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glory in the great day of final retribution? The terrors of Sinai were
to represent to the people the scenes of the judgment. The sound
of a trumpet summoned Israel to meet with God. The voice of the
Archangel and the trump of God shall summon, from the whole earth,
both the living and the dead to the presence of their Judge. The Father
and the Son, attended by a multitude of angels, were present upon the
mount. At the great judgment day Christ will come “in the glory of
His Father with His angels.”
Matthew 16:27
. He shall then sit upon
the throne of His glory, and before Him shall be gathered all nations.
When the divine Presence was manifested upon Sinai, the glory
of the Lord was like devouring fire in the sight of all Israel. But when
Christ shall come in glory with His holy angels the whole earth shall
be ablaze with the terrible light of His presence. “Our God shall come,
and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall
be very tempestuous round about Him. He shall call to the heavens
from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people.”
Psalm
50:3, 4
. A fiery stream shall issue and come forth from before Him,
which shall cause the elements to melt with fervent heat, the earth also,
and the works that are therein shall be burned up. “The Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire
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taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel.”
2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8
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Never since man was created had there been witnessed such a
manifestation of divine power as when the law was proclaimed from
Sinai. “The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of
God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God
of Israel.”
Psalm 68:8
. Amid the most terrific convulsions of nature
the voice of God, like a trumpet, was heard from the cloud. The
mountain was shaken from base to summit, and the hosts of Israel,
pale and trembling with terror, lay upon their faces upon the earth.
He whose voice then shook the earth has declared, “Yet once more
I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”
Hebrews 12:26
. Says
the Scripture, “The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter His voice
from His holy habitation;” “and the heavens and the earth shall shake.”
Jeremiah 25:30
;
Joel 3:16
. In that great coming day, the heaven itself
shall depart “as a scroll when it is rolled together.”
Revelation 6:14
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And every mountain and island shall be moved out of its place. “The
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like