God always requires righteous behavior on the part of His creatures.

Humanism (the happiness of people is the supreme good), gnosticism (salvation removes us from the material world so we may live forever in the spirit realm), antinomianism (Christians are under no law) and dispensationalism (Gentiles are saved by Divine forgiveness apart from moral transformation) are "four horsemen" of error that prevent Christians from perceiving what the Scripture actually teaches.

The "four horsemen" compose a spirit of blindness of tremendous power and influence that will not be driven from the churches without concerted prayer and faith on the part of the believers in Christ.

The current revival includes an opening of our understanding of the Scriptures and we hope that the contemporary errors will pass away like the dew before the rising of the morning sun.

The Christian believers, for the most part, are acquainted only with the rudiments of true scriptural theology. The remainder of their understanding is not scriptural.

No doubt the current return of the Jews to the land of Israel is the most important sociological phenomenon of the twentieth century. This move is of God, being nothing less than the fulfillment of the writings of the Prophets.

There is no authority or power on earth that can prevent Jacob from returning home to his land of promise. The nations that attempt to hinder the return of the Jewish people to their homeland will be destroyed.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. (Jeremiah 23:7,8)

The Spirit of Christ is speaking here of a second exodus of Israel. The enormous significance of the second exodus can be seen in the fact that its importance will eclipse the first exodus.

The first exodus always has been uppermost in the mind of the Jews, being the outstanding event of their history. That God no more will be known as the Lord of the exodus from Egypt but as the Lord of the exodus from the country north of Israel, and from the remainder of the nations of the earth, reveals to us the importance of what is beginning in our day.

In some instances the nations in which the Jews are dwelling are attempting to prevent their return to Israel. Such nations will be visited with Divine judgment.

In other cases the Jews themselves prefer to remain where they are or to move to a more wealthy nation in the hope of living a life of material abundance. This is a mistake on their part.

The Jews are not like the other peoples of the earth. They are a special, called-out race, a nation of priests. Their business in life is to serve God, to be married to God. When they are not waiting on the Lord as His servants and witnesses they are ignoring their Divinely ordained role among mankind.

To be continued.