Verse 11
"A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed."
"Prophesying the rebuilding of the walls also follows very naturally ... Israel also looked for a day when their frontiers would be extended, when her dominion would run from Assyria to Egypt."[22]
It is a great mistake, however, to overlook the spiritual import of these great prophecies. True, Israel's captivity was concluded in the triumphant return of the people to Jerusalem, a very necessary event prerequisite to the cohesion of the chosen people and the eventual delivery, through them, of the Messiah; but only in that Messiah, Jesus Christ, were the borders of a new Israel to be inclusive of the whole world. Today, even as of old, there are many who are so blinded by the vision of a worldly kingdom that the great spiritual empire of the Son of God seems never to enter their minds.
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