TRUE MIDNIGHT CRY 
BEHOLD,
BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH; GO YE OUT TO MEET HIM. 
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Cities of the age. The word know is used here in the 
ame sense as it is by Paul in 1 Cor. ii. 2. Paul well 
understood many other things, besides Christ and him 
crucified, but he determined to make known nothing 
se among them. So in the passage first quoted, it is 
clared that none but God the Father maketh known 
e-day and hour, that is, the definite time of the sect 
 
(nd coming of his Son. And this necessarily implieS 
,Itat God makes the time known. The Old Testa-
cent contains the testimony of the Father concerning 
s Son, and concerning the time of both his first and 
;eond comings. Therefore the time is to be under-
sood. See Dart. xii. 10, " Many shall be purified, 
. Jud made white, and tried ; but the wicked shall do 
wickedly ; and none of the wicked shall understand ; 
h, but the wise shall understand." Rom. xv. 4, " For 
whatsoever things were written" aforetime were writ-
tetr for our learning, that we through patience and 
c;)mfort of the Scriptures might have hope." It is by 
tke teaching of his word, as we are led therein by the 
I-roly Spirit, that we are to understand the time of 
the:-coming of our GLORIOUS KING. 
As further proof 
( 
of this, see Dan. ix. 25, " Know therefore and under-
st Ad, that from the going forth of the commandment, 
O restore and build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah, the 
ice, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two 
s." Mark i. 14, 15, " Now after that John was 
in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the 
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Our blessed Lord and Master has promised that he 
wll come again and receive his people to himself; 
that where he is, they may be also. The place where 
11'; and they are to dwell forever, is the New Jerusa• 
:m, that holy city, which God bath prepared for them, 
which' is to come down from God out of heaven, 
1d that New Earth,,wherein dwelleth righteousness. 
Concerning the time of that coming, he says, in 
%ark xiii. 32, " But of that day and hour knoweth no 
van., no, not the .angels which are in heaven, neither 
Ire .ion, but the Father." It is thought by many, 
tat this passage proves that men are never to know 
tie time. But if it prove this, it likewise proves that 
tie Son of God himself is never to know the time : 
rr the passage declares precisely the same concern-
ig him, that it does concerning angels and men. 
;lit can any person believe that our glorious Lord, to 
,horn all power in heaven and earth is given, is, and 
remain ignorant of the time until the very mo-
:rent that he comes to judge the world ? If not, then 
eTtainly this text can never prove that men may not 
're made to understand the time. An old Engl'-• 
gospel of the Kingdom of God, and saying .the time is 
fulfilled." Luke xix. 43, 44, " For the day shall 
come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench 
about thee, and compass thee round and keep thee in 
on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, 
and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave 
in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knew-
est not the time of thy 'visitation." 1 Pet. i. 9--11,I 
" Searching what, or. what manner of-time the spirit 
of Christ, which was in them, did signify, when it 
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the 
glory that should follow." Isa. xl. 1-75 ; Acts xvii. 
30, 31, " He hath appointed a day in the whiCh he 
will judge the world in righteousness." Ecc. iii. 17, 
" God shall judge the righteous and the wicked ; for-
there is a time there for every purpose. and for every 
Work." Ecc. viii. 5--7, "-VVhoso keepeth the COW-
mandment shall feel no evil thing ; and a wise tear,'::: 
 
heart discerneth both time and judgment." Jer. viii. 
6-9, " I hearkened and ,heard, but they spoke not 
aright ; no man repented him of his wickedness, say-
ing, what have I done ? every one turned• to hi 
. 
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judgment of the Lord. How do ye say, we 6 wise, 
and the law of the Lord is with us ? Lo certainly in 
vain made he-it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed an 
taken ; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord 
and what wisdom is in them ? Hosea ix. "1.1 
days of visitation are come, the days of recompense! 
are come ; Israel shall know it. 'The prophet is a) 
fool, the spiritual man is mad." Rom, xiii. 11— 14, 
" And that knowing the time, that now it is high time 
to awake out of sleep. 
THE Six THOUSAND YEARS. The period of firm 
allotted for this world, in its present state, iz 6000 
years, at the termination of which commences t 
great millennial Sabbath, spoken of in Rev ax, a ! 
which will be ushered in-by the personal apMtring 
Christ and the first Resurrection ; see Isa. xlvi. 9, 10f 
Gen. ii. ; Heb. iv. 4-9 ; Isa. xi. 10 ; 2 Pet. 
