But it has ever been a great tax on men's ingenuity to
show how the event can occur in this life. For we cannot ignore facts,
and facts are all against such a conception.
Even if in future generations the Jews who are then living are all
turned to God, as we believe they will, what about the millions and
millions who have died? The enigma receives a glorious solution when we
realize that the future life is to be the time of the Restoration. Oh,
yes; the prophecy will be fulfilled; God's ancient people will be
restored. Divine power and grace are not limited to this short epoch of
time; they are from everlasting to everlasting. Surely, here is a theme
for heaven's eternal songs!
XIII.
PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED.
Enlarging Vision--Promise to Abraham--A Host of Similar Promises
--Many of them Not Merely National--Their Fulfillment--Not Limited by
the Short Epoch of Time--The Present Only One Part of the Divine
Administration--Why the Revelation Was Not Given Sooner--Groping in
the Twilight--Growing Illumination--A Time for Everything--Dazzle or
Enlighten--Discoveries in Science and Revelation--Our Slowness in
Receiving Spiritual Truth--Limitations of Great Men.
If reason, even when based on revelation, still appears to you a very
fallible guide, will you please take note of some direct promises
contained in revelation itself? And I would ask you to consider how
these promises could ever come true apart from Restoration.
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