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Early Writings
with a loud voice and cried, “Hosanna”; but in the glory of the Father
and with all the retinue of holy angels to escort Him on His way to
earth. All heaven will be emptied of the angels, while the waiting
saints will be looking for Him and gazing into heaven, as were the
men of Galilee when He ascended from the Mount of Olivet. Then
only those who are holy, those who have followed fully the meek
Pattern, will with rapturous joy exclaim as they behold Him, “Lo,
this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us.” And
they will be changed “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump”—that trump which wakes the sleeping saints, and calls
them forth from their dusty beds, clothed with glorious immortality,
and shouting, “Victory! Victory over death and the grave!” The
changed saints are then caught up together with the angels to meet
the Lord in the air, never more to be separated from the object of
their love.
With such a prospect as this before us, such a glorious hope, such
a redemption that Christ has purchased for us by His own blood,
shall we hold our peace? Shall we not praise God even with a loud
voice, as did the disciples when Jesus rode into Jerusalem? Is not our
prospect far more glorious than was theirs? Who dare then forbid
us glorifying God, even with a loud voice, when we have such a
hope, big with immortality, and full of glory? We have tasted of the
powers of the world to come, and long for more. My whole being
cries out after the living God, and I shall not be satisfied until I am
filled with all His fullness.
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