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for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, 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 26:20, 21
. Men who claim to be Christians
may now defraud and oppress the poor; they may rob the widow and
fatherless; they may indulge their Satanic hatred because they cannot
control the consciences of God’s people; but for all this God will bring
them into judgment. They “shall have judgment without mercy” that
have “showed no mercy.” (
James 2:13
.) Not long hence they will stand
before the Judge of all the earth, to render an account for the pain they
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have caused to the bodies and souls of His heritage. They may now
indulge in false accusations, they may deride those whom God has
appointed to do His work, they may consign His believing ones to
prison, to the chain gang, to banishment, to death; but for every pang
of anguish, every tear shed, they must answer. God will reward them
double for their sins. Concerning Babylon, the symbol of the apostate
church, He says to His ministers of judgment, “Her sins have reached
unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her
even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her
works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.”
Revelation
18:5, 6
.
From India, from Africa, from China, from the islands of the sea,
from the downtrodden millions of so-called Christian lands, the cry of
human woe is ascending to God. That cry will not long be unanswered.
God will cleanse the earth from it moral corruption, not by a sea of
water as in Noah’s day, but by a sea of fire that cannot be quenched by
any human devising.
“There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there
was a nation even to that same time; and at that time Thy people shall
be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”
Daniel
12:1
.
From garrets, from hovels, from dungeons, from scaffolds, from
mountains and deserts, from the caves of the earth and the caverns
of the sea, Christ will gather His children to Himself. On earth they
have been destitute, afflicted, and tormented. Millions have gone down
to the grave loaded with infamy because they refused to yield to the
deceptive claims of Satan. By human tribunals the children of God
have been adjudged the vilest criminals. But the day is near when