The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers (Volume 4) - Couverture souple

LeRoy E. Froom

9780828024594: The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers (Volume 4)

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ISBN 10 : 0828024596 ISBN 13 : 9780828024594

Editeur : Review and Herald Publishing Association

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From the Author to the Reader.

The Climax of Centuries of Antecedent Preparation

The majestic cathedrals that adorn the Old World were not the work of a few short years, but were the result of generations of laborious effort. Centuries usually elapsed between the laying of the foundation stones and the completion of the towering superstructures, Such massive creations were inevitably a slow, painstaking task. The foundations were laid with great care and characterized by solidity. Deep excavations reached down to the solid bedrock on which they were built. And the extensive work of erection that followed was so painstaking and thorough that the results were most impressive and enduring.

Thus also with the second advent hope, based on Bible prophecy and eventuating in the great Second Advent Movement of the nineteenth century, popularly yet often contemptuously known as Millerism,* and now before us for study. Millerism was not a cause but a consequence. Its participants held that it was not a new, spontaneous development—not an isolated, independent, irrational, unrelated phenomenon, mushrooming to the surface at that time. They maintained, instead, that it was the inevitable outcome of two thousand years of solid preparatory backgrounds, perceptions, and cumulative fulfillments in the field of prophecy.

Its leaders profoundly felt that, logically and historically, it had to be; just as verily as the great Reformation of the sixteenth century had at that time to be—because the appointed hour had come, in the divine plan of the ages, for it to appear and give its destined witness. And of this the Reformers in their day were similarly conscious. They considered themselves to be men of destiny, men with a mission, acting under the guidance of an All-wise Providence, a product of prophecy.

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