Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart - King’s Heralds Holy Radiant Light - Occidental College Glee Club Ain’t Got Time to Die - Occidental College Glee Club I’m Looking Today for Him - Del Delker

Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart - King’s Heralds Holy Radiant Light - Occidental College Glee Club Ain’t Got Time to Die - Occidental College Glee Club I’m Looking Today for Him - Del Delker

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

As Old As Methuselah

Lift up the trumpet and loudly ring. Jesus is calming again. Cheer PEPs be joyful. Jesus is calming. Again, This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Call again, again, again. From our voice of Prophecy studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration at Music with the King's Heralds del Delker, Brad Braley and hm s Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker, a seventh day Adventist minister Rejo way on the cross of Christ King. Rejoice and sing Arthur train of Joy Rejo thanks and sing Still leave your standard still rejoice sing. Oh man, oh Our Heavenly Father. We seek thy blessing upon this broadcast and all who listen today we pray particularly for those who are sick and trouble. Bless them. Give them help and strength. Oh Lord, we pray for the peace of the world in Jesus name Place of Oh Jesus. Last redeemer sent from the heart of God hold us who bow before the near to the heart of God. The Glee clubs of Occidental College in Los Angeles are well known throughout the west for their beautiful renditions of fine coral music. We are happy to present to our voice of prophecy audience, these 75 young people as they sing two numbers under the direction of Howard Swan, chairman of the Music Department of Occident College. The first is from the Treasure House of Russian Church music. Holy radiant light. The accidental college glee clubs changed the mood in the style now to bring us a comparatively new spiritual written by Hall Johnson, famous Negro acquired director and composer. Ain't God time to die? Mallory Walker is the soloist. No so busy praise in my Jesus. Keep so busy. Praise in my Jesus. Keep so busy. Praise in my Jesus. Thank God time When I'm, when I'm, when I'm Glory, glory, So busy work converter Kingdom King. So busy Work Kingdom King. So kingdom all of my glory. Glory In my master. Keep so Busy serving My master. Keep so busy Serving my master. Thank God I'm Praise Jesus. Praise. Praise God. Thank you Mr. Howard Swan and the Oxidate College Glee clubs for taking the time to bring us this inspirational coral music and here now is hm s Richards. The voice of prophecy speaker is subject as old as Mathusla. Why do some many religious teachers today soft petal the second coming of Christ? Oh, the actors as though were some new fanatical idea out of harmony with Christian theology. Sometimes when you talk about the coming the Lord, they refer to William Miller as the man who thought Christ was coming in. Pointed out the definite day in 1844 and this is supposed to, well just to bring an end to the argument and bring the subject into disrepute. True enough, William Miller did make a mistake in announcing a definite day in which he thought the Lord would come, but he was man enough and Christian enough to admit his mistake and by the way, he was not at all the fool that some people have tried to make him out to be in his teaching, that Christ will come to this earth the second time and that his coming will be literal and visible, the greatest event the world's ever known. He was absolutely right scripturally right now the facts of the case are that the doctrine of the second coming of Christ is not something new. It is not something unbiblical, something unsound. The fact of Christ's return is the Christian's hope. As far as time is concerned, this doctrine is as old as Smith Thula as we have suggested in the title of this broadcast. Someone asks, can you prove it? Yes indeed. From early childhood we've heard people use the phrase as old as Mathusla. He of course lived to be the oldest man in all the history of the world according to the scripture and all the days of Mathusla where 960 and nine years says the Holy Book and he died Genesis 5 27. Now according to usher's chronology in the margin of our Bibles, MATHUSLA was born in the year 3,317 BC or 6 88 years after Adam was created. So you see, he lived as a contemporary of the first man for over 242 years. He lived as a contemporary of Noah for 600 years or he did not die until 1656 in the year of the world or 2349 bc, which was before the flood came. We can imagine him as one writer in these times Magazine says, chatting with a friend about anti delian world conditions and saying something like this. Well, about 800 years ago when I was just a lad of 168, my father did so and so. It's true that Mathusla lived a long, long time, but not nearly so long as his father. Many people overlooked this fact. His father was Enoch who lived much longer than Mathusla. In fact, he's still alive. He was a prophet. As we read in Jude the 14th verse, he was born in thirty three eighty two BC or 623 years after Adam and Eve were created. The Bible gives no record of his age after his 365th birthday because he never died. He's still living. He was translated to heaven without seeing death. Read it in Genesis 5 21 in Hebrews 11, verse five. Just think Enoch's birthday in 1957 will make him 5,339 years old. Now the reason I'm giving these facts about Enoch is to show you how old this doctrine of the second come of Christ really is. Because we read Enoch's prophecy in Jude the 14th verse and Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying, behold the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints. We shall not attempt to go into a full exposition of this passage of scripture. It's very interesting and there are many other lines of thought connected with it. We just want to emphasize this. Enoch looked for the return of Christ and all the wonderful things that will happen when he comes. Yes, Enoch was the seventh from Adam way, way back there some 5,000 years ago. The doctrine of Christ second advent was definitely proclaimed by this