The Times and Seasons of Divine Appointment -- Why Not More Plainly Stated -- In Due Time Revealed -- Earnest Desire to Know The Times and Seasons Commendable -- Mistakes of Adventists -- The Real Object of Time Prophecies -- Our Present Position --The Object of Succeeding Chapters.
Chronology Necessary to an Understanding of Prophecy -- From the Creation of Adam to A.D. 1872 was Six Thousand Years -- A Statement of Bible Chronology in Great Periods -- Its Examination in Detail -- From Creation to the Day the Flood was Dried Up -- To The Abrahamic Covenant -- To the Giving of the Law -- To the Division of Canaan among the Tribes -- The Period of the Judges -- To A.D. 1873 -- Wherein this Chronology Differs from that of Bishop Usher, Noted in our English Bibles -- The True Date of our Lord's Birth.
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel's Prophecy -- Events Foretold to Transpire with that Time -- The Time of Messiah's Advent Indicated, and a Principle Established by the Manner in which It is Indicated -- A Key to Other Time Prophecies -- The Time of Messiah's Crucifixion Indicated -- The Special Favor to Israel as a Nation Cut Short in Righteousness, but Continued Individually -- Anointing the Most Holy -- Trouble Poured upon the Desolate One.
What are Gentile Times? -- Their Beginning; Their Length; Their End, A.D. 1914 -- Attendant Events -- Events to Follow -- Literal and Symbolic Time -- A Remarkable Type -- Present Indications -- God's Kingdom to Overthrow Gentile Rule -- Therefore Organized Before It Ends -- Before A.D. 1914 -- Why opposed by Gentile Kingdoms -- How and Why All will Finally Accept it Joyfully - "The Desire of All Nations Shall Come".
"The Times of Restitution of All Things" Foretold by Moses -- The Date of their Beginning Indicated -- They Cannot Begin Until the Great Restorer Has Come -- Evidence from the Law -- Corroborative Testimony from the Prophets -- Logical Conclusions Drawn from These as Separately and Unitedly Considered -- Harmony of Present Indications.
The Jewish Age a Type of the Gospel Age -- Remarkable Parallelism or Correspondency Between the Two Dispensations -- Yet They are Distinct -- Superiority of the Christian Epoch, the Antitype -- Fleshly and Spiritual Israel Contrasted -- Prominent Parallels Examined -- Time Parallels Specially Noticed -- Period of Fleshly Israel's Favor -- Time of Their Cutting Off From Favor -- The Period of Disfavor Shown from Prophecy to be Equal to the Period of Favor -- Apostolic Testimony that their Period of Disfavor is the Period of their High Calling of Spiritual Israel -- The Length of the Gospel Age thus Shown Indirectly but Clearly -- Harmony of the Bible Chronology, Jubilee Testimony, Gentile Times and Other Prophecies With the Lessons of These Parallels Unanswerable, Conclusive and Satisfying.
How This Important Prophecy Stands Related to the Second Advent -- A Partial and Typical Fulfillment in John the Baptist -- The Real Fulfillment -- The Vision on the Holy Mount -- Remarkable Correspondences between Elijah, the Type, and the Antitypical Elijah -- The Time is At Hand -- The Outlook -- Elijah's Successor, Elisha.
Antichrist Must be Developed, Revealed and Smitten Before the Day of the Lord -- A Contrary View of this Subject Considered -- Prophetic Delineation -- Antichrist's Birth -- His Rapid Development -- The Historic Picture and Bible Description Agree -- His Kingdom a Counterfeit -- His head and Mouth Notable -- His Great Swelling Words of Blasphemy -- His Blasphemous Teachings - His Wearing Out of the Saints of the Most High -- His Millennial Reign -- Antichrist Smitten With the Sword of the Spirit -- His Final Struggle and End.