1. “That the present Crisis points towards the close of the Times of the Gentiles. 2. “That the Revelation of our Lord may be expected at any moment when He will be manifested as evidently as to His disciples on the evening of His resurrection. 3. “That the completed Church will be translated to be ‘for ever with the Lord.’ 4. “That Israel will be restored to its own land in unbelief, and be afterwards converted by the appearance of Christ on its behalf. 5. “That all human schemes of reconstruction must be subsidiary to the Second Coming of the Lord, because all nations will then be subject to His rule. 6. “That, under the reign of Christ, there will be a further great effusion of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh. 7. “That the truths embodied in this statement are of the utmost practical value in determining Christian character and action with reference to the pressing problems of the hour.”
“The pressing duty of the church is to exercise her witnessing function. She is to bear witness to these and similar truths as they are contained in Scripture ... It is certain that such witness-bearing will incur dislike and opposition. It has always been so. Witnesses are often martyrs. But their lives, characters and words are seed-germs, which carry life, as the sea-birds carry to the coral isles the germs of vegetation.” F. B. Meyer
“Signs we discern; signs we appreciate in their solemn importance; signs we would study in the light of the Divine Word. But we are not looking for signs. We are looking for Christ.” (William Fuller Gooch, 1843–1929)
“From the hour of ascension until now it has been true that He might have come at any moment. I am quite sure that I speak what is in the hearts of all God’s waiting children when I say that we should rejoice indeed if by His coming He ended the very testimony we are bearing to Him today.” George Campbell Morgan, 1863–1945
“Ah! How beautiful we should be if our faces were ever turned towards the light; how we should witness for our Master if the reflection of the Morning Star could be seen in our eyes!” (Alfred Taylor Schofield, 1846–1929)
Four years later, a young Scotsman by the name of Aguilla Webb stood up in a meeting in Hamilton, Canada, and gave the following testimony: “I am a survivor of the Titanic. When I was drifting alone on a spar that awful night, the tide brought Mr. John Harper of Glasgow, also on a piece of wreck, near me. ‘Man,’ he said, ‘are you saved?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘I am not.’ He replied, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.’ The waves bore him away; but, strange to say brought him back a little later, and he said, ‘Are you saved now?’ ‘No,’ I said, ‘I cannot honestly say that I am.’ He said again, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,’ and shortly after he went down; and there, alone in the night, and with two miles of water under me, I believed. I am John Harper’s last convert.”
Gen. 26:3, “Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. Gen. 26:4, “And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; Gen. 26:5, “because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
Gen. 12:2, “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. Gen. 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” “... and blessed him and said: “Surely, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed. Gen. 27:28, “Therefore may God give you of the dew of heaven, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine. Gen. 27:29, “Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!”
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