Book of the Ages

[Daily Devotional]

Book of the Ages 

     For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Ps. 119:89.  

     The Word of God covers a period of history reaching from the Creation
to the coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven. Yea, more, it
carries the mind forward to the future life, and opens before it the glories
of Paradise restored. Through all these centuries the truth of God has
remained the same. That which was truth in the beginning is truth now.
Although new and important truths appropriate for succeeding generations
have been opened to the understanding, the present revealings do not
contradict those of the past. Every new truth understood only makes more
significant the old.  

     Commencing with the Fall, down through the patriarchal and Jewish ages
even to the present time, there has been a gradual unfolding of the purposes
of God in the plan of redemption. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses
understood the gospel through Christ; they looked for the salvation of the
race through man's substitute and surety. These holy men of old held
communion with the Saviour who was to come to our world in human flesh, and
some of them talked with Christ and heavenly angels face to face, as a man
talks with his friend.  

     As time has rolled on from Creation and the cross of Calvary, as
prophecy has been and is still fulfilling, light and knowledge have greatly
increased. . . . In the life and death of Christ, a light flashes back upon
the past, giving significance to the whole Jewish economy, and making of the
old and the new dispensations a complete whole. Nothing that God has
ordained in the plan of redemption can be dispensed with. It is the working
out of the divine will in the salvation of man.  

     All the truths of revelation are of value to us, and in contemplating
things of eternal interest, we shall gain true perceptions of the character
of God. . . . The entire character will be elevated and transformed. The
soul will be brought into harmony with Heaven.  

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