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The Beginning of the End
God Will Win the Battle
A large number of people welcome Satan’s deceptions and set
themselves against God, but amid the working of evil, God’s plans
move steadily forward to their accomplishment. He is unveiling
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His justice and unselfish kindness to all created beings. The whole
human race have become transgressors of God’s law, but by the
sacrifice of His Son they may return to God. Through the grace of
Christ they may be enabled to obey the Father’s law. In every age
God gathers out a people “in whose heart is My law” (
Isaiah 51:7
).
God’s dealings with rebellion will result in fully unmasking the
work that has been carried on under cover for so long. The results
of setting aside the divine laws will be laid open to the view of all
created beings. All will admit that the law of God is completely good
and right. In the presence of the witnessing universe, Satan himself
will confess the justice of God’s government and the righteousness
of His law.
The terrors of Sinai were to represent the scenes of the judgment
to the people. The sound of a trumpet summoned Israel to meet
with God—the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God shall
summon both the living and the dead from the whole earth to the
presence of their Judge. At the great judgment day, Christ will come
“in the glory of His Father with His angels” (
Matthew 16:27
). All
nations will be gathered in His presence.
When Christ comes in glory with His holy angels, the whole
earth will be ablaze with the terrible light of His presence. “Our
God shall come, and shall not keep silent; a fire shall devour before
Him, and it shall be very tempestuous all around Him. He shall call
to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His
people” (
Psalm 50:3, 4
). “The Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those
who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel” (
2
Thessalonians 1:7, 8
).
When Moses came from the divine Presence on the mountain,
guilty Israel could not endure the light that glorified his face. How
much less can sinners look on the Son of God when He will appear
in the glory of His Father, surrounded by all the holy angels, to carry
out judgment on the transgressors of His law and those who reject