Chapter 363—Full Compensation
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence
of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the
will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he
that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Hebrews 10:35-37
.
The long-suffering of God is wonderful. Long does justice wait while
mercy pleads with the sinner. But “righteousness and judgment are the
establishment of his throne” (
Psalm 97:2
, margin).... The world has become
bold in transgression of God’s law. Because of His long forbearance, men
have trampled upon His authority.... But there is a line beyond which they
cannot pass. The time is near when they will have reached the prescribed
limit. Even now they have almost exceeded the bounds of the long-suffering
of God, the limits of His grace, the limits of His mercy. The Lord will
interpose to vindicate His own honor, to deliver His people, and to repress
the swellings of unrighteousness....
In this time of prevailing iniquity we may know that the last great crisis is
at hand. When the defiance of God’s law is almost universal, when His people
are oppressed and afflicted by their fellow men, the Lord will interpose....
“There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written in the book” (
Daniel 12:1
). From
garrets, from hovels, from dungeons, from scaffolds, from mountains and
deserts, from the caves of the earth and the caverns of the sea, Christ will
gather his children to himself.... By human tribunals the children of God
have been adjudged the vilest criminals. But the day is near when “God is
judge himself” (
Psalm 50:6
). Then the decisions of earth shall be reversed.
“The rebuke of his people shall he take away” (
Isaiah 25:8
). White robes will
be given to every one of them....
Whatever crosses they have been called to bear, whatever losses they
have sustained, whatever persecution they have suffered, even to the loss of
their temporal life, the children of God are amply recompensed. “They shall
see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads” (
Revelation 22:4
).
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