In this essay George Hawkins Pember opens up the realm of the fantastic. Imagine a world in which animals are endowed with speech and they do not stalk one another for food. Imagine a time when humans and animals alike will be redeemed. By examining scriptural references to animals, including an extensive look at the four-headed Cherubim, Pember helps uncover the history and destiny of animals in the Kingdom of God.
This essay by eminent nineteenth-century British scholar and Bible expositor was originally issued by Hodder and Stoughton of London as a pamphlet with no publication date. Its few pages and narrow focus set it apart from the imposing volumes that comprise the body of Pember's work.
Its brevity notwithstanding, this remarkable treatise stands as a model of the author's unassailable scholarship and courageous determination to examine social issues in the light of biblical truth.
Pember does not preach here. He simply investigates God's Word and allows his readers to draw conclusions about their dominion over God's living creatures.
G. H. Pember (1837 - 1910)
Was an English theologian and author who was affiliated with the Plymouth Brethren. Pember's conversion to Christianity led him to participate in the Brethren, and from within that movement he developed his career as an author and teacher of biblical and theological themes. The Brethren emerged in the 1820s as an independent movement that protested about the ecclesiastical divisions of Protestant churches.[9] Prominent leaders within the Brethren such as Anthony Norris Groves, George Müller and John Nelson Darby were persuaded that there were biblical teachings that were overlooked or not consistently taught by the Protestant churches such as practising adult baptism only (hence rejecting infant baptism), restricting the observance of the Lord's Supper (partaking of the emblems of bread and wine representing Jesus Christ's atoning sacrifice) to baptised members, and biblical prophecies about the imminent return of Christ to the world.His book Earth's Earliest Ages, which went through several editions, had two principal objectives. Pember wrote in the preface to the first edition: "To remove some of the Geological and other difficulties usually associated with the commencing chapters of Genesis" and "to show the characteristic features of the Days of Noah were reappearing in Christendom, and therefore, that the Days of the Son of Man could not be far distant." To read and obtain published materials by G.H. Pember you can visit the ministry of Schoettle Publishing.
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