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God Intervenes in Armageddon, October 15
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a
controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give
them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 25:31
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For six thousand years the great controversy has been in progress; the
Son of God and His heavenly messengers have been in conflict with the
power of the evil one, to warn, enlighten, and save the children of men.
Now all have made their decisions; the wicked have fully united with Satan
in his warfare against God. The time has come for God to vindicate the
authority of His downtrodden law. Now the controversy is not alone with
Satan, but with men. “The Lord hath a controversy with the nations”; “He
will give them that are wicked to the sword.”
The mark of deliverance has been set upon those “that sigh and that cry
for all the abominations that be done.” Now the angel of death goes forth,
represented in Ezekiel’s vision by the men with the slaughtering weapons,
to whom the command is given: “Slay utterly old and young, both maids,
and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is
the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.” Says the prophet: “They began at
the ancient men which were before the house.”
Ezekiel 9:1-6
. The work
of destruction begins among those who have professed to be the spiritual
guardians of the people. The false watchmen are the first to fall. There are
none to pity or to spare. Men, women, maidens, and little children perish
together.
“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
.... In the mad strife of their own fierce
passions, and by the awful outpouring of God’s unmingled wrath, fall the
wicked inhabitants of the earth—priests, rulers, and people, rich and poor,
high and low. “And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end
of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered, nor buried.”
Jeremiah 25:33
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