Daniel 9
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
I was thinking about Daniel's phophecies the other day and came upon an article by Sylvester Hassell, a Baptist minister, historian, and teacher. It had some good insights on the principles we can use to understand Bible prophecy. The following quotes were provided.
Martin Luther
When I was a monk, I allegorized everything; but now I have given up all allegorizing, and my first and best art is to explain the Scriptures according to the simple sense; for it is in the literal sense that power, doctrine, and art reside.
John Calvin
The true meaning of Scripture is the natural and obvious meaning, by which we ought resolutely to abide; the licentious system of the allegorists is undoubtedly a contrivance of Satan to undermine the authority of Scripture, and to take away from the reading of it the true advantage.
C. H. Spurgeon
The Bible is not a compilation of cleaver allegories or instructive poetical traditions; it teaches literal facts, and reveals tremendous realities. It will be an ill day for the church if the pulpit should ever appear to indorse the skeptical hypothesis that Holy Scripture is but the record of a refined mythology, in which globules of truth are dissolved in seas of poetic and imaginary detail.
For as long as I have mind enough to study the Bible, I suspect these quotes will be my basic, guiding principles. Good food for daily life.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
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