Lesson 10 · December 8, 1906

Testimony of the Ages

Questions.

1.What has the Lord declared from the beginning? . What do we call the power to foretell future events? Note 1.
2.To what extent does the Lord control events?
3.What is one strong evidence of the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent God? Ans. Fulfilled prophecy.
4.What was one of the earliest prophecies given to the human family? .
5.To what extent has this prophecy been fulfilled? ; .
6.What portion of it is as yet unfulfilled? .
7.What promise was made in ? When, and in whom, was it fulfilled? .
8.What prediction was given concerning the place of His birth? . Compare .
9.How definitely was the time of Christ's anointing and crucifixion foretold? . Note 2.
10.What prophecy was fulfilled in His death and burial? . What in His triumphal entry into Jerusalem? . Compare .
11.How many things written of His first advent were literally fulfilled? .
12.What was foretold of Babylon? ; . When, and how, was this prophecy fulfilled? .
13.What prophecy was made concerning ancient Tyre? . How accurately has this been fulfilled? Note 3.
14.What prophecy was made of Cyrus, king of Persia? . When and how was this fulfilled? .
15.What statement did Peter make concerning the certainty of divine prophecy? . What exhortation is given relative to these prophetic utterances?

Notes

1. The power of the Creator to foretell future events implies foreknowledge, and the power also to fashion all things according to the council of His own will. As we may stand where our view is unobstructed, and be eye-witnesses of scenes which transpire before us; so God can look down through the stream of time, and with unclouded vision see the end, and all the intervening events, from the beginning.

2. In the prophecy of the 2,300 days of , the exact date of the crucifixion of our Lord was foretold. This period began with the "going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem." This decree went forth 457 B. C. See . At the end of sixty-nine weeks, or 483 years, the "anointed One, the Prince" was to appear. Christ was anointed at His baptism with the Holy Spirit, A. D. 27, and began His work as "the Messiah." After His baptism He came into Galilee "preaching the gospel of God and saying, The time is fulfilled." No doubt He referred to prophetic time. In the midst, or middle, of the week, or three and one-half years later—A. D. 31—He was to be cut off, or be crucified, thus causing the "sacrifice and the oblation to cease." It would be well in this connection to make a careful study of the 2,300 days. See "Thoughts," or "The Sanctuary and Its Cleansing."

3. "It [Tyre] is a Babel of broken walls, pillars, vaults, etc., there being not so much as one entire house left! Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches, harboring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly on fishing; who seem to be preserved in this place by divine Providence as a visible argument how God has fulfilled His word concerning Tyre, that it should be the top of a rock, a place for fishers to dry their nets on."—Mandrell.

Bible texts in this lesson

Isaiah 46:9 · Isaiah 46:10 · Genesis 3:15 · Galatians 4:4 · Revelation 12:1-4 · Hebrews 2:14 · Hebrews 2:15 · Isaiah 7:14 · Matthew 1:18 · Matthew 1:22 · Matthew 1:23 · Micah 5:2 · Matthew 2:3-6 · Daniel 9:24-27 · Isaiah 53:8 · Isaiah 53:9 · Zechariah 9:9 · John 12:14-16 · Acts 13:29 · Isaiah 13:19-22 · Jeremiah 51:11 · Jeremiah 51:28-31 · Jeremiah 51:37 · Daniel 5:30 · Daniel 5:31 · Ezekiel 26:3-6 · Isaiah 44:28 · Isaiah 45:13 · Ezra 1:1 · Ezra 1:2 · 2 Peter 1:16-19 · Daniel 8:14 · Ezra 7

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