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Prophets and Kings
devices of men inspired by satanic agencies, He still manifested His
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beneficent designs through the captivity and restoration of the chosen
nation.
The rending of the kingdom was but the beginning of a wonderful
history, wherein are revealed the long-sufferance and tender mercy of
God. From the crucible of affliction through which they were to pass
because of hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, those whom
God was seeking to purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of
good works, were finally to acknowledge:
“There is none like unto Thee, O Lord; Thou art great, and Thy
name is great in might. Who would not fear Thee, O King of nations?
... Among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,
there is none like unto Thee.” “The Lord is the true God, He is the
living God, and an everlasting King.”
Jeremiah 10:6, 7, 10
.
And the worshipers of idols were at last to learn the lesson that
false gods are powerless to uplift and save. “The gods that have not
made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth,
and from under these heavens.”
Verse 11
. Only in allegiance to the
living God, the Creator of all and the Ruler over all, can man find rest
and peace.
With one accord the chastened and penitent of Israel and Judah
were at last to renew their covenant relationship with Jehovah of hosts,
the God of their fathers; and of Him they were to declare:
“He hath made the earth by His power,
He hath established the world by His wisdom,
And hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion.
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“When He uttereth His voice, there is a multitude of
waters
in the heavens.
And He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends
of the earth;
He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the
wind out of His treasures.