THE MINOR
PROPHETS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD
[From S.G.A.T.]
The Minor
Prophets
There are twelve
books in the Bible which are usually described as ‘The
Minor Prophets.’ In some ways, it
seems very inapplicable that they are referred to in this way, as each one of
these prophets had (as, of course, each of their books still has) an extremely
important and vital message.
Sadly, these
twelve books seem to be a very neglected part of the Word of God. It would appear that the average ‘Christian’ would, if asked, have no idea what these
books are about, apart, perhaps, from the story of Jonah. In fact, many do not even know where to find
these books in their Bible!
Equally sadly,
many preachers who would otherwise seek to be faithful to the teaching of Holy
Scripture, either ignore these books or seek to explain them away as if the
plain statements made therein, although inspired, do not mean what they say.
So there is, in
these days, a great ignorance of what God had to reveal throughout these twelve
holy men of old who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost to utter and
record the very words of God.
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The Day of the
Lord Hosea
- Haggai
By W H Reeves
(This message
was giv,en at a meeting of the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony held in London
on May 23rd 1975).
I want to give a
key word to each of these prophets which I shall not expound but which I shall
just use as an introduction.
Hosea
The key word in
Hosea is RETURN. You
will find it mentioned fifteen times.
Hosea prophesied to the ten tribes of
This book
unfolds the fact that as Hosea was married to Gomer the unfaithful bride, so
Jehovah was married to unfaithful
Now “the Day of the Lord” is promised very early in the
book – “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall
be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall
come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not My
people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living
God. Then shall the children of
This prophecy
has not yet been fulfilled for
Joel
The key word I
have for this book is REPENTANCE. For this remarkable prophecy has for its
message the value and importance of repentance, and as you well know the key
phrase is ‘THE
DAY OF THE LORD’, which is named five times (1: 15; 2:1, 11, 3 1; 3: 14).
Those who understand this fact have an insight into the message of the
book, which describes a terrible locust invasion. It gives the first intimation of the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh, and yet it contains prophecies
reaching from the time of Joel to that Day of the Lord right to the end of
time.
The first
utterance in chapter 1: 15, deals with the
dire calamity “Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction
from the Almighty shall it come.”
Severe drought, a terrible invasion of locusts; ruin on every hand, and
it would seem that up to this point the people had not realised that God was
chastising them; that God was acting in judgment. Therefore Joel is urging the need for a fast
and for a calling unto the Lord. With
spiritual insight, being taught by the Spirit of God, Joel sees this locust
attack as an emblem of a more terrible attack by swarms of heathens; by the
nations in that day; and not only in that day for it is typical of the
invasions in the last days yet to come.
Therefore he
continues in chapter 2: 1, “Blow ye the trumpet in
Here we see the
power of the Lord’s sudden intervention to save
To quote Campbell Morgan again: “In this day Jehovah will restore Judah and Jerusalem by His
people Israel, deal with the nations through the processes of war, make Zion the centre of His earthly kingdom
and Israel as a complete nation, the instrument of His government.” Thus to Joel was given the plan of the
ages. He saw the near, the imminence and
the ultimate. He saw that the day of
Jehovah was present. persistent, powerful, to the complete realisation of
divine purpose. It was a great vision,
and our secret of confidence is in walking in its light. We live in the unnumbered age of the Spirit,
it has lasted 1900 years and we know not when it will end, but we do know that
beyond it is the great and terrible day of Jehovah. Therefore we are sure of the ultimate
realisation of all His purposes for men.
I do wish we had a leading
preacher today able to preach truth like that, a real dividing of the prophetic
Word of the Lord.
Amos
Now we move on
to the book of Amos. to which I have given the title RESTORATION. Amos was a
working man, a herdman, a preserver of sycomore trees, who was of
In this book,
Amos deals with a misconception in the minds of the people about the power of
the Lord; in fact in chapter 5: 18-20, he
said to them: “Woe unto you that desire the day of the
LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not
light. As if a man did flee from a lion,
and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall,
and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day
of the LORD be darkness, and not light?
Even very dark, and no brightness in it?”
There were three
classes of people whom Amos had to denounce with a “Woe,”
and we have them today. There were those who were at ease in
Others were
concerned about the evils of their day and were desirous that the day of the
Lord would come because they wanted better conditions. To this end, these people clung to an outward
form of religion, but their motives were
wrong and their interpretation even of the day of the Lord was false. That is sadly possible even today. You will
hardly credit this, but the late Dr. Basil Atkinson at the close of a meeting
in
Obadiah
We now come to
Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament, and for this I have the word RETRIBUTION; for Obadiah shows in some
measure an example of Anti-Semitism, a hatred of God’s chosen people and how
the Lord, not man, brings retribution.
