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THE SHADOW
OF A
MIGHTY ROCK

VOLUME 3

JESUS CHRIST, LORD OF LOGIC

GIFT BY GRACE

Chapters 9 and 10

with Vol. 3 Glossary

Glossary Index for Vols. 1-3

Appendices A - D

Bibliography

Scriptural Index and General Index

for Vols. 1-3

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 3
JESUS CHRIST LORD OF LOGIC
GIFT BY GRACE

Introduction and Preface See Volume 1
Chapter Contents v-viii
Chapters 9-10 751-1088H
Appendices 1088I-1186C
Glossary Vol 3 1187-1209
Alphabetical Glossary Vols 1-3 1209-1216
Bibliography 1219-1232
Scriptural Index 1233-1287
Index 1289-1346

END-NOTES:

Note that wherever End-notes are used at the conclusion of a Section, Part or Extension, rather than at the end of the entire Chapter, that will be indicated at the START and END of that portion, in the TEXT. At the commencement, with the heading, there will be the sign EN#, and similarly at the end, to distinguish these End-notes from others. They are, as usual, numbered in the text, in addition to occasional unnumbered footnotes appearing on the same page.
TRANSLATIONS:

These may be taken from the Authorised Version, or the New King James version; but they may rely directly on the Greek or the Hebrew, or be taken from some version noted on the site concerned. The use of 'thou' and 'thee', for that which is not God in particular, is frequently avoided.
EXTENSIONS:

These, as the name implies, constitute a more detailed, specialised or sustained excursion into a specific topic suggested by the text, and contributing to its understanding. Especially where a reasonable number of these occur at the end of any Section, Part or Chapter, some endeavour may be made to give a measure of sequence, to aid any who may wish to read them as a series. For this reason, Extensions do not always appear in the order in which End-notes may mention them, significance sometimes taking precedence over the numerical order in this respect. Their own numbers are, however, noted in the End-notes, for ease of reference.

CHAPTER 9: A LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE 751-972

PROPHECY PHASE 2

See :Map of the Chapter at its commencement 751-754B

CHAPTER 10: THE DISTINCTION OF THE DIVINE 973-1088H

Practical Review of Some Revelatory Results:
Profoundly Authentic, Authentically Profound,
This Word of God - with correlative and negative results
for other kinds of 'words' from aspiring 'gods',
and their adoring devotees. Let him who has eyes see.

Introductory Survey of the Scenario and the Scene 975-979

SECTION 1: RETREAT FROM REALITY 979-979

Introductory Perspective 979-983

Part A: The Peace of Truth 984-986

Part B: Monolithic Singularity of the Word of God 986-996

1. While Antichrists are multiplied God is God alone 986-993

2. Muted Metaphysical Mysticism
from the East and from the West 993-996

Part C: Principles of Spiritual Anti-Pollution 996-1011

1. Meanders of Non-theistic Mysticism 997-1002B

i) Re-incarnation

ii) "Consciousness"

2. Doctrinal Disfigurement of Deity: 1002C

Falling while Meandering

3. Progressing to Nowhere 1003-1008

Note on Follies ... the Ultimate Racism 1008-1011

EXTENSION 1: On Buddhism: Blended, Amended,
not Transcended 1011-1026

EXTENSION 2: On Tribal Testimony 1026-1031

SECTION 2: RETREAT INTO VIOLENCE 1032-1088H

Religions of Violence at the Faith Level

Part A: On Violence to the Body of Christ 1033-1041

Roman Rule and the Antichrist:

Papal Pronouncements, Power and Privilege
versus Jesus Christ

Part B: On Violence to the Truth 1042-1061

EXTENSION 1: Peter and the Prince 1061-1065

EXTENSION 2: The Christ and the Pope 1065-1069

EXTENSION 3: No Other Name 1070-1072

EXTENSION 4: The Weaving of the Ways for the Antichrist 1072-1074

EXTENSION 5: No Peace Evidenced for a World at War
with God 1074-1080

APPENDICES 1089-1186C

APPENDIX A: ASCENT TO ISRAEL 1089-1112

God Spoke: Therefore Let That Word Speak ...

For Eschatological Mountain Climbers

APPENDIX B: ADDENDUM ON WILL ... 1113-1138

In what way, if any, is will relevant to salvation ?

