Yankee-like, we answer that question by asking another, "Why do not Christians study the Bible more generally than they do?" If they studied the Bible at all, in any serious way, how could they fail to study prophecy?
Is prophecy too difficult? Will it be said that God sends a message to mock our humble efforts? His answer is that the longest and most difficult prophecy in the Bible is distinguished from every other part of it by the name of "Revelation." If that is a misnomer, God is responsible for it, since it is in the text.
The mistakes and extravagances of theorists are sometimes adduced as an argument against prophecy; but men have wandered away from fundamental doctrines of the Bible and even given "heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons," yet have Christians discarded the study of those doctrines!
The truth is, as Dr. John Lillie, the American Commentator, tells us, that among those who really deserve to be called students of prophecy, there is greater harmony on essential points than is found in other departments of theological science, while their divergences on the other hand are not by any means as mischievous in character or tendency.
A New York clergyman recently said that the Bible Institutes of the country were all teaching the premillennial coming of Christ, and then he sought to disparage the teaching by adding that they were all at variance with one another. Quite the opposite is true. The ten or a dozen Bible Institutes,
or schools, which the writer knows will bear out absolutely Dr. Lillie's testimony.
QUESTIONS ON THE LESSON
1. Name seven reasons why Christians should study prophecy.
3. Name books of the Bible other than the Prophets so-called, which contain important prophecies.
4. How does prophecy prove God's truthfulness?
5. How does prophecy differ from miracles as a ground of Christian evidence?
6. Name some illustrations of the bearing of prophecy on spiritual knowledge.
7. For what practical reasons should we expound prophecy?
8. Why do not Christians more generally study prophecy?
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ABRAHAM, call of, 12, 19;
covenant with, 18-25; three-
fold blessing on, 20, 21.
Age, meaning of the term,
136, 137; end of, and how
to meet it, 154-163. (See
Dispensations.)
Alford, Dean, 91.
Alsace, 176, 178, 181.
Antichrist, the, history and
doom of, 64-75; titles of,
65, 66; characteristics of,
65; time of, 65, 66; pos-
sibly a Jew, 66; connection
of, with the abomination
of desolation, 67, 72; as the
man of sin, 67; coming and
destruction of, 67, 68; not
the Pope, 68, 69; so called
by John, 68; in the Revela-
tion, 69-75; why the Pope
is not, 77-81; head of
Roman Empire, 97, 98.
Antichristianism, in Protes-
tantism, 69.
Apostasy, 139–143.
Armageddon, 40, 75, 90.
BABEL, 15, 84, 85, 86.
Babylon, aspiring to be world
power, 36-38; in Daniel's
image, 38, 39; Antichrist
king of, 66; the Great, 74;
identified by reformers with
the papacy, 77; her coming
restoration and fall, 83-94;
unfulfilled prophecies con-
cerning, 87, 88.
"Babylon and the East," 87.
Baden, 176, 178, 181.
Bagdad, 83, 84.
Bavaria, 176, 178, 181.
Beast, the, in the Revelation,
70; identified with vision of
Daniel, 70; second, 71, 72;
worship of, 72; mark of,
73; number of the name of,
73, 74; doom of, 74, 75.
Belgium, 178.
Bible, the history of redemp-
tion, II.
Book of life, 107, 108.
Bright, John, 172.
Bulgaria, 176, 179.
Bullinger, E. W., 73, 75, 91.
CAMERON, ROBERT, 189.
Chapell, 136.
Christian Herald, 5, 77.
Church, the, translation of,
33; place of, in the plan of
redemption, 48-53, 54; not
named in Old Testament,
48; mystery of, 48, 49;
Pentecost its birthday, 50;
body of Christ, 51, 52; its
work on earth, 52, 53; how
it differs from the King-
dom, 54-62; meaning of
the term, 58; revealed in
New Testament, 58, 59; re-
lationship to the Kingdom
of Heaven, 59; distinction
between, and the Kingdom,
60, 61.
Clark, Rufus W., 213.
why cannot rule the world,
165-172; relation of Gomer
to, 195.
Gibbon, 176, 178.
