The Bible, the Spirit of Prophecy, and the Church

“The Lord Gave the Word”

It should he observed that when the time came for the message of warning and entreaty to he given, God sent His messengers with the life-giving words from heaven. This is reiterated over and over again in the Sacred Record. BSPC 8.1

“The Lord bath sent unto you all his servants the prophets!” Jeremiah 25:4. BSPC 8.2

“The Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending.” 2 Chronicles 36:15. BSPC 8.3

“Many years did thou forbear them, and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets!” Nehemiah 9:30. BSPC 8.4

The testimony through the prophet Zechariah is the same, for he writes concerning “the words which the Lord of hosts bath sent in his spirit by the former prophets!” Zechariah 7:12. Hence the word of God, the Holy Bible, the Scriptures of truth, constitutes a blessed gift from God to the human race. Here is the message of eternal love, the voice of entreaty, the plea to return to the Father’s house and find hope and joy in accepting the rich offer of divine mercy and salvation. BSPC 8.5