BIBLICAL PROPHECY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 15

BIBLICAL PROPHECY.

(To the Editor.*

Sir, —In your issue of Saturday there appears an article on this subject by Mr. S. L. P. Rimmer. After an ingenious, if unconvincing, effort to showthat currant national events are foretold in the Bible, we get the comforting information on the same authority, that although recent European revolutions have been bloodless, really sanguinary affairs are ahead, to be followed with wars, in which the majority of the hucnan race will perish, after which Russia and Germany will invade Palestins, ttc taking of Jerusalem about the year 1934 being the signal for the last trump to sound, ushering in the Millennium. In face of this warning, we find people all round investing in long terra securities. If the'futility of investing in a lease. Government loan, life insurance, or what not, maturing years after the last date in time, be pointed out to such people, they have the of days of Christianity, when the end was hourly expected, "down through the" centuries to the latest -Day of Judgment scare in the United States a few months back; Others point, to the hundred and more, unfulfilled promises and prophecies that occur in the Bible, and to places where mutually destructive prophecies are to be found. They refuse to place crndence in the discredited art of fancifully interpreting obccure passages found in a doubtful translation of ancient Hebrew writings. They show the varied renderings in the Authorised, the Revised and the Douay versions, differences that completely upset the mathematical computations of would be interpreters. Some (ruestion why an Almighty Being. Creator of the Universe, should stoop to conceal his -ultimate purposes in such an obscure manner as to have deluded thousands of devout men throushout the ages. In fine, even those who propasatS these doctrines "of last things, talce heed to provide for the morrow, just on the chance- that -their • predictions, like all their predecessors, may miscarry. It is easy to plausibly fit prophecies made in general terms on past events: to discern from them the future is to develop fatalism, eliminate progress and court fail-are.—l am, etc.. A.E.C. %