Glossary of prophetic words,
145-152; coming, or par-
ousia, 145, 146; day, 146;
dispensation, 146; Gentiles,
146, 147; fulness of the
Gentiles, 147; times of the
Gentiles, 147; Gog and
Magog, 147, 148; Kingdom,
148; remnant, 148, 149;
restitution, 149, 150; tribu
lation, 150; weeks, 150;
Zion, 151, 152.
Gog and Magog, 147, 148,
HALDEMAN, I. M., 183.
Heavenly places, 122, 170.
Herr, J. D., 210.
Holland, 178.
Holy Spirit, the, work of,
during Millennium, 123-
Europe, Prophecy changing IMAGE, seen in Nebuchad-
the map of, 174-181.
FRANCE, 166, 176, 181.
Franco-Prussian war, 166,
Fulness of the times, 138.
GAEBELEIN, A. C., 187.
Gentiles, times of the, 35-40;
synonymous with nations,
35; use of the term, 146,
147; fulness of the, 147;
times of the, 147, 174.
Germany, effect of war with,
on prophetic study, I; re-
lation of, to destructive
criticism, 69; preparing_to
create world-religion, 81;
nezzar's dream, 38-40, 166,
167.
Ireland, 176, 178.
Israel, why God chose, 18-
25; a repository for the
truth, 19; a channel for
coming Redeemer, 19; a
witness to God, 19; blessing
on, 20, 21; land of, 21-23;
relation of, to trouble of
Gentile world, 25; Jonah a
type of, 25; restored and
renewed, 41-47; political
and moral restoration of,
43; restoration of, future,
45, 46; restoration of,
necessary to fulfilment of
prophecy, 46, 47.
JENNINGS, F. C., 301, 202.
Jerusalem, capture of, in the
light of prophecy, 200-205.
Judgment, of the nations, 98;
the last, 102; does the Bible
teach a general, 106-112; of
Christians, 109; of Israel
as a nation, 109, 110; of
the Gentile nations, 110; a
final, 111, 112.
KAISER, is the, the Antichrist?
183-190.
Kellogg, S. H., 209.
Kingdom, the, promised, 13;
coming, 27-33; after the
translation of the Church,
54-62; of God and of
Heaven, how they differ,
55-57; of Heaven, how it
will be realized, 56, 57; of
Heaven, its characteristics,
57; not of this world,"
61, 62; within you," 61,
62; established on earth,
99; in miniature, 128-130.
"LECTURES ON THE APOCA
LYPSE," 93-
Lillie, John, 214, 215.
Lincoln, William, 100, 102.
Lorraine, 176, 178, 181.
Luthardt, 133-
Luxemburg, 176, 178, 181.
119, 120; mistaken view of,
120, 121; condition of
saints who reign in, 121,
122; summary concerning,
122, 123; work of the Holy
Spirit during, 123-125;
some difficulties concerning,
127-134; in miniature, 128-
130; reign of saints during,
130-133.
Mithridates, 171.
Moule, Bishop, 14, 159.
Mystery, of the Church, 48,
49; of iniquity, 80.
NATIONS, judgment of the,
98.
Nebuchadnezzar, times of the
Gentiles began with, 36-40;
image seen in the dream of,
38-40.
Newton, Benjamin Wills, 87,
88, 165, 166, 167, 170, 175,
177.
Nietzsche, 81.
Nimrod, 84, 85.
PALESTINE, 21-23, 193, 194,
201, 202.
Papacy, not the Babylon of
Revelation, 77, 90–93.
Parousia, 145.
Pentecost, birthday of the
Church, 50, 51.
Pope, the, not the Antichrist,
68, 69, 77-81.
MARK of the beast, 73, 74
Maude, General Sir Stanley,
83.
Mede, Joseph, 168.
Mesopotamia, 83.
Millennium, the, relation of,
to the day of the Lord, 97;
blessings of, 99; sin and
death during, 99, 100;
when, what, and where? Protevangelium, II.
114-125; meaning of the
Programme for this age, 32,
33.
Prophecy, why Christians
should study, 207-215.
"Prophecy and the Lord's
Return," 128, 145, 146.
Protestantism, relation of, to
Antichristianism, 69, 81.
word, 114; features of, RAWLINSON, Sir Henry, 91.
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