You have devoted nearly your whole life to the study of prophecy and you are giving lectures all over the world concerning these topics. Why do you have such a fascination with this issue?
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I don’t really know why I am so fascinated with prophecy. But I do think that every Seventh- day Adventists is supposed to have that same kind of fascination. Sister White says it this way in Testimonies, volume 5, 708: “Whatever may be man’s intellectual advancement, let him not for a moment think that there is no need of thorough and continuous searching of the Scriptures for greater light. As a people we are called individually to be students of prophecy.”
In Selected Messages, volume 1, 121, Sister White tells us that our greatest need and our first work is to seek for a revival. And then on page 128 in the same passage she says: “Revival represents the renewal of spiritual life.” If our greatest need is for a revival, that means we are spiritually dead.
In Testimonies to Ministers, 113, she says: “When we understand the books of Daniel and Revelation as we should, there will be seen among us a great revival.” There is information in God’s prophetic word that brings the Laodicean church back to life at the end of the world. I hope my fascination with prophecy is something that the Holy Spirit has put in my heart. But I am certain that the Holy Spirit wants to put that same interest and fascination for prophecy in the heart of every Seventh-day Adventist; because if we are not students of prophecy we’ll never wake up and if we continue in our Laodicean condition, we are going to be spewed out of the mouth of the Lord.
Does this means that no prophecy,no salvation?
Of course! Since prophecy is the gospel, and the gospel is prophecy. Just have a look at the first mention of the gospel in Gen 3:15, or one of the last mentions in Rev 14:6.