We need not go beyond scripture to understand prophecy. It is the right spiritual use of what is in the Word of God, and I bless God for it. If you find the simplest man who only studies with diligence the Bible in his mother tongue, and is led by the Spirit of God, he has the elements and the power of a true interpretation. But as sure as a man tries to find an interpretation here and there, by the help of history and antiquities, of newspapers, and what not, he is only deceiving himself and his hearers. Such is the universal sentence of God upon the soul that searches, is what is of man, the proper key to God’s secrets. I must find it from God Himself by a right use of what is His own Word.
Extract From “Notes on Daniel” by William Kelly, p. 32, 33.