QUESTION CORNER by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 13, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 24.

QUESTION CORNER

By Editor

1051. A. B. M. John the Baptist—Was He Elijah?—Jesus said that he, John, was "Elijah, which was for to come," the Elijah prophesied. Matt. 11:14; Mal. 4:5. Elijah was a type of later reformers, of those preceding Christ's first and second advent. You will understand what is referred to by Matt. 11:14 and John 1:21 by reading Luke 1:17: "He [John] shall go before Him [Jesus] in the spirit and power of Elijah." The plenary fulfilment will be met by the servants of God in the last days.

1052. H. E. 1 Cor. 3:15.—Men sometimes work honestly, sincerely, Christianly, for an unworthy cause. Good Christians are to-day seeking earnestly to establish Sunday sacredness. Their work will prove vain. Good ministers sometimes seem to gather out unworthy souls, who will be lost. The wood, the hay, the stubble, all that is not brought from the rock quarry of God, will be burned. Yet the workman, laboring according to his best light, may be saved.

1053. E. A. H. 1 Tim. 4:4.—The passage means what it says. Creature means things created. Connect with it the verse following. Is it sanctified, or set apart by the Word of God? Is it that over which one may offer true prayer, which is always according to God's will? See Bible Students' Library No. 158, "The Natural Food of Man," for general principles.

1054. J. E. A. Rev. 5:8-14.—We have not space in this department for the exposition of so extended a scripture. The term "four beasts" should be read "four living ones," or "four living creatures." The term "beasts" is an exceedingly bad translation. These four living ones represent God's creation on the earth. Read the last part of verse 9 as in the Revised Version,—"and didst purchase unto God with Thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation."