To W. R. S | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1879

To W. R. S.

It is not always an easy thing to locate a prophecy to a certainty, unless it has some feature by which it may be shown to be necessarily connected with some other prophecy or declaration which may be located. Very many false theories have been maintained by this means alone, of building upon an indefinite prophecy. The consecutive prophecies, such as the books of Daniel and Revelation, and some others, are easily located, and whenever other prophecies can be shown to have close relation to these, then they become located by reason of such connection.

We discover nothing in Eze. 36:24-38 to make it sure that it is to be fulfilled in the future. It was written before the return of Israel from Babylon or Persia, and a comparison with Heb. 8:6-10 will show that it may refer to that which is past and present in the work of the gospel.