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Gleanings on Prophecy

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 24.

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Gleanings on Prophecy.

By J. M. O.

PROPHECY is history anticipated and contracted; history is prophecy accomplished and dilated. . . Lying oracles have been in the world; but all the wit and malice of men and devils cannot produce any such prophecies as are recorded in Scripture.—Bp. T. Newton.
God doth not use to set his people to work in the dark; they are the children of light and they are no deeds of darkness which they have to do. . . Yea, he always suits their light to their labor, and gives them a clear discerning of what he is about.—Dr. J. Owen.
God travels to satisfy our comfort, but not our curiosity.—Lord John Napier.
The giving ear to the prophets is a fundamental character of the true church.—Sir I. Newton.
The Revelation was not written without tears, (Rev. v, 4,) neither without tears will it be understood.—J. Wesley.
A blessing is pronounced on those who hear, and read the words of this prophecy, (Rev. i, 3.) . . . God commands the study of the book to us. Who then shall say, Let it alone? . . . I cannot but think it is a sin for any minister of the Gospel to say he knows nothing about it.—B. Slight, A. M.
The prophetic portions of the sacred Scriptures . . . are a beacon light, in times of storm and agitation on the great ocean of human life, thrown out to guide us as we navigate, and to warn us of the breakers on dangerous coasts.—Dr. G. Duffield.
Prophecy is equivalent to any miracles, and is of itself evidently miraculous. . . The voice of Omnipotence alone could call the dead from the tomb,—the voice of Omniscience alone could tell all that lay hid in dark futurity, which to man is as impenetrable as the mansion of the dead, and both are alike the voice of God.—Dr. A. Keith.
God gave us his word of prophecy, not to puzzle, mislead, or deceive, but to be a light to teach us his own purpose, and our duty and chief end.—James Scott.
No discussion on the fulfillment of prophecy must ever divert, but, on the contrary, should draw our minds to the consideration of our personal safety in the sight of God. Are we hiding ourselves within the Everlasting arms, and when the last storm shall come and the last thunder shall roar, and the last fires shall blaze, are we conscious that we shall be found resting on the rock that shall never fall?—Dr. Cumming.
In God’s time, which is the best time, and in God’s way, which is the best way, prophecy shall certainly be fulfilled. Every word of Christ is very pure, and therefore very sure.—Matthew Henry.
As a band to bind these gleanings together, we take the words of the Apostle, “Despise not prophesyings.” J. M. O.—in Ad. Herald.