Article November 18, 1961 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Earl L. Douglass, W. R. Matthews

Earl L. Douglass in The Fullerton News-Tribune Fullerton, California

St. Paul was required on one occasion to appear as a prisoner before King Agrippa and his wife Queen Bernice. He recited the circumstances which had led up to his conversion. Christ had appeared to Paul in a vision as he was on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus. Paul's description of that profound vision ends with the stirring declaration: "Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision" (Act 26:19).

Visions have not ceased. The validity of objective visions today is too lengthy a subject to be discussed here. But the inner vision, the illumination, the intuition—this type of vision is as real today as it has ever been.... We can have just as definite and profound guidance today as did the saints of old. The Holy Spirit is God's presence in the world guiding men into the way of all truth.

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