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There is a Limit, August 13
Behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall
no more cover her slain.
Isaiah 26:21
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Our God is a God of mercy. With long-sufferance and tender compassion
He deals with the transgressors of His law.... But there is a point beyond which
divine patience is exhausted, and the judgments of God are sure to follow. The
Lord bears long with men, and with cities, mercifully giving warnings to save
them from divine wrath; but a time will come when pleadings for mercy will no
longer be heard....
The time is at hand when there will be sorrow in the world that no human
balm can heal. The Spirit of God is being withdrawn. Disasters by sea and
by land follow one another in quick succession. How frequently we hear of
earthquakes and tornadoes, of destruction by fire and flood, with great loss
of life and property! Apparently these calamities are capricious outbreaks of
disorganized, unregulated forces of nature, wholly beyond the control of man;
but in them all, God’s purpose may be read. They are among the agencies by
which He seeks to arouse men and women to a sense of their danger.
God’s messengers in the great cities are not to become discouraged over
the wickedness, the injustice, the depravity, which they are called upon to face
while endeavoring to proclaim the glad tidings of salvation.... In every city,
filled though it may be with violence and crime, there are many who with proper
teaching may learn to become followers of Jesus.... God’s message for the
inhabitants of earth today is, “Be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think
not the Son of man cometh” (
Matthew 24:44
).... We are standing on the threshold
of the crisis of the ages....
The storm of God’s wrath is gathering; and those only will stand who respond
to the invitations of mercy, as did the inhabitants of Nineveh under the preaching
of Jonah, and become sanctified through obedience to the laws of the divine
Ruler. The righteous alone shall be hid with Christ in God till the desolation be
overpast
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Ibid., 275-278
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