The Sure Word of Prophecy.
By H. A. St. John
"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts." 2 Peter 1: 19. ADAM the first had not yet left Eden, till prophecies began. That first prophecy has been in process of fulfilment all thru the ages to the present time, but will not be completely fulfilled till Christ, Adam the Second, shall begin His everlasting reign, with all His saints in the restored, rebeautified, and re-glorified new heavens and new earth. Prophecies pertaining to this world and its inhabitants in all ages have multiplied. We may truly say that a goodly portion of the written word of God is prophetic. Very many of these prophecies have already been fulfilled, and hence have passed into history. The number and accuracy of these fulfilments furnish a solid and immovable basis for faith in the predictions that still await their fulfilment. With Peter, we may confidently rest and trust in the sure word of prophecy. As prophecies have increased in number, the light of their unfolding has proportionately increased. And from this source alone, a great flood of light from the prophetic word is flowing in upon the last generation. Those who reject it and turn from it will be in greater moral darkness than any people that ever lived upon the earth. Greater light brings greater illumination to those that take heed to it and walk in it, and greater darkness and condemnation to the willingly ignorant and disobedient. This class will be so numerous on the earth in the last days that it is prophetically declared that darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people. But the remnant church of Christ, who have heeded the counsel of the faithful and6true Witness, will be all light in the Lord. In them, all the truth of the everlasting Gospel will be made flesh, and dwell among the people. And as they run to and fro in the earth among all nations, tongues, and peoples, the last message of Gospel truth will truly run and be glorified. It is thus that the earth will be lighted with the glory of all the revealed truth of the ages. And that glad day hasteth greatly. The remnant church, dangerously lukewarm tho they have been, will have turned over to Christ all their assets of wretchedness, misery, poverty, blindness, and nakedness. By zealous repentance they are enabled to exchange all their worthless things wherein they had trusted for the gold tried in the fire, the white raiment, and the eyesalve. Thus they have opened the door of their hearts, and Jesus comes in, bringing all His graces. And Jesus is the Day-star, the bright and morning Star, and when He comes, it will be the Day-star arising in their hearts. All such souls will then be fully conscious that they have entered the dawning that precedes the perfect day of eternal glory. They will thus "arise and shine," and in that shining they will rejoice to know that they are revealing Christ as the bright and morning Star in the very dawn of the revelation of Christ as the Sun of Righteousness arising with their everlasting healing in His wings.