Ethan Smith

Name: View of the Hebrews — Conclusion
Author: Ethan Smith

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“View of the Hebrews — Conclusion”, is a work by Ethan Smith. It explores elements such as wilderness, Israel and restoration.

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ God will go before his people, and march through the wilderness. The earth, it is said, shall shake; and the heavens shall drop at his presence. Though his long banished people have lain among the pots; yet now shall they be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. The mountains and hills shall leap at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. And God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of them that oppose his march, when he shall again bring from Bashan, and recover his banished again from the depth of the sea. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ The voice, which restores Israel, is heard in the vast wilderness of America, a literal wilderness of thousands of miles, where the dry bones of the outcasts of Israel have for thousands of years been scattered. The voice crying in the wilderness has a special appropriation to these Hebrews. As it had a kind of literal fulfilment in the preaching of the forerunner John, for a short time in the wilderness of Judea; so it is to have a kind of literal fulfilment, upon a much greater scale, in the missions, which shall recover the ten tribes from the vast wilderness of America. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ Divine judgments then, may be proportionably greater against all who withstand the final restoration. "I will undo all that afflict thee" [Zeph 3:19] . Wo will be to them, who shall have the unbelief or temerity to place themselves before the wheels of divine providence when Christ shall ride forth in the chariot of salvation to bring the dispersed Jews, and outcast Israel to himself. God will arise, and his enemies will be scattered. As smoke is driven away; and as the wax melteth before the fire; so God will drive away and melt the enemies of his ancient people. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ It becomes us to be deeply affected with the excommunication of the ancient people of God. In the temporary rejection of those two branches of the Hebrew nation, the truth is solemnly enforced, that the God of Zion is a God of government; and that he will be known by the judgments that he executeth. The casting out of the ten tribes for their impious idolatries, is full of instruction. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ To Israel as brought from Egypt, God said; "I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself" [Exo 19:4] . Wings, and especially eagles' wings, are much used in the holy oracles, to denote special aid, and that of the most dignified kind. Of the children of God it is said; "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint" [Isa 40:31] .
And if the ancient tribes of the Lord are to be recovered at last by an agency well denoted by a "land shadowing with wings;" ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ Rivers of knowledge and grace shall in such wilds be open for God's chosen.
It will then truly be fulfilled that God in comforting Zion, will "make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord;" Isai. li. 3. Such passages will have a degree of both literal and mystical fulfilment.
A signal beauty will then be discovered in such passages as the following; Isai. xli. 14. "Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord God, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ One from an Indian village, and two from a tribe, would indeed be a small remnant. This proportion may here be proverbial; but certainly indicates that but a small number compared with the whole will return. A proportion of that nation will in due time be offered, to return to the land of their fathers, where they may form a kind of centre or capital to the cause of Christ on earth. Relative to many particulars of the event, the holy oracles are not express. They have strongly marked the outlines or leading facts of the restoration ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ Impressed on these wild tenants of the forest, (these children of nature, without books or letters, or any thing but savage tradition,) striking characters are found of the truth of ancient revelation.
The intelligent vindicator of the word of God has never feared to meet the infidel on fair ground. His triumph has not been less certain than that of David against Goliah. But in the view taken of the natives of our continent, the believer will find additional arguments, in which to triumph. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ Here is the final Hebrew restoration, after the time of their doubly long corrective rejection for their sins shall have expired. The voice in the wilderness then follows, as the great means of this restoration.
A wilderness has justly been considered as a symbol of a region of moral darkness and spiritual death. ”

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Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews — Conclusion

“ And it is precisely such evidence as must have been expected in the long outcast tribes of Israel, whenever they should come to light; and just such evidence as must rationally be expected to bring them to the knowledge of the civilized world.
6. The people addressed by the prophet Isaiah, (be they America, or Britain, or who they may,) are highly honoured of God. They are a "land shadowing with wings." [Isa 18:1] . God is abundantly represented as shadowing his people with his wings. ”

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