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"The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord . . . . . even them will I bring
to My holy mountain" (Isa. 56: 6, 7).
for the Lord's house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. The law at Sinai
and the nation of Israel afterwards were under the delegated authority of angels, but the
"world to come" has not been submitted to angels, but to the saints, particularly those of
"the seed of Abraham" (Heb. 2:), which embraces all those of like precious faith. This
kingdom is the last manifestation of the failure of delegated rule.
The kingdom of the Son is marked by the subjection of all rule and authority. He
shews Who is that blessed and only Potentate, and at the close of that rule and that rule
alone we reach perfection and the goal of the ages. All down the age has been heard the
murmuring challenge of the sovereignty vested only in Christ. Israel failed to hold that
sceptre; the Gentiles failed too. Adam in Eden, and man in the millennial kingdom,
equally fail. Every age and dispensation converges upon one thought, every knee shall
bow at last to one Lord, every tongue will confess but one Name, Rev. 5: shall be
repeated upon a grander scale:--
"Who is worthy? . . . . . no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth . . . . .
was found worthy . . . . ." (verses 2-4).
"And they sung a new song, saying `THOU art worthy'." (verse 9).