"For I will take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your

own land. THEN will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness, and from

all your idols will I cleanse you" (see Ezek. xxxiv. 24-38). Jeremiah likewise shows that this conversion and

cleansing will follow immediately upon this restoration (Jer. xxxi. 27-34).

And now only a few references which speak (1) of the Physical blessings which will be experienced by the

land; blessings which can never be produced by any increase of holiness in the Church, but only by the

miraculous acts of God himself. Isa. xi. 6-9. xxv. 1, 2, 6. lv. 13. Amos ix. 13. (2) of the Spiritual blessings which

will be enjoyed by the people. Hosea i. 10. Jer. xxx. 31. xxiii.6, and (3) of the Millenial blessing experienced by

the whole earth. Micah iv. 8. Isa. ii. 1-3. xxvii. 6. lx. 20-22. lxii. 3. lxv. 12. Jer. iii. 17. Ps. xlv. 16, 17. lxxii. When we

think of these circles of blessing, may we not ask with the Apostle, "Now if the fall of them be the riches of

the world, and the diminishing (margin, decay or loss) of them, the riches of the Gentiles, how much more

their fulness? For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of

them be, but life from the dead?

If the twelve Apostles and one hundred and twenty Disciples have sent the "message of reconciliation" to

the uttermost parts of the earth, what will not "all Israel" do when saved and filled with this "fulness" of

blessing and power from on high?

The Spirit's answer is that it will be like "life from the dead," nothing less than like a Resurrection for Israel,

the World and the Creation! The analogy is most wonderful, the comparison is divine; and it is given and

revealed to us by Him, who alone knows what it will be.

Dear brethren, when we think of God's wondrous purposes concerning Israel, and the blessing that is bound

up in Israel, and the blessing that is bound up in Israel for the whole world, Well may we "pray for the peace

of Jerusalem": Well may we heed the words of the Prophet:-- "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and

for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation

thereof as a lamp that burneth... ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give Him no rest, till

He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth" (Is. lxii. 1, 6, 7).

Well might David end the seventy-second Psalm, which sets forth the glory, when in Israel "all the nations

of the earth shall be blessed," "Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous

things, and blessed be His glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen,

and Amen." And well might he add, "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended," for when the whole

earth shall be filled with His glory, prayer will indeed be turned to praise!