Now Thank We All Our God - King’s Heralds No Disappointment in Heaven - King’s Heralds Watchmen on the Walls of Zion - King’s Heralds After - Del Delker

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Years Before Time Ended


Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again. Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again. This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

Way of the Lord. From our Voice of Prophecy studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music with the King's Heralds, Del Delker, Brad Braley, and HMS Richards, the Voice of Prophecy speaker, a Seventh-day Adventist minister. The first hymn by the quartet has been in constant use for more than 300 years. It expresses praise and gratitude for our Heavenly Father's goodness. Now thank we all our God with heart and hand and voices.

Who wondrous things hath done, in whom his world rejoices. Who from our mother's arms hath blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love and still is is ours today. All praise and thanks to God, the Father now be given, the Son and him who reigns with them in highest heaven. The 1 eternal God, whom heaven and earth adore, for thus it was, is now, And shall be evermore. Our Heavenly Father, we pray that thou wilt help us to give a message today that will bring blessing and light to those who listen.

Remember, we pray, the sick and the troubled. O God, we pray for the religious freedom, the religious liberty of mankind. Hasten the glad day when the signs of the times which point to the coming of Jesus may all be fulfilled in his glorious return. In His name we ask it. A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, hold us who bow before thee, near to the heart of God. Amen. There's no disappointment in heaven. There's no disappointment in heaven, no weariness, sorrow, or pain. No song with a minor refrain.

The clouds of our earthly horizon Will never appear in the sky For all will be sunshine and gladness, with never a sob nor a sigh. I'm bound for that beautiful city my Lord has prepared for his own where all the redeemed of all ages sing glory around the white throne. Sometimes I grow homesick for heaven, And the glories I there shall behold. What a joy that will be, when my Savior I see, In that beautiful city of gold. Watchmen on the walls of Zion, what will tell us of the night?

Is the day star now arising? Will the morn soon greet our sight? O'er your vision shine there now some rays of light. O'er your vision shine there now some rays of light. We have found the chart and compass, and, oh, sure, the land is near.

Onward, onward we are hasting, soon the haven will appear. Let your voices your holy cheer. Let your voices sound aloud your holy cheer. Here now is HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker. His subject, the years before time ended.

Suppose we take our place on some planet, the great central planet for instance we call heaven. We assume that we have been welcomed by our Lord as among the faithful. We have been caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And from this continuity of existence which we call eternity, we are looking back into the era of time, back before Christ's second advent to the days in which we now live, the years which we call the latter days, the years before time ended. We shall try to describe those last days of the earth from the vantage point of the redeemed.

To facilitate this, let us look back from where we stand right now, this year, to the years before our Lord's first advent to this world and the subsequent destruction of Jerusalem, which is a type of the end of the world. As we look back through the telescope of history, we are surprised that the people of those days did not recognize what was coming. It seems that they had every reason to know that Jesus of Nazareth was the true Messiah, the Son of God. Why didn't they recognize Him? Why didn't they receive Him?

Someone may say, well, why should they? How did they know who He was? How could they know? The answer is that they had every opportunity to know. Jesus didn't come to this world without previous announcement in the writings of Holy Scripture.

The prophets of God had predicted His coming. There had indeed been signs of the times. And to the men of Christ's generation who rejected him, he said, O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, that is, you can read the weather from the signs in the heavens, but can ye not discern the signs of the times? That's Matthew 16, verse 3. That was the trouble with the people of those days.

They paid no attention to the signs of the times which stared them in the face. For instance, what sign had the prophet Isaiah given nearly 700 years before by which Jesus might be known as the true Messiah. Listen, Isaiah 714, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Was this fulfilled?

It certainly was. Here's the record in Matthew 1.22. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel. When you read the preceding verses, you will discover that this is the story of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, born of the Virgin Mary, conceived of the Holy Ghost. He entered this world without a human father.

