Claim. In the Last Days, a new expression of truth must appear — a “textbook of higher and richer content, with a more scientific method of expression” — to satisfy the modern intellect, unify denominations divided by the Bible’s symbolic style, and reconcile religion and science as one undertaking. Jesus promised this; Revelation 5’s sealed scroll figures it.
Elaboration. Per 5.1. The Last Days and the New Truth: “The modern, scientific-minded thirst for the truth cannot be satisfied by expressions of truth which are limited in scope and couched in symbols and parables aimed specifically at instructing the people of an earlier age.”
DP grounds the new-truth claim in three converging biblical witnesses. First, Jesus’s own promise: “I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father” (25). Second, the unfinished revelation: Jesus told the disciples “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” — those things “will not remain forever a secret, but one day will be divulged through the Holy Spirit as a new expression of truth.” Third, Revelation 5’s sealed scroll, openable only by “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David” — Christ at the Second Advent.
The new truth must perform two work-items: dissolve denominational division by clarifying the Bible’s symbols, and unify religion and science. Without this, “God’s providence, which comes through the unification of Christianity, can never reach its goal.”
Whether DP itself is this new truth is a reader’s inference about the text, not internal to the claim.
See also. dp-bible-is-interim-textbook-not-truth-itself, dp-religion-and-science-must-converge-as-united-undertaking