People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Letter by Rev. Peter Foulks. [ARTICLE]

Letter by Rev. Peter Foulks.

The Lord hath sworn and will uoc repent. Thou an a priest. utter the order of Melkezi-diah.—P-alms ]lo:4. This scripture opens up to us the high priesthood of the Jewish nations. It teaches us that God formed the universe and made man to hold dominion over all the species of the earth. It teaches that this Jewish priesthood should be changed into a reality. He chose the Hebrew nation to carry ou t his great designs. The Jews got their name in Babylon when the misteriouß hand writing appeared on the wall The king’s countenance fell and he was troubled and his wife went to him and told him not to be troubled for she eaid there was one of the Hebrews that was brought out of the land of Jewery that could interprit the language, and that was Daniel, and from that night down to this, almost the twentieth, century the Jews have carried that name, a nation holding their name and identity without form of government, and yet they hold the yellow keys of the financial system of all the earth.

God tfeed symbols and types. The priest represents the Lord, the ark or tabernacle, the throne or kingdom. The Lord told Moses to build a tabernacle with two divisions, the inner court and the outer court, the newer court was to represent God, where no man was permitted to enter on penalty of death. As God is a spirit no man is permitted to look upon him and live in this mortal flesh, therefore this inward court and the outward court was to teach us that we must pass down through the dark valleys and shadows of death before we can en ter into that inward court or heaven.

The outward court represents the world and the people; the inward court represents God and his kingdom. The lamb, blood and water Symbols are deep thoughts for us to fathom. The body of the lamb represented the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. The represented the Holy Ghost or spirit which Christ sent or poured out on that day of penticost. Moses was commanded to take the blood of animals, hyssop and pure water and sprinkle the whole congregation, baptizing them in the person of Christj or covenant. Now we see that the Jewish nation incorporated these symbols in their law and every year they issued a proclamation to all the nations of the earth tq come up to Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover, not without bringing up of their flocks a lamb, one year old, male, without spot or blemish, It was slaughtered outside of the temple the blood carried to the high priest, who poured it< down at the foot of the altar; then he entered into the holiest of holies and offered up prayers for the nations of the earth. J

Now was this priesthood changed! David taught that this priesthood was to | be changed. Paul paid, that it was to be changed: “Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life hut like unto the eon of God abideth a priest continually.” • > Thera were sixteen prophets; four |;reat ones and twelve leader" '* opte. . prophets kept up a prophesy concerning the kingdoms of the Wth rising up and crumbling to pieces, centering into that great high priest, which was to come outeide of Aaron or hie lineage. Isiah said, “For unto a Child is born; unto ub a son is given, and the govern ment shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonderful, counsellor of The mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. The prophot Micha, (ch 5.) “But thou Bethlehem, Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Juda, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto one that is to be ruler in Israel, whoeetgoing forth have been from old, from everlasting.” Here we see that the prophet points out thevery town or village that he was to be born in, and tells ub the very tribe, Juda, then tells ub how the town changed its name from Epheratah to Bethlehem. These propheeies were uttered over seven hundred years before their fulfillment.

Thia high priest was not to be a physical or temporal priest but a spiritual priest abiding forever. You infidel who says this Bible is a Jewish history and a fable, I ask you who is leading the nations of the earth to-day? Is it not the Jewish race? England, France, Germany, Scotland. Ireland, Spain, Italy, and America are all led by this Jewish history or literature evidence to every man that this history or bible is the works of Him w’ho formed the universe, and the leading nations in science and knowledge are those that have adopted the Jewish scriptures. Now let us say to all adopt that Jewish high priests teachings, do -to that neighbor as you would have that neighbors do to you, and to all nations traffic and trade with them as you would have them traffic and trade with us. Then wars will cease, murder, theft will be no more. Then would come, “Peace on earth good will to all mankind and to all the nations j>f the earth.” Mrs. Hershman has received a mag nificent line of the newest and most stylish pattern hatsand millinery goods. Savg one-third by buying at the depot. Found, on the street, a Yale key, numbered 7738; three holes in stem; about two inches in length. Owner can have same by calling at office. Hammocks, croquet,wete and base ball goods at A. F. Long’s, the druggist.