CHAPTER 1—A SERIOUS QUESTION.
Sometimes asked in Despair—Trials of Early Faith-Ministerial Difficulties—The Demand for an Answer
CHAPTER 2—CAN THE QUESTION BE ANSWERED?
Certainty sometimes attained—Bishop Newton and Marshal Wade—The future completely hid from human view—What is proved if the future has nevertheless been fully read?
CHAPTER 3—PREDICTIONS REGARDING TYRE AND SIDON.
Illustration of the kind of evidence available: the Stones and Dust of Tyre to be laid in the Sea—We limit ourselves to Prophecies fulfilled at and since the beginning of the Christian era—Tyre to be built no more—Sidon to continue but to suffer—What if the two Names had changed places?
CHAPTER 4—PREDICTIONS REGARDING EGYPT.
Fate of Thebes—Egypt’s Doom of Decline—The Kingdom not to be Extinguished—Its Degradation—
To have no Native Ruler.
CHAPTER 5—PREDICTIONS REGARDING EGYPT. (Continued.)
Fate of Memphis—The Rivers and the Canals of Egypt—The Verdure on the River Banks—The Fisheries of Egypt—Its remaining Industries—The Desolation of the surrounding Countries—The Desolation of Egypt itself—The Character of its Masters—Their Nationality—Their Work—Summary
CHAPTER 6—IDUMEA AND THE SEA-COAST OF PALESTINE.
The Commerce of Idumea to cease—The Race to become extinct—The Land to be a Desolation—The Doom of the Philistines—The Remnant of the Sea—Coast to be Destroyed—The Country to be Desolate, while its Fruitfulness is to remain—The Present Aspect of the Land and the Purpose which it serves described in Prophecy—Predictions regarding Ascalon, Ekron, and Gaza
CHAPTER 7—JUDEA AND BABYLON.
The cessation of the Jewish Worship, and the desolation of the Jewish sanctuaries—The Israelites uprooted from the land—Their enemies to dwell in it—Its cities to be a waste and the land a desolation—The duration of the desolation—Judea to be a land of pilgrimages—The doom of Bethel, of Samaria, of Capernaum, and of Jerusalem—Fate of Mount Moriah and of Zion—The destruction of the Temple and the continued oppression of Jerusalem—Julian’s attempt to defeat the prophecy—Babylon: Its desolation to be utter and lasting—The process of its demolition described—A burnt mountain—To become the prey of many nations—All that spoil her to be satisfied—The awful desolation of Chaldea CHAPTER 8.—A PROPHETIC FORECAST OF THE WORLD’S ENTIRE HISTORY.
The Book of Daniel—Supposed critical triumph Nebuchadnezzar’s dream—Interpretation of the parable—The four empires named in Scripture—The Roman to be the last merely human world-dominion —The character of the fourth kingdom—Its novelty, terribleness, strength, and tyranny—The division of the empire—Its continuance—The number of its fragments—A miracle of insight: The childhood, boyhood, youth, manhood, and old age of history
CHAPTER 9—PROPHECIES FULFILLED IN THE COMING, THE HISTORY, AND THE WORK OF CHRIST.
The age of the Old Testament writings—The Messianic prophecies—The nations to cast away their idols—The revolution to be the work of one man—And He to be a Jew—The time of His death predicted —His history foretold—His lowliness and poverty—Rejected by Israel—Dies by violence, and under a judicial sentence—His work described—He lives and saves.
CHAPTER 10—PREDICTIONS FULFILLED IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS.
Their importance—The Jews’ rejection of Jesus—Its long continuance—Their punishment—The instruments of it—The mercilessness of the instruments of vengeance—The Jews to be taken back to Egypt “in ships” —Characteristics of the war: its sieges; the method of attack—The Jews to suffer the extremities of famine, and to be left few in number—Their universal dispersion—Their preservation—Their separateness—Their treatment in the lands of their sojourn —To be compelled to pollute themselves with idolatry—To have no rest—To be deprived of any central government—To be deprived of sacrifice, and holy place, and priest—Conclusion.