Five Letters to Members of the Wessels Family in South Africa
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upon them for their disobedience and transgression. They will yet
learn that God is jealous of His honour and His glory. He will not
have His laws trifled with; He will not allow men to treat them with
indifference and defiance without punishing them accordingly.
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
The means which the Lord has employed, in the gracious provision of
His mercy, to soften and subdue the objects of His love, has, through
the workings of Satan, encouraged the depraved and hardened hearts
in perversity, resistance and transgression, that even as far back as the
days of David led him to exclaim, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work;
for they have made void thy law. Therefore I love thy commandments
above gold; yea, above fine gold.”
Oh that all might consider before it is everlastingly too late that
there are limits to the mercy and forbearance of God! There are those
who by their impenitence under the beams of light that have shone
upon them, are very near the line where the forbearance of God is
exhausted. In mind and heart they are saying, “My Lord delayeth his
coming,” and they eat and drink with the drunken. But God declares
of such that “sudden destruction cometh upon them,” “and they shall
not escape.”
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At this time, when great light is shining forth from the Word of
God, making dark mysteries plain as day, is the day of mercy, of hope,
of joy and assurance to all who will be benefited thereby, to all who
will open their minds and hearts to the bright beams of the Sun of
righteousness. But there is an opposite class to this: those who will
not come to the Light, who despise the truth because it exposes error
and transgression and sin, and as a result, depravity and boldness in
transgression is becoming all-pervading.
There are diligent students of the word of prophecy in all parts of
the world, who are obtaining light and still greater light from searching
the Scriptures. This is true of all nations, of all tribes, and all peoples.
These will come from the grossest error, and will take the place of those
who have had opportunities and privileges and have not prized them.
These have worked out their own salvation with fear and trembling
lest they shall become deficient in doing the ways and will of God,
while those who have had great light, have, through the perversity of
their own natural hearts, turned away from Christ because displeased