p. 9 | Two Words of Jesus

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 8, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 19.

Two Words of Jesus.

1. “And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades.” Matt. 11:23. Capernaum was a thriving city when Jesus uttered that word. Notwithstanding the mighty works wrought there by Christ, that city largely rejected Him. To-day a few ruins mark the place where the city stood, and sometimes even these are disputed. Certainly the city has been cast down to utter destruction.

2. One of the mightiest structures of the past was the Jewish temple, enlarged and beautified by Herod, with its great mammoth stones that seemed impossible of demolition, but Jesus said to His disciples the day shall come when “there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Matt. 24:2. The Romans came and verified the statement of Christ. Julian, the apostate Roman emperor, the hater of Christians, vowed that he would make Christ’s words prove untrue. He sent a proclamation to the Jews to come and rebuild their temple. They came. Wealthy Jewesses with silken veils helped to carry away the rubbish from the temple site, but history tells us that great balls of fire burst from the earth and so disturbed activities as to drive them from the task. The word of Christ was more than the power of the Roman emperor.

Instances of this kind can be multiplied indefinitely. God’s word is full of predictions to which all the history of the past testifies, and prophecy in fulfilment shows the importance of heeding the “more sure word of prophecy.”