Now the Edomites were the Idumeans as you know, the descendants of Esau
and God had commanded His people in Deuteronomy 23:
7, to treat them kindly. But the
Edomites were proud, they were bitter; they were resentful; and they never failed
to help any enemy that attacked the Jews.
They had an apparently inaccessible and impregnable mountain fortress
hewed in the rocks from which they could emerge on raiding expeditions, and
those wonderful rock dwellings are still a marvel. At the fall of
Obadiah had a
word for them, and he said in verses 15-16 “The day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own
head. For as ye have drunk upon My holy
mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink,
and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.” This will be, of course, on the nations in
the coming day of the Lord. And this is
a lovely text - “But upon mount
Jonah
Now we come to
the book of Jonab, and I give this the title RECOMMISSIONING. Now the question we may well ask is, Can
anyone see the day of the Lord in this remarkable book? And if you ask concerning the actual letter,
I would have to say, No! But spiritually
the day of the Lord to a truly spiritual mind can be seen in the book, for Jonah is definitely a type. We know that Jonah was a type. There is one thing of which you can always be
sure. When the Lord makes a type of
anything in the Old Testament, you may be sure it was a type. Jonah
was a type of the Lord Jesus in His death, burial and resurrection ‑ that
is quite clear from Matthew 12:40. But Jonah is also a type of
Micah
We move on to
Micah with the theme RIGHTEOUSNESS. Micah
was contemporary with Isaiah and belonged to
Nahum
Now Nahum, with
the title RUIN; a book which foretells the overthrow of
Is there any ray
of hope, any light for
We are getting
through these little books, there is a lot in them and we are just touching on
them.
Habakkuk
Habakkuk speaks
of REMEMBRANCE. This prophet was a
chorister in the temple. He has been
termed the grandfather of the Reformation and a prophet of faith, and although
we shall not develop this theme, his writings are in the form of a conversation
between himself and his Lord. He speaks
as a puzzled man who wants the Lord to show him the answer, and, of course, He
always does. In chapter
2: 3, the Lord said to him, “The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though
it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” That is what we have to remember regarding
prophecy, and so we have to learn both to hope and quietly wait for the coming
of the Lord, living by faith and looking to the future. Here is the day of the Lord in verse 14: “For the earth
shall be filled with the knowledge of
the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”
Zephaniah
Now we come to a
book of REJOICING, Zephaniah; and it is believed that
Zephaniah was used of God very much to bring about the time of revival at the
time of king Josiah. It is a book which
begins with judgment and ends with a song of rejoicing, and again, as in Joel,
the day of the Lord is the key to the study of this book.
Apart from
references to that day, he uses the phrase seven times: (1) chapter 1: 7: “Hold thy
peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for
the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, He hath bid His guests.” (2) 1: 8: “And it shall come
to pass in the day of the LORD’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and
the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.”
(3) 1: 14: “The
great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly,” (4) 1: 14:
“even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man
shall cry there bitterly.” (5) 1: 18: “Neither their
silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s
wrath.” (6) 2: 1-2: “Gather yourselves
together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired: Before the decree bring
forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD
come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you.” (7) 2: 3:
“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have
wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be
hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.”
Finally, in chapter 3 we have what has been described as the
sweetest love song in the Old Testament, “In that day
it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands
be slack. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will
save, He will rejoice over thee with
joy; He will rest in his love, He will joy over thee with singing ... At that
time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among
all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes,
saith the LORD” (3: 16-20).
Haggai
Then we come to
Haggai - REASSURED, and how much we need it. Haggai’s work is post-exilic. The people who had returned from captivity
were disheartened and they had much to discourage them. Discouraged about rebuilding the temple,
there was political intrigue that stopped the work and so the zeal and
enthusiasm of God’s ancient people had mostly died away. So the people made time for excuses, as we
see in chapter 1: 2, and the thought that we
may bear in mind as we read this is, that before
the day of the Lord the temple will be rebuilt.
In fact, on my
holiday last year I saw a film (I do not know how authentic the interpretation
of it is) which indicated that the Jews out there, in their unbelief, are
asking permission to excavate on the site of the temple and what they are
really doing is not just excavating but they are actually, according to the
film, getting the foundations ready under the plea of doing some archaeological
work; they are actually laying the foundations for the rebuilding of the
temple. I can only go on what the commentator
of the film said. But THAT
I was sitting in
a train one day with a dear old Jew, and he was reading his Scriptures. I said to the old man, Excuse me but do you
believe that the temple will be rebuilt?
