Sir ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B., LL.D. THE GOSPEL AND ITS MINISTRY THE COMING PRINCE THE SILENCE OF GOD THE BIBLE AND MODERN CRITICISM HUMAN DESTINY THE LORD FROM HEAVEN THE BIBLE OR THE CHURCH THE CRITICS CRITICISED IN DEFENCE DANIEL IN THE CRITICS' DEN FORGOTTEN TRUTHS THE HEBREWS EPISTLE MISUNDERSTOOD TEXTS THE HONOUR OF HIS NAME THE WAY FOR US MEN UNFULFILLED PROPHECY PROPHECY AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH BY SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B., LL.D. Author of "The Coming Prince," "The Gospel and SECOND EDITION PICKERING & INGLIS LONDON AND GLASGOW PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The early demand for a new edition of this book gives proof that this "world-war" is exciting increased interest in the study of prophecy. And rightly so. True it is, indeed, as explained in the following pages, that no Messianic prophecy which was unfulfilled when the covenant people were set aside will find its fulfilment until "the receiving of them again in a future age. But yet such prophecies may have an important bearing upon present-day events and movements. For example, though the realisation of the forecast that the war would lead to the deliverance of the Holy City and land from Turkish rule is not the fulfilment of any definite Scripture, it clearly prepares the way for the accomplishment of God's purposes for Israel. And surely this gives hope that we are nearing the age in which they will be restored to favour, and therefore that the Lord's coming for us, which must precede that restoration, may be close at hand. But the chronological schemes and theories to which our possession of Jerusalem has given rise should be received with reserve, if not with suspicion. For the Holy City is to remain under Gentile control "until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled," and the sceptre of earthly sovereignty, entrusted to the King of Babylon five and twenty centuries ago, is taken out of Gentile hands. And this awaits "the Coming of the Son of Man," as foretold in many Messianic prophecies, and most definitely in the greatest of all such prophecies--"the second Sermon on the Mount."* * Matthew xxiv., xxv. "The times of the Gentiles " (Luke xxi. 24) are not a measured chronological period, like Daniel's seventy weeks. The word is not kronoi, but karoi. Pleroo, moreover, is the verb used of Scriptures being "fulfilled." And pateo does not necessarily imply more than suzerainty; and it is as applicable to the beneficent rule of Britain as to the tyranny of the Turk. |