OBJECT-LESSONS OF PROPHECY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 11, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 41.

OBJECT-LESSONS OF PROPHECY

Let the reader note, the striking object-lessons of fulfilled prophecy in the pictures above. We give the names of the ruins, and the Bible reference: (1) Laodicea, once a great commercial center. Rev. 3:14-16; see note last page. (2) Site of ancient Babylon. Isa. 13:19-22; Jer. 50:3, 39, 40; 51:29, 62. (3) Tyre, the ancient commercial metropolis of the world, was to become a place for the spreading of nets. Eze. 27:1-25; 26:4, 5, 14. (4) Capernaum, once a busy, bustling town, Christ's "own city." Matt. 11:23. (5) Samaria, the proud capital city of the Ten Tribes. Isa. 28:1-4; Eze. 23:33; Hosea 13:16. (6) Ancient Memphis, Egypt, in the Bible, Noph. Eze. 30:13, 16; Jer. 46:19. (7) The palace of the Caesars, the representatives of the Roman kingdom of iron. Dan. 2:44, 45. (8) The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18:17, 20-32; 19:24, 25) over the site of which the Dead Sea now lies, and which became an example of all ungodly cities in time to come (2 Peter 2:6). (9) Ruins of Nineveh, capital of Assyria. Nahum 1:1, 8; 2:6, 8-13. And of all the modern Tyres and Nophs and Babylons it may be truly said,—

"Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre."