Oliver Bayley

The Ware-Paine Testimonies Oliver Bayley

From the late 1920s Arthur Ware and Frank Paine with four companions spent many years as "Bible Chronologers", prayerfully studying God's wonderful use of Time within the Holy Bible. Their faith and diligence were remarkable, and their ground-breaking results and conclusions remain as relevant today as they have ever been. Because they sometimes made mistakes when predicting dates of future Bible events, many people wrote these faithful men off as dangerous cranks, a reaction still sometimes found today. Yet that reaction is seriously unjust, as any fair-minded inspection of their findings soon demonstrates. The Ware-Paine Testimonies tells the fascinating story of these Bible Chronologers. The author, Oliver Bayley, a retired Anglican evangelical Minister of the Gospel, was given permission by the Ware and Paine families to include in this book extracts from the personal letters written by Arthur Ware and Frank Paine in the years 1930 to 1983. These letter extracts, now published in this book for the first time, provide a wholly new "behind-the-scenes" understanding of their working methods, results and conclusions. Arthur Ware and Frank Paine were ordinary, fallible Christians like the rest of us, as they always emphasised. Yet under the patient guidance of the Holy Spirit and despite occasional mistakes along the way, they were shown many precious "Time Truths" deeply embedded in God's Word, which are as vital today as when they were revealed and publicised decades ago. The Ware-Paine Testimonies gives these God-fearing men the honour they are due, and presents their important findings afresh for today's generation. May Almighty God have all the glory.