by John Thomas
With reference to Hosea 6:2,3—Between the opening of the door in the heaven, and the going forth of the lightnings and thunders, and voices from the heavens, there is no rain to cool off the sultriness of the aerial. For when the Ensign is lifted up upon the mountains, and the trumpet is being blown through the earth, Yahweh saith, "I will be still (yet in my dwelling-place I will be without fear) as dry heat impending lightning, as a Cloud of Dew in the heat of harvest" (Isa. xviii. 3,4); but when the storm of thunder and lightning has subsided, and which is to result in presenting Israel before their King; and in bringing them to the place of the Name of Yahweh Tz’vaoth the Mount Zion; then "as the rain cometh down, and the snows from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth, and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree; and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for the sign of the hidden period which shall not be cut off" (Isa. lv. 10). This is the rejoicing of the nations with Israel, all blessed in Abraham and his Seed "in the day of rain" -- the third day in which Israel is raised up, and lives in Yahweh’s sight; whose going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto them as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth (Hos. vi. 2,3); see also Joel ii. 21-29, in which it is foretold that the Spirit shall be rained down upon all flesh to the praise of the Name of Yahweh Elohim in the midst of Israel, dwelling in Zion, his holy mountain; "then shall Jerusalem be holiness, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more."
— Eureka — An Exposition of the Apocalypse, Vol. 2, Ch. 4 — The Throne Covenanted To The Son Of David Established In The Hour Of Judgment, Section I — The Rainbow about the Throne
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