PROPHETIC LIGHTS by Ellet Joseph Waggoner

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 6.

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“PROPHETIC LIGHTS.”

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

Some of the Prominent Prophecies of the Old and New Testaments,

INTERPRETED BY THE

BIBLE AND HISTORY.

BY ELD. E. J. WAGGONER.

There are many people to whom the word “prophecy” conveys the idea of something obscure and incomprehensible. But instead of this it is a light. Prophecy is something foretold; it is history in advance. God, who sees the end from the beginning, and who “calleth those things that be not as though they were,” is able to write the history of an event before it occurs far more exactly than any human pen can write it afterward. Now if we can understand history when written by men, why should it be thought a thing impossible that we should understand the history when written in advance by the Spirit of God?

The design of this book is to remove some of the covering that has been thrown over the prophecy by tradition and human speculation, so that its clear light may shine out. This has been done by letting the Bible tell its own story in its own language. No theories are advanced, but the plain predictions are laid side by side with the well-attested historical facts which show their exact fulfillment. Although each chapter of the book is complete in itself, it will be seen that they all point to the one object of the prophecies of the Bible, namely, the consummation of the Christian’s hope. We trust that the perusal of this book may strengthen the faith of those who have this hope, and may lead others to love the coming of our Lord.

“And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it.” Dan. 7:5. See page 88.

Specimen Illustration from “Prophetic Lights.”

“PROPHETIC LIGHTS,” as its title indicates, treats of some of the leading prophecies both of the Old and New Testaments, showing the exact fulfillment of the predictions of the Bible, concerning Egypt, Tyre, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, also of the prophecies concerning the first advent of Christ, which prove the inspiration of the Bible, and give assurance that other prophecies which are noted will as surely and exactly be fulfilled.

ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED.

Nearly all the illustrations of this book were designed and engraved especially for this work, at great expense, and are a study in themselves. Nothing like them has ever appeared in any of our publications before, and they are sure to attract general attention. Everyone who has seen the illustrations pronounces them superb.

“PROPHETIC LIGHTS” contains 180 large octavo pages and is printed on an extra quality of heavy calendered paper. It is bound in fine English Cloth, with beautiful symbolical side stamp in brown and gold, and has gilt edges. Price, postpaid, $1.00; in paper covers 50 cents.

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