HEALING THE CENTURION's SERVANT CHRIST'S WEAPON OF DEFENSE THE WORD OF GOD CHRIST ANSWERING His DISCIPLES' QUESTIONS THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM BY THE ROMANS UNDER Titus, A. D. 70 68 THE GREAT METEORIC SHOWER, Nov. 13, 1833 SATAN OFFERS GOLD, AND THE WORLD STAMPEDES TO ITS THE INVASION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY THE HUNS RAISING THE SIEGE OF ROME, A. D. 538 STORMING OF THE BASTILLE PRISON IN PARIS THE LOVE OF POWER THE POWER OF LOVE THE SABBATH FROM EDEN TO EDEN 168 CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES IN THE CORN-FIELDS 172 WALDENSES HUNTED BY THE ARMIES OF ROME 176 THE GIFT OF GOD 190 THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST 198 SYMBOLS OF MEDO-PERSIA AND GRECIA 204 THE CAMP OF ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS 210 OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST 212 ARTAXERXES SENDING THE JEWS TO REBUILD JERUSALEM, B. C. 457 218 REBUILDING JERUSALEM 224 THE ANOINTING OF JESUS AT His BAPTISM 228 THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST 232 THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE 238 A CHRISTIAN MOTHER EXHORTING HER DAUGHTER TO MARTYRDOM 246 LUCIFER PLOTTING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD 256 THE REDEMPTION PRICE 260 SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR 264 THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT 270 “HE IS RISEN" 274 Lot FLEEING FROM SODOM 286 PETER DELIVERED FROM PRISON 294 Jacob's DREAM IN BETHEL 298 MODERN INVENTIONS FULFILLING PROPHECY 302 THE HOE DOUBLE OCTUPLE PRESS 316 FORTIFICATIONS ON THE BOSPORUS 320 MODERN JERUSALEM 329 THE GREAT BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 336 UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP “NEVADA” 340 MOSES VIEWING THE PROMISED LAND 360 THE SAINTS' ETERNAL HOME 366 THE MASTER AT THE DOOR 369 THESE are eventful times. With history-making changes · passing rapidly before men's eyes, the questions press upon thoughtful minds in all lands, What do these things mean? What next in the program of world-shaping events? Like a great searchlight shining across the centuries, the sure Word of Prophecy focuses its bright beams upon Our Day. In this light we see clearly the trend of events, and may understand what comes next in the program of history fulfilling prophecy. In the Volume of the Book the living God speaks to Our Day of events of the past that have a lesson for the present, and of things to come. Divine prophecy fulfilled before men's eyes is God's challenge to unbelief. The Word of Holy Writ has been the guiding light through all the ages. It is the lamp to our feet today. “Steadfast, serene, unmovable, the same, Man may write a true book, but only God, the source of life, can write a living book. “The word of God ... liveth and abideth forever.” 1 Peter 1:23. The Bible is the living word of God. We look at the volume; we hold it in our hands. It is like other books in form and printer's art. But the voice of God speaks from these pages, and the word spoken is alive. It is able to do in the heart that receives it what can be done only by divine power. The Book That Talks Far in the heart of Africa a missionary read to the people in their own language from the translated Word of God. "See!" they cried; "see! the book talks! The white man has a book that talks!” With that simplicity of speech so common to children of nature, they had exactly described it. This is a book that talks. What the wise man says of its counsels through parents to children, is true of all the book: |