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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 5, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 35.

Schedule for Week Ending September 16, 1911 Sunday September 10 Isaiah 46-49 Monday " 11 " 50-53 Tuesday " 12 " 54-58 Wednesday " 13 " 59-62 Thursday " 14 " 63-66 Friday " 15 Matthew 1-4 Sabbath " 16 " 5, 6

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Five days' reading in the wonderful evangelical prophet before we begin the Gospels. What a testimony to God is the contrast drawn in chapter 46! In the next chapter is pronounced the doom of literal and mystical Babylon. How filled with promises are all these prophecies! They foretell the very work and words of Christ. We see Him a sufferer in chapter 53, preaching His message to Nazareth in chapter 61. What promises are given to true Sabbath observers, Gentiles as well as Jews, chapters 56, 58! How the glorious new earth and its capital city are predicted, the destruction of sin and sinner, and the everlasting dominion of God's children!

Matthew ("faithful man") was one of the twelve apostles, called also Levi. He was a publican, or tax collector under the Romans, a class especially hated by the Jews. Often these publicans were dishonest and oppressive. His Gospel was written probably about A.D. 50 to 60, 19 to 29 years after the crucifixion, altho some place it earlier. Some think an earlier Aramaic or Hebrew Gospel was written much earlier. One of its great key words is the kingdom of heaven. He gives the royal genealogy of Christ, and records the Sermon on the Mount, and several other things not mentioned in other Gospels.