Restoring the Kingdom

The Lord having delivered His people out of the hand of Nahash, Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go down to Gilgal and repair (the Hebrew verb is chadash in the piel) the kingdom there." The kingdom, its typical-symbolical dispensation, was the Lord's tabernacling with His people in the earthly Canaan and their fellowshipping with God in His holy temple; it was their being blessed by the Lord their God in the way of their covenant fidelity in the city and in the field; it was the Lord's...