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hundred years,—a branch severed from the vine, a dead, fruitless
branch, to be gathered up and burned. From land to land throughout
the world, from century to century, dead, dead in trespasses and sins!
Terribly will that prayer be fulfilled in the great judgment day.
When Christ shall come to the earth again, not as a prisoner surrounded
by a rabble will men see Him. They will see Him then as heaven’s
King. Christ will come in His own glory, in the glory of His Father,
and the glory of the holy angels. Ten thousand times ten thousand,
and thousands of thousands of angels, the beautiful and triumphant
sons of God, possessing surpassing loveliness and glory, will escort
Him on His way. Then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory, and
before Him shall be gathered all nations. Then every eye shall see
Him, and they also that pierced Him. In the place of a crown of thorns,
He will wear a crown of glory,—a crown within a crown. In place of
that old purple kingly robe, He will be clothed in raiment of whitest
white, “so as no fuller on earth can white them.”
Mark 9:3
. And on
His vesture and on His thigh a name will be written, “King of kings,
and Lord of lords.”
Revelation 19:16
. Those who mocked and smote
Him will be there. The priests and rulers will behold again the scene
in the judgment hall. Every circumstance will appear before them, as
if written in letters of fire. Then those who prayed, “His blood be on
us, and on our children,” will receive the answer to their prayer. Then
the whole world will know and understand. They will realize who and
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what they, poor, feeble, finite beings, have been warring against. In
awful agony and horror they will cry 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: for the great day of His wrath is come;
and who shall be able to stand?”
Revelation 6:16, 17
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