11/15/2023 0 Comments Cobalt 60 prophecy![]() ![]() ![]() They shall be allured to join themselves to thee," What shall invite such multitudes to the church: "They shall come to thy light and to the brightness of thy rising, v. You have come unto Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem), which serves for a key to this prophecy, Eph. The gospel church is expressly called Zion and Jerusalem, and under that notion all believers are said to come to it ( Heb. There is no place now that is the centre of the church's unity but the promise respects their flocking to Christ, and coming by faith, and hope, and holy love, into that society which is incorporated by the charter of his gospel, and of the unity of which he only is the centre-that family which is named from him, Eph. When the Jews were settled again in their own land, after their captivity, many of the people of the land joined themselves to them but it does not appear that there ever was any such numerous accession to them as would answer the fulness of this prophecy and therefore we must conclude that this looks further, to the bringing of the Gentiles into the gospel church, not their flocking to one particular place, though under that type it is here described. If God's glory be seen upon us to our honour, we ought not only with our lips, but in our lives, to return the praise of it to his honour, Mt. What is the duty which the rising of this light calls for: "Arise, shine not only receive this light, and" (as the margin reads it) "be enlightened by it, but reflect this light arise and shine with rays borrowed from it." The children of light ought to shine as lights in the world. When the case of the nations that have not the gospel shall be very melancholy, those dark corners of the earth being full of the habitations of cruelty to poor souls, the state of the church shall be very pleasant.ģ. What a foil there shall be to this light: Darkness shall cover the earth but, though it be gross darkness, darkness that might be felt, like that of Egypt, that shall overspread the people, yet the church, like Goshen, shall have light at the same time. When Christ arose as the sun of righteousness, and in him the day-spring from on high visited us, then the glory of the Lord was seen upon us, the glory as of the first-begotten of the Father.Ģ. When God appears to us, and we have the comfort of his favour, then the glory of the Lord rises upon us as the morning light when he appears for us, and we have the credit of his favour, when he shows us some token for good and proclaims his favour to us, then his glory is seen upon us, as it was upon Israel in the pillar of cloud and fire. As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light has come. God is the father and fountain of lights, and it is in his light that we shall see light. What this light is, and whence it springs: The Lord shall arise upon thee ( v. When the Redeemer came to Zion he brought light with him, he himself came to be a light. When the Jews returned out of captivity they had light and gladness, and joy and honour they then were made to know the Lord and to rejoice in his great goodness and upon both accounts their light came. ![]() It shall be very lightsome: Thy light has come. It is here promised that the gospel temple shall be very lightsome and very large. Now this has some reference to the peaceable and prosperous condition which the Jews were sometimes in after their return out of captivity into their own land but it certainly looks further, and was to have its full accomplishment in the kingdom of the Messiah, the enlargement of that kingdom by the bringing in of the Gentiles into it, and the spiritual blessings in heavenly things by Christ Jesus with which it should be enriched, and all these earnests of eternal joy and glory. That, the members of it being all righteous, the glory and joy of it shall be everlasting ( v. That it shall enjoy a profound peace and tranquility ( v. That the church shall be in great honour and reputation among men ( v. That the new converts shall be greatly serviceable to the church and to the interests of it ( v. That it shall be enlarged and great additions made to it, to join in the service of God ( v. That the church shall be enlightened and shone upon ( v. The long continuance of the church, even unto the utmost ages of time, was there promised, and here the large extent of the church, even unto the utmost regions of the earth and both these tend to the honour of the Redeemer. This whole chapter is all to the same purport, all in the same strain it is a part of God's covenant with his church, which is spoken of in the last verse of the foregoing chapter, and the blessings here promised are the fruits of the word and Spirit there promised.
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