There are two books in the Bible that the Lord Jesus has especially appealed to His followers to “read” and “understand.” And very likely, no matter what church you may attend, you probably never hear a sermon that explains those two books. The appeal of Jesus seems to be almost universally disregarded, even among His professed friends who say they’re the church that keeps the commandments of God and has the faith of Jesus.
Those two special books are Daniel the prophet in the Old Testament (see Matt. 24:15), and the last book of the Bible, the Revelation (D&R; see 1:1-3).
The problem is that “ Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,” but Babylon is what the world loves; and what the world loves is too often what we love, too.
The great user-friendly mega-churches soft-pedal D&R. The Enemy in the great controversy between Christ and Satan has two methods of attack on this truth: (1) minimize attention, neglect the two books, make people think the prophecies are impossible to be understood; (2) inspire fanatics to invent ever new and fantastic “interpretations” of the books that are senseless and self-contradictory.
Let the Lord deliver you from both of these heresies: (1) Daniel declares that his prophecies were unsealed as “the time of the end” began (cf. 11:35; 12:4); (2) Christ Himself pronounces a special “blessing” on the one who either reads or listens to someone else read, the prophecies of the book of Revelation (1:1-3).
Both Daniel and Revelation make clear that “the time of the end” began at the end of the 1260 years of the Dark Ages, the time of papal oppression, in 1798. It was then that Daniel’s prophecies were unsealed. The understanding of these prophecies of D&R that was held by those who emerged from that darkness is the understanding that Jesus declared would confirm God’s people unto the end. He said: “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled” (Matt. 24:34). The glorious light of that “other angel” of Revelation 18 was a gift that God gave to “the angel of the church of the Laodiceans” and the gift was within the lifetime of those pioneers; but the light was in a great degree kept away both from the church and from the world.
The truth of why Christ has not come yet is so simple that even a child can understand!
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