No doubt this is one aspect of the case: but every student of this prophecy is aware that it has a double signification; one relating to the disasters which were about to overtake the Jewish people, and the other to events which properly belong to the last judgment. There is, therefore, nothing gained by this suggestion, since the passages equally apply to both occurrences; and, consequently, the force of our argument remains.
Daniel, in reference to the same eventful period, has written of the Lord that "His dominion is from generation to generation;" that it is an "everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."[1] It is manifest that those statements refer to the Divine government, not only in heaven, but also upon the earth. As, then, His dominion is not to pass away, mankind must be continued; and as His kingdom is not to be destroyed, it is plain that the human race will be preserved. If they were to cease, over whom would He reign, and what would be the use of maintaining a kingdom in which there are no people to accept His laws nor to be benefited by His government? It is wonderful to see under what a variety of circumstances evidences appear to show that it is no part of the Divine economy to put an end to the human race. To us those evidences which have been adduced seem conclusive. There is, however, one other fact which has a special bearing upon the subject, and to this we will now advert.
To redeem mankind from the overwhelming power of those wicked influences which had set in upon them from the infernal world, the Lord was pleased to assume a manhood and to become a man among men. It is written that "He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on
