Moses called fire down upon the 250 rebellious Korahthites, as we read in
Numbers xvi. Ahab, the King of Israel, thought to punish and compel the
obedience of Elijah; but God gave fire from heaven in answer to the
prophet’s prayer. So when Ahaziah sent a captain and fifty men to bring
Elijah into the king’s presence, they found him sitting on the top of a
hill and commanded him to come down. “And Elijah answered and said to
the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from
heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty” (2 Kings i. 10). Thus will these
two anointed ones be able to contend with Anti-Christ and all the powers
of scientific infidels. “If any man hurt these two witnesses, by the
very means used so shall they be killed.”
“These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their
prophecy, and have power over waters to turn them to blood.” To whom
would these gifts and attributes apply better than to Elijah, who in the
days of the wicked King Ahab sealed the heavens against rain for three
years and a half? and to Moses, who, when contending with Pharaoh, turned
the sweet flowing Nile into a stream of blood? What two prophets had
such a wide range of prophetic energy and liberty as Moses and Elijah?
None. Well may the Revelator say, then, of them, that they can smite the
earth with all manner of plagues as often as they will.
By awful and sublime manifestations the world shall see that God rules in
the heaven and on the earth. They shall learn that Anti-Christ is a
false Christ. Then shall fear and repentance fall upon the people. The
Jews shall be convinced, and converted, and persuaded by the appearance
of their beloved Moses. They shall know of a truth that the Messiah has
been, and is waiting to come again. Referring to that time the prophet
Zechariah calls it a time of trembling, the time of a terrible siege.
But he tells us that “The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first,
that the glory of the House of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, do not magnify themselves against Judah.” Thus we learn that
the Jews, who have been so long despised and bereft of a king, country,
and government, shall see through the great mystery of Providence first.
The House of David is found in the royal family of England. The Jews,
seeing this, will invite, in concert with all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the English Government to take charge of their affairs.
“Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered
together and appoint themselves one _head_” (Hosea i. 2). The Jews will
then be Christians. “For they shall look upon Him whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son.”
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