The European Union in Prophecy The EU in Prophecy I | страница 514

The European Union in Prophecy
called, and ye refused; I have stretched out My hand, and no man regarded; but ye
have set at nought all My counsel, and would none of My reproof." Proverbs 1:24, 25.
That voice awakens memories which they would fain blot out--warnings despised,
invitations refused, privileges slighted.
There are those who mocked Christ in His humiliation. With thrilling power
come to their minds the Sufferer's words, when, adjured by the high priest, He
solemnly declared: "Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of
power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." Matthew 26:64. Now they behold Him in
His glory, and they are yet to see Him sitting on the right hand of power. Those who
derided His claim to be the Son of God are speechless now. There is the haughty Herod
who jeered at His royal title and bade the mocking soldiers crown Him king. There
are the very men who with impious hands placed upon His form the purple robe, upon
His sacred brow the thorny crown, and in His unresisting hand the mimic scepter,
and bowed before Him in blasphemous mockery. The men who smote and spit upon
the Prince of life now turn from His piercing gaze and seek to flee from the
overpowering glory of His presence. Those who drove the nails through His hands and
feet, the soldier who pierced His side, behold these marks with terror and remorse.
With awful distinctness do priests and rulers recall the events of Calvary. With
shuddering horror they remember how, wagging their heads in satanic exultation,
they exclaimed: "He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He be the King of Israel,
let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God;
let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him." Matthew 27:42, 43.
Vividly they recall the Saviour's parable of the husbandmen who refused to
render to their lord the fruit of the vineyard, who abused his servants and slew his
son. They remember, too, the sentence which they themselves pronounced: The lord
of the vineyard "will miserably destroy those wicked men." In the sin and punishment
of those unfaithful men the priests and elders see their own course and their own just
doom. And now there rises a cry of mortal agony. Louder than the shout, "Crucify Him,
crucify Him," which rang through the streets of Jerusalem, swells the awful,
despairing wail, "He is the Son of God! He is the true Messiah!" They seek to flee from
the presence of the King of kings. In the deep caverns of the earth, rent asunder by
the warring of the elements, they vainly attempt to hide.
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