"Surely, thus hath Jehovah said,

Yet once more' a little while,

And I will shake the heavens and the earth,

And the sea and the dry land.

I will shake all the nations,

And they shall come that are the desire of all the nations.

And I will fill this house with glory,

Hath Jehovah Sabaoth said.

The silver shall be mine and the gold shall be mine,

Hath Jehovah Sabaoth said.

Great shall be the glory of this house :

The latter greater than the former,

Hath Jehovah Sabaoth said.

And in this place will I give peace,
Hath Jehovah Sabaoth said."

And again, verses 22, 23.

"I will shake the heavens and the earth,

And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms.

And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the

nations:

And I will overthrow the chariot, and him that rideth

thereon,

And the horses and their riders shall come down,

Each by the sword of his brother.

In that day, hath Jehovah Sabaoth said,

I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,

To be my servant, hath Jehovah said:

And I will make thee as a signet,

For thee have I chosen. hath Jehovah said.”

How singular is the repetition in these passages; to mark as it were the certainty that the Lord has

promised this, let men think as they please. Jehovah, "the Eternal incarnate in the person of the Son," hath spoken it! Jehovah Sabaoth, the incarnate God who comes forth as "the champion with his heavenly hosts," has said it! "They shall come that are the desire of all the nations," must be translated plurally, unless without sufficient authority we violate the sacred text; it refers, there can be no doubt, to "the coming of the Lord with the ten thousands of his saints"-"the manifestation of the sons of God," "for which creation groaneth and travaileth in pain." And surely we may say, the Lord in the days of his flesh repeated and pointed out the fulfilment of this promise:—

Luke xxi. 24, &c.-" Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity : the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things that are coming upon the earth. For the powers of heaven shall be shaken: and then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory."

The apostle observed to the Hebrews, that "this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as things that are made," "that is to say, are of this creation," "the fashion of which is to pass away," that "those things which cannot be shaken may remain." And among "those things that cannot be shaken," but "remain" perpetually as belonging to the new creation, are doubtless, "Mount Zion, and the city

of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," &c. And in subserviency to this, the Jews wait for their national restoration upon the new earth, and the elect remnants both of Jews and Gentiles, which are now being gathered by the preached gospel, believing in Christ, have already their right of citizenship in that "Jerusalem that is above," and is hereafter to "come down from God out of heaven;" and those who now receive Christ, and "love his appearing," in him, have received "a kingdom that cannot be moved," and when the Lord of glory, the king of Israel, is manifested, and "ariseth to establish Zion," they "will appear with him in glory." The promise to Zerubbabel-to make him as a signet-refers, I conceive, to that exaltation of the descendants of the house of David, who will then be found among the survivors of Jerusalem, to a distinguished rule and principality, not to the regal dignity, but as subordinate governors in the flesh over the house of Israel and Judah for ever.

Of this fact we have express intimation in the prophetic word: (Jer. xxx. 20.)

"And his children shall be as aforetime,

And his congregation shall be established before me,
And I will call to account his oppressors.

And his prince shall be of his own race,

And his governor shall come forth from the midst of him;

And I will draw him that he may come near to me,* *
For who is he that hath engaged his own heart to come

near to me?

*Or "I will cause him to approach and come near to me."

And ye shall be unto me a people,

And I will be unto thee Elohim.”

Thus saith Jehovah,

'Who hath appointed the sun for a light by day,

The stated order of the moon and stars for a light by night,

Who stilleth the sea when the waves thereof roar,
Jehovah Sabaoth is his name:

If these ordinances shall depart from before me,
Then shall the seed of Israel also cease,
From being a nation before me continually."
Thus saith Jehovah,

'If the heavens above can be measured,

Or the foundations of the earth traced out beneath,

Then will I also reject the whole seed of Israel,
For all that they have done, saith Jehovah."

He next describes the city that shall be built for Jehovah, and adds: (Jer. xxxi. 35.)

"Holy to Jehovah, it shall not be plucked up,
Neither shall it be thrown down any more for ever."

Thus hath Jehovah said, (xxxiii. 25, &c.)

"If day and night be not my covenant,

If I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
Then will I reject the seed of Jacob and David my servant;
So as not to take of his seed to be rulers,

Unto the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;

When I shall reverse their captivity, and shall pity them." The perpetuity, therefore, of the establishment of restored Israel, as a nation in the flesh in their own land, in that land as become a part of the new earth which remains before the Lord for ever, seems clearly predicted, and promised in these passages.

Again, the covenant by the tenure of which, they individually, as well as conjointly hold their blessedness, is declared to be everlasting, and on their part, in strictness, unconditional. This is plainly asserted in two remarkable passages which unquestionably relate to this people after their final restoration: (Jer. xxxi. 31.)

"Behold the days come, saith Jehovah,

That I will make with the house of Israel,

And with the house of Judah, a new covenant:

Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers,

In the day that I took them by the hand,

To bring them out of the land of Egypt;

Which covenant of mine they violated,

And I became their adversary, saith Jehovah :

But this is the covenant which I will make with the house

of Israel,

After those days, saith Jehovah.

I will put my law within them,

Even upon their heart will I write it:

And I will be to them Elohim,

And they shall be to me a people :

And they shall not teach any more

Each man his neighbour, and each man his brother,

Saying, Know ye Jehovah ;

For they shall all know me,

From the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Saith Jehovah :

For I will pardon their iniquity,

And their sin will I remember no more."