TEHILLIM 110

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

I will merely remark here that " the poor and needy," whom David so amply characterizes, " poor in the world, but rich in faith," while strangers and pilgrims among the living, are

styled by Isaiah, " Yahweh's dead ones," and " His dead body." Concerning them, he says, " they shall live," " they shall arise."

They are to come forth from the dust of sheol ; in which, having been reduced thereto, they are considered as dwelling, as well as sleeping. Hence, the Eternal Spirit, who makes them live and spring forth by His power, addresses them prophetically in the words, " Awake and

sing, ye that dwell in dust."

They must awake in order to sing, which implies previous reorganization—the formation of their dust into bodies again ; for dust cannot praise in song, neither any that go down into the silence of " the land of forgetfulness " (Psalm xxx. 9 : Ixxxviii. 11-12 : cxv. 17).

I cannot dismiss this passage in Isaiah without inviting attention to the beautiful figure by which he illustrates the development of these singers from dust. He styles them " dew," and their evolution as its manifestations upon plants. Thus, addressing the Eternal Spirit, he is caused to say, " For Thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead " (Isaiah xxvi. 19) ; and in Psalm cx. 3, "in the brilliancies of holiness from the womb of the dawn, there shall be to thee the dew of thy birth."

The sleepers in the dust are styled dew, because of the resemblance subsisting between the

process of nature in the formation of dew, and the operation of the Eternal Spirit in the generation of living beings from dust. In comprehending the formation of dew, we are enabled to form some idea of the evolution of a living body from dust.

A dew-drop is a sparkling globule of water, secretly and silently deposited upon the leaves of

plants. The elements of which it is composed exist previously to its formation, free or uncombined, in the air of night. These are the invisible gases termed oxygen and hydrogen. But, besides these, there is the indispensable formative agent, styled electricity. Without

this, there could be no dew-drop visible or invisible. The gases might be mechanically mixed ; but without the invisible and silent operation of the electricity, they would not be chemically combined in the manifested product called a dew-drop.

This is a visible and tangible thing, generated from invisible and intangible latent elements.

According to the electrical law of its formation it is globular and light-refracting, or sparkling in the open brightness of the dawn. These refractions are the brilliancies, splendors, or glorious vestments of the dew. Before the dawn, the dew-drops are all in the womb of night; from which both they and the dawn receive their birth, begotten by the orb of day.

No figure can be more beautiful, no resemblance more complete.

ANASTASIS

4 Yahweh hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Priesthood of Shiloh

Jesus ... Lord,‭ ‬King,‭ ‬and High Priest,‭ ‬after the order of Melchizedec.‭ ‬These things are part of his Name.‭ ‬But it is one thing to be‭ ‬constituted Lord of all,‭ ‬and another thing to be in actual possession of lordship,‭ ‬to be‭ ‬king in fact,‭ &‬c.‭

David,‭ ‬when he was anointed,‭ ‬was constituted by an oath King of Israel,‭ ‬many years before he became‭ ‬king in fact,‭ ‬by the removal of Saul and Ishbosheth.‭ ‬Jesus and all his brethren are‭ '‬kings and priests,‭' ‬but they are only kings and priests‭ ‬elected for the kingdom,‭ ‬to be established in the Age to Come.‭

Melchizedec reigned in Jerusalem‭; ‬and Jesus being a High Priest upon his throne after his order,‭ ‬must reign there also‭; ‬for as Aaron and his race were High Priests of the nation,‭ ‬under the law of Moses,‭ ‬so Jesus is to be Israel's High Priest under a law yet to go forth from Zion,‭ ‬combining in himself,‭ ‬like Melchizedec,‭ ‬the kingly and priestly offices,‭ ‬contemporarily with the continuance of sin upon the earth.‭ ‬But I cannot dilate further upon this subject here.‭ ‬See‭ ‬Elpis Israel under the head of the‭ '‬Priesthood of Shiloh.‭'

‭ ‬Suffice it to say,‭ ‬that when Jesus is‭ '‬King of kings,‭ ‬and Lord of lords,‭' ‬in fact as well as by constitution or election,‭ ‬there will be no other kingdom or empire,‭ ‬imperial,‭ ‬regal,‭ ‬or sacerdotal,‭ ‬upon the earth,‭ ‬but his.‭

The nations will be‭ '‬blessed in him,‭' ‬and Abraham‭; ‬and the tyrants that now harass and destroy them,‭ ‬will be themselves destroyed from among mankind.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, Jan 1851