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    INTRODUCTION

    Whatever is calculated to throw light on the great subject of prophecy touching the speedy Coming of Our Lord, a subject which is now eliciting great interest and attention in the church, is hailed by every lover of truth, with joy and gladness. Truth should be, with every person, the great desideratum. Although it may infringe upon our prepossessions, and appear quite contrary to all our former education, yet, we should seek it, and hail it, as paramount to everything beside. Neither should it be forgotten that our educational prejudices are frequently a great barrier, intercepting our way to truth. Hence, all our prejudices should be laid aside, and we should seek the truth in the love of it.JUO 1.1

    The following address is designed to remove one of the grand obstacles (to many minds) in the way of the pre-millennial and speedy Advent of Christ, viz., the restoration of the carnal Jews to the land of Palestine-the land of their fathers. Nothing can be more clear than that the Jews, the literal descendants of the house of Jacob, are in the Scriptures but the shadow of the heavenly family in Christ; precisely the same as their Tabernacle, Temple, Canaan, Jerusalem, Joshua and David, were shadows of the heavenly patterns. As the shadow is lost in the substance, so the Jew disappears in the manifestation of the sons of God; and the Jews’ Canaan is lost in the world to come-his Zion in the appearing of the New Jerusalem, and his restoration in the resurrection from the dead. For all the Israel of God will be restored at the resurrection of the just, in the likeness, of Christ, their elder brother, the second Adam, who is the first fruits of the dead, “at his appearing and kingdom.” This is the true “restoration of Israel,” not to take place in this world, and only to be realized when “death is swallowed up in victory.”JUO 1.2

    If this view of the subject is correct, as we believe the following pages irrefragably show, then we most certainly stand upon the very threshold of eternity; and as we live, there is but a step between us and the judgment of the great day. Craving God’s blessing upon this little work, we send it forth to the world, commending it to the careful perusal of every lover of truth, trusting it will prove a means of arousing many of the slumbering virgins, preparatory to the coming of the Bridegroom and the great marriage supper of the Lamb.JUO 1.3

    J. V. Himes.

    Boston, Dec. 14, 1842.

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