historic

Romans, a.d. 70, a

dispensation of the

detail of Daniel

few years after Acts 28.

Mystery, a parenthesis,

recommences. Daniel

unconnected with Israel,

9 is intimately

Prophecy or Covenants.

linked with Matthew

From Acts 28 to the

24 (Matt. 24:15)

resumption of prophecy.

and so completely

.

disassociated from

the Second Division.

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

wherein Israel is `dispersed' the writer 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 the late Dr.

Harold P. Morgan, Riverton, New Jersey, U.S.A. opens with the following

`What Were The Teachings of Early Plymouth Brethren Regarding The

Church, The Body of Christ?'

Quotations are made in answer to this question from two teachers among

the early Brethren, namely C. H. Macintosh, and Richard Holden.

`The thought of a church composed of Jew and Gentile "seated together

in the heavenlies" Lay Far beyond (our emphasis) the range of prophetic