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Eternal Peace: The Controversy Ended
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won. The palm branch is a symbol of triumph, the white robe an
emblem of the righteousness of Christ which now is theirs.
In all that throng there are none to ascribe salvation to themselves
by their own goodness. Nothing is said of what they have suffered;
the keynote of every anthem is, Salvation to our God and to the
Lamb.
Sentence Pronounced Against the Rebels
In the presence of the assembled inhabitants of earth and heaven
the coronation of the Son of God takes place. And now, invested
with supreme majesty and power, the King of kings pronounces
sentence on the rebels who have transgressed His law and oppressed
His people. “I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found
no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before
God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened,
which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, according to their works.”
Revelation 20:11, 12
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As the eye of Jesus looks upon the wicked, they are conscious
of every sin they have ever committed. They see where their feet
diverged from the path of holiness. The seductive temptations which
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they encouraged by indulgence in sin, the messengers of God de-
spised, the warnings rejected, the waves of mercy beaten back by
the stubborn, unrepentant heart—all appear as if written in letters of
fire.
Above the throne is revealed the cross. Like a panoramic view
appear the scenes of Adam’s fall and the successive steps in the plan
of redemption. The Saviour’s lowly birth; His life of simplicity; His
baptism in Jordan; the fast and temptation in the wilderness; His
ministry unfolding to men heaven’s blessings; the days crowded with
deeds of mercy, the nights of prayer in the mountains; the plottings
of envy and malice which repaid His benefits; the mysterious agony
in Gethsemane beneath the weight of the sins of the world; His be-
trayal to the murderous mob; the events of that night of horror—the
unresisting prisoner forsaken by His disciples, arraigned in the high
priest’s palace, in the judgment hall of Pilate, before the cowardly