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Page 221 of 316Colossians 46:2
@@@^The questions herein treated reveal that an unseen supernatural force working through human beings, is taking advantage of every possible opportunity to bring in distraction and confusion and to scatter the power of thought and concentration. They show that while one theorist is attempting to confuse one truth, another theorist is attempting to confuse another truth. So it is obvious that the enemy of God and men is determined one way or another to plunge the people into his deep pit. To avert this terrible tragedy, the reader is therefore warned to turn aside from the writings of uninspired men and to take heed only to those who are inspired and unceasingly to watch and study everything that comes in the name of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
@@@^If the aforequoted scripture means that there were to be no more prophets after John, then there should have been none since that time. And were this the meaning, then the Scriptures would contradict themselves, for they bear evidence that while Christ was the Son of God, He was also “a prophet.” Luke 24:19. And although John the Baptist never wrote a single prophetic utterance, yet he was rated by Christ with the greatest of the prophets (Luke 7:28). Also Matthew, Mark, and Luke, under the Spirit of Inspiration, wrote concerning Christ and His work. Likewise John, Peter, and Paul, and others contemporary with them, prophesied in their own right of many things to come. All these are Scripturally accorded the title “prophet.”
1 Thessalonians 6:1
@@@^Now the fact that this prophecy was written nearly a century after John the Baptist was beheaded, is historical acknowledgment that the prophets did not cease with him. Thus in misconstruing Matthew 11:13 so as to make John the last of the prophets, the opposition is attempting to substitute for the gift of prophecy in the Christian era, “private” (uninspired) interpretations of the Scriptures. And in doing this, they are led either to ignore or to try to explain away the irrefutable statement of Paul: “And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily @9prophets@7, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues” (1 Cor. 12:28) — absolute evidence that the second of the eight gifts to the church in the Christian era, is prophets.
1 Thessalonians 7:3
@@@^Present-day Christians who despise the gift of prophecy in this age, and also deny that the Old Testament Scriptures have any application in the gospel dispensation, are thereby rejecting all the prophets, while at the same time acknowledging that they were the servants of God. So such church-members continue to build and garnish the tombs of the prophets as did the Jews who claimed to believe in Moses but, when tested, were found to be liars. In like manner most Christians today profess to believe the whole Bible, yet teach that all the laws and statutes, all the warnings and condemnations, apply only to the ancient Jews, whereas the graces they eagerly bosom within the Christian church!
1 Thessalonians 8:2
@@@^“Awake, awake,” cries the Word, “loose thyself from the” man-wrought “bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.” Isa 52:2. “Quench not the Spirit,” O church of God! “@9Despise not prophesyings@7. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” 1 Thess. 5:19-21.
1 Thessalonians 8:4
@@@^Those who on the one hand contend that there were to be no prophets after John the Baptist, and who on the other hand profess to believe in the New Testament Scriptures which were written after John’s death, are themselves in darkness, and are, by their private (uninspired) interpretations of the Scriptures spreading a cloud of darkness wherever they go. May God have mercy on them all.
1 Thessalonians 9:2
@@@^Sacred history shows that the prophets in the first division received the Word directly from God through the medium of His Spirit. They were not obliged to prove any part of their prophecies by the writings of the preceding prophets. Whereas the prophets in the second division are appointed by the unction of the Spirit to @9interpret@7 the writings of the prophets of the first division.
1 Thessalonians 10:2
@@@^God would have ever kept Christendom unified through Inspiration, revealed truth, but uninspired men would not humble themselves and forego their own private interpretations, with the tragic result that they have brought the present shameful sectarian confusion.
1 Thessalonians 11:3
@@@^Showing that He recognizes only one denomination, Christ said: “And other sheep I have which are not of @9this fold@7: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be @9one fold@7, and @9one shepherd.@7” John 10:16. The existing disunion among Christians of today is not, therefore, fulfilling God’s, but
1 Thessalonians 11:4
@@@^The so-called Christian world of today has so far drifted from God’s ideal for His church as to have arrived at a point where even Christ’s own prayer fails to disillusion them, and to bring them to a realization that their varied beliefs of being all right are sure to be all wrong. Those who are not affiliated with any church, and for whose conversion the churches claim to be fully exerting their means and time, look on with scorn and laughter at this delusion and hypocrisy. Such Christians are only pleasing Satan and cheating themselves and those who watch them.
