What would you say to me, or of me, if you knew I had discovered I was the heir to vast estates, great wealth, power and responsibility and that, instead of rejoicing in my good fortune, I simply said, "Well, what if I am the heir; what's the good of it?" I know what you would think, even if, you did not say it.

Yet when we show from the Bible, and from history, that the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic and kindred peoples are the modern descendants of the House of Israel - to whom God pledged so many great promises and privileges in order that His heirs could successfully fulfill the Divine will - the very people who think that possibly it may be true care so little about their inheritance as to turn away indifferently with the question, "What difference does it make if we are Israel?" Or the still more stupid statement, "I don't see the good of it." The "good" of the evangel proclaiming the modern identity of the nations of Israel is to prove the Bible to be true; God to be unchangeable; the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic and kindred peoples to be the inheritors of the extensive lands and properties given on oath by God under the clauses of the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant.

It is very sad to hear Christians say, "I have Jesus and that's enough for me; being an Israelite won't save me," Nevertheless, if you were to go to these very same selfsatisfied folks and say, "Here is a will proving you to be the heir of lands, wealth, position, responsibility and privilege," they would not reply, "Well, what if I am; that won't save my soul; what's the good of it?" They would at once take possession of their inheritance and, if really Christians, they would use it to help and bless their fellows.

Now that's the worth of our identity as the people of the Abrahamic Covenant. It establishes our claim to the great benefits God said would be Israel 's in the latter days. The plan was that they would glorify God and accept their responsibility to make known His righteous laws and His wondrous love for all.

It is good news because it is true. It is proved true by our whereabouts geographically, by our development as nations according to the Divine planning, by our position commercially, socially, politically and spiritually. All of this was to comprise the unique status of modern Israel under her new name and under the terms of the New Covenant in the latter days.

1. It proves God to be unchangeably faithful.
2. It proves the Bible to be literally and historically true.
3. It shows that we live in Bible times today.
4. It proves that God is working out His plan daily, as all the prophets have foretold He would, in, through and for His people.
5. It shows that there is but one method (not many) of interpreting prophecy; that is, the literal and historical method.
6. It completely refutes and silences infidelity, skepticism and atheism.
7. It causes people to take a keener interest in the Bible than ever before, and makes geography and history, not dull, dry subjects, but fascinating and magnetic in their appeal.
8. It shows who and where the "nation" is to whom Jesus Christ told the Jews, in Matthew 21:43 , that the Kingdom of God would be given.
9. It shows our national responsibility to God for all the wealth He has enabled us to amass, and all the power He has given to us to use for His glory.
10. It helps us to realize, as nothing else ever has, our duties and responsibilities as God's nations of witnesses, to set our faces against error, cruelty and oppression, and to carry to all men everywhere the glorious Gospel of Grace through Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.
11. It makes the Bible a book to be loved and understood; it shows the prophets to be "goodly fellowship"; it dispels anxiety and causes us to sing not only with the spirit, but with the understanding also (I Cor. 14:15 ).
12. Lastly, but by no means least, it proves that Jesus Christ did what He came to do - to confirm the promises made to the fathers. It shows His confirming work; it proves He did the will of God. It shows that He did not delay, deny or postpone the promises; nor did He take them away from the Israel of God, to whom they had been sworn by God Himself.

Thus when we realize how marvelously accurate the fulfillment of the promises has been - all "yea" and "amen" in Christ Jesus to the glory of God the Father - it helps us to rest assured in His covenant love. When we become aware of the precise outworking of the pattern of prophecy, and its chronological timing, it assures us that He who keeps Israel will perform all that He has guaranteed will come to pass. He will most certainly save, keep and bless all those who put their trust in Him.

Furthermore, when we realize this nationality, it will give us such a revival of spiritual life in all of our Christian communities, such a cleansing of all present evils from our social, municipal, national and religious life, such unity among the nations of the Israel of God, that the world will know, as never before, that the Lord of Hosts is the Holy One in the midst of His people.

Things which now divide us, and cause splits, sects, divisions, bickerings, whisperings and jealousies, will all perish and we shall stand before the world as the seed whom the Lord has blessed - His chosen, His servants, His witnesses, His messengers, His heralds. Then we shall put away all that now disgraces the holy name of Christian. Greed, selfishness, drunkenness, all degrading degrees of immorality, Sabbath-breaking, with everything else that causes reproach, will be swept away.

Rather than ask, "What's the good of it?", think what a terrible thing it would be if it were not true. If not so, we would have no guarantee that the Bible is a Divine revelation; we would have no assurance but that we shall decline nationally and die like the pagan civilizations and great Gentile powers have done before us. We would have no proof that even our individual salvation would be certain. For if it can be shown that Jesus Christ did not confirm the promises made to the fathers, what guarantee do we have that He will keep His own promises?

We fervently thank God that we who have tested these truths may stand upon the impregnable rock of the veracity of His Word in the Holy Scriptures. We are prepared to gladly and readily give to any man an answer for the hope that is in us. What a power we have; what a glorious Gospel of the unchanging, covenant-keeping, everlasting love of the Lord. What an incentive to perform a better- service for His Kingdom's sake; what an encouragement to press on and not be weary in well-doing.