ISRAEL’S HOPE.

            The following has been recently inserted as an advertisement in the “British Colonist,” published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by a friend to Elpis Israel. I insert it here because of the excellent digest it presents off the great truths they contend for who believe in the Hope of Israel.

            “Elpis Israel is a book recently published by John Thomas, M.D., of surpassing merit, and most interesting and invaluable to every person, lay or clerical, who may desire to understand the Bible as a whole, and to be able from the sure prophetic word, “whereunto,” Peter says, “ye do well to take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until THE DAY (of Christ) dawn,”—to note and understand the signs of the times. “Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth,”—saith God’s Anointed King—“that man whom God hath ordained to judge the world in righteousness,” for a thousand years. He that revealed to Daniel what should happen in the latter days, told him that “the words were closed up and sealed,” that is, their meaning would not be understood, until “the time of the end:” when “the WISE shall understand” them.

            “Elpis Israel demonstrates that the time predicted by Daniel, is near, when “the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom which shall break in pieces and consume all other Kingdoms,” when “Michael, the great prince, shall stand up for the children of Israel,” and when “many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.” All the important prophecies referring to the awful and wonderful events which are to transpire on the earth, during the time of the end of “the times of the Gentiles,” preparatory to the bringing in of the Jews and the restoration of the Kingdom again to Israel, are rendered intelligible and harmonious, and deeply interesting to the present generation.

            “THE THINGS CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,” are fully and ably treated of. Messiah’s reign personally on the earth when “the Lord God shall have given him the throne of his father David,” when “he will return and build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down, and will build again the ruins thereof, and will set it up, as in the days of old;” the rebuilding of Jerusalem, which will then be “the city of the great King,” and be called as prophesied by Jeremiah, “THE THRONE OF GOD;” the Ezekiel Temple, into which “the glory of the God of Israel is to come from the way of the east and enter at the east gate,” and which will far transcend in splendour and magnificence, its great type, the Temple of Solomon; the restoration of the ten lost tribes of Israel, and their Second Exodus from Egypt and passage a second time through the Red Sea, as foretold by Isaiah; the fearful destruction of the nations which go up to spoil the Jews, referred to in Ezekiel, under the names God and Magog; the establishment of the dominion of Christ and “the people of the saints” over the whole earth for a thousand years; the utter destruction of the Satanic confederacy of the nations; styled also by John, Gog and Magog, who at the end of the thousand years, “compass the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city;” the second resurrection and final judgment: the delivering up of the Kingdom to the Father: and the “new earth” in which is to be “no sea,” and which only those who have attained to immortality will dwell in; all these, with a vast amount of information, interesting and important, and which can be found in no other book, are clearly set forth and scripturally demonstrated.

            “The unscripturality and consequent “foolishness” of many prevailing religious notions and opinions, is made evident; and the Bible as a whole being opened up to the minds of the uninitiated, becomes at once a book, the most interesting and absorbing that can possibly be imagined, and the study of it truly delightful. Every person who feels any interest in the things which concern his future state, by studying Elpis Israel with the Bible at his right hand, as the Author requests, can be assured of what he must believe and do, in order to inherit eternal life, be constituted a joint heir with Christ; “and at his appearing and his kingdom,” share with him “the power and the glory” of his Kingdom, in “the Age to Come,” and in the ages of the ages which follow. Truly “great and precious” are God’s promises, “to him that overcometh!” What a glorious hope is the Christian’s!”

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