Supplement 20 — For Lessons 39 & 40

Supplement Twenty

For Lessons Thirty-nine and Forty

In these Lessons Thirty-nine and Forty we really begin the study of prophecy. You should use my book, Revelation Expounded, along with these and all the following lessons, for this book goes more into detail in some prophetic subjects than do the lessons themselves. These lessons deal with 110 great prophetic future wonders from 1949 into eternity. In this supplement we want to answer more fully the modern theory that God is responsible for sin, sickness, poverty, and want in the lives of Christians.

God is Not Responsible for the Conditions of the Fall

Many modern preachers teach that God is the one responsible for original sin and for the sufferings of the children of God, that He actually appoints and calls men to suffer and even determines their suffering and the extent to which they must suffer. This theory ignores all the satanic opposition and the conditions caused by the willful rebellion of man and the Fall. It places all the blame for these miserable conditions upon God and reasons that since they exist they must be the will of God and that Christians should accept these things as God’s blessings in disguise.

The Bible does not teach one of the above theories. Such teaching impeaches the character of God and makes Him the most unjust, heartless, and despotic Being in the universe. The arguments used by these modern teachers to prove such fallacies are given and refuted in the points below:

Suffering May Arise From Doing Good

This is no doubt true in the case of Christ and many others whose purpose in life was to do good, and because of holy living and preaching truth that condemned the lives of men about them they had to undergo much suffering. But such suffering was not caused by God. It was caused by evil men and demons. Neither was such suffering that of physical sickness, sin, and failure in life. Some of them had to undergo the lack of material needs at times due to the fact that Christianity was a new religion and had to become established in the world. However, today, since it is the prevailing religion of our country, there is no need for Christians to suffer for lack of material needs and undergo persecutions that some of the founders of Christianity did. Therefore, such an argument that suffering may result from doing good does not prove that God wills and sends sin, sickness, poverty, and failure to Christians in order to keep them humble and godly. If there is ever again such persecution of Christians similar to what early believers had to undergo, it will be necessary to suffer hardships, poverty, beatings, stonings, killings, and many other things people naturally suffer in such times. But even then it will not be necessary for Christians to suffer sin, sickness, and failure in attaining to the benefits of the gospel that are for them under all circumstances.

Bible Characters Furnish No Excuse to Fail God

The cases of Paul, Timothy, and Epaphroditus are given by some men today to prove that all Christians must suffer. It is true all must suffer some trials, but this does not mean that Christians must suffer sickness, sin, and poverty, as we have seen in Lesson Fourteen, Point VIII, 6-9. There is no statement in Scripture that Paul had sore eyes or some disease of the body. He was beaten with rods, stoned to death, and suffered many physical sufferings at the hands of mobs and to these infirmities he does refer 2 Corinthians 11:23-312 Corinthians 12:7-9, but he has never even hinted in one passage that he bore sicknesses in his own body that Christ died to heal him of. No other case is given in Scripture where a man was in the total will of God and yet was constantly sick because of God’s will. All sicknesses, sins, and failures to get what the gospel provides are not the work of God. All such is the work of the devil and the failure of man to cooperate with God and have faith for the benefits of the Gospel.

Two Kinds of Suffering

The suffering of Paul and Silas “because of casting out the devil from the fortune-telling girl” Acts 16:16-24; “the suffering and death of Stephen because he preached the truth to the Jews” Acts 7:54-59; “suffering as the result of right living” 1 Peter 3:142 Timothy 3:12; “suffering persecution for the gospel” 2 Timothy 1:81 Peter 4:14; “suffering because of a life of prayer” Daniel 6:10-12; “suffering because of fearless preaching” Matthew 14:1-11; and all like sufferings are listed by many Bible writers as proof that it is the will of God for Christians to live in sin and to suffer pain, sickness and poverty. There are two kinds of suffering and it seems that some teachers do not know the difference between the two. Naturally, all Christians will suffer persecution to the extent they are different from the world. They will suffer like the early Christians when they get power from God to cast out demons and defy modern religion in certain churches who deny the many great truths of the gospel. They will suffer in any definite and marked conflict between themselves and the ungodly of the world and especially between themselves and the church members who oppose the gospel. But while it is true they will always suffer these things, it does not mean that they are to live in sin, suffer sicknesses, diseases, and pains for which Christ died to take away from believers. It does not mean that Christians cannot be prosperous during this present time of equal opportunity in business between themselves and sinners.

If Christ and the gospel cannot save from sin and deliver one from its power and dominion, then all men are sinners and all will go to Hell. If there is no power in Christianity to make men live free from sin and to make them different from sinners, then there is no difference and all are lost because of sinful lives. If the gospel does not provide healing for the body and help in financial problems, Christians have no greater blessings than do sinners, so of what benefit is the gospel? If all the promises in the Bible are lies and God did not mean what He said, then the Bible should be thrown away and rejected as the rule of faith and practice. If God will not answer prayers when His people need Him, then they are no better off than sinners.

Sin, Sickness, and Poverty Not God’s Will

When men sin it is not the will of God. It is their will in the matter or sin would not be committed. When men are sick or fail in business and do not get answers to prayer this does not prove that they are following the will of God. On the contrary, it demonstrates that they are failing to appropriate the benefits of God’s promises and for this reason they are not blessed of God according to the gospel. All suffering for sin is not the will of God regardless of what kind of suffering it is. If God’s will would have been done in the first place there would be no suffering and defeat in life. If men will only obey God and the gospel they can and will be brought out of the sufferings which Christ bore to take away from them in this life. God does not promise to take away persecutions and warfare with demons and evil men, but He has promised to take away sin, disease, and failure in life. If men want to suffer these things by following the doctrines of unbelief and failure, thinking they cannot live godly and humble lives, that is their loss. Many are seeing the truth and are getting free from sin, sickness, and poverty, and all other men can enjoy these blessings if they follow the truth of the Bible.

God Permits or Allows Suffering

God permits or allows all kinds of sufferings, but this does not mean that He sends them. He does not send persecutions or warfare with demons and evil in the world, but he does permit it because His people live in a fallen and rebellious world. Therefore, we repeat it again that this kind of suffering is not the same as the needless suffering of Christians when they give in to the devil, making them sinful, sick, and defeated in life, and which robs them of the benefits God has promised to give His people while in this life.

If Christians suffer sin, sickness, or failure in this life it is not that it is sent by God. It is allowed only in the sense that God does not interfere with people who choose to live in defeat. God allows it in the same way that He would allow a person to deliberately jump in front of a train to commit suicide. Certainly God allows it just because He does not break His own laws to forcefully keep a man from doing such a thing. He allows His people to sin if they want to, or to get sick if they want to.

When we use the argument that God allows certain sufferings and therefore that such must be His will and His best for men, this demonstrates ignorance of truth. God allows the devil and demons and fallen men to continue in rebellion, but this is not His will. He will take action in due time to put down this rebellion, but until that time comes they are simply allowed to operate as they can to defeat God and His plan. That God allows men to rebel does not mean that He is personally responsible for the sin and rebellion or their effects, so let us be sensible and realize that certain things are the result of wars between good and evil, and as long as two opposing forces have power to fight each other certain conditions will be created that could not be otherwise.

What to Do to Get Deliverance

If Christians are attacked by the devil or if they have contracted some disease, and they fail to immediately rebuke such attacks they are liable to normal consequences. Children of God should learn how to ward off such attacks and resist the devil James 4:71 Peter 5:8-9. They can be immune from sicknesses and diseases Luke 10:19. They can pray and resist business failure just as much as they can sins and sicknesses. They can pray for wisdom and God will give it to them liberally and He will not upbraid them for asking James 1:4-8. Such wisdom will enable the child of God to be a business success and it will help him in every problem of life. These blessings are for all children of God alike, and if only some avail themselves of them it does not prove that these benefits are only for a special few. It simply proves that some have faith and some do not, that some understand the truth and others do not, and that some cooperate with God and others do not.

Christians Are Not to Display Satan’s Works

It is argued by one writer that Paul’s sufferings and afflictions as stated in 2 Cor. 6:4, 5 made him a public display of the sufficiency of God’s grace, and that he proved it by the afflictions he carried around and displayed before men. This author teaches that Paul had sore eyes and bodily diseases as part of his display to prove to men that God’s grace is sufficient to help people to be true to God in sickness and to be satisfied that they are in the will of God.