APPENDIX C:CHRIST JESUS THE LORD:
VERIFICATION BY HISTORY 1139-1164

A Byway of Radicalism

Some may Happen Still to Frequent

APPENDIX D: GOD IN REVELATION AND
REVELATION IN GOD 1165-1186C

GLOSSARY (Text underlining signifies special items.) 1187-1209

GLOSSARY (alphabetical order) 1211-1218

BIBLIOGRAPHY 1219-1232

SCRIPTURAL INDEX 1233-1287

INDEX 1289-1340


ILLUSTRATIONS ... and dialogue

Forests, Flowers, the Mushroom and the Cross Frontispiece

The Whirl of Prophecy in the World 759

Forests, Flowers, the Mushroom and the Cross 790

The Little Plateau and the Depth Below facing 973C & 974

The Anguish and the Pathos 1002B

The Psychiatric 'Hat-Trick' 1138 facing

Holy Chat Church 1174A facing

Note on Pagination:

Multiple pages occur at various points - for example, at pp. 252, 349, 1088 - to ensure ready comparability of the Second Edition with the First, which was somewhat shorter.

CHAPTER NINE

PROPHECY: A LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE

PROPHECY PHASE II

By now, the reader should have followed the method, seen the perspectives, witnessed the early sights, glimpsed the ascents, witnessed some of the panorama, and have need of no further orientation to this excursion to the wonder of the only living God... a response to divine invitation.

However, should any need further refreshment of memory, the full Introduction in Volume 1 will provide the key, and such readers are directed back to that Volume of this work.


MAP OF THE CHAPTER

ENDNOTES for this Chapter are numbered separately for each Section, and appear at the end of each Section.

These Sections are five in number and appear in detail on pp. 753-754B infra.

They are:

1. RECEPTION AND MIDWIFERY

2. MIGRANT INFORMATION

3. THE OPERATING THEATRE

4. PATHOLOGY

EXTENSION: CURRENT EVENTS IN PROPHECY

5. BURSAR'S OFFICE,

THE DANIEL FILE

Prophecy - The Messiah, His Scene, Work, Setting and
Predicted Death date
The Common Market - European Union

EXTENSION 1: ON THE APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD

EXTENSION 2: THE DATE OF THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF JESUS
CHRIST ON EARTH

EXTENSION 3: WHERE IS ROME ?

EXTENSION 4: MEDALS, MEDDLING AND INTOXICATION

EXTENSION 5: 'THE IDEA CONTINUES ...' Looking Back, and On

PROPHECY IN MORE DETAIL

So far we have given considerable attention to the prophecies of Christ, with more or less of their Biblical setting or background in other scriptures.

Now let us revert to the prophecies pointing to Christ Himself. He not only displayed divine attributes of personally authoritative cognition in making prophecies. To be sure, these were vested, in the infinitely close relation with His Father who, as we have seen, chooses that Christ be honoured as He Himself is honoured, as fitting for His eternal counterpart... Christ also had other constraints for the proper establishment of His credentials. He fulfilled the many prophecies which related to His coming to act as Saviour. These, like the merging trees on a distant mountain-landscape, are numerous and inter-related, constructed in beauty and fulfilling a certain majesty. They are however, also like the mountain stream to which one journeys, clear and sparkling in the waters that come running by.

Part of our verificatory procedure, therefore, will be to consider some of these prophetic data, focussing on Christ as incarnate. In all things that may be verified, what is more significant than this ? the message of one's God.

Another element therefore is the ascertainment of the IDENTITY given in those (here necessarily) Old Testament prophecies, for Christ, the Messiah. This must be matched closely with the exhibition of that identity on earth. To the extent the identity is unique, it will be the more impressive verification that He fulfilled it; to the extent it requires Godhead itself, it will be an unparalleled and self-attesting work with all the force that one could wish, even for such a purpose as this.

What however of His racial envelope, His background in the Jews ? What of their prophetic history, and the actual one ? How do these match ? More detailed work on scripture will be needed to establish this for the thoughtful mind. What of their current actions, the trend of their actions, the drift of their historic actions, the relation of all these actions to Christ, and to themselves: according to scripture on the one hand, and on the other, according to events ? If Christ was a Jew, we would expect some highly special and significant inter-relations with the events of His life on earth, and THEIRS.

But what of their great city, so old, so venerable, the scene of such history and of so many promises, the London of the Jews: what of Jerusalem ? What is predicted of it and what has happened; and what indeed is happening ? How does this validate, verify and fulfil scripture - the scenes of their capital ?

Further investigation in more detail also seems called for ... in the area of the Gentiles, our world systems and situations, and how these, with such prophetic indications of divine judgments as appear in Scripture, are developing. 

