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their souls before God, and polluting those who unite with them in
sin, will have their names blotted out of the book of life, and be left
in midnight darkness, having no oil in their vessels with their lamps.
“Unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise
with healing in His wings.”
This sealing of the servants of God is the same that was shown to
Ezekiel in vision. John also had been a witness of this most startling
revelation. He saw the sea and the waves roaring, and men’s hearts
failing them for fear. He beheld the earth moved, and the mountains
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carried into the midst of the sea (which is literally taking place), the
water thereof roaring and troubled, and the mountains shaking with
the swelling thereof. He was shown plagues, pestilence, famine, and
death performing their terrible mission.
“Escape for Thy Life”
The same angel who visited Sodom is sounding the note of
warning, “Escape for thy life.” The bottles of God’s wrath cannot be
poured out to destroy the wicked and their works until all the people
of God have been judged, and the cases of the living as well as the
dead are decided. And even after the saints are sealed with the seal
of the living God, His elect will have trials individually. Personal
afflictions will come; but the furnace is closely watched by an eye
that will not suffer the gold to be consumed. The indelible mark of
God is upon them. God can plead that His own name is written there.
The Lord has shut them in. Their destination is inscribed—“God,
New Jerusalem.” They are God’s property, His possession.
Will this seal be put upon the impure in mind, the fornicator,
the adulterer, the man who covets his neighbor’s wife? Let your
souls answer the question, Does my character correspond to the
qualifications essential that I may receive a passport to the mansions
Christ has prepared for those who are fitted for them? Holiness must
be inwrought in our character.
God has shown me that at the very time that the signs of the times
are being fulfilled around us, when we hear, as it were, the tread
of the hosts of heaven fulfilling their mission, men of intelligence,
men in responsible positions, will be putting rotten timbers in their
character building—material which is consumable in the day of God,
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