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again to this land i and I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord ; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return unto me with their whole heart." (Jer. 24 J 5-7 J 31 : 28 ; 32 1 40-42 5 33 : 6-16.) These cannot merely refer to restorations from former captivities in Baby- ion, Syria, etc*, for they have since been plucked up.

Furthermore, the Lord says, "In those days, they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge, but every one [who dies] shall die for his own iniquity.' 1 (Jer. 31 : 29, 30.) This is not the cose now. Each does not now die for his own sin, but for Adam's sin " In Adam all die." He ate the sour grape of sin, and our fathers continued to eat them, entail- ing further sickness and misery upon their children, thus hastening the penalty, death. The day in which " every man [who dies] shall die for his own sin," only, is the Mil- lennial or Restitution day.

Though many of the prophecies and promises of future blessing seem to apply to Israel only, it must be remembered that they were a typical people, and hence the promises made to them, while sometimes having a special application to themselves, generally have also a wider application to the whole world of mankind which that nation typified. While Israel as a nation was typical of the whole world, its priest- hood was typical of the eiecl "little flock," the head and body of Christ, the "Royal Priesthood;' 1 and the sacri- fices, cleansings and atonements made for Israel typified the ''Getter sacrifices,*' fuller cleansings and real atonement
 * for the sins of the whole world," of which they are a part,

And not only so, but God mentions by name other nations and promises their restoration. As a forcible illustration we the Sodomites, Surely, if w* ttaU fi&4 the

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