That dear old man looked at me and said, I pray for it every day.
We will just
close with this thought of REASSURANCE. “For thus saith the
LORD of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens,
and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and
the Desire of all nations shall come: and
I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts” (2: 6-7). I
do not know how the Lord can fill the house of the Lord with glory if the
building is not there.
I know you can
spiritualise all these passages, but when you have done spiritualising them
there is still a great deal more. I do feel when I listen to an
A-millennialist preaching on these passages, how empty the message really is. You can get something for the soul but you cannot get much for the
future. No hope for God’s ancient
people, how sad. But we do thank God
for the wonderful truth in these minor prophets, and as our chairman has
reminded us, they are not so minor after all.
There is prophecy packed in small portions. We thank God it is there and for the
encouragement and the hope that this message brings to everyone who is looking
forward to the coming of the day of the Lord with a true godly motive.
The Prophecies
of Zechariah and Malachi
are a part of that more sure word of prophecy whereunto we do well to
take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place - this evil world of sin,
darkness, and woe.
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Introduction
[Part
2 – Zechariah and Malachi]
Now to begin
with, it is well to have in our minds a little outline concerning the prophets
of
Jeremiah
prophesied before the seventy years of the Babylonian captivity; Ezekiel and
Daniel prophesied during that period; and Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi
prophesied after the return from captivity.
Ezra and Nehermah are the historical books relating to the resettlement
of
We learn from
these historical books how that after the return of
Because of this, the Prophets Haggai and Zechariah
were sent to stir up the people to complete the Lord’s house, and although the
Temple which they had started to build was insignificant as compared with
Solomon’s Temple, Haggai and Zechariah assured the people that God would take
pleasure in their labours, and they were given rich promises of restoration and
of blessing if they continued faithful.
The Structure of
the Prophecy of Zechariah
Regarding the structure of this book of
the Prophecy of Zechariah, there are eight visions which God gave to the
prophet to record, and these are found in chapters
1-6, while chapters 7-14 record more
direct statements of prophecy. We also find
in the visions and the promises connected with them, that they go beyond their
immediate application to
It is always important to remember that
sometimes prophecies have a double fulfilment.
We see this in connection with the prophecy in Joel
2. Peter referred to this on the
day of Pentecost. Truly, Pentecost was
an earnest of this, but how brief! And the final or complete fulfilment is to be
in the “Day of the Lord,” when the Lord will be
once again in the midst of His people Israel, and when they as God’s priests
and ministers will dispense justice and truth and healing in the earth.
Its Opening
Message
In the opening words of the Prophet Zechariah, before the visions are enlarged upon, we
find how God, through His servant, first called the people to repentance (verse 3).
And this is exactly how both John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus began
their message and ministry to the nation of
We also read in verse
1 of the actual time when the prophet received this Word of the
Lord. It was in the eighth month, in the
second year of Darius the king; and it was exactly two months earlier, in the
sixth month of the second year of the same king that Haggai began to prophesy.
In Zechariah
1: 3, we have the term “The LORD of Hosts,”
and in passing I would just state that this majestic Name is used no fewer than
eighty times by these last three Prophets - Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. And note also that it is “Thus saith the
LORD of hosts.” It is evidently
to inspire the people with confidence that God was mightier than all their
outward circumstances - however great and powerful their enemies were.
Then in verses
5 and 6 we have the questions, “Your fathers, where are they?
And the prophets, do they live for ever?” Their lives were of short duration, but God’s
words and God’s statutes, in contrast, remain.
Did they (these are God’s words) not overtake your fathers? Yes truly, and in judgment, and they turned,
but not in repentance; only to acknowledge that their afflictions were from the
hand of God. The literality of the judgment was too apparent to deny; they
recognised that they had reaped what they had sown, and said, “according to our doings so hath He dealt with us.”
Now since my subject is “the Day of the Lord” which is yet to dawn, I must pass over the visions which are
described from verse 7 of chapter 1 to the end of chapter
6, and concentrate our thoughts more upon chapters
7-14 and also briefly refer to the prophet Malachi. This, of course, is a vast subject and
therefore one can only summarise some of the most important details of these
latter chapters.
In chapter 7
we find that nearly two years had elapsed since that memorable night on which
the series of the eight visions were shown to the Prophet ‑ in which were
unfolded in a wonderful panorama the thoughts and purposes of God concerning
Israel and the nations from the beginning to the very end of this age. Then the word of Jehovah came again to
Zechariah.