According to Usher's chronology, whith is commd 
ly received, the Christian Ida commenced in the y 
of the world 4004 ; but Usher has lost in the.time. 
the judges 153 years. Fret's the division of the Land 
of Canaan to the beginning :4+Sa.muel's administra-
tion, he gives but 295 years : ithereas Paul, in Acts 
21,‘, gives us " about the space . of 450." From 
the book -of Judges we obtain 430 years, and Josephus 
gives us 18 more for the elders and anarchy, befolit 
any judge ruled; this added to make 448, whiil 
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gees -with Paul, supposing him to have spoken in is Rome. 
V k gm the 2d and 7th chapters of Dan. w. 
 
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round numbers. The difference between this time learn that Rome will come to its end when the An 
)and that given by Usher is 153 years, and should be cient of days comes, the- judgment is set, the Son o 
'added to the age of the world, making for the corn- man comes in the clouds of heaven, and the God, o 
finencement of the Christian era 4157, or, in other heaven sets up an eternal kingdom. Therefore the 
1 
 words, 4156 and a fraction had passed at the supposed 2300 days, which extend to the time when the ex. 
ipoint of the birth of Christ. Deducting this from 6000 ceeding great horn is to be " broken without hands,' 
-*'• ..1 Years, the remainder is 1843 and a fraction. There-. and to the " last end• of the indignation" are so man' 
) fore the period will end within A. D. 1844. years, and expire at the coming of Jesus in the Caw 
" ,THE SEVEN TIMES OF THE GENTILES. 
The seven of Glory. The period commenced with the 70 week 
1", es of Gentile domination over the church of of Dan. ix. 24, which are determined or cut of, an?. 
od, spoken of in Lev. xxvi. began with the break- constitute a part of the 2300 days. They must there 
rig of the pride of their power, at the captivity of fore commence together. From verse '25, we lean 
.114nasseh, king of Judah, B. C. 677. See Isa. x. 5-- that they begin at the going forth of the commun-
-a; Jer. xv. 3--9; Jeri. 17 ; 2 Chron. xxxiii. 9--11. ment or decree to restore and to build Jerusalen. 
This is the date assigned by all chronologers for that The point of time from which to reckon, must he ei 
event. The seven prophetic times amount to 2520 ther when the decree was first issued or when it wa, 
years. As proof of this, see Rev. xii. 6, 14, 
carried into execution; it could not be the former 
where 
3.1-2 times are equivalent to 1260 years. A time because the decree embraces all that was decreed b 
therefore consists of 360 solar 
Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia. Se( 
years which multiplied 
by 7, make 2520. Had this period commenced with Isa. xliv. 28 ; Isa. xlv. 13 ; 2 Chron. xxxvi. 22, 23 
the first day of B. C. 677, it would have terminated Ezra i. 1--4 ; Ezra vi. 1--15 ; Ezra vii. The decree 
with the first day of A. D. 1844, for 677 full years on embraces three grand objects : the building of th 
one hand, and 1843 on the other, make 2320 corn- Temple, the restoring of the Jewish Commonwealth, 
plete years. It has been supposed that the period and the building of the street and wall. Now had the 
would end in A. D. 1843. But as a part of B. C.617170 weeks, which amount to 490 years, commenced 
with the first issuing of the decree, B. C. 536, they 
is left out, a corresponding part of A. D. 1844 must I, 
I would have ended B. C. 46 ; but 69 weeks were to 
e taken in to make the period complete. It must extend to the manifestation of Messiah the Prince, 
rave been" inAutumn that Manasseh was taken cap- and the '70th, or last week, covers the time of his cru- 
'ye- As proof of this, see Hosea v. 5 ; Isa. vii. 8 : 
esaaat,,15yhfilmwvnd e cifixion; we must therefore of necessity reckon from 
A.,-;`''fallifi, '.•-ii-Yalrifictfi-- 
 
 
LI„s_Far, .1 ft— c.oth,r uVitit, that ;., rho rro4....../6- i:e.... .4,44 0 -•,.. e 11, 
tion of the decree in Judea. From Ezra vii. 8, 91 
Isaiah represents the king of Assyria as threatening we learn that Ezra began to go up on the first day of 
..to do to Jerusalem as he had done to Samaria ; there- 
I 
I the first month, and arrived at Jerusalem on the fi,'"' 
Mor
e 
 the final carrying away of the ten tribes was be- 
!, f•re the invasion of Judah, and in the same year. lday of the fifth month, in the 7th year of Artaxerxes.,i 
1, 
'he prophecy of Isa. vii. 8, is correctly dated B. C. I '-"' C• 457. Having arrived at Jerusalem, he appoint
i42 ; 65 years from that point bring us to B. C. 677. ; ed magistrates and judges, and restored the Jewis 
Commonwealth, under the protection of the king o 
In that year was the final breaking of Ephraim, that I Persia, as he was fully authorized to do by the 'd 
fit should not be a people. The history of this we tree of Artaxerxes. This necessarily require 
find in 2 Kings, xvii. chap t. Kings did not go forth some little time, and brings us to the point when, 
.4on their warlike expeditions in autumn or winbter, but 
in spring or summer. Therefore in spring or sum- 
mer
. 
