(Continued-August 1945)

Messiah's Call for Israel to Leave Babylon

Messiah sees Babylon standing as the world metropolis in the end time. At that season many Jews will be residing in this commercial center. He sends His message to them to leave the doomed city, obeying the following injunction "... with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob" (vs. 20). Thus the Jews of Babylon are, summoned to leave it and to tell their brethren as well as the world that the time has come for Jehovah to redeem His servant Jacob, the Jews.

According to verse 21, the Lord will provide streams in the desert (literally) for His fleeing people who start their long trek back to the land of their fathers.

This section of the Book of Isaiah, chapters 40-48, closes with this refrain: "There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked." There has never been peace for the evildoers, neither shall there ever be. Certainly the wicked shall go off into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. It is a terrible thing to be wicked. Sin never pays. There is only one way to live, and that is for God, accepting the Lord Jesus Christ and becoming a new creature in Him, serving and honoring Him through life, and being received into immortal glory eventually.

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