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The Wrath of the Lamb, October 14
The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide
us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath
of the Lamb.
Revelation 6:15, 16
.
The derisive jests have ceased. Lying lips are hushed into silence. The
clash of arms, the tumult of battle, “with confused noise, and garments
rolled in blood” (
Isaiah 9:5
), is stilled. Nought now is heard but the voice
of prayer and the sound of weeping and lamentation. The cry bursts forth
from lips so lately scoffing: “The great day of his wrath is come; and who
shall be able to stand?” The wicked pray to be buried beneath the rocks of
the mountains rather than meet the face of Him whom they have despised
and rejected.
That voice which penetrates the ear of the dead, they know. How often
have its plaintive, tender tones called them to repentance. How often has
it been heard in the touching entreaties of a friend, a brother, a Redeemer.
To the rejecters of His grace no other could be so full of condemnation,
so burdened with denunciation, as that voice which has so long pleaded:
“Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?”
Ezekiel 33:11
.
Oh, that it were to them the voice of a stranger! Says Jesus: “I have called,
and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but
ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof.”
Proverbs 1:24, 25
. That voice awakens memories which they would fain
blot out—warnings despised, invitations refused, privileges slighted....
In the lives of all who reject truth there are moments when conscience
awakens, when memory presents the torturing recollection of a life of
hypocrisy and the soul is harassed with vain regrets. But what are these
compared with the remorse of that day ... when “destruction cometh as a
whirlwind”!
Proverbs 1:27
. Those who would have destroyed Christ and
His faithful people now witness the glory which rests upon them.
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