Continued from previous post. What can such as realize that thorns are growing in their hearts and choking the Word of the Lord do to get rid of them? How can they overcome this difficulty of permitting the cares of this life to absorb their time, their talents, and their influence? How can they get rid of the false allurements and attractions of riches? How can they become fruitful toward God in good works, in riches of grace in their…
Continued from previous post. VERSE 5, 6 “Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.” Another class upon which the same good truth falls at the present time is one that has a good appearance upon the surface–fine soil, etc., but underneath, and but a few…
The “Seventy Weeks” The honor of becoming members in the great spiritual Seed of Abraham was the exclusive privilege of the people of Israel till the end of their “seventy weeks” of favor (See Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. II Chapter 3). It is interesting to note that the complete period of 4162 years of the world’s history from the time of Adam’s fall till the end of Israel’s 70 weeks, is equally divided into two grand periods of 2081…
THE JUBILEE An outstanding year in the history of the nation of Israel was that on which fell their last typical jubilee, 626 B.C. As pointed out in Section XXII (“Rest and Restitution” Part 23 and 24 in our study), God commanded the nation of Israel to observe every 50th year in a very special manner. The land was to be wrought for six years, allowed to rest on the seventh, and then after seven of these periods of seven,…
The Four Empires Parallels “According to the Prophet Daniel’s inspired interpretation, each of the four sections of the great metallic image seen in vision by Nebuchadnezzar, symbolized a phase of the Gentile dominion (Dan. 2). In another vision, granted to Daniel (Chap. 7), these phases are seen in a different aspect. From Nebuchadnezzar’s viewpoint the Gentile nations were to be admired as being like a great man; but from the view-point of God’s servant they appeared beast-like. Thus: Universal…
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION “The passage leading to the Pit, changing as it does from a steep downward, to a horizontal, direction, evidently represents the fact that through the invention of the art of printing, and the work of the Reformation, the people in general have been awakened from their long slumber of ignorance and superstitious reverence for kings and clergy, and have secured liberty by means of which they have successfully fought many of the influences that were slowly but…
The Second Death “While the Subterranean Chamber symbolizes the “Bottomless Pit,” where Satan is to lie bound for a thousand years, it also symbolizes the “lake of fire and brimstone,” which is the Second Death (Rev. 21:8) After the 1000-year reign of Christ, when the Adamic death will have been destroyed through the process of resurrection (1 Cor. 15:25, 26; Hosea 13:14), Satan is to be loosed from the Bottomless Pit for a “little season.” He will go out and…
The Great Pyramid’s Connection with Bethlehem in the Holy Land Joseph Seiss suggested that, if a straight line were drawn between the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and Jerusalem in Palestine, the angle at which this line would run north-eastward from the Pyramids latitude would be the same as the angle at which the passages in the Great Pyramid ascend and descend, 26° 18′ 10″. This suggestion, however, he had no means of putting to accurate mathematical test. We ourselves deemed…
THE DATE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID’S ERECTION “Visitors who enter the Great Pyramid in the night-time may see the North Star shining down the Descending Passage. This star did not always occupy its present place, for owing to the precession of the equinoxes the constellations slowly change their apparent positions in the heavens. The celebrated astronomer Sir John Herschel, who had this phenomenon drawn to his attention by Col. Howard Vyse, calculated that the polar star at the time of…
Further Time-Parallels in the Jewish and Gospel Ages “In the time-measurements noticed so far, and in a number of others yet to be considered, the Great Pyramid clearly corroborates the duration and parallelism of the Jewish and Gospel Ages. The length of each of these Ages is proved from the Scriptures to be exactly 1845 years, so that any date in the former has its parallel date in the latter 1845 years afterwards (See diagram, page 102, shown above). It…