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The European Union in Prophecy
prophet of God declares: "The day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can
abide it?" Who shall stand when He appeareth who is "of purer eyes than to behold
evil," and cannot "look on iniquity"? Joel 2:11; Habakkuk 1:13. To them that cry, "My
God, we know Thee," yet have transgressed His covenant, and hastened after another
god, hiding iniquity in their hearts, and loving the paths of unrighteousness-- to these
the day of the Lord is "darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in
it." Hosea 8:2, 1; Psalm 16;4; Amos 5:20. "It shall come to pass at that time," saith the
Lord, "that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled
on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will He do
evil." Zephaniah 1:12. "I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible." Isaiah 13:11. "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be
able to deliver them;" "their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
desolation." Zephaniah 1:18, 13.
The prophet Jeremiah, looking forward to this fearful time, exclaimed: "I am
pained at my very heart. . . . I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my
soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is
cried." Jeremiah 4:19, 20. "That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress,
a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds
and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm." Zephaniah 1:15, 16. "Behold,
the day of the Lord cometh, . . . to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it." Isaiah 13:9.
In view of that great day the word of God, in the most solemn and impressive
language, calls upon His people to arouse from their spiritual lethargy and to seek
His face with repentance and humiliation: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound
an alarm in My holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day
of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." "Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the
children: . . . let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar."
"Turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your
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