orant
of it at the moment sooner or later found he had to flee from the
avenger of blood instantly upon his track. He became an exile from
his home, forced to dwell in a provided place called the city of
refuge. He could not return to his home till the second coming of a
priest.

The Jews were guilty, as a nation, of manslaughter.

They were deceived and involved by their leaders. They really did
not know that He whom they hounded to death at the last was not only
the covenant king of Israel, and the Holy One of their fathers, but
the Prince of life.

Because of their blindness, blunder and sin they were cast out of
the land. Because, even though in ignorance, they slew their King,
they were exiled by the judgment of God from their home. They
deprived the Lord of that land that was His through the covenant of
Abraham, and the Lord in turn deprived them of the right of dwelling
in the land. They should be exiles so long as He was an exile. Nor
can they return till He comes the second time as a priest, not after
the order of Aaron, but Melchisedec; for it is written that He shall
be both a king and priest upon His throne.

Only can the Jews return and be owned nationally of the Lord when He
shall come.

He will come and He will come as the Prince of Peace.

He will not come, I repeat, with the olive branch in His hand and
the cooing dove nestling upon His shoulder.

Nay! not at all!

He will come as the Avenger of His elect, as the Son of man, as the
judge of all flesh.

He will come to overthrow the combination of Devil and man.

His Coming will be the climax of old and outworn ages, the beginning
of the new.

The glory of His Coming cannot be described.

Through years of meditation and continued effort at description I
have exhausted my vocabulary and worn to tatters the oft-repeated
phrases with which I have sought with heart full of adoring
enthusiasm to announce the wonders of that hour.

If all the suns and systems were turned into speech till every
flaming center of light were an adjective with increasing emphasis
of qualification and expression the attempt to put into words the
glory of that Coming would be a pitiful and overwhelming failure.

He will come surrounded by an innumerable host whose hallelujahs
shall so vibrate that the very heavens will roll apart at their
soundings.

The Lord will come in His threefold glory, the glory of the Father,
the glory of the angels and His own glory: t