ovenant king, the Jews have been the wanderers of
the earth, the people of the restless foot, finding a home in every
land but their own.

Has God failed to keep His promise?

Has He been unable or unwilling to keep His promise?

Neither postulate is possible.

God's counsel is immutable.

He confirmed it by an oath. And since He could swear by nothing
greater He sware by Himself.

In the nature of the case then scattered Israel and wandering Judah
must be gathered. They must return to their own land.

God has so promised.

These promises are to be found upon the pages of Holy Writ like the
leaves of autumn--so many, so thickly strewn, now in single phrase,
in connected passages, in whole chapters that should I attempt to
read them slowly and distinctly, giving the sense, it would take me
till the morning light.

The Lord declares He has written their names upon the palms of His
hand.

They are as near and sensitively dear to Him, He says, as the apple
of His eye. He is so interested, so determined concerning their
restoration that He uses the most intensive language to express it,
language that almost thunders aloud from the page as you read it.

He uses language no less intense than this:

"Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant
them in this land (the land of Palestine) assuredly with my whole
heart and with my whole soul."

Try and think of that! Let it penetrate your mind. The Lord who made
heaven and earth, whose very name is omnipotence, says He will put
the whole of His omnipotent heart and the whole of His omnipotent
soul into the execution and the accomplishment of His determination
and purpose to plant the children of Israel once more and forever in
their own land.

In the face of that registered will and purpose what power is there
of man or Devil; what force is there in all the sweep of the
universe that can hinder the chosen and covenant people of God from
going back to Palestine and possessing that land as theirs and
theirs alone, forever?

But what evidence have we, what demonstration and proof that God
will fulfill this postscript promise and plan?

What evidence have we from the bare statement of God that He will
keep this promise?

The evidence is manifold and overwhelming.

Before even the children of Israel crossed the Jordan the Lord
warned them in language which burns and blisters that if they did
not keep the law covenant and walk in the ways of r