BRITISH-ISRAEL LECTURE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23858, 12 July 1939, Page 5

BRITISH-ISRAEL LECTURE

■■■ ■ yj.r ... ■ ~—“ ; -ft .The second;OC;a: &HH'. Was. del i ver »?d, iSst /jeVenin g; . jioiv B«* turned the lecturer, the Rev. J. S. Pate, taking as hiis subject “Biblical Locks Fitted by Historical -Keys/? strated prophecy and history by a lock and key and showed that a large part of the Bible was prophecy. “There were two. aspects of prophecy.” said*the speaker “theprophet preached to the people Of his’bWn day. and also gave out the intimations of the Almighty the Book of Afiiog iii. % it is?.written, ‘Surely the Lord God.will'do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto the servants the prophets,’ God’s purposes were enshrined in His promises and the prophecies. In the Gospel of Matthew .occur the it might be.fulfilled which W|s spoken by the,-. prpphets.ir ?!Th6sfi:‘ woods occur it times £tnd;shoi/| to m aspect of wait & his-torical-events. "i 'M- “ Christianity,” Mr Pate on an historical basis, but the historical was preceded f by the prophetical. This pertained to the Virgin Birth qfja Son with the Immanuel name prophesied by Isaiah and fulfilled 700. years after. Micah’s prophecy regarding the birthplace was literally fulfilled. The events of the day of Pentecost as Interpreted by the Apostle Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost was also a fulfilment of prophecy.. This is. that which wasspoken by the Prophet Jdel v ‘ The. conversion of the Ethiopian Eumich was due’to the exposition of Philip as showing the similarity of: the events in Christ’s life with the prophecies of Isaiah.’ The method employed,- was the identity between prophecy and its fulfilment in Christ. Many pebble.” said the speaker, “contended that Christ was the key to the Old Testament- but this was only partly true. Christ .fulfils the Christ prophecies, but He does riot fulfil, the national prophecies. He fulfils only the' prophecies concerning‘Himself.' National prophecies demand national fulfilments. National position, power, popu-lation.,.form.-etc., must.,be :fu,lflilfd ip a national, way;. Consistency, of..ipterpretationx demands all this." grid the position of the British Empire in the world is to an ever-increasing number of people the only logical fulfifllment of God’s promises to Abraham. Isaac, and: Jacob tom^rided^ £;•' :-■ : -r- 4