That's the testimony of Scripture. Here's another sign that should have been recognized, Micah 5, 2, Bethel Bethlehem, Ephrathah, the very town is named from which he should come, who was to be the true Messiah, the true Christ. Then we turn to the ninth chapter of Daniel's prophecy. It's clear that Jesus was not only to be born in the town predicted and in the way predicted, but that he was to begin his ministry at the very time predicted. The first 69 weeks of the 70 week prophecy of Daniel the 9th chapter reached to the year AD 27.

At that very time Jesus appeared at the Jordan River for baptism. Read it in your own Bible and see. Strange to say the people of Christ's day expected him to come as a king, a great military leader to overthrow their enemies, the Romans. And because he did not come in that way, they rejected him or at least neglected him. What about the days just before his second advent, the times in which we live?

Remember we're looking back now at the days, weeks, months, and years before time ended. The apostle Paul wrote, "...as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ at his coming. Then cometh the end. 1 Corinthians 15.

It is that last sentence, Then cometh the end, that our modern mind doesn't like to accept. It's not God's plan that we should always be worrying about the end, but certainly we should take it into account. A man of 70 or 80 years of age should not always be thinking about his approaching death. But if he is a wise man, he will certainly take it into account and not ignore it. It would be foolish for him to enter into plans that might call for 20, 30, or 40 years more of life.

At least he will make his will. He should have done so long since. Now C.S. Lewis, the well-known British scholar and writer, reminds us that what death is to each man, the second coming of Christ is to the whole human race. We have absolute proof that every human life is precarious, short, temporary, provisional, and no 1 should give all of his heart to anything which ends when his life ends.

Even Christians find it hard to remember that the whole life of humanity as we know it is also short, precarious, temporary and provisional. Yes, indeed it is. Dr. Lewis reminds us also that most scientists now join with the theologians in declaring that all the great achievements of our civilization, which are of this world, will actually come to nothing in the end. That mankind in all his history, while longer alive than men individually, is equally mortal as are they.

The only point on which the scientists and the theologians differ is that the scientists expect a slow decay from within, while the Theologians, according to the Holy Scriptures, know that the end will come with a sudden interruption from without at some moment when we are not expecting it. As we look back from the bright planet, we see that for about 200 years Before the end came, there was more and more talk about the possibility of such an event. In fact, it rose to such a crescendo that it aroused a great public reaction against it, especially among the intelligentsia, the scientists, the philosophers, others who were quite well pleased with their own accomplishments in what they called this modern and later the atomic age. The basic philosophy taught in the schools, published in the newspapers, assumed by most educated people, was the evolutionary doctrine of progress and uniformity. In reply to the preachers of the actual end of time, these men declared, Where is the promise of his coming?

For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of." 2nd Peter 3 verse 4. Ignorant of the creation of the world by the Word of God in the beginning. Ignorant that the whole creation is sustained by the Word of God, ignorant that it came to an end once in the great deluge, ignorant that it will meet a fiery end in the day when the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, or as the original Greek puts it, in an atom, in the flash of an eye. As we look back from eternity into time, we see 12 great signs which should have informed intelligent minds of the great changes coming.

Signs clearly predicted by the world's supreme intellect. These 12 signs may be listed as follows. Now note carefully. First, the increase of knowledge. Daniel 12, 4.

Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. The great scientific age in which we live. Second, an unparalleled running to and fro, all sorts of travel over the earth. Third, the great dark day of May 19, 1780, Mark 13. Fourth, Great star shower of November 13, 1833, also in Mark 13.

5. Wars and rumors of wars, distress of nations, Matthew 24, 6. 6. Worldwide peace movements, Isaiah the second chapter. 7, lawlessness and immorality, Luke the 17th chapter.

8, disturbances in nature, pestilence, earthquakes, storm, Isaiah 24. 9, social and economic revolution and conflict, James the fifth chapter. 10, a worldwide wave of spiritualism in religion, 1st Timothy 4. 11, The great apostasy from the Christian faith. 2 Timothy 3.

