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From Here to Forever
heavens is one clear space of indescribable glory whence comes the
voice of God like the sound of many waters, saying, “It is done!”
Revelation 16:17
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That voice shakes the heavens and the earth. There is a mighty
earthquake, “such as was not since men were upon the earth, so
mighty an earthquake, and so great.”
Revelation 16:18
. Ragged
rocks are scattered on every side. The sea is lashed into fury. There
is heard the shriek of a hurricane like the voice of demons. The
earth’s surface is breaking up. Its very foundations seem to be
giving way. Seaports that have become like Sodom for wickedness
are swallowed up by the angry waters. “Babylon the great” has come
in remembrance before God, “to give unto her the cup of the wine of
the fierceness of his wrath.”
Revelation 16:19
. Great hailstones do
their work of destruction. Proud cities are laid low. Lordly palaces
on which men have lavished their wealth crumble before their eyes.
Prison walls are rent asunder, and God’s people are set free.
Graves are opened, and “many of them that sleep in the dust of
the earth ... awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt.” “They also which pierced him,” those that
derided Christ’s dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of His
truth, are raised to see the honor placed on the loyal and obedient.
Daniel 12:2
;
Revelation 1:7
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Fierce lightnings envelop the earth in a sheet of flame. Above
the thunder, voices, mysterious and awful, declare the doom of
the wicked. Those who were boastful and defiant, cruel to God’s
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commandment-keeping people, now shudder in fear. Demons trem-
ble while men are supplicating for mercy.
The Day of the Lord
Said the prophet Isaiah: “In that day a man shall cast the idols
of his silver, and the idols of his gold, which they made each one
for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the
clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of
the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth.”
Isaiah 2:20, 21
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Those who have sacrificed all for Christ are now secure. Before
the world and in the face of death they have evinced their fidelity