The Doctor: The Times

Once I was travelling to the West Country to preach.  We arrived at the train at Reading and a young man came into my compartment holding in his right hand a Bible and a copy of The Times and I know immediately what he was going to do that day.  He was going to give an address on prophecy and I turned out to be right.  There was nothing clever about my deduction.  It was the fact that the man had a bible and The Times together and I happened to know the mentality which did that!  The detailed news and information in The Times all foretold in the Bible, in the prophecy of the Bible.  And so people expect to find these details and so on, and thus they have identified Napoleon with the man of sin, and then Hitler and perhaps Stalin after that.  It is a wrong approach to prophecy altogether because prophecy does not give us those details.  The Scriptures themselves say so.  We are not to be concerned about the times and the seasons.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Vol. 11, p. 229