Christian Faith and Life Volume 2-3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...was needed as to what should be done: The priest went in clothed in this garment, with this ephod, to consult the oracles of God, and came back with the reply. And they have had nothing of this, and why? Because they have no priests. They have rabbis, but no priests in Jewish synagogues today. All the tribal distinctions have perished. They don't know who belong to what tribe and don't know who belong to the priesthood. Dean Milman goes so far as to say that the priesthoods were lost in the destruction of Jerusalem. I don't know how he makes that statement; because Josephus was a priest and was not in the destruction of Jerusalem, and there must have been many others. But they do not know who is in the priesthood, and no man can wear the ephod saying, "God made it for me." They are without an ephod. Now the teraphim were the household gods, and what Gentile peoples used to seek to for their directions at certain times. And the Jews are without them, because as God has deprived them of the institutions of their own house they will not take to the works of the Gentiles. And so they are without the ephod and without the teraphim. "Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness" When? "In the later days." That return is for the end of the dispensation, not for today. Now, dear friends, I could have multiplied these proofs. I have given you sufficient to leave you to form a judgment in this matter. Not one of these predictions can be challenged as having been written after the event--not one of them. Not one of them can be challenged as not having been fulfilled. That future was seen, it was fully read. These things in the history of the Jews ...