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prophetic word. He r evealed nothing n ew except once when He spoke of His coming fo r H is own, a coming which n one of the prophets beh eld. (John 14: 1-3.) No prophet ever said that this J ehovah would come and take re– deemed sinners t o t he pla ce where He is, that is to the highest Glory. Fur– thermore Paul speaks of "that Day" In his epistles. See 1 Thess. 5: 1-4; 2 Thess. 2; 2 Tim. 4. So does P eter In his second epistle. (ch . 3) and the last book of the Bible, Revelation, is almost en– tirely tak en up with the great events which precede that day, the day itself, and what follows that day. Strange it is that there ar e men who claim superior scholarship and who say that there is but little in the Bible about a day of the Lord's manifestation and glory. (To be continued in October number) PLAYING WITH FEATHERS "Fervent prayer," says an old divine, "like a cannon planted at the gates of heaven, makes them fly open." The common fault with the most of us is our readiness to yield to distractions. Our thoughts go r oving hith er and th ither, and we make little progress to– ward our desired end. Like quicksil– ver, our mind will not h old together, but rolls off this way and tha t . How great an evil t his is! It in jures us, and what ls wor se, it insults our God. What should we think of a petitioner, If, while h aving a n a u dience with a prince, he should be playing with a feather, or catching a fly?-Spurgeon.
He is one of the earliest prophets and uses the phrase "the Day of the Lord" five times. Of especial interest is the second as well as the third chapter. Amos, the herdsman of Tekoa, men– tions "the day" in 9: 9-15; which is quoted in part in Acts 15. Obadiah, the smallest message among the prophets, points forward to that day when "the Kingdom shall be the Lord's" (v. 21). l\Iicah, contemporary with Isaiah, re– ceived the same message which Isaiah received concerning that day, found in ch. 4. Nahum pictures prophetically the overthrow of the great world-city, Nin– eveh, which typifies the coming over– throw of an ungodly civilization. Habakkuk in his magnificient Ode, ch. 3, describes the coming of the Lord and what that day will mean to the world, and to Israel. Zephaniah has much to say about the great day of the Lord in 1 : 14-18 and 13:11-20. Haggai de'tlares that the heavens and the earth shall be shaken, as well as all nations, before the desire of all nations comes and the house of the Lord will be filled with glory ( 2: 6). Zech ariah__ uses many times the phrase "in that day." (See 2:10-13; 3:10; 8:23; 12:9-14; 13:1; 14:1, 9, 20.) Malachi closes the Old Testament with a stirring message about the com– ing of the day of the Lord. Ch. 4. What a remarkable fact it is that all these prophets speak of "that day"! Such a unified testimony necessitates one author of all these messages. That author is the Holy Spirit. And let us remember that the Jehovah whose coming in judgment and in blessing all these holy men of God foresaw is our Lord Jesus Christ. In the days of His flesh our adorable Lord bore witness to the same day. All He spoke in His great prophetic disco urses confirms the Old Testament
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