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Classic exposition.
Excerpt- The objection to the study of prophecy arises from a root of unbelief, sometimes deeply hidden, which supposes all blessing to depend on the measure in which a subject bears immediately on one's self or one's circumstances. Thus, when some cry out, That is not essential, I would ask, Essential to what? If they mean essential to salvation, we agree. But then on what a ground do such objectors stand! The anxiety to examine only what they deem indispensable to salvation shows that they have no consciousness of salvation themselves, and that this need of their souls is the only thing they are alive to. Now all hold that not prophecy but the gospel should be put before the unconverted. The coming of Christ in glory, which is the center of unfulfilled prophecy, ought to be terror to their hearts, instead of a mere question for interesting discussion. To the believer, indeed, His coming is “that blessed hope.” We wait for the Son of God from heaven, and we await Him not only without anxiety but with joy, because we know Him to be “Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come.” But for any man, who has not peace by faith in Him dead and risen, to occupy his mind either with this, the Church's hope, or with the events of which prophecy treats, is but a diversion of which the enemy can make fearful use, if it be not a proof of utter deadness of conscience as to his own condition before God,-though I am far from saying, that God may not make use of that truth to arouse it. On the other hand, prophecy is essential to our due appreciation of Christ's glory and of the glory that is to be revealed. To slight prophecy, therefore, is to despise unwittingly that glory and the grace which has made it known to us. It is the plainest evidence of the selfishness of our hearts, which wants every word of God to be directly about ourselves.
God takes for granted that His children love to hear whatever will exalt the Lord Jesus Christ. The result, too, is striking and serious: where Christ is the object of our hearts, all is peace; where our own happiness is the first thought, there is disappointment and uncertainty.
Table of Contents
1. Revelation 1, Lectures on: Part 1
2. Revelation 1, Lectures on: Part 2
3. Revelation 2:1-7, Lectures on
4. Revelation 2:8-11, Lectures on
5. Revelation 2: 12-18, Lectures on: Pergamos
6. Revelation 2:18-3:16, Lectures on: Thyatira
7. Revelation 3:1-6, Lectures on: Sardis
8. Revelation 3:7-22, Lectures on: Philadelphia
9. Revelation 3:14-22, Lectures on: Laodicea
10. Revelation 4, Lectures on
11. Revelation 5, Lectures on
12. Revelation 6, Lectures on
13. Revelation 7, Lectures on
14. Revelation 8, Lectures on
15. Revelation 9, Lectures on
16. Revelation 10, Lectures on
17. Revelation 11, Lectures on
18. Revelation 12, Lectures on
19. Revelation 13:1-10, Lectures on
20. Revelation 13:11-18 and Revelation 14, Lectures on
21. Revelation 14, Lectures on
22. Revelation 15-16, Lectures on
23. Revelation 16, Lectures on
24. Revelation 17, Lectures on
25. Revelation 18, Lectures on
26. Revelation 18-19, Lectures on
27. Revelation 19, Lectures on
28. Revelation 20, Lectures on: Part 1
29. Revelation 20, Lectures on: Part 2
30. Revelation 20, Lectures on: Part 3
31. Revelation 21, Lectures on: Part 1
32. Revelation 21, Lectures on: Part 2
33. Revelation 22, Lectures on: Part 1
34. Revelation 22, Lectures on: Part 2