This is nothing more than an accusation against God. This theory alleges that God is the author of sickness and that He sends His people out into the world to demonstrate the work of the devil before men. What a concept of God! How could we think that God would be guilty of such a thing just to prove to men how wonderful He is and how He loves His children? The very devil himself blushes at such ignorance of truth and he is happy to get men deceived enough to blame God for his own work. Such teaching only glorifies Satan and such a demonstration of sickness is a mark of the work of the devil instead of the work of God. No human being could believe that any parent would show any love or kindness at all for an offspring that he deliberately makes sick, helpless, poor, defeated, and full of pain and misery. Human beings would rise up against any parent who would deliberately cause these conditions in the life of one child. Such a parent would be dealt with by law and the child would be taken from him. No person knowing of such a condition would or could have any respect for a parent that would act in such a low and degraded manner.

The Effect of Such Teaching on Sinners

Is it any wonder that multiplied thousands of sinners in observing how the children of God display the wares of the devil as being of God are little interested in God or His religion? Think of it, sickly, helpless, painful, miserable, sinful, depraved, and cursed people are running around claiming to be Christians and claim to be truly displaying the wares of God as taught by the Bible. Sinners continually reason that if this is a sample of how God loves His children and if that is the lot they are expected to choose if they quit sin and the devil to serve God, they do not want any part of it. Sinners see how much better off they are than Christians. They see that many sinners are prosperous in life while they hear preachers in almost every church say that Christians should not expect to have good things in life to enjoy and that they are to be poor and almost God-forsaken in order to qualify for Heaven. Sinners see the saints pray and pray and seldom if ever are their prayers answered; thus they wonder what it is all about. They wonder whether God is in existence or not and why He is so far off. They wonder why it is so hard to get Him to do the least thing for His children who have forsaken all for Him. They see the Christians who are sick and miserable while many of them are well and healthy and they naturally wonder whether they ever want that kind of religion or not. And one cannot blame them, for if that is the kind of blessing God bestows upon men who give their all to Him, it certainly is not very inviting to become a Christian.

Even if some Christians recognize that the devil is responsible for some of these conditions while they themselves are responsible for the rest, there is very little difference in what sinners really see in these Christians and in the others who claim that God is responsible for all these curses. They see that both classes of Christians are being defeated by the demons who are the main cause of such conditions. They reason that if Christians cannot get these benefits why should they try to get them.

The picture of the true conditions of Christians in modern churches is very black and discouraging to sinners. They should see, not the demonstration of satanic powers in cursing men with pain, sickness, poverty, and sin, but mighty demonstrations of the power of the Holy Spirit in destroying these works of the devil in the lives of believers.

Christians Should Be Free from Satan’s Works

Christians do not have to demonstrate the works of the devil and it is the greatest curse to the Christian religion for them to do so. They can live free from sin, free from sickness and pain, free from want and poverty, and free from failures in life along every line. The Christian should be an outstanding example of the power of God in living free from these curses, as we have proven in Lesson Fourteen.

Paul’s afflictions are listed in 2 Cor. 11:23-31 as being the result of mobs, being shipwrecked, and of perils and persecutions of all kinds by men instead of being the work of the devil in bodily diseases. It was in these necessary sufferings for the gospel that he sought to be approved of God and this is all right if any one is ever called to undergo such persecutions for the cause of Christ. But who in present day Christianity in so-called Christian lands are called to go through these sufferings? The modern Church has substituted the works of the devil that God wants to deliver them from, as the sufferings Paul and all Christians endure. This is not true, and it never will be true. This is the deceptive work of the devil to make believers satisfied to carry about in their bodies the works of demons under the guise of suffering for the gospel like early believers did.

God is Not Glorified by Sickness

Some preachers contend that God gets glory from sickness and even death and they give as proof the case of Lazarus of whom it was said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby” John 11:4. They contend that many souls have been saved through sick Christians. Be that as it may, it cannot be said that sickness ever saved anyone. People are not saved through sickness but through faith and repentance to God through Christ Ephesians 2:8, 9Romans 10:9, 10. Sickness might have caused some to turn to God just like other calamities that have come to people.

To use Lazarus as an example that God gets glory through sickness and thus encourage men to accept diseases as the means of glorifying God is foolish in the extreme. The truth is that God never would have received glory from Lazarus if He had not healed him. If Lazarus had remained dead, God would not have been glorified. So it is with others, God cannot get glory as long as men are sick or dead. If they want God to get glory, then they should permit God to heal them, so He can get glory by manifesting His power over the power of the devil. But men use Lazarus as an excuse for their unbelief and to teach that God gets glory while men are sick.

