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Eureka

AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)

 

 

Chapter 10

Section 14

"Prophesy Again"


 
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After John, as the representative of all the saints, had eaten up the little scroll of the judgments to be executed when the Angel of the Bow shall have been developed, he was told by the angel in vision, that he "must prophesy again against many peoples and nations and tongues and kings." In the Acts of the Apostles we have several instances of their prophesying and of its effects. They all stood before the Sanhedrim and prophesied; and their prophesying resulted in an antagonism between them and the rulers; who, being then the more powerful party, ordered them to be scourged and imprisoned. Much of their prophesying was a proclamation of "the mystery of the Deity’s will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself;" which purpose is, "that in the economy of the fulness of the times (of the "time, times, and half a time" of Dan. xii. 7) he would gather under One Head the all things in the Christ; both the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, in him" -- the things in the heavens, "things visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers;" and things upon the earth, "peoples, nations, and tongues" (Eph. i. 9; Col. i. 16; Dan. vii. 14). The proclamation of this purpose -- of ruling mankind in righteousness by the crucified King of the Jews, whom he had raised from among the dead -- was exceedingly offensive to the Roman emperor and his adherents. An imperial edict was, therefore, published, forbidding any one to say, that there is another king than Caesar; a proclamation that troubled both the people and their rulers (Acts xvii. 6-8,31). The apostles and their colaborers, however, were not daunted by decrees and threatenings; they continued their prophesying both before and against the world, to the loss of liberty and life, which in the nature of things was almost inseparable from their "prophesy."

But, the time will come to them when the nature of things will be changed. They will "prophesy again" when power will preponderate on their side. Their function then will be, like Ezekiel’s, "to prophesy and smite" (xxi. 14); to "turn waters into blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will" (Apoc. xi. 6). This is the sort of prophecy resulting from eating up the little scroll. They proclaim the purpose of Deity, and that the time to carry it into effect hath arrived. In this they prophesy what is about to be; and they require all "peoples, nations, languages, and kings" to submit to the New Monarch of the earth. If these believe and obey the prophecy, it will be well with them; but if they resist it, the prophets will proceed to establish their prophecy with fire and sword. Their body will be like Samuel’s of old, who, in bitterness of soul, "hewed Agag in pieces."

 

 


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