What the Bible Contains for the Believer 109 Holy Spirit incline us to study diligently our Divine chart, and sail closely by it! 6. The Bible Reveals Things to Come. I t contains not only the history of the past, of God’s dealings with nations, but it also contains much unfulfilled prophecy. Revelation is a book devoted to things that “must shortly come to pass.” Prophecy has been called unacted history, and history is but fulfilled prophecy. I t is a mistake to suppose that God’s hand in history has been limited to those nations mentioned in the Bible. Could we have the story of God in history, it would be seen that His providence has been m and over all the great and small events of all nations. Daniel in his great prophecy has given a rapid and graphic sketch of the course of history from the golden-headed Babylonian Empire down to the end of time, when the “Son of man sEall come with the clouds of heaven” . . . when there “shall be given Him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all nations and languages should serve Him.” When He comes, “His dominion will be an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom one which shall not be destroyed” (Dan. 2 :44 ; 7:13-27). Meantime God among nations will be overturning, and “overturning, and overturning until He comes whose right it is” (Ezek. 21:27). The Book of Revelation is a detailed exposition of the second and seventh chapters of Daniel, and the two books should be read together. Emperors and kings and cabinets are rapidly bringing to pass things that God has marked out in prophecy ages ago. But they know not what they do. There are “signs in the heavens,” and on the earth there is “distress of nations with perplexity; and the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory” (Luke 21:25-27).
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