you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."

John viii. 39-44. "They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, if ye were Abraham's children ye would do the works of Abraham. . . . Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it."

Rev. ii. 9. "I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich,) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, but are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan."

iii. 9. " Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."

Isa. lxv. 11-15. "But ye are they that forsake the Lord, and forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink-offering unto that number. Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter,— because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed; behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen : for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.

Could the title of the carnal Jews to the land of promise, be denied in stronger language?

Acts xiii. 45, 46. 66 multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake

But when the Jews saw the

against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles."

Rom. ix. 25-28, 31, 32. "As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which are not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called, the children of the living God. Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved; for he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. . . But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? (or why?) Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone."

Isa. vi. 9-11. "And he said, go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate."

Deut. xxviii. 61, 63. "Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. And it shall come to pass, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess

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Jer. xxiii. 39, 40. "Therefore behold, I even 1, will utterly forget you, and I will utterly forsake you, and cast you out of my presence; and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten."

In the above passages we are taught that the Jews are to be left in utter desolation and blindness, till the land be without inhabitant, or till the end-and that instead of being restored, they are to be plucked up forever to be an everlasting reproach, and a perpetual shame.

CHAPTER V.

BELIEVERS, CHRISTIANS, ARE THE TRUE JEWS, THE REAL ISRAEL OF GOD, THE TRUE SEED, AND THE RIGHTFUL HEIRS OF THE PROMISED LAND.

Rom. ii. 28, 29. "For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men but of God."

Those whom we call Jews are NOT Jews.

Rom. ix. 6-8. "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect; for they are not all Israel, which are of Israel. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for the seed."

Gal. iv. 28. "Now we brethren, (ALL who believe, whether Jew or Gentile,) as Isaac was, are the children of promise."

We will now examine the original promise, as made to Abraham.

Gen. xiii. 14, 15. "And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up, now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou

art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever."

Gen. xvii. 7, 8. "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant; to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

The following passages show that the promise was not of literal Canaan.

Acts vii. 4, 5. "Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran, and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land wherein ye now dwell. And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child."

Heb. xi. 8—11. "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and whose maker is God."

13-16. "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city."

39, 40. "And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise; God having provided some better thing for us, without us should not be made perfect.' Original promises to Isaac and Jacob.

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Gen. xxvi. 3, 4. "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee and thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

Gen. xxviii. 13, 14. "And behold the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

Now, who are THE SEED?

Gal. iii. 7-9. "Know ye, therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham."

16-19, 26-29. "Now to Abraham and to his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant which was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. Wherefore, then, serveth the law? -It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.