Revival has not come, and the Christian community accordingly is being
urged to more and more prayer in the belief that prayer is the exercise
required to bring the, much desired blessing. It is said that a handful
of praying souls brought about the Revival of 1859. A sick woman's
prayers brought D. L. Moody to England. Today, throughout the world, the
petitioners must number thousands-but the fact has to be faced that they
still await the gift.
It is time that the Christian community recognised the fact, made
plain in Scripture, that prayer is not the one and only secret of
victory. There are situations in which much more is required. An
instance may be seen in the book of Joshua, when Israel was defeated at
Ai. After the glorious victory at Jericho such defeat was utterly
confounding. Joshua at once held a prayer-meeting (Josh. 7: 6).
It could not have been surpassed for intensity and fervour. But it was
not a situation that could be changed by prayer alone. A wrong had to
be made right. With tonic sharpness the Lord spoke to Joshua, "
Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath
sinned..."
Not prayer, but confession and judgment of a hidden sin was the
inexorable demand of the Lord. It is time that Christian leaders took
this possibility into account. Why does not prayer prevail? The Father
Who gave His only Son for our salvation must surely desire to send forth
the Spirit-empowered message of salvation. The impediment cannot be on
His side. Undoubtedly it must be on ours. Are our leaders really anxious
for revival? Are they worried at the phenomenon of a silent heaven in
face of importunate prayer? Then surely the prayer "Lord, send
revival" will be changed to "Lord, show me what hinders
revival and at whatever cost I will give it up."
It is the closing of the eyes and the stopping of the ears to the
Truth which God is disclosing in these latter days, in accordance with
His word (Jer. 30:24). This truth is the affirmation of His
faithfulness in fulfilling all His promises made through the fathers,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and through Moses, David and the prophets, to
Israel, which is now known as the Anglo-Saxon or English-speaking race.
The time is overdue when the refusal of this majestic truth must be
recognised for what it is, not intellectual dissent, not a superior
spirituality, but sin. The refusal lies in the will, not in the mind.
The proofs of the identity of the Britannic race with Israel, as
distinct from the Jews, have been laid before the Christian community
for many years. The identity of a broken, rejected, exiled and scattered
people, which Israel was when last seen as the captives of the Assyrian
conquerors, with the greatest race the earth has ever known, exhibits on
a world-scale the glorious faithfulness of God, the matchless triumph of
His purpose through history. Yet the Christian community obstinately
ignores it. Is it a sin to rob God? What excuse can be, given for
robbing Him of the glory due unto Him for His faithfulness? God's
faithfulness is extolled in the 89th Psalm, wholly in connection
with the throne and continuing lineage of David. Let the Christian of
to-day suspect a "spirituality" which is superior to the
Divine Word.
But there is more. Weary humanity is stumbling in the
black-out of these times. There is "distress of nations, with
perplexity ... men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after
those things which are, coming on the earth." The irreligion that
Christians mourn in our own English-speaking countries is the fruit of
confusion and despair. People ask, " Why, if there is a God,
doesn't He do something?" The answer is that He HAS done and
is steadily continuing to do something. But the Church is concealing it!
The Church is robbing the people of the Truth that DEMONSTRATES that
God reigns. Is not this sin? God has provided for this very time. As He
said by Isaiah, " Ye are My witnesses, THAT I AM GOD" (Isa.
43: 10-12). The truth of British-Israel proclaims that what God
promised He has performed. It establishes His power as the Almighty. It
proves His loving thought for all human need. Yet the Church rejects
this magnificent aid to its work! What God-dishonouring folly!
There is more. The Church itself, yes, the Church which still claims
to believe in God's Word " from cover to cover " is itself
drying up. Sermons are not what they once were. Still orthodox they may
be, but the freshness and power are gone. Church teaching is going round
and round upon itself in an ever-diminishing spiral of range. For it is
a hard matter to evade the unwanted Truth. It is with difficulty that
one can escape the Holy Spirit's light upon the Word. To deny the
glorious Truth of God's faithfulness to Israel, it is necessary
practically to close the Old Testament. The Church has done it! To deny
it, the literal and reiterated promises of Genesis must either be
ignored or evaporated into imagery of " spiritual " truths.
The Church has done it! To deny it, the eyes must be kept closed to the
accurate correspondences between prophecy foretold and prophecy
fulfilled. Latter day Israel, under the name of Britain, her
Commonwealth and the United States, is described in the Bible by
identifying marks immensely more numerous than would be required to
establish identity in any court. The Church will have nothing of it.
To deny this Truth Christian leaders must go further still. They must
keep their people in ignorance of one-half of all that our Lord Jesus
Christ accomplished by His Cross. They preach individual salvation for
"'whosoever". believes; they are silent upon the Redemption of
Israel, equally taught in Scripture. Indeed Scripture gives it
precedence. Thus Isaiah 49: 6 says, " It is a light thing
that thou shouldest be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and
to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to
the Gentiles, that thou mayest be My salvation unto the end of the
earth." Here are two operations, and Scripture abundantly shows
them to be the fruits of the Cross.
Or again, following immediately upon the prophecy of the Cross in
Isaiah 53 the first effect is seen in the re-covenanting of Israel
in chapter 54, and only secondly comes the personal effect in chapter
55. The New Testament observes the same order. Romans 15: 8
states first that Christ came to confirm the promises made unto the
fathers, and secondly that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy.
The birth, the name, the mission of Jesus all have prior reference to
Israel (e.g., Matt. I : 21-23; 2: 6; Luke 1, 32,
33). His sacred blood seals the New Covenant (Matt. 26: 28) which
Jeremiah 31:31 ff. and Hebrews 8 declare is made to
"the House of Israel and the House of Judah." While Acts 5:
31 affirms that He is now exalted " to give repentance to
Israel, and forgiveness of sins." Anyone who ignores this mighty
aspect of the Cross is preaching only half the Gospel.
