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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

If

3784—"IF"

If the Israelites had kept pace with the prophecies which God gave them, and had known how the Lord was to come, and if they had received Him, do you think He would have come to save the whole world just the same?

Surely He would; anything that the Israelites might do, or that we might do, or that all the inhabitants of the universe might do, would not change God's nature. He loves the world and loves sinners, so much so that He gave His only-begotten Son to die; and while man's acceptance or rejection might have changed God's ways of operating for a little while here in this world, it would not have changed His purpose nor its results. He would have used the Jews then as His messengers, just the same as He wants to use every soul who accepts Christ; so that if the Jews had accepted Jesus when He came, He would have laid down His life the same, and they would have been His heralds to the world of the great love of God.