The Restoration of the Jews to Their Own Land In Connection With Their Future Conversion and the Final Blessedness of Our Earth Classic Reprint

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The present very peculiar situation of the land of J udea, and of the Jewish nation, has led to the hope that this publication may be seasonable and useful in directing the attention of Christians to the scriptural statements, so full of large and rich hope, as to the future condition of this remarkable people. The Author trusts that he may have so confirmed the doctrine of their restoration by the gathering together of the Divine testimony upon it, that the faith of his fellow-christians in it may be strengthened, and the volume of believing prayer ascending to heaven in their behalf be increased and enlarged. But it is not merely this issue that he seeks. The begun restoration of Israel may in a short time be a fact instead of a prophecy, and decide by a fulfilment the true princi ple of interpretation of prophecy; but that fact is to us of chief and primary importance from its close and inti mate connection, as will be seen, with other yet more important events. It is the warning voice to Christendom of the near approach of those events, preparation for which is one great end of all Christian doctrine and instruction. God seems to be graciously recompensing the love of the British churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland, in attending to the Jews, by giving us fuller and more com prehensive views of Divine truth concerning our own state, and hence more preparation of mind for what is before the Gentile churches. None indeed can attend to any Christian duty, and especially to one so brought be fore us as this is in the word Of God, without many col lateral blessings.