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Battling Moral Darkness, November 2
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be
seen upon thee.
Isaiah 60:2
.
This age presents a sad picture to those whose eyes have been opened
to discern the evils that prevail on every hand. The fear and love of God
have almost left the world. This is the time prophesied of by Isaiah, when
“darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.” Multitudes
are led away by the delusions of a faithless generation and are living in
the darkness of error....
The baleful spirit of unbelief is found in every land and is permeating
all ranks of society. It is taught freely in many of the universities, colleges,
and high schools, and it comes even into the lessons taught in the common
schools and the nurseries. Thousands who profess to be Christians give
heed to lying spirits....
The world today is in crying need of a revelation of Christ Jesus in the
person of His saints. God desires that His people shall stand before the
world a holy people. Why? Because there is a world to be saved by the
light of gospel truth; and as the message of truth that is to call men out of
darkness into God’s marvelous light is given by the church, the lives of its
members, sanctified by the Spirit of truth, are to bear witness to the verity
of the messages proclaimed....
The world is in need of a demonstration of practical Christianity. In
view of the fact that those who claim to be followers of Christ are a
spectacle to an unbelieving world, it behooves them to make sure that
they are in right relation to God.... In order to stand as lights in the world,
they need to have the clear light of the Sun of Righteousness constantly
shining upon them....
When God’s people so fully separate themselves from evil that He
can let the light of heaven rest upon them in rich measure, and shine forth
from them to the world, then there will be fulfilled more fully than it has
ever been fulfilled in the past the prophecy of Isaiah, ... “The Gentiles
shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.... The
abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, and the force of the
Gentiles shall come unto thee” (
Isaiah 60:3-5
).
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