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THE KING’S BUSINESS
and the condition of famine everywhere does not need any interpretation, yet God’s own people everywhere have at no other time so rejoiced in Gdd, giving Him all the glory as they do now. Messiah is coming! “Do you know that the Lord more than two thousand years ago gave, through the prophet Daniel, a clear description of the times in which we are now living? “Do you know that this is the time whereto the Apostle Peter referred in Acts 3:19-21, where he c^lls it the times of resti tution of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all the holy phophets ? “Do you know that St. Peter there de clares that these Jimes of blessing will not precede, but will follow, the Second Com ing of our Lord Jesus? “Do you know that the prophecies and signs which now herald the second advent of Christ are much more distinct than werfe those signs and prophecies which marked His first advent?” The same publication publishes, also, an
account of a lecture given by Dr. G. H. Enelow, rabbi of Temple . Emanuel, the richest and most influential synagogue in New York City, on “The Significant Signs of the Times” in which he said: “Jesus must mean more than something to the Jews, or we are oht of joint with the religious progress of the world. It can- , not be by mere accident that a Jew should have had such incalculable influence in the religious life of the human race. Whether Jesus was original or not; whether He is reported right o,r wrong, the fact of His influence for good and the fact that He was a Jew, cannot be ignored. Modern Jews cannot shut themselves in the silence of the centuries. It is high time for us to ask, and that most seriously,, what do we think of Jesus? Be our answer to the question what it may, we ought to formulate an answer. The object of this lecture course is to make some contribu tion to those who want to make an intelli gent answer to the question.”
Does Romans 8:11 have reference to the quickening of our present bodies while liv ing here or at the resurrection? The answer to this question is evident from the connection in. which the passage is found. As Paul goes on with his teach ing he says, “For we reckon that the suf ferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to usward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the
revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who sub jected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only so but we ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
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