Outlines of prophetic truth Author:Robert Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. HOW THIS DISPENSATION WAS HIDDEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, AND REVEALED IN THE NEW. SECTION I. God's attitude towards the rejectors o... more »f His Christ; with the final issue thereof—an Exposition of Psalm ii. In the Old Testament Scriptures the two Advents of our blessed Lord are sometimes combined; so that it is not always easy to distinguish between them. There are, however, seven passages of Scripture—the number seven denoting completeness—in which the order of the Advents is very clearly observed; and there is a break also between the two, more or less distinct, for the purpose of shewing where this Dispensation occurs: the combined description of the Dispensation itself, in these several passages, furnishing us with the most perfect and complete summary of the character of it, that could possibly have been given. This was of course completely " hidden " from the Old Testament saints : but it is now very clearly "revealed " to us. The first passage I would refer to, is the 2nd Psalm, in the 4th verse of which we have God's attitude towards the rejectors of His Christ in this Dispensation—the whole Psalm, (a short exposition only of which I shall give,) forming a brief epitome of the result of the farther trial of man in this Dispensation; with the final issue of it, in the carrying out of God's purposes, notwithstanding the combined efforts of the devil and all his hosts to prevent it. In my first volume of " Outlines," I gave an Exposition of Psalm i. ; in which we saw that the blessed man thereinprimarily referred to, was none other than our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself ;1 and I then shewed how that after He had declared that " God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be sav...« less