OUR BIBLE BAND

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 9, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 31.

Schedule for Week Ending August 20, 1910 Sunday, August 14 Ezekiel 42-44 Monday, “ 15 “ 45-48 Tuesday, “ 16 Daniel 1, 2 Wednesday, “ 17 “ 3, 4 Thursday, “ 18 “ 5-7 Friday, “ 19 “ 8, 9 Sabbath, “ 20 “ 10-12

THE first part of the week closes Ezekiel's prophecy of the unbuilt sanctuary, which can never be built and fill the place which God designed it should when He described it through the prophet. For that instruction provided not only for the sanctuary, but for the old sanctuary service, including sacrifices. But there can be no more any sacrifice without making void the sacrifice which Christ our Lord offered.

THE remainder of the week is given to a reading of Daniel; a wonderful book for the last days, revealing now as it did then the God who is interested in all the affairs of men as well as nations. In the first chapter He reveals Himself as the One able to teach and instruct above all the schools of the world; in the second chapter, the One able to reveal; the third, to deliver; the fourth, to rule. Chapter six presents another deliverance. Both this chapter and chapter three contain great religious liberty lessons applicable in all ages.

CHAPTER seven is a prophecy of the nations as God looks upon them in a religious way, enemies to His Gospel; and so also chapters eight and nine. In chapter seven and onward are great prophetic periods in which days stand for years, and which reveal great events in connection with God's work. The four great lines of prophecy cover the same ground, bring before us the same powers, and bring us to the same end, the second coming of our Lord and the everlasting kingdom. Daniel was one of the captives in Babylon, as set forth in the first chapter. In him was the fulfilment of the prophecy to Hezekiah that some of that king's seed should be eunuchs in the palace of Babylon. He prophesied from about 603 to 524. It was Babylon where in all probability the 119th Psalm was written by him.