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The European Union in Prophecy
So far as his opportunities extend, everyone who has received the light of truth
is under the same solemn and fearful responsibility as was the prophet of Israel, to
whom the word of the Lord came, saying: "Son of man, I have set thee a watchman
unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at My mouth, and warn
them from Me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if
thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in
his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the
wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his
iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." Ezekiel 33:7-9.
The great obstacle both to the acceptance and to the promulgation of truth is the
fact that it involves inconvenience and reproach. This is the only argument against
the truth which its advocates have never been able to refute. But this does not deter
the true followers of Christ. These do not wait for truth to become popular. Being
convinced of their duty, they deliberately accept the cross, with the apostle Paul
counting that "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" with one of old, "esteeming the reproach
of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt." 2 Corinthians 4:17; Hebrews
11:26.
Whatever may be their profession, it is only those who are world servers at heart
that act from policy rather than principle in religious things. We should choose the
right because it is right, and leave consequences with God. To men of principle, faith,
and daring, the world is indebted for its great reforms. By such men the work of reform
for this time must be carried forward. Thus saith the Lord: "Hearken unto Me, ye
that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear ye not the reproach
of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a
garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but My righteousness shall be forever,
and My salvation from generation to generation." Isaiah 51:7, 8.
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