History of the Second Advent message and mission, doctrine and people / by Isaac C. Wellcome.

  • Wellcome, I. C. (Isaac Cummings), 1818-1895
Date:
1874
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    church look to he fulfilled [in the millennium] before the advent, must be subsequent to it; and that, unless there were other unful- filled prophecies, the advent of the Lord, instead of being looked for only in the distant future, might be a continually-expected event. In examining the prophecies on that point, I found that only four uni- versal monarchies are anywhere predicted, in the Bible, to j)recede the setting up of God’s everlasting kingdom; that three of those had passed away,—Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Grecia,—and that the fourth—Rome—had already passed into its last state, the state in which it is to be when the stone cut out of the mountain without hands shall smite the image on the feet, and break in pieces all the kingdoms of this world. I was unable to find any prediction of events which presented any clear evidence of their fulfillment before the scenes that usher in the advent. And finding ail the signs of the times, and the present condition of the world, to compare harmoni- ously with the prophetic descriptions of the last days, I was compelled to believe that this world had about reached the limits of the period allotted for its continuance. As I regarded the evidence, I could ar- rive at no other conclusion. “Another kind of evidence that vially alfected my mind was the chronology of the Scriptures. I found, on j)ursuing the study of the Bible, various chronological joeriods extending, according to my un- derstanding of them, to the coming of the Saviour. I found that predicted events, which had been fulfilled in the past, often occurred* within a given time. The one hundred and twenty years to the flood, Gen. vi. 3; the seven days that were to precede it, with forty days of predicted rain, Gen. vii. 4; the four hundred years of the sojourn of Abraham’s seed, Gen. xv. 13; the three days of the butler’s and baker’s dreams, Gen. xl. VI—20; the seven years of Pharaoh’s, Gen. xli. 28—54; the forty years in the wilderness, Num. xiv. 34; the three and a half years of famine, 1 Kings xvii. 1; the sixty-five years to the breaking of Ephraim, Isa. vii. 8; the seventy years caj)tivity, Jer. xxv. 11; Kebuchadnezzar’s seven times, Dan. iv. 13—16; and the seven weeks, three score and two weeks, and the one week, making seventy weeks, determined upon the Jews, Dan.ix. 24—27; the events limited by these times were all once only a matter of prophecy, and were fulfilled in accordance with the predictions. “ When, therefore, I found the 2300 prophetic days, which were to 4
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