11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

When the apostles preached on the day of Pentecost, they announced that God had raised up Jesus to sit upon the throne of David (Acts 2:30). In the porch of the temple they told the Jews that God would send Jesus Christ to them at the time of the restitution (Acts 3:21).

When Philip preached the word concerning Christ to the Samaritans, he announced

"the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 8:12).

In the convention of the apostles and elders, James invited their attention to Peter's narrative and the prediction of Amos...In Athens, Paul announced that God intended to rule the world in righteousness by Jesus Christ, and that He had raised Him from the dead as an assurance of its verity (Acts 17:31).

In the Ephesian synagogue he disputed for three months, persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God (Acts 19:8; 20:20-27). Paul stood at the bar of Agrippa and was judged

"for the hope of the promise made of God unto the fathers; unto which promise the twelve tribes of Israel, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come" (Acts 26:6,7).

Hence, he preached the hope of Israel's twelve tribes, as set forth in Amos and all the prophets, and directed their attention to Jesus as the personage whom God had raised up to accomplish their desire.

Elpis Israel 2.1.

'...in Paul's day the Jews were enemies of the gospel, which was turned by the favour of God to the advantage of the Gentiles...

Hence, the Great Eastern Question, whose solution will result in breaking off the Gentiles, and the reïngraftment of Israel into their own olive tree.

Herald of the Kingdom and Ager to Come, Feb 1854