Again the day, the month and the year of
the Divine Oracle are clearly given as being the fourth year of King
Darius. Thus it would be about two years
after Haggai had stirred up the people to recommence the building of the Lord’s
house, and about two years before the house was finished* (Ezra 6: 15; Haggai 1: 1 - 15).
[* The number 2 features significantly
also in Hosea’s prophecy also. When we
interpret, It reveals the time which will lapse between the two advents of
Messiah: “At this time, a deputation came from
Their enquiry was, need the people
continue to keep these fasts and afflict their souls in memory of their former
calamities, namely the invasion of their land and destruction of their
The Cause of
Israel’s Calamity and Promise of Future Blessing
The Prophet Zechariah however, who spoke
to them in the Name of the Lord did not answer them directly, and the first
part of the prophetic discourse as contained in chapter
7 was intended to bring home to them and the nation the cause of their
former, and present sad and reduced circumstances. The cause of their low estate was moral, the
perverting of justice, oppression of the poor, and their hardness of
heart. It was because of these things
that they had been scattered with a whirlwind, and their land made
desolate. The causes were divinely
reiterated. It was of their own
making. So with God’s condemnation of
the nation the chapter ends, but as it is seen so often in these prophetical
passages, after the condemnation of His people
And this prophetical discourse continues
in chapter 8 with gracious promises that He
will yet save His people and be their God in Truth and Righteousness, resulting
in world-wide blessings.
This same climax of blessing is found in
earlier chapters 1. – 6., and in later
chapters 9. - 10.,
and 12. - 14.;
in other words, throughout the whole Book.
In wrath, God ever remembers mercy.
Restoration and
Blessing
And so we have the closing words in chapter 8 declaring “It
shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people(s), and the inhabitants of many cities ... saying, Let
us go speedily to pray ... and seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem ... In those days ... ten men out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is
a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you”
(8: 20-23).
Such words imply eagerness and assurance for the Lord will take away the
reproach of His people
The nations will then realise that their
fathers have inherited lies and vanities, and that God’s favour rests upon
Such
will be the power of the age to come.
We pass on to chapter
9 and here it is reiterated, like each of the passages already noted,
that much is beyond the then present circumstances or contemporary history, and
culminates in the time when Israel shall be brought to true repentance and will
return unto the Lord never more to be forsaken, neither their land again made
desolate.
Although some of the expressions in this
chapter, as indeed in other chapters in this book, may seem somewhat obscure,
yet the general trend of events is clear, and especially as they accord with
the prophetical passages in the New Testament concerning the end of this
age. Take such words as we have in verse 10, “And I will cut
off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from
True Peace and
Rest
“And He shall
speak peace unto the nations” (9: 10). How parallel are such words with Isaiah 2: 1-4, “They shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks ...
neither shall they learn war any more.”
And Psalm 86: 9, “All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship (brought low)
before Thee, 0 Lord; and shall glorify Thy Name.” “He shall have
dominion also from sea to sea and from the river (
And as to spiritual life, it will still
be peace through the Blood of His Cross, and through
Verse 14. “And the LORD shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go
forth as lightning.” And in the Isaiah 63 context with Zechariah
14: 3 we read of how the Lord will fight for them, when He comes from
heaven glorious in apparel, the day of vengeance in His heart for the year of
His redeemed is come.
“And the LORD
God shall blow the trumpet” (9: 14). How fitting are such words with the New
Testament passages, “The trump of God” (1 Thessalonians 4: 15-18) and “the last trump” (1
Corinthians 15: 52), linked with Revelation
11: 15-18 when resurrection and reward to saints takes place and God’s
wrath follows on the ungodly and “the kingdoms of this
world ... become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ.”
“And shall go with whirlwinds of the
south” (9: 14). The elements of nature shall be used to effect God’s
judgments. The sun darkened, the moon as
blood, the heavens departing as a scroll, mountains and islands removed out of
their places are accompaniments of the Lord’s second advent as confirmed by
Revelation 6 and 7 and Hebrews 12.
