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“And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem
with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say
in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil.” “The
great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the
voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of
wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of
clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the
fenced cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring distress
upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have
sinned against the Lord and their blood shall be poured out as dust,
and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be
able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land
shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy: for He shall make even a
speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.”
Confessions Made Too Late
When a crisis finally comes, as it surely will, and God speaks in
behalf of His people, those who have sinned, those who have been a
cloud of darkness and who have stood directly in the way of God’s
working for His people, may become alarmed at the length they have
gone in murmuring and in bringing discouragement upon the cause;
and, like Achan, becoming terrified, they may acknowledge that they
have sinned. But their confessions are too late and are not of the right
kind to benefit themselves, although they may relieve the cause of God.
Such do not make their confessions because of a conviction of their
true state and a sense of how displeasing their course has been to God.
God may give this class another test, another proving, and let them
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show that they are no better prepared to stand free from all rebellion
and sin than before their confessions were made. They are inclined
to be ever on the side of wrong. And when the call is made for those
who will be on the Lord’s side to make a decided move to vindicate
the right, they will manifest their true position. Those who have been
nearly all their lives controlled by a spirit as foreign to the Spirit of
God as was Achan’s will be very passive when the time comes for
decided action on the part of all. They will not claim to be on either
side. The power of Satan has so long held them that they seem blinded