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The Judgment Is Coming, October 14
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing,
whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
.
The Lord is soon to come in the clouds of heaven, with power and great
glory. Is there not enough comprehended in the truths which cluster round
this event and in the preparation essential for it, to make us think solemnly of
our duty? Distinctly and clearly this subject is to be kept before the people.
“The Son of man shall come in his glory ...: and before him shall be gathered
all nations” (
Matthew 25:31, 32
).
Present the truth that is needed in every church as the means to an end, and
that end the judgment, with its eternal decisions and rewards. God will render
to every man according to his work. “Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of
his saints, to execute judgment upon all” (
Jude 1:14, 15
). And Solomon, when
making his appeal and declaration as a preacher of righteousness, presented
the prospect of a judgment to come. “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter,” he said: “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the
whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every
secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (
Ecclesiastes 12:13,
14
).
We have an abundance of weighty, solemn truths to proclaim from the
Word of God without allowing the mind to devise and plan theories of human
nothingness to present to the flock of God as testing truth. What is the chaff
to the wheat?
The final judgment is a most solemn, awful event. This must take place
before the universe. To the Lord Jesus the Father has committed all judgment.
He will declare the reward of loyalty to the law of Jehovah. God will be
honored and His government vindicated and glorified, and that in the presence
of the inhabitants of the unfallen worlds. On the largest possible scale will
the government of God be vindicated and exalted. It is not the judgment of
one individual or of one nation, but of the whole world. Oh, what a change
will then be made in the understanding of all created beings. Then all will
see the value of eternal life.—
Letter 131, October 14, 1900
, to Elder A. G.
Daniells.
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