If men who are Christians want to remain sick and thereby glorify Satan that is their business, but it should be clearly understood by them that they are voluntarily yielding to the devil and permitting his work in them and that they are robbing God of the glory that is due Him. If Christians would only acknowledge the truth concerning the true source of their sickness as being of the devil and that God longs to heal them so that He can get glory, many of them would be stirred up to active cooperation with God to get healed.

Modern Experiences Unsafe to Follow

One preacher writes, “What difference does it make if we are sick or if we are well, just so we are what we are for the glory of God. It is not a pleasant thing to be sick. The writer knows, for he has suffered eighteen years with that dreadful affliction—arthritis. Even now, as I write this book, I know what pain and suffering is, and I know what it is to have burning joints, aches and pain. I know what it is to have sleepless nights and a weak body. But why should I complain because I have arthritis, why should I rebel against God’s plan and God’s will for my life? If God can get more glory by my being sick and afflicted, Amen! . . . through my afflictions I have been used of God to lead many souls to Christ . . . Some of God’s greatest soul winners have weak bodies, and are sickly.”

What ridiculous teaching! The very devil himself could not give better teaching to the Church to suit his purpose than this preacher has given. The devil is highly pleased with such leaven in our Christian Church and in “gospel” (?) literature. This is purely one of the doctrines of the demons that Paul predicted would be followed in the last days 2 Timothy 3:5.

This same preacher and thousands like him are reaping the fruit of their own teaching. If I taught that God gets glory out of sickness, pain, failure, and needless sufferings that glorify Satan more than God, I would want to become more sick in order to get deeper in the will of God in order to glorify God all the more. But this preacher says that he has had three operations and has spent much money in trying to get well. By his own teachings wouldn’t we have a right to conclude that he is trying to get well in order to get out of the will of God and in order to rob God of the glory that He gets by having His children sick? What utter foolishness and fallacy!

God is Glorified More By Healthy Bodies

What difference does it make whether a child of God is sick or well? It makes all the difference in the world. God can naturally get more glory out of healing than in refusing to heal. He can get more glory out of well bodies that can labour more for Him than out of sick, sinful, painful, helpless bodies that can only lay around groaning under the so-called loving-kindness of God. He can get more glory out of people who demonstrate by their lives that God is alive and answers prayer; and out of healing bodies and thus proving to the world that God does care and make provision for the welfare of His people. The above-mentioned preacher has suffered needlessly for eighteen years and has caused perhaps thousands of people to become unbelievers in God and in answered prayer by his testimony that God has not heard his prayer and has permitted him to suffer that long. Suppose he has led a few souls to Christ in spite of, not because of his suffering, would he not have won many more to Christ if he had been well enough to devote more time and strength to winning souls? Any cripple can do some things in spite of his handicap, but how much more could he do if he was not so helpless? So it is with deceived Christians who are content to carry about in their bodies the works of the devil just because they get a little Christian work done.

Christians Are Deceived By Satan

The devil is a slick one. He not only makes men sick but he makes them believe that his work in them is the work of God and the will of God and that such glorifies the Heavenly Father. He gets men to teach that because some souls are saved through men who suffer that it must be the will of God for them to be in this state or souls would not be saved. He gets them to believe that sick people can win more souls than well people. He gets them to teach everyone they can to accept sickness and needless sufferings as the will of God because God blesses them in such unbelieving, helpless, sickly, and defeated condition.

It is Time to Wake Up

My friends, sooner or later we are going to have to wake up to such deceptions of the devil and why not do it now, once and forever? Let us throw off such a yoke of bondage and such slanderous teaching against God and His truth. Let us reject such unscriptural theories that cause us to spend sleepless nights, suffer untold pain and agony, and be defeated by the demons of Hell who blame God for their own work. God gives His beloved sleep, sweet sleep, and not sleepless and painful nights Psalms 4:8Psalms 127:1-2Proverbs 3:21-24. God wants His workers to be free from burning joints, aches, and pain, so they can carry on His work Matthew 7:7-11Matthew 21:21-22Mark 9:23Mark 11:22-24John 14:12-15John 15:7, 16John 16:23-262 Corinthians 1:20. For God to will otherwise or refuse to make health provisions for His workers is to place Him on a lower and more inhuman and unjust plane than ordinary business corporations which make the best provisions possible for their workmen so that they can get the highest degree of service out of them.

