For of him Zechariah (ch.

ix.) says, that "He shall speak peace to the nations;" and of him Isaiah says, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." And so far from being the author of division, sword, and fire; according to Malachi, in the times of the Messiah, "the heart of the parents was to be converted to the children, and the heart of the children to their parents." In the times of the Messiah, wars were to cease, righteousness was to flourish, and mankind be happy.

Whether this has yet taken place, the experience of almost nineteen centuries, and the present state of the world, can enable every one to determine for himself.
In the times of the Messiah, Israel was to be gathered, and planted in their own land, in honour, and prosperity.

But not many years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the Jewish nation underwent the most dreadful calamities; and to this day, so far are they from being gathered, they are scattered to the four quarters of the globe.
Instead of being in honour and prosperity, their history, since his time, is one dreadful record of unparalleled sufferings, written in letters of blood by the hands of murder, rapine, and cruelty.
Again; the true Messiah was, it seems, to be called DAVID, and was to reign at Jerusalem, on the throne of David; but the name "Jesus" is not the same as "David," and Christians have assigned him a spiritual kingdom, and a throne in heaven! But was the throne of David in heaven?
No! it was in Jerusalem, and no more in Heaven, than that of the Caesars.
Lastly, it appears from the prophecies of Hosea, Micah, and Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, quoted in the last chapter, that the manifestation of their Messiah was to be contemporaneous with the restoration of Israel, and from the quotations adduced from the three first mentioned prophets, it should seem that his birth was not to take place many years before that glorious event.

But Jesus of Nazareth was born almost two thousand years ago; and the children of Israel yet expect a deliverer.