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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

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By Editor

Schedule for Week Ending August 12, 1911

Sunday	August 6	Ezekiel 21, 22
Monday	" 7	" 23, 24
Tuesday	" 8	" 25-27
Wednesday	" 9	" 28-30
Thursday	" 10	" 31-33
Friday	" 11	" 34-36
Sabbath	" 12	" 37-39

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Our reading for this week lies wholly within Ezekiel; prophecies in which the messenger of God goes over and over again Jehovah's instruction to that people. For twenty-two years the prophet pleads with them to turn to God. He gives as illustrations the kingdoms on all sides of Israel and how God has dealt with them, how He has brought down their pride and will bring down the pride of those who still remain. Among the two great nations against which prophecy is uttered are those of Egypt and Tyre. Egypt, one of the former oppressors of God's people and the symbol of black infidelity, will be brought low and abased, never to rise again among the nations. Tyre, the great commercial city of the world, would be utterly wiped out of existence, so that the very place on which she stood would be "a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." Nebuchadnezzar, whom the false prophets said was not coming against Jerusalem, would capture Tyre, and from Tyre would conquer Jerusalem.

Chapters 37-39 are prophecies of what God would have done even then for His children if they would have yielded to Him. He would have brought back from the dead the faithful in Israel who slept, He would have conquered all their enemies far and near, and would have made Jerusalem a praise in the earth. And within that city would have been built the sanctuary which He promises in the closing chapters of the book. That sanctuary never was built, because Israel never yielded to God's plan. It never will be built, and never can be built, because God can not go back to the typical sacrifices which pointed forward to the Lord Jesus Christ, since our Lord Himself suffered and fulfilled all types. Our readers will see much more clearly the meaning of these prophecies if they will but remember that the conditions which we read in Jer. 18:8-10 are of universal application.