The Sealed Book by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

The Sealed Book

By Editor

No. 558. Isa 29:11, 12. The Sealed Book.

PLEASE explain Isa. 29:11, 12, in comparison with the explanation made by the Latter-day Saints. G. W. B.

The reader may do his own comparing. The passage reads: "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I can not; for it is sealed; and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned." It states a general truth concerning a backslidden people in all the great crises of history. Turning from God, they can not read or understand his prophetic warnings. This was true at the first advent. It is emphatically true now in these last days as regards the book of Revelation and other prophecies. The learned men say, "It is sealed; it can not be understood." The ignorant who follow men instead of God, say, "I am not learned; ask the pastor or priest." But God desires us to know his Word.