225 The Revelation of Jesus Christ Christ will be King in as definite and as positive a sense as the - world has ever known a king to be, only His kingdom will have a wider sphere than that of any earthly monarch. His rule will be more autocratic; His sway will be limitless. And He will have a throne. Turn to Luke 1:32,33, which records a prophecy uttered by the Angel Gabriel, after he had told Mary that she was to be the channel through whom the Messiah was to come: "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." . Have you ever realized that this portion of Gabriel's pro phecy has never yet been fulfilled up to this time? The Son of God has never sat upon the throne of His father David. He has never ruled over the house of Jacob. But when He returns to the earth, He shall sit upon that throne. In that way and in that relationship, He will be the King of the nation of Israel. Not only will He be King of Israel: He will rule over all the world. In Psalm 72:8, we read: "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." We are even told what is to be the capita] city of the milJennia] kingdom. It wilJ not be London, Berlin, or New York. "And It shall come to pass In the last days, that the moun~ tain of the Lord's house shall be established In the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall Bow unto It. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of_the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" (Isa. 2:2, 3). The Lord Jesus Christ will be back again upon this earth, but not as He was nineteen hundred years ago, a "man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He wiJI not have to say that He has no place to Jay His head. The King shaJl come in all His glory, and that glory will outshine tp.e splen dor of all the kings that the world has ever known. He wilJ govern the earth with His Word. Do you know
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