all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord of Hosts, who doeth all these things."

PAUL.

Rom. 11:1, 2, 25-29, "Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sake. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."

If this means anything, it means that the restoration, or redemption of Israel is unconditional, and absolutely certain. It matters little what the preachers have said, God hath spoken it.

We have now given the testimony of sixteen prophets, and three apostles as to the restoration that is to take place in the last days: and all of these agree perfectly that the restoration is the regathering of Israel. If there is any other restoration spoken of by the prophets, we have been unable to find it after a very careful search to that end. We have often heard it asserted by religious teachers that we are to be restored back to Eden, but this seems to be merely a fanciful sentiment, which has no warrant in the word of God. The old world business was all settled up at the flood, and if there is any reference in the Scriptures intimating that

any of its fallen things are to be restored, we have been unable to find it. The fact is, the paradise of Israel, Jerusalem, will be better than the Paradise of Adam. Indeed, where is the covenant to Adam that God would restore Eden? Or where is the promise to Enoch, or to Methuselah or even to Noah that he would restore anything? And where in the Old or New Testaments is there any promise that the church shall be restored? On the contrary we are told that it will be just the opposite "a great falling away" of the Church before the coming of the Lord. We should beware of those teachers who are wise above that which is written. "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

To what extent then will the restoration have been accomplished before the Lord comes? This is partly answered in Ezek. 38:8-12 (Lesser), "After many days thou shalt be ordered forward (that is Gog, the prince of Russia); in the end of the years thou shalt come into the land that is recovering from the sword, and is gathered together out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been ruined for a long time: to a people that are brought forth out of the nations, and that now dwell in safety, all of them.

"Thou shalt ascend and come like a tempest, like a cloud to cover the earth wilt thou be, thou, and all thy armies, and the many people with thee. Thus hath said the Lord eternal, It will come to pass at the same time, that things will come into thy mind, and thou wilt entertain an evil device; and thou wilt say, I will go up over the land of open towns; I will come against those that are careless, that dwell in safety, all of whom dwell without walls, and

have neither bars nor gates, to snatch up the spoil, and to take away the prey; to turn thine hand against the ruined places now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the highest parts of the land."

This regathered Israel out of all the nations, will be living in peace and prosperity with much cattle and goods, and in their open towns, and unwalled villages. It is their riches, and their prosperity that attracts the attention and excites the cupidity of Gog and his allied forces.

The gospel of the Kingdom in distinction from the gospel of the church, will have been preached among all of the nations, and Israel will have heeded it to the extent of the above results. The temple and the sacrifices will have been restored, and the sons of Levi will have been purified, so as to bring an offering in righteousness at Jerusalem, which God has accepted and blessed. As proof of this see Ezek. 43:13-27. Her judges will have been restored as at first, and none shall be able to terrify them or make them afraid. The tabernacle, the ark of covenant, and the altar of incense will have been found, and the Shekinah glory will have reappeared; for it was said that the hiding place of the ark and tabernacle should be "unknown until the time that God gathered his people together again, and receive them unto mercy. Then shall the Lord show them these things, and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was showed unto Moses, and when Solomon desired that the place might be honorably sanctified."

CHAPTER VIII.

JERUSALEM WILL BE THE THRONE OF THE LORD JESUS, THE CHRIST.

Today, Jerusalem is a filthy, oriental city, with narrow streets and lanes, and with little beauty of architecture or landscape. It is filled with strangers, the Turks, the defilled and the unclean are there. But it will undergo some wonderful transformations about the time of the inauguration of Christ's Kingdom, and then it will be beautified beyond description.

There will be the greatest earthquake that the world has ever felt, which will divide the city into three parts, and the Mount of Olives will be split middle in two, from the east to the west-half of the mountain will move towards the north, and half towards the south, making a great canal from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. But it will not be a water level canal; for in the upheavals there will be a tremendous gushing fountain, which will issue out of the earth at the eastern threshold of the house which will be the throne of the King.

Upon every high mountain, and upon every prominent hill, rivulets and streams of water will gush forth as a result of the geological changes that will take place at the time of the great earthquake. Jerusalem will be a place of rivers and streams of ample breadth. Half of these waters will flow eastward into the Dead Sea, and heal the waters thereof, so that there will be multitudes of fishes in it; and

every thing will be teeming with life whithersoever these waters go. The other half will flow westward into the Meditteranean.

The great artesian fountain flowing from beneath the palace of the King, together with many other gushing fountains on the eastern slope of the city, at a distance of 4,000 cubits, or a little over a mile and a half, form a river so as to be unfordable-a tremendous flowing stream.

This eastern stream is the River of Life that flows out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. On its banks are the trees of life, yielding their fruits every month, which is for food, and the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations.

Jerusalem will be the best watered city that the world has ever seen. The earthquake will be so great that the earth will reel to and fro like a drunken man, and the tenth part of the city will be thrown down, and 7,000 men will be killed thereby. Doubtless the most of the city will be demolished; for the new city will be builded on the heaps of the ruins of the old. This earthquake will, probably, be world-wide in its work; for we are told that the cities of the nations will fall from the shaking thereof. This occurs at the time of the battle of Armageddon.

THE EARTHQUAKE.

Zech. 14:8-9, "Then shall the Lord (Jesus) go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall move