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“THE FUNDAMENTALS” A TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH Edited by R. A . Torrey, former Dean of The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Incorporated FOUR-VOLUME SET FOR ONLY TWO DOLLARS OR GIVEN FREE WITH FOUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE KING'S BUSINESS at $1 .50 each 25 cents additional for each Canadian or foreign address (Note: Sets will not be broken) O CCASIONALLY important historical events are identified with the publication of truth in the form of a book or set of books. The Encyclo Dr. Torrey then relates the appointment of A. C. Dixon as the first Executive Secretary of the committee, later succeeded by Louis Meyer, with Dr. Torrey him self as third in succession, with the title of “Secretary of the Testimony Publishing Company.”
pedists ushered in the French Revolution. Uncle Tom’s Cabin made articulate the slavery issue of our own Civil War. In the poems of Milton you will find the real spirit of the English constitutional uprising of the seventeenth century. The list could be extended inde finitely. T h e Fundamentals is an epoch-making work of this kind. Some believe that the summons to Protestant Christianity to shake itself free from the creeping paralysis of a pseudo-scientific modernism, a cry of protest and of faith which is today called “Fundamenta lism,” derived its inspiration from the publication of this widely circulated set of books. But let the late R. A. Torrey tell you the facts in his own words. We quote from the “Preface” to the four- volume edition of T h e Fundamentals: “In 1909 God moved two Christian laymen [Messrs. Milton Stewart and Lyman H. Stewart, founders also of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles} to set aside a large sum of money for issuing twelve volumes that would set forth the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and which were to be sent free to ministers of the gospel, missionaries, Sunday- school superintendents and others engaged in ag gressive Christian work throughout the English- speaking world.”
Twelve volumes were originally published, and Dr. Torrey notes that 300,000 “ministers and missionaries and other workers in different parts of the world” were included in the distribution of “several millions of volumes . . . for their confirmation and upbuilding in the faith.” After the completion of the twelve volumes, as originally planned, “the work was continued [and is today being continued—Ed.} through THE KING’S BUSINESS magazine.” But the demand for bound volumes continued, and in 1917 the Bible Institute of Los Angeles determined to issue a four-volume set, containing, as Dr. Torrey notes, “all the articles that appeared in T h e Funda mentals, with the exception of a very few that did not seem to be in exact keeping with the original purpose.” What is the value o f these books fo r the Christian leader or layman today? Some of the choicest names in all the field of evan gelical scholarship are to be found in the list of con tributors. And the work these men have done in answer ing many of the objections of the higher critics will never need to be repeated. Below are some of the authors and articles in the series.
A Symposium of Christian Scholarship
A Few of the Writers of the Ninety Articles in the Four-Volume Series. CANON DYSON HAGU E . “The History of the Higher Criticism” and ‘‘The Doctrinal Value of the First Chapter of Genesis.” JAMES ORR. “The Holy Scriptures and Modern Negations”; “The Early Narratives of Genesis,” and “The Virgin Birth of Christ.” SIR ROBERT ANDERSON. “Christ and Criticism.” W. H. GR IFFITH THOMAS. “Old
Testament Criticism and New Testa ment Christianity.” JAMES M. GRAY. “The Inspiration of the Bible—Definition, Extent, and Proof.” R. A. TORREY. “The Certainty and Importance of the Bodily Resur rection of Jesus Christ from the Dead” and “The Personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit.” BISHOP H. C. G. MOULE. “Justifica tion by Faith.”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Around the King’s Table— Editorial ......„................................................... 252 Views and Reviews of Current News— Dan Gilbert ............................. 253 Our Sacred Trust— Arvid Carlson ............................................................. 254 Christian Stewardship) — Dorothy Schroeder ............................................255 Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, Part III — Alva J. McClain .................................................... ....................256 Suggestions for Summer Reading — Merrill C. Tenney .........................258 Broken Life Line, Part II— Paul Hutchens .............................................. 259 Junior King’s Business— Martha S. Hooker ............................................261 International Lesson Commentary.............................................................263 Girls’ Query Corner — Myrtle E. Scott ....................................................... 270 Notes on Christian Endeavor- —Mary G. Goodner ....................................275 Bible Institute Family Circle............................................................... 279 Book Section..................................................................................... 280 Daily Devotional Readings.................... 284
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Union or Unity Certainly the most significant religious event of recent days was the merger of three branches of Methodism—the Method ist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Epis copal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church—into "The Methodist Church.” This constitutes the Methodist Church as the largest Protestant body, with a membership of almost eight million people in the United States alone. The three merged churches have 65 bishops, 25,000 ministers, 43,000 churches, 2,900 schools and colleges, and a property investment of considerably more than a billion dollars. Here is an imposing institution with potential possibilities for great good, if it would recapture the evangelistic fervor and evangelical convictions of John Wesley. Upon the face of this great event there should be rejoicing. It is an impressive thing to see eight million people who have been existing in three divided camps, now composing their differences and determin ing to live as one Church family. But if this union has meant the sacrifice of vital
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Eph. 4:11-13). It is significant that the word “union” does not occur in the whole Bible. But even so, we have no right to disparage honest attempts to unite divided forces, provided the union is both Scriptural and practical. It is both poor taste and poor policy for fundamentalists to disparage attempts at denominational unification when among fundamentalists themselves is an ever-in creasing scourge of division. W e agree with this sentence found in a current evangelical magazine: "One thing that is paralyzing the church today is the failure to agree to disagree doctrinally.” This statement does not refer to disagreement on essentials but on nonessentials. Funda mentalists should determine to seek unity on the things essential to salvation and then maintain charity concerning every sub ordinate matter. When fundamentalism can evidence “the unity of the Spirit," it then rightfully can look askance at everything short of Scriptural unity.—R oy L. L aurin .
What Merits Our Good Will? A national liquor institution has placarded the nation with signs seeking to give this business a tone of respectability, hitherto unassociated with that industry. The sign says in large and attractive letters, “W e want the good will of our community.” It then gives nine reasons for requesting this good will. Among the reasons are the advocating of moderation in drinking, refusal to sell to minors, and the statement that "drinking and driving do not mix.” This appeal of the whiskey distiller brings up the question, “What merits our good will?” Does whiskey deserve the good will of any community under any circum stances? Can a rattlesnake be made respect able by putting him under certain re strictions? The Bible calls strong drink a serpent, and a serpent is no less a serpent when kept under so-called respectable re strictions. Whiskey is no less a peril to the nation when it is refused to minors or advo cated in moderation. These restrictions do
principles of Christian faith, it will offer little benefit to the world other than the advantage of numbers. There is something far more important and necessary than union. It is unity. Unity is more than amalgamation and more than multiplication. It is what Jesus prayed for when He said, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17:21). This unity was based upon re generation. It meant a unified new life with each unit knit to other units in a compacted and integrated whole. It was a unity manifested at Pentecost where "they were all with one accord in one place” (Acts 2 :1 ). And it is this unity which we are urged to keep— "endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4 :3 ). It was a unity which is the goal of the church’s corporate existence. “And he gave some, apostles: and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edi fying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
not moderate the peril of its use to those who consume it. And, furthermore, liquor is of such a nature than no matter how many restrictions are thrown around its use, it will find its way to the brain of the automobile driver just as quickly as to the pedes trian. T o put nice signs in grog shops is not going to stop drivers from drinking. It may be only a subtle way for a more damnable approach to a poten tial market. W e do not believe that liquor merits anybody’s good will. It is both destructive and damn ing. It is an enemy of man. It deserves our repugnance and not our respect. —R oy L. L aurin . Too Big and Too Bad It is the studied opinion of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad vancement of Teaching, through the report of its able president, Walter Albert Jessup, that coL leges in the United States are “too big and too bad.” The opinion is not too generously amplified with printed facts available at this moment. But we judge that the criticism is aimed chiefly at the unwieldy character of our vast educa tional institutions. [Continued on page 258]
Illustration from John Wesley, the Christian Hero, by Elsie E. Egermeier, Gospel Trumpet Co.
John Wesley, Spirit-filled revivalist of the eighteenth century, engaged in outdoor evangelism which resulted in the world-wide extension of the Methodist movement. He wrote to a friend thus: Ml look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatsoever part of it I am, I judge it . . . my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation."
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Views and Reviews of Current News By DAN GILBERT W ASH INGTON , D.C., and SAN DIEGO, CAL IFORN IA
TH IRD TERM TALK: Washington columnists and commentators are almost falling over one another in a wild stampede to attach their names to the definite pre diction that President Roosevelt will be a candidate for a third term. During the past several months, one after another of the nation's best-known political analysts has come to the conclusion that the President will be an active candidate in 1940. The President’s radio speech before the national retailers’ a sso cia tio n clearly pointed in this direction. Many interpre ters thought the address was deliberately calculated as the opening gun of the 1940 campaign. Boldly, Mr. Roosevelt champ ioned and demanded a continuance of the New Deal ’Tend-spend” policy. The probability that Mr. Roosevelt him self will run in 1940 is increased by the manifest failure of all efforts to groom a New Deal standard bearer as his successor. The publicity "build-up” of Harry Hopkins has collapsed in the same fashion as did the earlier "trial balloons” launched on be half of Robert Jackson, Henry Wallace, and other Brain Trust favorites. If Mr. Roose velt should not run, the Democratic nomin ation would almost certainly go to a conservative. The President is said to be determined to risk defeat himself rather than to let that happen. DEMOCRACY’S DILEMMA: After fran tic efforts, which humiliatingly involved the fawning of the British lion before the Rus sian bear, Great Britain seems finally to have lined up Soviet Russia in a vague sort of “united front" against the Rome- Berlin axis. That the Soviet-British tie-up cannot long endure under provocative strains is a foregone conclusion. The attempt of the leader of the "demo cracies” to work shoulder to shoulder with the Soviet Union in an “anti-dictatorship front” presents difficulties and incongruities which foredoom it to failure in the long run. Some of these have been pointed out by Sir Philip Gibbs, famous World War correspondent, in his new book, Across the Frontiers. He thinks the British wooing of Red Russia is as ridiculous as it is fantastic. Of the British diplomats, he writes: "They are allying themselves with the most autocratic power today. For the defense of free speech they are allying themselves with those who deny it. For the sake of ‘liberty’ they look for aid to a new tyranny of iron discipline. It is this association with communism which has been one of the causes of the abdication of intelligence, the death of liberal ideals, and the resurrection of violence.”
WAR LINE-UP: Were war to break to morrow, Germany could count on the sup port of only Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, and possibly Finland. Rumania is not sure: Jugoslavia tends to lean toward the demo cracies. Even Franco's Spain and Mus solini’s Italy are far from “in the bag” for Germany. Evidences continue to multiply that, despite all efforts to jack it up, the Rome- Berlin axis is breaking down. On the sur face, Mussolini and Hitler continue to be the “perfect pals,” but mutual distrust is intensifying underneath. Rumors persist that, in case of actual conflict, Italy would “run out" on Germany as she did in the last World War. HITLER’S PROPAGANDA BOOMER ANGS: It is now clear that the Nazi propagandists seriously overplayed their hand in extravagantly advertising Ger many's alleged “air supremacy.” The bal lyhoo worked at first; it was doubtless the determining factor in buffaloing England in to accepting the "peace of Munich." The threat of Nazi terror from the air drove public opinion in the direction of "appease ment.” But the inevitable reaction is now setting in. Current magazines, in both America and Britain, are puncturing the pretensions of the overwhelming superiority of the Nazi air fleet. There is even a growing tendency to pooh-pooh the whole idea as unfounded hysteria. Sober analysts concede that the Nazis are supreme in the “quantity” of
their air fleet, but many of them seriously question that the Nazi "quality” would stand the test. Military experts, further, point out that the next war would be no more likely than the last one, to be won on the sheer superi ority which the Nazis may have in the air. Major George Fielding Eliot, foremost American military expert, recently issued an article contending, "Germany Can’t W in.” He frankly predicts that, in the case of a war this year, Germany would be speedily vanquished. With the democracies growing skeptical of the power of the Nazi military machine, it seems obvious that Hitler will have to develop a new strategy if he is to win Danzig, and otherwise advance his cam paign of expansion. ROUT OF ECONOMY BLOC: The so- called "economy” bloc within the United States Senate showed signs of accomplish ing something early in the season. It stood fast, against the President himself, and despite the compromise later effected, suc ceeded in slashing $50,000,000 from the W.P.A. appropriation. Had it not been for the President’s persistence, the original slash of $150,000,000 would have remained. When the Senators showed a determina tion to slash the budget drastically, they caused considerable dismay among Admin istration chieftains committed to the policy of Mr. Eccles that an imbalanced budget is a blessing in disguise. After some waver ing, the Chief Executive openly aligned [Continued on page 260]
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G ERM AN AIR POWER Pictured here ere e group of recruits being sworn into the Nazi air force, surrounded by Nazi war planes. Just what is the real power of the German air units is a debatable question.
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• Pictured with their instructors at the right is the Class of 1939 of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, whose seventy members were granted their diplomas on the evening of June 8 at the hand of Roy L. Laurin, Vice-President of the Institute. Of this number fourteen per sons received degrees. The class motto ap pears in the foreground of the photograph. The commencement address was delivered by R. S. Beal (pictured at right of pulpit), pas tor of the First Baptist Church of Tucson, Ariz. At the baccalaureate service on Sunday, June 4, David M. Dawson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of San Jose, Calif., was the speaker. At the Class Day exercises, June 7, Mr. Laurin, representing the Institute, received from Gurney M. Harris, class president, long term pledges totaling $12,560.00. These prom ises of support for Biola were made by mem bers of the class in appreciation of the training they have been receiving without tuition cost.
Our Sacred Trust By ARVID CARLSON Representing the Men of the Class of 1939
S TEWARDS of the grace of God! What a divine mystery! W e readily recognize the mystery in the manifestation of this grace of God in the Person of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, but we must also recognize an equal ele ment of mystery in His appointment of "earthen vessels” to the stewardship of this grace. This truth becomes all the more amazing and wonderful when we consider the Source of grace, as well as the bearers of its message. It is inconceivable to think of our God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, as having to depend upon mere human means for the promulgation of His glorious salva tion. For, has He not suspended the “earth upon nothing”? Has He not "measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance”? "To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?” (Isa. 40:12,18). Not only is He the Creator of all the universe of matter, but its Sustainer as well. For, “He is before all things” (Col. 1:17), and by Him are all things held together as a unit. Thus, when we consider the wonders of His creative power, we exclaim with the Psalmist, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son [The two messages appearing on these pages are condensed from addresses given at thé class day exercises on June 7. W e regret that lack o f space precludes pub lishing the message representing the class as a whole, given by James' Brown o f Ireland .—E dito S.]
of man, that thou visitest him?” (Psa. 8:4 ). The visitation was a wonderful act of con descending grace, indeed a mystery, but thus also is the placing into our hands this ministry of reconciliation. It was this truth which the inspired Apostle Paul had constantly before him as an incentive to faithful service. Was he not “less than the least of all saints” to whom "this grace” was “given”? Was he not the “chief" of sinners, and does he not thank Christ Jesus for counting him faith ful, putting him into the ministry? And was he not, at least in a measure, fearful that this precious trust should be taken from him, when he wrote, “I keep my body under . . . lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be disapproved”? “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Cor. 4 :7 ). A Precious Privilege Ponder the incomparable joy and bless ing of bearing His message where He Him self never trod! The last words of the Lord Jesus, before He ascended from a Judean hilltop to take up His work of intercession at the Father’s right hand, were these: “Ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the ut termost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8, R. V .) . Think you this is not a privilege? For us, who are naught but sinners saved by grace, it is the most honored, the most highly exalted, and the best-rewarded position in all the world. Representatives of the King of Kings! What a privilege! Not only is this privilege precious from the standpoint of the glory, power, and
prestige of the One we serve, but it is also a joy to bear His message of redemptive grace to a world which lies in sin and dark ness. Meditate on the wondrous truth of being "dispensers” of His household goods to a sin-ravished humanity, whose eager hands would welcome even a crumb from our Master’s table! There is no greater thrill on this side of glory, than to see precious souls come out of spiritual star vation into a life of spiritual satisfaction. As Joseph in Egypt, we have been set over all the household to distribute to famished souls the riches of His storehouse of grace and plenty. As in the parable of the steward and his servants, we have been appointed “to give them their portion of meat in due season” (Lk. 12:42). The Class of 1939 counts it all joy to occupy this favored and honored position until He comes. I speak in behalf of the men of the class, when I say that no greater privilege has been afforded us, than to be the "stewards of the grace of God,” and that by grace, not of ourselves, lest any man should boast. We leave this God- honored institution with precious memories, indelibly written upon our hearts and minds, which we shall cherish through the future years of service in the Lord’s vineyard. We are deeply grateful to all those who have had a part in equipping us for our life’s work. W e have been given, not only a thorough working knowledge of the Bible, but also an opportunity to put it to a practical test. Among the young men, some have served as Sunday-school teachers: others have been members of deputation teams, traveling here and there giving out the gospel story. Still others have served
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in special groups, such as quartets and the glee club and shop teams. Three of our number have held student pastorates dur ing their training period. W e are now turning to the fields of our Master’s choice for future service. A Solemn Responsibility Think of the unqualified confidence our blessed Lord has placed in us who bear His name! A sacred trust has been com mitted unto us! What will our attitude be toward its satisfactory discharge? "It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful” (1 Cor. 4 :2 ). Our Lord has taken "a far journey.” He sits at the right hand of His Father, "henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool” (Heb. 10:13). He has placed the affairs of His house in our hands. Shall we say within ourselves, "Our Lord delayeth His coming,” T HROUGHOUT Christendom today, one of the most neglected truths of the Word of God is that of "Stewardship.” It is a subject practically foreign to the thinking of most individuals, and since foreign, to their thinking, it is consequently absent from their practice. Of course, we understand that a steward is one who is intrusted with the manage ment of estates or affairs not his own. A steward was originally an officer on a lord's estate, having general control of its affairs. During the days of our Saviour, the lord of the estate usually placed his possessions in the hands of a trusted slave. Being a slave, the man owned nothing, not even himself. Thus the stewards to whom the landowner gave the talents in our Lord’s parable, were really bondslaves, responsible for the management of the estate, and accountable to their master upon his return. It was with just such a picture in mind that the Apostle to the Gentiles said, “I have a stewardship intrusted to me” ( 1 Cor. 9:17, R .V .). Nor can we limit that statement to the Apostle Paul, for God’s Word states that every Christian is a steward, for “ye are not your own; For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). Thus, since God is Owner, both by right of creation and by right of purchase, we can never be more than stewards, and we can never be less. W e are always stewards. The question is: Are we good stewards? Christian Stewardship: Its Scope This stewardship of ours involves first of all, occupancy. We are in full possession and control of that portion of His estate placed in our hands. Until our Master’s return, we are clothed with His rights and stand in His place of ownership. In that capacity we are to serve aggressively, and not to faint. In spite of all the difficulties, in spite of almost unbearable burdens, we are to “occupy” till He comes, being “stead
and as a consequence idle the time away in indolence and neglect? Perish the thought! W e know not the day nor the hour of His return, and it behooves us to be faithful to the confidence He has placed in us. "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath” (Matt. 25:29). A day of testing is coming. "Every one of us shall give account of himself to God" (Rom. 14:12). "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Cor. 5:10). “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is” (1 fast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,” knowing that our labor "is not in vain in the Lord.” But woe betide us if we fail to recognize that such a stewardship involves responsi bility as well as occupancy. As stewards we are responsible for the talents God has given us, the way we spend our time, how we discharge our obligation to our fellow men in taking the gospel to them, and the management of the material possessions committed to us. Think of it! W e who have been redeemed from the slavery of sin have been intrusted with a portion of the estate belonging to the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords! What a responsibility! Responsibility is never placed upon us, however, unless it includes accountability. W e are to hold our position as a tenant at will, ready to surrender our trust and to give a full and just account of our adminis tration. As stewards, we must remember that we are guardians of our Lord’s honor. E. M. Thresher has stated it thus: "If there be unfaithfulness, the estate will suffer loss; and if there be maladministration, the good name of the Owner will be impeached.” Should there be those present who have never recognized God’s ownership over their lives, may I remind them that we may indeed forget and ignore our stewardship; we may shut God out of our thoughts and deny His right to us, but we shall be held accountable for all that has been committed to our charge, “for unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required” (Lk. 12:48).
Cor. 3:13). Who of the stewards of the grace of God would relish the thought of being weighed in the balances and found wanting? Rather, who of us does not deeply desire to serve the Master here, so as to merit the divine approbation, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Matt. 25:21). Tonight we separate. But in that day we shall be gathered from the four comers of the earth to dwell forevermore in the place prepared for us by Him who loved us and washed us in His own precious blood. It will be a soul-thrilling scene to witness these classmates standing before the Bema, with their trophies of grace, whether yellow, red, black or white, which, through His enabling grace, they were permitted to gather from the harvest fields of the world. May we stewards of the grace of God be faithful to our trust. in the judgment of God. Then henceforth you too may live your life as a steward of God’s grace, rather than as a bondslave of the devil’s power. Oh, let it never be said of you that “the God in whose hand thy ’breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified” (Dan. 5:23). As blood-bought children of God, we women of the graduating class have been recognizing that "we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel” (1 Thess. 2:4, R .V .). Thus we have been presenting this glorious message in the various ■spheres open to us—in Sunday- school and week-day classes, in hospital visitation and in personal work. Our task is to serve faithfully. It is not a question of ability; it is purely a question of faithful stewardship. Oh, how great the need is today for trustworthy stewards— stewards who are loyal to the message committed to them, never deviating from its pristine purity, never turning aside to any semblance of error! It is to such a task that we have pledged ourselves. In the midst of the ever-increasing apostasy of the Christian church, when the doctrines of the incarnation, the deity, the atoning death, and the triumphant resurrection of our blessed Lord are trampled underfoot, we, as stewards of God’s grace, will sound forth the assigned message. And may God keep us true to His Word, the Word that will always be quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Yea, [Continued on page 284]
Christian Stewardship By DOROTHY SCHROEDER Representing the Women of the Class of 1939
Every person in the whole universe must some day give an account of his deeds to God. But the account that each one must settle now is, "What will you do with Jesus, who is called the Christ?” May I urge any friend in the audience to settle that question now by accepting Christ as Saviour, rather than waiting till its settlement can only result
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Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks*
III. THE SEVENTIETH WEEK AND [HE COMING OF THE ROMAN PRINCE
By ALVA J. McCLA IN Winona Lake, Ind.
[ This series o f prophetic articles by the President of Grace Theological Seminary is brought to meet the need of persons who desire a careful exposition o f the basis o f the premillennial view o f Christ's return. The final article will appear in an early issue .— E ditor .] I N TH E first section in this series, it was shown that the first 69 of the Seventy Weeks of prophetic years be gan on March 14, 445 B.C., with the issu ing of King Artaxerxes’ decree to rebuild Jerusalem (Neh. 2:1-8);' and that the period ended on April 6, 32 A.D., when our Lord rode up to Jerusalem on the foal of an ass, presenting Himself as the King of Israel (Lk. 19:28-44)—exactly 69 sevens or 483 years to the very day. In the next article, it was established that the 70th week did not follow the 69th immediately but that between the 69th and 70th weeks there is a vast gap of uncharted time which has already extended over nineteen hundred years, and therefore the 70th week of years is still in the future. Coming now in the present article to an investigation of this 70th week and its events, it will be neces sary to reproduce only the last two verses of the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, which as before are given as they appear in the King James Version with the exception of a few changes taken from the American Standard Revised Version and indicated by parenthetical marks. "26. And after (the) threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off (and shall have nothing): and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, (and even unto the end shall be war); desolations are determined. “27. And he shall (make a firm covenant) with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; (and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that deter mined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate).” Now the reader should notice carefully that in these verses of the prophecy there are two different princes mentioned: first, “Messiah the Prince" (v. 25); and second, “the prince that shall come.” The expres sion "prince that shall come” cannot pos sibly refer to "Messiah the Prince” for the simple reason that it is “the people of the prince that shall come" who are to destroy Jerusalem after the death of Messiah. And since it is now a matter of history that *All rights reserved. Illustration, courtesy o f the Union Oil Co.
Jerusalem was destroyed A.D. 70 by the Roman people, not by the Jewish people, it follows that “the prince that shall come" cannot be the Jewish Messiah but is some great prince who will arise out of the Ro man Empire. Furthermore, we need not speculate about the identity of this coming Roman prince. He is the well-known “little horn” of Daniel 7 with "eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things" (v. 8 ), the king “more stout than his fellows” who rises swiftly among the ten kings of the revived Roman Empire of the end-time, and who for a brief season shall wield almost unlimited power over the nations of the world. His well-known identity is un doubtedly the reason that in chapter 9 he is referred to simply as “the prince that shall come.” For those who had read the great vision of chapter 7, no further identi fication would be needed. This same prince is, in my judgment, also the “king of fierce (strong) countenance” of chapter 8, the willful king of chapter 11, the “man of sin” of 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the Beast “out of the sea” of Revelation 13:1, the last great persecutor of Israel, Satan’s falsef Christ, before whom all the world shall do homage whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life. A dark and sinister figure he is, whose ominous shadow falls constantly upon the pages of divine prophecy, until he comes to his fearful doom in the lake of fire (Rev. 20:10). Who Is the Covenant Maker? Turning now to verse 27 of the prophecy of the weeks, a verse which deals specifi cally with the 70th week, our first problem is to identify the antecedent of the pro noun “he," for this person is the chief actor and subject of the verse. Does the “he" refer back to the Messianic prince or to the Roman prince? Grammatically it might refer to either, although presumption favors the latter because he is mentioned last be fore the pronoun. However, there are cer tain other considerations which are de cisive. First, we are told that "he” will make a firm covenant with the Jewish na tion for a period of one week or seven years. There is absolutely nothing recorded in the earthly ministry of our Lord which even remotely resembles such a covenant. Second, the theory that this covenant was t NO TE : Some feel that the coming prince o f Daniel 9:27 cannot also be the personal Antichrist, because the first is a Roman while the latter (they argue) must be a Jew. This, however, is no serious problem, for the same person could b e a Roman politically and at the same time a Jew racially.
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