Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-18
Memorable Scrptural Prophecies Already Fulfilled

TX IF AN has always longed to know the
lVE future. Almost as he began to
think he wanted to pierce the clouds
Of what was to be and learn what his fate
or the fate Of his country was to be.
Poets and prophets have existed In all ages
and among all peoples. for the demand OF all
men and women created the supply The poet
by his intuitions and the prophet by his reyela-
lions have been able to crafty this universal
desire planting hopes in the hearts OF man.
kind. which have not always been realized But
they have stirred nations BY their predictions
and have often been able to bring about just
what they had foretold by the influence they
have e4erted upon men of action They have
been the "seers." the men who saw. and saw
clearly. even though TO other less gifted human
beings all the future was wrapped in the mist
% the unknowabe
In some rare instances some power not
known 10 themselves, has compelled them 70
prophecy that which they themselves had not
intended doing. The most notable instance of
this contrariness OF prophecy is that OF Balaam.
He he'd been told by Balak the enemy of the
lsraelitee. TO prophesy the destruction OF Israel.
Bu as he stood upon the mountain top and
looked out over the people the inspiration Of the
truth came home TO him. and his unwilling lips
blessed instead OF cursng, and he prophesied
the glory OF Israel instead of its destruction
His propnesy was fulfilled many years after.
waro win completeness which was unsus.
pected By the prophet himself when he uttered
his blessing.
The prophet was more than a preacher-he
was the statesman OF his age, and viewing all
OF the purposes OF men h2 foretod the future
with the certainty which more than mar.
vellous
In the. time of the Kings Of Israel, when
Ahab mad married the idolatrous and wicked
Jezeoel IT was the prophet Elijah who foretold
inc death OF the king and OF this shameless
woman ID words that were fulfilled to the let
yer lhese are the words of Elijah in I
Kings. XXI. with other passages telling the ter.
rible fate OF this king:
~ And Ahab said 10 Elijah Hast thou found
me, NINE Enemy? And he answered, ! have
found thee. because thou hast sold thvsaI IA
work evil In the sight OF the Lord
- behold. will bring evil upon thee. and
WI 'Ake away thy posterity, and will cut off
MP and left in Israel
- And VIII make thine house like the house
OF Jerononm, the SOD OF Nebat. and like the
mouse o. baasha. the son of Ahijah, for the
pFNVocatioD wherewth thou hast Droyoked
III" 10 anger and made Israel to sin
rs And OF Jezebel also spake the Lord cav
lezrceI ~ VIC val VI
- I'm that dieth OF Ahab in the city the
dogs sEaD eat. and him that dieth In the tait
fhaN the fowls OF the air eat
!Ni''9 ana certain man drew bow al
'chtnrc ana smote the King of Israel he
'"peh me points OF the harness: wherefore no
S"!u unto the driver OF his chariot Turn thine
H"Ho "lo carry me OUT OF the host for am
wounded '' ''' am
90 ana Inc hattie increased that day; ana
me n!Ht was stayed up in his chariot agains,
me "yrihns and died at even: ana the blood
chario; ''' "'Ns' OF the
so Ano one washed the chariot In INC ma,
OF Safnaria. and the dogs licked nm he 49,, ps'