"then. But I will remove far off from you the ἐσ northern one, and will drive him into a land "barren and desolate, with his face toward the "east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost "sea; and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done

great things-Be glad then ye children of Zion, "and rejoice in the Lord your God-And ye "shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,

and that I am the Lord your God, and none "else: and my people shall never be ashamed. "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your 66 sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your "old men shall dream dreams, your young men "shall see visions*. And I will shew wonders "in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and

This is applied by St. Peter to the effusion of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, though strictly relating to the era of the restoration of the Jews and the glorious period of the millennium. The first advent of Christ is. frequently considered by the inspired writers as a sort of type of his second advent: whence we find, that predictions, which properly belong to the one period, are often applied by anticipation to the other. Thus, in a similar manner, the apostles apply the prophecy of David, in the second Psalm, to the conspiracy of the chief priests with Herod and Pontius Pilate against our Lord: yet, if any one will compare that second Psalm with the description of the Word of God routing his congregated enemies in the nineteenth chapter of the Apocalypse, he will be convinced, that it does not receive its ultimate accomplishment till the second advent, whether literal or spiritual, at the commencement of the Millennium.

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fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, "before the great and the terrible day of the Lord 66 come. And it shall come to pass, that, whoso"ever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be "delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem "shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and "in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. For, "behold, in those days, and at that time, when I "shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Je“rusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, " and will plead with them there for my people, " and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scat"tered among the nations, and parted my land. "The children also of Judah, and the children "of

of Jerusalem, have ye sold unto the sons of the "Ionim*, that ye might remove them far from "their border. Behold, I will rase them out of "the place whither ye have sold them, and will "return your recompence upon your own head: " and I will sell your sons and your daughters into "the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall

* By these Ionim seem to be meant all the various worshippers of the Ionah, or Noetic dove, both in the East and in the West; not the Ionians of Greecè exclusively. The dispersion of the Jews extends nearly to the whole world: and so widely, in old times, did the worship of the Ionak, also extend. I have already considered the subject in a Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabini.

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"sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: "for the Lord hath spoken it. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles: Sanctify* war, wake up "the mighty men; let all the men of war draw $6 near; let them come up. Beat your plow"shares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assem"ble yourselves, and come, all ye nations, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to "the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit "to judge all the nations round about. Put ye "in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get

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you down, for the press is full, the fats overflow; "for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multi

tudes, in the valley of concision. The sun and "the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall "withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall "roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jeru

salem; and the heavens and the earth shall "shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his "people, and the strength of the children of Is"rael. So shall ye know, that I am the Lord

your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain; "then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no "strangers pass through her any moret."

Such are the four most remarkable prophecies,

So the word is properly rendered in the margin of our translation of the Bible.

† Joel ii. iii.

which treat of the events that are to take place at the close of the 1260 years*. Those of Daniel and St. John are strictly chronological ones, and are therefore in some measure their own interpreters: and, as for those of Zechariah and Joel, although they be not marked by the chronological numbers and the long-continued and connected series of events which form so striking a feature of the other predictions, yet they contain within them facts which are amply sufficient to shew at what era they will be accomplished. They both foretell the restoration of the Jews: consequently all the matters, of which they speak as connected with that restoration, must be the same matters as those of which Daniel speaks as being similarly connected with it. Hence it will follow, that the destruction of the nations in the vicinity of Jerusalem, predicted by Zechariah as contemporary with the restoration of the Jews, must be the same as the overthrow of the Infidel king in Palestine, predicted by Daniel as likewise contemporary with the restoration of the Jews. Hence also it will follow, that the fierce people symbolized by a flight of locusts, so accurately described at the beginning of the prediction

* To discuss all the prophecies relative to those events would occupy too large a portion of a Work like the present, which professes to treat peculiarly of the events comprehended within the 1260 years. The restoration of Israel and the overthrow of Antichrist, which are here very briefly noticed, are `considered at large in my Work which is professedly dedicated to that purpose.

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of Joel, as spreading desolation wherever they come, as wonderfully succeeding in all their enterprizes, as running to and fro in the great city, as scaling the walls of fenced cities with open violence, as entering insidionsly in at the windows like a thief, as causing tremendous revolutions in the political heavens; that this fierce people can be no other than the people of Daniel's infidel king, who are to begin their reign of havock and plunder under the third woe-trumpet, during the comparatively short time which the devil bath before the termination of the 1260 years, before the commencement of the restoration of the Jews*. It will likewise follow, that the invasion of Palestine by the northern army, or the army of Antichrist entering it by way of the north, is the same as the similar expedition of the infidel king: and that the destruction of this northern army with its face to the eastern sea, and its hinder part toward the utmost sea, is the same event as the destruction of the infidel king, after he has planted the curtains of his pavilions between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; for in both cases, the scene is equally laid

* Since the first edition of this work was published, I have read Chandler's Paraphrase of Joel, and am more convinced than ever I was, that this locust-army cannot mean a flight of mere literal locusts as he supposes, but must denote, like the parallel prophecy in Rev. ix. a flight of symbolical locusts; which symbolical locusts the whole context of the prediction teaches us must mean the desolating armies of Antichrist. This point is fully discussed in my Work on the Restoration of Israel.