The mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains THE MORAL GRANDEUR OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The gift of prophecy would have been to its possessor a source of the most exquisite misery if it had been restricted only to the dark passages of human history. But the... [ Continue Reading ]
_For all people will walk every one in the name of his God, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever _ EVERY NATION ITS GOD That this chapter contains a prophecy of the glorious times of the Gospel is the general opinion of all Christian interpreters. Some things are fore... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion _ THE BLESSING OF THE INGATHERED ONES I. The character of the assembly. 1. The halt. 2. The banished. 3. The afflicted. From this gather the ruined condition of man. (1) The halt--incapable of any spiritual movement. Hence the corruption of the un... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies THE MORAL REGENERATION OF THE WORLD I. The state of mankind requires it. “Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished?” It was more serious for the Jewish people to be deprived of a king than for any other people, for their king wa... [ Continue Reading ]