"There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer" (Romans 11:26,27).

It is of the utmost importance to remember in reading the Holy Scriptures that God has an earthly as well as a heavenly people, and that Christ is the Centre of both. He is "the Head of the Church." He is also "the King of the Jews"; as such He died, and in that character will He come again. Then that people will welcome Him as their Messiah and worship Him as their God.

All careful readers of the Scriptures must be impressed with that great prominence given to that people in those writings. Almost two-thirds of the Bible is occupied with them, either recording their historic past or revealing their prophetic future. During the present dispensation they have been scattered everywhere yet they have not amalgamated with other nations nor have they been annihilated by them, but have been kept separated for God's purpose in the future.

Today we see such a movement among them which has not been witnessed for centuries. Gathered from the countries of their dispersion, and once more in possession of their own land and recognized as a nation, they are as yet without a king, a temple, a priest or sacrifice. Because they are still a nation in unbelief they must pass through a time of unparalleled tribulation, which will begin after the rapture of the Church, in their land when the crucial test will be the idolatrous worship of antichrist's image set up in the Holy Place. As the spirit of idolatry had long departed from them, it will mean a choice between idolatry or death. In the hour of their extremity, and as a last resource, they cry to God to "rend the heavens and come down." Then "the powers of the heavens are shaken" and the sign of the Son of Man appears. He returns to that nation in the glorified Person of their great Deliverer and is recognized and accepted by them as their true Messiah, Saviour and King. Then shall all Israel be saved.

—G.H.