man of God. So you see it is not new, it's old like family life like the Sabbath, like faith in God. It's old like the sun and the moon and the rivers and the wind like summer and winter. It's old like getting up in the morning and going to bed at night. It's old like the human race itself and almost as old, this hope of God's people in all ages, the coming of our Lord in glory to make things right which have been wrong so long was proclaimed not only by Enoch but by all the prophets after him Job proclaimed at 1500 years before Christ was born. I know that my redeemer liveth, he said, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. Job 1925, the Psalms are just filled with prophecies of our Lord's return. For instance, Psalm 96 11, let the heavens rejoice. Let the earth be glad before the Lord before he cometh, he come with the judge the earth. About 700 years before Christ was born in Bethle, the prophet Isaiah said, behold the Lord God will come with a strong hand and his arm shall rule for him and his arm shall not only rule for him, but it says his reward is with him. That's Isaiah 40, verse 10. The prophet Daniel envisioned 500 years before Jesus was born spoke of one coming like the son of man and when we turned to the New Testament, we find John the Baptist right in the very beginning of the gospels. Speaking of the second coming, you'll find it in Luke three 17. And then Jesus himself talked about it and said, I'll come again. And at the very end of the New Testament we open the book of Revelation and again we hear the words of Jesus as it were from heaven saying, behold I come quickly. Surely I come quickly. That's the very last promise in the very last chapter of the last book of the New Testament. Remember this, the holy apostles taught the second coming and all the prophets taught it and Jesus taught it. Why shouldn't we all believe it? There's nothing new about that doctrine. It's the old, old doctrine. You know the apostles creed, which a great many people have learned to repeat in which is very old too, goes back to the early days of a Christian Church has these words, he shall come again to judge the quick and the dead. This agrees with the words of the angel of the Mount of the ascension. This same Jesus which is taken up from you unto heaven shall so come as you have seen him in like manner. Acts one 11. So our Lord Jesus Christ under oath before the court which condemned him to death in Jerusalem testified hereafter shall Jesus see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven? We read those words in Matthew 26. If this as Dr. Lewis is not in an integral part of the faith once given to the saints, I do not know what it is. This great theologian agrees with this on this point, no, there's nothing new about this wonderful, wonderful truth from the very beginning of time. It's been preached and preached with power, ignorance of our age in reference to the origin and destiny of the world and how it began by the creative word of God is astounding and this ignorance has cut off faith in the second come of Christ. For this they willingly ignorant of God says how the world began that by the word of the Lord, the heavens word of old that is were created the earth standing out of the water and in the water and he says they don't know about this. Therefore they do not know that the same world is kept in store by the word of God reserved for the final tradition of ungodly man. Second Peter three verses five and seven. This ignorance should not my friends afflict us when we have the open word of God, as God made the world in the beginning, he will remake it. In the end, his purpose will be carried out. Isn't it time that Protestants and Catholics as well should revive the teaching of the second coming of Christ? It's a blessed hope. The Anglican Book of Common Prayer, the fourth article of religion says Christ did truly rise again from the death and took his body with flesh and bones and all things app pertaining to the perfection of man's nature, where with the ascended into heaven and there sit until he returned. And judge all meant the last day. And the keno, the burial service in the same book is that we have the certain hope of the resurrection at the coming of Christ. Wonderful truths. Friends, are we prepared for it? Are we looking for it? Yes. Some In the last days, the prophecy said would depart from the faith and deny it. Verse Timothy four, one, we are to believe it and rejoice in it. And now we come to our final promise. It's in Titus two, 11 to 13 looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. So let us look for him. Truly there is nothing new in the Bible from beginning to end about this doctrine of Christ's return. It's as old as mathusla, as proved by the words of Christ. So we are looking today for him. I am looking today for hiss, appearing a thrilling expectancy floods through my breast, the multipled sign. Sure the moment is nearing when we shall see Jesus find peace. Sweet rest. I'm looking, I keep, I'm looking today. For Now. This is Arbel Iverson of the voice of prophecy saying throughout the days ahead, let us trust God and go forward in faith. Have faith in God whose holy word is true. Have faith in God, the promise, old and new, have faith in God, his grace for me, for you have faith. Dear friend in God, a very, very important part of our work at the Voice of Prophecy is the Ministry of Prayer. We founded the Worldwide Prayer Service which meets every Thursday everywhere in the world. Would you not like to be a part of it? Just remember to pray on Thursday first for yourself, that God may use you greatly and bless you in his service then for all who, listen to the voice of prophecy and you'll be a part of our worldwide prayer circle every Thursday and may God bless you in it. We hope our program today has brought you blessing and help, and we invite you to join us again next week for another broadcast brought to you by the Voice of Prophecy. And so we say the Lord, bless the and keep the the Lord, make his face shine upon the and be gracious unto the the Lord. Lift up his continents upon the and give the peace, Man.

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