another feature associated with the fact, namely that the blessing of this

Millennial kingdom and afterwards is first of all focused in Jerusalem as a

radiating centre, and from that centre light and truth will be spread until

the knowledge of the Lord fills the earth, as the waters cover the sea.

'They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain',

that is the first statement.

'For the earth (land) shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as

the waters cover the sea' (Isa. 11:9),

that is the sequel.

The answer to the rebellion of the kings of the earth is

found in Psalm 2:6:

'Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion'.

Beyond this holy hill the heathen in the uttermost parts are to be

disciplined with a rod of iron, and the rebellious kings and judges of the

earth are given counsel and warning.

'Lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is

kindled but a little' (Psa.  2:12).

This divinely appointed centre is the theme of Isaiah 2:

'And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the

Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and

shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the

mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will

teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion

shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem' (Isa.

First the rod of His strength shall be sent 'out of Zion' where the Lord will

rule in the midst of His enemies (Psa. 110:2).  He will, as Psalm 2:12

threatened, 'strike through kings in the day of His wrath' (Psa. 110:5).

After the Lord returns unto Zion, and Jerusalem becomes 'a city of truth'

(Zech. 8:3), 'many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of

hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord ... In those days it shall

come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the

nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We

will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you' (Zech. 8:22,23).

When the glory returns to Jerusalem and the temple is built according to the

specifications given in the closing chapters of Ezekiel, then the title of

the Lord will be indeed Jehovah Shammah, 'The Lord is there' (Ezek. 48:35).

The Millennial kingdom ends as we have seen with a rebellious rising of

the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, the number of which

is so great as to justify the figure 'the number of whom is as the sand of

the sea' (Rev. 20:8).  Rebellion therefore was incipient during the 1,000

years.  No such rebellion will mar the day when 1 Corinthians 15:28 is

fulfilled, but that lies beyond the limits of the Millennial kingdom and is

not spoken of in the Book of the Revelation.  We may discover, that much that