1 Thessalonians 14:2
@@@^“And He,” says Paul of the One Who alone, through all His gifts, can unify His church, “gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” Eph. 4:11-13. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Rev. 3:22.
1 Thessalonians 15:2
@@@^A large class of professing Christians are really saying in their hearts: As long as we believe that there is a God and a Christ, belong to a church, lead honest lives, and do an occasional good deed as opportunity affords, we are on the way to the Holy City. And sad to say, this loose and fatally delusive hope is even in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination.
1 Thessalonians 15:4
@@@^“The church,” she says, relative to this condition, “has turned back from following Christ her Leader, and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their want of spiritual power. @9Doubt @7and even @9disbelief @7of the testimonies of the Spirit of God, is leavening our churches @9everywhere@7 Satan would have it thus. Ministers who preach self instead of Christ would have it thus. The testimonies are unread and unappreciated.” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 217.
1 Thessalonians 19:3
@@@^Meeting its fulfillment at the end of the world when God is to overthrow the thrones and destroy the kingdoms of the earth, Haggai’s prophecy shows that Zerubbabel, the Lord’s servant is a type of His servants today, who necessarily, therefore, are the antitypical “signet.” And as Zechariah’s vision, moreover, has never been understood until now, it can be speaking directly only to us at this time. Since, accordingly, his illustration of “the Word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel” is to find its fulfillment today, we ought then to give the most studious attention as
1 Thessalonians 20:2
@@@^“And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.” Rev. 11:3, 4.
1 Thessalonians 21:2
@@@^The fact that nothing but the Bible Itself did prophesy for the duration of the 1260 year period, — the Dark Ages of religion, — automatically shows that the two “olive trees,” which the angel said are the Word of God (Zech. 4:6), are figurative of the Old and New Testament Scriptures’ prophesying “in sackcloth.” In other words, they permitted themselves in self-abasement to be tucked away and left unstudied, although they had power to devour “their enemies,” and even “to shut heaven, that it rain not.”
1 Thessalonians 25:3
@@@^The many grievous spiritual epidemics now afflicting the Christian church, are caused in large part by Christians unwittingly wresting, garbling, and perverting the Scriptures. This practice, the Devil has spawned and nurtured in order to head off Present Truth, destroy faith in the Scrip-tures, deceive souls, and increase infidelity, hoping thereby to cut off the human race from the knowledge of the only true and living God, and thus finally from the face of the earth.
1 Thessalonians 26:3
@@@^Foreseeing the dark pall of confusion which men today are casting over the Bible, and their wide departure from the plain Scriptural path, as a result of their utter disregard of the gift of prophecy, God is therefore morally bound to make in His written Word some sort of prophetic announcement of this great evil and its outcome, just as He did concerning the calamitous fate which befell His ancient people, and concerning their subsequent destiny.
1 Thessalonians 29:2
@@@^@0Since the “butter and honey” of verse 15 are obviously intended to provide the key of interpretation for the “butter and honey” of verse 22, plainly, then, the “butter and honey” of both verses represent the Word of God. And because of sequential and natural connection with the butter, we are next led to inquire into the meaning of
1 Thessalonians 29:3
@@@^As butter is churned from milk, and as the milk from which this spiritual “butter” is made, comes from the “two sheep” and the “young cow,” the truth flows forth that these three milk-producing creatures symbolize three different sources from which the Word of the Lord (butter) is obtained. The cow is young; the sheep are not. Accordingly, the source of the butter, God’s Word, represented by the young cow, is of @9later@7 origin than the sources represented by the two sheep. The two-of-a-kind therefore can only represent the Old and New Testament Scriptures; whereas the cow, being larger and younger than the sheep, represents sacred volumes of correspondingly larger proportions and of later origin than the Bible. These volumes manifestly are the latter-day writings of the “Spirit of Prophecy” (Rev. 19:10), which enable their patrons to “refuse the evil, and choose the good,” and which bring to them