SYSTEMATIC BIBLE STUDY
By Editor
“ACCORDING as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” 2 Peter 1:3, 4. The “exceeding great and precious promises” of God are the means that He uses in causing us to partake of the divine nature, and by which we escape “the corruption that is in the world through lust.” Our partaking of the divine nature, then, and our escaping from the lusts of the flesh, depends upon our knowing and appropriating the great promises of the divine Book. It is therefore necessary that we be constant readers of the Bible, in order to find these great promises that are scattered all through its sacred pages. Read a chapter in each of these books on each week-day, and on the Sabbath read two chapters in Exodus and two in Luke. We trust that those who are following this schedule of Bible reading are also finding time to read those two excellent books “Patriarchs and Prophets” and “Desire of Ages,” the one of which is so helpful in the study of the first part of the Old Testament, and the other throwing so much light upon the New.