Answers To Correspondents

QUES. 4.- What is "the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints?-Eph. 1:18.

ANS.-It is what God is going to have and to enjoy when the work of His grace is accomplished for and in His saints and He sees them established in the bliss and the glories of His eternal purpose toward them. He is Light and He is Love; and, according to what He is, He is preparing a poor, fallen, degraded people to be His eternal enjoyment "to (he praise of the glory of His grace." And what shall we say in that day, we who will be thus His Inheritance and who will enjoy it with Him in all its fulness? At the thought of such praise as will then break out from the unnumbered hosts, what can we do but begin our praise now?

QUES. 5.-What does the expression "Gog and Magog" in Rev. 20:8, mean? Is it a special people? If so. how could it be addressed as being"in the four quarters of the earth"?

ANS.-In Ezek. 38:2, "Gog" is given as the "prince of Meshech and Tubal" his people. "The laud of Magog" is the country over which he rules and where his people dwell. There can be no reasonable doubt that it is the prince, the people, and the laud of Russia, the great enemy of the Jews, and the last one, with his allies, to try his hand at their destruction just before the Lord appears to establish His millennial reign. Ezek. 38:and 39:gives us his complete overthrow in the laud of Israel, by the hand of Israel's Protector and Deliverer.

The use of the names "Gog and Magog" in Rev. 20:is, we believe, not necessarily to be applied to the special ruler and people so named in Ezekiel, but symbolically to those who, from the far ends of the earth, bear still the same enmity toward Israel and her King", even though under His righteous rule they have for one thousand years enjoyed the rich blessings that flow from it. They are still proud enemies at heart, and need but the presence of the arch-leader in evil to manifest themselves. This ends all temporal judgments and" ushers in the eternal.