fact that Job was completely restored to health, and furnish a picture of the resurrection of

that company wider than either Israel or the Church, whose place in Scripture has not

been given the consideration that its importance warrants.

Thus far we have seen the testimony of men who lived before Israel's day. Apart

from Balaam's prophetic allusion to the second coming, under the figure of the star and

the sceptre, the remaining passages must of necessity be taken from the prophecies and

psalms of Israel, but while Jerusalem and the Land, together with the nation of Israel, are

central in this great section, we remember that, after all, the blessings that are to follow.

The song of Moses (Exod. 15: 1-19), uttered at the overthrow of Pharaoh, necessitates

the second coming for its true fulfillment, and it can never be complete until it is coupled

with the song of the Lamb, sung, not upon the shores of the Red Sea, but of a sea of glass

mingled with fire, celebrating a victory, not over Pharaoh, but over the beast and his

image (Rev. 15: 1-3). The song of Moses, just before his death (Deut. 32: 36-42),

equally looks forward to the second coming for its fulfillment. These passages, however,

may be considered too vague to stand alone, and can be better appreciated when the more

precise statements of other Scriptures have been read. Traversing the history of Israel to

the time of the kingdom, we find embedded in the Psalms several testimonies to the

second coming of the Lord.

When "Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were

gathered together" (Acts 4: 27), there was a germinal fulfillment of the opening of

Psalm 2: "The kings of the earth", however, are to gather again, with a mightier front:

"And I saw the beast; and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to

make war against Him that sat on the horse" (Rev. 19: 19).

The answer of the Lord to this rebellion is: "Yet have I set My King upon My holy

hill of Zion" (Psa. 2: 6). When this takes place, the kingdoms of this world become

the kingdoms of the Lord and of His Anointed (Rev. 11: 15); "the nations are angry"

(Rev. 11: 18), and the wrath of the Son has come (Rev. 11: 18; Psa. 2: 12). Then it is that

the request of Psa. 2: 8 will be made and answered: "Ask of Me, and I will give Thee

the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy

Except in a very figurative way, this passage can receive no fulfillment during this

dispensation. It is bounded on either side by conditions that are foreign to the church of

the mystery, viz.: (1) The Lord must be set as King upon Zion. (2) This inheritance is

not explained in the terms of converts and missions, but as the administration of justice

and judgment: "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in