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Turn, please, to Isaiah 62:10: “Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.” There you have the ensign referred to. That flag is floating from Mt. Zion today, and it has not floated from Mt. Zion for two thousand years. Also note verse 11: “Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation comethbehold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” Is it not a wonderful thing that they have built a railway right from Cairo to Jerusalem during the war? They have carried a great pipe line to bear water from the Nile right into Jerusa lem. You can take the trip today in a few hours, whereas it used to take days and weeks to go from Egypt to Pales tine. The way is prepared. I do not say that is the real fulfillment, but it is a remarkable resemblance to ful fillment. Why are the standards raised ? Here is a people seeking rehabilitation as a nation. Something is going to happen—the King is coming. He is coming to the Jews. They are going back to their land in unbelief. There are over 100,000 Jews in Palestine at the present moment. God is doing wonderful things there. The last thing that will happen will be the “blowing of the trumpet.” Notice Isaiah 27 :12, 13: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gath ered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” And you will remember, if you will turn to Matthew 24:30, 31 i “And then shall appear the sign of (Continued an page 208) IjB A Great Testimony Dr. F. E. Marsh, an outstanding preacher and teacher and a prolific writer, whose ministry has been extended in blessing to hundreds of lives, passed away at his home in Bournemouth, England, February 19, 1931. The spirit of the man is reflected in his testimony, given just'before his death and published in the Life of Faith: “For over fifty years it has been my privilege to pro claim the unsearchable riches of Christ. Since October last, I have been hors de combat; and as you will find in the case of the apostle when he views the end of the journey that he bears testimony to the faithfulness of the Lord, so I want to do the same, and in his language I say, ‘It seems to me that the time of my departure is at hand.’ “I bear testimony to the faithfulness of the Lord and the love of His personal care. *It has been my privilege to preach close on 14,000 times and to occupy several fields of service. Through His grace, by His mercy, I am able to say that I have not altered the message of my testimony; that I still adhere to that which I find in what Paul calls ‘the word of the truth of the gospel’ (Col. 1 :5). This I owe to the Lord who has graciously kept me. I have kept the faith because He has kept me in it. I can bear testimony to the keeping power of His love—and I have no other testimony to give than this: His love is the rest of my heart; His truth is the basis of my faith; His grace is the cause of my salvation; His joy is the glad ness of my heart.”
Balfour was instructed to find out from Dr. Wiseman what reward he preferred. They would have given him whatever he had asked. He said, “I do not want any thing; but if you win the war, give the Jews back Pales tine.” Before the war was won, England sent a note to Lord Rothschild through Mr, Balfour saying that if they did win the war, they pledged themselves to do their ut- * most to give to the Jewish people an assured national home in Palestine. The Jews are going back today. No sooner had England done this, than France and Italy said they would both do the same, and the United States also pledged itself to do the same thing. You see, then, the United States is pledged to put Israel back in their own land. Now does it not seem that the United States must be this “land shadowing with wings” referred to in the eighteenth chapter of Isaiah ? T he P eople “A wfully R emarkable ” Let us look a little further into this statement: “A people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers, have spoiled.” A people “awfully remarkable” is what it really means. Was there ever a nation whose history was more “awfully remarkable” than that of Israel? Did you ever hear of a people brought out of slavery as they were? Two millions of slaves in Egypt! Then God, acting through Moses, takes that people out of the greatest nation of the earth by His mighty hand and outstretched arm, brings them miraculously through the Red Sea, destroys their enemies, takes them into the wilderness; two million men and women brought into a burning wilderness where there is no water (and there is no water there to this day), and God miraculously sustains and delivers them. God gave..them bread from heaven day by day, and He gave them water from the smitten rock. Wherever they went, the streams from that rock overflowed them; He over shadowed them with a pillar of cloud, so that they were sheltered from the burning rays of the sun; He gave them clothes that did not wear out for forty years, shoes that did not grow old for the same period. Did you ever hear'of anything like that? “Of course not! “Scat tered and peeled, and terrible from their beginning hither to, a people trodden down.” Oh, how they have been trodden down—compelled to live in ghettos, persecuted unmercifully, every now and then a pogrom arranged by which they are massacred by the hundreds! “Whose land the rivers have spoiled.” I am not go ing into texts to show you that. You will find how the overflowing of rivers is compared to the inundations of nations one upon the other. So the rivers have one after another overflowed Palestine. First of all the Babylon ians under Nebuchadnezzar, then the Medo-Persians, then the Grecians, then Rome, the Saracens, and finally the Turks. Z ion ’ s N ew F lag Look at the third verse: “When he lifteth up an en sign upon the mountains, and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.” What is this ensign? I do not know But I do know that the Israelites have adopted a national flag —it is the double triangle, the Shield of David as they call it. It has a blue double triangle on a white back ground. What is more, there is today a line of ships sail ing from New York carrying that flag. There are month ly; sailings from New York to Haifa in Palestine.
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