4017 - Time to Die by M. M. M.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 11, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 10.

4017 — Time to Die

By M. M. M.

Has man a set time to die? Does God know, the day he is born, just what day he will die?

"Foreknown to God are all things from the foundation of the world." God's knowledge does not predestinate, however, or mark out. In the 90th Psalm the Lord tells us that the days of man are threescore years and ten; but He also tells us, in that same connection, that by reason of strength they may be fourscore. He tells His children, also, that if they are faithful to Him, He will give them long life. This is repeatedly told in the Scriptures,—"Long life and length of days will He add unto thee." For instance, note Prov. 3:2, 16, which tell us that the man who finds the path of wisdom shall also have length of days. We do not believe that God has appointed the day of man's death, unless it be in some special cases of judgment.