Thus the silence of the Church robs. our Lord Jesus Christ of the
glory due to Him as the Redeemer of Israel, as the Administrator of the
Divine purposes to and through Israel. It hymns Him as "the Lord of
years, the Potentate of time." In reality it knows nothing of the
majestic sway of His sceptre as, since the Cross, He has gathered
scattered Israel into the Appointed Place (2 Sam. 7: 10-11), into
the Isles (e.g., Jer. 31: 10-11), brought them into the blessing
of the Covenant through the preaching of the Cross, and developed them
until they spread throughout the world a mighty race and a blessing to
all nations.
These are the charges that must be brought against those who are in
many ways to be esteemed. God be thanked for their Christian witness.
They are standing faithful in a professing church that has surrendered
either to pseudo-infidelity or to pseudo-Romanism. Nevertheless, just
because of their eminent orthodoxy they constitute the gravest obstacle
to the advance of the Truth. Scripture photographically describes them.
"Who is blind, but My servant? or deaf, as My messenger that I
sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's
servant? Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears,
but he heareth not" (Isa. 42: 19-20).
These excellent men whose names figure in every great evangelical
rally, who lead in Conventions and campaigns, enjoying untrammelled
liberty by the laws of their land, enjoying the comforts, the
intellectual and material resources of the best civilisation as yet
developed in this world, are blind to the truth that these things are
only possible because they dwell in the commonwealth of Israel to whom
just such blessings were covenanted by the Most High. Well may the
command be issued, "Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may
see" (Isa. 42: 18).
But it will be vigorously objected that the case for British-Israel
has not been proven. On the contrary, the case is proven to the last jot
and tittle. What actually is demanded is proof of colour to the blind,
proof of music to the stone-deaf! History, archaeology, philology,
geography, all combine to attest that the God of Israel has done what He
said He would do, and His work thereby attests that He is God. Does the
evangelist, discouraged by the prevalent unbelief, understand what a
weapona God-appointed weaponhe is rejecting by his own unbelief? It has
brought thousands from infidelity to Christ.
Again, it is objected. British-Israel is too materialistic. A flimsy
excuse. Does not the most "spiritual" leader live on a
material earth? Does he not need food, clothing, home, transport,
churches, papers, books, as the materials by which his spiritual work is
carried on? Does he not further need liberty, peace, safety? But all
these are supplied and safeguarded by the enlightened polity in which he
livesenlightened to permit his sharing such blessings, and powerful to
protect him. This is his lot in the great nations of the
English-speaking peoples. Surely he must know that it has not
been a normal one for the Christian church. Bonds and imprisonment,
torture and death were its reward in Gentile lands. The difference is
that he lives within the Israel sphere. But perhaps the chief objection
derives from the doctrine that, on racial Israel being discovenanted
through sin, Christ constituted the Church as Israel and through the New
Covenant made it heir of the promises. It is amazing that this hoary
error should still gain credence. The New Covenant is plainly stated to
be made " with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah" (Heb. 8:8). Here there is no mention of the Church.
What would be thought of an historian who should thus misstate the terms
of merely human charters? Claims of scholarly criticism of
British-Israel become ridiculous in face of such misapplication of plain
Scripture.
But as has been said previously, the difficulty is not one of the
intellect, but of the will. Christians reject this mighty work of
God for the same reason that religious men rejected Christ, for fear of
the consequences. We read, "Among the chief rulers also many
believed on Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him,
lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the
praise of men more than the praise Of God." Who that has
knowledge of church circles dare dispute that this Scripture is true
to-day? The church member who embraced that objected Truth must endure
year after year the Chill, the veiled contempt of' pastor and fellow
members. The leader sees openings where once he was welcomed now barred
to him his name, is dropped from the lists of convention speakers,
oblivion closes over him. The penalty is too great, so the glorious
truth is put aside, is picked to pieces with sophistries. Yet the church
has the hardihood to besiege the Lord with prayers for Revival-on its
own terms!
Sirs, you eminent Christian leaders, you know that these things are
true! You have had noble leaders among you who have believed in
British-Israel Truth. You maintain a conspiracy of silence about them.
At their death, or on some anniversary when their names must be
mentioned, all their works arc recalled save the one they loved so
deeply. Is not this a false weight and a false balance? Can God bless
dealings that He calls abomination? (Prov.11:1)
Nevertheless your prayers will be answered! Revival will be sent. But
note well that it is promised to ISRAEL. Are you willing to be used in
this out pouring of God's mercy? Note too, that this is the way in which
the Lord proposes to settle the missionary problem for, " The
heathen shall know that I am the Lord ... when I shall be sanctified in
you (Israel) before their eyes" (Ezek. 36-23). Here is the
promise of cleansing. You have argued that the British-American race was
too bad to be Israel. God definitely revealed how bad Israel would be,
in the very beginning under Moses. Nevertheless He went forward with His
plan, and His promise stands-" Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you, and ye shall be clean : from all your filthiness, and from all
your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you and I
will put My spirit within you (Ezek. 36: 25-27).
You cry to God for Revival? Put away this grievous sin from among
you, glorify God for His mercy, preach the FULL Gospel of His
goodness, in Government as well as grace, to His noble, bewildered,
stumbling people, and. you. will have your heart's desire. For the
promise is sure: "And so ALL Israel" - which includes Judah
who has refused the Redeemer so long - "shall be saved." Then
the grand doxology will ascend, "O the depth of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge of God... for of Him, and through Him, and to
Him, are all things; to whom be glory for ever. Amen."
