The Beacon Lights of Prophecy

THE PROPHET OF UNIVERSALISM
career of Cyrus, the approaching parousia—all
these conceptions look forward to the time when
the knowledge of God shall cover the earth as
the waters cover the sea. It is, then, in line
with the teaching of the book as a whole, when
Jehovah says: "A law shall go forth from me,
and I
will establish my justice for a light of the
peoples. My righteousness is near, my salvation
is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples;
the isles shall wait for me, and on mine
arm shall they trust. . . . Look unto me, and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth ;
for I am God,
and there is none else. By myself have I sworn,
the word has gone forth from my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me
every knee shall bow, every tongue shall
swear"
(51. 4, 5; 45. 22, 23). These utterances represent
the zenith of the prophetic conception of
redemption. They imply that the true house of
Jehovah will henceforth be "a house of prayer
for all peoples" (56. ;
7) and they also point
forward to the time when it shall be said that
"there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision
nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond
nor free: but Christ is all, and in all" (Col.
3- ii)-
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