An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming

The title page of An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming, by John Ranicar Park, promises new views on prophecy and the nature of the Millenium, with an entirely new exposition of Zechariah, on the Messiah's kingdom. The contents list Zechariah On The Messiah's Kingdom, The Rabbi's Exposition And Reply and Remarks On The Rabbi's Exposition, among others. The writer says the leading subject of prophecy is the Messiah's kingdom, a kingdom which the Jews expected to be a temporal one and, in this expectation, rejected Christ as a spiritual prince.

The writer says the Apostles, and first disciples of our Lord, were under a similar illusion. The writer says thousands also of Christians, who look for the second coming of Christ, expect his personal advent, that he will come in person to reign with the saints on earth for a thousand years. The writer says that in prophetic language the sea and the isles always signify the western Gentiles, or European nations, while the land signifies Palestine, or the Jewish nation.