That there shall be a great accession of converts to it and succession of converts in it. The glory of this latter house is greater than that of the former, Hag. It shall be as a city on a hill, which cannot be hid, Mt. The kingdom of Christ shall shine with greater lustre than ever any of the kingdoms of the earth did. That it shall be highly advanced, and become eminent and conspicuous: It shall be exalted above the hills, observed with wonder for its growing greatness from small beginnings. It shall be established, not as the temple, upon one mountain, but upon many for the foundations of the church, as they are sure, so they are large. 87:1), the everlasting mountains, which cannot, which shall not, be removed. 16:18) its foundations are still in the holy mountains ( Ps. That this church shall be firmly founded and well-built: It shall be established in the top of the mountains Christ himself will build it upon a rock it shall be an impregnable fort upon an immovable foundation, so that the gates of hell shall neither overthrow the one nor undermine the other ( Mt. And it shall be a centre of unity to them a church shall be set up in the world, to which the Lord will be daily adding such as shall be saved. The people of God shall be incorporated by a new charter, a new spiritual way of worship shall be enacted, and a new institution of offices to attend it better privileges shall be granted by this new charter, and better provision made for enlarging and establishing the kingdom of God among men than had been made by the Old-Testament constitution: The mountain of the house of the Lord shall again appear firm ground for God's faithful worshippers to stand, and go, and build upon, in their attendance on him, v. That there shall be a church for God set up in the world, after the defection and destruction of the Jewish church, and this in the last days that is, as some of the rabbin themselves acknowledge, in the days of the Messiah. 2:2-4), that out of the mouth of these two witnesses these promises might be established and very precious promises they are, relating to the gospel-church, which have been in part accomplished, and will be yet more and more, for he is faithful that has promised. This is the mystery which God by the prophet here shows us, and he says the very same in the first three verses of this chapter which another prophet said by the word of the Lord at the same time ( Isa. Though Zion be ploughed as a field, yet God has not cast off his people, but by the fall of the Jews salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that it proves to be the riches of the world, Rom.
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In the last words of the foregoing chapter we left the mountain of the house as desolate and waste as the high places of the forest and is it possible that such a wilderness should ever become a fruitful field again? Yes, the first words of this chapter bring in the mountain of the Lord's house as much dignified by being frequented as ever it had been disgraced by being deserted.
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But let not our faith fail in this matter out of the ashes of the church another phoenix shall arise. When we sometimes see the corruptions of the church, especially of church-rulers, princes, priests, and prophets, seeking their own things and not the things of God, and when we soon after see the desolations of the church, Zion for their sakes ploughed as a field, we are ready to fear that it will one day perish between both, that the name of Israel shall be no more in remembrance we are ready to give up all for gone, and to conclude the church will have neither root not branch upon earth. It is a very comfortable but with which this chapter begins, and very reviving to those who lay the interests of God's church near their heart and are concerned for the welfare of it. That its enemies shall be disquieted, nay, that they shall be destroyed in and by their attempts against it ( v. That its troubles shall be brought to a happy issue at length ( v. That it shall have an ample and flourishing dominion ( v. That under Christ's government, all its grievances shall be redressed ( v.
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That it shall be kept close, and constant, and faithful to God ( v. That it shall be protected in tranquility and peace ( v. That it shall be advanced and enlarged by the accession of the nations to it ( v. 11:22), towards the Jewish church which fell, severity when Zion was ploughed as a field, but towards the Christian church, which was built upon the ruins of it, goodness, great goodness for it is here promised,
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Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, with the apostle, "behold the goodness and severity of God," ( Rom.