Oswald T. Allis Knihy

For a number of years it was the difficult yet delightful task of the author to interpret the Prophetical Books of the Old Testament to successive classes of theological students. This made it necessary for him to make a decision of the utmost importance. Should he, in accordance with the time-tested belief of the Church, instruct his students that the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament Church have their fulfillment in large measure in the New Testament Church? Or, should he follow the relatively new and decidedly revolutionary teaching commonly called Dispensationalism and declare that these prophecies Òskip overÓ the Church age and will be literally fulfilled in a Jewish kingdom age which will follow it? These were the alternatives between which he found himself obliged to choose. His decision and the reason for it are set forth in this volume.

Starting with the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, Allis gives us a brief exposition of the first five books of the Bible, showing their themes and doctrines.

Professor Allis maintains the fully predictive character of biblical prophecy, and deprecates, with special reference to selected prophecies from Isaiah and other Old Testament books, prevalent tendencies to tone down that predictive character, whether by explaining instances of fulfilled prophecy in terms of intelligent anticipation, or regarding them as vaticinia ex eventu, thus rejecting the date and setting which their context claims. But, as Dr. Allis points out, the account which the Old Testament itself gives of prophecy emphasizes the prominence of the predictive element, as may be seen in a number of passages in Deuteronomy (principally xviii. 9-22; cf. also xiii. 1 ff.). --