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The European Union in Prophecy
In the lives of all who reject truth there are moments when conscience awakens,
when memory presents the torturing recollection of a life of hypocrisy and the soul is
harassed with vain regrets. But what are these compared with the remorse of that
day when "fear cometh as desolation," when "destruction cometh as a whirlwind"!
Proverbs 1:27. Those who would have destroyed Christ and His faithful people now
witness the glory which rests upon them. In the midst of their terror they hear the
voices of the saints in joyful strains exclaiming: "Lo, this is our God; we have waited
for Him, and He will save us." Isaiah 25:9.
Amid the reeling of the earth, the flash of lightning, and the roar of thunder, the
voice of the Son of God calls forth the sleeping saints. He looks upon the graves of the
righteous, then, raising His hands to heaven, He cries: "Awake, awake, awake, ye that
sleep in the dust, and arise!" Throughout the length and breadth of the earth the dead
shall hear that voice, and they that hear shall live. And the whole earth shall ring
with the tread of the exceeding great army of every nation, kindred, tongue, and
people. From the prison house of death they come, clothed with immortal glory, crying:
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55. And
the living righteous and the risen saints unite their voices in a long, glad shout of
victory.
All come forth from their graves the same in stature as when they entered the
tomb. Adam, who stands among the risen throng, is of lofty height and majestic form,
in stature but little below the Son of God. He presents a marked contrast to the people
of later generations; in this one respect is shown the great degeneracy of the race. But
all arise with the freshness and vigor of eternal youth. In the beginning, man was
created in the likeness of God, not only in character, but in form and feature. Sin
defaced and almost obliterated the divine image; but Christ came to restore that
which had been lost. He will change our vile bodies and fashion them like unto His
glorious body. The mortal, corruptible form, devoid of comeliness, once polluted with
sin, becomes perfect, beautiful, and immortal. All blemishes and deformities are left
in the grave. Restored to the tree of life in the long-lost Eden, the redeemed will "grow
up" (Malachi 4:2) to the full stature of the race in its primeval glory. The last lingering
traces of the curse of sin will be removed, and Christ's faithful ones will appear in "the
beauty of the Lord our God," in mind and soul and body reflecting the perfect image
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