THE KING'S BUSINESS
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Lord," that great day of consumma– tion when the Lord is revealed in per– son, when judgment overtakes His enemies, when His glory covers the earth, when Israel His chosen people receive the promised restoration and other blessings follow for all the earth. This prophetic testimony is progressive. There is a majestic unfolding starting as a seed in the book of Genesis and prophet after prop)let -testifying to it till finally we behold the little seed grown into a majestic tree. We cannot treat this great testimony as exhaust– ively as we have done in our "Harmony of the Prophetic Word," but give suf– ficient scripture passages which will help the reader in following this argu– ment. Take your Bible and look up every reference. The first Prophet is the Lord Him– self. The first prophetic utterance is that which came from His lips in the garden of Eden. Genesis 3: 15. The "seed of the woman" is Christ. The great day of consummation, still un– reached, is announced in this prophecy. The seed of the woman is to bruise the serpent's head. This will be ac– complished "in that day." (Rev. 20: 1-3). The next testimony is from Enoch. He was a prophet. (Jude 14-15.) He saw the day of consummation. when the Lord comes with ten thousand of His saints to execute judgment. Balaam, the heathen prophet, was forced by the Spirit of God to picture the glory of the King and His victory In that day. (Numbers 24:17-24). Moses prophesied about it in His great prophetic song. (Deut. 32:39-43). Even Hannah, the happy mother in Israel, in her wonderful song of praise and prophecy mentions that day, more fully than Enoch, Balaam or Moses did. Here are her inspired words: "The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall He thunder upon them; the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and He
shall give strength unto His King, and exalt the horn of His anointed (Christ)." 1 Sam. 2:10. Many of the Psalms are prophetic, celebrating in inspired song the coming day of the Lord, revealing all the dif– ferent features of that day. Here we read of the Glory of the Lord who ap– pears; the overthrow of His enemies; the blessings which come for Israel; the conversion of the world; the es– tablishment of His kingdom and the universal blessings of the earth. See Psalms 2:8; 22:27-31; 45; 50:1-5; 68; 72 and 110 besides the many other millennial Psalms like Psalms 97 and 100. Everyone of the prophetic books, except Jonah, (and he at least in type) bears witness to that day. Isaiah gives a complete picture of that day. See chapters 2: 1-4, 17-22; 4; 11; 13:6-11; 24-27; 35 and all the glorious visions in the closing chapters of this prophet relate to that day. See also 63: 1-6. Jeremiah pictures that coming day in 25: 15-38 and his words of comfort to Israel and J erusa.lem were uttered in anticipation of the day of the Lord. Ezekiel points forward to that day in his prophetic addresses in chs. 7 and 8, and the great climax of 0 his book, chs. 36-4 8 are all future events which cannot be till the "Day of the Lord" is enacted. Daniel. This great prophet does not mention the phrase "the Day of the Lord." The Stone which demolishes the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, the stone which becomes a mountain filling the whole earth,· predicts that day and what will take place when it comes. In ch. 7 we find the day on which the Son of Man comes in the clouds of heaven to receive the King– dom. Hosea. This prophet saw the daY of the Lord and its attending blessings when he wrote 2: 14-23; chs. 3 and 1~· Joel we have termed in our expos'.; tion "the Seer of the Day of the Lord.
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