 of B. C. 677, Esarhaddon, and the Assyrians 
cgrmueneed removing the remnant of the ten tribes 
o*t of. the cities of Samaria ; and when they had ac-
mplished this, they brought foreigners and placed 
t em in their stead, to inhabit those cities. Having 
rfornrid this work, which necessarily occupied 
srane nrouths, they were then ready to invade Judah. 
Sq that in the autumn of B. C. 677 they took the 
y of Jerusalem, and bound her king with fetters 
carried him to Babylon. From that time 2520 
rs reach to the autumn of A. D. 1844. Then the 
i s of the Gentiles will be fulfilled, the dispensa- 
the restoring having been effected, the building at 
the street and wall commenced. The 70 weeks aie 
divided into three parts: 7 weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 
week—see Dan. ix. 25. The connexion shows th 
the 7 weeks were allotted for the building of th3 
street and wall. They therefore commenced whet 
they began to build, in the autumn of B. C. 457; 
from that point 2300 years reach to the autumn of At 
D. 1844. 
THE SEVENTY WEEKS. The 69 weeks extend 
the manifestation of the Messiah. It has hem.] 
thought by many that this was at his baptism, b 
this is a mistake ;• as fully appears from John i. 1, 
34. There we learn, that after the baptisn 
tioi of the fullness of times will come, the Redeemer I Christ, he was not known to the Jews as the IS 
will come to Zion, and all Israel shall be saved. I siah; John says, verse 26, " There standetiro 
TILE 2300 DAYS. The 2300 days of Dan. viii. 14, among you whom ye know not;" and in versei33 
re given as the length of the vision contained in that 34, he declares that he knew him not, till he saws 
 
apter. The Ram is Medo Persia, the Goat is Gre- Spirit descending and remaining on him at his ap 
, and the little horn which waxed exceeding great tism, which was previous to his giving this testi o 
A.....- 
y. There 'is no proof that any one save John saw 
e Spirit thus descending. This proof therefore 
at Jesus was the Messiah, was given to none but 
ohn, unless it was given to others in John's testi-
ony. But the testimony of John was not sufficient 
ully to establish the point; for Jesus declares, John v. 
3, 34, " Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness un-
o the truth. But I receive not testimony from man." 
rin Verse 36, Christ says, " But 1 have greater wit-
net than that of John; for the works which the 
Fatlier bath given me to finish, the same works that 
do bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent 
itie." The miracles of Christ have proved him to be 
the Messiah; but even his own testimony without 
those miracles was not sufficient to establish the 
point, as is evident from verse 31: " If I bear wit-
ness of myself, my witness is not true." The mira-
cles of Christ publicly wrought, did not commence 
ill after John was put in prison—see Mat. xi. 2-6; 
. uke vii. 19--23. The prophecy of Dan. ix. 25 con - 
erning the 69 weeks, was intended for the whole 
Jewish nation; and they were condemned because 
they understood it not. In Luke xix. 43, 44, we 
find our Lord denouncing upon them the most awful 
judgments because they knew not the TIME of their 
visitation. The prophecy was plain, and they should 
have heeded it. Our Saviour, also told them plain- 
J.), when the period ended, saying, " THE TIME IS 
FULFILLED. 