12. And last, the proclamation of the gospel to all nations in the last generation, Matthew 24, 14. Before the first advent of Christ to this earth, the signs and prophecies which had clearly predicted his coming were ignored by most people. Before his second coming, the signs of the times again are ignored by great multitudes. But some will be looking for them.

Of them it had been written, Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Revelation 14, 12. That these people would be on earth just before the coming of Christ at the end of time as such is clearly seen by reading the following verse. And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud 1 sat like unto the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." That's Revelation 14, 14. So the people pictured are here just before Christ comes.

Looking at things from this standpoint over an eternity as we look back into the years before time ended, It seems that at least 4 of these great signs should have convinced the last generation that it was the last. The first of these is the increase of knowledge, a sudden outburst of scientific exploration of the human mind and of nature, the like of which the world had never seen anything before. Thousands and thousands of years had passed by. People thought, lived, traveled the same old way. Suddenly, in the last 200 years of the world's life, the whole world's ablaze with intellectual activity.

After 6, 000 years of plotting along with the speed of an ox team, suddenly power-driven motors send the world into a dizzy spiral. Millions and millions of vehicles propelled by steam, petroleum products, atomic energy. The heavens are filled with commerce, the earth with vehicles. The second great reason why they should have known, telescoping time and putting ourselves back in the 20th century from eternity and knowing as millions did that that century was the most warlike of all the centuries in the history of the earth, in which millions were killed and billions of dollars spent, it seems that no 1 remembered the second great sign that Jesus gave. You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.

Matthew 24, 6. In the third place, in some strange way, it seems now as we think of it, that the great apostasy from the Christian faith, everywhere evident in the last 2 centuries of Earth's time, should have failed to impress more Christians with its ominous meaning. The scientific age, the age of knowledge with the tremendous physical progress, departing from the faith, not because the faith was unbelievable in the light of science, But because it was unpalatable to the heart of pride, only a few comparatively listened to the words of apostolic prophecy, this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection. It goes on and gives 19 sins which will be prominent at that time. And then, listen to these words, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.

Professing themselves to be Christians, or to be at least religious. 2 Timothy 3, first verses. And the fourth great sign, which man should have seen, was this, prevailing unbelief. And the proclamation of the gospel in the middle of it going to all the world. The wonderful, wonderful, worldwide proclamation of the Gospel.

That was the greatest, most wonderful sign of all. We see consecrated preachers going everywhere, great publishing houses rolling the presses night and day, television programs, radio broadcasts. Above all, the gospel going by word of mouth from friend to friend, stranger to stranger, reaching like a wave of benediction around the world, proclaiming the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus until the last man in the outermost corner has heard it. That's the great sign that we see everywhere now. We think the voice of prophecy is a part of that great sign.

My friends, as we look back from eternity into the years before time ended, we see those things. Friends, we're living in those years now. What will it be like when we look back to them? What a view it would be to look back from eternity into our time. Isn't it really time for us now, while there is time, to look forward to that day when there shall be no time in that world of tomorrow, when the past, present, and future are all alike to God.

After the toil and the heat of the day, after my troubles are past, After the sorrows are taken away, I shall see Jesus at last. He will be waiting for me. Jesus, so kind and true, On his beautiful throne, On his beautiful throne, he will welcome me home. After the day is through. After the heartaches and sighing shall cease after the cold winter's blast.

After the conflict comes glorious peace. I shall see Jesus at last. He will be waiting for me. Jesus, so kind and true. On His beautiful throne, He will welcome me home, After the day is through.

The day is through. This is Orville Iverson of The Voice of Prophecy, praying that the love of Jesus will go with you throughout the coming week as we all keep looking up, going forward in faith. Have faith in God, the signs of the times we see. Have faith in God, things past and things yet to be. Have faith in God for all, for you and for me.

Have faith dear friend in God. We hope that our broadcast has brought you spiritual blessing today. We trust you will tell others about it. Join us again next week for another broadcast brought to you by the Voice of Prophecy. And now we say, The Lord bless thee and keep thee.

The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. ALL SING Amen. Peace. Amen.

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