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  (THE HOLY SPIRIT) 23. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE DAYS OF THE RESTORATION
  by A.B. Simpson
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"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."
Zechariah 4: 6. The restoration was a period of Jewish history as
distinctly marked as the Patriarchal or the Mosaic age, the times of the
Judges, or the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. It followed the captivity,
and was intended to prepare the way for a yet greater event, the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It was one of the most marked periods of divine working in the Old
Testament, and it is full of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. This
little message which Zechariah gave to his people as the motto of that
Restoration, more fitly than any other word expresses its entire
history. It was a movement, not of human power, but of the Holy Ghost.

It was unaccompanied by the miraculous signs which attended almost every
other important period of Old Testament history; but its providential
miracles and its manifestations of the power of the Holy Spirit were
even more signal and wonderful than the miracles of the wilderness and
the land of promise.

Let us trace the workings of the Holy Spirit through this wonderful
period.

1. The first stage might be described as the ministry of prayer. We have
an account of it in the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel. "In the
first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,
which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; in the first year
of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the
years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that
he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I
set my face upon the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with
fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes."

When God is about to work out any great purpose, He usually lays it as a
burden of prayer upon the heart of some of His saints whom He can fully
trust. So He called Daniel, His tried servant in Babylon, to this high
ministry of prayer.

We cannot fail to notice the connection of Daniel\

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