THE "lightnings" and "arrows" of the Eternal Spirit are to scatter and put the armies of the nations to rout. "Yahweh's arrows shall go forth as the lightning" (Zechariah 9:14). An arrow is an instrument of death, and requires a bow for its projection, strong and well strung, to give the arrow the velocity and deadliness of lightning. Now the prophets tell us that Judah, Ephraim, and the resurrected Sons of Zion, are Yahweh's bow and arrow, battleaxe and sword. But before they are developed in this character, they are "prisoners of hope in the pit where no water is" of life, physical or national. They must, therefore, become the subject of a personal and political resurrection; those who are dead in the grave, of a personal; and Judah and Ephraim dispersed among the nations, politically dead and buried there, of a national resurrection, "standing upon their feet an exceeding great army" ready for action, as the result.

JOHN THOMAS, Phanerosis, pages 124-125 WILL GO WITH YOU

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