EDITOR ’S NOTE : Readers o f THE K ING ’S BUSINESS M AGA ZINE will be saddened to learn of the homegoing o f Dr. Ai. R. DeHaan on Monday, December 13, 1965 following a prolonged illness. God has greatly used this choice servant who is now rejoic ing in the presence o f his Master.
the Kingdom Age. That is why, when Jesus was here upon the earth, offering the Kingdom to Is rael, it was the great age of signs, wonders, and miracles. But they rejected the King, and the Kingdom was postponed. Now we live in the dis pensation of faith, and not the dispensation of signs. When the Kingdom is set up again, and Israel is back in the land, all of these signs will char acterize the presence of the King, and will return, as we read in Isaiah 35:5-6. “ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” Even the animal creation shall be changed, and there shall be no more carnivorous beasts to waste and destroy and prey one upon the other as foretold in Isaiah 2:6-9. A mid the violence and destruction o f these days, dare anyone assume that the glorious proph ecies have ever been fulfilled? Even though we try to spiritualize these prophecies, by no stretch of the imagination can we say that these con ditions have ever existed. The earth today is still filled with violence and destruction, and growing worse all the time. If the history of man is to be our guide, then there can only be one thing in the future—the utter destruction of man by his own wickedness and his own violence. God who cannot lie, however, holds out a bet ter hope than the gradual bringing in of the age of peace by man’s feeble and fallible efforts. In stead, the Lord tells us that in the end time we shall hear of wars and rumors o f wars, nation ris ing against nation, kingdom against kingdom, violence and destruction will increase, until He who said He would come will come. What a blessed thing to be able to look upon this recent world and all its conditions and see in them not the rea son for despair and hopelessness, but the very signs of which Jesus said, “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).
and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land” (Jeremiah 23:5-8). All o f this has not been fulfilled as yet. There fore, it must still lie in the future. The return of the nation of Israel politically to the land of Palestine in these recent years is the first step in the accomplishment of the full blessing of this passage and many others in the Word of God. Judah, and Israel shall dwell safely in the land of Palestine, never to be removed from it again. Not a single son of Jacob who survives the great tribulation, the day of Jacob’s trouble, and belongs to the remnant of God’s elect nation will be left. The miraculous preservation of this miracle na tion during all of these millenniums in the face of the most bitter odds, stands as a living testi mony to the truth o f the Word of God; that He will keep His covenant promise: and that He will keep every one of His assurances given to the house of Israel, from the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. When Israel is back in the land, and Jesus Christ reigns upon the earth, then shall the .prom- ise o f God come true which He made to Abraham when He said: “ In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” During the personal reign of the Lord Jesus, wars will be unknown. There will be no navies, armies, arsenals, or ammu nition plants, but all the ingenuity and inven tive skill of men will be turned into useful pro duction of implements of peace. Men shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Peace and universal pros perity will abound, “ They shall not hurt nor de- stroy in all my holy mountain” (Isa. 11:9). There will be no poverty, injustice or inequality. Sick- ness will be unknown, and death will be the rare exception, for the inhabitants will not say, “ I am sick.” Even the soil shall be transformed by the presence of the King. Then will the words of Isaiah come true, which he uttered over twenty- five hundred years ago, “ The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose” (Isa. 35:1). The entire earth will be made productive again, and there will be no more deserts and bad lands, except Moab and Egypt, as reminders that even in this age of blessing, God is still a just God. This too will be the great age of future divine healing. Miracles, signs, and healings belong to
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