Professor W illiam C. Ebelitig, Th.M. Biola College, La Mirada, California
I n t h e s t u d y a n d discussion of prophetic subjects, it seems to be the habit of many to give too much atten tion to detail or to be looking for particular items to identify until .it could well be said that wfe don’t, per haps won’t, see the woods for the trees. It rather troubles me when asked to identify some particular subject or event in the prophetic record. Quite naturally men ask the more obscure and difficult as well as less obvious points for identification. It is not this that troubles, but rather the very evident regard for the particular that often means that the general picture is not a matter of real concern. No doubt there are those who feel that an ability to pinpoint an element of the prophetic picture is a proof of deep understanding in this field.
The book of Revelation is one book of the Bible on which a definite blessing has been established. But the blessing is not because we can accurately identify every detail set forth in the book, but because to each one of us it is truly a revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. The fact that so many have felt that they had discovered the anti-christ in men of history who long since have gone their way, should warn us against too quick or dogmatic an apperception of any of the details of prophecy that are still to be realized in an unknown future — unknown, because God has not chosen to reveal to us the day nor the hour; unknown, because it has not become a part of our personal experience and, more important, the greater part will never be a part of our own experience;
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