“For how great
is His goodness, and how great is His beauty” (9:
17). Such will be the words used
by converted
True Contrition
and Confidence in the Messiah
But in that Day, Israel, when they look
on Him Whom their nation once pierced and despised, shall be brought to mourn
and lament for Him, with deep contrition of heart as the words of chapter 12: 10-14 state. But their mourning shall be turned to
rejoicing, for the Lord shall preserve them during the brief time following His
glorious coming, while the vials of wrath are poured out on the wicked. Then He will make Himself known to His
brethren in everlasting embrace, nevermore to be pulled out of their land. “And I will bring
again the captivity of My people of
Now may I just draw your attention to
chapter 10: 4-7. In verse 4 we read “Out
of (literally, from) him (that is,
from
From him (Judah
the royal tribe from which our Lord sprang), the One Whom God laid “in Zion for
a foundation stone, a tried stone, a precious Corner Stone, a sure
foundation.” These are expressions
giving varied aspects of the dignity and glory that belong to the Lord Jesus
Christ (Isaiah. 28: 16). We may also
call to mind the somewhat similar figure given in Daniel 2: 44-45 ‑ the Stone
cut out without hands which shall destroy and consume all the kingdoms of this
world, so that His Kingdom of peace and righteousness shall stand for ever.
From him (Judah) the Nail fastened in a
sure place and upon Whom shall hang all the glory of His Father’s house (Isaiah 22: 20-25).
From him (Judah) the Battle-Bow. The Lord is a man of war. He will not let the wicked go
unpunished. He will come in all His
strength to save all the meek of the earth (Psalm
76: 7-9). His wrath will be
poured out (Isaiah 63: 1) upon the ungodly,
upon Antichrist and all his evil hosts.
From him (Judah) every Exactor or Ruler
together. All ruling power and authority
united in Himself - both Kingship and royal Priesthood, as Psalm 110 makes clear, and all who do not submit
themselves shall perish.
And they (
“They of
Ephraim, shall be like a mighty man ... yea their children shall see it, and be
glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD” (10:
7) on account of His mercies and deliverance.
Verse 12, “I will strengthen them in the LORD.” On this bright note the chapter ends, “And they shall walk up and down in His Name saith the LORD,”
subdued and conscious of God’s mercy, and “none shall
make them afraid” (Micah 4: 14).
Divine Events in
that Future Day
We thus arrive at the last three chapters of this prophecy. These chapters (12-14),
link together events connected with “That Day,”
the expression so often used in the prophetic Scriptures in reference to “The Day of the LORD,” which embraces the 1,000 years of sabbattic rest in contrast to “Man's
day” of misrule and oppression which has now continued nearly 6,000 years. It is the “last day”
spoken of in John 6 (mentioned four times); the day of resurrection unto life
when the Lord takes control, and saints enter into their rest,* and judgment follows upon the ungodly (2 Thessalonians 1). We can only give a very brief outline of
these three last chapters.
[* Heb.
4: 1, 11]
Chapter 12 sets forth
God’s Sovereignty over all creation, and reminds us of the immutability of His
promises to
Chapter 13 reveals that in this Day of the Lord there will be a fountain opened for sin and uncleanness to
the house of David and to the inhabitants of
And this brings us to the last chapter
wherein is brought before us how all nations will be gathered against
[* See Luke 14: 14; 20: 35; Phil. 3: 11; Heb. 11: 35b; Rev- 20:
4b, 6.]
The True King
“And the LORD
shall be King over all the earth: in that Day shall there be One Lord, and His
Name One” (verse 9). No longer, “gods many
and lords many” (1 Corinthians 8: 5).
The nations shall realise that their
idols are vanity and less than vanity and that they have inherited lies. The satanic veil of superstition and idolatry
shall be taken away (Isaiah 25: 7).
The Session of the Ancient of Days will
have taken place, and the Son of Man given dominion and glory and a kingdom
that will not pass away, that all peoples and nations and languages shall serve
Him (Daniel 7: 13-14). Truly, then, will a King be reigning in
perfect righteousness as Isaiah 32: 1 states
and it shall be [literally] fulfilled, “The Lord God
shall give unto Him the throne of His father David: and He shall reign over the
house of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:32-33).
Verse 21: “And
in that Day there shall be no more the Canaanite (or merchant) in the house of the LORD, for then will be designated
everything as ‘Holiness unto the LORD,’” when
My Messenger
Now, I refer to the Prophet Malachi.
The name Malachi means ‘My Messenger.’ This is the last of the Old Testament
prophecies and Malachi was to Nehemiah what Haggai and Zechariah were to
Zerrubbabel.
Following a period of revival after the
return from captivity in
And chapter 4 continues, “For,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burm as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be as stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn
them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch. But unto you that fear My Name shall
the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go
forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet in the day that I
shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Conclusion
As already mentioned,
All these consolatory announcements
given to Israel show clearly that “Jehovah is jealous
for Zion with great jealousy” and will return to Jerusalem with mercies;
and that not only will the people be restored and the land rebuilt, but that He Himself will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem which shall be known as “the City of
Truth” and “The Holy Mountain” - the centre to which the Gentile nations
shall come to seek Jehovah and be taught His way.
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