The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-01

confidence we scar these prophecies
of holy men Of God, who spake "a
they were. moved by the, HOLY SpiSlt..,
believing they win both make clear
! the meaning Of the strange and mys-
| FERROUS conditions in the world at
| the present time, and yield to US the
| secrets of the days to come.
By a of illustration, allow us
tor lay byssthe side of some OF the
clear prophetic acknowledgements
ine the nations of the world, some
! of the fulfllments which history rec
ords. And let it be clearly under
, stood that, as the late Arthur 1.
Pierson truly says, "to establish one
prophecy is to carry the whole for
tress of the enemy by storm, for 1t
settles the inspiration OF the "ord
Regarding the Exodus Movement.
On one occasion the Lord spoke TO
Abraham in a vision, saying:
"Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land mat IS
not theirs, and shall serve them; and
thew shall afflict them four hundred
wears: and also that nation whom
they Shall serve, will l judge; and
afferward shall they come out with
GREAT substance. And. thou shalt go
be buried in a good old age. But
I othy fathers in peace; thou shalt
in the fourth generation they shall
COME hither again: for the lnlqulty
If the Amorites is not yet full" Gen.
15:13-16.
Here is a plain prophecy. In pro-
cess of time Abraham died. His peo-
:. nle went down into Lg:pt and p
: came servants in a strange land. The
!, centuries rolled by, and when the
, time came when God had said they
+ would be delivered from the bond
age of Egypt, it seemed an impossl-
: hijity. Another king was on the
throne Of the Pharaohs, who did not
/, know Joseph, and, in response to the
request of Moses that his people be
: allowed, to go, said, 81 know not the
, lord. neither will l let Israel CO.
The case looked hopeless. How
: could Israel go out of Egypt. But
q pharaoh was not arrayed against q
nation of helpless slaves only, but
against a prophecy uttered by Je-
{ hoya himself. Pharaoh and his host
were i, bathing -. hopefessly3f against
$ Gods word. God had said that they
Q would "come out" and as well seek
To stop the ebb and flow of the ocean
tides. or the sun in its course, as 70
q seek to hinder the fulflment of thai
e which the Most High had decreed.
"It came to pass at the end OF
n the four hundred and thirty years
+ even the selfsame day it came tc
d pass. that all the hosts of the Lore
f went out from the land of Egypt,
d Ex 12:41. The word of the Lord
was accurately fulfilled.
e Speaking of Egypt. an ancient
prophet said:
at shall be the basest of the
kingdoms; neither shall 1T eXalt itseli
;. any more above the nations: TOR !
S will diminish them, and they sinai
2 no more rule over the nations
$ Ezekiel 29:15.
f Mark the words. The nation Is
not to become extinct; 1T is to exist,
: but is to be base. How could tins
ever be? The fertility of Egypt won
for her at one time the title or tine
M of the world" she mas
been the mother of science and let
burned upon her hearth. the nations
52d lindled the lamp of knowledge.
which has burned on age after age;
and which now flames so brightly
This prediction of the prophet
would not have been based on any
human foresight or marvellous guess,
for Egypt at that time stood hone
!. among the nations, great, wise, and
self-respecting; around her the
choicest treasures of earth; her land
filed with imperishable monuments
of might and skill and genius; her
'people. in their order and enllghten,,
ment and civilization, a marvel OF
all time" AS late as the seventh
, century. we are told the Mohamme'
dan hosts hesitated to attack the city
Of Alexandria. "The sight of its
magnificence and wealth filled the
. children of the East with amaze
ment." Yet it was destroyed accord
ING to prophecy. It's siege lasted fol
MANY months. The destruction O.
it's vast library has been regarded
\ as a world calamity. Thebes was +;
MAGNIFICENT city. Speaking OF IT.
ruins. Pococke says they are o
"such magnificence and solidlty a
NAV convince anyone who behold
them that, without some extraor
:. binary accident, they must have last
ed forever"
But regardless of all this grand
eur and stability of Egypt's cite
and monuments, decay and dislnte
Grafton have done their work. I'm
4 has fulfilled the specifications o
prophecy. The ravages of time hav
: defaced and ruined Egypt's temple:
"The hopeless bondage Of centurIe
has ouenched every spark OF amp
ton in the breasts OF the descen ~
ants of the Pharaohs; and under Tn
iron heel of oppression, genius an
talent, and even intellect itself see E;
TO have been extinguished." III
word of Jehovah has been literal
fulfilled. The rich, proud, lntellec
nal kingdom of the Pharaohs is n
sntirelv extinct, but, as the proph'
said. it is the "basest of the kim
doms." The fulillments OF pr