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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 6 

The restoration of Israel indispensable to the setting up of the kingdom of God — Israel to be grafted into their own olive on a principle of faith — Not by Gentile agency, but by Jesus Christ, will God graft them in again — Britain, the protector of the Jews, as indicated by Isaiah 18 — The British power in the south, the Moab &c, of "the latter days" — The second exodus of Israel — The nations of the Image to be subdued by Israel to the dominion of their king — The New Covenant delivered to Judah and the kingdom of God set up in Judea — The returning of the Ten Tribes to Canaan will occupy forty years — Elijah's mission — Israel re-assembled in Egypt — They cross the Nile, and pass through the Red Sea, on foot — They march into Canaan, receive the New Covenant, and, re-united to Judah, form one nation and kingdom under Christ for 1,000 years — The blessedness of the nations, and their loyalty to Israel's king — Of the end of the thousand years — Chronology from the Creation to the end of the Melchizedek Kingdom

0:00:28 - The resurrection of Israel – The second exodus – The millennium – “The end”

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 5.

It is impossible that the Holy Land can be for ever subject to the Gentiles — It is to be wrested from them in the crisis of "the time of the end" — Of Daniel's 2400 days — Diagram of Daniel's times — Of the beginning of "the time of the end" — Of the king of the south at that time — The Autocrat of Russia the king of the north in "the time of the end" — England and the Jews — Of Gogue and Magogue — Ezekiel's and John's two different and remote confederacies — Daniel's king of the north of "the time of the end," and Gogue of "the latter days," the same — The Gogue of Ezekiel proved to be Emperor of Germany and Autocrat of all the Russias — Gomer and the French — Sheba, Dedan, the Merchants of Tarshish and its young lions, identified as the British power

0:00:28 - The Eastern question in the time of the end

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 4.

The vision and prophecy of the East — Of the Ram and the Unicorn — The Four Horns of the Goat — Of the fifth, or Little, Horn — Of the Seventy Weeks — Of the 1290 years — Summary of the eleventh of Daniel — Paraphrase of the first thirty-five verses of Dan. 11 — Of the king and the strange god — Mahuzzim-Bazaars ..

0:00:28 - The Eastern question before Christ

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 3.

Doings of the Witnesses when invested with power — They execute justice on their enemies — A great earthquake — The seventh trumpet — Divided into seven vial-periods — The third, fourth, and fifth, vials, and Napoleon — England and the second vial — Turkey and the sixth vial — All Europe and the seventh vial — The prophecy of the Frogs explained — The mission of the unclean spirits — Their operation the sign of Christ's stealthy and sudden return — The great desideratum in view of the Advent

0:00:28 - The “vials” of the wrath of God” – Armageddon

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter. 2.

The Sin-power in its war against the seed of the woman in the west, symbolized by the Beasts and their Image — God will surely avenge His saints — The crimes for which the nations are to be judged, stated — The geography of the "Lake of Fire" where the judgment sits — The saints the executioners of the Little Horn — They are raised from political death for this purpose — Events connected with their resurrection — The three days and a half of their unburied state, explained — Their ascension — End of 1260 years — Of the time of the Beast — Diagram of the 1335 years

0:00:28 - Roman Babylon and the resurrection of the witnesses

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Third

THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Chapter 1.

The pandemonianism of the world — The Press, its organs to a great extent — Its conductors greatly deficient in political prevision — A divine agency the real source of the world's revolutions — God hath revealed what shall come to pass — Nebuchadnezzar's Image explained — It represents an Autocracy to be manifested in these Latter Days — The Toe-kingdoms enumerated — The Vision of the Four Beasts — Of the Saints and the two Witnesses

0:00:28 - Nebuchadnezzar’s image – the hand of God in human history

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Second

THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

Chapter 5.

Israel unable to redeem themselves; and the nations equally powerless to their own regeneration — The reconstruction of the social fabric the work of Omnipotence by the hand of the Lord Jesus at his approaching manifestation — He will re-establish the kingdom and throne of David — The priesthood of Shiloh — The Ezekiel temple to be built by Christ — Of the Name of Jesus — Of repentance, remission of sins, and eternal life — Death-bed, and gaol, repentance

0:00:29 - Things concerning the name of Jesus Christ

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Second

THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

Chapter 4.

State of Egypt and Israel before the exodus — The time of the promises arrives — Call of Moses — God's everlasting memorial — Moses is sent to Israel — He is accepted as ruler and deliverer — He declares glad tidings to them; but they refuse to listen — The Exodus — Israel baptized into Moses — The song of victory — They are fed with angels' food — The Lord's passover — How to be fulfilled in the kingdom of God — The Lord's supper — The Twelve Tribes constituted the kingdom of God — The gospel preached to Israel — They reject it — Of the Rest — The Royal House of the kingdom — "The sure mercies of David" — The kingdom and throne of David — David's kingdom also God's kingdom under its first constitution — Chronology to the captivity

0:00:29 - The gospel in relation to the Mosaic economy

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Second

THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

Chapter 3.

The gospel preached to Isaac — The election of Jacob — The scripture doctrine of election — Not according to popular tradition — How men are elected, and how they may know it — Esau hated — Vision of Jacob's Ladder — Jacob's care for his body after death — Joseph's anxiety about his bones — Jacob's prophecy of the Last Days — Summary of "the faith" at Joseph's death — Things established — Chronology of the Age before the Law

0:00:29 - The gospel preached to Isaac and Jacob: the scripture doctrine of election

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Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part Second

THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

Chapter 2.

Five points of prophetic testimony — The general elements of a kingdom constituents of the kingdom of Christ — The promise made of God to the fathers, the hope of Israel, and the gospel, the same — Who the fathers are — Abram originally from Babel, and an idolator — The Lord preaches the gospel to him in Mesopotamia — He believes it, and emigrates westward in consequence — Becomes a wanderer in the land of Canaan, which is promised to him and Christ for ever — His faith counted to him for righteousness — The promise of a resurrection to eternal life — Confirmation of the covenant of promise — The extent of the land defined in the Will — The personal reappearance of Christ necessitated by the nature of things — The phrases "in thee," "in him," and "in thy seed," explained — The nations God's people in no sense — Abraham, Christ, and the saints, "heirs of the world." — The token of the covenant — The signification of circumcision — Modern Israel under the curse of the law — Circumcision of the heart — The Allegory — The two seeds — Parable of the Seed — Summary of Abraham's faith

0:00:29 - The gospel preached to Abraham: his faith and works

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