13. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion. He firmly believed and boldly prophesied that apparent inaction on
God’s part would turn to effective working. Others might remain sluggish in the
matter, but the Lord would most surely bestir himself. Zion had been chosen of
old, highly favored, gloriously inhabited, and wondrously preserved, and
therefore by the memory of her past mercies it was certain that mercy would
again be showed to her. God will not always leave his church in a low
condition; he may for a while make her see her nakedness and poverty apart from
himself, but in love he must return to her, and stand up in her defense, to
work her welfare. For the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.
When the time came for the walls to rise stone by stone, no Tobiah or Sanballat
could stay the work, for the Lord himself had arisen, and who can restrain the
hand of the Almighty? When God’s own time is come, neither Rome, nor the devil,
nor persecutors, nor atheists, can prevent the kingdom of Christ from extending
its bounds. It is God’s work to do it—he must arise; he will do it, but
he has his own appointed season; and meanwhile we must, with holy anxiety and
believing expectation, wait upon him.
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