St. John’s Revelation is usually the first book of the Bible to be “ interpreted,” “analyzed” or “ made plain” by religious and is usually the last book of the Bible to be tackled by the genuine Biblical scholar. Eerdmans has just published The Revela tion o f S t John —An Introduction and Com mentary by Dr. Leon Morris, Principal of Ridley College, Mel bourne, Australia. This volume is the 19th in the famous Tyndale New Testament Commentaries series. It’s been long awaited. And, because of its clarity and objectivity, it will be welcomed and read by readers of all faiths. kooks...
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BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND / PRESIDENT, BIOLA SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, INC. I N THE last generation , premillennial preachers and Christian leaders were widely condemned as “Prophets of Doom.” Bible students repeatedly stated that, as the scriptures said, in the last days perilous times would come and men would be lovers of their own selves, proud, boastful, blasphemous, disobedient to parents; that there would be a widespread form of godliness but that those who maintained it in large measure would “deny the power” in volved. Premillennial preachers foretold the lawlessness, increase in crime, breakdown of morals, and all other forms of iniquity which today are being observed and experienced throughout our country and indeed throughout the world. But as fa r as our be loved America was concerned, it was boldly denied that “these things could ever happen here” and it was declared that only those preachers, “prophets of doom,” incurable pessimists, and the like, dared to state that it could. Alas, the voices of the critics of the premillennial position are completely silenced in the light of events as they are transpiring before our very eyes! It is happening here! Not only are Bible-believing premillennial preachers proclaiming these facts as they have been foretold in the scriptures but also the secular press and indeed right-thinking people everywhere are now recognizing that these conditions are indeed with us exactly as predicted in the scriptures. A monthly magazine called P G & E Progress, put out by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco, California, published in its February 1969 issue a column entitled, “Will His tory Repeat?” It sets forth the five basic reasons why the Roman Empire withered and died, as explained in the classic, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written by Edward Gibbon in 1788: (1) The undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home which is the basis of human society. (2) Higher and higher taxes; the spending of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace. (3) The mad craze for pleasure; sports becom ing every year more exciting, more brutal, more immoral. (4) The building of great armaments when the real enemy was within— THE KING'S BUSINESS
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