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cision is that of the heart, in the 
spirit and not in the letter, whose 
praise is not of men but of God.”’ 
(Rom. 2:29.) All this is a direct 
fulfillment of the instruction which 
Moses gave to the children of Is- 
rael when He described the kind of 
circumcision which would be prac- 
tised by them in the latter days 
after the Lord had turned back 
their captivity, when he said, ““The 
Lord thy God will circumcise thine 
heart, and the heart of thy seed, 
to love the Lord thy God with all 
thine heart and with all thy soul, 
that thou mayest live.’’ (Deut. 
36:6.) 
Thus according to the words of 
Moses, Israel was to be a people 
who in the closing dispensation 
would become circumcised in 
heart, for although they did be- 
come scattered among the Gen- 
tiles, completely losing their iden- 
tity, yet they were ever seen by the 
watchful eye of God, their mighty 
Lover. 
Comfort to Israel 
What wondrous meaning do all 
these facts give to the counsel of 
the Lord, spoken through the 
prophet Isaiah. “Fear not for thou 
shalt not be ashamed; neither be 
thou confounded;. for thou shalt 
not be put to shame; for thou shalt 
forget the shame of thy youth, and 
shalt not remember the reproach 
of thy widowhood any more.’ 
Thus He made plain that the time 
‘would come when she would not 
remember her divorced condition 
and He declared to her, ‘“Thy mak- 
er is thy husband; The Lord of 
Hosts is his name; and thy redeem- 
er, the Holy One of Israel; the 
Lord of the whole earth, shall He 
be called. 
For the Lord hath called thee 
as a woman forsaken and grieved 
in spirit, and a wife of youth when 
thou wast refused, saith thy God. 
For a small moment have | for- 
saken thee; but with great mercies 
will I gather thee. In a little 
wrath I hid my face from thee, but 
foe TRUTHS. 
with great mercies will | gather 
thee. In a little wrath I hid my face 
from thee for a moment; but with 
everlasting kindness will I have 
mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy 
Redeemer . . . For the mountain 
shall depart, and the hills be re- 
moved; but my kindness shall not 
depart from thee; neither shall the 
covenant of my peace be removed, 
saith the Lord that hath mercy up- 
on thee.”’ (Isa. 54:4-10.) 
It should ever be borne in mind 
that this line of truth will not be 
made clear to the mind of the stu- 
dent of the Word unless they con- 
tinually recognize and keep sepa- 
rate in their minds the clear dis- 
tinction in the Word of God, be- 
tween the two separate kingdoms 
of the descendants of Jacob, name- 
ly, the Kingdom of Judah and the 
Kingdom of Ten-Tribed Israel. 
The great mistake of many of 
our men of learning and students 
of the Word is that they assume 
that all Israelites are Jews and that 
all who are born of the line of 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are 
Jews. 
A careful study of the Word of 
God by any one, even those of a 
limited education, makes very 
plain that racially the Jews are only 
a part of the descendants of Judah, 
the head of the tribe of Judah. But 
the word Jew as it is used in the 
»|Bible has a much broader meaning 
than just to designate a racial 
group. It was also used to designate 
one’s religious views. The use of 
the term Jew in a religious sense is 
used to designate those who are of 
the Jewish faith, who worship in 
the synagogue. Many of these 
might be of different races, not of 
Israel stock at all, but who had be- 
come converts to Judaism. In the 
time of Mordecai, when Haman 
sought the destruction of all the 
Jews in Persia, after their deliver- 
ance it is recorded in the Word of 
God that “Many of the people of 
the land became Jews: for the fear 
of the Jews fell upon them.”’ 
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Now a Persian could not change — 
his nationality to that of a Jew, but — 
religiously he could attend th 
synagogue and accept the Jewish 
faith. In a religious sense men — 
and women of other races could © 
become Jews. The present con- | 
fusion concerning the Jew and 
people who are called Jews has — 
been brought about because Bible — 
students have failed to recognize © 
this religious use of the term Jew 
as separate and distinct from the — 
designation of a race. In the New 3 
Testament many are called Jews — 
because of their religious belief, 
who are not Jews in the sense of — 
their belonging to the tribe of Jusee 
dah. : 
When the woman from Samana .. 
saw Jesus at the well, she recog-— 
nized from His wearing apparel — 
that He was a follower of the doc: 
trines of the Jews, one who wor 
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one. 
distinct and separate, fone tl 
tribe of Judah, by the Lord Go 
Himself. Then after this sel 
of the house of David, by Go 
remaining families of the hous 
Judah became the house of J 
Thus the tribe of Judah was" 
