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VI. The Linguistic Sign There is also next the Linguistic sign, viz., the revival of Biblical He brew. From Genesis to Revelation this term is used for the language of God’s earthly Chosen People and their Land. We read of Abraham the He brew, of Joseph being "stolen out of the land of the Hebrews,’’ of Moses ap pealing to Pharaoh in the name of the God of the Hebrews, and of this word in the time of Jonathan and David, Jonah and Jeremiah, and in the Gos pels, the Acts, the Epistles and the Apocalypse. How remarkable is the connection between Zephanlah 3, verses 8 and 9, "Therefore wait ye upon Me, saith Je hovah, until the Day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations that I may assem ble the Kingdoms to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth shall be de voured with the fire of my jealousy.” “ For then will I turn to the people a pure language (lip ), for they may all call upon the name of Jehovah to« serve Him with one consent.” The use of this tongue in all the Jewish schools in the Holy land, the immediate adoption of it as one of the official languages when the Mandate was given to Great Britain, and its spread over all the land, is most im pressive. The common speech in the Jewish quarters of the city and in the Colonies, the widely circulated Press, the business transactions, the shop notices, the public signs, the conduct (Continued on page 364)
should come and smite the land of Egypt, looks on to the day of the Lord God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, and says, “ As I live, saith the King whdse name is the Lord of Hosts, surely as Tabor is among the mountains and as .Carmel by the sea, so shall be come," anticipating the approach of the final enemy of God’s ancient peo ple, the Antichrist. V. The Mercantile Sign We now gladly turfl our attention to a brighter sign, namely, what we call the Mercantile. In that glorious chapter, the 60th of Isaiah, we read in verses 8 ajid 9, “ Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?” “ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and thpir gold with them, unto the name of Je hovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.” Although this will be fulfilled after the “ enemy has come in like a flood,” the Spirit of Jehovah has lifted up a standard against him (put him to flight) and the Redeemer has come to Zion and turned away ungodliness from Jacob, yet we cannot ignore the fact that an American-Palestine Ship ping Line has been found flying the combined flags of the Stars and Stripes and the Jewish banner of the Shield of David to bring wealthy Jews to the Land of Promise, and the "President Arthur” has already made some suc cessful voyages, and we are told other ships are to be chartered as well.
this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace!’ But now are they hid from thine eyes” (Luke 19:42). And the Apostle Paul, writing through the Holy Spirit to the Church at Thessa- lonica (1 These. 6 :3 ) of the coming of the Day of the Lord, says: “ For when they shall say Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape." It is surely worthy of thought that in Revelation 16:12-16, where we read concerning the preparation in both the Near and Far Bast for the final con flict, “ the battle of that great Day of God Almighty, He gathered them to gether into a place called in the He brew tongue Armageddon.” In the verse following it runs, “ And the sev enth angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the throne, saying ‘It is done and finished/ ” Since the so-called “ Great War” the Air Forces, (aeroplanes, airships and aerodromes) have increased astonish ingly, and nowhere are they likely to play so solemn a part as over and around Palestine. The Prophet Ezekiel in the 38th and 39th chapters gives a graphic picture of this climax, and the inspired de scription of the land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many nations, with its unwalled villages, even if Israel were not men tioned, would be clear to a careful reader. Jeremiah also, writing of how Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,
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