God’s Prophets and Their Messages
It has never been true that God's prophets have been welcomed by the age in which they lived. After-ages have praised them, adored them, worshiped them, built monuments to their praise, and likened their theological favorites to them; but the prophets in the present that are like God's prophets of old, are unpopular. The prophet did not call the attention of the people to himself, but to God; and the true disciples magnified the Word of the Lord. It is true that at times men would have worshiped them, but the same ones afterward stoned them. Every true message and messenger to the church of Jesus Christ will exalt Jesus Christ; and every one who receives the message will glorify not the man, but God. When men preach themselves, it is well to receive them with suspicion.