JEWS IN PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21020, 23 November 1933, Page 8

JEWS IN PALESTINE

TO IKB BDITOB Ot TKZ I'BKSS. Sir, —I thank you for having permitted correspondence on thia important and interesting subject. The Bible teaches that the words "Jew" and "Israel" are synonymous though W. T. Kingston may choose to deny it. Ezekiel, 29-21, says: "In that day will I cause the hprn of the houce of Israel to bud." Compare this with Psalm 132-17, where the same horn is spoken of, "There will I make the horn of David to bud." The horn spoken of is Jesus, who was of the house of Judah, therefore a Jew or Israelite. While salvation is of this nation, it has also been extended to us if we care to become adopted sons by faith in the everlasting covenants. "Awake O Israel" asks if I believe the Word of God. My previous letters answer for themselves. I have looked up every quotation made by this correspondent, but find that they do not ail refer to the one subject as he suggests. Some refer to Britain, some to Jesus, and some to the; 3 2 tribes of Israel. Take as an example of his inaccuracy Genesis 22-17, a prophecy this correspondent applies to Britain, It reads, "Thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies." This promise was made to the father of the 12 tribes. The sentence is in the singular number and has reference to a person, Jesus, see Galatians 3-16. Another reference which he applies to Britain, as the kingdom of promise (as he supposes) is that it would be a kingdom that "would free the slaves and remove oppression." This quotation Is taken from Isaiah 11, but it has no reference to Britain, the subject of the chapter being "'a branch and root of Jesse," a title Jesus applies to himself in the Revelation. If "Awake, O Israel" honestly supposes Britain is Israel, and the Kingdom of the future, he has a mountain of difficulties presented in Ezekiel 21-25, 27, where .speaking of Israel, the prophet says, "I will overturn, overturn, overturn it; and it shall be no more until he comes whose right it is and I will give it him." How very different from England's history! She has been risfcg gradually to power for centuries.

I do not think it is necessary to go further to prove the instability of the foundation of "Awake O Israel's" theories. Yes, "blindness in part is happened to Israel, but when the fulness of the Gentiles ba come in," that blindness will be healed, enabling them to recognise the returned Messiah, whom once they crucified. There are troublous times ahead. Even the last few weeks have seen the political situation in Europe become more tense. The divine plan is working out; man has rejected God and is trying in vain to manage affairs unaided, but ere long he will be made to realise that Jesus is the one ordained of God to put the world to rights, and just as surely as the Jews are going back to Palestine under British protection, as prophesied in the Bible, so surely will the Son of God return from Heaven to rule the world from the throne of His Father David in Jerusalem. We can become associated with that blessed time by making ourselves acquainted with the Divine plan of salvation, looking forward to the time when "the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever." —Yours, etc ZIONIST. November 22, 1933.