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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1901

PROPHETS

By Lou Jensen

LOU JENSEN. (Baker, Kan.)

Jesus says, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” Many who use this verse to show that Jesus did not come to abolish the law, fail to see that He says the same concerning the prophets. They say that we have no prophets now, that we have no need of any. But Jesus says that He came not to destroy, but to fulfill, “to fill up.” “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.” By these verses we may clearly see what Jesus meant when He said He would fulfill the prophets.

By reading Rev. 12: 17 in connection with 19: 10, we see that the remnant Church will have the Spirit of Prophecy. And why should we not thank God, and be glad that we have it?

Some may ask, What need have we of a prophet in this age? “He that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.” 1 Cor. 14: 3. Do we not need building up? If we are not built up, we fall and become Babylon. The wise man says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Do we not need exhortation?—Certainly, we do; and how glad we ought to be that God sends special warnings to us when we err. And comfort?—Oh, yes! we need to be comforted. We are told that false prophets shall arise which shall deceive, if it were possible the very elect. We know that ere long we shall have to pass through severe trials, when it will seem as if God had forsaken us. Will it not then be a comfort to have read and believed such statements as these? “Could men see with heavenly vision, they would behold companies of angels that excel in strength stationed about those who have kept the word of Christ’s patience.” “The precious Saviour will send help just when we need it. The way to heaven is consecrated by His footprints. Every thorn that wounds our feet has wounded His. Every cross that we are called to bear, He has borne before us. The Lord permits conflicts, to prepare the soul for peace. The time of trouble is a fearful ordeal for God’s people; but it is the time for every true believer to look up, and by faith he may see the bow of promise encircling him.”—“Great Controversy,” pages 630, 633.