they were scattered.

Prophecies referring to the Jews are numerous and in striking contrast to
those that refer to Israel. 1. The Jews were to be a scattered people.
2. A specially persecuted people. 3. To be without a nationality. 4. To
be without government. 5. Not to be owners of landed property, though
they will have money, until toward the latter days. 6. They were to be a
proverb. 7. They were to be few in number. 8. They are to retain a
special type of features. 9. They were to be repeatedly robbed. 10.
They were to reject Christ. 11. To retain the Mosaic service till
returned to their own land. 12. They are to keep their name, and many
such distinctions, none of which should be applied to Israel. All these
things have been and are fulfilled, or fulfilling, and though men are
wonderfully given to spiritualising, few, if any, venture to spiritualise
Judah's curses. Men and ministers calling themselves Gentiles, are rude
enough to spiritualise the blessings of Judah, and stealing them, apply
them to themselves.

ISRAEL.

1. A name given to Jacob after wrestling with the Angel. 2. A term
applied sometimes to all the descendants of Jacob. 3. In a spiritual
sense, those who believe in Christ. 4. A name that covered and included
the nine Tribes which went with Jeroboam and formed the kingdom of
Israel. They remained a distinct kingdom, and till now a nationality.
From 975 to 725 B.C. they had some 19 kings. They were finally carried
captive into Assyria by Shalmanezer (2 Kings xvii.). From that captivity
they have never returned; as a body they never can, only representatives,
as stated in Jer. iii. 14, "One of a city, and two of a family."

Now prophecy points out that it was Israel that was to be lost for a
while, and come to light in the latter day. They are known in the
Scriptures in contradistinction from others by such terms as the
following: "_All Israel_," "_All the House of Israel wholly_," "_The
House of Israel_," "_Men of Israel_," and God calls them His "_Servants_,
_Witnesses_, _Chosen People_, _Inheritance_, and _Seed_." The lot,
course, and providential portion of this people are very marked from any
other, especially from the Jew, with whom they are so often confounded.
The history of the two peoples have been wide apart and as different as
they well could be.

1. They were to be _lost_. 2. They were to be _divorced_ from the
Mosaic law. 3. They were to lose their _