See Mark xiv. 15; Mat. iv. 12, 17; 
Acts x. 37; thus we see that the 69 weeks ended, 
and the 70th week began soon after John's impris- 
onment. John beffnn his mini,try in the lift,--ft. 
year of Tiberius Caesar—see Luke iii. 1--3. The 
administration of Tiberius began, according to the 
united testimony of chronologers, in Aug., A. D. 12. 
Fourteen years from that point, extend to Aug. A. 
D. 26, when his 15th year began. The ministry of 
John, therefore commenced in the latter part of A. 
D. 26. From Luke iii. 21, we learn that after John 
had been baptizing for some time, Jesus came and 
-- was baptized; and verse 23 informs us that at that 
time he was not far from 30 years of age. It is as-
tronomically proved that our Saviour was born four 
years before the Christian era. The proof is this. 
About the year 527, Dionysius Exigus, a Roman 
monk, fixed the beginning of the Christian era in the 
year of the Julian period 4713. This reckoning has 
been followed to the present time. But Josephus, 
in his Antiquities, Book 17, chapt. 6, mentions par-
ticularly an eclipse of the moon, which occurred a 
short time before the death of Herod; and the astro-
nomical tables prove this eclipse to have been on the 
13th of March, in the year of the Julian period 4710. 
Our Lord was born some months previous to this; 
for after his birth Herod sought to destroy his life, 
aryl Joseph, being warned by the angel of the Lord 
in a dream, took the young child and his mother, 
and went into Egypt, where he remained till after 
ius l'or the commencement of the Christian era; 
Consequently Jesus was 30 years of age near the 
close of A. D. 26, and at his baptism was a little 
more than 30. Soon after this, as is evident from 
John ii. 11--13, there was a Passover. This being 
the first Passover after the beginning of John's bap-
tism, must have been in the spring of A. D. 27. 
After this Jesus had his interview with Nicodemus 
and taught him concerning regeneration—see John 
iii. In verse 22 we are informed that Jesus 
returned, after these things, into the land of Judea, 
where he tarried and baptized. As he had previ-
ously been in Jerusalem at the Passover—see John 
ii. 23—and now returned into Judea, he must have 
been absent from that land between these two points 
of time. This necessarily brings us down to the 
summer or autunie 'of A. D. 27. But " John was 
not yet cast into prison"—see John iii. 24. We are 
therefore compelled to place the point of time at 
which Jesus began the proclamation of the gospel 
in Galilee, in the autumn of A. D. 27. 
Here ended 
tote 69 weeks, and here began the week, during which 
the covenant was confirmed—see Dan. ix. 27. In 
the midst of the week Jesus caused the sacrifice aftd 
the oblation to cease by offering himself as a Lamb, 
without spot, to God upon the cross. The Hebrew 
word translated "midst," is by the Lexicon defined, j 
" half, half part, middle, midst." 
The week was di-
vided into two halves, and the event which was thus 
to divide it was the death of Christ. This event 
took place, according to Dr. Hales, one of the ablest 
tt-,n n‘" 
Ferguson
A 
has placed it in Ad). 33; but in order to prove ithe 
assumes the Rabinical mode of reckoning the year, whichis 
not correct. They commence the year with the new moon 
in March; but the Caraites with the new moon in April.— 
The word Caraite signifies " one perfect in the law" These 
accuse the Rabbins of having departed from the law, and con-
formed to the customs of the heathen ; and the charge is just, 
as they regulate their year by the vernal equinox, in imita-
tion of the Romans ; whereas the law says nothing of the ver-1 
nal equinox ; but required, on the 16th day of the first.month, 
the offering of the first fruits of the barley harvest.' But if the 
year be commenced according to the Robbins with the new 
moon in March, the barley harvest could not possibly be ripe 
in 16 days from that time. The Caraites are therefore un-
doubtedly correct. Now our Lord was crucified orz the day 
of the Passover, as is evident from John xviii. 28. It was 
likewise the day before the- Sabbath, as is proved by John 
xix. 31. According to the Rabinical reckoning, the Passo-
ver occurred on the day before the Sabbath in A. D. 33, and 
not for several years before or after. But according to the 
Caraite reckoning, the Passover occurred on that day in A. 
