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God Intervenes on Behalf of His People, September 11
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let
the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come
down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Micah 1:2, 3
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It is in a crisis that character is revealed.... The great final test comes at
the close of human probation, when it will be too late for the soul’s need to
be supplied.
God keeps a reckoning with the nations. Through every century of this
world’s history evil workers have been treasuring up wrath against the day
of wrath; and when the time fully comes that iniquity shall have reached
the stated boundary of God’s mercy, His forbearance will cease. When
the accumulated figures in heaven’s record books shall mark the sum of
transgression complete, wrath will come, unmixed with mercy, and then
it will be seen what a tremendous thing it is to have worn out the divine
patience. This crisis will be reached when the nations shall unite in making
void God’s law.
The days will come when the righteous will be stirred to zeal for God
because of the abounding iniquity. None but divine power can stay the
arrogance of Satan united with evil men; but in the hour of the church’s
greatest danger most fervent prayer will be offered in her behalf by the
faithful remnant, and God will hear and answer at the very time when the
guilt of the transgressor has reached its height. He will “avenge his own
elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them.
The substitution of the false for the true is the last act in the drama.
When this substitution becomes universal, God will reveal Himself. When
the laws of men are exalted above the laws of God, when the powers of this
earth try to force men to keep the first day of the week, know that the time
has come for God to work. He will arise in His majesty, and will shake
terribly the earth. He will come out of His place to punish the inhabitants
of the world for their iniquity. The earth shall disclose her blood, and shall
no more cover her slain.
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