God wants every child of God and even sinners to rebel against sin, sickness, pain, want, and poverty in life as not being the will and plan of God for man. So when preachers resign to the work of the devil in them to the point where they seek to get others to become resigned to accept the work of the devil as the work of God, we are in need of better and more enlightened leadership in Christendom. It is not God’s plan or will that any man should be sick and defeated in life. God cannot get more glory out of anyone who is in this state than if he were free from these hell-destroying forces. It is a lie that any man can win more souls for God while under physical handicaps than he could if he were free from such. Just because some sickly people might work for God more than some well persons and thereby win more souls than do those who are well, does not prove that one can win more souls to God while he is sick than if he was well. This is just another trick of the devil to deceive men.

Christ is Our Example in Life

Jesus Christ is our example and not some modern unbelieving, deceived preacher who seeks to hide his failure and his unbelief by such theories as those above. Jesus was not a sickly, helpless human being. He was full of life and vitality. He knew no sin and experienced no sickness until the time He bore the sins and sicknesses of all men in His own body on the cross Matthew 8:16, 171 Peter 2:24. If not one apostle or one Christian at any time in this whole age ever got the full benefits of the gospel or followed the example of Christ to the letter, Jesus would still be the one to pattern after, for “as he is, so are we in this world” 1 John 4:4, 171 Peter 2:21. Every Christian can get what he wants from God just as Jesus did Matthew 7:7-11Matthew 21:21-23Mark 9:23Mark 11:22-24John 15:7, 16.

Jesus taught us that God is more loving and good to His children than earthly parents are Matthew 7:7-11Luke 11:1-13. James taught us that every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of lights and that God would give all things liberally to them that would ask in faith James 1:4-21. Paul taught that men can have all the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that they do not need to “come behind” in any gift from God 1 Corinthians 1:71 Corinthians 12:1-11. He taught that all the promises of God are yea and amen to them that believe 2 Corinthians 1:20, that men can be filled with all the fullness of God and get what they want from God Ephesians 1:3-19Ephesians 3:13-20Ephesians 6:10-18, and that men can get from God exceeding abundantly above all that they ask or think Ephesians 3:20Philippians 1:6Philippians 4:5-7. In his writings Paul refers to the sufferings experienced by the early saints. It is clear that the sufferings he spoke of were not the pains of sicknesses and disease brought on by the devil, but were persecutions from enemies of the gospel.

We covet for you the simple faith and the true knowledge of the truth so that you can be made free from every work of the devil, every spirit of bondage, and every fallacy that so many people consider to be of God. If you will read the references themselves you can see that we are sticking to what is plainly written in the Bible. You are getting the full truth of God’s Word on every question. The responsibility of getting the benefits promised by God is up to you as an individual. If you fail to get what is for you do not blame God. Always clear Him of all wrong whatever you do. God does not fail men nor go back on His Word, so if you fail to get what God has promised be honest to acknowledge the source of your trouble as being from demons and from unbelief and failure on your part to conform to truth .

Ten Questions For Supplement Twenty. Do You Know:

• That there will be no second chance for the dead to be saved? The so-called Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that all the wicked dead will be resurrected and given a second chance to live and be saved in the Millennium. Then those who do not accept salvation in this period will be annihilated. This is a false teaching, as are practically all the teachings of this cult. The Bible teaches that it is appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment, not after this a second chance to be saved Hebrews 9:27. It further teaches that the wicked dead will not be resurrected until after the Millennium and then they will be judged and cast into the Lake of Fire, not given a second chance Revelation 20:4-15. The wicked will never be annihilated, as we have already proven in Lesson Thirty-seven.

• That animal sacrifices will again be offered to God in the near future? The Jews will build a temple at Jerusalem and will again offer sacrifices to God until the middle of Daniel’s Seventieth Week at which time the Antichrist will break his seven-years covenant with them and will do away with these sacrifices and set up himself in the temple as God Daniel 9:27Matthew 25:15Revelation 11:1-2. The Jews were to be without sacrifices for many years until they returned to their native land again Hosea 3:4-5. This prophecy will soon be fulfilled to the letter.

