53. The following passages in the Word may be applied to these two states of this Church: Jehovah, after two days, will quicken us: on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before him.... Jehovah, His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain He shall water the earth (Hosea 6:2-3).

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me.... He is as the light of the morning,... a morning without clouds (2 Sam. 23:3-4).

And in Moses:

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My word shall distil as the dew, as the drops upon the grass, and as the small drops upon the herb: I will proclaim the name of Jehovah; ascribe ye greatness to our God. The Rock, whose work is perfect, all His ways are judgment, a God of faithfulness without perversity, just and right is He (Deut. 32:2, 3, 4).

From these passages, also, it may be confirmed that these two states of this Church were from our Lord, who is the "God of Israel" and the "Rock." That He is the "Rock," is clear from these words in Paul: The Rock was Christ (1 Cor. 10:4).