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a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it
shall fall, and not rise again.”
Isaiah 24:20
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“Therefore shall all hands be faint,” all faces shall be “turned into
paleness,” “and every man’s heart shall melt. And they shall be afraid:
pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them.” “And I will punish the
world for their evil,” saith the Lord, “and I will cause the arrogancy of
the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.”
Isaiah 13:7, 8, 11
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Jeremiah 30:6
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When Moses came from the divine Presence in the mount, where
he had received the tables of the testimony, guilty Israel could not
endure the light that glorified his countenance. How much less can
transgressors look upon the Son of God when He shall appear in the
glory of His Father, surrounded by all the heavenly host, to execute
judgment upon the transgressors of His law and the rejecters of His
atonement. Those who have disregarded the law of God and trodden
under foot the blood of Christ, “the kings of the earth, and the great
men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men,”
shall hide themselves “in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains,”
and they shall say to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us
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from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of
the Lamb: for the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be
able to stand?”
Revelation 6:15-17
. “In that day a man shall cast his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, ... 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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Then it will be seen that Satan’s rebellion against God has resulted
in ruin to himself and to all that chose to become his subjects. He
has represented that great good would result from transgression; but
it will be seen that “the wages of sin is death.” “For, behold, the day
cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all
that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn
them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root
nor branch.”
Malachi 4:1
. Satan, the root of every sin, and all evil
workers, who are his branches, shall be utterly cut off. An end will
be made of sin, with all the woe and ruin that have resulted from it.
Says the psalmist, “Thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out