CHAPTER XX. 535 purifier of silver ; and he ,shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness." Now this was accomplished when Christ came into the temple, and when he reformed the evil practices of the priests and people. 24. Q. You have given us a large account of what Jewish prophets have foretold ; but were there no others besides the Jews which prophesied concerning Christ? A. Yes, there are two very remarkable persons who were not Jews, whose expres- sions have a reference to our blessed Saviour, and these were Balsam and Job. 25. Q. What did Be.laam say concerning Christ ? A. " There shall a Star come out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy the children of Sheth ? Seir and Edom shall be his possession ; and out of Jacob shall he come who shall have dominion ;" Num. xxiv. 17-19. 26. Q. What reason is given to prove that this refers to Christ ? A. Christ is called the morning star ; Rev. xxii. 16. He was of the family of Jacob or Israel ; he shall smite andde- stroy the enemies of the church, and have the heathens for a possession, andhis dominion iseverlasting ; Ps. ii. 6 -9. 27. Q. What is the remarkable prophecy which Job spake concerning 'Christ ? A. Job xix. 25, 26. " I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth ; and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. 28. Q. When is this prophecy to be fulfilled? A. When Christ the Redeemer, who lives in heaven, shall come to raise the dead, and to judge the world, he shall stand at last upon the earth, after his enemies are conquered ; and the children of God in their new raised bodies shall see God ; that is, shall see Jesus Christ the Redeemer, who is the Emmanuel, or God with us ; and who is described as God manifest in the flesh; 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17. -1 Cor. xv. 24-26.-1 Tim. iii. 16. 29. Q. What great and evident truth maybe inferred from this long rank of prophecies concerning Jesus Christ our Savi- our? A. We learn that from the beginning of the world, ever since the sin and fall of Adam, throughout the several ages of mankind, there hath been a continual succession of prophecies given from God, who foreknows all things, concerning some great and glorious Deliverer and Saviour, who should be mani- tested to the world in time, and that he-should appear as the king of Israel and for the salvation both of Jews and Gentiles : And accordingly he has been expected by those good men in the several ages who were best acquainted with the scriptures, and particularly in that age wherein Jesus Christ' appeared ; See Luke i. 69, 70. and 'xxiv. 27. Acts iii. 18-24. 30. Q. But does this determine Jesus, the son of Mary, to
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