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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
December, 1938
The Birth Pangs of a Nation The Age of Israel s Glory" By LOU IS S. BAUMAN , D.D.
O , TO GO HOME! To go back to our Homeland!” This is the heart cry of world harassed Jewry. From Poland, Germany, Austria, Roumania, Is rael’s sons look wistfully to Palestine. They seek a place of refuge from an ever rising tide of Jew-hate the world over, and they think they will find it in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They know not that they are soon to face in Jerusalem the
takings in addition to a nation-wide and well integrated system of Gospel preaching here in America. W e do not believe the true child of God needs to be asked to fellowship in so impor tant a sector of His work and program. On the contrary, we are convinced the igno rance of God’s purposes for Israel is the only reason why any child of God does not help Jewish Mission work.
yet day, impregnate and saturate Israel with the message of salvation, before the night of darkness come upon us? Shall we be guilty of an abandoned fatalism? Shall we say, with specious philosophy, “It is all as God foretold, and so we shall do nothing about it”? So indeed might Pharaoh have said; but he found to his everlasting sorrow, that God had to be reckoned with. So might the Jew have said, when rejecting Christ 2,000
W e must understand that the only thing which inter ests God with regard to His people Israel, is, “W hat think y e o f Christ?" And the gathering of Israel to Palestine is for judgm ent. Going to Palestine will not save a single Jew. Going to the Lord Jesus Christ will! Shall we not therefore show our true love for the Jew by warning him now that his only way of escape, and salvation, will be through Christ? Shall he not have the same chance you have had, to turn now to the Lord for salvation? Then he as an individual Jew will no more be chiefly interest ed in an earthly Palestine. For he will have become a citizen of a better country, a city which hath founda tions, whose maker and builder is God—the Heav enly Jerusalem! And he will be one more of that Rem nant out of Israel, “according
greatest outburst of Jew- hate the world has ever known, such a time of trouble as has never been, nor ever will be again, a time which a merciful God has promised will be short ened "for the elect’s sake"-jjS I which will find its blessed culmination in the sudden appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ on that hill so full of poignant Bible his tory, the Mount of Olives. There it will be that Israel shall acclaim with penitence and joy Him a g a i n s t W h o m t h e y ignorantly shouted 2,000 years ago, “W e will not have this man to rule over us!” Already the Arabs are in revolt, already they have served notice on Great Brit ain that all Jews must be barred from the Holy Land! Bewildered and staggered, Israel stands terror struck the world over and cries to God, "Whither shall we
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Jewish Victims of Nazi Hate years ago, "It is all prophesied, I can’t help it!" But the tragic record of two millen niums of dispersion and world agony teach a different moral. The American Board of Missions to the Jews provides an efficient channel through which the Gospel message may be heralded to Israel of the world dispersion. W e are in Jerusalem; we are in Poland; we are in France among the pathetic groups of Jewish refugees; and we have been forwarding financial sustenance to Jewish Christian brethren in hate-ridden Germany and in blasphemous Russia. All these world under American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc., 31 Throop Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
to the election of grace,” that must be saved into the Body of Christ. And thus you will be definitely hastening the Day when that Body shall be complete. This is the incen tive and motive behind the Jewish Mission urge of the hour. * * * * * * * Use the coupon below, if the •Lord so leads you. You will receive “The Chosen People” regularly each month, and thus be kept in touch with the Jewish Palestine movement all the year round. May God re veal to you His will concerning Abraham’s seed, the scattered sheep of Israel’s House.
go?” Unless God intervenes speedily, by the supernatural appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in the heavens, with power and glory, Israel literally faces extinction. On this point, that outstanding student of prophecy, Dr. Louis S. Bauman of Long Beach, wrote us recently these trenchant words:— “I believe that we are witnessing the birth pangs of a new age, and the new age will be the age of Israel’s glory. If there is anything under the stars that shine that I can do to ease to the slight est extent the pains that are coming upon Israel all over the world, God help me to yield myself to it.” And the consecration of this servant of God to a holy love for Israel is exactly the message of God for the true child of God in these days. The command is, “Comfort ye my people." And again the solemn instruc tion to the child of God is "Take no rest and give him no rest until he establish Jeru salem a praise in the earth.” Isaiah 62:7. God’s interests are centered in Israel. Where are yours? Shall we not, while it is
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