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Visions of a Glorious Future
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Wearing the armor of Christ’s righteousness, the church is to
enter on her final conflict. She is to go out into all the world, con-
quering and to conquer. The darkest hour of the struggle comes just
before the day of final deliverance. When “the blast of the terrible
ones is as a storm against the wall,” God will be to His church “a
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refuge from the storm.”
Isaiah 25:4
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The word of the Lord to His faithful ones is, “Come, My people,
enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself,
as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past. For
behold, the Lord comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity.”
Isaiah 26:20, 21
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Human Pride Will Be Laid Low
In visions of the great judgment day, God gave His inspired
messengers glimpses of the distress of those unprepared to meet
their Lord. “Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes
it waste, distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants.”
“Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant.”
Isaiah 24:1, 5
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“The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness
of men shall be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that
day.” “In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his
idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the
moles and bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks, and the crags of
the rugged rocks, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His
majesty, when He arises to shake the earth mightily.”
Isaiah 2:17,
20, 21
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Of those times when human pride will be laid low, Jeremiah
testifies: “Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is
the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.”
Jeremiah
30:7
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The day of wrath to God’s enemies is the day of final deliverance
to His church. The Lord “will swallow up death forever, and the Lord
God will wipe away tears from all faces; the rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken.”
Isaiah
25:8
. And as the prophet sees the Lord descending from heaven