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The European Union in Prophecy
Before His presence "all faces are turned into paleness;" upon the rejecters of
God's mercy falls the terror of eternal despair. "The heart melteth, and the knees
smite together, . . . and the faces of them all gather blackness." Jeremiah 30:6; Nahum
2:10. The righteous cry with trembling: "Who shall be able to stand?" The angels' song
is hushed, and there is a period of awful silence. Then the voice of Jesus is heard,
saying: "My grace is sufficient for you." The faces of the righteous are lighted up, and
joy fills every heart. And the angels strike a note higher and sing again as they draw
still nearer to the earth.
The King of kings descends upon the cloud, wrapped in flaming fire. The heavens
are rolled together as a scroll, the earth trembles before Him, and every mountain
and island is moved out of its place. "Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:
a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him. He
shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people."
Psalm 50:3,4.
"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains
and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be
able to stand?" Revelation 6:15-17. The derisive jests have ceased. Lying lips are
hushed into silence. The clash of arms, the tumult of battle, "with confused noise, and
garments rolled in blood" (Isaiah 9:5), is stilled. Nought now is heard but the voice of
prayer and the sound of weeping and lamentation. The cry bursts forth from lips so
lately scoffing: "The great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
The wicked pray to be buried beneath the rocks of the mountains rather than meet
the face of Him whom they have despised and rejected.
That voice which penetrates the ear of the dead, they know. How often have its
plaintive, tender tones called them to repentance. How often has it been heard in the
touching entreaties of a friend, a brother, a Redeemer. To the rejecters of His grace
no other could be so full of condemnation, so burdened with denunciation, as that voice
which has so long pleaded: "Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?"
Ezekiel 33:11. Oh, that it were to them the voice of a stranger! Says Jesus: "I have
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