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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

Chariots Out of the North

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days, prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy Studios in Los Angeles, California.

We welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music with the King's Heralds, Del Delker, Brad Braley, and the Voice of Prophecy speaker, H.M.S.

Richards, a Seventh-day Adventist minister.

We open this broadcast with a stirring hymn ascribing honor to the undying faith of our fathers.

Our fathers living still, in spite of dungeon, fire, and sword.

Oh, how our hearts beat high with joy, whene'er we hear that glorious word.

Faith of our fathers, holy faith, We will be true to thee till death.

Faith of our fathers we will love, both friend and foe in all our strife, and preach thee to as love knows how, by kindly words and virtuous life.

Faith of our fathers, holy faith, we will be true to thee till death.

Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the privilege of broadcasting Thy Word today.

Around the world, we pray, Thou wilt send Thy blessed Spirit into the hearts of those who hear, and bring peace and comfort from thy word.

♪ There is a place of quiet rest ♪ ♪ Near to the heart of God ♪ ♪ A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us who bow before Thee, near to the heart of God.

There is a name to me so dear Like sweetest music to my ear, for when my heart is troubled, filled with fear, Jesus whispers peace.

My soul weighed down with heavy care, And I am sorely tempted to despair.

Oh, that the world might hear him speak the word of comfort that men seek.

To all the lowly and unto the meek, Jesus whispers peace.

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea There's a kindness in his justice, which is more than liberty.

For the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind, and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.

If our love were but more simple, we should take him at his word, and our lives would our lives would be all sunshine in the sweetness of our Lord.

Here now is HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker.

Not long ago, 1 of my best friends described an experience which came to him as a young man.

During a severe attack of malaria, he became greatly depressed.

He seemed to lose faith in everything and everybody.

In spite of himself, he was drifting into infidelity, doubt, even atheism.

Then he began to think about some of the simple, plain evidences of God, of the inspiration of the Scriptures.

He said that the direct fulfillment of Bible prophecies as he studied them, had more effect than anything else in bringing him back to a sound unshakable faith in the Word of God, in God Himself and in His providence.

You remember the words of the Apostle in 2nd Peter 119, We have also a more sure word of prophecy, where unto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts." It was the actual historical fulfillment of Bible prophecies which proved to him that another statement by the same apostle was absolutely true.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

My friend mentioned 3 specific prophecies that had a powerful influence upon him and the rebuilding of his faith.

These prophecies concerned the overthrow of the great seaport city of Tyre, the overthrow of Babylon, the first of the world empires of prophecy, and the overthrow of Jerusalem, the city of God's chosen people.

Now the prophecy concerning Tyre is found in Ezekiel, the 26th chapter.

Just remember it was the great seaport city of the age, and to speak of it in those days was like speaking of London or New York today.

This prophecy of Ezekiel was given about 586 years before Christ was born.

In fact the very year in which the city of Jerusalem was captured by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.

The people of Tyre expressed their joy at Jerusalem's downfall.

They thought all the commerce now would come their way.

And here is the astounding and startling prophecy, beginning with the third verse.

Through his prophet, God said that Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, would come with chariots out of the north, would destroy the walls of Tyre, break down her towers, scrape the dust from her, make her like the top of a rock, a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, as verse 5 puts it.

Now Tyre was a double city, really 2 cities, 1 on the mainland and the other half a mile out from shore on a 140 acre island.

The prophecy continued that the walls of the city would shake at the sound of the wheels of the chariots, that dust would cover the city from the horses hoofs.

They shall break down thy walls, destroy thy pleasant houses.

They shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the water.

It shall be built no more, " verse 14 says, and verse 20, it should not be inhabited again.

This all took place literally and can be authenticated by a survey of the city right now in this very year.

These chariots out of the north did come.

Nebuchadnezzar did lay siege to the city for 13 years.

Finally he captured the city on the mainland and destroyed it.

Then the people took refuge in their sea town and could not be dislodged.

Later, they made a treaty with Nebuchadnezzar to become his subjects.

Still the prophecy was not completely fulfilled.

200 years went by and Alexander the Great came and used his Navy to finish the fulfillment of the prophecy.

He could not bring his army against the wall so he took all the ruins of the mainland city, actually scraping up not only the rocks but the dust itself, and built a causeway or mole out to the island city.

Even then he had to use his navy to keep the fleet of Tyre from stopping his work.

Today the location on the mainland is absolutely uninhabited.

There's no sign that there ever was a city there.

And out on the great rock in the midst of the sea, there are only a few inhabitants of what was a mighty seaport city in the height of its glory when the Prophet wrote.

But why does the prophecy speak of Nebuchadnezzar's coming with chariots out of the north when Babylon is distinctly east of Tyre and Jerusalem?

Between Jerusalem and Babylon lies the great Syrian desert.

Hundreds and hundreds of miles of blazing sand impassable for armies in ancient times, difficult now.

Those of us who have traversed it by plane know what an inhospitable and deadly region it is.

In ancient times, armies from Babel always marched northwest up the Euphrates River until near Antioch and then came down into Palestine and Egypt.

So the invading armies from the east really came from the north.

Nebuchadnezzar's mechanized divisions were 8 squadrons of chariots, so he really came with chariots out of the north and scourged the nations of antiquity.

His people were carried into captivity to Babylon.

The prophet Daniel was 1 of these captives.

Turning to the second chapter of the book of Daniel, we have the story of the divine dream which came from God to this mighty pagan dictator.

A great metallic image, head of gold, breast and arms of silver, sides of brass, legs of iron, feet part of iron and part of clay or porcelain.

In this prophetic dream, God rolls back the curtain of history shows us the time when He will unite the nations, when chariots out of the north will cease to roll and mighty air fleets will be used in the interest of progress and peace and not of war and destruction.

That time is coming and this Bible prophecy of Daniel, the second chapter, foretells the events which lead up to it.

Daniel declared, Daniel the prophet, that the head of the world image represented Babylon itself, often called the Golden Kingdom.

And that Golden Kingdom itself was to go down and be overthrown and become like Sodom and Gomorrah, never to be inhabited except by owls and wild beasts.

Those who visit Babylon today may see thousands of bricks dug out of the ruins, each 1 bearing the name and title of Nebuchadnezzar the King.

In fact, not long ago a brick was found on this it was written, for the astonishment of men I have built this house.

These portals for the astonishment of multitudes of people with beauty I adorned.

Thus I completely made strong the defenses of Babylon.

May it last forever, words of the King Nebuchadnezzar.

Then the next empire, Medo-Persia, represented by the breast and arms of silver, came on the scene of action about 539 before Christ.

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