And all this activity and Zionward movement taking place with the Jew in a condition of spiritual blindness, unbelief and godless materialism--as foretold. The very leaders of Zionism (some of them) the most outspoken in their repudiation of our Lord Jesus Christ as Messiah of Israel. The Bible foretold that the Jews as a people would never receive the Gospel: "As concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes" (the Gentiles). On the other hand, it was announced that the Gentiles, who despise the Jews, should receive the Gospel, accept a rejected and crucified Jew as Israel's king, and own and acknowledge him as the redeemer and saviour provided for themselves. This prophecy has been fulfilled. For nineteen hundred years the Jew--as a Jew--has steadily rejected a crucified Christ. Here and there an individual, paying the penalty of scorn and contumely from his own people, has believed the Gospel and owned the crucified and despised man of Nazareth as his very Lord and God. He has done so according to that election of grace which the Bible foretells (an elect remnant is seen through all the ages, under one dispensation or another, responding to the call of God--like the seven thousand who would not bow the knee to Baal; and belonging to that election of grace the believing Jew stands out marked and sealed of God) but the Jew as a nation with unbroken solidarity refuses to-day the only Jew who can establish him in the land of his fathers and fulfil the covenant promises. Equally fulfilled is the other side of the prophecy. The Gentiles, who, racially considered, despise the Jew and everything of the Jew, to-day own and accept this rejected and crucified Jew of Calvary, not only as Israel's Messiah and king, but as the redeemer and saviour provided of God for Gentiles; so that the Gentile world now worships and adores him as very God, holding up the cross of his shame and death as the symbol of highest honor and most radiant glory. The Bible has predicted the final characteristics of the present age in terms precise and clear. By type, figure and direct prophecy it announces that the last _form_ of government among the nations just previous to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ will be _democracy_--the rule of the people: "The government of the people, by the people, and for the people." That prophecy practically has been fulfilled.