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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The new editors of the National Geographic Magazine are daring to step out from the traditional editorial matrix of our prestigious journal. They have published an issue devoted to healthful living—somewhat out of their “geographic” interests—in which they featured the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Loma Linda University. It has been founded to promote the principles of “wholism,” enhancing the combined physical and spiritual interests of humanity.

 

Now the editors are making a foray into an interest shockingly new to our staid National Geographic—investigating the conflicting views of humanity on the book of Revelation in the Bible, and “prophecy” in general. This weekend they have sent a film crew to a leading Seventh-day Adventist Church in Sacramento to watch a pastor-evangelist’s take on Bible prophecy. They are, we understand, simultaneously inquiring of other proponents of conflicting prophetic interpretations.

 

Three leading views engage their attention: (1) The “preterist,” which holds that the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation had their fulfillment millennia ago; therefore they interest only grey-headed history buffs. (2) “Futurist,” the view that places their fulfillment some time in the dim future at the end of human history. Likewise, the impact on the people’s thinking is to shelve Daniel and Revelation into conjecture. And (3), the one the Geographic films in Sacramento this week,—the “historicist,” the view that sees these prophecies fulfilled throughout history, leading up to a grand climax at the second coming of the Savior of the world. And that time is now.

 

The Lord Jesus Christ urges you and me to give our assiduous attention to both Daniel and Revelation (Matt. 24:15; Rev. 1:1-3). The most stupendous events of world history are upon us. No time now to get drunk and sleep. “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning,” says Someone who loves us dearly (Luke 12:35).

Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.

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