1. Of what has God assured us concerning coming judgments upon this world?
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets. Amos 3: 7.
NOTE.—So God warned the world of the Deluge (Genesis 6; Heb. 11:7; 2 Peter 2:5); warned the people of Sodom (Genesis 18); warned Babylon, Nineveh, Jerusalem; and warns the whole world. Men may slight God's warnings, but His Word "shall not return void."
2. How is the prophetic part of the Scriptures designated?
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a LIGHT THAT SHINETH in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter 1: 19.
4. How has God given His prophetic Word?
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were MOVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 2 Peter 1: 21.
5. What does Jesus say of the prophecies of Daniel?
6. What encouraging preface is given regarding the great prophecy of the Revelation?
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein. Rev. 1: 3. See also Rev. 22: 7.
7. By whose Spirit did the prophets prophecy?
Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Peter 1: 10, 11.
8. With what disposition should we come to the study of the prophecy?
The wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Dan. 12: 10.
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and He will show them His covenant. Ps. 25: 14.
9. Here is one prophecy among many, given hundreds of years before complete fulfilment, but fulfilled at last to the very letter:
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. Isa. 13: 19-22.
NOTE.—Of Nineveh, of Tyre, of Jerusalem, of all the kingdoms of this world, God has been equally explicit. Many of His prophecies have been fulfilled, and every one will as truly be of our own time, of which prophecies have been multiplied. Do we know these prophecies? If not, why not?
