How could we more highly honor Christ?" (Nichol, "Answers to Objections" 199.)įrom Nebuchadnezzar's Kingdom to Christ's And it is this prophecy, so central to Adventist theology, that provides one of the most irrefutable proofs that the Christ of Bethlehem was indeed "Messiah the prince," whom "Moses and all the prophets" had foretold. When we preach from the prophetic book of Daniel we climax with the vision of the 2300 days of Daniel 8: 14, which includes the seventy-weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27. 19:16) coming to set up His everlasting kingdom. 5:6), to Christ as "King of kings, and Lord of lords" (Rev. 1:13), to Christ "a Lamb as it had been slain" (Rev. We turn the hearer's eyes upward to Christ walking amid the seven candlesticks (Rev. We focus on the opening words of the Revelation: "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass." Rev. It is in the books of Daniel and the Revelation, so frequently the basis of the sermons at our evangelistic meetings, that we find some of the most glorious passages descriptive of Christ's power and coming kingdom. "Nothing more definitely distinguishes us as a denomination than our belief that the prophetic portions of the Bible are intended of God to be understood and to guide us on the road to heaven.
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