Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
Now take Nineveh. "And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make
thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock. And it shall come to
pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say,
Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek
comforters for thee?" Now, how are you going to cover the city up? "I
will cast upon her abominable filth." How are you going to cast
abominable filth upon the city? And yet for 2,500 years Nineveh was
buried and an abominable filth lay upon her. But now they have dug up
the ruins, and brought them to Paris and London, and you go into the
British museum, and there is not a day except the Sabbath but what you
can see men from all parts of the world gazing upon the ruins. It is
just as the prophets prophesied. For 2,500 years Nineveh was buried, but
it is no longer buried.
TYRE.
Then look at Tyre: "Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am
against thee, Oh Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against
thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy
the walls of Tyrus and break down her towers; I will also scrape her
dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place
for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord God, and it shall become a spoil to the nations." Coffin,
who was correspondent of the Boston _Journal_ during the war, went round
the world after the war was over in '68. One night he came to the site
of old Tyre, and he said the sun was just going down, and he got his
dragoman to pitch his tent right over by the ruins, where the rocks were
scraped bare, and he took out his Bible and read where it says, "It
shall be a place for the spreading of nets." He said the fishermen had
done fishing and were just spreading their nets or the rocks of Tyre,
precisely as it was prophesied hundreds and hundreds of years before.
Now mark you! When they prophesied against these great cities, they were
like London, Paris and New York in their glory, but their glory has
gone.
JERUSALEM.
Now take the prophecy in regard to Jerusalem: "And when He was come
near, He beheld the city, and wept over it saying, If thou hadst known,
even thou at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy
peace: But now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come
upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and
compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side." Didn't Titus do
that? Didn't the Roman Emperor do that very thing? "And shall lay thee
even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not
leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time
of thy visitation."
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