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The European Union in Prophecy
be an honour to God and a blessing to the world has been blighted by the foul breath
of infidelity. All who trust to the boastful decisions of human reason and imagine that
they can explain divine mysteries and arrive at truth unaided by the wisdom of God
are entangled in the snare of Satan.
We are living in the most solemn period of this world's history. The destiny of
earth's teeming multitudes is about to be decided. Our own future well-being and also
the salvation of other souls depend upon the course which we now pursue. We need to
be guided by the Spirit of truth. Every follower of Christ should earnestly inquire:
"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" We need to humble ourselves before the Lord,
with fasting and prayer, and to meditate much upon His word, especially upon the
scenes of the judgment. We should now seek a deep and living experience in the things
of God. We have not a moment to lose. Events of vital importance are taking place
around us; we are on Satan's enchanted ground. Sleep not, sentinels of God; the foe is
lurking near, ready at any moment, should you become lax and drowsy, to spring upon
you and make you his prey.
Many are deceived as to their true condition before God. They congratulate
themselves upon the wrong acts which they do not commit, and forget to enumerate
the good and noble deeds which God requires of them, but which they have neglected
to perform. It is not enough that they are trees in the garden of God. They are to
answer His expectation by bearing fruit. He holds them accountable for their failure
to accomplish all the good which they could have done, through His grace
strengthening them. In the books of heaven they are registered as cumberers of the
ground. Yet the case of even this class is not utterly hopeless. With those who have
slighted God's mercy and abused His grace, the heart of long-suffering love yet pleads.
"Wherefore He saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ
shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, . . . redeeming the time,
because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:14-16.
When the testing time shall come, those who have made God's word their rule
of life will be revealed. In summer there is no noticeable difference between
evergreens and other trees; but when the blasts of winter come, the evergreens remain
unchanged, while other trees are stripped of their foliage. So the falsehearted
professor may not now be distinguished from the real Christian, but the time is just
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