Editorial July 22, 1961 Issue

The Comfort of Scriptural Prophecy

Helen Wood Bauman

Christ Jesus was confident that Scriptural prophecy would be fulfilled. We find him saying in the Sermon on the Mount that he had not come to destroy the law or the prophets but to fulfill them. And even after his resurrection he rebuked his disciples for not grasping the significance of his crucifixion and resurrection as the fulfillment of prophecy. He said to two of them (Luke 24:25), "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." And we read that "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

Later, after blessing and breaking bread and giving it to the disciples at supper, "he vanished out of their sight," and they said in wonder, "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?"

The whole tenor of the New Testament sets forth the fact that the Old Testament prophecies of a Saviour, the Messiah, had been fulfilled. Again and again, we read the explanation of some action of Jesus or of circumstances surrounding him as occurring in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Editorial

"The ever-presence of ministering Love"