W.W. Prescott

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The Everlasting Gospel

By W.W. Prescott

Proposition One.-- That which is to be preached a t this time is designated by inspiration as " the everlasting gospel." Rev. 1 4 : 6.

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Is Proposition One.—'The name Je­hovah reveals God in covenant relation with His people, as the God of the covenant. Deut. 7:9.

Note.-" Blessed is the man who truly knows God as his covenant God; who…

Proposition One.— Sin is a state of enmity against the holiness of God, which is expressed in overt acts of rebellion against the gov­ernment of God, and involves con­demnation, wrath, and death. Col. 1: 21; Rom. 5: 16; 1: 18; 2:…

Proposition One.— In the original creation, in which Jesus Christ was the mediator (1 Cor. 8: 6; John 1: 1­3), man was endowed with the capacity of communion with God through the indwelling Spirit. Gen. 1: 26, 27; 2: 7.

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Proposition One.— An adequate in­terpretation of the expression, " The hour of His judgment is come," which points to the intercessory work of Christ as our High Priest, will involve a study of the Person of the Mediator, who He…

The second beast of the thirteenth chapter evidently represents a gov­ernment established upon the princi­ples in harmony with the character and teaching of the Lamb (Matt. 22:21), as indicated by " two horns like a lamb," but the fact that…

We have found that the real subject of the book of Daniel is the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of the Son of man, the Messiah of prophecy, to whom there was given " dominion, and glory, and a kingdom." Dan. 7:14. We shall find the same…

In the first chapter we find some striking characterizations of Christ. He is " the faithful witness " (cf. John 8: 14; 18: 37) ; He it is who " loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by His blood; " He is " the Alpha and the Omega;…

In the January and February numbers of The Ministry I gave consideration to the international conference on Life and Work held at Oxford, England, last July, and now I shall deal with the similar conference on Faith and…

Religious liberalism, having repudiated the Scrip­tures as the authoritative revelation of truth concerning God, man, and the plan of redemption,—and consequently concerning the nature and citizen­ship of…

The thought of the church as a commu­nity, as set forth in the preceding arti­cle, has been further developed in the fo lowing extract:

"Unity is hopeless unless we can find a category which is large enough to contain the whole concrete…

The third specification in the series by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick on the failure of Modernism, is this:

"In the third place, Modernism has even watered clown and thinned out the central message and distinctive…

A paragraph from the author's preface to "Nabonidus and Belshazzar,"* will briefly suggest that this book is based upon extensive research and study in the field of archeology:

"The impulse to prepare this mono­graph…

I would like some help that would positively disprove the claim made by the Millennial Dawn people, that Revelation 20:5 is spurious, and that it is "not found in the oldest and most reliable Greek manuscripts,…

The message of the angel to the shepherds on the plains of Bethle­hem at the time of the birth of Jesus contains a divine summary of the cen­tral features of the gospel. Let us read it:

"Be not afraid; for behold,…

2. Using the title "the man…

Editorial Forword: For some time the conviction has grown upon us that we need to have our eyes turned again and again to the really vital things in the religious world about us—the larger trends and movements that indicate…

In developing the significance of the term Christ, or Messiah, the Anointed, as applied to the child born in Beth­lehem, we should note that at the time when it was used by the angel it was generally interpreted as referring…

The simplification of the calendar does not now appear to be so simple a question as may have been supposed at first. The proponents of this change seem to have quite an under­taking on their hands, if we may judge by…

The proposition submitted for study in a former article was this: "The fundamental cause of the present world crisis is that men in positions of responsibility, both in the church and in the state, have…

Our mission is to preach the ever­lasting lasting gospel to every nation, kin­dred, tongue, and people. But the only gospel that saves from sin is the gospel of personal experience. And the only effective preaching of…

It is a simple fact of history that in establishing one of the most important dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church, the infallibility of the pope defined by the Vatican Council held in 1870, this rule of absolutely following…

Let us look further into Paul's ex­perience. He states, "It pleased God . . . to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him." You remember Paul went to Athens and met those wise men,—the Epicureans, the Stoic philosophers,—and he reasoned…

A world of unrest! A world of lawlessness! A world of perplexity! A world of sorrow and suffering! What is the real cause of all this? Is there any remedy, and if so, what is it? We face facts, not theories; and we must deal with facts, if…

Let us briefly review our former study on "The Gospel of Experi­ence:"

1. Our mission is to preach the ever­lasting gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

2.…

There is no person in all the annals of history in behalf of whom there is more convincing testimony than for Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of the New Testament. To some who have not given the matter serious attention,…

Have Catholic leaders ever called Rome "Babylon," or is that term used only by Protes­tants?

Before the Reformation, and especially since that revolution in religious thinking and interpretation, those who have rejected the…

The letter of Pliny the Younger, written in 107 A. D., when he was the representative of the Roman government in Bithynia, and addressed to the then reigning emperor Trajan, "is considered one of the most important documents remaining of…

What is the proper punctuation of the Greek text in Luke 23:43? Should it be punctuated in such a way as to connect sameron ("today") with the verb Lego ("I say"), or with the verb esa ("thou shalt be")?

This…

The following brief selections from the spirit of prophecy are of much sig­nificance, and should serve both as a stimulus and a guide in the study of the books mentioned:

" Ministers should present the sure word of prophecy as the…

It is no longer necessary to cite extended proof to convince the man of average intelligence and of reasonable acquaintance with current events that we are living in a new era of world history. Within…

The historical sketches found in the second, third, and fourth chapters of the book of Daniel, when correctly un­derstood, will furnish a suggestive key for the understanding of the prophecies found in the later portion of this book. Daniel…

Rome's Change on Infallibility

How would you answer the question, "Has the Roman Catholic Church changed its teach­ings?" Please cite incontrovertible facts.

It is a well-known claim of the Roman Cath­olic Church…

There are some distinguishing fea­tures of the prophecy in the eighth chapter of Daniel which may be briefly mentioned. The time is the last year of Belshazzar, just before the fall of Babylon, probably in the same year. Although given before…

We now open the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, in which we find the consummation of the gospel of the grace of God, the culmination of His eternal purpose. We shall appreciate the contents of this book better if we give attention…

An important step in the history of  the Bible was the translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into the Greek language. This Greek version is commonly known as the Septuagint, often designated as the LXX:

"Its…