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Seven Last Plagues, November 30
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of
Israel will not forsake them.
Isaiah 41:17
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When Christ ceases His intercession in the sanctuary, the unmingled
wrath threatened against those who worship the beast and his image
and receive his mark, will be poured out. The plagues upon Egypt
when God was about to deliver Israel, were similar in character to those
more terrible and extensive judgments which are to fall upon the world
just before the final deliverance of God’s people. Says the revelator, in
describing those terrific scourges: “There fell a noisome and grievous
sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which
worshipped his image.” The sea “became as the blood of a dead man:
and every living soul died in the sea.” And “the rivers and fountains of
waters ... became blood.”
Revelation 16:2-4
. Terrible as these inflictions
are, God’s justice stands fully vindicated....
These plagues are not universal, or the inhabitants of the earth would
be wholly cut off. Yet they will be the most awful scourges that have
ever been known to mortals. All the judgments upon men, prior to the
close of probation, have been mingled with mercy. The pleading blood
of Christ has shielded the sinner from receiving the full measure of his
guilt; but in the final judgment, wrath is poured out unmixed with mercy.
It is impossible to give any idea of the experience of the people
of God who will be alive on the earth when past woes and celestial
glory will be blended. They will walk in the light proceeding from
the throne of God. By the means of the angels there will be constant
communication between heaven and earth.
The people of God will not be free from suffering; but ... they will
not be left to perish.... While the wicked are dying from hunger and
pestilence, angels will shield the righteous, and supply their wants. To
him that “walketh righteously” is the promise, “Bread shall be given
him; his waters shall be sure.”
Isaiah 33:16
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