How accurate in form and force is the Bible's predictions in these areas ? Does it set up a general aura, air, atmosphere ? Does it provide detail of sobering realism as well ? Does it in fact exhibit the sort of precise forecasting of events thousands of years after it was written? Does it give some coverage of the trend way beyond the present indeed, which would attest the sort of sovereign rigour, far past imagination: which is God's alone ? In the spiritual, the moral, the ecclesiastical, the philosophic, the international areas today, are there indications which in detail give verificatory expression to the scriptures, so that they, on the one hand, are seen like a mirror the Bible, on the other, or like the road the traveller traverses after seeing the way on the map ? Is there moreover abundant fulfilment, as when a skilled surgeon performs a long rehearsed operation, and his little hospital 'world' looks admiringly on ?

Yes, yes yes.

But it is necessary to take the time to verify, if you have not done so before, for your mind to gain its due requital.

To simplify these journeys, one plans to cast it all in the form of

A GREAT CITY HOSPITAL

Section 1. RECEPTION AND MIDWIFERY ...
will cover the predicted coming and the details of the prophecies
on Christ the Saviour ... 755-774
A. Paralleling Predictions ... 755-763
B. The Predicted Gospel ... 763-765
C. The Predicted Person ... 765-774
Section 2. MIGRANT INFORMATION... This section will give
data on the Jews and their prophesied history, in the divinely
pronounced but humanly protested and contested setting...
A. The Divine Divorce ... 774-810
B. The Complex Drama ... 775-776
C. Reconstruction and Bringing Back ... 779-789
EXTENSION 1: On Forests, Flowers, the "Mushroom"
and the Cross 790-794

EXTENSION 2: On the Wonders of the Word of God in Isaiah 794-810

Section 3. THE OPERATING THEATRE... will give views of
action, of the hub of events, Jerusalem - that great alarm-clock
of prophecy itself being monitored... 810-816

EXTENSION 1: Jerusalem and Eschatology 816-822

EXTENSION 2: On the Solemn Historical Truth about
the Temple 822-829/754A/

Section 4. PATHOLOGY... will cover in more graphic newscast,
the signals and scenes in the Gentile world that we all know so
well; and it will lead to the dabbling devices of the dispensary. 836-884

A. General Pathology and Psychiatric Ward ... 836-842
B. Idolatry Wing ... 842-848
EXTENSION: Current Events in Prophecy ... 848-864
C. Visit to the Dispensary with a look at the
Extensions on: 864-884
Jesus Jostlers; New Age;
Whose Word shall Stand ? and
Time
Section 5. BURSAR'S OFFICE ... will provide a short reference,
as becomes the information-conscious department, on the prophetic
fulfilment in the date of the death of the Messiah. It will also touch
the international consortium of Europe, the Common Market, its
developments and its air, moving on to anti-Messiah or anti-Christ ... 885-972

After a short introduction to the Office, we reach therein

THE DANIEL FILE

Part A. Date of Messianic Birth ... or Death 886-899

Part B. Politico-Religious State of Things Predicted for the
End of the Age ... 899-972

Elements include:
The Verificatory Challenge of Isaiah 43 901-902
THE COMING CONSUMMATION: Foothills of this Prophecy
...the Common Market 902-971
1. The Kingdoms of This World 902-904
2. The Era of Anti-Evangelical Energies 904-906
a. The Church of the World

b. The Grand Format: The Holy Roman Empire

3. The Tyros of Modern Times: Fourth Empire Follies 906-909
4. Technology and Personality: Beast Fiesta 909-911
5. Spiritual and Martial Dimensions of the Common Market 911-923
a. The Convenient Church 911-917
b. The Convenient Community - Considerations of
Clay and Iron 917-923
6. The Illusions of Unity and the Marshalling of Marketeers
(Martialling ? ...) 923-930
EXTENSION 1 : Extension on the Application of
Scientific Method 931-943/754B/

1. Brief Survey of a Plane of Concurrence between
Scientific Method and Scripture 931-936

2. Application of Scientific Method to the
Resurrection Challenge 936-939

3. A Convenient Selection of 50 Items for Verification 939-943

EXTENSION 2 : The Date of Birth and Death of Jesus
Christ on Earth 943-946

EXTENSION 3 : Where is Rome ? 946-950

EXTENSION 4 : Medals, Meddling and Intoxication:
Verification by Drunkenness 950-955

EXTENSION 5: 'The Idea Continues...'
The Miasmic Message of Misbegotten
Unity... Looking Forward 955-957

EXTENSION 6 : The Final Configuration of Political Cancer:
A Sight Undesired 957-959

EXTENSION 7 : Daniel's Last Seven: The Messianic Week and
The Day of Salvation 959-965

EXTENSION 8: On Fervour without Facts:
The Political Perversion 965-966

LET US THEN WALK INTO THE FIRST PART OF OUR HOSPITAL TOUR.

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