• That modern Syria, Irak, and Iran will become one state? All these modern states were parts of the Syrian division of the old Grecian Empire. As we have seen in Lesson Thirty-nine, this original division of Greece will be one of the ten kingdoms of Dan. 7:23-24 and one of the four kingdoms of Dan. 8:20-23; 11:1-45 from which the Antichrist will come. Syria must gain control of the original territories that it ruled over in days of old in order to fulfill the above prophecies. Antichrist will reign from the future city of Babylon on the River Euphrates until he breaks his covenant with the Jews and takes Jerusalem as his capital. He is called the king of Babylon in Isa. 14. Since Babylon must be rebuilt to fulfill Scripture and since it will be located in modern Irak and will be the capital of Syria in the future, Irak must become a part of Syria. Since the other states mentioned above were parts of ancient Syria they must also become a part of the greater Syria of the future in order to fulfill prophecy.

• That the Arabs will protect Israel during the great tribulation? This seems impossible as we look at the present enmity between the Jews and Arabs, but present enemies will make friends in the latter days. The Antichrist will seek to control all of Europe, Asia, and Africa when he comes. He will gain control of the ten future kingdoms that will be formed inside the Roman Empire. He will enter Palestine and make Jerusalem his capital during the last 3½ years of this age. The Jews will have to flee into the wilderness of Edom and Moab, or modern Arabia and Trans-Jordan, which part of the world escapes the Antichrist Daniel 11:40-45Isaiah 16:1-5Ezekiel 20:33-39Hosea 2:14-16Matthew 24:15-16Revelation 12:6, 13. This will be the only part of the world next to Palestine that will escape the Antichrist and it will be the only place that the Jews from Judea can flee for protection.

• That priests and Levites will again be prominent in the new nation of Israel? This is clear from the fact that animal sacrifices will be offered in the future in the Jewish temple as stated in Question 2, above. Then too, in Ezek. 40:1–48:35 we have several chapters giving the dimensions of the future temple and of the sacrifices, feasts, and all the solemnities of the house of Israel that will be observed in the Millennium. Priests and Levites are mentioned as continuing with such worship forever Ezekiel 43:7, 19Ezekiel 44:5, 9Ezekiel 45:17Ezekiel 46:14Ezekiel 48:35Isaiah 66:21.

• That the Dead Sea will soon become clear water and a great place for fishing? This will be in the Millennium following the second coming of Christ. At His coming the Mount of Olives will pass away and a very great valley will be made. The Dead Sea will be raised and an outlet will be made permitting the water to be kept fresh. That it will be a great fishing place is clear from Ezek. 47:1-12.

• That King David will soon again reign in Jerusalem over the whole house of Israel? This will be true in the Millennium and all succeeding ages. There are a number of passages which mention David as being resurrected from the dead to reign again over all Israel Jeremiah 30:9Ezekiel 34:24Ezekiel 37:24-28Hosea 3:4-5. This proves that David will have a higher position in the eternal kingdom than will the twelve apostles who will have only one tribe each Luke 22:28-30. Jesus Christ will be over David and all other kings and priests of that period. He will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords Revelation 17:14Revelation 19:12, 16.

• That a literal river will be made between the Mediterranean and the Dead seas and fish will go from one sea to the other forever? This is clearly stated in Ezek. 47:1-12; Zech. 14:8. In these passages we have the fact that living waters will go forth from Jerusalem flowing into both seas, that fish will go from one sea to the other, and that there will be fish in the Dead Sea as there are in the Mediterranean. This river will start from under the Millennial temple and will flow south through Jerusalem and then south of the city. It will part into two branches and half of it will flow into the Mediterranean and half of it into the Dead Sea causing the waters of the sea to be healed.

• That all the people on Earth will soon have but one religion? This event will take place after the second coming of Jesus in the Millennium and forever. Malachi predicts that the name of the Lord will be praised from one part of the Earth to the other and that it will be honored among the heathen in every place Malachi 1:11. Zechariah speaks of the Lord being king over all the Earth and that all nations shall go up from year to year to worship the Lord at Jerusalem Zechariah 14:9, 16. Isaiah speaks of the universal knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the seas Isaiah 2:2-4Isaiah 11:9.

• That God’s glory will be seen again on Earth eternally as it was seen in Israel in the days of old? This means there will be a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of a cloud by day that will be seen by men when Christ reigns forever on Earth. This is what is predicted in Isa. 4:4-5; Ezek. 43:1-7.