Time-Setting by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 29, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 17.

Time-Setting

By Editor

THE Broadhead News, of Wisconsin, in a recent issue, quotes the Rev. S. Samuel Clements, superintendent of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, as fixing the second coming of Christ in the year 1933. The Jews, we are told, will return to Jerusalem in 1915 in preparation for that coming. The decline of the Papacy will occur in 1923, and the battle of Armageddon will be fought in 1933. This is interesting only in showing the conclusions to which a lack of understanding of the prophetic periods of the Bible drive people. The longest definite prophetic period in the Bible — the 2,300 days of Dan. 8:14 — ended in 1844. We have no definite time period which closes after that. Holding this, Seventh-day Adventists have never set times, and according to their views of Scripture, they never can set times.