Prophecy Speaks (E.A.Rowell).pdf

She looked. Every face in the audience was alight with eager curiosity; eyes sparkled
with interest.
“The fact that you are unbelievers, that you are unwilling witnesses, makes your
testimony all the more valuable,” continued Mr. Dare as Mr. Emerson sat down. “God
declared twenty-five hundred years ago that He is going to prove His Word by the very ones
who say they doubt His Word. This is a daring statement. Yet it is by your evidence that
Bible prophecies will be proved.
“While science has solved many strange problems, and seems to be almost
supernatural, it has not brought us one whit nearer to penetrating the future than were the
ancients. Human beings can as easily pluck the stars from the Milky Way as they can wrest
from the future its secrets. We are utterly unable to foresee even dimly the events of
tomorrow. Before us is a black, impenetrable wall of uncertainty. We can guess, we can
hope, but we cannot know.
“But if the future has been read; if centuries ago numerous predictions, so varied and
so minute that they cover well-known nations and extend over thousands of years — if such
predictions have been made so as to preclude all possibility of wresting the facts to fit the
prophecy; if sceptics themselves admit the accuracy of the fulfillment, and can offer no
explanation; and if you here are witnesses to this fulfillment of prophecies made over twentyfive
hundred years ago, how can you doubt that some wisdom other than human foretold the
events that have come to pass
“What shall we say of a large Book filled with predictions of events overspreading all
time and all nations, events utterly disconnected from any facts existing at the time of their
utterance, events totally unlike anything ever known and the reverse of all experience, in all
respects improbable and often seemingly impossible, events entering into the life of the world
in all its phases? A series of hundreds of such events were demonstrably predicted ages
before fulfillment, and not one of them has gone contrary, as might well be the case with so
many predictions. The proof of their fulfillment is now existing in tangible form before your
eyes. What shall we say of such a Book?
“In the verses that I have quoted, God has challenged anyone and everyone on earth to
a prophecy contest, and will abide by the result. God claims to be the only one who can look
into the future and make predictions. He tells us He has done this, and offers these
prophecies as the one great proof of His Godhead.
“Is it a fact that no other book in existence makes such a claim? Can you produce any
other book claiming to contain predictions looking hundreds of years, or even tens of years,
into the future? If you know of any in any language, produce it. God Himself challenges
you.
“Sceptics have gone to great pains and expense to disprove the Bible. I will tell you
two very simple, effective, and final methods of shattering the Bible to atoms: First, just
disprove the prophecies; second, produce some other book containing real prophecies. God
says neither can be done. To do either will blast for ever all confidence in the Bible as the
Word of God. Why have unbelievers never done this? Does anyone here claim that this has
been done? Will anyone here attempt to do it?”
David Dare paused for the reply he felt sure would follow. There was an uneasy stir
among the audience. Mr. Emerson arose and spoke:
“Bring on your prophecies, and we will see what we can do. You have made some
large, not to say preposterous, claims for them. Let us now have your evidence.”
“I am more than pleased to present it,” replied Mr. Dare.
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