The Great Prophecies Volume 1: The Gentiles, the Jews, and the Church of God

Fifth Edition, 1998
464 pgs.

This is a book of distinct and conspicuous mark on the exhaustless theme of Scripture prophecy.  It is evident that the conscientious labor and thought of years are embodied in the volume.  While the author shows that he has studied with care the literature of his subject, he has at the same time wrought out an independent scheme of interpretation marked by great comprehensiveness and self-consistency.

George Hawkins Pember was born in 1837.  He was educated at Cambridge University where he took his M.A. in Classics at age twenty-six.  Upon his conversion to Christ, Pember determined to devote his scholastic talents to a close and comprehensive study of the Scriptures for the benefit of God's people.  His penchant for meticulous scholarship, extensive knowledge of ancient cultures, and keen spiritual insight combined to produce works of a quality and depth with few parallels in Christian expository literature.

G. H. Pember died in 1910, leaving a rich legacy of reclaimed spiritual truth, upon which subsequent reformers such as J. N. Darby, Watchman Nee, G. H. Lang, and T. Austin-Sparks would build.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PROLEGOMENA

1. Introduction.  Scheme of Interpretation
2. The Signs of the Times
3. The Seven Dispensations
4. The Three Lines of Prophecy
5. The Three Prophetic Periods
6. Mystic Chronology
7. Supernatural Judgments

PART 1: THE GENTILES

1. The Prophecy of Balaam
2. The Kingdom of the Ten Tribes
3. The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar
4. The Vision of the Four Wild Beasts
5. The Vision of the Ram and the He-Goat
6. The Great Red Dragon
7. The Wild Beast from the Sea
8. The Wild Beast from the Earth
9. Mystery, Babylon the Great
10. The Seven Kings and the Eighth
11. The Overthrow of Ecclesiasticism by Secularism
12. The Napoleonic Theory
13. The Rebuilding of Great Babylon

PART 2: THE JEWS

1. The Purpose of God concerning Israel
2. The Perplexity of Daniel
3. The Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
4. The Interval Foretold by Zechariah
5. The Interval Recognized by Matthew
6. The Interval in other Visions of Daniel
7. The Scheme of the Seventy Weeks in the Key to all Prophecy
8. The Return of the Jews to Palestine
9. The Sermon on the Mount of Olives
10. The Twenty-fourth Chapter of Matthew
11. The Present Condition of the Jewish Nation and Land

PART 3: THE CHURCH OF GOD

1. The Mystery Hidden from the Ages
2. The Seven Parables
3. The Parable of the Sower
4. The Parable of the Tares
5. The Parable of the Mustard Tree
6. The Parable of the Leaven
7. The Parable of the Treasure in the Field
8. The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
9. The Parable of the Net Cast into the Sea
10. Summary of the Seven Parables
11. The Plan of the Apocalypse
12. The Epistles to the Seven Churches
13. Ephesus
14. Smyrna
15. Pergamos
16. Thyatira
17. Sardis
18. Philadelphia
19. Laodicea
20. The Presence and the Appearing
21. The First Rapture, as Revealed to the Thessalonians
22. The Mystery Finished
23. Conclusion