THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

CHAPTER IX
THE TRAVAIL OF ZION
We have shown by the prophecies of Moses the
founder of the nation, of Joshua the vanquisher of the
original possessors of the promised land, and of David
the greatest of the kings of Israel and one of the greatest
of its
prophets, that the nation would completely
apostatise, and that God would disown them and would
"pluck them off the land." And we have shown that
those prophecies are fully confirmed by the New Testament
Scriptures.
But some will ask if later prophets, as- Isaiah, Ezekiel
or Zechariah, have not foretold the return of the children
of Israel to Palestine, and by implication prophesied
the re-constitution of tKe nation?
The answer is that the later prophets could not contradict
the word of the earlier prophets they all
being the mouthpieces of Jehovah and that, of course,
they do not. What has misled some students of the
Bible in this regard is the fact that the prophets of
later times, as Isaiah and Jeremiah, predicted the captivity
of the Jews in Babylon and their return from
that captivity (Isa. 6:12, 13; 44:26-28; 45:13; Jer. 30:
3, etc.) . Prophecies of that class have all been fulfilled.
There are also prophecies concerning the "remnant
of Israel" that would return to the Lord in the latter
days. Now it is not surprising that the utterly degenerate
and carnally minded Jewish teachers of the times
of
Christ should have interpreted prophecies of that
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