END TIMES COLLECTION

The Parousia

ESCHATOLOGY

Plot

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: obvious sense which points so distinctly to an approaching catastrophe about to befall that very generation ? Surely we show most reverence to the Word of God when we accept implicitly its obvious teaching, and refuse the unwarranted and merely human speculations which critics and theologians have drawn from their own fancy. We conclude, then, that, in the notorious profligacy of that age, and the signal calamities -which before its close overwhelmed the Jewish people, we have the historical attestation of the exhaustive fulfilment of this prophecy. FURTHER ALLL'SIONS TO THE COMING WRATH. Luke xiii. 1-9: ' There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had miugled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.' How vividly our Lord apprehended the approaching calamities of the nation, and how clear and distinct His warnings were, may be inferred from this passage. The massacre of some Galileans who had gone up to Jerusalem to the feast of the Passover, either by the command, or with the connivance of the Eoman governor; and the sudden destruction of eighteen persons by the fall of a tower near the pool of Siloam, were incidents which formed the topics of conversation among the people at the time. Our Lord declares that the. victims of these calamities were not exceptionally wicked, but that a like fate would overtake the very persons now ..