and Nehemiah, and the prophecies of Haggai, Zechariah and others that are associated

with the return from captivity. We propose, therefore, to ignore the order of the books as

set out in the English Bible, and adhere instead to the chronological order. No special

study is needed for this, as we merely have to follow the order given in the Hebrew

Bible--which is as follows:

A | JOSHUA. | "The Lord of all the earth."

Failure to possess the land (18: 3).

The Canaanite still in possession (15: 63).

B | JUDGES. | Failure. Thirteen judges.

Israel forsaking and returning to God.

"No king" (21: 25).

C | SAMUEL. | Saul (type of Antichrist).

David (type of Christ).

Israel want to be "like the nations".

D | KINGS. | Decline and failure under kings.

Removal from the land.

D | ISAIAH. | Israel's only hope, final blessing, and restoration.

Messiah--God's King.

C | JEREMIAH. | Nebuchadnezzar (type of Antichrist).

David's "Righteous Branch"; "raised up"; the Deliverer.

Israel sent into captivity among the nations.

B | EZEKIEL. | The glory of God forsaking and returning to the land and people.

Jehovah Shammah. The Lord is there.

A | MINOR PROPHETS. | "The Lord of all the earth."

Joshua, the High Priest.

Restoration of Israel to the.

"No more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts (Zech. 14: 21).

We can see from this arrangement of the Prophets that, with the end of the Book of

Kings, Israel has reached the depths, the glory has departed, and man, even under the

immediate protection of God, has proved a failure. With the prophet Isaiah we start a

new movement. Uzziah the King may fail so desperately as to be smitten with incurable

leprosy, but Isaiah tells us that in the very year that Uzziah died, he saw the Lord

enthroned in the temple (Isa. 6:).

The nation of Israel was called to be the Lord's "servant-nation" (Isa. 41: 8), but it is

the Messiah, Who, in the time of Israel's failure, is spoken of in the words of Isa. 43: 1:

"Behold My Servant." Israel is destined to be the Lord's "witness-nation" (Isa. 43: 10),

but it is the greater than David Who is given as a witness in Isa. 55: 4. And so we have

summed up Isaiah's prophecy in the words of the central member of the structure: