Study 16: Concluding Thoughts. – Duty Toward the Truth. – It’s Cost, Value, Profit.

(1) Give a brief resume of what we have learned of the existence of a personal, intelligent Creator, and of His revelation to Page 343, par. 1.

(2) What has been learned in general respecting the ages past and the age shortly to dawn upon the world? Page 343, par. 2.

(3) What have we seen regarding the sending of God’s Son to redeem the condemned race, and of the two elect classes that have been selected during the past ages to constitute the two phases of the Kingdom of Heaven?   What have we learned about the “Three  Ways”? Page 344, par. 1.

(4) What have we understood concerning the world’s Day of Judgment? Page 345, par. 1.

(5) What has been learned respecting the second advent and the glorious conditions of Messiah’s reign? Page 345, par. 2.

(6) What effect should the knowledge of these things have upon the consecrated children of God? In what manner has the Lord fulfilled His promise that He will “give strength  unto His people”? Page 346, par. 1.

(7) What will it cost to obtain this knowledge with its consequent strength? Page 346, par. 2.

(8) Is the giving of necessary time and energy to this study all that will be required of the consecrated? Page 347, par. 1.

(9) Are we willing thus to follow on to know more and more of the divine character and plan? If so, what is the best method to be pursued? Page 347, par. 2.

(10) What is our opinion of the value of the Divine Plan of the Ages, as we understand it? Does it appeal to us as of human invention? Page 348, par. 1.

(11) What claim is made for this system of Biblical interpretation, which has never been sustained, or even attempted by any other system of theology? Page 348, par. 2.

(12) While the Bible is thus opening up and disclosing wondrous things to the meek and lowly of heart, how has the light of the present affected the various creeds and traditions of men? What is, therefore, the responsibility of those whom the Lord in His providence  has “called out of darkness into His marvelous light”? Page 349.