D. 31 Therefore that was the year of the crucifixion. The, 
covenant was confirmed half a week by Christ, and the otheq_ 
half by his apostles—see Heb. 3, 4 : " How shall we es- 
cape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first BE-
GAN to be spoken by the Lord, and was CONFIRMED unto us',. 
by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both 
with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gift* 
of the Holy Ghost according to his own will ?" The coven-.
gas;
ant which was confirmed is the new covenant, i. e. the gos 
pel. To confirm it signifies to establish it on a firm founda-i 
Herod's death—see Matt. ii. 13--15. The latestj tutRomii.EcTI:hoeN fosuenedAateiotsn xovfi it.h1e8gos1pcelo,ris iiJiE,
SUS11A.NDE p7 Ei 
ii. 20
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Point, tkgefore, that we can fix upon for the birth ofd The gospel was established on this foundation by testimony„ 
Chris', is near the close of the year 4709, just four accompanied by miracles, as those proofs which were indis 
1Crs earlier than the point of time given by Dionys pensably necessary But John performed no -miracles — sedl 
therefore John's ministry formed no part of the after the Passover Was to be a special Sabbath ; and ij4 
confirmation. God wrought through Christ in, those mighty 10 and 11, is a command to offer the first fruits of the 
works, fot half the week, and through the apostles the other vest on the morrow after the Sabbath. This was a type 0 
half, who had a special work assigned to them, and for which the resurrection of Christ. And on the ',gar day, that is, 
they were duly qualified, and that was to testify concerning the day after the Sabbath, he burst the bonus of the tom'.;,. 
 
. the works and Resurrection of our Lord—see Luke i. 2; John and arose triumphant, the sample of the future harvest, 
xv. 27; Luke xxiv. 48; Acts i. 8, 21, ; ii. 32; iii. 15; FIRST FRUITS of them that slept. See 1 Cor. xv. 20-24 
x. 36, 41; 1 John i. 1,3. All these witnesses save one were Again, in Lev. xxiii. 15, 16, we have the time of the feast o 
regularly called and qualified, having been with Christ from weeks, or, as it is called, the Pentecost, which signifies the 
the beginning of his ministry, after the imprisonment of John. fiftieth day. This was the anniversary of the Lord's dese n* 
But when Paul was converted, and received his dispensa- on mount Sinai at the giving of the law ; and was fu 'I d, 
tion of the gospel to the Gentiles, a specie/ witness was call- as we learn from Acts. ii. 1.-4, when the Holy Spirit de.. 
ed upon the stand. 
ed as a rushing mighty wind, and as cloven tongues of 
These all testified to the one glorious, fundamental fact, by which the apostles were endued with power from on high; 
that Jesus Christ had risen from the dead. Gal. i, 10-12 ; qualifying them to go forth and execute the great commis 
1 Cor. xv. 1--9. It was not with the apostles a matter of sion which the Master had given them, to preach the gospet, 
faith that Christ had risen, but a matter of knowledge. to every creature. 
They had seen, handled, and conversed with him, they had Thus we see that those types that pointed to events con 
eaten and drunken with him after the resurrection, and had fleeted with our Lord's first coming were fulfilled exactly,Att 
received from him a command to testify to these things. By the TtraE of their observance. And every one who is not 
so doing they confirmed the covenant, or, in other words, es- willingly blind must see, and feel too, that those which re-
tablished the gospel, upon the resurrection of Christ, which main unfulfilled, will be fulfilled with an equally strietregar 
is the foundation of the faith and hope of all God's chil- to time. Not only so, but Christ himself confirms this orgy: 
dren. But this testimony alone was not sufficient to establish ment from analogy by saying that one jot or tittle shall in* 
the fact that Jesus had risen from the dead. Therefore we wise pass from the law, till all be f filled. :Those, type 
are told, Mark xvi. 20, " And they went forth, and preached which were to be observed in the seve h month, have nev-
every where, the Lord working in them, and CONFIRMING the er yet had their fulfillment in the antitype. 
word by signs following." See also Heb. ii. 3, 4. When On the first day of that month, as we learn from Lev. xxiii. 
the last witness, that is Paul, had been called, and had given 23-25, was the memorial of blowing of trumpets. See Ps. 
his testimony, confirmed by rniraolis, the gospel as a divine lxxxi. 3 ; "blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the 
system of faith, hope, and love was established on its true time appointed, on our solemn feast. day." See also Rev. x. 
