Question Corner by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 26, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 42.

Question Corner

By Editor

1579.—When applicable? Eze. 39:8-16.

Will you please, through your columns, explain Eze. 39:8-16? Does it apply before the millennium, or in the "little season" of a hundred years after the millennium?

We believe that the right view of Ezekiel 38 and 39 includes a comprehensive view of chapters 36 to 48, inclusive. The promises were given to Israel then and there. In that restoration from captivity, at the end of the seventy years in Babylon, God would have given to Israel, at that time, all the promises in these chapters, if Israel had yielded to God. God's people were not "ashamed;" they did not truly and fully repent; hence, according to His word, God would not then do all that is promised by the prophet. Read the entire prophecy in the light of Jer. 18: 7-10. Now as Israel, acording to the flesh, did not yield to God, these promises concerning the true Israel will be fulfilled, but not according to the details such as described in Eze. 39: 8-16, but rather according to descriptions in later revelations. See Eph. 3: 3-5; Revelation 19, 20. These principles were more fully discussed in an article entitled, "The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones," in the SIGNS of June 29, which see. In this view, all the details given in the scriptures never will be fulfilled, because of Israel's failures; but the future glory will be given, the fulness of the immortal inheritance will come to the faithful in the fullest measure.

1580.—Chronological and Calendar Questions.

Many who ask questions of this character would be greatly helped by securing Perry's Universal Standard Calendar, the price of which is only 25 cents. It is a monthly calendar for every month in the year, in either Julian or Gregorian time, for 2,800 years, or any multiple therefore, B. C. or A. D., indefinitely. Address, H. H. Perry, Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.