THE SPIRIT OF REVERENCE IN THE STUDY OF PROPHECY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 28, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 4.

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THE SPIRIT OF REVERENCE IN THE STUDY OF PROPHECY.

THERE is much danger of presumption in connection with the study and interpretation of prophecy. We are never called to become prophets, but only interpreters of His prophetic word, and when even this becomes too exact and positive, we have good reason to go softly.
We may know much of the meaning of the signs of the times, but the day and the hour we know not. Let us walk with bowed heads and unshod feet amid these sacred days that lie hard by the coming of the King.