foundation ; in other words, the covenant was confirmed. 7 : " But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when 
-Paul was converted in the autumn of A. D. 34- As Jesus he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be finish-
Christ was crucified in the midst or middle of the week, and ed, as he bath declared to his servants the prophets." On' 
on the day of the Passover, which was the fourteenth day of the first day of the 7th month, 6000 years being completes, 
the first. month, it follows that the week began in the 7th from the first day of the week of creation, the great millentat 
-nd ended in the 70 
'-" ' r^bbath will be - by the sounding of the seventh 
in Lev. xxiii 26--32, that 
to 
FI'PES.-The Law of Moses contained a shadow of 
good things to come ; a system of figures or types pointing 
'to Christ and his kingdom. See Heb. x. l ; Col. ii. 16, 17. 
Every thing contained in the law was to be fulfilled by him. 
In Matt. v. 17, 18, Jesus says, "Think not that I am come 
JO destroy the law or the prophets : 1 am not come to destroy, 
bttt to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and 
.earth lims, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
'law, 611111 be fulfilled." Our Lord at his first coming, when 
he died on the cross, began the fulfillment of those types con-
tained in the law : as our great High Priest he is still fulfill-
ing them ; and when lie comes the second time, he will com-
plete their fulfillment. Not the 'least point will fail, either in 
the substance shadow ,:forth, or in the time so definitely 
painted out for the obse4ance of the types. For God is an 
vizet time keeper. See Acts. xvii. 26, 31 ; Job. xxiv. I ; Lev. 
4, 37. These passages show that TIME is an important 
point in the law of the Lord ; therefore type and antitype 
must correspond exactly as it regards time. One type fulfil-
led in Christ. was the killing of the Passover Lamb. This 
was slain on the 14th day of the first month. See Lev. xxiii. 
5. From Ex. xii. 6, we learn that the lamb was killed in the 
evening. The margin gives the literal rendering from the 
Hebrew, "between the two evenings." Joseph Frey a con-
verted Jew, in his work on the Passover, says the afternoon 
or evening of the day was by them divided into two parts, 
the lesser or former evening and the greater or latter even-
ing. The dividing point between the two was three in the 
afternoon, the ninth hour of the day. Jesus died on the 
cross, on the same day and at the same hour. See Mark xv. 
-33-37. Thus Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. 
Not one point of the law failed here. Time was most strictly 
regarded. In Lev. xxiii. 6, 7, we are informed that the day 
.7c:> 
La m irr which the high priest went into the most 
holy place of the tabernacle, presenting the blood of the vic-
tim before the mercy-seat, after which on the same day he 
came out and blessed the waiting congregation of Israel:: 
See Lev. ix. 7, 22, 23, 24, and Lev 16th chap.; Heb. v. 1-6, - 
and ix, 1--12, 27, 28. Now the important point in this tXpe 
is the completion of the reconciliation at the coming of the 
high priest out of the holy place. The high priest was a 
type of Jesus our High Priest ; the most holy place a type of 
heaven itself; and the coming out of the high priest a ty.p.e-
of the coming of Jesus the second time to bless his waiting 
people. As this was on the tenth day of the 7th mont14 so 
on that day Jesus will certainly come, because not a single 
point of the law is to fail. .9// must be fulfilled. The feast 
of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the 
seventh month, (see Lev. xxiii. 33--43,) was the type of .the 
marriage supper of the Lamb; which will be celebrated in 
the New Jerusalem, the tabernacle of God which is to be; 
with men. In Lev. xxv. 8--13, 23, 24, we find that on the 
10th day of the seventh month, in the fiftieth year, the jubi-
lee trumpet was always to be blown, and redemption grant-
ed to all the land.—Let any man read carefully the connec-
tion of this subject, and he must surely see that this is a 
-most striking type of the glorious deliverance of the people'. 
of God, and of the whole creation which is now groaning un-
der the curse, when the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and 
accomplish the redemption of the bodies of all his saints, and 
the redemption of the purchased possession. See Rom. viii. 
19-.23 ; Eph. i. 9--14. Our blessed Lord will therefore come, ' 
to the astonishment of all them that dwell upon the earth, 
and to the salvation of those who truly look for him, on the 
tenth day of the seventh month ofthe year of jubilee : and that 
is the present year, 1844. • 
" If they hear not MOSES and the PROPHEi.S,, neither 
will they he persuaded although one rose from the